taking Terry's test (updated)

I knew I couldn't resist forever. I finally buckled and took the now famous Teachout Cultural Concurrence Index, scoring a much higher than expected 73 percent (answering all). I feel like I hardly know myself.

Points of divergence were:

Dogs
Duke Ellington
Picasso
Eliot
Plath
Hamburgers (You are a deviant! Not that I don't enjoy a good hot dog, but this is 'Merka.)
Johnny Cash (That was tough; they may have revoked my Kentucky citizenship)
Oscar Wilde
white wine (It's summer.)
Twyla Tharp
Turner
Gershwin and Gershwin
Cole Porter
Ganguin
Elvis Costello (Steely Dan is SCARY!)
Election (I liked Ghost World, but am still a little disturbed by the fact that a comic about the relationship between two girls became more about the relationship between one girl and a middle-aged man.)
Pomo, baby
Boswell (That Boswell just cracks me up. Plus, bonus points for providing a life that could yield the best title ever -- Boswell's Clap and Other Essays : Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions -- for one of my favorite science/literary detective works.)
Virginia Woolf (Sorry, Karen, it's just because I've put off reading Austen, I'm sure.)
Double Indemnity
electric
Oklahoma (Don't ask.)
Merce Cunningham
subway
the Twenties
James Joyce
No anchovies!

And, of course, some of these I feel the need to wiggle on -- I actually prefer medium novels, which I guess is more short-ish, than short, and I'm perfectly fine with long ones too. I like Cat Power AND Wilco, but when it comes down to it, I listen to Wilco more often, so they got the nod. And some, maybe even most, aren't things I'd go to the mat on (they aren't Immutables, in another word).

Feels almost like I accomplished something.

PPS (which appears above the first PS because it's about this entry): Christopher scored a 72 percent, only one point off my 73, but differed almost entirely on different choices. Interesting. We're now talking about making our own Concurrence Index. I'll keep you posted.

UPDATED P.S. Un TCCI-related, Stephen Ellliott is guest blogging most amusingly over at The Elegant Variation,.

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