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So I suddenly remembered the MFC's existence after ages of not being on here and OH LOOK MIKA SMILIES WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN.

Nice.

Put your heart back in your pocket

Pick your love up off the floor...

Like I made a bit of a booboo. Oops. XD;

Quite alright! Got a whole ton of sweets from yesterday sitting next to me, and I haven't had sweets in frickin' ages, so hurrah! XD

Love will not diiiieeeee

Don't forget...

Tired, cold, and a tad bit lost...

But full. It's good to have a full stomach.

Bibimbap! I had this last weekend, and I also had it loads when I was in Japan (where they call it 'bibindon'). Soooooo good

 

kimchi (pan-fried) vegetable pancake, Put the squid in particular

 

eat on rainy day, Double delicious~ with makgeolli

Wow, that looks good I'll have to try making that someday!

Entertain me

I'm as blank as can be

And I've seen it before

And I've done it before

And I think that I like it

But no, I don't like it

It just goes on over and over and over and over and over again

Over and over again...

Hello Nice meeting you last night

Was nice to meet you too! I had fun chatting with you

I'm including everything, so if you only want to read about the concert itself, just find the tl;dr mark

So, I got to the venue at about 2:15-2:30PM, and kind of awkwardly found myself a little gap to stand in on the left side. I had been expecting there to be a queue like the last time I'd seen Mika at Hammersmith, but everyone was taking shelter from the wet weather under both sides of the front of the building. There was a sea of unfamiliar faces, and I found myself wishing that I had some sort of technology that would cause everyone's usernames to float above their heads so I'd know who they were. Seeing as nothing was happening, I was really frickin' cold, and the fact that we weren't in a queue indicated to me that the order in which we came didn't matter (I would later be proven wrong on this), I went walking around for about 20 minutes. When I came back, there was a blond guy with a ponytail saying something inaudible about lining up, and it turned out we were gonna line up according to numbers. Seeing as I didn't have a number, and figured that this wouldn't matter much as they were usually just used to keep us in order anyway from my experience, I found a place that seemed appropriate for the time that I came, and all seemed good.

In the line, I chatted with Sumiko2 and Rachel (sorry, I forgot your username ; ), who were both lovely, and Sumiko2 even gave me a chocolate doughnut! I never expected to get free food at a Mika concert I was shivering like crazy with the cold by this point, but good company always makes nasty weather more bearable.

Fast forward an hour or two, and suddenly a bunch of us were moving forward. It turned out, though, that they were only letting people with numbers into the building. The girl next to me, who said she was a member of the MFC (couldn't find your username, though, sorry - might have misheard it due to me being senile XD; ), was really angry about this as she'd been queueing for hours and so by rights should've been near the front, but the security man's explanation for this was, paraphrased, "Well, we have to do a little extra for the MFC members."

"Uh, I AM in the MFC!" she replied. There was nothing we could do, though. So we waited outside for a few more hours in the freezing cold and the rain, shivering our arses off, before the doors were opened to us lesser beings at last

tl;dr The support act was Erik Hassle. I found his music didn't do much for me, as I felt his choruses tended to be weak and his music didn't sound that different to everything else I've ever heard. Still, he did have a few nice synth bits going there.

And then it was time for Mika. What a show! I love the whole 'movie' screen thing he's got going on in the background. The band's equipment apparently decided to go haywire and screw things up for them, but to be honest, I hardly noticed. I loved the juxtaposition of the lollipop girl and big girl outfits with the grotesque heads they had to wear, even if the LGs and BGs were on the stage for a little too long due to being so numerous. I also very much approved of the little 'bin orchestra' that the band had going on near the end. The only slightly annoying thing was that despite getting a fairly decent place in the 3rd row, there were a bunch of tall people in front of me, so I had to keep ducking and diving in order to see anything.

Afterwards, I followed RAK1 and co. round the back before finding CazGirl and friends waiting for Mika to come out. It was some time before he actually came out, but when he did, I got a couple of pictures:

^ He's signing CazGirl's book here, which you can't see but oh well

He's bloody gorgeous in the flesh. =D (Not like you all didn't know that anyway!)

So then I went home, ate hummous and walnuts, misheard hilarious things while listening to

Many thanks to all who kept me company and gave me hearts and doughnuts, you all rock

When I was a child, I developed an irrational fear of...

Big Ben.

I have no idea why I developed this fear, especially since I had been obsessed with Big Ben beforehand, but it came about after my parents took me to London to see it when I was about 4 or 5. Maybe I had some kind of traumatic experience there...? *LOL*

Whatever happened, although the fear has lessened a lot over time, it never entirely went away. Kinda funny, considering I live in London now (and love it here too!)

Scared :eek:

But strangely positive.

ohGr - Welt

Need to get me some Final Fantasy/Owen Pallett CDs next...

It's been both good and bad for me.

The first half was great - I was living in a great part of Tokyo, I participated in a bunch of fun events organised by the agency that was renting out the flat I was living in, I met a whole load of insanely cool Buddhist people, I went to Kyoto, Saitama and Toyama Prefecture, I secured myself a translation job, I went to Spain for the first time and loved it...

And then came the second part of the year, immediately after the Spain trip had ended. Cue epic family drama that dropped upon us like an atomic bomb (and still hasn't ceased), along with a collection of other terrible woes that I shan't go into because knowledge of them has been known to cause people to suddenly become rabid, start flailing and run around screaming. Things are about to get worse too. Yaaaayyyy.

I'd like to skip the next few months and suddenly end up in August, when I'll finally start my job in Japan and things won't be so bleak any more.

John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)

Maximum the Hormone - Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura Purin Purin Boron Nurururerorero

(Yes, that's the actual title... XD)

Blackmore's Night - We Three Kings

Playing video games

Eating nice food

Being in bed

Listening to ambient or new age music

Argh, there's a flood at my door again. Must inform landlord...

Elton John - Nikita

Lamb shawarma, tabbouleh, hummous, falafel and salad from a Lebanese takeout place. Yum.

Jedward are hilarious, but I think I might shoot myself if they win

Oh my, I'm tired... and I still haven't written my speech thingy for tomorrow yet. S'alright, though, I mostly just have to put a few different articles on the same topic together and then translate them...

 

V....

V!!

I haven't seen the movie, but he's amazing in the comic, not to mention totally bonkers. At one point, he has an entire conversation with a statue before blowing it up XD

And strangely enough, he

When I was about 12/13, I had this MASSIVE crush on Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII

I mean, an inhumanly powerful crazed psychopath with a huge sword and the desire to kill everyone on the planet by summoning a meteor? What's not to love?

Ooh, Sims! I have The Sims 2, which is great fun. I haven't got The Sims 3, however, as I've been boycotting EA Games since they started using SecuROM xP Still, I very much enjoy the pre-SecuROM Sims stuff!

This be my self-Sim, Nicholas:

(LOL @ someone thinking dirty thoughts behind him)

I have two (badly-written) legacies going right now, the Underwoods...:

... and the Chokecherrys:

I have no idea if I'll ever finish them, though, especially since they've been going for a couple of years now, yet neither of them have even gotten halfway through XD