random bloggers survey
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? [Fred Astaire]
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? [Great Gatsby]
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? [ellington]
4. Cats or dogs? [Cats and cute dogs]
5. Matisse or Picasso? [Matisse]
6. Yeats or Eliot? [Eliot]
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? [Chaplin]
8. Flannery OConnor or John Updike? [pass]
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? [Casablanca]
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? [Pollock]
11. The Who or the Stones? [The who... duh]
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? [Plath]
13. Trollope or Dickens? [Dickens]
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? [Ella Fitzgerald]
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? [Tolstoy]
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? [Pass]
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? [balanchine, but you cant really compare ballet to modern...]
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? [Hamburgers]
19. Letterman or Leno? [Leno]
20. Wilco or Cat Power? [Wilco]
21. Verdi or Wagner? [Pass]
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? [Marilyn]
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? [Cash]
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? [Pass]
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? [Brando]
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? [Twyla]
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? [Rembrant]
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? [Tchaikovsky]
29. Red wine or white? [Red]
30. No묠Coward or Oscar Wilde? [WIlde]
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? [Grosse Pointe]
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? [Pass]
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? [Baryshnikov]
34. Constable or Turner? [Pass]
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? [Pass]
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? [Pass]
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? [james]
42. Sunset or sunrise? [sunset]
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? [cole porter]
44. Mac or PC? [PC]
45. New York or Los Angeles? [New York]
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 Costello]
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? [Magazine]
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? [Pass]
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin? Lovers? [Pass]
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? [Bonnie and Clyde]
54. Ghost World or Election? [Ghost World]
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? [Conceptual]
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? [Bugs Bunny]
57. Modernism or postmodernism? [Modernism]
58. Batman or Spider-Man? [Batman]
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? [Williams]
60. Johnson or Boswell? [Pass]
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? [Austen]
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? [Dick van Dike]
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? [Pass]
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity? [Pass]
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? [Pass]
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? [Film]
70. Acoustic or electric? [Acoustic]
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? [North by Northwest]
72. Sargent or Whistler? [Pass]
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? [Pass]
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? [Music Man]
75. Sushi, yes or no? [YES]
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? [Wright]
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? [Norah Jones]
82. Watercolor or pastel? [watercolor]
83. Bus or subway? [Subway]
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? [Fifties]
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? [Finn]
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? [Joyce]
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? [Pass]
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? [whitman]
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? [Lincoln]
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? [liz phair]
95. Italian or French cooking? [french]
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]
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? [Great Gatsby]
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? [ellington]
4. Cats or dogs? [Cats and cute dogs]
5. Matisse or Picasso? [Matisse]
6. Yeats or Eliot? [Eliot]
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? [Chaplin]
8. Flannery OConnor or John Updike? [pass]
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? [Casablanca]
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? [Pollock]
11. The Who or the Stones? [The who... duh]
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? [Plath]
13. Trollope or Dickens? [Dickens]
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? [Ella Fitzgerald]
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? [Tolstoy]
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? [Pass]
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? [balanchine, but you cant really compare ballet to modern...]
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? [Hamburgers]
19. Letterman or Leno? [Leno]
20. Wilco or Cat Power? [Wilco]
21. Verdi or Wagner? [Pass]
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? [Marilyn]
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? [Cash]
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? [Pass]
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? [Brando]
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? [Twyla]
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? [Rembrant]
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? [Tchaikovsky]
29. Red wine or white? [Red]
30. No묠Coward or Oscar Wilde? [WIlde]
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? [Grosse Pointe]
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? [Pass]
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? [Baryshnikov]
34. Constable or Turner? [Pass]
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? [Pass]
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? [Pass]
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? [james]
42. Sunset or sunrise? [sunset]
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? [cole porter]
44. Mac or PC? [PC]
45. New York or Los Angeles? [New York]
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 Costello]
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? [Magazine]
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? [Pass]
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin? Lovers? [Pass]
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? [Bonnie and Clyde]
54. Ghost World or Election? [Ghost World]
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? [Conceptual]
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? [Bugs Bunny]
57. Modernism or postmodernism? [Modernism]
58. Batman or Spider-Man? [Batman]
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? [Williams]
60. Johnson or Boswell? [Pass]
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? [Austen]
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? [Dick van Dike]
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? [Pass]
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity? [Pass]
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? [Pass]
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? [Film]
70. Acoustic or electric? [Acoustic]
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? [North by Northwest]
72. Sargent or Whistler? [Pass]
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? [Pass]
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? [Music Man]
75. Sushi, yes or no? [YES]
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? [Wright]
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? [Norah Jones]
82. Watercolor or pastel? [watercolor]
83. Bus or subway? [Subway]
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? [Fifties]
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? [Finn]
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? [Joyce]
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? [Pass]
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? [whitman]
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? [Lincoln]
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? [liz phair]
95. Italian or French cooking? [french]
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]