* likingVillagers' new song Cecelia & Her Selfhood, but as much for Adrien Merigeau's short animated film that comes with it. A wonderful combination. You'll find it on vimeo.com.
* listening toLisa Hannigan's Passenger.Her second album is often cosy, but at times it's thrilling.
* cautious aboutthe supposed return of Arrested Development.A series and movie are in the works, but the US comedy's cult status has raised expectations that may be hard to match.
* watching Homeland,the new Showtime series (coming to Channel 4) in which Claire Danes plays a CIA agent, who suspects former POW Damian Lewis of being an al-Qaeda agent. Creepy and brilliantly paced, it also features a great supporting role by Mandy Patinkin.
* planningdecamping to the IFI Horrorthon (kicking off on October 27th), which once again has a line-up of retro, international and local scary movies. This year's guest of honour is Michael Biehn, star of The Terminator and Aliens, who will be presenting his directorial debut, the revenge movie The Victim (above).
* playing Driver San Francisco– an endlessly addictive game that takes influence from 1970s car-chase movies (such as The French Connection and The Driver) and recent dreamscape stories (such as Inception and Life on Mars).
* readingJulian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending, the likely winner of the Man Booker Prize, which will be announced on Tuesday. But The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt, is a fine Western and would deserve the prize.
* bookinga trip to London to see Gerhard Richter's retrospectiveat the Tate Modern. "If you care about painting and its relationship to the world we inhabit, it is essential, stimulating and extremely rewarding viewing," wrote Aidan Dunne in The Irish Times yesterday.
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