My Favorite Things

We all have favorite songs, shows, and seasons of nature. Are yours the same as mine? That's the purpose of this blog post, to share my favorite things and see how we happen to compare in terms of personal enjoyment. Here we goooo!

Quotes:

"Find your lane and stay in it."

"You get in where you fit in."

"The world is round for a reason." (Another way of saying "what goes around, comes around")

"If it doesn't make dollars, it doesn't make sense."

"The lion never loses sleep over the opinion of a sheep."

"My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one."

"If you ski out of your league, you're gonna have a bad time."

"As long as you're having fun."

Color: Green, and I also like the combination of black and red

Seasons: Autumn, followed by summer

Holiday: Halloween

Subculture: Punk

Food: Peanut butter

Drink: Water

Accent: Australian

Animals: Rat, raccoon, possum, kangaroo, dinosaur, and human

Birds: Anhinga, seagull, and grackle

Insects: Mantis, dragonfly, and house centipede

Band: Alice in Chains (my favorite album of theirs is Facelift)

Singer: Layne Staley

Musician: Kurt Cobain

Icons: Kurt Cobain and 2Pac

Punk rocker: Dee Dee Ramone

Rappers: 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Suga Free, Insane Clown Posse, Andre Nickatina, Kottonmouth Kings, Cellski

Songs: "King" by Fireball Ministry, "Descent" by Fear Factory, "Burial at Sea" by Throwdown, and "Cowboys Do More Dope" by Rebel Meets Rebel

Unknown/lostwave song: The Fallen King (the band's name is unknown)

Psychedelic song: Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow by Strawberry Alarm Clock

Most iconic and influential band: The Ramones (my favorite album from them is Animal Boy)

Movies (non-animated): Thirteen Ghosts (2001), Jumanji (1995) and Little Nicky (2000)

Movies (animated): Spirited Away (2001), The Fox and the Hound (1981)

TV Shows: South Park, The Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Rick and Morty, Futurama, Looney Tunes, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life, Superjail, Home Movies, Animals

YouTube channel: Wizards with Guns

Actors: Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler

Book series: Dragonlance by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and the Harry Potter series

Digital artist: Ratmeat (US freelancer who designed my rat mascot Cheesus Brodent)

Sport (to play): Basketball and wrestling (hockey is the only sport I like to sometimes watch along with skateboarding)

Video game company/consoles: Nintendo

Video games: Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Earthbound, Mother 3, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, Spyro the Dragon 1 & 2, Skyrim, Wonder Boy in Monster World, Super Metroid, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Smash Bros.,  and Super Smash Bros. Melee

Video game character: Reptile (Syzoth) from Mortal Kombat

Pokémon: Scyther, Charizard, Mewtwo, Meowth, Treecko, Inteleon, Krokorok, Zarude, Druddigon, Archen, Watchog, Ursaring, Bidoof

Mysteries: #1: The "Upsweep" recording by the US NOAA's Sound Surveillance System in 1991. Originating from a remote region below the Pacific Ocean, this is one of few strange sounds detected in the depths of the sea that hasn't formally been identified. It varies seasonally and was loud enough to be picked up by the entire ocean sound recording system.

#2: The Boy in the Box, Joseph Zarelli -- a cold case murder mystery of a 4-year-old boy that occurred in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1957. He was finally identified in December 2022, many years after I had learned about the tragedy of what happened to him.

#3: The 1977 UK television broadcast interruption by alien representative Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command. If only the world had listened to his warning...