Bullet Points: The 7 New Year's Celebrations You WISH You Were Attending

•Christmas Island

This celebration might be familiar from New Year's Eve telecasts--the Christmas Island celebration is the place where New Year's strikes first. It's also a pretty sweet tropical island off the coast of Australia, which further proves that the early bird gets the worm. The worm, in this case, being a sweet party in an ancient rain forest BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. How's that for bragging rights?

•Playboy New Years Eve

Sure, parties at the Playboy Mansion are now pretty cliched, but it'd still be pretty fun to party out with celebs and hot naked chicks. Sure, the "celebs" will include the ranks of Fred Durst and Scott Baio and the naked chicks will have fake boobs and are probably out of your league... but it's your best chance to kiss a ludicrously hot chick come midnight this NYE. This is one even that you could actually "reasonably" attend... if you had about $5k to spare for the tickets, that is.

•Motley Crue Concert

 

 

Sure, it's not like seeing classic New Year's Eve concerts featuring Led Zep or Jimi Hendrix, but if you're a fan of live music to usher in your new year, this is the one to see. The decades-old band can still rock and, if there's a God, Tommy Lee will have his rotating drum set all ready to go. The concert, which is taking place in conveniently located Auburn Hills, Michigan, is totally sold out, but I'm sure you could travel to the Detroit suburb and find some scalpers. Yeahh, that'll work.

•Jackson Square

This famed section of New Orleans throws a bash similar to New York's Times Square, except not freezing cold, not frighteningly packed and with far fewer chances to host a terrorist attack. The Sugar Bowl is the next day as well, which only adds to the madness. This is the most accessible party on the list, though still a fair contender because, let's face it, even if you could high tail it to New Orleans in time for the celebration tonight, you're not gonna, because other than the French Quarter, the city at large still resembles a dystopian future.

•Rave In The Sahara Desert

When's the only time when rave music is acceptable? When it's the background to an insane party in the middle of the desert. The yearly New Year's rave that goes down in Ouarzazate, Morocco is the perfect mixture of nature and technology that many of its attendees have described as similar to a religious experience and, if you're aspiring to be in the tech industry, this would be the party to crash--Microsoft execs, among other tech heads, have been spotted at past Ouarzazate New Years celebrations. Good luck getting to Morocco, let alone finding the party, though.

•The Icestock Festival

What's harder to get to last minute than Morocco? Antarctica, of course. That's where the annual New Year's Icestock festival takes place. Its combination of live music and insane atmosphere still makes it the party you wish you were at. The 14-year-old McMurdo Station boasts not only the claim that it's the southern-most music festival in the world, but what is probably the largest collection of scientist-fronted bands in the world as well.

•New Year's In Orbit

Sure, the danger level's high, but there'd be nothing quite as thrilling as ringing in the New Year's aboard the International Space Station. Expect a great view and some weightlessness in the list of "positives" and food and drink in the list of "negatives" (do they even have freeze dried champagne?) If you were to somehow manage to blast off to the ISS, you could be spending your New Year's Eve with astronaut Daniel Tani, who's currently stranded in the ISS until NASA's STS-122 comes to pick him up.