It’s 7, 7, oh seven and you are well aware that on such a numerically charged day that momentous things will likely happen even if you don’t prompt. Even if they involve boredom. And it does. The Boredoms (japanese noise band) announce a free concert where they will serenade lucky list registrants and likely anyone within 2 miles because they have at their employ 77 drummers pounding on 77 drum kits while eating 7 carrots a piece (made up the last bit).
I guess the line is part of it. They want to get you good and bored. It takes 1.77 hours to get in. But people in line are very non-boring and one is really tall.
Once inside the boredom zone, you mill about and can drink japanese beer and kabitz with people until a crescendo of snares and hi-hats and rides and crashes involve you with great moxie, and the cacophony of sound only surrenders you after an hour+ of sonic massage. You do have time to step out of the bliss to take photos of intriguing bits around you:
OH, this is what they sound like: