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The Doors of Perception
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Waiting for the Sun
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Soft Parade
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Doors of Perception
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into books through nature and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Door
1980s
Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--su...
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The Doors
1960s
The Doors is a 1967 album associated with The Doors and Elektra. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Mind Game
2000s
After seeing her jump onto a subway at the last second and getting her ankle crushed between the doors, Nishi reconnects with his high school sweetheart, Myon. Nishi is still very much in love with Myon, but is shocked to learn that she is engaged to another man. Nishi agrees to meet Myon's fiancé at her family's Ya...
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Film 1970s
The Godfather
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
Books 1960s
The Passion According to G.H.
The Passion According to G.H. is a mystical novel by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, published in 1964. The work takes the form of a monologue by a woman, identified only as G.H., telling of the crisis that ensued the previous day after she crushed a cockroach in the door of a wardrobe. Its canonical status was...
Music 1970s
In Through the Out Door
In Through the Out Door is a 1979 album associated with Led Zeppelin and Swan Song Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Film 1980s
Blue Velvet
A severed ear discovered in a field opens the door to a suburban underworld.
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The Odyssey
A hero's ten-year journey home from war. The foundation of Western narrative.