Lots of listening & watching these past few days:

• Bought the new Arcade Fire disc Funeral (metacritic | pitchfork). It’s as good as all the hype would suggest. I’d say it’s somewhere between A Silver Mt. Zion and The Fiery Furnaces, and that ain’t a bad place to be at all. Certainly it’s different enough to warrant the interest it’s getting, and it’ll likely never be on the radio which gives it some extra zippity-zing in my book.
• Also bought the new Black Keys and Mark Lanegan discs a while back. Both’re chock full of bluesy goodness.
• Picked up the Daily Show book, America: The Book (Amazon). It’s…huge. There’s too much there for me to go through anytime soon since I’m reading nothing but global finance textbooks these days, but it’s really funny so far. I’d expect nothing less from the funniest show on TV.
• We watched two movies from Zip this weekend: Matchstick Men and The Crossing Guard. Neither of them great, but neither of them bad either.