User:OldTimerBillySlater

I first began using Wikipedia during its early years, in the mid-2000s. I was active from fall 2005 to spring 2006, my last activity being posted just as I grad…

An Old-Timer Returns

I first began using Wikipedia during its early years, in the mid-2000s. I was active from fall 2005 to spring 2006, my last activity being posted just as I graduated high school, with a brief return in fall of that year as I started college. Over the years I may have made a few occasional edits here and there, but I've never made an actual account, so my past edits are lost in a series of changing IP addresses. However, some of the articles I created as a high school student are not only still online, but several of them still retain a lot of the original text I wrote when those articles were created. Stumbling on those again inspired me to finally, fifteen plus years later, register a user account and do some occasional editing again. It's cool to have been a small part of the formative years of Wikipedia and get to come back and see how it's grown, and to see that some of the activities of my teenage years have actually stuck around in a way that isn't embarrassing.

Interests

Outside of my long-lost hobby of creating and editing Wikipedia articles, I'm a filmmaker, writer, and avid Dungeons & Dragons player. I've exhibited in small film festivals and been published in some independent literary journals, and this year I won an industry award for contributing to a bestselling volume of a Dungeons & Dragons anthology. Besides D&D, I love abstract art, experimental cinema, studying philosophy, religion, and mysticism, filmmaking, kaiju movies (particularly Godzilla), Batman: The Animated Series, Studio Ghibli films, '80s sci-fi comedies like Ghostbusters and Back to the Future, sitcoms like Bob's Burgers, Seinfeld, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Twin Peaks and most David Lynch movies, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. As for music, I love Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits, Joan Baez, Brandi Carlile, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Weird Al Yankovic, Flogging Molly, the Dropkick Murphys, and Susumu Hirasawa. These days I'm becoming more and more interested in the "small internet" movement.

Top Ten Lists

Top Ten Films:

  1. Spirited Away
  2. Yellow Submarine
  3. Casablanca
  4. Masked and Anonymous
  5. Gojira
  6. Millennium Actress
  7. Tokyo Godfathers
  8. Paprika
  9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
  10. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm


Top Ten Albums:

  1. Infidels (Bob Dylan)
  2. Rough and Rowdy Ways (Bob Dylan)
  3. Love and Theft (Bob Dylan)
  4. I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen)
  5. Thanks for the Dance (Leonard Cohen)
  6. Ten New Songs (Leonard Cohen)
  7. Old Ideas (Leonard Cohen)
  8. Strange Angels (Laurie Anderson)
  9. You Want It Darker (Leonard Cohen)
  10. Abbey Road (The Beatles)


Top Ten TV Shows:

  1. Twin Peaks
  2. Batman: The Animated Series
  3. Mystery Science Theater 3000
  4. Seinfeld
  5. Bob's Burgers
  6. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  7. Paranoia Agent
  8. The Twilight Zone
  9. David the Gnome
  10. Home Movies

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