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  1. was going to post such comment...but decided to keep it to myself (just trying to be polite once in a lifetime:biggrin2: ), but since the things are said...

    thats exactly the impression I get sometimes, watching those "puppy eyes interviews"...(and then think-what-a-pervy-drama-queen, when see him posing next to some gay personas:bleh: )

     

    ok, maybe we shldnt discuss, together with is-he-or-isnt-he thing...cos it all comes one from another...

     

    I agree that this comes back to the whole is he isnt he thing .

  2. what would you do if mika asked you out (just pretend kay:roftl: )

     

     

     

    Possible scenario

     

    M:hey (taps me on the shoulder)

     

    A:ummm.... hi (mouth dry trying to control blush)

     

    M:so you want to go get a bite (dam that smile)

     

    A:sure (heart beating at super sonic speed)

     

    M: where do you want to go (cocks head to the side)

     

    A:how about the red bamboo (I'm blushing because suddenly I realize I've been staring at his mouth the whole time)

     

     

    To be continued....?

  3. Mika's Life In Motion

    Updated 02:45 PDT Wed, Jun 06 2007

     

    Singer-songwriter Mika has a busy year planned, with a touring schedule that includes appearances in the U.S., the U.K., Europe, and Japan.

    First up are a handful of U.S. dates, including June 8 at The Avalon in Los Angeles, June 11 at Chicago's Metro / Smart Bar, and June 16 at Center Stage in Atlanta.

    Mika's summer schedule features a bunch of festival gigs, including the Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. (June 23-24), Open Air St. Gallen in Switzerland (June 29), the Oxegen Festival in Ireland (July 7), and Fuji Rock Festival in Japan (July 29).

    The singer will make a quick stop in the States August 10 for a free show in New York's Bryant Park as part of the "Good Morning America" Summer concert series and then head back to Europe for an appearance at the Open Air Festival in Germany on August 12.

    Mika's fall U.K. tour kicks off with a pair of shows at the V Festival August 18-19, and includes stops in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Plymouth, Brighton and London.

    Tickets for the U.S. shows are available through Ticketmaster. Festival tickets are available through each event's web site, and presale tickets for Mika's autumn U.K. dates are available through his web site, http://www.mikasounds.com/uk.

    All of this jetting back and forth around the globe for live shows sounds like a lot of work, but Mika told Pollstar it's worth it.

    "I think, surprisingly, in the United States there's a great climate for live shows at the moment, because people want more," he said.

    And the U.S. is only one part of his overall strategy. Instead of one market at a time, he and his team are working to break him everywhere at once. He says even though it means more work and a lot of traveling, it's worth the effort.

    "It's so much more honest, because we're not having to try to retrace our steps anywhere," he said.

    Most importantly, he says he's having the time of his life.

    "It's fun. Because I was prepared and paranoid enough to guarantee I'd get the freedom that I wanted, it's been exactly what I expected, and I'm lucky to be in that position."

  4. Don't know if this has been posted but thought I'd post it anyhow:mf_rosetinted:

     

     

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    Froth and bubble makes for unexpected fun

    Bernard Zuel | June 4, 2007

    MIKA

     

    The Forum, June 2

     

    THE line between contrivance and sincerity is always a tricky thing to walk in pop music. Romantics like to think that everything is spontaneous, that songs come from a wellspring of inspiration. The cynics prefer to believe that everyone's a chancer, appropriating the work of betters via unvarnished ambition.

     

    The truth straddles both camps. Because as music fans we really want to believe, even if for only three or four minutes, for many artists the most important trick is to disguise the contrivance or at least to distract us from it while the talent (they hope) dazzles.

     

    Mika (London-based Michael Penniman) does not bother with such thoughts. His songs are the Pompidou Centre of 21st-century pop: every part of their workings is up-front, brightly coloured and in your face.

     

    He has constructed a sound which gleefully ransacks Queen (usually Freddie Mercury doing music hall), Dolly Parton and Leo Sayer (if they had gone disco), Robbie Williams (or Queen crossed with Anthony Newley) and the Scissor Sisters (Queen in a nightclub) and puts them into place with little shame at the blatant appropriation. It can be very irritating.

     

    But here's the rub: it can be very entertaining. Mika is a glorious bon bon, a confection completely without substance but so easy to succumb to. He works the stage and the room like a variety show king; he vamps and camps it up like a mardi gras queen; he deploys his falsetto like a guided missile; he gets silly with band members in furry animal suits in the encore. He works bloody hard.

     

    As Grace Kelly ends the set, an hour in, grumbling seems poor form. When the appropriately named Lollipop finishes the night, with balloons and confetti raining down, you're left thinking that while this will cause a sugar high which will crash into emptiness, someone's been having fun. And it feels like you.

  5. I saw Mika @ the Gramercy (with you!!) and the next day at the performance/signing at Border's. Both days were fantastic to the max. Like amazing to the billionth power. :biggrin2:

     

    Anyone else? I know there are more people! We met some of you guys last time-- can't wait to see everyone again (and new faces, of course!!)!

     

    I saw mika at the border's signing it was awsome but couldn't get tickets for gramency:crybaby:

  6. Tenshi Ja Nai...."No Angel"? not heard of it lol

     

    i don't have any manga comics...i just watch the shows. obviously my first animé experience was Pokémon but my ultimate fave is DragonballZ :D

     

    It's about a realy hot guy pretending to be a cute girl (check out never give up it's the same but in revers)

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