In a lot of ways, you have to admire the sheer chutzpah that Kiss exhibited by dubbing their 1981 concept album Music From “The Elder” with that moniker. Almost immediately that title elevates the material to something of a new plateau; I mean, it’s not just another dopey album or anything like that. It’s the…
Another year, another round of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs. But alas, Halloween 2014 draws to a close, so I hope you’ve had half as much fun with this year’s collection of tunes as I had putting it together. Until next year, my friends. Have an awesomely spooky and utterly buttkickin’ Halloween. One more from the inimitable…
I hide myself inside the shadows of shame The silent symphonies were playing their game My body echoed to the dreams of my soul This God is something that I could not control… Told you I’d be back with some Sabbath 🙂 Black Sabbath’s 1976 album Sabotage is probably their greatest album with the WORST…
We build a tower of stone With our flesh and bone Just to see him fly… I, like many of my ilk, have absolutely zero problem flourishing under the belief that Ronnie James Dio didn’t pass away from stomach cancer in 2010, but rather perished heroically while saving our planet from being devoured by a…
Maybe you’ll think of me when you are all aloneMaybe the one who is waiting for you will prove untrueThen what will you do? Maybe you might think that The Ink Spots classic 1940 tune Maybe, strictly speaking, isn’t a “Halloween” song. Maybe you’re right, but play the video below, listen to the music, close…
Green is the cat’s eye that glows in this Temple Enter the risen Osiris – risen again… Iron Maiden’s fifth studio album Powerslave is widely regarded as one of their finest releases ever, if not THE finest. It’s definitely in my Top 3 (along with The Number of the Beast and Killers); I distinctly remember…
Voices in the darkness Scream away my mental health Can I ask a question To help me save me from myself? Well it’s not like I’m not getting to Black Sabbath later… Oops. Spoiler alert. The title track from Ozzy’s landmark 1981 album Diary of A Madman is arguably the finest track of his best…
The 2014 Flanigan’s Rockin’ Rib Run was pretty much one of the best race events I’ve ever experienced, for a host of reasons that I’m about to dive into, but before I do that it behooves me to mention that this race occurred the morning after the 2014 Miami Beach Halloween Half Marathon, which was…
Oh I thought I got to be dreaming I didn’t know I fell in her trap… I can’t believe we’re in the last week of October, a few days from Halloween, which means we’re nearing the end of our month-long celebration of all things spooky and musical… which means we’re going to double our efforts…
So I ran the Miami Beach Halloween Half Marathon last year (2013), and I started off my race review asserting how I wasn’t a “running in costume” sorta guy. I think THAT particular call still stands, but Halloween doesn’t count. It never counts. It exists in its own continuum, in a state of quantum isolation…