Matchbox Twenty: More Than You Think You Are: Worth getting for the seductive first single ("Disease") alone. They are one of those bands where each release builds upon what they've learned from their previous work. All that time Rob Thomas and Co. have spent around the likes of Santana is showing: A nicely-produced effort.

Fruits Basket, Vol. 1: Sweet without becoming saccharine.

Chance Pop Session, Session 1: The description in The Anime Encyclopedia does it no justice whatsoever. If you followed American Idol — and come on, how many of us did? ;-) — you have to check this out.

Minority Report: A brilliant realization of a future that is shiny/happy on the surface but threatening just beneath. I am officially crazy for Colin Farrell.

The Mabinogion: (Translated & Introduced by Jeffrey Gantz) The Welsh medieval tales that served as some of the inspiration for the Arthurian-themed works of Thomas Malory and Cretiens de Troyes.