thanks to a Gauche:
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Astaire
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? neither
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Ellington
4. Cats or dogs? dogs
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse
6. Yeats or Eliot? Eliot
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Keaton
8. Flannery O'Connor or John Updike? Flannery
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? THaHN
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? pass
11. The Who or the Stones? Stones
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Plath
13. Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Ella, totally.
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? pass
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? pass
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? Graham
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? pass
19. Letterman or Leno? What about Conan?
20. Wilco or Cat Power? pass
21. Verdi or Wagner? Verdi
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Marilyn could act.
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Johnny Cash
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? pass
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Mitchum
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? pass
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Vermeer
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Chopin
29. Red wine or white? pass
30. Noel Coward or Oscar Wilde? Wilde
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? GPB
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Prokofiev
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? pass
34. Constable or Turner? Turner?
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? pass
36. Comedy or tragedy? comedy
37. Fall or spring? fall
38. Manet or Monet? Monet
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? The Simpsons!!!
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? Gershwins
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Henry James
42. Sunset or sunrise? sunset
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Cole Porter
44. Mac or PC? Mac (she says as she types on her PC)
45. New York or Los Angeles? um, neither.
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? Horizon
47. Stax or Motown? Stax
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? elvis c.
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? blog
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? BandC
54. Ghost World or Election? Ghost World
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? I have to choose?
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? daffy
57. Modernism or postmodernism? modernism
58. Batman or Spider-Man? spiderman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? don't like either.
60. Johnson or Boswell? pass
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Austen, completely.
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? Dick van Dyke
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? pass
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity? Double Indemnity
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? Marriage of Figaro
66. Blue or green? Blue
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? Midsummer Night's Dream
68. Ballet or opera? opera, totally.
69. Film or live theater? Film
70. Acoustic or electric? acoustic
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? NbyN
72. Sargent or Whistler? Sargent
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? pass
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? I can't choose!!
75. Sushi, yes or no? yes
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? no opinion
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? Portrait of a Lady
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? Merce, since he and Cage worked together.
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Wright
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? UGH!!
82. Watercolor or pastel? pastel.
83. Bus or subway? subway
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Schoenberg
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? crunchy
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Cather
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? Twenties
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Huck Finn
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? pass
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? no opinion
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Dickinson
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Lincoln
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? Aimee Mann
95. Italian or French cooking? Italian
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? piano
97. Anchovies, yes or no? no
98. Short novels or long ones? short
99. Swing or bebop? swing
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? Supper
Apparently my TCCI is 1.136, but I might have done the math wrong.
posted by elizs @ 7/08/2004 01:30:00 PM
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