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Oops, I haven't been here in a little while and I saw the "other" thread first... so I'll just paste what I wrote there, since we're talking about it here... Wow... I haven't been on MFC in a long time! How exciting that we can finally talk about this... although I'm pretty proud of us that we respected his request to keep it quiet for over a month, until after he actually told a journalist about it himself. It wasn't something we expected to happen - it was just luck, chance, fate, whatever... but it happened - and when he asked us to please keep it quiet we had to respect that. I had a hellova time. Especially when he asked me himself if I would be a Big Girl dancer... and I said "thanks but no thanks"! He had to spend 5 minutes batting his Bambi eyes trying to convince me - and then I said "maybe"!! What the heck was I thinking? It was an incredible experience - so glad I did it. I was shaking when I went back over to our little group who were at the stage watching the band rehearse... and my dear friends convinced me I had to do it. (Thank you!) As Sara & Christine said, when they were rehearsing Love Today he brought me up on stage with him and practiced the BG dancing with me. It was soooo surreal... and I kept looking down at Christine, Sara, Mana, Bab, Suzy and Ryan, standing at the front of the stage and cheering like it was the real concert. And btw - I almost fell off that little catwalk platform that's behind Cherrisse, and Mika caught me! I think my other favourite part was when he was sitting beside me on the floor at one point while we were painting the planets, and he said to me "I f'ked this one up. Can you fix it for me?" Ha! I don't know - something about that seemed really great to me... I think just that it was all so laid back and casual. Really a lovely day. Awww... thank you Christine! Yes - I really hope people don't get the wrong idea about this. It was purely coincidental, and I don't expect to ever be so lucky again. They were tired, and they would have had to stay up all night long painting the set themselves - they just needed some extra hands and we happened to bump into them at the exact right time. OMG you should have seen your face when you saw the chicken feet!! Exactly. The whole thing was just the stars aligning for us perfectly... not anything you can win or make happen... just something we can be thankful for and keep as a great memory.

You know what's funny... at the very beginning, when Mika & Yasmine were showing us the brushes, I went for the sponge - and Yasmine stopped me. She said Mika wanted to use that one for the larger planets so she had to save it for him. That made it even funnier when he was sitting beside me using it, and I could see that it wasn't working! When he asked me to fix it I said "don't worry, you didn't feck it up, you just made a good base".

Wow... I haven't been on MFC in a long time! How exciting that we can finally talk about this... although I'm pretty proud of us that we respected his request to keep it quiet for over a month, until after he actually told a journalist about it himself. It wasn't something we expected to happen - it was just luck, chance, fate, whatever... but it happened - and when he asked us to please keep it quiet we had to respect that. I had a hellova time. Especially when he asked me himself if I would be a Big Girl dancer... and I said "thanks but no thanks"! He had to spend 5 minutes batting his Bambi eyes trying to convince me - and then I said "maybe"!! What the heck was I thinking? It was an incredible experience - so glad I did it. I was shaking when I went back over to our little group who were at the stage watching the band rehearse... and my dear friends convinced me I had to do it. (Thank you!) As Sara & Christine said, when they were rehearsing Love Today he brought me up on stage with him and practiced the BG dancing with me. It was soooo surreal... and I kept looking down at Christine, Sara, Mana, Bab, Suzy and Ryan, standing at the front of the stage and cheering like it was the real concert. And btw - I almost fell off that little catwalk platform that's behind Cherrisse, and Mika caught me! I think my other favourite part was when he was sitting beside me on the floor at one point while we were painting the planets, and he said to me "I f'ked this one up. Can you fix it for me?" Ha! I don't know - something about that seemed really great to me... I think just that it was all so laid back and casual. Really a lovely day. Awww... thank you Christine! Yes - I really hope people don't get the wrong idea about this. It was purely coincidental, and I don't expect to ever be so lucky again. They were tired, and they would have had to stay up all night long painting the set themselves - they just needed some extra hands and we happened to bump into them at the exact right time. OMG you should have seen your face when you saw the chicken feet!! Exactly. The whole thing was just the stars aligning for us perfectly... not anything you can win or make happen... just something we can be thankful for and keep as a great memory.

I'm so happy for you that he's coming to Japan, but I feel your pain about the presale!! Is it general admission or seated? Can you buy a ticket to something else on that site to become a member? Extra $ and not fair, but if it gives you the peace of mind...

Coming from a Torontonian, I'll tell you it IS quite cold in Toronto today, for October. If it were December I'd say it was lovely out. This show is going to be SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. I've got butterflies waiting for it. I get the sense it's going to have kind of an epic feeling to it. SO GLAD that Mika is back on tour!!!!

It's cold. But it may not rain as much as they were predicting last week. There's a covered part in front of the venue anyway - but it's cold.

Today is going to be insane! I'm so curious what the queue will be like this time, and this 1955 space theme sounds epic. I bet it's going to be amazing. It's going to feel like a long day of waiting and somehow really fast at the same time I suspect! I'm SOOO glad I have my Decadents here... it makes the whole gig experience a thousand times better, and it's pretty damn good to begin with!

Absolutely true, even the morning of! The Weather Network somehow manages to get it wrong every time. You'll look out your window and see sunshine and rainbows, and go online and see "current weather: thunderstorms". It's supposed to be rainy and below seasonal all week, so I'm thinking we'll be all rained out and have some nice sunshine on Monday.

Ain't got no time, ain't got no dog, ain't got no life outside of work but I GOT MY CHICKET!

Do you have to do anything earlier in the day?

WHAT? Wait a second... thats in like TWO WEEKS now! How did it get here so quickly?! ZOMG! I can't believe it. TWO WEEEKSSSSS!

Still haven't gotten my chicket...

Thanks Sara. Exactly - being disappointed is natural. I'm disappointed too. But to me it's about having manners and recognizing that he doesn't have to do this for anyone (regardless of what his motivations are for doing it)... Of course those of us who can't go are disappointed, but I just think people are forgetting that he's a human being too and if you count yourself as a fan it would be nice to treat him with a little respect and common courtesy. Talking to each other about our disappoint him is one thing - what bothers me is when people take it directly to him. On Twitter, MySpace, Mikasounds... begging him and whining to him... he may not read it all, but he'll glance at it and get the gist... and I think it's rude. He can't possibly do it all, and he doesn't have to do any of it, so why moan directly to him? I dunno - that's my view - whether I'm in the minority there or not.

I haven't gone through this whole thread, but just from looking at it briefly it looks like you guys have already touched on what I was going to post... I think it's incredibly generous of him to be doing this, on top of the pub thing he's already done. He's really busy right now promoting the new record, so if it's most convenient for him to make this kind of gesture in London then so be it. I can't go but I'm happy for those who can, and thankful to him for being so gracious. I was really sad to see so many of the posts under his MySpace blog saying "Mika please you have to give us a free gig here in Timbucktooooooooo (or wherever), why are you ignoring us, you always forget about us, you HAVE TO do something for ussssss!!!" It seems so ungrateful, selfish and greedy to me, and really insulting to him. He's excited, trying to celebrate and do something nice... he's currently in London so that's where he's going to do it. He doesn't owe Londoners or anyone else, he's just trying to have some fun and give back in whatever way he's able to at the moment. To demand and beg and whine for him to do the same thing all over the effing world is ridiculous. I'm hoping that most of those people are not MFC'ers. To be honest, if I were him, and I got that kind of response everytime I tried to do something nice, I'd stop doing it. I'd also start resenting my selfish, greedy, un-pleaseable fans. So, thank you to all of you who said things to him like "that's nice of you Mika" on Twitter, Mikasounds and elsewhere... that's what he deserves.