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Written on the Body
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My Own Private Idaho
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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I Know This Much Is True
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and East Asia.
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Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Cape God
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and East Asia.
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The Arcades Project
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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Letters to a Young Poet
Carries a strong pull into books through longing and South Asia.
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Top Boy
2010s
Top Boy is a British crime drama thriller television series created and written by Ronan Bennett. The series is set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London Borough of Hackney. It focuses on two drug dealers, Dushane and Sully, along with others involved with drug dealing and gang violence in London.
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Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
1980s
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks is a studio album by the British musician and producer Brian Eno, the Canadian producer Daniel Lanois, and the composer Roger Eno, who is Brian Eno's brother. It was released on 29 July 1983 through EG Records. The music was originally written for a documentary film about the Apol...
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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2000s
On the precipice of a cataclysmic drought, the Star Readers of the Shin Yogo Empire must devise a plan to avoid widespread famine. It is written in ancient myths that the first emperor, along with eight warriors, slew a water demon to avoid a great drought and save the land that was to become Shin Yogo. If a water d...
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Night on Earth
1990s
Night on Earth is a 1991 comedy-drama anthology film written, produced, and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It is a collection of five vignettes that take place roughly simultaneously on the same night, concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five cities: Los Angeles, New York City, Paris...
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Essays 1980s
The Arcades Project
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines is a 1982 non-fiction book on video games by the British author Martin Amis. The foreword is written by American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, also an arcade game enthusiast. Writing in The Village Voice, U.S. author...
Television 2020s
Tales from the Loop
Tales from the Loop is an American science fiction drama television series developed and written by Nathaniel Halpern based on the art book of the same name by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. The eight-episode first season was released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video on April 3, 2020.
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Books 1990s
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
A handover-era Hong Kong written as an imaginary cartography — the city read as a set of speculative maps on the eve of transition.
Music 1970s
Hejira
Hejira is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1976 on Asylum Records. Its material was written during a period of frequent travel in late 1975 and early 1976, and reflects Mitchell's experiences on the road during that time. It is characterized by lyrically dense, sprawli...
Film 1990s
My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V. The story follows two friends, Mike Waters and Scott Favor, played by River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, respectively, as...
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Essays 1920s
Letters to a Young Poet
Ten letters of advice on art, solitude, and living. The most beloved creative counsel ever written.