Early Buzz: 'Rushmore,' Arcade Fire and much more

Happy Monday, everyone! It was a lovely fall weekend here in Brooklyn, so I spent part of my time buying gourds and pumpkin butter. I also caught up on a few TV shows (like Masters of Sex and Scandal) and heard some podcasts. You?

Some headlines:

- Watch Arcade Fire play new songs in Brooklyn.

- Benedict Cumberbatch's The Fifth Estate did terribly at the box office.

- Carrie Brownstein talks to Pearl Jam in this video.

- This essay tackles "white-male masculinity in science-fiction television." (Thanks, Zack.)

- Here's the trailer for Doctor's Who's anniversary special.

- The New Yorker has a piece defending Dana on Homeland.

- Do we really need another adaptation of Little Women?

- Marilyn Manson is coming to Once Upon a Time.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger recites fans' favorite lines.

- Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard got married.

- This anti-Morrissey story certainly caused a stir.

- Matt Zoller Seitz presents a wonderful video essay about Rushmore.

- Vince Gilligan addresses fans' theories about Breaking Bad. (Sorry, Norm Macdonald.)

- Play Walking Dead bingo.

- How well do you know young-adult novels?

- Did you catch the Ohio State marching band's tribute to Michael Jackson?

- I love this project, in which different illustrators draw Maurice Sendak novels in the styles of other artists. (Example: See Where the Wild Things Are in the style of Jules Feiffer.)

- And finally, see the first version of Mahna Mahna — and then try to get it out of your head for the rest of the day.