Stolen from a lot of people...
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Sure, start out with a difficult one why don't you?... Um, GENE!
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? Robert Redford, I mean Gatsby
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? The Duke
4. Cats or dogs? Kittens
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse
6. Yeats or Eliot? Yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Chaplin
8. Flannery O'Connor or John Updike? Huh huh, Updike
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? Ah crap, foiled!! I have never seen either.
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? Pollock
11. The Who or the Stones? Who
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Sylvia of course
13. Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? At last, Ella!
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Tolstoy
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? Damn, I'm really showing my movie-going virgin-ess. No idea.
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? Balan-brilliant!
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Weiners.
19. Letterman or Leno? Leno because he's not as cutting.
20. Wilco or Cat Power? Huh?
21. Verdi or Wagner? Wagner
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Grace, without question
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Hear that? It's the sound of the Wagon Train...
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Kingsley
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Mitchum
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? Twyla
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Vermeer
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Tchaikovsky, but Chopin's Waltz in C# minor is one of my favorites
29. Red wine or white? Not huge on wine - either or.
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Wilde
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? High Fidelity.
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Come again?
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? Baryshnikov
34. Constable or Turner? Huh?
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? Her name is .... and she dances ... la la... sand
36. Comedy or tragedy? Tragedy
37. Fall or spring? Fall
38. Manet or Monet? Monet
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? D'oh!
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? Gershwins
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Mr. James, thank you.
42. Sunset or sunrise? Sunset
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Porter seems to be the man of the moment
44. Mac or PC? PC (for now....)
45. New York or Los Angeles? I'm with Sinatra on this one, but to be fair I've never been to LA.
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? Your what hurts?
47. Stax or Motown? Motown
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Steely in the hizzy.
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? Blog if I've ever seen one.
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? Olivier (if for no other reason than his name is beautiful)
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? What.... everrrrrrr!
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Minimalism
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Modernism
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Batman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Lucinda
60. Johnson or Boswell? 'Scuse me?
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Austen
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? I prefer books
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? plant green
67. A Midsummer Night's Dream or As You Like It? Midsummer by default
68. Ballet or opera? Ballet
69. Film or live theater? Live theater
70. Acoustic or electric? Acoustic
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? Again with the movie thing
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? For fear of punishment under the laws of my house, I exclude myself from this question
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 by default
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? No clue
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Falling Water of course
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Norah
82. Watercolor or pastel? Watercolors
83. Bus or subway? Walk, fool!
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Crunchy McCrunches-A-Lot
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? ?
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? 20s
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Huck and I would sooooo smoke out back together
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Men, eh, Mann
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? Taking advice
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Whitman
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Lincoln
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? People with the name of Elizabeth are cool.
95. Italian or French cooking? French
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? FUCK! This one really took me by surprise... I'll say.. piano? No wait, harpsichord. No wait, piano. Yup, piano.
97. Anchovies, yes or no? Have never tried but am willing to do anything once.
98. Short novels or long ones? Depends on the author and the story.
99. Swing or bebop? Swing me 'round again, but not like the way Paul does it
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? The Last Supper
Comments
#58. You have to see Spiderman 2. It's great!