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スーパーボウルを見ているから
Feb. 5th, 2008 01:30 amOkay, it's 12:30am and I am WATCHING THE SUPER BOWL. This is really surreal. It's pretty spliced together and the commentary is all in Japanese. The commercials are normal (as in, they're showing the same commercials I've seen all night).
Before this, I was watching Ainori, but I missed a really important detail early on and ended up kinda zoning out for half of it (but Jeff filled me in later on what was going on). Before that I was watching SMAPxSMAP which was FUCKING AWESOME. Not only did they have Hakuho, a famous sumo wrestler, as the Bistro SMAP guest, but then later on they did a really funny parody skit called "Debu Note", which was like "Death Note" only anyone whose name is written in the book becomes big and fat. (I know, it sounds stupid, you had to see it I guess. I'm largely unfamiliar with the original and even I thought it was hilarious). Then, to finish off, Christopher Cross was the musical guest, so all of SMAP sang Arthur's Theme ("The Best That You Can Do") with him and it was really awesome, lots of fun.
Before that... well, Pau came over here tonight around 5:30 and we played Extra Innings, a baseball dice game, for a few hours. He had gone and rated all of the NPB teams for 2007, so this was partially to playtest some rules and some players and all. First we played Fighters (me, Darvish) vs. Lotte (Pau, Naruse) and I lost 8-4 when, of all things, Darvish gave up a 3-run homer to Fukuura. Then our second game was Chunichi (me, Kawakami) vs. Hanshin (Pau, Shimoyanagi). It was going along just fine until I was a moron and pinch-hit for Kenshin in the 8th inning and then Hisamoto gave up the game. Or more like, me rolling some 1's gave up the game. But whatever. The funny part was, we had the 2006 Fighters DVD on in the background for the first game and a Chunichi DVD on in the background for the second. And I was wearing a Fighters t-shirt all day so for the second game I decided I needed to put on my Dragons Morino #31 jersey... to be a good sport I let Pau borrow my Hanshin Imaoka #7 jersey. I insisted on doing all the player cheer songs for my teams, but apparently Pau is allergic to Tyrone Woods and so he made a point of pinch-hitting Shinjiro Hiyama, my nemesis. Anyway, Hanshin won the second game 3-2. Alas. All in all we spent about 4 hours playing.
The afternoon today... well, I did laundry, and I got lunch at Kura, and I bought snacks for gaming at Max Valu (sadly this is the one time of the year that I cannot get Pro Yakyu Chips), and some stuff from the 100-yen shop. And then I came home and cleaned up my apartment a bit since it was a royal mess before, and now it's just cluttered. Even Pau says that my place is really really small, even for Japan, though what would I know?
Wow, come to think of it, this was one majorly social weekend. If only my life was always busy like this!
Also, man, this is one FAST superbowl replay. One hour in and we're already past halftime. Having commentary in Japanese is just plain weird, but the crazy thing is that I actually understand it for the most part. ("TOUCHDOOOOWWN!!!! KORE WA GYAKUTEN!!!" or "TAISETSU NA TAISETSU NA TAISETSU NA SAADO ANDO TEN!" or "ATO ICHI YAADO" and so on.) I don't know whether this is a good or bad thing.
Before this, I was watching Ainori, but I missed a really important detail early on and ended up kinda zoning out for half of it (but Jeff filled me in later on what was going on). Before that I was watching SMAPxSMAP which was FUCKING AWESOME. Not only did they have Hakuho, a famous sumo wrestler, as the Bistro SMAP guest, but then later on they did a really funny parody skit called "Debu Note", which was like "Death Note" only anyone whose name is written in the book becomes big and fat. (I know, it sounds stupid, you had to see it I guess. I'm largely unfamiliar with the original and even I thought it was hilarious). Then, to finish off, Christopher Cross was the musical guest, so all of SMAP sang Arthur's Theme ("The Best That You Can Do") with him and it was really awesome, lots of fun.
Before that... well, Pau came over here tonight around 5:30 and we played Extra Innings, a baseball dice game, for a few hours. He had gone and rated all of the NPB teams for 2007, so this was partially to playtest some rules and some players and all. First we played Fighters (me, Darvish) vs. Lotte (Pau, Naruse) and I lost 8-4 when, of all things, Darvish gave up a 3-run homer to Fukuura. Then our second game was Chunichi (me, Kawakami) vs. Hanshin (Pau, Shimoyanagi). It was going along just fine until I was a moron and pinch-hit for Kenshin in the 8th inning and then Hisamoto gave up the game. Or more like, me rolling some 1's gave up the game. But whatever. The funny part was, we had the 2006 Fighters DVD on in the background for the first game and a Chunichi DVD on in the background for the second. And I was wearing a Fighters t-shirt all day so for the second game I decided I needed to put on my Dragons Morino #31 jersey... to be a good sport I let Pau borrow my Hanshin Imaoka #7 jersey. I insisted on doing all the player cheer songs for my teams, but apparently Pau is allergic to Tyrone Woods and so he made a point of pinch-hitting Shinjiro Hiyama, my nemesis. Anyway, Hanshin won the second game 3-2. Alas. All in all we spent about 4 hours playing.
The afternoon today... well, I did laundry, and I got lunch at Kura, and I bought snacks for gaming at Max Valu (sadly this is the one time of the year that I cannot get Pro Yakyu Chips), and some stuff from the 100-yen shop. And then I came home and cleaned up my apartment a bit since it was a royal mess before, and now it's just cluttered. Even Pau says that my place is really really small, even for Japan, though what would I know?
Wow, come to think of it, this was one majorly social weekend. If only my life was always busy like this!
Also, man, this is one FAST superbowl replay. One hour in and we're already past halftime. Having commentary in Japanese is just plain weird, but the crazy thing is that I actually understand it for the most part. ("TOUCHDOOOOWWN!!!! KORE WA GYAKUTEN!!!" or "TAISETSU NA TAISETSU NA TAISETSU NA SAADO ANDO TEN!" or "ATO ICHI YAADO" and so on.) I don't know whether this is a good or bad thing.
