vacuumboy9 profile picture

vacuumboy9

Steve Higgins aka Vacuumboy9

About Me

Go to my website for basic info on me.

Visit my livejournal to read my thoughts on life.

Stop by my gallery to see what I look like.

Check out my videos to see me act weird in live action!

Read my (shared) blog about comics at GraphiContent or my comic reviews at Playback STL .

And now I have a Facebook too! Seek me out there too if you want.

My Interests

I collect comics and Pez, and I love going to the movies.

I'd like to meet:

David Tennant and Regina Spektor

Music:

all-time: Beatles, REM, Weezer, Radiohead, Counting Crows, Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Loeb, Liz Phair, Ben Folds, Fiona Apple

more recently: Badly Drawn Boy, eels, White Stripes, Postal Service, Arcade Fire, Steve Burns, Kings of Leon, Butterfly Boucher, Rachael Yamagata, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, Corrine Bailey Rae, Lily Allen, The Streets, Duke Special

Movies:

Fisher King and Heavenly Creatures are my top two favorites of all time.

Apart from that, the list includes: Godfather, Swingers, Truman Show, Memento, American Beauty, Monkey Business, Shawshank Redemption, Mirrormask, Brazil, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shakma, Brick, The Proposition, Stardust, No Country for Old Men

Television:

all-time: Dr. Who, TNG, X-Files, Firefly, SportsNight, The Critic, The Simpsons, Dr. Katz, Kids in the Hall, My So-Called Life

presently: The Office, 30 Rock, The Shield, The Sopranos, Dr. Who, Lost, Heroes, Mythbusters, Young and the Restless, Lingo, Ghost Hunters, Life on Mars, Spaced, Pushing Daisies

Books:

books: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, In Watermelon Sugar, Stranger in a Strange Land, Grapes of Wrath, Farewell to Arms, Murder of Roger Ackroyd, anything by Raymond Carver

comics: V for Vendetta, Fun Home, Blankets, Night Trippers, Starman, Astro City, Age of Bronze, Criminal, Mary Jane, Jonah Hex, Crossing Midnight, anything by Adrian Tomine, Seth, Chester Brown or Jason Lutes

My Blog

Not my chair, not my problem.

I don't know why I find this funny, but I do. Enjoy. ...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:34:00 PST

Our "stay-cation"

This past Friday through Tuesday, Sarah took some time off work so we could enjoy a bit of a vacation before school starts back up for me in a little more than a week. But we didn't take a trip anywhe...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:04:00 PST

Stay-cation

Sarah took Monday and Tuesday off, so we're taking a mini-vacation. but we're not going anywhere; we're STAYING in St. Louis and seeing the sights here. (hence, the name of this blog.) We're going to ...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:32:00 PST

Weekend fun!

Here are pictures from my weekend, the Doctor Who viewing party on Friday, the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo on Saturday, and the ball game on Sunday.And here you have video of Erin rocking out to Uncle M...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:54:00 PST

Fun weekend ahead!

Thursday night is the start of MY weekend since my summer class only goes Monday through Thursday. So tomorrow night our plan is to have a nice dinner, wherever Sarah wants, then do a bit of grocery s...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:17:00 PST

Wizard World Chicago 2008 convention report

On my livejournal I posted a long and detailed account of my trip to Chicago last weekend to sell my comics. Go there if you want to read the whole thing.But here are some pictures of people in costum...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:48:00 PST

Myriad 3

Issue three is back from the printers!The story is entitled "Gone for Good" and it features artwork by Mike Murphy!If you want a copy, contact me after Chicago this weekend. It's three bucks, plus ano...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:31:00 PST

Myriad 3 premiering at Wizard World Chicago next weekend!

The new issue of my comic Myriad will be released next week to coincide with my appearance at Wizard World Chicago June 26th through 29th.This third issue features a longer story (22 pages) written by...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:42:00 PST

my trip to the UK, part two -- London, England, May 26-29

Click this link if you want to read my LJ entry on the second half of my trip to the UK, the time I spent in London. It's not quite as long as the last entry, but still, neither are some novels.In the...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:31:00 PST

my trip to the UK, part one -- Glasgow, Scotland, May 23-25

There's a really really long and detailed report of the first three and a half days of my trip to the UK at my livejournal, linked below. I'm warning you; it's VERY long. It's really more for me so I ...
Posted by vacuumboy9 on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:23:00 PST