Mom4Mika

What time are people planning on getting there?

Still up in air, but if I can hang with peps that would be nice.

My girls can't come

Why is everyone moaning about paper waste? Yes he's tearing up notes, but it turns into CONFETTI. From writer's block to celebration.

 

You remember confetti don't you? From the last Mika gig you went to? From the first Mika gig you went to? From every Mika gig you went to in between? If paper waste is a violation then he should have been fined a long time ago.

 

 

 

I just think they could have recreated it anywhere since it mostly takes place indoors. Aside from the skyline shots that look like they've been lifted from a movie, this could have been filmed in Toronto for instance. The buildings of the Lower East Side scream Manhattan to me but all you see is the graffiti that could have been on any wall in the US.

 

I really love the loft though. It's very authentic.

 

 

 

Maybe not so irrational but I'm glad you were wrong.

I was in the same street and neighborhood 18 hours before Mika and went back 3 days later. Looking at the video I just pointed out the street (Orchard) and then the scaffolding he is walking under with all the graffetti is the same one you hit walking past the Starbucks on Delanecy St. I wish I would have paid closer attention to the NO PARKING signs in the neighborhood, I would have seen MIKA written on them before the fact, instead of after.

My Big Girl sister! Thank you Holly for being part of my memories and my girls memories of their first gig and queuing experience and their second and third gig experiences

I wish you all the best and that things just continue to get better and better.

What advice would you give a tourist?

Take a cab to Borough Market on a Friday; have a coffee at the Monmouth Coffee Company; walk past Tate Modern, along the South Bank, over Waterloo Bridge to Covent Garden and then down The Mall to Buckingham Palace. Then stop off at the smallest pub in London, The Grenadier in Belgravia. this one?

I am taking notes

Nina, Have you actually posted the pictures and I am just enough of an Oldling to not know where I should be looking

Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Were you able to go to the MFC London Meet up at all?

Merry Christmas to you John and a very successful in every way New Year.

Safe travels!

Thank you for everything. Have you refilled that Starbucks card I got you last year?

Be well!

Jamie

(NYC & Philly Big Girl)

I personally really love Good Gone Girl, it's one of my favourite tracks on the album. It's fast paced, it's fun to sing-a-long to, it's poppy, and I think it's catchy. To me, it's like a summer tune. I remember playing it in my room quite loudly, the sun was shining through my window and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I seem to find that songs feel better/different depending on weather. I know that sounds f*cking nuts, but I like the album as a whole more now simply because it's approaching summertime

 

Anyway, before I sound like a complete freak I will move on.

Would it be a good single? I don't know. I thought Rain and Blame It On The Girls would be good singles but look where they ended up And I still don't really understand why they didn't do that well...lack of promotion didn't help...but how do you go from a Number One Album with a Number One Single and a string of Top Ten Hits to releasing singles that both reached Number 72?

Mika wasn't really around to promote Happy Ending but that still reached number 7 on it's own

 

Back in 2007 radios were happier to play him because he was "The Next Big Thing" but now he's been in the business for 3 years people discard him like last night's dinner I don't really know what can be done to improve the situation.

 

As for the live version of GGG, I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't as funky as the studio version. I prefer the album version, but I liked the ending of the live one where Mika and iMMa do a little dance

It is one of my favorite songs!! Wish he would have played it when he was here in the states. It was the first song in a lllooonnnggg time I came up with a dance. Which I did standing in queue in Philly while HollyD lip synced for her life

I am of Scottish ancestry. This is our tartan

Laughed in a very enthusiastic way because WE ARE COMING TO LONDON!!!!!

Just a little

I thinkI might be able to read it some time but I had just finished Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar which kinda took a mental toll on me. Not by way of it was a hard book to read, quite the oppisite: I couldn't put it down and I breezed through it in a few days, but it was a very...strongly written book. One I really realted to and got sucked into and it left me feeling kinda empty when I finished it.

 

I picked up Walden cause I've been wanting to read it for a while (and I like to walk around with an impressive book in my hand ) But it was just too much stress on my brain right now.

You WENT to Walden? Was it beautiful?

It might be worth a try. I often pick up books I tried to read before and hated when I was younger only to love them now. It seems like they can be appreciated differently at different times in one's life.

The Bell Jar is pretty intense. I actually have a collection of books about break downs. The Yellow Wallpaper, The Snake Pit, The Shutter of Snow, The Quiet Room and some others I can't bring to mind right now.

I usually go for John Saul after a intense read.

I think I might have been right behind you. I started out three or four rows back, but got pushed up after the supporting act by the mob behind and beside me. After the first few songs I couldn't take it anymore ... I guess I'm one of those middle-aged fuddy-duddies!

Sounds like this was beyond rational & acceptable behavior for any age.

I was going to read Thoreau's Walden but when I started it, even though I instantly loved him and found some amazing words of wisdom, I realized my brain wasn't willing to read that right now. So I picked up an easier read. Stephen King's It.

Yeah, there is a slight difference between the two

I just relate to what you said. I tried Walden at various times in my life. My husband and I even went to Walden, but I couldn't read it.

I also tried to read House of Seven Gables just doesn't happen for me.

I wonder if I try again if it would work out different.

I fell in love Gogol when I was a teen. That set me up for Russian authors.

Recently, Bill Mayers New Rules for in bed reading. Otherwise I have been pondering my next book a lot lately so I may read back and see what suggestions strike me.

Tired. Stupid bloody daylight savings time:sneaky2:

john sent us a message about the present (through sariflor):

 

post that i was REALLY moved by the booklet that everyone contributed to from all over the globe and the gifts as well.

it's heartwarming to know that my little efforts to accommodate people are appreciated.

i can be a bit brusk and grumpy at times. but, always am thinking of how we can make it a bit easier for mika's loyal and wonderful fans around the world.

it's important to him that you are looked after and i try to do the best i can to carry out his wishes.

and, to get the kind of feedback from you in the form of this booklet and gifts that so many people spent time organizing is over and above any expectations.

just a thank you once in while is more than enough.

but, this is over the top.

thank YOU!

see you at the next show.

love,

jdb

 

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OMG! I am feeling a bit over John's thank you for our thank yous.

Hi Mellody-

Just read the report from Hammersmith and that you gave the book to John.

Well done! Thank you again for organizing and carrying it through to the end.

I don't know if they danced to BG Jamie (surely they did?) but the only vid's of Lollipop- which also has snazzy drumming

I just saw it!! OMG!! I love it!!!!!!!!!!!! I am totally freakin out Praying he does it in US and if it is hard to find BG in NYC or Philly I'll do it.

Yes, it was hard to get a BG's in Philly.

I was the green one that probably looks very unstabe in the vids....

Okay help me understand, Big Girls danced to a different song?

I need to see a picture of these "masks" could someone direct me a video or picture please:biggrin2:

I've just sent off my letter (via private msg) to Mellody and my picture as a Big Girl.

Nothing like waiting till the last moment.

The letter is really just a thank you letter. Damn I forgot to thank him for the hot chocolate and doughnut holes in NYC Terminal 5, 2008

If I bought a gift card for some Starbucks for John, who should I send it to?

I think it is Sri Lanka. But I don't Tweet so I can't post and even when I hijack my kids Twitter I can't get it to show up.

Goodness I'm mentally old.

Thanks for posting that information Mellody!

The last 30 seconds of the year there's a countdown, and there's the tv with hosts and such in front of a clock presenting the new year. Then there are 12 "dongs" and every Spaniard has to take one grape per "dong" - ringing, whatever it is said. If you eat them in time not choking on any grape then you have a good year ahead

 

Oh gosh! I look like Hurley explaining to his mother what happened in the island

 

I don't know if I explained it well, maybe someone with better English than me can explain better because I don't speak well

 

And by the way I LOVE Enigma (the band DA says) it's been my all favourite band forever. I'm that eclectic

Nice meeting you enigma, Almería is lovely!

Thank you, I learned something new And you taught me, Hathor

Happy New Year! Got your 12 grapes ready?

Never heard of that. Could you tell me what that is about?

Do you want a chair

 

I'm not THAT old

Granted I am a little dizzy with how fast this thread moved

Anybody record it?

 

I made a list of the songs

 

 

Original Sin – INXS

Damn!! Missed INXS