NewMexiKen has mentioned the TCCI twice already but has decided, like other prominent bloggers, to post it directly with my choice (and a few I didn’t know or couldn’t decide).
- Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Kelly
- The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? Sun
- Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Duke trumps Count
- Cats or dogs? Dogs
- Matisse or Picasso? Matisse
- Yeats or Eliot? Yeats
- Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Keaton
- Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? Updike
- To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? Casablanca
- Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning?
- The Who or the Stones? Stones
- Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath?
- Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
- Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Billie
- Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky
- The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair?
- George Balanchine or Martha Graham?
- Hot dogs or hamburgers? Depends on who’s grilling
- Letterman or Leno? Letterman
- Wilco or Cat Power?
- Verdi or Wagner? German cars, Italian opera — Verdi
- Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Marilyn
- Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Cash
- Kingsley or Martin Amis?
- Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Brando
- Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp?
- Vermeer or Rembrandt? Rembrandt
- Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Chopin
- Red wine or white? White (red better for you, though)
- Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Wilde
- Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
- Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Prokofiev
- Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? Baryshnikov
- Constable or Turner?
- The Searchers or Rio Bravo? Rio Bravo
- Comedy or tragedy? Comedy
- Fall or spring? Fall
- Manet or Monet? Monet
- The Sopranos or The Simpsons? Sopranos
- Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? Gershwins
- Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Conrad
- Sunset or sunrise? Sunrise
- Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Porter
- Mac or PC? PC (for now)
- New York or Los Angeles? New York to visit, LA to live
- Partisan Review or Horizon?
- Stax or Motown? Stax
- Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
- Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Elvis
- Reading a blog or reading a magazine? Blogs (plural)
- John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? Olivier
- Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? Roy did a few songs well. Frank did them all well. Roy for this song.
- Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? Faye and Jack over Faye and Warren
- Ghost World or Election?
- Minimalism or conceptual art?
- Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs
- Modernism or postmodernism?
- Batman or Spider-Man? Spidey
- Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Emmylou
- Johnson or Boswell? Boswell
- Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Austen
- The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? Honeymooners
- An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
- Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
- The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? Don Giovanni
- Blue or green? Blue
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? Dream
- Ballet or opera? Opera
- Film or live theater? Film
- Acoustic or electric? What tune?
- North by Northwest or Vertigo? Vertigo (Kim over Eva)
- Sargent or Whistler? Whistler
- V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera?
- The Music Man or Oklahoma? Oklahoma
- Sushi, yes or no? No
- The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? Shawn
- Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Williams
- The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?
- Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham?
- Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Wright
- Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Norah
- Watercolor or pastel? Watercolor
- Bus or subway? Subway
- Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Igor, of course
- Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Smooth
- Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Cather
- Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
- The Fifties or the Twenties? Fifties
- Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Huck
- Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
- Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? Prez
- Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Whitman
- Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Lincoln
- Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
- Italian or French cooking? Italian
- Bach on piano or harpsichord? Harpsichord
- Anchovies, yes or no? No
- Short novels or long ones? Depends on the novel
- Swing or bebop? Swing
- “The Last Judgment” or “The Last Supper”? Supper, now that I’ve read The Da Vinci Code