The Other Side of the Ocean — Music & media

“Clair de Lune”

Songs

Also known as Debussy, our song

• Ch 5First track of James’s Paradise playlist.
• Ch 7James’s secret song; he blasts it when he is alone in the car. “It’ll always remind me of you now.”
• Ch 8“That song is ours now.”
• Ch 21On repeat in James’s car: “Closest thing I had to having you next to me.”
• Ch 24Matt hums it to James on the fallen tree.
• Ch 26James plays it in the canoe and cries.

The Paradise playlist

Songs

Also known as Paradise

• Ch 5James’s first and favorite playlist, a map of his emotions after Brian.
• Ch 18Matt names his car after it.

“My Escape”

Songs

• Ch 2James’s playlist; opens with the theme to Inception.

Hans Zimmer

Songs

• Ch 2Matt’s favorite composer; also James’s. Matt draws to his scores.

“Moves Like Jagger”

Songs

• Ch 5James’s shower song.

“Numb/Encore”

Songs

• Ch 1Linkin Park and Jay-Z; Matt’s walk-out song on the first morning.

The yellow Camaro song

Songs

• Ch 7The Brazilian song Ana played while cleaning, about a man who gets rich overnight and buys a yellow Camaro. James saves it to a playlist.

Sertanejo

Songs

Also known as Leandro e Leonardo, Rionegro e Solimões

• Ch 3Brazilian country music; Ana’s dinner playlist.

Deaf, Jam, and Life

Songs

• Ch 3Laila’s favorite band. Matt says they sound like a movie from the early nineties.

Shadow of a Tree

Films & shows

• Ch 7The PG-13 horror film the group sees; a girl kidnapped by a spirit in a forest. The pinky war happens in the back row.

Jurassic Park

Films & shows

Also known as Dr. Grant

• Ch 12Matt and James debate whether it could happen.
• Ch 13James calls Matt “my little Dr. Grant.”
• Ch 20Matt wears a vintage Jurassic Park shirt.
• Ch 26James blasts the theme driving into the park.

Brokeback Mountain

Films & shows

• Ch 1Matt downloaded it at eleven and identified with Ennis.

DevianArtBook

Films & shows

• Ch 5An art site; serious artists post there. Matt wants his debut to be perfect.

The empire game

Films & shows

• Ch 12A PS3 open-world game. Matt and James build a Roman city until another army destroys the temple of Athena.
• Ch 12The intro shows a half-naked Zeus and Athena; players can pick any historical society. Their city had a statue of Athena at the temple entrance.