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    The Looking For Something Thread - Part II!

    in Chat about Mika

    Posted · Edited by Kumazzz

    Welcome to Part II of the ultimate Mika information thread! :biggrin2:

     

    If you're looking for something at all MIKA or MFC related, you can come here and ask. Any pictures, videos, interviews in the News section where it takes too long to search through our many pages, or you're just being lazy, or the search option isn't being too accurate, or you want to talk to a real person...

     

    Siu was the last person to post looking for something in part I, so I'm copying her question below:

     

    Siu said:
    I am fully aware that we are over quota in this thread, but it seems to be a mod-free day :teehee: and I don't want to start a new thread without the old one been closed before so here I go:

     

    We have this nice interview from 2007

     

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    which has a translation here http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=655723&postcount=10, BUT it ends at about minute 4. Is there a continuation to the translation. I've searched, but can't find.

     

    I understand most of it, but all the jokes are lost for me as are all the witty comments from Mr Pas Terrible :naughty:.

     

    Thanks in advance!

     

    Can any French speakers help? :flowers2:

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    XL REPUBBLICA - how Mika keeps himself busy ;-)

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Mika: hey sis, have you done that illustration?

    DaWack: which illustration?

    Mika: what d'you mean, which one, the one for XL Republica!

    DaWack: :mf_rosetinted: no

    Mika: WHAT?!?! what are we going to do, I have to send the text tomorrow, but there's no illustration, how could you do this to me?!

    DaWack: :mf_rosetinted:

    Mika: What?!

    DaWack: you forgot to check your mail again, haven't you?

    Mika: (checks his mail) these MFC guys have gone crazy again, why do they send me all these illustrations for?!

    DaWack: :headesk:

    Mika: I know!! I'll use them for my blog!

     

    :lmfao: :lmfao:

    XL REPUBBLICA - how Mika keeps himself busy ;-)

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Any details? Will it have to be line art like in the previous articles? What format? Which size will it have on the print? And ... Erm... What is the TOPIC? Illustration is about visualizing a certain thought or a story or a topic (I thought) LOL

     

    Silly Violet! There are no guidelines in Mikaland! :lmfao: Someone should send in some stained glass artwork. Or maybe a sculpture. :roftl:

     

    it's Mika...Mika you know? you should have learnt by now :naughty:

    no rules, and if rules are, let's them be chaotic! :naughty:

     

    Exactly. Robi's got it figured out. :insane:

    The Midway State: Mika's opening act, AMAZING!

    in Other Artists

    Posted

    BUMP!

     

    Anyone remember these guys? They opened for Mika on his 2008 North American tour, and a lot of MFCers fell in love with them. :wub2:

     

    They're back with a new single, with the album to follow next month. The new single is pretty amazing, just as good as anything from their first album if not better. Have a listen. :punk:

     

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    Introducing Mr. David Whitmey, Mika's new keyboard player

    in Other Artists

    Posted

    David put his album " Best Foot Forward " on his facebook. It´s absolutely great!

     

    Do you have the link please ? I don't find it (may be too tired tonight :boxed:)

     

     

    Jimmy also posted it on Twitter, and since he asked so kindly I figured we could post it here as well. :naughty:

     

    I really like this stuff! All I Want Is You has a really cool, ethereal vibe to it. Nice work, Sunshine. :punk:

    Sam Beeton - The next big thing!

    in Other Artists

    Posted · Edited by lollipop_monkey

    Yes Tegan, check out his stuff for sure! I think if you like Ben Parker/The Chain you'll like Sam as well. :wub2:

     

    His story is that he signed with Sony when he was really young, and ended up recording an album that was only ever soft-released on iTunes - as far as I can tell they never went through with a physical release. :annoyed_h4h:

     

    Since then he's parted ways with Sony and is now releasing music direct-to-fans through his own Sweet Luigi record label. His stuff has taken a less poppy direction it seems, and it really, really works.

     

    He's been vlogging a lot lately too, which is awesome. Love this.

     

    [YOUTUBE]6CnRdFOAy0U[/YOUTUBE]

    Mika's house in Miami

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Ohhh! I feel so out of the loop :boxed: Even though I've been a big Mika fan since 2007, I never thought to look for him online... So I'm clueless about a lot of things haha

     

    You have a lot to learn, young grasshopper. Stick with MFC and all will be revealed. :roftl:

    Mika's house in Miami

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    We have probably just been here too long :naughty:

     

    Yes and have seen enough yogic flying and such to be a little skeptical. :lmfao:

     

    I think that it's the home of Jodi Marr :naughty:

     

    If it is, she's got fantastic taste. That house is truly beautiful.

     

    It's just a "wallet" or whatever he's calling it these days:naughty:

    He's certainly getting his moneys worth with it, he's had it nearly 4 years now.

     

    Maybe he bought three and has just been cycling through them. :mf_rosetinted:

    Mika's house in Miami

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Are they sure it's not Jodi Marrs house, or someone he was working with over there?

     

    Sure, or a rental, or... :dunno:

     

    What I really want to know is how the hell a random Belgian magazine got ahold of pics of Mika in some front yard in America. How random. I mean, even in the UK the media doesn't seem to care if he's strolling out of his front door unless he's arm-in-arm with a half-naked Lady Gaga. :roftl: So why would photogs in Miami have such an interest? :blink:

     

    well, at least we know he still has the wallet with the manly angles :naughty:

     

    Yes :lmfao:

    This didn't come out last Friday did it?:naughty:

     

    That was my first thought too. :roftl:

    Mika's backing vocalist 'iMMa' - exclusive Mika blogs!

    in Other Artists

    Posted

    By the way, do we know if iMMa will still be Mika's backing vocalist for the next tour. I'd love to :wub2:. Any news about that and what do you think ?

     

    I'm torn about this :teehee: On one hand I suppose iMMa would want her own career to be keeping her so busy that she doesn't have time to tour with Mika. On the other hand, she sounds so freakin' amazing with him that I always want her to stick around. Happy Ending will never be the same without her. :crybaby:

     

    I haven't heard anything "official" yet about that, so I guess time will tell. :teehee:

    XL REPUBBLICA - how Mika keeps himself busy ;-)

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    I was wondering about what actually happened to her children. I knew her basic story, but I was never interested enough to follow the case so closely I could remember the details about her children, especially about her son and his death (her story was told here mostly in tabloids anyway).

     

    It's such a tragical story. I don't want to even start to analyze who to blame, it looks she wasn't capable of taking care of any of her responsibilities or strong enough to make any decisions (but as I said, I didn't much follow this case).

     

    It's all very sad, and admittedly I don't know enough about her story to know what sort of invisible demons she may have been fighting (depression, mental illness, etc). Still I hesitate to call the whole thing a "tragedy", really, because again to me that word has connotations of being out of the victim's control and given that self-destruction came into play, I'm not sure she's entirely a victim of circumstance.

     

    Even so, she was torn apart by the media and the rest of the world. The world enjoyed the breakdown. Had no one paid this amount of negative attention, she wouldn't have been famous and she wouldn't have made those choices. She wasn't a stable person to begin with and basically was forced to play the part the media wanted her to play. And that has taken its toll.

     

    I think both of the statements I've bolded are so very true. The world does love a trainwreck, which leads to a media frenzy, which leads to a situation like you get with say, Amy Winehouse, or Lindsay Lohan. It is a sad aspect of our time that when celebs self-destruct they end up doing so in a fishbowl. :sad:

    Not everything needs a thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    it started with a homeless cat that hung around the field behind my house... she was so pretty ... i was calling it "my chat (cat in french)"

     

    And you say you don't mix French and English every second word. :mf_rosetinted:

     

    in case you all forgot, tomorrow is friday :biggrin2:

     

    :yay:

     

    OMG? Friday? Crap, which seat should I take??? :shocked:

     

    In honour of this glorious day:

     

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    XL REPUBBLICA - how Mika keeps himself busy ;-)

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    I suppose what it comes down to is this: what is the intended entertainment value in this Anna Nicole opera? It's either to instill some sort of reflection, as Mika seems to have been hoping, or else it's just another flavour of Jerry Springer-style, we-like-watching-trainwrecks mockery. I didn't see this opera but given that the audience "laughed and laughed" it seems that mockery was probably the intent - and I would agree that it's ridiculous to make a production for the sole purpose of mocking someone, especially someone whose story took place so recently.

     

    I think it would be a challenge for any director to build any true empathy with Anna Nicole using opera as the medium. It just doesn't seem to fit. If they really wanted to instill "worry, compassion or self examination" the best medium would have been a film documentary. That would be a much more effective way of conveying whatever good traits this woman may have had, and casting emphasis on the truly tragic aspects of her life as opposed to the self-inflicted destruction. Perhaps Mika admires her tenacity, for example (if that's indeed what it was) that took her from a nobody to a Playboy centrefold. A film may have been better able to convey that tenacity as one of her shining traits.

     

    Admittedly from where I stand she seems like a complete disaster and the majority of it is directly because of her own bad decisions. Mika mentions that the poor dear was a single mother at 20. Sure but so are countless women in the US and all over. Did she struggle? Quite likely, but maybe she shouldn't have gotten married and had a child when she was still a teenager. And the debacle with her late husband's fortune is of her own making too. If they were truly in love she would have been in his will, as far as I'm concerned. There would be no room for debate.

     

    I don't fault her for being a porn star at all - if a woman (or a man) goes down that path of their own volition, all the power to them. I don't even fault her for being a gold digger, if that's what the situation was, but I can't imagine she was surprised when it didn't go according to plan and her husband's family mounted an opposition.

     

    What I fault her for is doing disservice after disservice to herself, and ultimately to her children. It's great to feel compassion for Anna Nicole, but what about her children who suffered as a result of her decisions? When Anna Nicole was found dead, she had a toxic cocktail of at least seven different drugs in her body - some of which had been prescribed for others, not for her. She left behind a baby girl who will never know her mother. Again I don't fault her for posing for Playboy, but I do fault her for this destructive pattern of behaviour that left her infant daughter alone.

     

    I think she did a disservice to her son as well. His death was attributed to a combination of the drugs zoloft, lexapro and methadone. Why was a 20 year-old man on such a cocktail of drugs?! I can't chalk it up to coincidence that Anna Nicole and her son both died far too young of the same root cause. To me that looks like pretty convincing evidence that she passed on her self-destructive behaviours to her son. Mika calls his death "as tragic as they come", but I don't agree. To me tragedy is something wholly unexpected and wholly out of control of the victim(s). Yes her son's death is horrible and must have destroyed her - to lose a child is probably among the worst horrors a parent can experience. But to call it "as tragic as they come" seems to absolve Anna Nicole and her son of responsibility for the contributing factors to his death (and hers) that were within their control.

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