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Taken 2
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and memory.
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Even in Arcadia
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Taken 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Denial of Death
Carries a strong pull into television through power and South Asia.
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The Doors of Perception
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Bear
2020s
A fine-dining chef takes over his brother's sandwich shop. Grief, pressure, and kitchen anxiety.
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
2010s
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leath...
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Even in Arcadia
2020s
Even in Arcadia is a 2025 album associated with Sleep Token and RCA Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Essays · Strong bridge
The Denial of Death
1970s
The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. The author argues most human action is taken to ignore or avoid the inevitability of death.
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Television 2020s
Panchayat
An engineering graduate takes a government job in a remote village. Rural India with warmth and wit.
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Music 1990s
Alternate Takes
Film 1990s
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar is a 1999 film from France, Germany, and Italy, associated with Claude Zidi. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 1950s
The Doors of Perception
Huxley takes mescaline and reports. Consciousness, art, and the filters of perception.
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Music 2000s
Altered Takes
Film 2010s
13 Assassins
Thirteen samurai plot to take down a sadistic lord in Miike's epic reimagining of the 1963 original. The final forty-minute battle is relentless.