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Thu Feb-12-09 02:02 PM
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Poll question: Are you high brow, middle brow or low brow? |
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Thu Feb-12-09 02:03 PM
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1. Can I have some guidelines to help determine what I am? |
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Thu Feb-12-09 02:08 PM
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Seriously, I was hoping you'd make that determination yourself. Traditionally, high brow referred to someone who aspired to appreciate the very finest of arts. Low brow meant strictly interested in the most popular forms of art. Middlebrow took cues from arbiters of taste in the media as to what to read, listen to, see, etc.
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Thu Feb-12-09 07:37 PM
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Thu Feb-12-09 02:06 PM
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4. Between middle and low. |
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Edited on Thu Feb-12-09 02:06 PM by BarenakedLady
with the occasional spark of high.
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Thu Feb-12-09 03:56 PM
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Edited on Thu Feb-12-09 04:03 PM by GoddessOfGuinness
I certainly don't take my cues from the media. But while I enjoy the fine arts, I also enjoy more popular forms of art. Sometimes the high-brow stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes the low-brow folk are as snooty as the high-brow folk they spurn.
I'd rather decide for myself.
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Thu Feb-12-09 04:00 PM
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8. Bipolar. Either high or low. For Neo, there is no spoon. For me, there is no middle. |
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Except my belly, but nobody's perfect...
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Thu Feb-12-09 04:19 PM
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9. I prefer not to divide brows along class lines |
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Quit being a bourgeois reactionary.
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Thu Feb-12-09 04:28 PM
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I'm not quite smart enough for Tolstoy or Pynchon, but I'm way too smart for American Idol.
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Thu Feb-12-09 04:28 PM
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I don't discriminate when it comes to taste.
I listen to Mozart, I listen to Howard Stern.
I read Shakespeare, I read MAD magazine.
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, I watch Porky's.
I'm a snob, I'm a slob. :7
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Thu Feb-12-09 04:29 PM
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Although I have high-brow tendencies in odd places.
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Thu Feb-12-09 04:43 PM
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13. I think that NewYorker subscription brands me as a middle brow |
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Thu Feb-12-09 04:45 PM
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14. Well, I farted at the opera once. |
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Not sure where that falls on the spectrum.
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Thu Feb-12-09 07:42 PM
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17. It would depend upon whether you then roared with laughter about it for the rest of the show |
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and phoned friends to boast about it (also during the show).
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I have this fantasy about standing on my chair at an opera between songs yelling "FREEBIRD!!!"
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