News:Busy Devendra B.

Mr. Banhart has been busy not putting out albums by himself, but he has been all over the place with his girlfriend Natalie Portman. In real life and for the video for "Carmenista" off his last album Smoky Rolls Down Thunder Canyon.
And in real life, being bothered by the people at TMZ.com

Devendra has also found time to write the preface to a book of collected works of the late poet Kenneth Patchen.
Banhart a the start of the book titled We Meet

"I came across Kenneth Patchen the way one dreams of a tumbleweed rollin’ on by, leaving trails of luminosity from within its prismatic pit. The world is, of course, that damn tumbleweed with Patchen’s riddle wrapped around itself, now here, now gone, like the marriage between "Hi!" and "So Long.” We are left born before a new kind of page, the shit kicked out of us, and nothing is sweeter.... Blessed be this shitkicker."