Curiosity Killed the Cat

I just bought the Beauty and the Beast musical soundtrack. Original Japanese Cast recording.
Do you know what this means?

GASTON IN JAPANESE

Karaoke. Next year. BE THERE.

( Lyrics, so you can get ready )

Also, the other songs in Japanese. But nothing is quite as full of win as Gaston.

You are not Texas.


But you pull off some amazing engineering feats.


...sometimes. (Their website has a great Flash animation about how they searched for the best beans in South America... for Gundam Fans.)

I caught a Hanabi festival from my apartment yesterday (the one in Chofu near Keio-Tamagawa station). It was a little trippy, because there was also a lightning storm near Shinjuku, so in between fireworks to the west there were lighting patterns to the north.
Now I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for Hanabi festivals to go to?
So far it looks like Sumidagawa has one of the biggest (or at least most heavily promoted). Any other suggestions?

Got the single. Huzzah! It's lovely.
Also, the flyer that came with the disc says a new album is coming soon.
How soon? Who knows...

This is one of the best online promos for an album (well, a single) that I've seen.
If you hit the CD flying at the top, the music swaps to the B-side of the single.
Also, can't wait to grab the disc when I'm back in Japan!

See some of you folks on the other side of the Pacific!

While I was at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara last weekend, I found that there was a Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva board game. It looks a bit like a Game of Life board setup (mostly because of the spinner) but you get hint coins and have to solve puzzles, and there are event cards and... it looked pretty fun. And very random. But I don't know who would want to play it with me. Also, I am a bit Layton'd out right now, having just finished Unwound Future (so I have now finished all four games! Woohoo!). I think I'll just wait to buy the DVD of Eternal Diva later this month. The special edition looks to be packed with fun goodies.

Animated clock created with CSS3.
This originally started after I made a page with CSS3 animation - very simple animation, with several blocks of content fading into view. I wanted to see how complex of an animation I could make. At the same time, I was tracking our Gulf Oil Spill page, as we were adding PBS News Hour's Oil Slick Tracker, and wondered if I could build the same ticker with just CSS3 animations. Since I didn't want to figure out how to calculate the spill size (especially as estimates keep changing) I figured I would make a clock instead.
( Lengthy explanatory text for nerds )
On a somewhat related note, I just started playing Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel, so I sort of have clocks on the brain.

There is ANOTHER Eva series/movie?!
I was at Tower Records today picking up Ego-Wrappin's newest single Sure Shot, and there was a large Eva display, with merchandise and douga and everything. And numerous posters throughout the store of an Eva destroying Tower Records.
Geh.
On the other hand, Sure Shot! Awesome sauce! I was never big on Nervous Breakdown, but Brahman gives it a very different style. Also, I'm not fond of Yoshie's voice in it, it's more shrilly than normal, so hearing a guy sing it is a nice change.

Ah, Tokyo, I have missed you ♥
Also, holy crap but DA! is 10 years old. Ten years old. If you'd told me in college I'd still have this site around in 10 years I probably would have thought you mad. And me pathetic for still being into anime. Except I'm not really into anime, but I do love an excuse for design.