The Culture Meme
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superplin and redredshoes
Yes I should be in bed. I have to get up at 7 am tomorrow to go to a staffing interview at 9am, which I'm hoping will be over by 11 am, so I can get home in time to see Spiderman 2 with my friend cjl at 1pm - at the cheap showing. (Hmmm, wonder if any of the showings after 1 pm are $5.50?)
At any rate...here's the meme, which left me feeling sort of culturally impaired afterwards. Tempting to put in my own stuff. This my friends is why I avoid memes...questions I can't or don't want to answer for fear of feeling foolish. God knows why considering things I post online. But whatever.
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? (He had more boyish bad boy charm. Also, I adore Marjorie Morningstar, American in Paris, and Singing in The Rain...)
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? (Not a big fan of Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but at least Fitzgerald was poetic and made me feel for the characters, Hemingway just makes me want to roll my eyes in exasperation. Too macho for words. The only Hemingway I liked was Old Man and The Sea.)
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington ?
4. Cats or Dogs? (I understand cats, they make sense to me - they want to be left alone and petted on their terms. Independent spirits. Dogs? They confuse me. No clue what to do with them. Also extremely high maitenance - have to train, walk, etc...cats? You just let them be.)
5. Matisse or Picasso? (Hard to choose, going with Matisse, it's a mood thing)
6. Yeats or Eliot? (Both are politically incorrect, but Eliot's poems moved me and played with my head. Even though I do appreciate Yeats collection of Irish Fairy Stories of which I own a copy.)
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? (Keaton made me laugh with the clock, Charlie makes me cringe in sympathy.)
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? (I read all of O'Connor's tales and still remember them. Updike? I'm lucky to make it through three. )
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? (Guess I can't say neither, huh? Damn. )
11. The Who or the Stones ? (Hard choice. Love both. But own the Stones. And the Stones created the best songs - Fade to Black and Sympathy for The Devil being amongst them.)
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? (Who's Philip Larkin?)
13. Trollope or Dickens? (Whose Trollop? No, seriously, heard of him, just never read.)
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? (Hard, love both, going with Billie who breaks my heart every time she sings.)
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? (Have yet to make it through Tolstoy. Could be the translations. Should probably try the new Anna Karena before I give up entirely.)
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? (Haven't read the Moviegoer)
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? (Hard, I love both, but prefer Balachine, Graham seems a little disjointed somehow...)
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? (Used to be hot dogs, but have eaten too many of them in recent years...also know too much about what is in them.)
19. Letterman or Leno? Honestly, I preferred Johnny Carson. Or early Letterman, really. Nowadays he does nothing for me. (I stole plin's response because it is the same as mine.)
20. Wilco or Cat Power? (Who's Wilco??)
21. Verdi or Wagner? (Wagner is too melodramatic.)
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?(I like the cool brainy blonds)
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? (Who's Bill Monroe?)
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? (Umm, huh?)
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? (More range. Mitchum only had two-three great roles, Marlon - at least 20)
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? (Who's Mark Morris?)
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? (Again the lighter touch)
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? (Tough, going with TCH)
29. Red wine or white? (Depends on the red - pinot noir, merlot - yes, or the white - pinot grigio (only one).)
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? (Another hard choice. Makes me laugh more for some bizarre reason).
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? (What??? Who??)
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?
34. Constable or Turner? (Again, who???)
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? (Tragic Saga vs. situation comedy)
36. Comedy or Tragedy? (Never said I was consistent.)
37. Fall or Spring? (Another tough one, since I prefer the fall holidays but I like flowers.)
38. Manet or Monet?
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? (not a huge fan of either at the moment. But seen and enjoyed more Simpsons)
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? (Ah Raphsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess vs. Sound of Music...let me think.)
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James?(How about Neither?
Find both incredibly hard to get through...like going through quicksand.)
42. Sunset or sunrise? (Yes, I am a vampire, we know this...seriously though, not a morning person.)
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? (Hard one, I kept going back and forth - not sure can choose)
44. Mac or PC? (Used Mac, moved to Windows, unlikely I'll go back. Want XP, can't afford XP...)
45. New York or Los Angeles? (Clearly - subways, no driving, on the ocean, and a theater town. LA makes me shudder.)
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? (Uhmmm what??)
47. Stax or Motown? (Who is Stax?)
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? (This meme hates me. Why do I have to choose? Can't I just love them both? - LOL! Again borrowing Plin's answer.)
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? (I vaguely remember Steely Dan.)
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? (Depends on the blog, and the magazine, really. (again stealing from plin),
Although I find blog's cheaper and easier to read clearly. )
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers?(I'm pathetic)
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
54. Ghost World or Election? (Yes, I am the only person on the planet who did not enjoy Election and thinks Reese Witherspoon is overrated.)
55. Minimalism or conceptual art?
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? (The under-dog. I always go for the underdog...)
57. Modernism or postmodernism? (I think. Is it like post-structuralism? I get my ism's confused sometimes)
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? (Who is Lucinda Williams...?
60. Johnson or Boswell? (Don't really know...probably Johnson, but since I can't remember them well enough to choose, it's a toss-up)
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? (Haven't made it through Virigina Woolf, she makes my teeth hurt.)
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? (A guess since I can't envision a Noguchi at the moment, even though I know I've seen one.)
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? (Haven't seen or heard either, so can't comment.)
66. Blue or green?
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It?
68. Ballet or opera? (Visual girl, not auditory one.)
69. Film or live theater? (Either can be sublime or excruciating, but when theater is good it's very very good. Borrowing superplin's response again - since she puts it perfectly.)
70. Acoustic or electric? (no contest. I hate electronic feedback - it clouds the music. With acoustic the musician sucks or doesn't suck, with electronic the sound system can be blamed.)
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
72. Sargent or Whistler?
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? (Haven't read Naipaul)
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? (Not overly fond of either, but Oklahoma is more enjoyable)
75. Sushi, yes or no? (Love the tuna mekka kappa)
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? (Who is Ross or Shawn?)
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? (Another tough one)
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? (No, clue but loved plin's response to it. Haven't read either. Not a Henry James fan.)
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? (Vague memory of who these people are - dance right?)
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? (Haven't seen much van der Rohe.)
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? (Only heard Krall once)
82. Watercolor or pastel? (Pastel's are chalky and I'm allergic to chalk like substances...)
83. Bus or subway? (I have an irrational hatred of buses. I had to take one today, as it happened, which did nothing to alter my prejudice. - Thank you, stolen from 'plin again. That's it in a nutshell. I get lost on the things. If you don't push at the right moment, you miss your stop. They are known to pass you by. And they can get turned over easily. Also if you are a big person it is impossible to stand on the things.)
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? (Who??? I'm guessing classical musicians...if so probably Schoenberg.)
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? (Don't like either. But Willa is the lesser of two evils.)
87. Schubert or Mozart? (I adore Mozart...relaxs me)
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? (Never could get into Moby Dick)
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? (Joyce fanatic. Only one didn't read all the way through was Finnegans Wake and that's because I only had a few copies that the prof printed off for us not the text. Haven't read Mann really. Tried once.)
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? (Who??)
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? (Whitman got a bit self-indulgent at times)
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? (Oddly enough I felt Churchill was more honest and less self-righteous, but that's just me.)
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
95. Italian or French cooking? (It's easier to cook.)
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
98. Short novels or long ones? (The correct answer, of course, is "whatever length the story needs." Some novels are longer or shorter than they should be. Stole from plin again, whom I agree with.)
99. Swing or bebop? (Have you heard Belleview Rendezvous? That is bebob. Or close.)
100. The Last Judgment or The Last Supper? (Ack! This is just impossible. Each stunning in its own way. - completely agree with plin here, again. )
Ugh. Took forever. Was kicked out five times from the internet.
Hopefully it will post.
superplin and redredshoesYes I should be in bed. I have to get up at 7 am tomorrow to go to a staffing interview at 9am, which I'm hoping will be over by 11 am, so I can get home in time to see Spiderman 2 with my friend cjl at 1pm - at the cheap showing. (Hmmm, wonder if any of the showings after 1 pm are $5.50?)
At any rate...here's the meme, which left me feeling sort of culturally impaired afterwards. Tempting to put in my own stuff. This my friends is why I avoid memes...questions I can't or don't want to answer for fear of feeling foolish. God knows why considering things I post online. But whatever.
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? (He had more boyish bad boy charm. Also, I adore Marjorie Morningstar, American in Paris, and Singing in The Rain...)
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? (Not a big fan of Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but at least Fitzgerald was poetic and made me feel for the characters, Hemingway just makes me want to roll my eyes in exasperation. Too macho for words. The only Hemingway I liked was Old Man and The Sea.)
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington ?
4. Cats or Dogs? (I understand cats, they make sense to me - they want to be left alone and petted on their terms. Independent spirits. Dogs? They confuse me. No clue what to do with them. Also extremely high maitenance - have to train, walk, etc...cats? You just let them be.)
5. Matisse or Picasso? (Hard to choose, going with Matisse, it's a mood thing)
6. Yeats or Eliot? (Both are politically incorrect, but Eliot's poems moved me and played with my head. Even though I do appreciate Yeats collection of Irish Fairy Stories of which I own a copy.)
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? (Keaton made me laugh with the clock, Charlie makes me cringe in sympathy.)
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? (I read all of O'Connor's tales and still remember them. Updike? I'm lucky to make it through three. )
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? (Guess I can't say neither, huh? Damn. )
11. The Who or the Stones ? (Hard choice. Love both. But own the Stones. And the Stones created the best songs - Fade to Black and Sympathy for The Devil being amongst them.)
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? (Who's Philip Larkin?)
13. Trollope or Dickens? (Whose Trollop? No, seriously, heard of him, just never read.)
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? (Hard, love both, going with Billie who breaks my heart every time she sings.)
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? (Have yet to make it through Tolstoy. Could be the translations. Should probably try the new Anna Karena before I give up entirely.)
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? (Haven't read the Moviegoer)
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? (Hard, I love both, but prefer Balachine, Graham seems a little disjointed somehow...)
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? (Used to be hot dogs, but have eaten too many of them in recent years...also know too much about what is in them.)
19. Letterman or Leno? Honestly, I preferred Johnny Carson. Or early Letterman, really. Nowadays he does nothing for me. (I stole plin's response because it is the same as mine.)
20. Wilco or Cat Power? (Who's Wilco??)
21. Verdi or Wagner? (Wagner is too melodramatic.)
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?(I like the cool brainy blonds)
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? (Who's Bill Monroe?)
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? (Umm, huh?)
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? (More range. Mitchum only had two-three great roles, Marlon - at least 20)
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? (Who's Mark Morris?)
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? (Again the lighter touch)
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? (Tough, going with TCH)
29. Red wine or white? (Depends on the red - pinot noir, merlot - yes, or the white - pinot grigio (only one).)
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? (Another hard choice. Makes me laugh more for some bizarre reason).
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? (What??? Who??)
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?
34. Constable or Turner? (Again, who???)
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? (Tragic Saga vs. situation comedy)
36. Comedy or Tragedy? (Never said I was consistent.)
37. Fall or Spring? (Another tough one, since I prefer the fall holidays but I like flowers.)
38. Manet or Monet?
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? (not a huge fan of either at the moment. But seen and enjoyed more Simpsons)
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? (Ah Raphsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess vs. Sound of Music...let me think.)
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James?(How about Neither?
Find both incredibly hard to get through...like going through quicksand.)
42. Sunset or sunrise? (Yes, I am a vampire, we know this...seriously though, not a morning person.)
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? (Hard one, I kept going back and forth - not sure can choose)
44. Mac or PC? (Used Mac, moved to Windows, unlikely I'll go back. Want XP, can't afford XP...)
45. New York or Los Angeles? (Clearly - subways, no driving, on the ocean, and a theater town. LA makes me shudder.)
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? (Uhmmm what??)
47. Stax or Motown? (Who is Stax?)
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? (This meme hates me. Why do I have to choose? Can't I just love them both? - LOL! Again borrowing Plin's answer.)
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? (I vaguely remember Steely Dan.)
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? (Depends on the blog, and the magazine, really. (again stealing from plin),
Although I find blog's cheaper and easier to read clearly. )
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers?(I'm pathetic)
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
54. Ghost World or Election? (Yes, I am the only person on the planet who did not enjoy Election and thinks Reese Witherspoon is overrated.)
55. Minimalism or conceptual art?
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? (The under-dog. I always go for the underdog...)
57. Modernism or postmodernism? (I think. Is it like post-structuralism? I get my ism's confused sometimes)
58. Batman or Spider-Man?
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? (Who is Lucinda Williams...?
60. Johnson or Boswell? (Don't really know...probably Johnson, but since I can't remember them well enough to choose, it's a toss-up)
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? (Haven't made it through Virigina Woolf, she makes my teeth hurt.)
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show?
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? (A guess since I can't envision a Noguchi at the moment, even though I know I've seen one.)
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? (Haven't seen or heard either, so can't comment.)
66. Blue or green?
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It?
68. Ballet or opera? (Visual girl, not auditory one.)
69. Film or live theater? (Either can be sublime or excruciating, but when theater is good it's very very good. Borrowing superplin's response again - since she puts it perfectly.)
70. Acoustic or electric? (no contest. I hate electronic feedback - it clouds the music. With acoustic the musician sucks or doesn't suck, with electronic the sound system can be blamed.)
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
72. Sargent or Whistler?
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? (Haven't read Naipaul)
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? (Not overly fond of either, but Oklahoma is more enjoyable)
75. Sushi, yes or no? (Love the tuna mekka kappa)
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? (Who is Ross or Shawn?)
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? (Another tough one)
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? (No, clue but loved plin's response to it. Haven't read either. Not a Henry James fan.)
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? (Vague memory of who these people are - dance right?)
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? (Haven't seen much van der Rohe.)
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? (Only heard Krall once)
82. Watercolor or pastel? (Pastel's are chalky and I'm allergic to chalk like substances...)
83. Bus or subway? (I have an irrational hatred of buses. I had to take one today, as it happened, which did nothing to alter my prejudice. - Thank you, stolen from 'plin again. That's it in a nutshell. I get lost on the things. If you don't push at the right moment, you miss your stop. They are known to pass you by. And they can get turned over easily. Also if you are a big person it is impossible to stand on the things.)
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? (Who??? I'm guessing classical musicians...if so probably Schoenberg.)
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? (Don't like either. But Willa is the lesser of two evils.)
87. Schubert or Mozart? (I adore Mozart...relaxs me)
88. The Fifties or the Twenties?
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? (Never could get into Moby Dick)
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? (Joyce fanatic. Only one didn't read all the way through was Finnegans Wake and that's because I only had a few copies that the prof printed off for us not the text. Haven't read Mann really. Tried once.)
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? (Who??)
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? (Whitman got a bit self-indulgent at times)
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? (Oddly enough I felt Churchill was more honest and less self-righteous, but that's just me.)
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
95. Italian or French cooking? (It's easier to cook.)
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord?
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
98. Short novels or long ones? (The correct answer, of course, is "whatever length the story needs." Some novels are longer or shorter than they should be. Stole from plin again, whom I agree with.)
99. Swing or bebop? (Have you heard Belleview Rendezvous? That is bebob. Or close.)
100. The Last Judgment or The Last Supper? (Ack! This is just impossible. Each stunning in its own way. - completely agree with plin here, again. )
Ugh. Took forever. Was kicked out five times from the internet.
Hopefully it will post.
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Re: Culture Meme
Date: 2004-07-08 07:35 pm (UTC)Yes! (Woefully bad on the music side of the culture beam. I know I've heard these guys, just can't remember them. Bad at names anyway. I have Billie, Sarah Vaughn but not much Ella. I have some Duke but not much Basie - although my Dad is a huge jazz fan so have heard it there in between operas.)
Ballet over opera. I've never been to an opera, ever. I'm sure I'm missing something, but it's out of my budget to indulge much in that sort of thing, whereas I used to go to the ballet all the time in my twenties.
Yep, me as well. Seen lots of Ballet. Only opera I've seen was two bad renditions of Carmen, which I'm told isn't true opera anyway.
Most on TV or CD and somehow doesn't move me.
And it's outside my budget. Way outside at the moment. Ballet...has always made me happy.