we get older every year....

Shuffleathon 2008 Update

Before I bury myself completely in the beautiful drudgery of compiling the Earworms of the Year 2008 (you should see my spreadsheet..... I always knew there was a good reason for coming into work at this time of year), I thought that perhaps there was time for one final shuffleathon update before the end of the year.

Astronaut's review is in (yay!), Mike's spanish language only CD has arrived from Mexico (oooh!) and Monogodo's CD has arrived but it sadly unplayable as the disc has cracked in the post (can we have a resend please, if it's not too much trouble?). Other than that, things are ticking along nicely and almost all of the CDs have now been put out into the post. There's still a few days before my nominal target of getting all outward CDs sent on before the end of the year, so if all stragglers could make an extra-special effort, then that would no doubt be much appreciated by the patient recipients of their mixes.

As always, any updates should be sent to the email address in my profile - be that CDs sent, received or reviewed.

Um. Other than that, Happy New Year to you all. I'll be back after the Earworms of the Year festival of pointless statistics and lists with more of the same nonsense in 2009.

Shuffler	Posted out	Received?
1. Me	yes
2. Mandy		yes
3. Charlie	yes
4. Planet Me	yes	yes
5. Ian		review
6. Mike	yes
7. Jerry	yes	review
8. monogodo		resend in hand!
9. Erika	yes	yes
10. Michael	yes	review
11. Lisa	yes	review
12. Cody Bones	yes	review
13. Del		yes!
14. RussL	yes	review
15. Tina	yes	review
16. Wombat	yes
17. Joe the Troll	yes	yes
18. JamieS	yes
19. Cat	yes	yes
20. Rol	yes	review
21. Beth	yes	review
22. asta	yes	yes
23. bedshaped	yes
24. Paul	yes
25. Alan	yes
26. Astronaut	yes	review
27. Threelight	yes	review
28. The Great Grape Ape	yes
29. Paul W	yes	yes
30. Ben	yes	review

As I keep forgetting to mention this year, Shuffleathon is based upon an original concept by the lovely YokoSpungeon.... an all round good-egg and surely a leading candidate for 2008's "New Mum of the Year" title?

HNY everyone. Can we put Slade back to bed for another year now?

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The top 10 countdown at the Auditorium continues....

The number 4s include White Denim, Britney Spears and Neil Diamond.

and the number 3s feature albums by Coldplay, Kings of Leon and Flight of the Conchords.

Between LB, bedshaped and me, we've only had one album on our lists in common so far (Coldplay was picked by two of us). Can you guess who picked what out of this lot? Not as obvious as some of our choices so far.....