Some of my favourite things this week

NEW MOUNTAIN GOATS!!

Rookie interviews Carrie Brownstein.

I’ve always had an interest in the minutiae of social dynamics and how people perform at relationships—the way couples kind of perform at being couples for an audience, or even to themselves. There’s who they are, and then there’s who they imagine themselves to be, which will sometimes manifest itself in conversations. Like when you hear people talking a little bit louder, and you realize, Oh, this is a performance. Studying the way people talk manifested itself in Portlandia a lot, because a lot of what Fred and I do is to look at the ways people communicate and try to get down to the most essential but also the most absurd part of that.

ARTE provides the entire Paléo festival performance by Warpaint for free (for 90 days)

Mitt Romney goes to London. 

The comparisons with Romney's trip to Europe and Obama's visit at almost exactly the same stage in the electoral cycle four years ago are almost too embarrassing to mention. Obama wooed a quarter of a million people in Berlin while Romney was mocked by the British prime minister.

(and Danny Boyle's favourite hobby is trolling tumblr, but that's a different story)