100 questions

[pokerfan]

Ala Mia Wallace's questions (Elvis/Beatles, Betty/Veronica) to Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction.

If you had to choose...

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 Updike?
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 Dickens?
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 Dick 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-Dick?
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
92. Emily Dickinson 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"?

[Bucky]

1. Yes to all.

I'm just kidding. I didn't read any of that.

[pokerfan]

3. I lust for an Eames lounge chair

[Moondog]

10. I used to own that one. You obviously are not the caretaker of a cat.

[pokerfan]

12. One of the reasons I don't own any leather furniture

but I can still lust...

Plus they ain't cheap.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. yeah...but oh my god ...the table!

[Moondog]

17. Nice choice. Nothing wrong with your taste ....

[MrScorpio]

6. Scorpio's Choice(s)

1. Fred Astaire
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Duke Ellington
4. dogs
5. Picasso
6. Eliot
7. Charlie Chaplin
8. John Updike
9. Casablanca
10. Jackson Pollock
11. the Stones
12. Sylvia Plath
13. Dickens
14. Ella Fitzgerald
15. Tolstoy
16. The End of the Affair
17. Martha Graham
18. hamburgers
19. Letterman
20. Cat Power
21. Verdi
22. Grace Kelly
23. Johnny Cash
24. Kingsley Amis
25. Marlon Brando
26. Twyla Tharp
27. Rembrandt
28. Chopin?
29. white wine
30. Oscar Wilde
31. Grosse Pointe Blank
32. Shostakovich
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov
34. Constable
35. Rio Bravo
36. Comedy
37. Fall
38. Monet
39. The Sopranos
40. Gershwin and Gershwin
41. Joseph Conrad
42. Sunset
43. Cole Porter
44. Mac
45. New York
46. Partisan Review
47. Motown?
48. Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan
50. reading a magazine
51. Laurence Olivier
52. Only the Lonely
53. Chinatown
54. Ghost World
55. conceptual art
56. Bugs Bunny
57. Modernism
58. Batman
59. Emmylou
60. Johnson
61. Virginia Woolf
62. The Honeymooners
63. Aa Noguchi table
64. Double Indemnity
65. The Marriage of Figaro
66. Blue
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
68. opera
69. Film
70. electric
71. North by Northwest
72. Sargent
73. V.S. Naipaul
74. Oklahoma?
75. Sushi, no
76. The New Yorker under Ross
77. Tennessee Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady
79. Merce Cunningham
80. Frank Lloyd Wright
81. Norah Jones
82. pastel
83. subway
84. Stravinsky
85. smooth peanut butter
86. Theodore Dreiser
87. Mozart
88. the Twenties
89. Moby-Dick
90. James Joyce
91. Coleman Hawkins
92. Walt Whitman
93. Abraham Lincoln
94. LAimee Mann
95. Italian cooking
96. Bach on pian
97. Anchovies, no
98. Short novels
99. bebop
100. "The Last Supper"

[pokerfan]

2. My answers

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 Updike?
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 Dickens?
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 Dick 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-Dick?
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
92. Emily Dickinson 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"?

[Strong Atheist]

4. Answer:

42

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. good lord.

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Gene
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? The Great Gatsby
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Duke
4. Cats or dogs? Cats
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse
6. Yeats or Eliot? Yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Charlie
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? either
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? Casablanca
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? de Kooning
11. The Who or the Stones? Stones
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Sylvia
13. Trollope or Dickens? Trollope
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Billie
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Tolstoy
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? The Moviegoer
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? Balanchine!
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? neither
19. Letterman or Leno? LETTERMAN
20. Wilco or Cat Power? Wilco
21. Verdi or Wagner? Both
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Grace
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Both
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? who?
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Mitchum
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? Tharp
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Vermeer
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Chopin
29. Red wine or white? Red in the winter, White in the summer
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Coward
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? Grosee Pointe Blank
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? what?
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? both please and I will make a sandwich :D
34. Constable or Turner? in what repsect?
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? Rio Bravo
36. Comedy or tragedy? tragedy
37. Fall or spring? Spring
38. Manet or Monet? Both
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? Simpsons
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? you are making my head hurt
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? James
42. Sunset or sunrise? Sunrise
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? please don't make me choose
44. Mac or PC? I would love to be a MacMomma and I am always PC ;)
45. New York or Los Angeles? NEW YORK
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? how droll
47. Stax or Motown? Stax
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? ouch
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? Magazine
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? Olivier
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? I wish I were a swingin' Lover
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? I need to see Chinatown again
54. Ghost World or Election? ?
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? minimalism
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? whats up Doc!
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Post
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Batman Forever!
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Emmy Lou
60. Johnson or Boswell? ?
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? AUSTEN
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? Dick Van Dyke
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? the table
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity? I have not seen Out of the Past
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? Don Giovanni
66. Blue or green? Green
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? Shakespeare, baby!
68. Ballet or opera? BALLET
69. Film or live theater? Live theater
70. Acoustic or electric? now Acoustic, then Electric
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? another Hitchcock
72. Sargent or Whistler? Sargent
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? what?
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? The Music Man
75. Sushi, yes or no? yes, please
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? old school
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? Both
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? Merce Cunningham
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Mies van der Rohe
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Norah by a skosh
82. Watercolor or pastel? love to look at watercolros but love to work in pastels
83. Bus or subway? subway
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? smooth
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? huh?
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? fifties, mid centry modern, love it.
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Huckleberry Finn
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Joyce
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? English or American ??
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? Aimee Mann
95. Italian or French cooking? French
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? Bach anyway.
97. Anchovies, yes or no? hell yeah!
98. Short novels or long ones? Long ones that you want to never end.
99. Swing or bebop? Let's Dance!
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? The Last Judgment

[pokerfan]

8. answers to answers

24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? who?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3673488/Kingsley-Amis-and-Martin-Amis-too.html

32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? what?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/arts/music/16eich.html

34. Constable or Turner? in what repsect?
In what respect, Charlie? :)

54. Ghost World or Election? ?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162346/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/

60. Johnson or Boswell? ?
http://www.jimandellen.org/J&BForever.html

67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? Shakespeare, baby!
But they're both Shakespeare

71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? another Hitchcock
But they're both Hitchcock

73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? what?
A House for Mr. Biswas vs. The Unbearable Lightness of Being,

86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? huh?
http://escholarship.bc.edu/dissertations/AAI9818613/

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. thanks for the links

I will proceed to educate myself...honestly, anything Shakespeare is a win for me. as for Hitchcock neither of those films are my favorite, I am kind of "meh" about both of those. I think my favorite Hitchcock is a movie I saw for the first time the other week and now I can not remember the name of it. I am looking at his filmography now to see if I can find it.

This was fun for a Saturday afternoon. The phone rang in the middle of it all and I wasn't sure I had answered them all :D

whew.

[Haole Girl]

7. I made it to 55, then I quit

because I started to feel like a Sarah Palin.

:cry:

[_dynamicdems]

9. That's a whole lot of questions...

Didn't have answers for a couple, but here goes.

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? GENE KELLY
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? THE SUN ALSO RISES
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? DUKE ELLINGTON
4. Cats or dogs? DOGS
5. Matisse or Picasso? MATISSE
6. Yeats or Eliot? YEATS
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? KEATON
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? JOHN UPDIKE
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? JACKSON POLLOCK
11. The Who or the Stones? STONES
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? PHILIP LARKIN
13. Trollope or Dickens? TROLLOPE
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? BILLIE HOLIDAY
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? DOSTOYEVSKY
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? THE MOVIEGOER
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? GEORGE BALANCHINE
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? HAMBURGERS
19. Letterman or Leno? LETTERMAN
20. Wilco or Cat Power? CAT POWER
21. Verdi or Wagner? WAGNER
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? MARILYN MONROE
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? JOHNNY CASH
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? :shrug: Which Kingsley?
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? ROBERT MITCHUM
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? MARK MORRIS
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? REMBRANDT
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? TCHAIKOVSKY
29. Red wine or white? RED
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? OSCAR WILDE
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? GROSS POINT BLANK
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? :shrug:
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? RUDOLPH NUREYEV
34. Constable or Turner? CONSTABLE
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? RIO BRAVO
36. Comedy or tragedy? TRAGEDY
37. Fall or spring? FALL
38. Manet or Monet? MONET
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? SIMPSONS
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? GERSHWIN PLAYS GERSHWIN?
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? JOSEPH CONRAD
42. Sunset or sunrise? SUNRISE
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? COLE PORTER
44. Mac or PC? PC
45. New York or Los Angeles? LOS ANGELES
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? :shrug:
47. Stax or Motown? STAX
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? VAN GOGH
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? ELVIS COSTELLO
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? MAGAZINE
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? LAURENCE OLIVIER
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? ONLY THE LONELY
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? CHINATOWN
54. Ghost World or Election? ELECTION
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? MINIMALISM
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? BUGS BUNNY
57. Modernism or postmodernism? POSTMODERNISM
58. Batman or Spider-Man? SPIDERMAN
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? LUCINDA WILLIAMS
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
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? THE 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? BALLET
69. Film or live theater? LIVE THEATER
70. Acoustic or electric? ELECTRIC
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? VERTIGO
72. Sargent or Whistler? WHISTLER
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? V.S. NAIPAUL
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? THE MUSIC MAN
75. Sushi, yes or no? NO
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? :shrug:
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? MERCE 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? STRAVINSKY
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? CRUNCHY
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? THEODORE DREISER
87. Schubert or Mozart? MOZART
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? TWENTIES
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? MOBY DICK
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? JAMES JOYCE
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? COLEMAN HAWKINS
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? WALT WHITMAN
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? ABRAHAM LINCOLN
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? NEITHER
95. Italian or French cooking? ITALIAN
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? HARPSICHORD
97. Anchovies, yes or no? NO
98. Short novels or long ones? LONG NOVELS
99. Swing or bebop? SWING
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? THE LAST JUDGMENT

[pokerfan]

11. some answers

24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Which Kingsley?
Sir Kingsley Amis, the father of Martin.

32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev?
I'll take twentieth century Russian composers for $100.

46. Partisan Review or Horizon?
http://www.vialibri.net/item_pg/4449730-1940-orwell-george-various-titles-horizon-partisan-review-the-use-english.htm

76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn?
The original editor and founder vs. his successor.

[_dynamicdems]

15. You got me on #24, but I've never read either or them.

On the others, I honestly don't have enough knowledge to have any preference. I'd have to listen to the works of the composers and do a lot of reading to form an opinion on Partisan Review vs Horizon or the New Yorker under Ross or Shawn.

This was great fun though. Some of the choices were difficult. Cats and dogs, come on? How can one possibly choose? ;)

[Moondog]

16. Wow. Quite a list. Aw, hell, I'm not doing anything else tonight.

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Fred
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? Gatsby
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Oooh, tough one. Duke
4. Cats or dogs? Cats
5. Matisse or Picasso? Henri
6. Yeats or Eliot? Yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Charlie
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? Updike
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? To Have and Have Not.
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? de Kooning.
11. The Who or the Stones? Is this a joke? The Stones, of course.
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Plath.
13. Trollope or Dickens? No preference.
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Holiday.
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky.
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? The Moviegoer.
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? Tough one. Balanchine, I guess.
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Burgers.
19. Letterman or Leno? Leno.
20. Wilco or Cat Power? No preference.
21. Verdi or Wagner? Verdi, but not by much.
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Kelly.
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Cash.
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Kingsley.
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Mitchum.
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? Tharp.
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Tough one. Rembrandt.
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Another tough one. Tchaikovsky.
29. Red wine or white? Both. Mild preference for reds.
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Coward.
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? GPB.
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Shostakovich.
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? Nureyev is more classical.
34. Constable or Turner? Constable.
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? Searchers.
36. Comedy or tragedy? Meh. Drama.
37. Fall or spring? I love both equally. Forced selection - fall.
38. Manet or Monet? Manet.
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? Simpsons.
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? G&G.
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Conrad.
42. Sunset or sunrise? Hmmm. Sunrise.
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Porter.
44. Mac or PC? Mac.
45. New York or Los Angeles? NY.
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? Horizon.
47. Stax or Motown? Stax.
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? A weak preference for Gauguin.
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Costello.
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? Magazine.
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? No preference; an apple or an orange.
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? SSL.
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? Chinatown.
54. Ghost World or Election? No preference.
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Conceptual.
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Ehhh, what's up Doc?
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Modernism.
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Batman.
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Emmylou.
60. Johnson or Boswell? No preference.
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? They both suck.
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? Which Eames chair. Based on vagueness, Noguchi.
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? Tough one. As You Like It.
68. Ballet or opera? Ballet.
69. Film or live theater? Film.
70. Acoustic or electric? Mood dependent.
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? Love them both. Own them both. I'll take both.
72. Sargent or Whistler? Sargent.
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? Kundera.
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? They both suck.
75. Sushi, yes or no? Hell, yes.
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? Classical period.
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Albee.
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? Portrait of a Lady.
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? Who are these people?
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Tough one. Mood dependent.
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Jones.
82. Watercolor or pastel? No real preference; depends upon the work.
83. Bus or subway? Subway.
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky.
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Jif Extra Crunch, thank you very much.
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Dreiser.
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart.
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? Fifties.
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Moby Dick, but without the morality play.
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Joyce/
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? Who are these people?
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Dickinson, but only because Whitman sucks.
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Churchill.
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? Mann.
95. Italian or French cooking? French.
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? Which Bach? Why no organ? Harpsichord, I guess.
97. Anchovies, yes or no? Yes.
98. Short novels or long ones? Depends on what the author has to say. Both.
99. Swing or bebop? It don't mean a thing if it don't got that swing ....
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? Meh. Last Judgment.

[Chan790]

18. 100 Answers

1. Gene Kelly
2. The Sun Also Rises
3. Duke Ellington
4. Cats
5. Picasso
6. T.S. Eliot
7. Charlie Chaplin
8. John Updike
9. Casablanca
10. Willem de Kooning
11. The Who
12. Sylvia Plath
13. Trollope
14. Billie Holiday
15. Lev Tolstoy
16. The Moviegoer
17. Martha Graham
18. Veggie Hot Dogs
19. Leno
20. Wilco
21. Wagner
22. Marilyn Monroe
23. Johnny Cash
24. Martin Amis
25. Robert Mitchum
26. Twyla Tharp
27. Vermeer
28. Chopin
29. Red wine
30. Noël Coward
31. High Fidelity
32. Prokofiev
33. Rudolf Nureyev
34. Constable
35. The Searchers
36. Comedy
37. Fall
38. Monet
39. The Sopranos
40. Gershwin and Gershwin
41. Henry James
42. Sunset
43. Cole Porter
44. I'm a PC.
45. New York
46. Horizon
47. Stax
48. Gauguin
49. Elvis Costello
50. Reading a magazine
51. John Gielgud
52. Only the Lonely
53. Chinatown
54. Ghost World
55. Conceptual art
56. Daffy Duck
57. Postmodernism
58. Batman
59. Emmylou Harris
60. Johnson
61. Virginia Woolf
62. The Honeymooners
63. A Noguchi table
64. Double Indemnity
65. Don Giovanni
66. Green
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
68. Opera
69. Film
70. Electric
71. North by Northwest
72. Sargent
73. Milan Kundera
74. The Music Man
75. Yes on sushi, veggie roll
76. The New Yorker under Ross
77. Edward Albee
78. The Portrait of a Lady
79. Merce Cunningham
80. Mies van der Rohe
81. Diana Krall
82. Oil paint
83. Subway
84. Stravinsky
85. Crunchy peanut butter
86. Theodore Dreiser
87. Schubert
88. The Twenties
89. Moby-Dick
90. James Joyce
91. Coleman Hawkins
92. Walt Whitman
93. Winston Churchill
94. Liz Phair
95. French
96. Bach on piano
97. Anchovies, no
98. Short novels
99. Swing
100. "The Last Judgment"

[mvd]

19. My answers (some I don't know)

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Fred Astaire
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Count Basie
4. Cats or dogs? Dogs
11. The Who or the Stones? The Who
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Ella
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Hamburgers
19. Letterman or Leno? Leno overall, sometimes Letterman
20. Wilco or Cat Power? Wilco
21. Verdi or Wagner? Wagner
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Grace Kelly
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Bill Monroe
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Tchaikovsky
36. Comedy or tragedy? Comedy
37. Fall or spring? Fall
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? The Simpsons
42. Sunset or sunrise? Sunset
44. Mac or PC? PC
45. New York or Los Angeles? NY
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Steely Dan
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? Reading a blog
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Conceptual
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs Bunny
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Batman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Lucinda Williams
66. Blue or green? Blue
68. Ballet or opera? Ballet
69. Film or live theater? Film
70. Acoustic or electric? Electric
75. Sushi, yes or no? No
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Norah
83. Bus or subway? Bus
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Smooth
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? Fifties for rock music
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Huckleberry Finn
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Abraham Lincoln
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? Liz Phair (very close!!)
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? Long
99. Swing or bebop? Swing
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? "The Last Supper"

[sarge43]

20. Mine

1. Fred Astaire
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Duke Ellington
4. Dogs?
5. Matisse
6. Yeats
7. Buster Keaton
8. Flannery O’Connor
9. Casablanca?
10. Jackson Pollock
11. The Stones
12. Philip Larkin
13. Dickens?
14. Ella Fitzgerald
15. Tolstoy
16. The Moviegoer
17. George Balanchine
18. Hamburgers
19. Letterman
20. Wilco
21. Verdi
22. Grace Kelly
23. Johnny Cash
24. Martin Amis
25. Robert Mitchum
26. Twyla Tharp
27. Vermeer
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin?
29. White
30. Oscar Wilde
31. High Fidelity
32. Prokofiev
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov
34. Turner
35. The Searchers
36. Comedy
37. Fall
38. Monet
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? Neither
40. Gershwin and Gershwin
41. Joseph Conrad
42. Sunset
43. Cole Porter
44. PC
45. New York
46. Horizon
47. Motown
48. Van Gogh
49. Elvis Costello
50. Reading a magazine
51. Laurence Olivier
52. Songs for Swingin’ Lovers
53. Chinatown
54. Ghost World
55. Minimalism
56. Daffy Duck
57. Modernism
58. Batman
59. Emmylou Harris
60. Johnson
61. Jane Austen
62. The Honeymooners
63. An Eames chair
64. Out of the Past
65. The Marriage of Figaro
66. Blue
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
68. Ballet
69. Film
70. Acoustic
71. North by Northwest
72. Whistler
73. Milan Kundera
74. Oklahoma
75. Sushi, yes
76. The New Yorker under Ross
77. Tennessee Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady
79. Paul Taylor
80. Frank Lloyd Wright
81. Diana Krall
82. Watercolor
83. Bus
84. Stravinsky
85. Crunchy peanut butter
86. Willa Cather
87. Mozart
88. Twenties
89. Huckleberry Finn
90. Thomas Mann
91. Coleman Hawkins
92. Emily Dickinson
93. Abraham Lincoln
94. Aimee Mann
95. Italian cooking?
96. Bach on harpsichord
97. Anchovies, no
98. Long novels
99. Swing
100. "The Last Judgment"

[rurallib]

21. I'll take #19 for a thousand Alex!

Letterman!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. I'm only going to answer the ones I know so this is going to be short

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Both
2. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Haven't seen enough of Buster Keaton but I like Charlie Chaplin a lot so I'll have to go with him
3. Cats or dogs? Slight preference for dogs
4. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Haven't really heard Ella Fitzgerald but I'll go with Billie Holliday because I like the way she used her music to highlight some of the key issues of her time, such as she did in "Strange Fruit"
5. The Who or the Stones? Neither
6. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Hot dogs
7. Letterman or Leno: Letterman
8. Wilco or Cat Power: Don't know who Wilco is but I like Cat Power
9. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?: Don't know Bill Monroe but Johnny Cash would romp home hands down for me in any category
10. Verdi or Wagner? I like all classical music.
11. Red wine or white? Both, with a slight preference for white
12. Sopranos or the Simpsons: The Simpsons, hands down
13. Comedy or tragedy: Tragedy. Especially Shakespearean tragedy
14. Fall or spring: Both
15. Swing or Bebop: Both
16. Short novels or long ones? Depends on how interesting the novel is
17. Anchovies, yes or no: Either
18. Bach on Piano or Harpsicord: Either, just as long as it's Bach
19. Italian or French cooking: Italian
20. Bus or subway: Subway
21. Watercolor or pastel: Watercolor
22. The Fifties or the Twenties: Neither. Neither were particularly kind to minorities
23. Sushi, yes or no: My favorite food, what do you think?
24. Film or live theatre: Film
25. Ballet or opera: Neither
26. As You Like It or A MidSummer Night's Dream: Don't know. Now if the choice was Othello or Hamlet, you'd have me in a quandry
27. Diana Krall or Nora Jones: Either
28. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams: Never heard of Lucinda Williams but Emmylou Harris wins everything hands down
29. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf: Jane Austen.
30. Batman or Spider Man? I like both
31. Ghost World or Election? Depends on which election:)
32. Johnson or Boswell: Johnson. He signed the Civil Rights Act and a whole lot of progressive legislation. Boswell's just a Blue Dog who has probably contributed a lot to his district but has not had a major impact on the nation
33. Sunset or Sunrise: Either. They're both beautiful
34. Reading a blog or reading a magazine: Either
35. Mac or PC: Either.
36. New York or Los Angeles: Hmm...perhaps I should visit Los Angeles (only seen LAX and that was horrible) before commenting but it would be hard to beat New York because it is one of my favorite cities worldwide
37. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill. Abraham Lincoln, although I admire Churchill
38. Blue or green? Both

[Q3JR4]

23. Um....

You first.

Q3JR4.