I woke up at the crack of 3:45 PM today. My dad came home from work. I requested that we go to Half Price Books, because today was "20% Off Vinyl" Day. Little did I realize when I got there, the whole store would be 20% off for a Labor Day Weekend sale. When I walked in, right next to the vinyls, were 10-pack mystery bags of comic books for $2.00 a piece. Given how hardcore I have jumped into comic books lately (thanks Aquaman ;)), this was a no brainer that I would gladly spend six bucks to possess thirty new comics. I also found an Aquaman that I must have missed during my last sweep of the HPB comic book collection. And to make the situation more hardcore, what robot muthafucka did I pick up four comics of? ROBOCOP!!! :) Punchy punchy punch, yo!!
We then traveled back to our side of town and indulged in some Great Wall Buffet. I saw a girl in front of us eating cheesecake right when we walked in...and I was like "JACKPOT!!" Who says you can't eat two slices of cheesecake before your meal? I think they also must have put cocaine in their Pepsi because it was more refreshing than usual. I got my usual "J Vinney All Star Platter" (those who don't know what this is will have to join me at a Chinese buffet someday, because this plate is ALWAYS collected by me). :D
I got home with a few new vinyls, and of course, thiry-five comic books that I rounded up for less than ten dollars! The first order of business was to pop in vinyl #199 of my collection: The Moody Blue's 1978 album "Octave." While I did not get into more than half of it, there are some great songs on it as well and who knows, maybe the rest of it will grow on me after a few more listens. I then put in the 2008 "Iron Man" movie and got to reading some comic books. The set that I have read so far is:
01. Frank Miller’s “Robocop”-Issue #2 [Wrap Cover*] (Sept. 2003)
02. Frank Miller’s “Robocop”-Issue #3 [Wrap Cover] (Sept. 2003)
03. Frank Miller’s “Robocop”-Issue #4 (December 2003)
04. Frank Miller’s “Robocop”-Issue #7 (October 2004)
05. “Aquaman” Volume 43, No. 450 (March 1976)
06. “X”-Issue #15 (June 1995)
07. “The Last Minute”-Issue #4 (December 2004)
08. “Mantra” (Vol. 1, #2) (August 1993)
09. Mike Grell’s “Jon Sable, Freelance”-Issue #3 (June 2005)
10. “Project Superpowers: Chapter 2” (Vol. 1, Issue #1) (2009)
(those who aren't familiar with a "wrap cover," this is when the front and back cover of the book is one complete picture, as opposed to the usual advertisement on the back)
So I read ten of the thirty-five comic books that I purchased today, watched "Iron Man," Disney's "Beauty & The Beast" (the 1991 work-in-progress version, which was fascinating), and Tobe Hooper's 1975 film "Eaten Alive." If you haven't seen this film, a run-down motel is run by a maniac with a scythe and a pet crocodile that lives in the pond surrounding his establishment. He murders people and feeds the bodies to his crocodile. There is a helpless girl running the whole time, very similar to Hooper's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" film. It's movies like these that kind of make me understand the accusations of horror as misogynistic.
So tomorrow (or technically today) is a very important day. You may have noticed that the Moody Blues album, the most recent I have purchased, was vinyl #199 for me. Tomorrow, with the help of me $10 off discount card at my favorite record store in Fort Wayne (Neat Neat Neat), I will be purchasing #200. Album #100 was Pearl Jam's first album "Ten," the re-release of their first album. While I enjoy the re-releases of these albums, having the original pressing of their "Vitalogy" (1994) album has spoiled me. And when I saw their album "Vs." (1993) at Neat^3, I knew that it had to be my 200th. So that's going down tomorrow.
Before I wrap things up, I just want to give a shout-out to some people who mean a lot to me. My family (Dad, Mom, Alex and Andie and Sparky) and my AWESOME unicorn siblings Chapstyk and Toxyk. If you don't know who they are, you're not cool. Marvin Beard, sorry I pussied out tonight because I wasn't feeling well earlier, we will find a time this weekend to hang out, and if not, definitely next week. And everyone who plays in a band with me, you all know who you are. You are what gets me through the days with eagerness to get together and do what we love. (...and then we play some instruments afterwards.) XD Peace out friends!
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