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.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Here are some SPOILER ALERTS from the film STAR WARS I: THE PHANTOM MENACE. I may spoil and reveal secrets and plot points in this film, in case you have not seen it or something.

When I was 14 years old in the year 1999, I saw the film Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace in the cinema a few times and did not realize at first that Darth Maul was sliced in half.

Best Friends 1998

Best Friends 1998.

This may have been the first year that I started making the Best Friends posters, which included pictures that I drew of people, friends, family members, that I have met in person, and it included characters from Star Wars, the Power Rangers, and the Lion King. I would basically make it look like a group photo, like as if I could get all these people to be in a picture together. I think I made one for the years of 1999 and 2000 but I may have stopped after that. I may have only made 3 of these posters, just for those 3 years.

1998
13 years old
163, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold

Star Wars: Special Edition

Star Wars: Special Edition.

In 1997, for my 12th birthday, I saw the three films from the Original Trilogy (OT) of the Star Wars Saga (1976 - 1983) in the big screen. My birthday was on Tuesday: the 11th of February 1997 (for that year). The three films were playing in the big screens, one film per month: January, February, and March of 1997.

I may have saw several seconds of Star Wars before while others were watching it before 1997, and I may have seen bits and pieces of the parody version Space Balls, but I first became a fan in 1997 and I may have seen some of these more than once and I went on to see the Sequel Trilogy of Star Wars in the big screen, multiple times for the Phantom Menace and once for the next two I think, and I liked the Prequels as well.


January - March, 1997
12 years old
At the big screen near Safeway: Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal