Views of the room part 001

After trying for months/years to describe how my room looks to people,I realized stupider fucker you got a camera. USE IT.

Got this great Lego Boba Fett clock for $5 a few years back. Walmart had them all on clearance. Besides the neck joint all the other points of motion work like a normal sized lego man. Shove down on the head and the clock lights up. Been saying for a year now I need to hang this from a big fake gold chain and wear it like a Geeky Flava Flav.

Someone,I don't remember who,mentioned this Powergirl figure to me last week. And I took a quick snapshot of it.  On the far left is the Super Hero Squad Wasp figure. I got a shitpile of these figures. They are great looking figures. And about 4 years ago, found them on clearance for $3 a pack. I managed to get all the FF,a nice Avengers line up. The original Defenders line up of Dr Strange,Hulk,Silver Surfer and Namor. In the middle is my Powergirl figure. This was a Walmart exclusive. But my local Walmart never got this line in. Found this at the Vendor's Emporium. It was still sealed in a perfect packaging for $5. They had 10 of them I should have grabbed all ten but still it was a great deal. Amazing paint job,articulation and best of all it stands on it it's own. Next we got a Homie. I was buying these all the time when I lived in Texas. Most likely had 100 or more of them at one time. But now am down to about 20. Finally on the right is CAPTAIN AMERICA! Got this in a two pack with a brown suit Wolverine. It included a reprint of the Classic Captain America annual where Cap and Wolvie fight. Cap's sheild,which I secured to his back, even has claw marks on it. Lots of articulation on this figure. I think it was 15 bucks for the two figures with the comic. Which isn't bad I would have paid that much for the 2 figures, gettting a reprint of a great comic was just a bonus.

Found this earlier this month for a quarter. I have learned over the past 8 years that I really love the Marvel 70s "B-level" super hero books. Killraven,Man thing,Luke Cage,etc all appeal to me more than say Fantastic Four from that era. The above copy is a reader copy. You can tell it has been read many times and enjoyed. Not just sitting in a bag with a board in a longbox for decades. Plus it is full of all those great 70's comic book ads. That is one thing missing from reprints and trades/hardcovers, the great ads.

I got an addiction, I can not pass up cheap books. Take the book on the left in the above picture. I already own 2 other copies of it. One is a nice tall softcover version titled Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep. Then got a normal sized paperback version titled Blade Runner which is from the mid 80s. This one has a new cover and is from the past 4 years. But it was 50 cents at the library sale. The book on the right is some mid 80s horror novel printed by Zebra books. Too much Horror Fiction! is a neat site that informed me that most of the 80s Zebra horror novels have great artwork on the covers but the rest of the book isn't as good. But you know what fuck that it was 50 cents and the money goes back into the local library. Support that shit,they get me free comics and stuff.

As some of you might know I have a huge book,comic book,dvd collection. So instead of paying out the ass for nice shelves to store all this crap, I got my father who can built anything to build me this shelf. Besides the top two shelves each other one is custom sized for dvds. I usually rotate out the hardbacks on that top shelf a few times a year. No idea why really. On the top is 3 things of note. On the far left is a cookie jar. It is either a zombie or Frankenstein's Monster. Got this for free and loved how it looks. On the far right you can see the side of my mini three stooges lunchbox. I love metal lunchboxes and sorta collect them. This one came with 2 or 3 dvds of PB Stooges stuff. And was only $8 bucks.I got it mostly to have the stooges lunchbox. Now in the middle of the very top you can kind of see a video tape. I will talk more about that in a bit.

Ok this is the bottom half of the above shelf. It mostly holds my animation DVDs and my concerts and music related dvds. The few vhs you see on the bottom are all stuff I recorded off tv years ago that I need to either trash or transfer to dvd. Plus you can see a few random paperbacks. I own at least 500 paperback books,so they end up randomly all over my room.

This came with some edition of the "Wanted" dvd. While the film is nothing amazing I liked this image.The plain white color of the walls reminds me of barracks or hospital rooms too much. Which is a major reason I cover as much of the walls as I can with posters.

Ok this is the tape from the top of the smaller shelving unit. It is a Betamax release of the original "Phantasm". As a kid we had a Betamax machine since I was about 3 or 4. But back then buying pre-record tapes was expensive. If you look close at the back of the case you will see a price sticker from Radio Shack of $44. Found this at a small flea market out in my area back in 2008 or 2009. They wanted $1 so I had to grab it. It does work and looks like it wasn't watched much. One day I will have to rip it to dvd just for the hell of it.

Well that is all for now. I will do more stuff like this soon.