this is a useless but fun meme.

If you had to choose

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly?
Gene Kellys pure athleticism, his attempts at making dance come from the real-- (ie w. a broom)
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises?
gatsby. more sexually confused and morally ambigous.
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington?
ellington
4. Cats or dogs?
cats
5. Matisse or Picasso?
matisse.
6. Yeats or Eliot?
yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?
Keaton, meloncholy w/o being maudlin.
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike?
o connor.
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
have i told you how little i like casablanca. To Have or Have Not
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning?
de Kooning's women, jacksons early drawings
11. The Who or the Stones?
stones
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath?
larkin
13. Trollope or Dickens?
trollope, barely
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald?
disintergration, blackness (of both caliberes)--holiday
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
cant abide either, but for the gambler fydor
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair?
moviegoer
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham?
graham
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers?
at least i know where the meat comes from in burgers
19. Letterman or Leno?
foir the explicit surrealist run in the 80s, letterman
20. Wilco or Cat Power?
power, see holiday
21. Verdi or Wagner?
verdi, if i have to
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?
monroe, cause of andy.
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash?
cash as singer, monroe as player
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis?
martin for the war against cliche
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando?
mitchum, he did jail time.
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp?
twyla.
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt?
vemeer
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin?
29. Red wine or white?
red
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde?
oscar--enourmously difficult question to answer, cause i think that cowards career is much more complicated, much more sophisticated and longer/better then wilde--its wildes personal intergrity that did it, but even there comes this level of earnestness i cant abide.
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
gpb
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev?
if he was really taking the piss shostakovich
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?
nureyev, for that horsecocked avedon photo
34. Constable or Turner?
turner, except for the skystudies of constable
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo?
searchers, for that one shot where everything is in shadow, john wayne and the praries, for that i can excuse the politics.
36. Comedy or tragedy?
comedy as tragedy
37. Fall or spring?
spring
38. Manet or Monet?
manet (hard edges, harsh light)
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
simpsons
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin?
for my funny valentine, rodgers and hart completey. (one work can be so seminal)
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James?
at least i can read conrad
42. Sunset or sunrise?
was this the little girl i married.
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter?
mercer, cause i always go for the underdog.
44. Mac or PC?
mac
45. New York or Los Angeles?
i think im starting to fall in love with la
46. Partisan Review or Horizon?
partisan
47. Stax or Motown?
stax, see johnny mercer. (stax is also less
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin?
who doesnt fall in love with warm oceans, white sand and half naked native girls, and which stock broker doesnt want to see this love as philosophical.
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello?
elvis costello
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine?
which blog, which magazine
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
acting or fucking (danny kaye vs hyde park bogs ?) Gielgud
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers?
onley the lonley
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
bonnie and clyde
54. Ghost World or Election?
election
55. Minimalism or conceptual art?
minimalism
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny?
daffy
57. Modernism or postmodernism?
post structalism
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
batman for the comix. spider man for the myth.
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams?
harris cause of dolly
60. Johnson or Boswell?
boswell, always been a fan of gossip
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf?
woolf, cause depressives are always more fun then snobs
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
dick van dyke. the entrance of mary tyler moore, who was good for a few years
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
eames.
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
double indeminty. fred mccurry
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni?
don giovanni, for the who i fucked aria)
66. Blue or green?
green
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It?
midsummer, cause of puck
68. Ballet or opera?
ballet
69. Film or live theater?
film
70. Acoustic or electric?
acoustic
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
vertigo, cause i have no idea whats going on.
72. Sargent or Whistler?
sargent
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera?
naipul, except for his racism
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma?
oklahama
75. Sushi, yes or no?
yes (and anything else on the menu)
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn?
ross
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee?
albee
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?
save me
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham?
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe?
van der rohe's rooves dont leak
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones?
krall
82. Watercolor or pastel?
watercolour
83. Bus or subway?
subway
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg?
schoenberg
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
crunchy
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser?
cather, drieser makes my eyes shrivel from boredom
87. Schubert or Mozart?
schubert
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
20s
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick?
miby dick
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
joyce
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
lester young
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman?
dickinson, though i do like the barabic yawp
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill?
lincoln
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
phair
95. Italian or French cooking?
french if provence, italin if tuscan
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
gould played piano
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
oh, god yes.
98. Short novels or long ones?
short
99. Swing or bebop?
bebop
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"?
judgement