Curiosity Killed the Cat

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Another AOD come and gone. All the guests this year were fabulous, and I hope they enjoyed themselves, especially Mckeever who was battling a wicked cold. I can't wait to get tape of Celebrity Jeopardy, it was quite epic.
I probably won't staff Fanime, but I'll certainly drop by to say hi to folks. My next staffing stint will be at AX.

I cleaned up my notes for the NSMB Coin Adventure Game (ニュー・スーパーマリオブラザーズ　コインアドベンチャーゲーム), in case any of you decide to buy the game for yourselves and want to play it. You still have to figure out the instructions on each square, but those are pretty simple and mostly self-explanatory.
New Super Mario Brothers Coin Adventure Game instructions.

We had our annual Gingerbread House Building competition. The secret ingredient (a la Iron Chef) was popcorn. We also had a bunch of raisins, so I ended turning them into sheep. Our house became a barn, but the farm was kind of boring, until a coworker suggested we do Angry Birds. With sheep.

The first sheep I did was actually with marshmallows, so we put him in to be the little blue bird type you tap to split into three.

Sadly, we lost to the team who built a Hot Tub Time Machine.

For all you folks in the Bay Area, we should hang out! Also, once my shipment of personal items from Japan arrives, I can bring Super Mario Brothers The Board Game to any and all game nights.

If you want something from Japan, let me know now so I can pick it up for you this weekend!

So as luck would have it, I found the Japanese soundtrack for Beauty and the Beast, movie edition in the 500 yen bin. And the lyrics... are entirely different from the musical soundtrack.
So, for completeness, Gaston, the movie version.
( Full of transliterated goodness )
The movie version is a more literal translation of the English lyrics. But the flow of the song is a bit awkward in several places. I think they did a new translation for the musical because that version flows a lot better, even if it's no longer so close to the English (ie the line where Gaston sings about his chest hair is literally translated in the movie lyrics, but in the musical lyrics he simply expounds on the perfection of his body.)

But at least the movie lyrics include the talkie bit at the top of the song.

And now we can have both version in the DB. And you can choose which one you want to sing. :D

Answer: ムーランサントラ
After scouring the stores, it appears the Mulan Japanese soundtrack is out of print, so I ended up buying it on Amazon.co.jp. It arrived today! Much happiness to be shared.
So yes, we must do Man Out Of You in Japanese (aka 闘志を燃やせ！ or Toushi wo moyase!) just to mess with everyone. And when we're done with that, I have the Jackie Chan Mandarin version.
( Lyrics! )

Looks like Ego-Wrappin's site is updated with more info on their next album. It will be released 9/15 (which was already posted). It will be called "Naimono nedari no dead heat" and have 10 tracks, two of which are BRAND NEW DAY and love scene from their recent single.
First press extras include a DVD and a bath cloth, if you score the super special first press, or just a DVD for normal first press.
Can't wait! Towers Records GO!

Acquisition complete. Oh, Japan.
Board Game Night will never be the same.
October. Let's do this.

Someone else bring Arkham Horror and/or Ticket to Ride?

I get the sinking feeling we'll spend the first two hours deciphering instructions and then get something wrong, like the time we played Arkham Horror at Steph's and rolled for Monsters every turn instead of every round. HOLY CRAP MONSTER EXPLOSION


Also, I bought an Otamatone. If I can figure out how to play Man out of You on it, I think it would be great Gong Show pre-show fodder.