Random Acts of Geekery II
One of the (few) radio stations our player gets in the store has a new lunch hour schtick: the Movie Marathon Lunch. Essentially, it's a whole bunch of random songs that were featured in movies...though almost all the songs are pretty mainstream and easy to identify which movie they came from.(I'm waiting for someone to request "Freebird" since it was played in both
Forrest Gump and
Elizabethtown.)
Well, yesterday what did my twitching ears hear but Cindi Lauper's "The Goonies R Good Enough." And, as the title of this little bit o' nowhere suggests, I had a random act of geekery.
The Goonies remains one of my all-time favourite movies, and in my opinion has aged pretty damned well. I'm also terrified of some idiot trying to remake it, as is the trend in Hollywood these days.
As for the song, while it played I ended up smiling and replaying in my head the scenes featured around the song. (Where the gang ties Brant to the chair with his own spring-weights and then bike across Astoria to find One-Eyed Willie's treasure.) And then I started reciting most of the lines to myself....
"What are you doing? It took him three hundred and seventy-six lawn mower jobs to pay for that! It's his most favourite thing in the world!"
"Now it's his most flattest thing in the world. Come on!"
^-^ The smiley emoticon is definitely appropriate here. As an added bonus, during the Movie Marathon Lunch the radio DJs play a clip from a movie that featured one of the songs, and callers try to guess the movie. I hedged my bets that the movie would be from
The Goonies, since you don't usually hear that Lauper song on the radio. And sure enough, it was! (Sadly, they used a random clip towards the end of the movie, as the Goonies are contemplating getting rescued by Troy while they're stuck in the wishing well. I was really hoping for: "First you gotta do the Truffle Shuffle." "Come on." "Do it!")
However...the first person had no clue what it was from. The wig of shame for them.
And then an unexpected factoid was bounced my way courtesy of the DJ: the reason they featured
The Goonies yesterday (June 7, 2010) was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie's theatrical release. Yep, Mikey, Mouth, Data, Chunk and the gang are 25 years old, and still aging beautifully.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some nostalgia to indulge in. And then maybe follow that up with
The Monster Squad too.
Labels: if you want me to talk about anything else today then first you've got to do the Truffle Shuffle, The Goonies 25th anniversary
posted by Phillip at 6:38 AM
