I'm curious to know which of these scenarios is more amusing:

1) Sitting in a popular coffeehouse in Brooklyn while The Fugees' THE SCORE playing in the background. The grooves are chill and very nice to listen to, but because of the obvious difference in musical genre, the completely white clientele squirm uncomfortably, trying to awkward nod to the beat, and ignore that nagging desire to ask for a different c.d. choice. Yah for upper middle class white guilt!

OR

2) Sitting on a bus going out to Rye Brook to shoot a TV show. It cuts up 125th Street from East Harlem into the Bronx. Listening to Portishead on my iPod and watching the streetscape change through one of America's most artistically charged ghettos, looking up to find a banner on a lamppost with an awkwardly smiling Jimmy Fallon on it and the slogan "Thanks for visiting our city. A message from the City of New York and it's locals." Meanwhile there's a welfare line forming on Malcolm X Boulevard...

Your thoughts?