Animals Are Dying

Animals Are Dying.

I wrote and sang and played on guitar the song Animals Are Dying during the 2nd or so week of April 2009 after spending around 10 days with Lincoln Hawk in Long Beach, California USA.

I wrote this song for the Fur Protesters who march and shout and chant and yell with signs in front of a fur shop in Portland, Oregon USA, just blocks from my apartment.

Months later, one of those guys allegedly sets himself on fire in protest, to get publicity towards the awareness that animals are skinned alive.

2nd week of April 2009
24 years old
On the streets of Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Sim City Millennium New Years

Sim City Millennium New Years

I missed the Millennium New Years of the year 2000 while playing Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) based video-game Sim City, which was made in 1995 for the SNES.

I use to see cousin Nathan Williams play this game at their house in Warrenton, Oregon USA. Nathan is the son of my mother's sister. Nathan would use cheat codes that would give him millions of dollars for building super cities of all your heart desires.

On December 31st (of the year 1999, I believe), I was playing Sim City. I was going to stop so I could count down into the next millennium , but I lost track of the time and it already a new century and millennium and year.

I comedically thought, and may have said something like, "Oh well, I guess I have wait until next year, or I mean until next decade, or I mean next century, or next millennium, and then I will be ready."

Armageddon

Armageddon.

In 1998 when I was 13 years old, I saw Armageddon in the big screen, but I cannot remember which big screen at the moment.


1998
13 years old
Somewhere in Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

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

Home-School Club at Skate World

Me & my family were part of a home-school club since I was around 3 years old, and we would have events, field trips, activities, that will stand the test of time, especially the skating nights that we had at Skate World, in Hillsboro or Aloha, Oregon, which occur mostly in the year of 1998 I believe.

I improved my skating skills at these events, but did not attempt roller-blades until later I think, and I first tried ice skating in Hawaii in 2007 or 2008.

I first tried skiing with my Hillsboro youth group at Mount Hood in the year 2001 or 2002 or so. The youth pastor was Ryan Cruz.

Power Rangers Kids Sequel

Power Rangers Kids Sequel.

I started filming the sequel to our hour-long 1996 live-action parody film Power Rangers Kids. The nemesis in the first film was Lot. In the sequel, the new nemesis was Loxx Catt, which was played by our cat Puffer Cat who ended up being murdered that same year of 1997 I think. This may have the same camcorder that my dad bought my brother back in the 1st or so of February 1996, or eventually our dad got us another one, but both of them had problems and I never finished the sequel. I recorded a few minutes for the sequel while my brother was at school, but I think he did not want me to use the camcorder or I am not sure what was happening.

7th of March, 1997
12 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

The Flinstones

The Flinstones.

As a family in 1994, when I was 9 years old, we saw The Flinstones at the cinema. I saw the cartoons and I would watch the live-action puppet-show comedy show (on ABC's TGIF, on Friday nights) the Dinosaurs, where the baby says about her father, "Not the momma."

Two reasons to see Flinstones:

Flinstones (cartoon)

Dinosaurs (live-action series)



November 1994
9 years old
At a cinema in Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Star Trek Generations

Star Trek Generations.

My mom took me to the Forest Grove Theatre to see the film Star Trek Generations. I remember listening to the theme song to the television show Star Trek: the Next Generation (STNG) on Saturdays since like the year 1991 or so. I think it was on Saturdays and I would so while waiting for my dad to come home. My other siblings would wait for my dad to come home. My older sister may have done it the most, or it was my brother who was the most disappointed when my dad would stay drinking and gambling at bars past our bed times. This film included the crews from the two shows. Captain James Kirk works with Captain Jean Luc Picard to save the day.

1994
9 years old
Forest Grove Theatre, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Softball

Softball

I played on a softball team when I was 7 years old. They had the ball on a stand. A few times, they lightly toss the ball to me. I rode my bicycle to the games at Echo Shaw elementary school in Cornelius a few times. Sometimes it rained.



1992
7 years old
Joey Arnold
Forest Grove, Cornelius, Oregon, USA

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

Loner

Loner.

The younger I was, the more alone I was. I was in my own fantasy world. I would pretend that my hands were people. I started playing the game Power Rangers in 1993 or so. In other words, I would play by myself. I would run around and pretend that sticks were spaceships. The older I got, the more I begin socializing with others. I was crawling in the dirt and on the floor early on.

1987
2 years old
163: Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal