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.

Puffer (the Loxx Catt) Cat Died

When Puffer Cat, also known as the Loxx Catt, died in the year 1997 or so by the bloody knife of the former boy-friend, Nick (who served time in his teens, in jail) , or Damian, of my older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, Puffer became the last survivor of the great cats blood-line and legacy of the Arnold Island Family, which stretches many cats, kittens, grand-children litters, and so on, from the years of the early 1980's at least, up until 1997 or so with the passing and slaughter of the most beloved (besides Honey Cat and Ra Ra guine-pig) pet, Puffer Cat.

Bill & Janet Bailey

Bill & Janet Bailey.

My younger five year old sister, Crystal Ann Arnold, brought me to our park to meet her new friends, Bill & Janet Bailey, which was expected since she was meeting dozens of people from that moment on. This may have been the year that I met them, or it was 1994. Bill Bailey was my best childhood friend, which makes Tiffany Cumbo my second favorite, and Janet is possibly the 3rd favorite. I did Revolution Hawaii in 2007 - 2008. Janet ended up doing Revolution Hawaii as well some years after that. Janet follows Christ, but Bill and their sister Lisa Evers does not.

I kind of felt like we were enemies at first. They lived in trailer number 39. I lived in 163. I went to their trailer but was scared of their dog who kept on barking. Janet or Bill said that their father has a bow and arrow that he may use on me if I do not leave. I am not sure what was going on. They ended up going to our house that same day and I gave them a tour. I was friends with Bill until like 2004 or so. I last saw Janet in 2012 or so.

1995
10 years old
39, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal

Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden

Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden.

In 1988 or 1989, when I was 3 or 4 years old, Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden moved next door to us to unit 162, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon USA. They had a small loud-barking dog named Quincy that I was always scared of. He lived from like the 1980's until 2005 or so. I was friends with Kyle until like 2008 or so. His dad (Mike) had at least one divorce and was drinking. Mike was raised Catholic but then he asked Christ to save him in the year 1994 or so. Mike would take Kyle to church and to Creation Fest sometimes. Kyle liked the song Jesus Freak by DC Talk I think, but Kyle may not be Christian, but his dad, Mike is. I never really talked to Mike until the past few years. I started going to church with him in 2008 maybe and then 2011 and 2012.

They had a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). I saw bits and pieces of the film Indiana Jones. They had cable for a few years. Kyle had a arcade machine in his room. It was classic. We would play hide and seek. Sometimes, one of us may hide on the top of the arcade machine or in the closet, or in the bathroom, or behind the couch, or under the bed in his dad's room.

1989
4 years old
162, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal