You must choose!

[Chang Style Novice]

from http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/archives20040704.shtml#82118

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

[Chang Style Novice]

1. Gene Kelly
2. pass
3. Duke Ellington
4. dogs
5. Picasso
6. Eliot
7. Buster Keaton
8. pass
9. pass
10. Jackson Pollock
11. The Who
12. pass
13. pass
14. Ella Fitzgerald
15. pass
16. pass
17. Martha Graham
18. Hot dogs
19. Letterman
20. Wilco
21. Wagner
22. Marilyn Monroe
23. Johnny Cash
24. pass
25. Marlon Brando
26. pass
27. Rembrandt
28. Chopin
29. Red wine
30. Oscar Wilde
31. High Fidelity
32. Prokofiev
33. pass
34. Turner
35. Rio Bravo
36. Comedy
37. Fall
38. Manet
39. The Sopranos
40. Gershwin and Gershwin (please!)
41. Joseph Conrad
42. sunrise
43. Cole Porter (again, are you kidding?)
44. Mac
45. pass, but leaning to NYC
46. pass
47. Stax (toughie)
48. Van Gogh
49. Elvis Costello
50. magazine
51. John Gielgud
52. Only the Lonely
53. Chinatown
54. Ghost World if I'm allowed the comic, Election if not.
55. Minimalism
56. Daffy Duck
57. Modernism
58. Batman
59. Emmylou Harris
60. pass
61. pass
62. The **** Van Dyke Show
63. pass
64. Out of the Past
65. pass
66. green
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
68. Ballet
69. Film
70. electric
71. Vertigo
72. Whistler
73. pass
74. death
75. Sushi, yes
76. pass
77. Edward Albee
78. pass
79. Merce Cunningham
80. Mies van der Rohe
81. again, death
82. pastel
83. Bus
84. Schoenberg
85. Crunchy peanut butter
86. pass
87. Mozart
88. The Fifties
89. Moby-****
90. James Joyce
91. Lester Young (****ing *******!)
92. Walt Whitman
93. Winston Churchill
94. Aimee Mann
95. Italian cooking
96. Bach harpsichord
97. Anchovies, yes
98. long novels
99. bebop (*******!)
100. "The Last Judgment"

[MasterKiller]

Flannery O'Conner vs John Up****? That's an odd pairing.

[scotty1]

Internal or external?

hee hee.

[Chang Style Novice]

MK - Well, I've never read either in any depth, so 'pass' was an easy choice for me.

Scotty - My guess is that the TTCI wouldn't cover that subject at all.

[Oso]

1. Gene Kelly?

3. Duke Ellington?

4. either

6. Yeats

11. Queen

14. Ella Fitzgerald?

17. Martha Graham?

18. hamburgers?

19. The dude on Comedy Channel

22. Grace Kelly

23. Bill Monroe (but not by much)

29. Red wine


31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
-----****, just watched both....crap...GPB has a great fight scene but High Fidelity is overall a better movie.

32. Pass

33. Mikhail Baryshnikov

36. Comedy

37. spring?

38. Monet?

39. The Simpsons?

42. Sunset

43. Cole Porter?

44. PC?

45. PASS on both

49. Elvis Costello?

56. Bugs Bunny?

58. Spider-Man?

59. Emmylou Harris

66. green?

67. As You Like It?

69. live theater?

70. Acoustic

74. The Music Man

75. Sushi, yes

80. Frank Lloyd Wright

81. Diana Krall

83. Bus

85. smooth peanut butter?

88.Twenties?

89. Huckleberry Finn

94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?

ok, now that's freaking tough...sorry not going to pick just in case either of them is reading this thread. Wouldn't want to kill my chances with either. ;)

95. Italian

97. Anchovies, no?

98. long ones?

99. Swing


ok, so I'm an ignant sumbich...I'm cool with that. :cool:

[David Jamieson]

I picked Coke over Pepsi, but I drank them both.

pepsi is mere urine from a wombat by a true standard of taste.

Bah! Limes are for ticks!

[IronFist]

I haven't even heard of half of that stuff.

[Toby]

ChangStyle, with your new avatar I keep thinking you're Rub :(.

[rubthebuddha]

heh. big difference between him and i:

he can grow good facial hair. :o

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by IronFist
I haven't even heard of half of that stuff. Unless you majored in Liberal Arts, you wouldn't.


heh. big difference between him and i:
Him and I?

[Starchaser107]

I & I
RastafarI
JAH

everliving


bless.

[rubthebuddha]

das all fulla holes, mon!

:D

starchaser -- is freaked EVER going to come out on dvd? :(

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

what the hell is the point in making all those decisions?

[Starchaser107]

Because you must stand for something

or fall for everything

Buddha is with you:cool:

no dvd just yet.:mad:

[Chang Style Novice]

GDA - ain't much of one. The guy who came up with the list is Terry Teachout, a fairly prominent cultural critic. He prefers the first choice in all cases, but generally speaking likes both options. The only thing it tells you is how much your tastes are like TT's.

Major thrill, huh?

Also - other major differences between rtb and myself: combover, glasses, my kungfu sux, I have less sex than Xebnuts.