First off I would like to say that Music Farm is...well...it's a FARM. It's not really like a barnyard in the country surrounded by cattle and fields of hay, but more a shack surrounded by small practically abandoned buildings. NO civilization to be found ANYWHERE...except maybe at the Circle K which is a good block away. For some unusual reason I had gotten lost. Normally getting lost is pretty damn easy, but after seeing the building which is the most tackiest place on earth I can't imagine ANYBODY to get lost. The side of the building has the most bizarre graffiti of jazz bands with trumpets and 20's dancers along with an especially large (but well painted) graffiti of Jimi Hendrix. It's hard not to just stare at the horrible building. A few fangirls were fooling around in front of the building moving their hands over Jimi's mouth and taking pictures, which was absolutely hilarious.

Since I got there insanely early I decided to sit and rest near a pack of Vishnu fangirls who were eating away at literally a giant bag filled of crap snack food. I felt bad that I didn't eat when I had the chance since there was no decent place to eat within a mile except maybe McDonalds which was a 15 minute walk away and I wasn't willing to risk getting lost again. Eventually this guy in a normal suit and dyed blonde short hair came up to me with a fake flower asking if I understood Japanese. He was the vocalist for one of the bands Nekosogi. I told him I understood a little so he showed me a framed photo of a guitar and then explained to me that I had to throw the flower during their turn to play onto the stage in memory of their dead guitarist (who is sitting on the street corner currently in the most perfect health). I understood but was completely lost as to why. Seeing my confused look the vocalist comes to the conclusion that I'm an idiot and don't understand a lick of what he said when any sane human would probably be just as lost. Eventually a staff girl came up to me and in considerably good English pointed to this guy sitting at the corner saying "he...guitarist dying." My initial thought is that he looks very much alive to me. Eventually she asks another girl for a pencil and paper. She draws me a stick figure lying down with his arm crossed and points to the guitarist in a "this is him!" kinda motion. Then she draws another stick figure throwing the flower with a little 'poi!' next to it. To show her I understood I asked her to lay down and then threw the flower at her. This completely overjoyed her. I guess the thought that they were able to get through to a foreign retard was pretty rewarding.

Eventually the doors opened and the crowd of about 23 people went in. The live house looked pretty large from the outside, but the actual stage and everything itself is the smallest I have seen. Even smaller than Loft which I've been told is "the size of a tiny bar." If Loft is a tiny bar, then Music Farm is a bathroom stall. It was actually VERY comfortable though. There were hardly any people there at all (I counted during Kenllre out of boredom. 42 people: 3 were staff and 6 were band members hanging around) and there was enough room for us all to sprawl out and have a sleepover. (which I wouldn't recommend since the floors are hardwood and cracked with this REALLY unclean nasty look)

The first band to play was Vishnu. Holy LORD they were CUTE, but their concept is weird...like some Arabian Indian punk band. Although the sound was far from being punk the music was CUTE in a pop rock kind of way. The vocalist has this odd obsession with pointing. Most if not all of what he did was pointing at the crowd. He pointed to me at least 5 times which should give you an idea of how much he pointed at other things. The best way to describe them would be as cute little boys who spent far too much time in their childhood watching Aladdin. I didn't find them horribly interesting seeing as guys in robes and checker print wristbands just don't impress me, so I just stayed in the back until the next band.

Next was Variable Messiah. Before I start I think I should mention Variable Messiah fangirls are the NICEST. Normally I'd imagine most fangirls to be raging bitches, but these girls were shockingly kind. I went closer to the stage when this lolita girl at the front turns around and asks if I want to see Variable Messiah. I say yes and all of a sudden the 7 girls up front freak out in these ecstatic 'eeeeeeh?! Hontou?!' The girl then took my hand and pulled me more forward to the stage where she stopped and asked me who my favorite member was. I said Goshi and they freak out in this "wah!!! she likes Goshi!" way and the lolita girl who looked like she had to be at least 29 looks at me all happy and is like "me too!" so I am pretty much accepted and placed right exactly in the middle at the very front of the stage exactly where Goshi would be. Then they start asking me stuff like my name and where I'm from and how old I was. I said I was 16 and they all freaked out over how young I was. Apparently none of the girls there were any younger than 21. They were super nice too. By the time the band had actually started I knew the name of half the girls there.

Music Farm is fairly ghetto. At first I didn't know there was a curtain, because I never saw it. Apparently the fans close the curtain instead and it is the most cheapest transparent curtain EVER. So it's not like it kept anybody from seeing the band set up, but it's not like we all had to watch or anything. We just gathered around and talked until the lights dimmed. Eventually we pulled the curtain back and there was Variable Messiah in the most bizarre goth poses ever. It was so much fun. One of the best things about it was no para para. Para para is GAY. Sure it's good exercise for people with fat flabby arms, but what's the point in waving your arms around?

For one thing I want to state that I have a weird obsession for guys who wear things on their faces. Hats, headbands, panty hose, if it's on your head for some odd reason I naturally find it cute. Goshi of course has a headband, which I find super cute. Not to mention his outfit is adorable. Attached to his outfit are random strips of material much like bandages. I guess the whole 'mummy' mascot for them is very suitable. Their vocalist looks similar to one. To make this even cooler he is wearing booty shorts with longer pants underneath (geeky). Oh god you can NOT beat a guy who wears little booty shorts over longer pants. If there is somebody who does NOT find that adorable I need to be shot. As for the other members Hiroki is...heavens that boy is HOT. His make-up is a little strange. It's like what you would look like if you took a black marker and made a mark straight across your face about right above your nose. As horrible as that sounds Hiroki is...well he's SEXY. Taichi, their new bassist (although he's not really that new) is WAH! He's lovely! He's the girliest looking and on stage he seems really delicate and feminine, but offstage by far he is anything BUT feminine. He actually seems more like the badass one of the group, which is funny because on stage you wouldn't believe it. Aki is difficult to notice. I didn't pay much attention to him, which I regret. Aki isn't all that pretty. His hair looks permed when he's on stage and thank the gods his hair is back to being black. His last hair dye experience was a nightmare his hair was black/grey. I used to joke about him looking like my alcoholic aunt, but without the make-up and funny outfit he looks adorable. Hiroshi is CUTE. His hair and make-up is done so NICELY as opposed to the rest of the band. If he does his own make-up I really think he needs to help Aki out with his. ^^; (mean remark)

Their performance itself was GREAT! During the middle of one of the songs Goshi had stepped up on the rail and was thrusting his pelvis out. Let me put it this way...if I had headbanged even just a little then I might as well had given him a blowjob his crotch was that close. x_x; I had my camera with me so I snuck a picture so now out of sheer amusement I have a picture of Goshi's crotch. He jumped back onto the stage and started climbing the drum set remaining there for a good 30 seconds until jumping off like a crazy monkey. Goshi has the funniest way of dancing and he looks like a mummy half the time. The fact that his costume is practically wrapped in bandage like cloth that hangs off like a mummy doesn't help the image much either. Most of the other band members don't do all that much except Hiroki who makes these badass "hey I'm sexy" faces while everybody else just sits there playing and looking pretty while doing so. Can't say I noticed the others that much though. I was completely pre-occupied with Goshi. After 6 songs they were done and went off stage. The lolita girl next to me caught Hiroki's pick and so we googled over that for some time. After we pulled the curtain back down me and the lolita girl started looking at each other's photos we had taken. I showed her the photo of Goshi's crotch and she burst out laughing.

After Variable Messiah had finished I went into the back to take the batteries out of my camera. It was really impossible to be alone for a moment (not that I'd want to. I was happy that I didn't have to be alone) because the lolita girl pulled me over to the Varimisa crowd where we all talked about the live while filling out the enquette. They went off asking me so many questions on how I found out about Variable Messiah etc etc. They thought it was really amazing that I learned about them from their hp. (which was a lie. If I remember correctly it was from Shoxx) While sitting down I look toward the merchandise table where Kranke and Seiyuu from Anti-kranke are sitting down. I contemplate going over there and asking Kranke for a picture just for fun, but decide not to cause I felt weird about going up at random and talking to somebody. Eventually Kranke turned around and noticed me and tapped on Seiyuu pointing to the foreign girl. Pretty embarrassing so I immediately pull my attention back to the group of Varimisa fangirls. Suddenly everybody gets up and pulls out the fake flowers I assumed Nekosogi was next so I got up too.

Nekosogi was...odd...we all went up and threw the flower to the cheesy picture of the guitar while the vocalist made a long speech about the guitarist and how sad it was he had 'left' them. Very cheesy. A few fangirls up front couldn't stop laughing and so he had to say in the most convincing way ever that they shouldn't laugh and this is serious. Eventually the 'dead' guitarist comes out and they start playing. The vocalist was grinning like a retard at everything while the guitarist was pretty much into playing and nothing else. Had I mentioned before there are only 2 members in this band? As if that made the dying thing any more dramatic. Eventually the vocalist waves and points in my direction. I was totally confused so I look behind me for a moment and notice nobody is there (I'm on the far left side) and the 2 girls who were explaining to me the flower thing before turned around and started giggling at me...That was so awkward it wasn't even funny. It's not cool when you're noticed and especially when they point at you like "hey! gaijin!"

They were really good though, but they didn't play long. I was thinking of buying their stuff so I went in the next room to the merchandise table where the loli girl from before and what I assume to be her mother or a very old lady rush up to me asking if I want to talk to Variable Messiah. I had no idea what to say because I thought it would be embarrassing and I wouldn't know what to say. I eventually just decided that I should probably look at Variable Messiah's merchandise for now. They have umbrellas! That just blew my mind! Imagine having a Variable Messiah umbrella. AWESOME! I hear they had bathrobes at one time. (and no that is not a joke. That's serious.) I was really tempted to get one, but I decided I should buy a CD instead. After a bit of playing the "ah shit I can't choose! Which one should I get?!" game their staff girl recommended me the 3rd CD-R which was their latest. Glad she did too. I t had the song that I was obsessing over them playing earlier! <3 I also decided to get a pin. They had about 20 to choose from. Most were just the band logo and I find that too boring so I got one of their little mummy mascot on it. Yes that's terribly geeky, but I liked it so shush. At that moment Mami (Varimisa fan I had met before) runs out towards me and hands me a sucker she got from the vending machine outside. It was orange cream flavor! Awesome! I really wish America had cool suckers like those I'd buy a sack of them everyday. Afterwards she immediately went into the next room with a small group of these other fangirls. The next band had started and I didn't realize. I moved into the next room a little to see. It was Kenllre.

I remember thinking wow they're hot and good too, but other than that not much. The microphone pole was the most cheesiest goth thing ever with Living Dead Dolls tied to it. The vocalist was holding a mannequin head with forks shoved into it. He would at random take the forks out and shove them back into the head somewhere. Words can not describe how 'goth' it was. About halfway through the performance the vocalist pulls out a box of suckers shoving at least 12 in his mouth and then throwing some to the crowd, which had turned into a pack of hungry dogs. Then he goes back and gets a box of BBQ chicken and starts stuffing his mouth. It was the most crazy thing ever. I couldn't help but move up and take a few pictures of the vocalist stuffing himself. After finishing his meal (this was no snack this was a full course dinner) he licked his hands and went back to singing with his mouth still semi-full. They were...fun to say in the least. VERY interesting and their music wasn't half bad either. After they had finished I decided to move closer to the front because Anti-kranke was next.

To my complete horror it turns out that Anti-Kranke is pronounced "Auntie Cranky." Not that it was really a shock, but Auntie Cranky doesn't sound all that cool. I would be so misunderstood if I decided to talk to people about this band in America if I referred to them as Auntie Cranky. I was so delighted to be able to see them. They only have about 1 live every month and I hope they have more now that they have a new guitarist. They're so much fun! This was Omii's first live and man is that boy cute! Seiyuu is awesome. I was about to take a picture and he pulled his hand out in this 'STOP!' motion and then made the most greatest pose in the world while saying "is this good?!". One thing I noticed was on Seiyuu's vest was a ton of pins. These pins were the CUTEST illustrations of the band in these little everyday adventures. I wonder who draws those! Whoever does is damn talented! They have such the cutest illustration on their flier also! Kranke's outfit is so unusual...it's this red long sleeved shirt with these random black symbols on it. Looks like a 3rd grade art project I had done before. The symbols are interesting to say in the least...it's like caveman drawings on a shirt.

Jiji, their drummer has on the cutest checker print hat ever. I'm not sure why, but I always have such an obsession for guys with hats. I think Jiji is the cutest, which he is not. After seeing him later on without the make-up and completely hatless he was not all that cute, but still not terrible looking. Omii is by far the best looking without make-up. (he looks generic though!) During the MC when they introduced all the members (even Keropi), Kranke noticed me and stopped and waved and in English was all "oh....hello!" It was so adorable, but like I said it's embarrassing when the band notices you. In between songs. Kranke is looking around for a baseball bat and one of the staff girls comes out with 2 horribly cheesy neon green plastic bats decorated with Anti-Kranke stickers and hands them to Kranke. During the next song he just waved the bats around. I had expected him to hit the audience, but there was only me and this other girl up front, so it would be awkward to hit 2 people repeatedly (unless they could jump out and reach everybody else) then Kranke decided to sit on the rail with one leg over one side and the other on the other side rocking back and forth. It looked so much like he was humping the rail...then he lost his balance and fell backwards.

By this time Kranke is sweating so much that his make-up is coming off and you can notice...his eyebrows are growing BACK! (SHOCK) Over half of Anti-Kranke's set was cute stuffed animals. They were great! I definitely wanna see them again. Before going off stage Seiyuu stays behind a couple more minutes to pose for photos. XD I have some of the BEST photos of them, which is amazing because I am a terrible photographer! I could probably blackmail the vocalist of Kenllre (James) with the pictures I took of him they were SO terrible.

After Anti-Kranke had finished, I decided to hang out back at the merchandise area some more where I was looking at Anti-Kranke stuff. It's depressing that ALL they had was stickers and an older CD. I could have sworn they had released a new CD or something in April, but apparently it was something you could only get at the lives at the time. I eventually got a sticker since all they had was stickers and the Shinda Melody CD that I already have. At this time a staff girl runs back with Anti-Kranke's stuffed doll set. So cute! One of the Anti-Kranke staff girls gave it to the Variable Messiah staff girl, Jun, and it was so funny how she hugged onto it. It amused me so much that I took a picture. After seeing the picture she looks at me and asks if I have an enquette. Ok...so I've never filled one out..it was a little weird having to explain I had no idea how to so she took out an extra one and gave me a pencil and helped me out telling me what to fill out. She gave me the 'Sava ge' demotape which is a free gift to anybody who fills out the enquette. She also gave me some really random stuff from the table too...mainly a glow in the dark pig that was used to hold down the list of prices and a completely pointless but cute backstage pass. Seeing that I had filled out Variable Messiah's enquette the Anti-Kranke staffgirl asks for the Anti-Kranke enquette so I fill that out real quick. About midway through filling it out Kranke walks by and watches me fill out mumbling to himself about to say something, but then realizing he can't say anything and just walks off. He's so weird.

The next band playing was Pink Opaque. I just watched them from the merchandise room. I didn't get that much of a good look at them, but they are VERY cute and VERY good. A lot of the band guys were there to watch and I kept accidentally bumping into them. Pink Opaque was celebrating the release of their first CD and so they had a ton at the merchandise table. I should kick myself for not buying it. (...actually I think I WAS going to buy it and something from Nekosogi like I had planned before also until Yoko ran up to me asking if I would go to tomorrow's Variable Messiah live with them which I did and uhhh forgot all about buying the stuff I wanted) They were AWESOME! I know I have said for every band 'oh they were really good!', but Pink Opaque was shockingly incredibly GREAT! When they had finished I hung around the merchandise table some talking to the girls I had met that day when I decide I should probably leave, but of course it's raining badly. After much talking with Variable Messiah and eating dinner with fangirls one of them offers me a place to stay. (YAY!) which made going to the live all worth it.

Overall Music Farm is my most favorite place on the planet. It's tiny and would be the most uncomfortable place ever if there had been a large crowd, but with only about 40 people all knowing each other, it was a lot of fun. Final thoughts...EVERY band that played was awesome. Even if I didn't show much interest in Vishnu I'd be lying if I said those boys had no talent.