I’m thinking about inviting some major league baseball players over for New Year’s Eve. I hear they’re handy with needles.
Sigh. At least shuffleboard’s not corrupt.
    
Next year
A brief list of ’08 albums that will
probably be leaked or downloaded illegally:

AC/DC: Strap It On
(Elektra, January 2008)
AFI (Interscope, 2008)
Authority Zero (Zero Crew)
David Banner: Greatest Story Ever Told (SRC/Universal Motown)
Be Your Own Pet: Get Awkward
(XL Recordings/Ecstatic Peace, spring 2008)
Black Eyed Peas (A&M/Interscope)
The Black Keys (Nonesuch, 2008)
Black Mountain: In the Future
(Jagjaguwar, January 2008)
Rosanne Cash
(Back Porch/Manhattan/EMI, 2008)
Alice Cooper: Along Came a Spider (New West, 2008)
Counting Crows: Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings
(Geffen, January 2008)
The Cure (Suretone/Geffen, spring 2008)
Death From Above 1979
(Vice/Atlantic)
De Novo Dahl (Roadrunner)
DeVotchKa (Anti-/Epitaph, March 2008)
Dirty Three: Cinder (Touch & Go)
Dr. Dre: Detox
(Aftermath/Interscope, 2008)
Justin Townes Earle: The Good Life (Bloodshot, spring 2008)
Eminem (Shady/Interscope)
Firewater: The Golden Hour
(Bloodshot, April 2008)
Franz Ferdinand (Domino/Epic)
Peter Gabriel (Ingenious Media, 2008)
Lauryn Hill: Khulami Phase
(Columbia)
Man Man (Anti-/Epitaph, spring 2008)
And, although it’s likely a complete lie:
Guns ’N Roses: Chinese Democracy (Geffen)

For a longer list, see Pause and Play Music Blog at www.pauseandplay.com.

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