Elwendin

Why can I only see a few, like twenty? How can I see more of them?

Sooooooo, I loved this gig so so so so much. I loved so many things, I'll tell you about them later (aka in a few days) when the two girls that are staring my screen right now are finally gone. I have some pics as well, I'll trade them for a vid of Boum Boum Boum (amazing with that piano) and a pic of confetti, taken from the audience being among them. Come on, it's a fair bargain Please

Yeah, that's basically what's been said in the previous nine pages

I love it!!!! This one is for nerds only, it's one of my favourite:

Here's why we struggle so much to figure out what Mika accent sounds like: So since both of your parents speak with an American accent, right? Yeah, terrible ones though, really strange American accents. My dad lived in America a total of four years of his life. He’s from there, but his father worked as a diplomat, so he was everywhere. So when you go to the US do you talk with an American accent, like one of those people who’s bi-dialectical? Yeah, if anything, I mimic the person who I’m sitting in front of. So the amount of times I’ve had some half-drunk Irish person want to smash me in the face because they think I’m taking the piss, but the truth is, it’s a reflex, I mirror accents in front of me. And yeah, there’s a term for it but I don’t know what it is. So if I’m happy, it’s really strange, because if I’m in a good mood I copy the accents around me. If I don’t like it, if I’m in a bad mood, I exaggerate the opposite. So for example if I’m in Los Angeles, because I get really sad in that city when I go out because it’s just a constant stampede, one person over another, to be a movie star and you really feel it in the air and the way people talk to one another, so I get really angry and my English accent kind of gets really magnified and exaggerated. Whereas if I’m in New York and I’m really happy and hanging around, I just speak like everyone else. Source: http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features/Music-Music_features/27109/Extended-interview-Mika.html#.VUxhLfmQLDo.twitter

That thing never grows old to me. I love it so much

Yeah, cloudy it's fine as long as it doesn't rain cats and dogs. That would be the most awful situation.

Famiglia Cristiana interviewed him? I don't want to miss that! That magazine belongs to the Church.

It's time... I have to resurrect this beloved old thread with some of my newest Fantastic Photos -- they surely belong here in Bab's album. I hope she would approve. You should have posted here earlier, I have totally missed this masterpiece of a thread. Now I can catch up

"I think back to the beginning of my career in the UK, and we’d go around and people would say “there’s no market for you here” or “there’s no need for you here," and so I went and created my own world, my own visuals, my own clothes, my own everything, because I was forced to. I look at America today and I feel the same. If there’s no platform for me, but I know that there’s people here for me, I’ll just have to invent my own. So that’s my next challenge" I like this attitude very much, probably cause I can relate. Once you got what your real goals are, there's no giving up. Some wishes are misleading, when you finally get closer to them you realize that you don't belong there, then second thoughts are welcome and you better drop it cause it doesn't feel right anymore. But when you really are focused on a goal, and it's the right one, you just find a way to it. And when it doesn't pan out, you'll find another way. You probably would have to bend a little, but you won't walk away. Quite a lot of self awareness and honesty is needed, though, to really claim to ourselves what our true purposes are. People don't necessarily have to get to know them, but it is fundamental that we do.

Craving to watch that.

I really like this interview, there's no shocking new info in it, but a lot of details about things we already know. And details matter.

Ahahahhaahha !!!! I've logged in to thank Lucrezia cause in MY little village it won't be available untill tomorrow.

Thanks! I always enjoy some behind the scenes

"Yeah, I know, having to leave our comfort zone is somehow necessary to grow up and become stronger and wiser and stuff, but it's cozy to cuddle up in our ordinary life, especially when there will be new personal challenges to face in a while." That thought crossed my mind a few days ago. One day before the news about Mika being a guest at Fazio's, actually. It's not like going there is something challenging to me anymore. It's a pretty easy task now. I just need to check my way on Google Maps since I can't trust my unreliable Chiara navigator, drive all the way to Milan ignoring her, park, meet friends and people, having a relaxed queue since there will be seats for everybody, enjoy the show, enjoy friends, bye. If only. If only my car didn't got broken. Our of order, kaput. Pretty much dead. The poor thing is old but it never failed me. Awesome timing. My husband does have a car. More of an ocean liner, actually. It's a loooong rumanian car. "It's the longest" - the seller said - "You can easily squeeze a calf in it". Too bad that I needed to park in one of the biggest cities in Italy, not to get Mika a calf. I love my car, I am wary on the other ones, especially when they look like a hearse. So, there I was again, out of my comfort zone. F*ck. It's not even about driving, it's about parking. Parking in line, actually. Of course, all the parking spots in that street I was supposed to go were on a line, so I decided to get there really early, like 2 hours before. Two hours should do to avoid my ocean liner to turn into a Costa Concordia. You will all be quite relieved to learn that I did it. Car safely came back to its owner and mine is getting fixed today. It will be Fast and Furious all over again. Anyway, I went to the studio and a few people were already there, it was all very relaxed even after a while, when people started to gather. I was able to move, say hi to people, come back, everything was fine till one man ruined it for us all. A security guard, of course. I still didn't come to terms with their super power to make things worse. Is that a mandatory special skill to get hired? That guy came and demanded us to really queue, adding barriers to make sure well had to stay well packed and squeezed. Thank you. And as it always happens, they were late so we got in afer a 45 minutes delay. I've got to be honest, tho, it wasn't much of a ordeal, compared to what I'm used to deal with. The weather was totally nice, and I was among people I know. Peachy. When they finally opened the door, they were all "Don't push, girls". Man, this is so not pushing. This is just people rubbing shoulders cause we are all squeezed but it's not like anyone was pushing for real. I think I'd do a better security guard. I should apply. Anyway, we finally got in the hallway and we waited there for some more time cause he was still reharsing. When he finally was done with it, he walked by in order to go somewhere and people shouted out loud making me feel a bit out of place. Ok, he's passing by without even glancing at us cause he's obvioulsy busy. Do we really need to do this. Once he was gone, we finally managed to get in, and we got some really good spots, making it even with the previous time, when we ended up like in the attic, hoovering on the cameraman's shoulder. I enjoyed the behind the scenes as I always do, watching the cameramen and stuff, then someone from the production told us to act like we were really into this thing. Boy, that will be tough. It's not like you got the studio stuffed with fans. So we did our best, Mika got an enthusiastic audience and everything went well. He sang Good Guys and Last Party, I was somehow able to pull out some lyrics during the chorus (those songs aren't my fav), and the interview was ok. I came up with a brilliant idea to survive boring work speeches, so I thought I better apply it to interviews since the odds of listening to some old stuff are pretty high: before listening to it, you pick like ten words you think they will say. The winner would be the one who guessed the highest number of words that will get spoken. You can call it Bingo. My guess was "I am Lebanese/I was born in Beirut", "Orlando Bloom", "isolation", "learned italian in 2 months". Let's say I quite got it. He repeated some fun facts we already know (but being, you know, fun facts, it's always fun to listen to them) plus one we didn't. Not sure you want me to spoil, so just wait, you'll get English subtitles for this 30 minutes interview, so suck it up for now. Fazio mentioned that men get bold while growing old and M wasn't that keen to deny it's happening to him, like he was in that 2013 Ask Anything interview. Reality might have got him somewhere along the way. When it was over, we all gathered at the backdoor to wait for him but there was such a crowd that I wasn't really feeling to meet him, even though it was doable. I could have got a spot to the barrier and waited there along with the others, but I rather crawled on a little wall some metres in the back and watched it all from up there, while chatting with some friends. I also could have filmed the whole process, but I thought that a freak on a wall was enough, he didn't need a holding-a-mobile-freak on a wall. He glanced at me and I think that he was wondering why they added wallpaper outside the building. I wasn't sure he would have stopped that much, but I forgot that album is coming, so he did. He spent a a few seconds with everyone was in the front row, chatting and signing stuff and taking gifts. Fans weren't loud as usual, some were crying a bit but that's all. I think that it was pretty clear he wouldn't have run away immediately, so it helped to keep people quiet. I guess. That's pretty much all. We gathered in a bar for some more chat, a group pic, and the "see you at the Fabrique". I didn't have food all the day long, as usual, but I enjoyed the day and I enjoyed the people, avoiding to get stressed out. Mission accomplished.

I appreciate, but seriously. Are you planning to meet up at 3 a.m.? Cause there's no other option if you want to go on a city tour before this thing.

Ohhh s**t. What now. Should I stay or should I go.

Believe me, I'm not sure I understand what's the point here.

Will provide it today, it's a busy day so I can't write right now, but I will, I promise.

That's the weirdest mix ever. I think I'm going to watch this season

What an amazing chance for you to use your italian skills.

FB is for peasants. Now do show us.

Does anybody know who the other guests will be?

Thanks, I'm putting this one on our subtilting schedule.