call the police

Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be (album stream)

100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die (Thanks, Aki!)

Fever Ray's self-titled debut is easily one of my favorite albums of 2009. She recently contributed a Halloween-themed podcast to Resident Advisor. It's spooky good.

Here's another great podcast, this time from the people behind We Love You So (aka the people behind the Where the Wild Things Are film adaptation).

PS Where the Dirty Hipsters Are

trailer - Mammoth (I don't think either Gael García Bernal or Michelle Williams will save this one, but...)

Slate has fun with the Google search box.

The Playlist lists The Little Quentin [Tarantino] Movies That Never Happened.

Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 (album stream)

sooner or later you're payin' for it

Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land (stream)

W magazine interviews "Bergman's muse" Liv Ullman.

Nicolas Jaar makes great music. He's a nineteen year-old sophomore at Brown. Ugh.

I love Best of Nashville, especially Food and Drink.

Can you handle this behind-the-scenes video of The Women of Nine? I couldn't.

Where the Wild Things Are opens tomorrow. Celebrate by reading this round table interview with author Maurice Sendak, screenwriter Dave Eggers, and director Spike Jonze. Or this round table interview with Jonze, Eggers, Catherine Keener, and Max Records. Or listen to this interview with Jonze.

life is getting worse

I swear I didn't plan this.

Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (album stream)

Karen O and the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are (soundtrack stream)

Mission of Burma - The Sound, the Speed, the Light (album stream)

Built to Spill - There is No Enemy (album stream)

Yo La Tengo - Washington, D.C. 9/17/09 (concert stream)

i remember my face turned red

trailer - The Maid

25 best book to film adaptations

Philip Sherburne is a really smart music writer who has made a 97 minute mix for Unsound. I like it.

Yo La Tengo on La Blogotheque

5 Directors Who Made Great Remakes of Their Own Films

The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath (stream)

Thanks to Brandon for pointing out this neat project from Ólafur Arnalds -- Found Songs were written and recorded one day at a time for a week.

Roman Polanski FAQs

i don't know what it is

Trailer - Blind Date (dir. Stanley Tucci)

A Not-So-Fast Flip Through Google's Shiny New Toy

I can't believe you're already stressing over what to get me for Christmas. It's obvious -- The Merge Records Companion!

Islands - Vapours (stream)

How much does Jay Leno's worthless comedy cost?

Vice profiles Spike Jonze

Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences

double duty

Masaki Kobayashi's nine-and-a-half hour The Human Condition is a work of unparalleled power.

Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown might be coming to Broadway.

A Single Man just won Colin Firth the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival (he accepted the award with a speech in Italian).

Girls - Album (stream)

I enjoyed reading about the cover art for Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Are you aware of all the TV Shows Premiering This Week?

that's funny

You may have heard that the Beatles' catalog was remastered last week. To celebrate, I present some related links:

- NPR helps you decide between the Mono and Stereo releases.

- Slate points out the missing songs that would have made the new box set a classic.

- The Telegraph uncovers 20 things you did not know about the Fab Four.

- Chuck Klosterman pokes a little fun.