100 questions

Here are my results on the Teachout Cultural Concurrence Index. My choices are in bold. This was a frustrating exercise. I haven't seen a lot of movies or listened to a lot of jazz, and that is reflected in the 44 items where I couldn't honestly make a choice. I'm shocked at how many books I haven't read, and I'm irritated at how much I've never had an opportunity to see. I've read a lot about Mark Morris, for example, but the one time he passed through Wichita the barely-affordable seats were sold out long before I was in sight of the box office.

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1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly?
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? Gatsby
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington?
4. Cats or dogs? Dogs (but I prefer cacti)
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse
6. Yeats or Eliot? Eliot
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Keaton
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? O'Connor
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca?
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? Pollock
11. The Who or the Stones? The Who
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Larkin
13. Trollope or Dickens?
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald?
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Tolstoy
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair?
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham?
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Burgers
19. Letterman or Leno?
20. Wilco or Cat Power?
21. Verdi or Wagner? Verdi
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe?
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Monroe
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis?
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando?
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp?
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Vermeer
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Chopin
29. Red wine or white? Red
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde?
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity?
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Prokofiev
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? Baryshnikov
34. Constable or Turner? Turner
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo?
36. Comedy or tragedy? Comedy
37. Fall or spring? Spring
38. Manet or Monet? Monet
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? G&G
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? James
42. Sunset or sunrise? Sunrise
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter?
44. Mac or PC? Mac
45. New York or Los Angeles?
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? Horizon
47. Stax or Motown?
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Costello
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? weblog
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier?
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers?
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde?
54. Ghost World or Election?
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Conceptual
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Modernism
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Batman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams?
60. Johnson or Boswell? Johnson
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Austen
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? Dick Van Dyck
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table?
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity?
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni?
66. Blue or green? Blue
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? Dream
68. Ballet or opera? Ballet
69. Film or live theater? Live
70. Acoustic or electric? Electric
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo?
72. Sargent or Whistler?
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? Kundera
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? Music Man
75. Sushi, yes or no? No
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? Ross
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee?
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove?
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? Taylor
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Wright
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones?
82. Watercolor or pastel? Pastel
83. Bus or subway? (hey, I live in Kansas)
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Smooth
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Cather
87. Schubert or Mozart? Schubert
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? Twenties
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Melville
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce?
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins?
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Dickinson
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Churchill
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann?
95. Italian or French cooking?
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? Harpsichord (or synthesizer)
97. Anchovies, yes or no?
98. Short novels or long ones? Short
99. Swing or bebop? Bebop
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? The Last Supper

If I counted correctly, I am in sympathy with Teachout 29 times and in opposition 27 times for a TCC index of approximately 52%.