A lot of people have asked me what I’m listening to as I walk around New York. The answer is nothing, because I prefer the rapturous sound of the city. But I realized today there are some songs that keep popping into my head as I walk. Please don’t make fun of me.

“The Breaks,” Kurtis Blow
There’s a scene in Beautiful Losers where Steve Powers is talking about coming to Manhattan for the first time in the 80’s and he turns a corner and boom! There’s a police car on fire. Then this song starts playing. Not that I’m an advocate for violence or vandalism, but sometimes I walk around New York wishing I could see something like that.

“Around the World,” Daft Punk
Good driving beat. But for some reason I can never remember the lyrics.

“N.Y.C.,” from the musical Annie
A lesser-known song from the musical that was not featured in the movie (but it was featured in the 1999 remake). I know it because I probably listed to the album by the original Broadway cast every day until I hit puberty (and let’s be serious, quite often after that, too). My entire life, Annie is how I envisioned New York—even though it took place during the Depression. I was like, whoa, living in New York sucks but Daddy Warbucks’ place looks pretty sweet.

“Walking on the Moon,” The Police
One day I was thinking, so, what are some songs about walking, anyway? And this was the first that came to mind.

Ghostbusters original score, Elmer Bernstein
This is another movie that introduced me to New York when I was a kid. There are so many locations featured in the film that I walk by one almost every day. And they still freak me out. The Ray Parker, Jr. song didn’t stick in my head, but the rest of the instrumental music that plays throughout the movie did. I didn’t know that Elmer Bernstein did the score! Amazing!

“Living for the City,” Stevie Wonder
Another nice driving beat, appropriate for illustrating my plight to succeed in urban life.

“To Be Real,” Cheryl Lynn
Oh, come on! Like you haven’t sung that to yourself before.

“Yeah,” Usher
I am pretty sure this stems from my first trip to Europe in 2004 where I was shocked to learn that no matter where you go in the world, everyone is listening to the same damn song. From then on it has been burned in my brain whenever I’m walking somewhere new.

“Time to Pretend,” MGMT
This is one of the best songs of the year, period. The hook is like my pump-up song in the morning.

“This Is It,” Kenny Loggins with Michael McDonald
Make no mistake where you are.

Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House (right) goes on the block at Christie’s on May 13, so Frances chats with a bunch of experts who answer the question: Is it architecture or art? It’s the first time a residence has been offered in a fine art sale like this and it could go for as much as $25 million.

Can’t swing the $25 mil? You can get in on the action by ordering a pair of J.Crew chinos or perhaps some 7 for all Mankind jeans, where the house was featured prominently in promotional pieces this spring. What a coincidence!

Then Frances talks to Disney Imagineer Kim Irvine (you’d think they’d make her change her name to Anaheim) about the changes to It’s a Small World at Disneyland. You probably heard that the ride originally closed for renovations because the boats needed to be widened to accommodate, um, larger passengers, something I can vouch for since our boat got totally stuck last summer somewhere between Canada and the Eskimos. They came over the speaker and told us to to lean to the right.

But you might not know that drastic artistic changes are also planned for the ride. According to blog chatter Disney characters will be incorporated, and in the ultimate offense, the Papua New Guinea rainforest will be cut down to make way for something called Up With America. The ride was created by one of my heroes, artist Mary Blair, and her family has issued a statement asking Disney not to alter her work. But Irvine, who apprenticed with Blair, defends Disney’s decisions to change the ride and assures us we shan’t be disappointed. We can judge for ourselves when it re-opens later this year.

Finally, the favorite building of the show is the residence of architect Ray Kappe, who is also the designer of the pre-fabulous LivingHomes prototype in Santa Monica. You can take a tour of the Kappe residence with a scruffy David Duchovny in this clip from the Showtime show Californication, where the house does some beautiful acting.

Update: Reader Steve says that’s a Kappe but that’s not the Kappe and he’s right. Although I saw the item on SCI-Arc’s website that said it was the Kappe residence (and you’d think they would know), it’s actually the Benton House, according to Curbed LA.

If you’re white and you like stuff there’s no place on the internet better suited to your needs than Stuff White People Like. The blog, which just launched this year gets upwards of 500 comments per post and has spawned dozens of unworthy knock-offs. They’ve already got a book deal with Random House; Stuff White People Like: A Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions will be out in August. According to this article in Heeb, founder/editor Christian Lander—above, recycling (#64), wearing a t-shirt (#84) and going to Whole Foods (#48)—is more like you and me than I expected (and not just because he’s white and likes stuff):  He works at LA design firm Schematic as a copywriter.

From the intelligent creators of design blog Speak Up, we have Dyslexflix, recommending wrong since 2008. The game is simple. They propose the movie No Country for Old Men, you recommend Grumpy Old Men; they propose What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, you recommend James and the Giant Peach.

UnderConsideration’s Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio vowed to do something more fun and less design-y after their fleet of design sites and this pretty much achieves that on all counts, although I’m not really sure where else they’re going with this. Maybe they can start sending really scratched DVDs to the people with the best recommendations.

Like any good internet meme, rickrolling has gone mainstream. In fact, the international Scientology protest group Anonymous has been using rickrolling tactics for months, giving a creepy anti-Scientology spin to: You know the rules and so do I.

But after a basketball game at Eastern Washington University was interrupted by a live rickrolling, the LA Times’ Web Scout scored an interview with Rick Astley to see if he himself had ever been rickrolled. Now fans are calling for a large-scale rickroll at the Super Bowl. What??? You don’t know what rickrolling is? CLICK HERE!!!

Update: Okay, I know, that was mean. CLICK HERE instead. Promise, you’ll like it.

Thanks to Rick Astley’s #1 fan, Nathan.