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  • I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is the eighth studio album by the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on April 22, 1997, by Matador Records. It was produced by Roger Moutenot and recorded at House of David in Nashville, Tennessee. The album expands the guitar-based pop of its predecessor Electr-O-Pura...

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  • Ghost World Film · 2000s

    Ghost World is a 2001 black comedy film co-written and directed by Terry Zwigoff. Based on the 1990s comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, the story focuses on the lives of teenage outsiders Enid and Rebecca, who face a rift in their friendship as Enid takes an interest in an older man named Seymour, and bec...

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  • Sarazanmai Anime · 2010s

    After the noble Kappa Kingdom falls to the Otter Empire, the Kappa prince Keppi loses much of his power and becomes helpless against the unseen Kapa-zombies. These zombies plague the world, and are the creations of the Otters and manifestations of people's deepest desires. With no other choice, Keppi must rely on th...

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  • The Apartment Film · 1960s

    The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon stars as an insurance clerk who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows his superiors to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramari...

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  • Heartstopper Television · 2020s

    Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series created by British author Alice Oseman for Netflix, based on her graphic novels and webcomic series of the same name. The series follows the lives Charlie Spring, a gay teen boy who falls in love with classmate Nick (Nicholas) Nelson, wh...

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