Monday, February 14, 2000

Valentines Day 2000

When I was 15 years old in the year 2000, for Valentines Day, which was on Monday, the 14th of February 2000, I recorded our church party at our church, the Cornelius Community Baptist Church, with my new smaller VHS-C compatible camcorder that came from my father.

The party went from around 5 - 7 PM. I tried recording those 2 hours. It may have lasted longer, if you count waiting for the children to be picked up by their parents. The party was designed to allow parents to drop off their kids on their way to a romantic dinner or whatever that they want to do as parents or as a couple in need of rekindled intimacy.

Only a few children and teens attended. There was a total of around 20 people, including youth group leader Rich Libby who was married in our church, Stephanie and Brian Bishop, Christina Beaty, two twin brothers who like Pokemon, the neighborhood (from the Rose Grove where I was raised at) girls who are friends with my younger sister who was also there, a baby, and there may have been a few others.

We had a few snacks, games, a cartoon movie to watch, drinks, and there was me with my camcorder. In another room was the like temporary secretary or accountant Tom Bamford or I forget his exact last name, and I surprised and caught him on camera in the church office. I recorded Crystal, me, and the neighborhood girls in the church playground running around and some basketball. I recorded Stephanie drawing a picture of the baby. I recorded myself making slam dunks with a ball into the carpet and ground of our church. I recorded the twins talk about Pokemon. I made a balloon talk like my guinea pig Ra Ra Hercules Roberto.

Friday, February 11, 2000

I Want It & I Want It Now

In 2000, I made an hour-long stop-motion toys and stuff animal featuring Arnold Attic 163 feature presentation film called "I Want It & I Want It Now" which stars my pet guinea-pig Ra Ra Hercules Roberto, which is not to be confused with his girl-friend, the former Oreo whom I accidentally smashed by sleeping on her (my guinea-pig friend) after sleeping with her.

This live-action film is about a father, Ra Ra, and his relationship with his rebellious teenager son, who is played by action-figure 9-year old Anakin Skywalker (the Phantom Menace version of Vader).

Anakin struggles with the mysterious disappearance of his own mother, Miss Piggy, when he was only 3 years old. In real-life, my mother was hit by a car when I was 3 years old, and she almost died.

Anakin did home-schooling until he was 15 years old, when he demanded that he attends public high school, as I actually did in real life.

Ra Ra objects that they teach God-cursing evolution in public schools. Skywalker turns and says something like, "But where was God when mother was taken by the Rick Arnold Hand monster, which stars a fifth-grade school-photo of my one and only older brother with the same name, Rick Arnold.

The disappearance was still semi-mysterious since they knew nothing about the hand monster.

Skywalker gets picked by some local bullies, but Ra Ra comes to sort of save the day by making a dare. They made fun of them, saying that God is not real and that Ra Ra has no brains to believe in organized religion.

Ra Ra answers, if God is real then it will rain here, and then clouds started arriving. At the first drop, Ra Ra poops his pants that he doesn't actually own.

The stuff-animals all asked Christ to save them, as the Christian music rolls them all into a theoretical sunset that you cannot see but can certainly feel if Jesus is your home-boy.