This ain't no Hogwarts.

Now that's the way bathrooms ought to look.  Toilets these days don't have any balls.

That's Hollywood for you.

This is correct, but it's much more effective if you spell it "peenies."

It hink it's actually a pretty good place to start.  The prose is pretty accessible, and the carnage less brutal than Blood Meridian or, well, most of his other works.  It's a good, entertaining, moving story.

A shot rang out!

Well, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't going to come get you.  I'd just open fire first and get the diagnosis later.

Hey, no problem— I'm nothing if not patriotic.

There are arguments for:

I'd actually heard that Simonon had imagined the singer of the song to be dangerously paranoid, but that doesn't make it any less fun to chant along with.

Actually, that's pretty much spot on.

One that I recall from this period was the animated version of Russell Hoban's The Mouse and His Child.  Without really remembering what it was about, I have a strong, bleak visual impression that makes me feel vaguely melancholy to this day.

The AV Club

Well, this totally blows my campaign for Jackie Chan.

Robin: (unfolding the note)  Holy Derbyshire, Batman!  It's another riddle! (reads) "The method I shall use/ to rob the bank/ I shall only reveal/ to one worthy of my rank"!  What can it mean?

Jane Austen - the British Tutankhamen.

I Am Gimmick

Ditto.  It's not my favorite of his stories, but with a little opening out I could imagine it becoming a quite effective film.

This could be a completely idiosyncratic reaction, but Against the Day ended up as one of the most personally affecting of his books for me.  It's problematic and difficult, but I felt it definitely had an emotional center.

I am siege face.