Thursday, July 22, 2004
(2:19 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Amardeep Singh Cultural Index
Amardeep invites everyone to participate in his own cultural index and to produce as varied and miscellaneous an array of deviations as possible.The thing that I find frustrating about all such indices is that I am just barely 24 years old and feel acutely culturally illiterate. Movies were not a big part of my upbringing, for instance. Yet I press on. Here are my answers to some of Amardeep's questions, with all non-choices (don't care or not familiar) simply omitted:
1. (It's 11pm) The internet or Jon Stewart?
2. Pavement or Wilco?
4. (It's 1991) Fugazi or Nirvana?
16. The Cable Guy or The Matrix?
18. Juliette Binoche or Audrey Tatou?
26. The Sopranos or The Simpsons?
27. Mac or PC?
29. Aimee Mann or Liz Phair?
33. Vegetarian or meat?
40. A little sublime (not the band, the real thing) or a lot of beautiful?
42. CDs or MP3s?
44. 1969 or 1979?
45. 1981 or 1991?
46. The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin?
50. On a mountain or on a beach?
My favorite part, here elided, was that he provided alternate alternatives for those who were too proud to stoop to the level of, for instance, Pavement vs. Wilco. He expresses a desire for more authors, but I fear my taste might be just as obscure as his. I think that we could do choices among blogs, among more painters, among fewer rap/hip-hop artists, etc. If I were making one, which may yet happen, I would also trim it to 25 items only. I haven't even read through the original version (linked at 1.5 billion different blogs -- just click around if you want to see it), because it's so damn long.
Anyone who answers his index or creates a variant is encouraged to comment at his site, or alternately, you could follow HaloScan's simple 23-step trackback process to ping this post.
