About a year later from my last concert with Carson, we found out that Mass of The Fermenting Dregs was having another concert in downtown Dallas at this barbeque place called 'Ferris Wheelers.' Funny thing about this venue was how it was situated right next to a huge ferris wheel that nobody ever rode. The place had real good bbq though, which Carson and I happily had for dinner that night. We also met up with an old acquaintance from the previous MOTFD concert while we were standing in line. Overall, this second experience with the same band was great, and they had two openers who had presence in their own right, the first of which was this one, whose name escapes me.

The second opener was hella weird. Their style seemed to be really over the top and loud in a way that felt insane, but they were still really cool. I managed to capture this song of theirs which perfectly encapsulates what I mean by this lol

I managed to capture part of the opening when the lead singer for MOTFD, Natsuko Miyamoto, walked onstage! I don't know why it was split into two videos, and I'm even more confused as to why I stopped recording so early, but I think I just really wanted to live the moment and rock out right then, so I stopped the video and let my hands free..

This next song went so hard. The crowd especially went hard, and I lowered my arm to record the immediate area around my head to show you just how packed it was in there and how impossible it was for me to see above all the jumping people lol. I suppose that's also part of the reason why I made these videos, so I could have a third eye at the end of my tired extended arm up there just so I could see a damn thing. People clapped and whooped in there, and meanwhile I was holding my phone up and recording someone else's recording at some points, like some record-ception.

But then, like providence.. I heard my favorite MOTFD song coming on! This song is called '1960' and it has no lyrics, unless you count the ooo-aaa toward the end. Something about this song is so mesmerizing and evocative, and I love the way it slowly builds throughout the track.. It's like their 'Stairway To Heaven' lol. I looked up what the significance of the year 1960 was in Japan, and apparently it was the start of a huge cultural shift. I suppose we're hearing that story being told in the form of a wordless song, and I'm all for it. On another note, I think you can hear me talking with Carson in the background toward the beginning, but I don't remember what was being said. If anyone can decipher that, I'd be glad to hear what it was. Oh yeah, and also I recorded the ferris wheel in the middle of the video for no reason.

The first video is something I tried to record then gave up on, probably because of batery power that I was going to use up anyway with all these later videos that I couldn't help but record lol. Speaking of which, the second video is so wholesome. You're going to want to turn off auto-dubbing for it because Miyamoto talks to the audience in mostly Japanese, and it's clear nobody understands a single syllable unless she's speaking english. Everybody loves her though, and people are cheering her on and making heart-symbols with their hands. It's just awesome. I'm not one to obsess over a celebrity or singer or figure of any sort, because we're all just humans dancing and creating for each other and fame is illusory and accidental, but I certainly think the tremendous love that was present in that space was wonderful, even if it was parasocial. Natsuko is a lucky girl who seems to be fulfilled by the worldwide attention she gets.

The next video is the part where I try swaying and dipping my phone around to the music. I guess at the time I must've thought it looked cool and went well with the song. I do remember at one point someone in the audience was recording the concert on a 3DS, which is commendworthy of being the most unconventional way to save the memory in my opinion. After that dipping and swaying ride, there's another video of Natsuko just talking with her audience. She humorously points out the 'big dog' noises of the audience and draws attention to the staff who have helped her keep the tour going for all this time. The audience following her accreditation and the comments you can hear from random people (including Carson) is so insanely funny and endearing.

In this video, I take my phone camera on another random ass detour to looking at the ferris wheel! This time, I took some pictures in the middle of recording using the feature on my phone that allows me to do that just so I could have some cool blurry ferris wheel wallpaper images for my computer. Why I chose to do that right then of all times is beyond me, but y'know what? at least it makes for an interesting moment of recognition when you've seen my computer and you suddenly see my desktop in the middle of a prog rock concert video.

I think what happened in this next video was a particular time when the crowd was forming an intense mosh-like dance pit in the front. I tried climbing on something to get a better look and I recorded the chaos with the slo-mo camera so I could later see all that craziness in slow-motion. What I got instead was a blurry mess of shadows and lights in which you can barely make out anything, so I turned off the slow motion and just kept it as a regular video so it wouldn't be so long and boring.

The first video is the part of the night when I noticed the 3DS being used to record this, and Carson was the first to point it out before I moved my phone camera over to see it lol. The band had left, and everyone was cheering "one more song! one more song!" and eventually, I whipped out my phone camera to record them coming back. Sure enough, we got our song. Finally, when that exhilarating last number was finished, Miyamoto and the band said their last goodbyes to those on the last stop of their tour and walked off the stage. I remember there were people who already missed her so much, and one person was even crying. Me though, I was happy to have been there and to have had a blast witnessing this incredible performance with my best friend.

What you have seen here is just a sliver of all that went down that night. I had to take my tired arm down for most of that and actually live in the moment after all. Getting home was easy enough, but the parking price was insanely expensive because we could not find a better alternative spot for Carson's car. Luckily though, no one got towed and it all worked out in the end, and I had some awesome video memories stored on my phone.