1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly?
gene kelly. i think.
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises?
The Sun Also Rises.
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington?
shoot me now, don't make me choose.
4. Cats or dogs?
dogs, cats, horses, fish, turtles, snakes, hamsters, gerbils, and that's just for starters.
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse probably.
picasso, for the ceramics.
6. Yeats or Eliot?
rumpleteazer and j alfred prufrock.
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?
another "shoot me now."
8. Flannery O?Connor or John Updike?
O'Connor.
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
Casablanca.
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning?
Pollock.
11. The Who or the Stones?
The Who. "Tommy".
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath?
neither. does this make up for the "shoot me nows?"
13. Trollope or Dickens?
Dickens.
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald?
oh gosh. another one. both.
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky.
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair?
don't know enough about either. the phrase "end of the affair" describes more parts of my life than does the phrase "the moviegoer."
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham?
martha.
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers?
hot dogs.
19. Letterman or Leno?
johnny carson.
20. Wilco or Cat Power?
um, dunno. are we talking "roger, wilco, over and out" vs caterpillar brand heavy equipment? Cat Power, then.
21. Verdi or Wagner?
ugh. opera. neither.
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?
grace kelly.
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?
Johnny Cash, but barely.
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis?
don't know enough about either.
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando?
Robert Mitchum. maybe. probably neither.
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp?
Twyla Tharp.
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt?
Rembrandt. i think.
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin?
Tchaikovsky.
29. Red wine or white?
red.
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde?
Oscar Wilde.
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
i'm clueless.
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev?
Shostakovitch. Prokofiev.
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?
Baryshnikov.
34. Constable or Turner?
constable. no, turner. no, constable. please don't shoot me.
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo?
i'm clue[less] again.
36. Comedy or tragedy?
comedy.
37. Fall or spring?
summer.
38. Manet or Monet?
neither, actually.
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
I stopped watching TV with the Simpsons, so the Simpsons it is.
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin?
both. neither. either.
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James?
don't know henry james and didn't like heart of darkness.
42. Sunset or sunrise?
Sunset.
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter?
tossup.
44. Mac or PC?
i'm a gadgethead and a geek. both. plus, commodore. plus some homemade ones in the past.
45. New York or Los Angeles?
New York. if only the climate were more like southern california, though.
46. Partisan Review or Horizon?
never heard of either.
47. Stax or Motown?
shoot me now.
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin?
Van Gogh. but not by much.
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello?
elvis costello. abbot and costello.
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine?
i'll read anything.
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
gielgud.
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin? Lovers?
Only the Lonely.
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
neither.
54. Ghost World or Election?
never heard of either.
55. Minimalism or conceptual art?
to look at? or to do?
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny?
pink panther. road runner.
57. Modernism or postmodernism?
i'm fuzzy on which was when.
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
Batman!
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams?
emmylou.
60. Johnson or Boswell?
both were before my time.
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf?
shoot.
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
dick van dyke.
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
those tables look cool, but i need to be able to see the furniture so i can get out of its way, so i guess it's the ugly chair. this one's not too bad.
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
shoot me for being clueless.
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni?
neither.
66. Blue or green?
purple.
67. A Midsummer Night's Dream or As You Like It?
both.
68. Ballet or opera?
ballet.
69. Film or live theater?
Live theater.
70. Acoustic or electric?
both. unapologetic.
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
north by northwest.
72. Sargent or Whistler?
sargent.
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera?
i'd never heard of either till now. sigh. more to add to the reading list.
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma?
musicals beat opera. i think.
75. Sushi, yes or no?
Yes!
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn?
don't know. don't care.
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee?
to read the words on the page? albee. the stories? williams.
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?
don't know either. i'm beginning to feel stoopid.
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham?
at least i've heard of merce cunningham.
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe?
Frank Lloyd Wright.
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones?
can't decide. could live without either if forced to.
82. Watercolor or pastel?
pastel.
83. Bus or subway?
subway. double-decker bus. feet.
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg?
eh.
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
smooth. all-natural. organic. cis-fats for me, please, none of that hydrogenated stuff.
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser?
another shoot me.
87. Schubert or Mozart?
really, i'm not much on classical music.
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
roaring 20s.
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick?
huck finn. except that i've never lived in huck finn's part of the country.
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
don't know mann. don't appreciate joyce.
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
another clueless moment.
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?
Emily Dickinson.
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill?
i'm glad we had them both.
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
don't knoe either of them.
95. Italian or French cooking?
italian. just barely.
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
Harpsichord. wait. Bach on the organ in a great old church.
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
Yes.
98. Short novels or long ones?
as long as there are words on the page, i'll keep reading. it's a good thing books end.
99. Swing or bebop?
bebop.
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"?
are we there yet?
see how some other people answered.
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11 comments:
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly?
Um, yeah, so can I just skip the ones I don't give a rat's ass about?
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises?
-Hemingway for the sentiment, Fitzgerald for the prose. (I think...)
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington?
Count who?
4. Cats or dogs?
I like dogs, but not other people's. Cats are OK.
6. Yeats or Eliot?
Yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie
Keaton
11. The Who or the Stones?
The Who, no contest
13. Trollope or Dickens?
Almost certainly Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald?
Ella
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Tolstoy
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers?
Burgers...possibly a gender thing?
19. Letterman or Leno?
Letterman.
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?
Um, the Who (probably Grace, though)
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?
Obligated to say Ole Bill.
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin?
Tchaikovsky
29. Red wine or white?
Yes, please.
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
High Fidelity (it helps to have been 13 years old between 1983 and 1985 for this)
36. Comedy or tragedy?
comedy
37. Fall or spring?
fall
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
the Simpsons
42. Sunset or sunrise?
Sunrise, from either end.
44. Mac or PC?
PC, but only by default
45. New York or Los Angeles?
New York
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin?
I like Gaugin's subject matter
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello?
Steely Dan
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine?
blog
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? neither.
Um, Chinatown, sort of
54. Ghost World or Election?
Election (So I have cable)
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny?
Daffy by a mile. Woohoo woo woo woohoo!
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
Batman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams?
Emmylou Harris, I think.
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf?
Austen
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
I hated the honeymooners.
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
I do like to sit on my ass.
66. Blue or green?
green
68. Ballet or opera?
Pass that wine, would you?
69. Film or live theater?
Film
70. Acoustic or electric?
both, I'm with you here.
75. Sushi, yes or no?
Yes
82. Watercolor or pastel?
Watercolor, maybe.
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
smooth
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
I think I've gotta go with teh 20s
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick?
Well, I'll go to hell then.
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?
Dickinson
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill?
Ambiguous decisions that worked out for the best. Can't say.
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
Aimee Mann, I think. Heard little of either.
95. Italian or French cooking?
Yes, please.
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
Yeah, I know he composed for one, but it's not an instrument to be listened to by anyone.
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
Yes, in moderation.
98. Short novels or long ones?
Short
99. Swing or bebop?
Swing
I'm starting to think I should be fired. I came down to see if this computer was networked, so I could run some shit off of it. It is. I got distracted.
....and since the nearest book is a manual, I'll pass on that other thing.
K
yes, of course! skip all you like. for all practical purposes, i did that too.
liked your answers to 93 and 68.
burgers a gender thing? could be, i suppose. me: if it's going to be hamburgers, they need to be cooked on the grill, but as long as you have the grill out and heated up, i'd really rather have a steak. otherwise, it's hotdogs for the convenience.
nklmxa no klaxons in massatwoshits [sorry, couldn't resist]
gukbt i dunno, looks swedish or something
ps: of course you had to go with bill.
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly?
Gene Kelly
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises?
Gatsby
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington?
Ellington
4. Cats or dogs?
Dogs (sorry DC)
5. Matisse or Picasso?
Matisse
6. Yeats or Eliot?
Ouch – Yeats.
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?
Chaplin
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike?
O’Connor
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
Casablanca
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning?
Pollock
11. The Who or the Stones?
Stones – not even close.
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath?
My lack of culture is showing.
13. Trollope or Dickens?
Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald?
If I HAD to choose? Holiday
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
Dostoyevsky
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair?
Clueless.
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham?
[Sigh…]
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers?
Burgers
19. Letterman or Leno?
Letterman, for sure
20. Wilco or Cat Power?
Wilco
21. Verdi or Wagner?
Verdi
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?
Hmmm. Tough – Monroe, I think.
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?
Cash
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis?
Kingsley
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando?
Brando
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp?
Oh Twyla, but only because I feel sorry for her – with that name, and all.
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt?
Rembrandt
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin?
Hmmm. Chopin – for his fingers.
29. Red wine or white?
White.
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde?
Ouch. Wilde.
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
Another ouch. High Fidelity.
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev?
Prokofiev
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?
Uhm, not being much of a ballet fan… Nureyev – but only because I hated White Nights.
34. Constable or Turner?
Uhm, who?
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo?
Rio Bravo
36. Comedy or tragedy?
Comedy
37. Fall or spring?
Fall
38. Manet or Monet?
Oh, Monet – no contest
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
All the answers to life’s pesky questions are found in one episode of the Simpsons or another (primarily the first 9 seasons or so)
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin?
Oh, the Gershwins – George shoulda’ been around a LOT longer.
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James?
James
42. Sunset or sunrise?
Sunset
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter?
Porter
44. Mac or PC?
In my heart – mac. What I’ll buy for practicality reasons – PC.
45. New York or Los Angeles?
I’ve, uhm (ahem) er – never been to New York. Are we talking LA the city, or the county? Santa Monica and Malibu, Newport, Laguna, Manhatten Beach, Mulholland drive, Palos Verdes… Any one of those places is hard to beat. If we’re talking more than the municipality, gotta go with LA.
46. Partisan Review or Horizon?
[ahem] What was that again?
47. Stax or Motown?
Motown
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin?
Ouch. Van Gogh.
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello?
Actually, another ouch. Costello, I think.
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine?
Uhm, whose blog?
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
Olivier
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers?
Only the Lonely
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
Chnatown – not even close.
54. Ghost World or Election?
Ghost World
55. Minimalism or conceptual art?
Conceptual art
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny?
Oh please – did anyone choose Daffy? Really?
57. Modernism or postmodernism?
Postmodernism
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
Marvel comics rule, so Spidey.
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams?
Uhm, do I have to take one?
60. Johnson or Boswell?
Boswell – not that I have the faintest idea who he is, I just like the name.
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf?
Austen
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
Dick Van Dyke, most assuredly. Was there a boy in the country who didn’t have a secret crush on Mary Tyler Moore back then?
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
Goin’ with the chair.
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
Double Indemnity
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni?
Don Giovanni
66. Blue or green?
Blue
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It?
As You Like It. Midsummer Night’s Dream more than once, in the orchestra pit. Even Shakespeare gets old, when performed repeatedly by high school students.
68. Ballet or opera?
Oh man – which ones?
69. Film or live theater?
Film
70. Acoustic or electric?
Either.
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
North by Northwest – if I could be anyone, at any time, it’d have to be Cary Grant.
72. Sargent or Whistler?
Oh, sheesh. Sargent, I suppose.
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera?
I’m sorry – you were saying?
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma?
Music Man.
75. Sushi, yes or no?
Yes, please.
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn?
Uhm – was there a change in cartoon style? Cause, you know,…
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee?
Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?
Going with the former – not, again that I have any idea what these refer to, but more that the latter name sounds so, well, tacky.
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham?
Who? Merce – again, for the name.
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe?
Wright. I wanna live in Falling Water.
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones?
Until she married Costello, I’d have said Krall. Now, Norah Jones. Two great tastes don’t always taste so great, together.
82. Watercolor or pastel?
Uhm, watercolor, I suppose.
83. Bus or subway?
Subway
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg?
Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
Smooth
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser?
Dreiser
87. Schubert or Mozart?
How can you choose against Mozart? (Sorry Franz)
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
Twenties. At least they were tacky with style.
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick?
Huckleberry Finn
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
James Joyce
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
Who? Never trust a man named Lester.
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?
Whitman
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill?
Ouch. Churchill, I think – more human, and more integrity, I think.
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
Uhm, not really my thing. Aimee Mann, I guess.
95. Italian or French cooking?
Close call. Italien, for the portion sizes.
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
Piano
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
Usually bno.
98. Short novels or long ones?
The longer, the better.
99. Swing or bebop?
Oh, Swing, I think
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"?
Last Judgment – the drama appeals to me.
At Florida, you need film
atflynf
Okay, on Daffy I should be clear. There were at least two versions of the character. The earlier Daffy (though probably there was an earlier one still, I've forgotten my Warner Bros history) was an aptly named trickster, putting the loony in the toons: like Bugs, but with pratfalls. The Daffy of the 1960s was an unfunny sarcastic bastard. (Unfunny sarcasm, yes it's possible.)
Also on #31, meant to add "to have imprinted on John Cusack." I made the cut by a couple weeks.
To my brother and sister in arms: let's band together to fight to end the scourge of chunky peanut butter! (And while I could also do without the sugar and extra fat, I'll stick with the emulsifiers though. Separated peanut butter? ick.)
K (All I know is foot longs make me uncomfortable (sigh, ref)
gxdkyxbn: god nixed my binky
rkexpt: rock the extra point
chunks in peanut butter?! what's up with that? when i bite into my peanut butter sandwich, i do NOT want it to bite back.
i usually pour off a lot of the oil, but i understand that refrigeration staves off separation.
on the cat/dog issue, i contemplated answering "anything other than people."
sarcasm is frequently UN-funny. this hasn't stopped me from employing it at times.
eek. i am SO glad i no longer watch tv. and yes, foot-longs are unnatural.
jajddta -- norwegian for "yada yada yada" [or finnish for "tk, ya got it!"]
uxpdwv -- uxorious pudus of west virginia
I like dogs, I really do. I miss having one, but my house is too small for a real dog, and my kids already suck up any spare attention. I think the problem with dogs, they're too much like people. Like people, you have to treat 'em right, otherwise they turn out all kinds of fucked up.
The poor neglected dog whose leash ended precisely at my bedroom window back in grad school? It wasn't fair, but I hated that thing as much as I hated its masters. The dogs that the previous owners of my house kept, the ones that chewed the doorframes and filled the basement carpet with piss? Not too crazy about those, either. My in-laws, whose house is even smaller than mine and twice as cluttered, have an inexplicable fondness for lumbering, affectionate and untrained mastiffs. And the little yappers across the street, I admit to impure thoughts about them too.
Sarcasm is like anything else, I guess. It's all about timing and how you use it.
yelgschu: schubert's yellow jelly? (gelly?)
C'mon, Keifus - you're talking about dogs!
Yelping Giant Schnauzer, or yellow glow sticks, chewed up.
uffomc: uninformed freakin' obliviate makes comment.
ok - I think I'll shut up now...
i was trying to get yelp and gurgle out of that one. thanks, the chew sticks help. but wtf are you doing to those poor dogs?! i haven't met a lot of giant schanuzers, but i've never heard a one of them yelp.
alewcoh -- ale without couth
mastiffs. handsome dogs [hiya, tk!] but my gosh! untrained?!
actually, if i had to choose, i'd have an untrained mastiff over an untrained little yappy thing any day.
It's only inexplicable under the circumstances of their small house and unwillingness to move around much. At one point they had two of them, and gave both away because they weren't well controlled. Then they got a new one, which they hired someone to train, and which is much nicer to be around, even if there's still no room for the big oaf.
Agreed about the little things.
geinsji: genuine Benji
i loved benji. would that all dogs were as well-trained as benji, too.
uscsqcf -- univ. southern cal. sasquatchs' cubic feet
rddnnf -- ready or not, no feet
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