STAR BOOKS & COMICS! 2014-34th St, Lubbock,TX (806)744-0727 When I'm not wasting hour upon hour hanging out at STAR with Danny and Comic Bob...I fill the bottomless pit of my soul with movies, TV, video games, music, going to the gym. You know, things that I can pass the time with that don't require interaction with others. Things that allow me to use them as a defense mechanism, so as to retreat from my sad sad tedious life. Plus, comics are fun! STAR BOOKS & COMICS - PROUD SPONSOR OF THE LUBBOCK COMIC BOOK EXPO.
BEN FOLDS!
Ben Folds (solo and w/ Ben Folds Five) - he's my music God. My Chemical Romance (and I don't care who knows it!),Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Gnarls Barkley, NWA, Public Enemy, some old school rap from when I was in high school, Smashing Pumpkins (Zwan was okay just not SP), Blink 182, All-American Rejects, Angels And Airwaves, Chris Isaac, Green Day, Mindy Smith, David Bowie, Gorillaz, Blur, Nick Drake, Blondie, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, the Mountain Goats, Weezer (older stuff only), Radiohead, Angelo Badalamenti, Anthrax, Ennio Morricone, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Keane. 80s synth-type stuff. you know, most of that soundtrack type stuff from John Hughes' movies. Johnny Cash. The Grease soundtrack. Beta Band, Devo, Pixies, Queen. The Beatles, Wings, John & Yoko, etc. I'm either too embarrassed to admit it or simply fogetting a lot of stuff. Europe, but in an ironic sorta way, cause they really suck! I absolutely HATE George Thourogood or however you spell his dumbass name!
CAN'T FREAKIN' WAIT!
Sin City, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Batman Begins, Spider-Man 1 & 2, X-Men 1 & 2, King Kong, The Matrix trilogy, Star Wars trilogy (original ones), Star Wars Ep. 2 & 3 were okay in my book, but GOD ep. 1 sucked. The Killer, Hardboiled (basically any of John Woo's chinese films. Basically any well done Asian Action flicks!), Fight Club, Memento, Gymkata, Snatch, Monty Python movies, etc. Yes, I'm the one guy that HATED all those stupid Lord of the Rings movies, Ferris Beuler's Day Off, Pretty In Pink, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Pulp Fiction, Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Drugstore Cowboy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset. Crumb, American Splendor, Hellboy, Rushmore, All David Lynch especially Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Elephant Man & Blue Velvet. Akira Kurasowa films - not just the samurai stuff. Silence of the Lambs, SLC Punk, Indiana Jones - No time for Love Dr. Jones, Kevin Smith's movies (some of them), High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, Tim Burton movies, Office Space, JFK, The Professional, Cool Hand Luke, Seven, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance
and......more
DOCTOR WHO aka MY CURRENT OBSESSION This list subject to change due to this viewers preferences and/or scheduling changes and is totally and completely out of date.
MONDAY : 24, Burn Notice, Prison Break, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother.
TUESDAY : Life On Mars, The Unit, Reaper, Eureka, LA Ink, Miami Ink.
WEDNESDAY : My wife watches Medium - thus I watch by default.
THURSDAY : LOST, Smallville, Supernatural, My Name Is Earl, The Office & 30 Rock.
FRIDAY : Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Monk, Psych & Doctor Who!, Best Week Ever.
SATURDAY : Legion of Super-Heroes (with my son), The Batman, Torchwood and whatever else BBC America is showing on late nights, which is usually Doctor Who.
SUNDAY : Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse & Venture Bros (God's gift to TV!).
WHENEVER NOTHING ELSE IS ON... : Lots and Lots of FOOD NETWORK.GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN : Gilmore Girls (my secret shame), Veronica Mars,Six Feet Under, Arrested Development (you were too good for us), Futurama (you were too good for us too), Twin Peaks, Freaks & Geeks, Sex & The City, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans, Friends, Seinfeld, The X-Files, The 4400, The Dead Zone, I'm a sucker for VH1's countdown shows, Sopranos (cause I don't have HBO anymore and I miss it), Carnivale (this show was underrated in my book). And finally.....Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel . Joss Whedon, I miss you on weekly television. Buffy is the only show that foreshadowed things that wouldn't happen for two more years. They even gave us a countdown - and it was accurate! Thank God for LOST, the only show currently on air with as much depth and character development as Buffy: TVS and as twisty and unpredicatable as Twin Peaks.
ANYTHING WITH BATMAN IN IT! COMICS : The Boys, Batman, Detective Comics (basically everything with Batman in it), Teen Titans, Superman, Seven Soldiers, Preacher, Watchmen, James Robinsons' Starman, Sandman, 100 Bullets, Y the Last Man, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Identity Crisis, Batman: Year 1, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Kingdom Come, Frank Miller's Daredevil stuff, Sin City, Concrete, Elfquest, Anything by Berke Breathed,Punisher, Hitman (pretty much anything Garth Ennis writes), Anything Grant Morrison writes - I'm there with a shovel, Legion of Super-Heroes, Shazam, X-Men (some X-stuff, not all cause there's a lot of crap to wade through), Demo, Robin, Action Comics, Nightwing,Lone Wolf & Cub, Akira, Osamo Tezuka's life's work, Capt. Carrot, Ambush Bug, Arsenic Lullabies, Prison Funnies, The Tick, Ultimate Spider-Man, silver age DC and Marvel comics, Grendel, Mage (anything Matt Wagner breathes on - I'm there!), Ultimates, Walking Dead, Invincible, The Goon. Although I delve into Marvel and indies, I'm primarily a DCU kinda guy.
BOOKS : Mickey Spillane, Anything Michael Moore or Al Franken write, Freakanomics, Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, The Tipping Point, Horseman Pass By, A Separate Peace, American Psycho, Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Fight Club, lots of early Stephen King and Chuck Palahuniak, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman (he writes comics too. I'll read anything he writes. Much better than Alan Moore in my opinion).
MAGAZINES : Wizard-the guide to comics, Comics Buyers Guide, Entertainment Weekly, Wrapped In Plastic (It's about Twin Peaks. Get your mind out of the gutter), Spectrum.
ARTISTS : Mac Raboy, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Curt Swan, Al Williamson, Alex Ross, Alan Davis, Art Adams, Michael Turner, Jim Lee, Matt Wagner, Berke Breathed, Bryan Hitch, Frank Quietly, Phil Jimenez, John Cassaday, Eric Powell, Adam Hughes, JH Williams III, J.G. Jones, Darwyn Cooke, Mike Allred, George Perez, etc. more to come......
WRITERS : Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Mickey Spillane, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Harvey Pekar, Garth Ennis, Matt Wagner (he writes and draws), Brian K. Vaughn, Ed Brubaker, Geoff Johns, James Robinson, Joss Whedon, Alan Moore. I'll think of more later....