If you’re a fan of Nine Inch Nails, listen up. You can download the latest album, The Slip, for free. In fact Trent Reznor has released it under the Creative Commons License. This means, download, share, and best of all REMIX! I’m totally blown away. I’ll probably buy a CD version when it comes out, just to support them, but this is totally cool. I hope the community comes up with some neat remixes.

Now, what do I think of the album? So far three songs in, I won’t say it’s grabbing me by the balls just yet, but then it takes a couple of listens to get me into a new album anyway. Let’s just say it doesn’t suck And it is definitely Nine Inch Nails. So go download it and give it a spin.

Thanks to Dave McG for getting me the link and letting me know. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch them in concert this year!

If you’re a loyal reader of this blog (all three of you), you’d know that I organize the annual St. Patrick’s Day Drunk Dial. The first prize traditionally has been a bottle of Newfoundland Screech Rum and this is where the 2008 Drunk Dial hit a small snag. This year’s winner, Dan from Hawaii has been an absolute sport because I have discovered much to my dismay, that Québec faces a Screech Drought. Dan now waits patiently forlornly staring at the palm trees dying of thirst.

Well, it’s off to the land of Upper Canada where Screech apparently flows from taps and people dance on the streets while bathing in it.

However, I thought, how many times in my life am I going to have to drive across to another province to buy booze to send as a prize to someone in another country? So into my head popped yet another crazy idea: The Official Drunk Dial Screech Relay.

After all, the Olympic Torch is winding its way around the world, why can’t I do this with some Screech. So Dan, here’s the plan, this weekend or next weekend, I will be going on a weekend drive to bring you the Screech. I will devise a baton with a shot glass attached to it. I will buy two bottles of Screech, one will be used in the relay. From Ottawa the capital of Canada I will carry the Screech Relay to Quebec City, back to Montreal, then cross the border to Burlington, VT where I will send you the bottle of Rum all packaged nicely.

You’ll also hopefully get pictures of the Screech outside the Houses of Parliament, outside Old Quebec and somewhere in Montreal.

I’m hoping you won’t get pictures of me being arrested in any of those places!

Roll up, roll up for the magical tour, the magical Newfoundland Screech tour is dying to take you away…