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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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The Expanse
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.

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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and after-hours.
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Hard Candy
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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A Hard Day's Night
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Expanse
2010s
Humanity has colonized the solar system. Hard sci-fi's best adaptation, class warfare in space.
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Led Zeppelin IV
1970s
Stairway to Heaven and four other sides of vinyl. Hard rock's most iconic album.
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Planetes
2000s
Space garbage collectors in 2075. Hard sci-fi about dreams, debris, and the meaning of work.

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All About Lily Chou-Chou
2000s
A bruised coming-of-age film where mediated music culture, adolescent cruelty, and yearning turn intimacy into something unstable and hard to hold.
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White Oleander
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons t...
Music 2000s
Hard Candy
Hard Candy is a 2008 album associated with Madonna and Warner Bros. Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
Anime 2020s
Blue Period
Second-year high school student Yatora Yaguchi is a delinquent with excellent grades, but is unmotivated to find his true calling in life. Yatora spends his days working hard to maintain his academic standing while hanging out with his equally unambitious friends. However, beneath his carefree demeanor, Yatora does...
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Film
Hard Candy
2005 film directed by David Slade
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Books 2000s
The Three-Body Problem
First contact begins during the Cultural Revolution. Hard sci-fi with Chinese political history.
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Music 1950s
Blue Train
Hard bop at its finest. Coltrane's first true statement as a leader.