For the intellectual snob in all of us: From Jen:
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Fred
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? Gatsby--one of my FAVORITE books!
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? The Duke
4. Cats or dogs? Cats
5. Matisse or Picasso? Picasso
6. Yeats or Eliot? Eliot
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Chaplin
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? ????
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? Please. What do you think? Of all the gin joints...
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? Pollock
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? That's a toughie--I'll go with Ella.
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Snoozefests!
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? End of the Affair--cried big time in that one!
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? Martha Graham, baby!
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Burgers for sure.
19. Letterman or Leno? Letterman--he's a Hoosier for God sakes!
20. Wilco or Cat Power? Dislike both.
21. Verdi or Wagner? Wagner
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Are you joking me? Is this even a question? Grace Kelly is my FAVORITE!
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? 'Ole Johnny.
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Kingsley
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Brando
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? Tharp
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Rembrandt
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Chopin
29. Red wine or white? Red. Definitely red.
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Wilde
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? Grosse Pointe Blank
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Shostakovich
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? Baryshnikov--awesome dancer AND SATC regular!
34. Constable or Turner? Huh?
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? Rio Bravo (although I disliked both)
36. Comedy or tragedy? Tragedy
37. Fall or spring? Fall
38. Manet or Monet? Monet
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? Give me Tony over Bart ANYDAY!
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? Gershwins
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Conrad
42. Sunset or sunrise? Sunset
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Porter (that one's for you, Dobbs!)
44. Mac or PC? PC
45. New York or Los Angeles? NYC
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? Huh?
47. Stax or Motown? Motown
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Elvis Costello
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? If it's my In Style, I pick magazine. Any other time, I'd go w/ a 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? Bonnie & Clyde
54. Ghost World or Election? Election is a hidden treasure. Rent today!
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Conceptual art
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Modernism, I suppose
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Spider-Man
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Lucinda
60. Johnson or Boswell? Huh?
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Austen
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? DvD Show
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? Eames
64. Out of the Past or 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--probably b/c I was in it.
68. Ballet or opera? Ballet
69. Film or live theater? Live theater
70. Acoustic or electric? Acoustic
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? N by NW (but you can't go wrong w/ either)
72. Sargent or Whistler? Whistler
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? no clue
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? Music Man
75. Sushi, yes or no? HELL YES!
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? New Yorker
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? Portrait b/c I haven't read the other one.
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? No clue
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? FLW
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Krall--so much more talented!
82. Watercolor or pastel? pastel
83. Bus or subway? subway
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? crunchy
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Willa
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? 50s
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Huck
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Joyce
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? no clue
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Whitman--HATED Dickenson
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Churchill
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? Love them both, but I'll go w/ Liz Phair
95. Italian or French cooking? Italian
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? Piano
97. Anchovies, yes or no? NEVER
98. Short novels or long ones? As long as they aren't about law, I don't care!
99. Swing or bebop? swing
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? The Last Supper
Posted by Lawren at July 7, 2004 08:58 PM
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"Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Snoozefests!"
Gah, Dostoyevsky rules. The Brothers K is probably the best novel ever written.
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Lucas Sayre at July 8, 2004 10:54 AM
A few comments:
Yeats or Eliot? Gag to both, give me Stevens or Bishop.
Flannery O'Connor rocks. Get a book of her collected short stories, you will be amazed.
Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde are both two of my faves, tough choice, but I would go with Chinatown.
I love Election also.
You HAVE to see Double Indemnity. Stanwyck gives her greatest performance, and it is one of Billy Wilder's best. Magnigificent film.
You do know Dreiser was a Hoosier also? Terre Haute actually.
How can you hate Dickenson? I am the opposite, loved her, hated Whitman.
Finally, how can you prefer Phair to Mann after Liz sold out? Gag.
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chuck at July 8, 2004 06:48 PM
who heck is Johnny Mercer???? Nice choice on the Porter.
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dobbs at July 9, 2004 01:22 PM
Mercer was a famous lyricist who wrote many of the jazz standards of the 40's and 50's including, "Accentuate the Positive," "That Old Black Magic," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby." He also wrote the lyrics for "Moon River," with Henry Mancini providing the music.
If you like Jazz, you might want to check out Ella Fitzgerald's definitive "Songbook" Collection, which includes an album devoted to Mercer, which is the only reason I know so much about him.
Oh, he also co-wrote the musical "Lil Abner." The only reason I know that is because I am a big homo.
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chuck at July 9, 2004 05:33 PM
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him.
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penis enlargement at February 25, 2005 01:53 AM