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I had a little trouble cobbling together a decent mix in April, but not so this month. Not so at all:

1. “Street Hassle” by Lou Reed
2. “Empty Skies” by Kosheen
3. “Re: Stacks” by Bon Iver
4. “Passing Afternoon” by Iron & Wine
5. “Riki Tiki Tavi” by Donovan
6. “Fountain of Youth” by Grant-Lee Phillips
7. “Funnel of Love” by Southern Culture on the Skids
8. “Sundirtwater” by the Waifs
9. “Snow (Hey Oh)” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. “Say Aha” by Santogold
11. “Sticks and Stones” by the Pierces
12. “Save the Last Dance for Me” by the Drifters
13. “The Age of the Understatement” by the Last Shadow Puppets
14. “Robots” by Flight of the Conchords
15. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by Jake Shimabukuro
16. “Saturday Night on Utopia Parkway” by Christine Fellows
17. “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” by Hayes Carll
18. “In Between Love” by Tom Waits
19. “Kill Zone” by T-Bone Burnett
20. “All Night” by Sam Phillips
21. “List of Demands (Reparations)” by Saul Williams
22. “Your Rocky Spine” by Great Lake Swimmers
23. “I Will Follow” by Kate Herzig”
24. “Hook & Ladder” by Vetiver

If you’d like to make a swap, for all or half of that — by necessity I’m splitting it across two discs — just let me know. C’mon, share some new music with me!

“He admitted to having been in possession of a hedgehog,” police Constable Lyndon Reid said. [New Zealand man convicted of assault with hedgehog]

There is a part of me that’s just as amazed at the Phoenix Mars Lander as everybody else, that’s eager to discover what it can teach us about the red planet, and that joins in the wonder of look at what we can do! But I have to admit, deep down, there’s this other part of me that can’t help but wish, especially at the rate that our own planet is falling apart under our watch, that we were so much further by now.

Oh, Sex and the City, look what you’ve done to poor Roger Ebert:

Well they had to save something for the sequel!

Right now it’s just a rumor, and even if it’s true it might not happen, and even if it happens, it might not be any good, but I’ll admit to a little fanboy moment of glee when I read that Neil Gaiman may have been asked to write an episode of Doctor Who.

It’s a little like I felt when Jesse Thorn of the Sound of Young America interviewed Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich of Radio Lab, and those two favorites of mine collided.

Which I guess should give you some flavor for the sort of huge geek that I am.