Memories From Childhood, Part II

Movie

The Sandlot (1993)

Man, this movie has it all: Funny lines, great characters, awesome music, and baseball. I loved this movie as a kid, and I still greatly appreciate it even though I like other movies more. My favorite scene is when they play a night game on the 4th of July, and the fireworks are going off, and Ray Charles is singing America the Beautiful in the background...simply awesome! 

"You drink out of the toilet...and you like it!" 

"Well, you play ball like a girl!" 

*gasp*

Video Game

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (1998)

Oh geez, this game was/is great. I wish that I still had the cartridge so I don't have to play it on an emulator. Either way, this was one of my first GameBoy games, and definitely my first Legend of Zelda game. My cartridge had a glitch or something in it though... it would always wipe the memory right after I beat the last dungeon, so technically I've never beaten it.

TV Show

Dexter's Laboratory (1996-2003)

I really liked this show when I was a kid, though I'm not really sure why. It's not that it's a bad show, I just don't remember why I liked it so much. My favorite episodes are the D&D spoof episode and the one where Dexter and his friends become superheroes. It's not "Lab-ratory" it's "La-bor-a-tory"!

Oooohh...Scandal!

“I’d like to refocus everyone’s attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let’s redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped shit from their Porta-Potties into the river. That’s a fucking scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so’s plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I’d feel better about our future.” -Olivia Wilde

Memories From Childhood, Part I

With this series, I would like to reminisce a bit, and put a few things that I remember fondly from my childhood. Each entry won't have the same kinds of things each time, but most will be media related. Here we go!

Movie
"The Hobbit" (1977)

This had to have been one of my favorite movies of all time- well, at least when I was a little kid. From the age when my mom thought that the goblins wouldn't scare the crap out of me, I watched this all the time...I'm surprised I didn't wear the VHS out. I still have it to this day. Even though most people think that the soundtrack was bad (and I guess they're mostly right) the songs were one of my favorite parts of the movie (that and the battles). I especially liked the songs involving the goblins.

Video Game

Pokemon Red (1998)

This was one of the first video games on a system other than PC. While I found the TV show dumb, never really got into the manga; I loved collecting the cards and playing the games. The Pokemon series is still one of my favorite handheld gaming franchises. I remember the first time I played it, I holed myself in my room, sitting on my bean-bag chair and played it from the time I got home from Target to dinner time, and then again after dinner until my mom made me go to bed. I started with Charmander, and I remember having the hardest time beating Brock and Misty until I leveled up my Butterfree and Oddish enough.

TV Show

The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (1998-1999)

While looking back now, this show was just a crappy copycat of Power Rangers, but as a kid, I loved this show even though it only lasted for a year. It was about 4 young knights in medieval/mystic Ireland, and many of the episodes involved Celtic myths. I remember I had one of the action figures (Angus- the one 2nd from the right) and I played with that thing a lot. It had many small armor pieces, and I never lost any of them surprisingly enough. To be quite honest, I'd like to get the action figures again, but they're hard to find- especially Ivar's. 

This is Why I Don't Like Vegans

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/07/06/self-righteous-vegan/

I'm really glad that all vegetarians and vegans (and everyone in between) are not like this, but people like this woman really piss me off! It's one thing to have your own views, but it's completely different to impose yours on someone else because 1) "It's good/better for them" or 2) I can't stand to be around someone like you (aka: not as good as me). Argh!

Endless Forms Most Battleful

Happy 4th of July!!

Nothin' better...Baseball, fireworks, BBQ, and Ray Charles!

Quotes, Part II

I really like looking for and reading quotes, even though a lot of them are misquotes, the words are encouraging, edifying, and motivating. Here are a few more of my favorites!

• "I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borge
• "A room without books is like a body without a soul." -Cicero
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstein
• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln
• "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
• "Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi
• "Friendship is born at that moment where one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'" -C.S. Lewis
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away." -Robert Maynard Hutchins
• "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid misinformed beholder a black eye." -Jim Henson
• "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen