Daddy long-legs... and dead things. DEAD THINGS MIKEY.

After a long hiatus (although that isn't technically true, as I have been doing some other work that just isn't quite ready for primetime yet), I've got a new piece to show off. As always, you can check this out in more detail at Skahfee Studios.

Besides being a hugely warm and fuzzy memory from my childhood, The Goonies also reminds me of the most awesome trip I have ever taken; our weeklong exploration down the Pacific coast. Visiting Astoria, and seeing Mikey's house, was one of the best parts of that trip.


Seems like just about everyone feels like a Goonie at one time or another, especially at the age that I, and many others of my generation, were when this movie was released. We really identified with Mikey, Chunk, Data, and the rest of the Goonies, and we really wanted to see them succeed.

More importantly, I think this movie really speaks to our sense of adventure. I don't know anyone who has seen this movie and didn't wish at some time that they could save the day by going off on a wild journey to the buried treasure that would make everything okay again.

Here are some fun facts about The Goonies:

• The pirate ship was completely real, and all the scenes involving the ship were filmed in/on it. When the movie wrapped, the ship was offered to anyone who would take it, but nobody did, and it was scrapped.
• Director Richard Donner can be seen as on of the 4x4-riding sheriffs who find the kids at the end of the movie.
• Fratelli means "brothers" in Italian.
• The Goonies was Josh Brolin's movie debut.
• The movie was mostly shot in sequence over the course of 5 months.
• Mikey's house still stands on a hill overlooking the docks in Astoria, OR. A sign at the foot of the driveway welcomes visiting Goonies.
  
• Here's the Goonies oath, which didn't make the final cut: "I will never betray my goon dock friends / We will stick together until the whole world ends / Through heaven and hell, and nuclear war / Good pals like us, will stick like tar / In the city, or the country, or the forest, or the boonies / I am proudly declared a fellow Goony."