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Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) Andy Worhol's Vinyl (1965)
The X-Files Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Iron Man (movie, 2008) Commando Cody in Radar Men From the Moon (movie serial, 1952)
The Lathe of Heaven (TV movie, 1980) A Dream Within A Dream (poem, 1849) by Edgar Allan Poe
Edge of Tomorrow (movie, 2014) The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 26: Shadow Play (TV show, 1961)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (movie, 1956) The Puppet Masters (novel, 1951) by Robert A. Heinlein
Elysium (movie, 2013) Johnny Mnemonic (short story, 1981) by William Gibson
The Hunger Games (movie, 2012) The Running Man (movie, 1987)
Han Solo Beowulf Shaeffer
The electric telegraph The optical telegraph
The ending of Richard Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks The ending of Beethoven's Piano Concerto #1
Cloud City of Bespin Stratos of Ardana
Bernstein's America from West Side Story Copeland's Danza De Jalisco from Three Latin American Sketches
Gyorgy Ligeti's Atmospheres Arnold Schoenberg's "Summer Morning by a Lake" (aka "Farben"/"Colors") from Five Pieces for Orchestra
Amadeus (the movie, 1984) Mozart and Salieri (the opera, 1898)
Anakin-soon-to-be-Lord-Vader clawing his way up the lava bank on planet Mustafar with his one remaining mechanical arm in SW:RotS Ah-nold as the T-800 Model 101 clawing his way along the catwalk in the steel foundry with his one remaining mechanical arm in T2:JD
James Tiptree, Jr. Billy Tipton
Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds and Frank Zappa's Freak Out!
1984 and Brave New World We , by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Hogwarts Endor College
James Joyce's Ulysses The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Ravel's Piano Concerto in G
Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit Balakyrev's Islamey
Ravel's Bolero Chopin's Bolero
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Berlioz' Romeo et Juliette
The Nightmare Before Christmas A Kidnapped Santa Claus , by L. Frank Baum
Teletubbyland The Village
Hippies The Cathars of Medieval France
Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Bangalore World University San Narciso Community College
Buckaroo Banzai The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
Coruscant Trantor
Frankenstein The Golem
Anakin Skywalker Elphaba of Oz
Coca-cola Vin Mariani
Austin Powers Evelyn Tremble
H.R.Giger's Alien Monstro the Whale
Toy Story (1995) The Brave Little Toaster (1987)