Pocketball

Pocketball.

When I was 19 years old, in 2004, during my last year at the Forest Grove High School, home of the Vikings, for my required Senior Project, I invented a game, a sport, that is like pool with pool balls, similar to carpetball (gutterball), and I named it Pocketball. My church friend Paul Walker served as my so-called mentor, mostly to get me out to around Banks, Oregon USA to the farm house of the Hoefts out in the countries where we spent weeks constructing a 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 4 feet high of a table made of wood. I was taught about how to use power tools for screws and for cutting wood. I also had experience in wood construction from my Woods 1 & 2 classes in high school. I also had a welding class back in ninth grade in the year 2000.

I donated this Pocketball table to my Community Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon. The pastor was Bill Gasser. They kept the table downstairs in a room near the youth group rooms so that the children and youth can play it. They kept the table there for several years. i am not sure what they did with it.

January, 2004
19 years old
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold

LOTR: Lord Of The Rings

When I stayed my one and only night at the house of Matt Dooney and Jim Westberry, while Matt was possibly not there, I watched the first two Lord Of The Rings films (LOTR) for the first time ever back to back. Afterwards, I was so interested in seeing the 3rd film.

I saw these films one day in like July 2003, and then I had to wait until Wednesday, the 17th of December 2003, or some time after that for when the LOTR III: Return of the King which was a very long cinema blockbuster film that led me in tears of emotions of joy and sadness and it I kept on thinking it was going to end when I was watching it in the cinema in December 2003.

I like LOTR almost as much as Star Wars and Star Trek and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mario and Sonic and Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan and Tony Hawk and Sim City and Christ and other things.

Winter Youth Celebration

Winter Youth Celebration.

I attended the Winter Youth Celebration (WYC) alongside of my youth group of the Hillsboro First Baptist Church (in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA) during a weekend in December of the years 2001 and 2002 or 2002 and 2003. We raised the money for the cost of this event by making wreaths that we later sold to our church friends and members at church. It was interesting and the WYC was exciting. I even met a girl that I liked there. I ended up calling her long-distance, after the event, since she lived in California, and I lived in Oregon. My mom asked me if I knew about the long-distance charge. I told her no. I did not want to tell her. WYC consists of interesting keynote speakers, worship, fellowship, snacks, and epic memories. We had to write about each other in our group. I was shocked to see the interesting things that my youth group friends wrote about me, especially Naomi and April who I liked.

A weekend in December of 2001 and 2002 or 2002 and 2003
I turned 17 years old in 2002
Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold

The Omega Code (film)

The Omega Code (film).

In 1999, when I was 14 years old, me and my family saw the film The Omega Code in the big screen, and I have seen it more than once. It is about the future. It is about a man attempting to take over the world. It is also about this young father who tries to stop him. It is scary.

I also saw Bicentennial Man that year on a Sunday evening. After it was over, I caught the rest of our adult Bible study at our Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon USA and one at my church told that I should not have seen it and I understand how he feels but I still wanted to see it as the scientist and historian and observer and philosopher that I am.




Possibly during the summer: 1999
14 years old
The big screen in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Indians

Indians.

I think I began drawing Indians in 1991 when I was 6 years old. This may have been after seeing Indians at a fair in Hillsboro, Oregon USA.

1991
6 years old
Forest Grove & Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal