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I'm very nice, and the Happy Ending video gave me some lovely new drawings to make as patches. I might make a heap over the next few days, and if you don't need them, I'll keep 'em!

Please don't be!! Hugs!!! We are all doing our best for Mika, and I happen to be in practice, but I still know every tiny (and some huge!) mistake I made, so I am still very nervous about him seeing them! I've changed his rainbow, and coloured his Japan drawings. What if he thinks I have ruined his pictures! I read somewhere a thought on how to be creative (Make stuff!) and not stop because you aren't good enough (and none of us are ever good enough to please ourselves!) Nothing you make ever has to be perfect. It never will be, because you can always improve and do better. All it has to be is fantastic. Which is: the best you can do today, with the knowledge and skills that you have now. So our quilt for Mika will be fantastic, with each piece made with love, and happy thoughts for him, and what more could he possibly ask for? Our quilt will be a glorious muddle of styles and techniques and colours and materials, just like we are a fabulous mix of people! It takes all of us to make this quilt! Hugs to all the quilt makers! xD

Mine are done and sent today, so you should get them in a few days. I had such fun making them! Happikali just sent me her design today, so I need to make that and send it as well, hopefully this week.

In the demo version of My Interpretation, Mika sings "I need a reason not to care what you say". If you watch him sing the current version and catch his mouth movements, he still does not sing the "don't" in that line, he fudges it, so you can imagine it there, but it really isn't a clear word, just a "hmm" as a placeholder.

Hey, ThatRadFreak, can you please change the front page, as it says x2 squares for Happikali, when she said only one, (unless she PM'd you otherwise), and I asked for two, and that is not shown... thanks

I know you said a max of 2 each, but just to let you know I have enough ideas that I'll take any spares you can give me! No need to panic about empty spaces! (LOL!)

I can do more than one as well. In fact I'd love to, as I have too many ideas to fit into one patch!

There are 2 ways. The easiest, but more expensive way is to buy pre-treated A4 sized sheets of white fabric. You can pay one or two dollars per sheet (up to lots more for 'best quality'), and buy it in packs of 5 to 10 sheets. The cheaper way is to buy a bottle of Bubble-Jet Set, and cut your white fabric into A4 sheets yourself. You wet the fabric in the Bubble-Jet set, and let it dry, then print on it with an ink-jet printer. That brings it down to about 20 cents per sheet, because you can get about 50 sheets worth from one bottle. It is best to use a fabric that is good quality, with a high thread count, for a clearer result, rather than something like homespun. The fabric starts off stiff enough to feed through a printer, but washes out to a soft cotton fabric again. LOL - can you tell I have a freind who sells this stuff, and that I have explained it to a few customers...

Through the magic of technology and inkjet printers, anything which can be printed from your computer can be printed straight onto fabric without needing to be ironed on. The fabric is specially treated before you print on it, and it turns out like any other plain fabricm, but with the picture on it. That way it is washable, and people don't need to buy special fabric paints unless they want to... So, pictures or writing or anything can be scanned if not already on a computer, then printed onto fabric... Everybody can play! YOu don't need to be sew-y or knitt-y or even arty! Come in and join the fun!

Q AWARDS COMPETITION - TERMS AND CONDITIONS 3. All entrants must be over 18 years of age at the date of entry and resident in the UK. Moral support only, from me. Drat!

Bump! (stitch, stitch, stitch - I'm quick at sewing, and the forum is being slow for me!)

I'm in. In Sydney, I asked Jerry if we could be the official fanclub, but he did not answer that one, just asked what we would want. Since it has been a whole 27 days since then, I am getting impatient, and would love to move the issue forward. I agree that the record company would own Mikasounds, but surely the "Official Mika Website" can be different to the 'Official Mika Fanclub." Fanclubs after all, are often managed by fans... We know Mika visits here, so that is not an issue. What we are after is timely information, and Jerry was quite surprised to hear that Mikasounds is very out of date. As a rule, it is far slower than MFC, and they are supposed to have the advanced information...

http://thedailyreel.com/spotlight/music/archive/2007/06/20/mika-big-girl-you-are-beautiful Mika - "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" Campy British sensation Mika has already been compared plenty to Freddie Mercury. "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" is unlikely to change that -- it's like a kinder, sweeter, disco-infused "Fat Bottomed Girls," joyfully performed on a sugar high. Bursting forth with color and energy, the video features Mika boisterously taking to the streets with a wide assortment of plus-sized women, dancing and cavorting in what looks like one of the most fun block parties ever. Skinny girls, watch out. Between this and A Fat Rant, the day of the big girl isn't just coming -- I think it's here. Sit back, have a donut, and enjoy.

Pre festival snippet from http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1955744.ece Relevant bits: Much too posh for a mosh-pit Tired of mud? Check out the best heritage gigs of the summer THE SOMERSET HOUSE SUMMER SERIES Musical lineup: ...Mika (July 17)... Architectural lineup: Britain’s first office block, built when Britain suddenly realised it had an Empire, but a capital city that looked like S****horpe. Cue London’s Big Georgian Makeover. William Chambers was the architect. Like any office block, you can’t pick and choose your tenants: it’s had the Inland Revenue. Now London’s top romantic backdrop for smoochy couples on ice skating dates. Potential music/architecture it-all-comes-together moment: Could you have a camper backdrop for Mika mid Grace Kelly? LOL!!!

.. joins the queue of people eagerlay awaitng more videos from Nani... The best thing about Mika worship is that patience is more fun, because the reward is so worthwhile! Nani, thank you so much for the Sweet Dreams download. Please, when you have time, could we have some more!

Happikali, just let me know what help you need!! ThatRadFreak, do you have access to a bubble jet colour printer or shall I collect the non-sewers artwork and print it for you? 6' by 3' is kind of like the top of the single bed, but we can make it a floor to floor for a single bed, which is actually big enough to cover the top of a queen bed, so we have hedged our bets a bit. For comfort, single sided may be best, or else any lumpy patches should go on one side, to be the top. You probably need a time limit for names, so the patch size can be calculated, with room for spares for desperate latecomers. If we have 'blank spots' then a nice bright fabric will certainly do the trick as a space filler. Or, calcuate how many 6" or 10" squares would make up a quilt of the right size, and stop taking names when the quota is filled! Do you want to start a new thread with 'quilt for Mika' as the name so more people can find us, or do we limit participation to those who follow up subliminal messages?

Please count me in. For people who can't sew, they just need to send a page of what they would like printed onto fabric, like a message or picture, and any colour ink-jet printer can print it onto specially prepared fabric. Then it can be sewn as a regular patch in the quilt. That means everyone can be involved, and it could be like a scrap book as a quilt. (LOL- I can see this thing becoming rather large, and very popular!) You can buy ready to print fabric pages, or make your own, using bubble-jet set. Printed pages are better than just drawing on to the fabric, as it is machine washable, and colour-fast. I am willing to help if you want...

Mika was telling a joke against himself in an interview, saying how he failed a credit check for a mobile pohone, and had to pay cash for the phone and 2 years rental before the salesperson owuld let him have it, while the manager of the store and Mika's friend were having fits of laughter off to the side! The saleperson asked what Mika did for a living - Mika said he was a musician - the saleperson said - Well there's your problem! The gas bill thing was from the same interview (in Australia I think , but I don't have time to hunt it down right now...Mika had not received his mail for a few months, and so had not been able to pay the bill...

I would really like a Mika dvd where one camera stayed on Mika the whole time, rather than the usual editing where the main person only gets two thirds of the time. Mika does so much on stage, and I hate to miss a second of it. Perhaps there could be an alternate edit for the 'true fan'!!!

Review of our Aussie show on Forum email Read about the magic of MIKA @ The Forum MIKA Saturday 02 June 2007 Unveiled by Pete Townshend during his live edition of Attic Tapes at 2007’s South by Southwest festival, Mika, Britain’s latest cabaret pop starlet, flew into Sydney on a wave of critical acclaim for a one show only affair at the Forum. Having been compared to Rufus Wainwright, Freddy Mercury and Elton John and already being touted as the next big thing, Mika’s show was to be a fairly intimate affair that would be filmed for television. It didn’t disappoint. Displaying all the flamboyance of a young Elton and energy at least the match of the Scissors Sisters, Mika’s cabaret fusion hooked even the least informed in the crowd. He and his colourful entourage made their way through his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion playing through the hits Relax (Take it Easy) and the hugely popular Grace Kelly single. It all culminated in a finale that celebrated the more outrageous end of pop music and performance art with a huge bang of streamers and glitter bombs. An excellent show by an artist with star power to burn and who rumour has it will be gracing Australian shores again soon. A parallel universe for people that was ‘illusory and enchanting and amazing’!

There are general rules for where people look to access stored memories, where they look to make up new stuff etc, but it's like 'most people are right-handed' and everyone can have their own combinations. It is interesting to try to notuice your own, as well as other poeple's patterns. Anthony Robbins uses it a lot. Its from a field called Neuro Linguistic Programming, invented by Richard Bandler.

I agree, with the caveat that no matter how much you prepare and anticipate and imagine, the reality is bigger and has its own impact. In fact, the more you sit on a couch and want and plan and dream, the more amazing it can be when you reach reality and look around and go 'wow!' Also, having wanted a thing for a long time, it can make it much more special when it arrives, and you really appreciate having it really happen. So thats what I meant when I was partly agreeing with the starstruck comment - that Mika having wanted and dreamed of rabidly enthusiastic fans showering him with love, now really appreciates us, (unlike other performers who are often like the people woriking in a service industry who think the job is ok, if only it weren't for the customers.) Performers often are the way they are because they want and need the love and adulation. The Evita line "I thought the more who loved me, the more loved I'd be" is the issue. It is easy to feel the love pouring at you onstage. It is harder when fans mob, receive satisfaction, then turn away, back to their lives and concerns. Mika is managing to feel the love there too, and that's a great skill, enhanced by his intent focus on the individual in front of him rather than the mob pressing around.

Actually, his mention about copyright that wasn't about the bag I made at all. He was absolutely thrilled and admiring about the bag, no copyright thoughts crossed his mind (which was something I had considered might happen, because I did use their art for the bag). I asked his permission to make and exhibit something else, and he was asking about my intentions about that. He was pleased that I would want to make it, but then quickly checked all the proper things about was I going to sell, or make more than one. Then he went back to being pleased. In all my pre-considered scenarios, I go the best possible, dream reaction, where he was happy, but also understood the consequences and was being careful about it. Anyone can use his stuff for their own personal use, but since I want to exhibit, I needed his permission. (I also cornered Yasmine as she went past the queue, and checked with her as well.)

We do the best we can at the time, with the information that we have, and that is enough. Holding that thought gives me a lot of strength. It also demands I live up to a high standard, because I need to make sure that I am always doing the best I can, and using all the information I have. And so I learn and grow. (I love that poem too!)

In everything he does, Mika is himself. This gives us his randomness, and also fascinating encounters and interviews. He makes his life, his career more interesting for himself by going beyond the basics. Promo could drive anyone mad with boredom. Rather than endlessly discussing the same trite things in interviews, he is likely to hijack topics, or decide to treat the interviewers as real people, and ask them what they think or would do, clearly taking them by surprise. And he is getting better at it with practice! He is also career focussed, which gives him the drive and the reason to persist through the boredom and repetition, and turn it into a life he can enjoy leading. He is absolutely genuine, sincere and involved in what he takes on. His drive to make music his career is an integral part of that, as is his conviction that he should be 1000% himself rather than change. He is an incredibly rare person who has sorted himself out, and has no internal conflicts about why he is doing what he does, how he accidently got there, or whether it is all worthwhile. From that position of balance, he can dare to do things that others are too insecure to consider, too unsure of how others might react. His music career is not a veneer on top of his personality, not a mask he has put on to fool everyone, not a job he is lucky enough to hold for a short while. It is intrinsic to him, years of his life have been dedicated to it, and he will go where it takes him, in his own way, as he perceives it.