I've not been out for five days (unlike a dear friend of mine who came out to his parents on Christmas day - congrats JJ!). Snow, scotch and some hot beef have kept me happily homebound. Hibernation is the new procrastination I reckon. Why go out when Grindr delivers within 20 minutes and there's a snowdrift the size of Kate moss's coke depository piled up around my front door? Let them come to me! That's what I'm saying this holiday season.

One of the great things about seriously relaxing at home is rediscovering all those tunes that I normally play while falling asleep after one too many hot toddies. Here are a few I've spliced together for you, so cozy up with whatever makes you warm, and see in the new year under the sheets. Going out on NYE is strictly for amateurs, we all know that!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dicks Under The Sheets - Dick William [download]

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What Does It Take? - Pillow Talk / Heat Miser - Massive Attack / Slow Motion - Panda Bear / Reckoner (SALEM remix) - Radiohead x SALEM / Obsessions (oOoOO RMX) - Marina and the Diamonds / The Bird - Tranquility Bass / Crystalised (The XX Cover) - Gorillaz / (Only) Reprise - Phaseone / Belfast - Orbital / Come Back To Mine (Elite Gymnastics Remix) - Florrie / Somebody To Love Me - Mark Ronson and the Business Intl (Feat. Boy George and Miike Snow)

Finally. FINALLY they go up! I know I've been so slow posting the pictures of our recent night of bedlam at Bedlam, but here they are, the evidence of where you were on November 17.

So, just to recap (thanks to Ramón for reminding me of the details!), the party kicked off with a reading by Chris Stoddard from his debut novel White, Christian, joined on stage by the always entertaining novelist Bruce Benderson (sporting a very active E-cigarette). It wasn't long before the 300 EVB/Nice Collective hankies were in short supply, causing quite a few hankie grabs, which didn't really seem to bother anyone. As the Nice Collective-clad Boy of the Week go-go boys (thank you to Alberto, Digo, Rico, Robert and Zachary) worked up a sweat, they were joined on the bar (aka "the stage") by the super talented and adorable Geo Wyeth, who worked his accordion to maximum effect. Unfortunately getting everyone to listen was a little like trying to stop a train. Late into the night DJs Jonjon Battles and Saheer Umar (Blvck America) played sets that kept the cutest floor I've seen in a long LONG time busy way beyond Bruce's bedtime! OK, it's around this point where things get spotty... I guess I blacked out [big surprise, Dick -editor] because I woke up in a room at the Jane Hotel with some guy named Harry making a lasso out of our hankies... What?
The holiday season seems to start earlier every year, doesn't it?

Thanks to David Kimelman, Joe Eardly, probably me for all I know, and all the other EVB staff for all the pics, and Allison Michael Orenstein for the video!