Double Indemnity. Just didn’t grab me, and I couldn’t help but laugh at the early dictaphone the protagonist uses.
LF book you read in 2017?
Emperor Mollusk Versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez - It started good, but then wrote itself into a corner and languished into mediocrity
LF cloud
Fog.
LF grass.
Grass that I think was pooped on by a dog, but doesn’t look like it at all.
LF Inspirational figure
Mother Teresa
LF thing to put in tea.
My finger if it is too hot.
LF tavern/bar
The Longbranch in Raleigh NC - country bar that wouldn’t let me in because I wasn’t wearing a collared shirt
LF impulse buy you made
A battleship toy when I was a kid that turned out to be a cheap hunk o’ junk.
LF purchase that you thought carefully about, but turned out to be a disappointment?
In an effort to make my house look more Christmasy, but not by stringing up lights that eventually stop working and get all tangled up, I tested all sorts of laser lights in the stores and bought a kaleidoscope light with interchangeable globes. It turned out to be barely visible from the street.
LF TV or film adaptation of a novel
Stephen King’s Children of the Corn.
LF sequel to a good movie.
The Hidden 2. Should never have been made.
LF way to start the New Year?
Waking up January 3rd, and last remembering December 29th.
LF party theme
Republican.
LF WWII movie?
Thin Red Line
LF rock anthem
Hard to say what is considered a Rock Anthem, but my first impulse was to say something from Boston. I just hate that band anymore.
After consulting this list, I’d say “More Than A Feeling”.
LF Classical piece (for a loose definition of “classical” - could include Romantic or Baroque periods, too).
Something by Schoenberg, any of his atonal works (pre-1930).
LF character in the Peanuts comic strip.
(Schoenberg made 12-tone music.)
Woodstock. I hated all that cashing in on psychedelics.
LF fabric for a shirt
Hemp. Look, you wanna smoke weed and get high, knock yourself out, but quit pretending you have any other reason for growing cannabis.
LF fictional detective
Philo Vance. Annoying twit.
LF fictional sidekick?
Scrappy Doo
LF item on your to-do list