Via Norm and now Crooked Timber
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? – Astaire – no contest
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? pass
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? – Ellington – again no contest
4. Cats or dogs? - Cats by a whisker
5. Matisse or Picasso?- Picasso
6. Yeats or Eliot? - Yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? - Keaton
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? – Updike but I don't know O'Connor
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? - Casablanca
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? Pollock
11. The Who or the Stones? Stones
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? neither
13. Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Billie
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? pass
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? – End of the Affair
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? pass
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? I'm a vegetarian so neither
19. Letterman or Leno? Who?
20. Wilco or Cat Power? Who??
21. Verdi or Wagner? Verdi
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Monroe
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Cash
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Kingsley – if only for Lucky Jim
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Brando
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? pass
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Rembrandt
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Tchaikovsky
29. Red wine or white? Red
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Wilde probably
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? Grosse Point Blanke
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Prokoviev
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? - pass
34. Constable or Turner? - Turner
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? - Searchers
36. Comedy or tragedy? Can't have one without the other
37. Fall or spring? Spring
38. Manet or Monet? Monet
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? Simpsons every time
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? Gershwin
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? - Conrad
42. Sunset or sunrise? Sunset
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Mercer
44. Mac or PC? PC
45. New York or Los Angeles? NY
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? –pass
47. Stax or Motown? Motown
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Elvis Presley
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? Depends on who's writing
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? Olivier
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? Frank
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? - Chinatown
54. Ghost World or Election? pass
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Neither thank you
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs
57. Modernism or postmodernism? neither
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Batman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Emmylou
60. Johnson or Boswell? Johnson just
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? pass
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? neither
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? Eames
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? Dream
68. Ballet or opera? – Opera – as long as I don't have to sit through a performance
69. Film or live theater? – film
70. Acoustic or electric? Music
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? Vertigo
72. Sargent or Whistler? Whistler
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? pass
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? Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? pass
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? pass
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? - Christopher Alexander
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? I think Krall but I love Jones' voice
82. Watercolor or pastel? - watercolour
83. Bus or subway? - bus
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? - crunchy
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? pass
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? 50s
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Moby Dick
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Joyce
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? Either/both
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Whitman
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? - Churchill
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? – who???
95. Italian or French cooking? Italian
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? Bach
97. Anchovies, yes or no? yes
98. Short novels or long ones – depends on the writer
99. Swing or bebop? Bebop
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? - I go with Norm – The Last Waltz
