Wednesday, July 07, 2004

A Or B

My answers to the "taste choice" exercise - see normblog are as follows:


1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Fred Astaire
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? The Great Gatsby
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Duke Ellington
4. Cats or dogs? Cats
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse
6. Yeats or Eliot? Yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Buster Keaton
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? John Updike
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? Casablanca
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? . Jackson Pollock
11. The Who or the Stones? The Who
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Sylvia Plath
13. Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Ella Fitzgerald *an* Billie Holliday
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? Dunno
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? George Balanchine
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Hot dogs
19. Letterman or Leno? No opinion
20. Wilco or Cat Power? Pass
21. Verdi or Wagner? Verdi
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Marilyn Monroe
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Johnny Cash
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Kingsley Amis
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Marlon Brando
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? Pass
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Rembrandt
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Chopin
29. Red wine or white? White
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Noel Coward
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? High Fidelity
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Shostakoviich
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? Baryshnikov
34. Constable or Turner? Turner
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? Rio Bravo
36. Comedy or tragedy? Comedy. as in Divine
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? Gershwin
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? PC
45. New York or Los Angeles? New York
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? Horizon
47. Stax or Motown? Motown
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? No opinion
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? reading a blog
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? John Gielgud
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? Only the Lonely
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? Bonnie and Clyde
54. Ghost World or Election? Have no idea
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Minimalism
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs Bunny
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Modernism
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Batman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Pass
60. Johnson or Boswell? Johnson
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Jane Austen
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? Dick Van Dyke Show
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? Eames 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? A Midsummer Night’s Dream
68. Ballet or opera? Opera
69. Film or live theater? Film
70. Acoustic or electric? Electriic
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? Vertigo
72. Sargent or Whistler? Whistler
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? Kundera
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? Oklahoma
75. Sushi, yes or no? No
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? Pass
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Albee
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? The Portrait of a Lady
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? Nerce Cunningham
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Frank Lloyd Wright
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Diana Krall
82. Watercolor or pastel? Watercolor
83. Bus or subway? Bus
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Schoenberg
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Crunchy
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Willa Cather
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? The Twenties
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Moby Dick
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Thomas Mann
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? Lester Young
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Emily Dickinson
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Winston Churchill
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? Um
95. Italian or French cooking? Italian
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? piano
97. Anchovies, yes or no? yes
98. Short novels or long ones? long
99. Swing or bebop? bebop
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? Last Supper

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