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Hele_Noor

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I am a newcomer who had been spying (not much, actually, just some threads but then from the very beginning to the very end ) around MFC about two months and last week couldn't help and registered. Must say that according to what I have read here made me a fan of MFCers. I love how you support each other and who nice you are to each other. I admire Avoca's patience while coordinating Mika's birthday gift worldwidely :thumb_yello:, I enjoyed how anxiously people were waiting news from his gig (can't recall exactly, but I think it was Brixton gig). I read those threads in April when it all was over but still got excited like I'd been there with you, then. And suddenly it occurred to me that MFC was like a reality show but much more real than those TV "reality" shows with produced concept. MFC even has its stars and you know who they are! You are amazing and you are unique!

 

I found MFC through Mika when I googled about him. But the way how I discovered Mika was a strange coincidence. I had no idea who MIKA was until one night last March, a week before I was going to take a flight to Lebanon. So I sat at the computer to check the news from The Daily Star Lebanon when, suddenly, they played Mika’s “Relax” on the radio. I got really surprised because on that radio station they mostly play classical music and jazz/rock classics, but as I liked that song instantly I wanted to know who was the singer. May sound weird, but I really had no idea who Mika was (and you may tease me, if it pleases you :)). Unless I watch music channels seldom I do follow the Brit Awards. However, this year I somehow skipped the Brits – still wonder how on earth's?! - or otherwise I would have heard about MIKA then. (Only now, when I’ve got Mika's DVD and have seen all his videos it occurred to me that I actually had seen his “Love Today” video and didn’t like it. I still think it is … not as merry as the Big Girls’ vid. But I like LT song, specially when live performed)

After I heard Mika’s “Relax” on the radio I googled “Mika” thru the internet and found his interviews in Youtube and when said he was born in Beirut I became attracted. Due to my travel plans I was opened to learn every little piece of new information about the country. By that time I had read about Lebanon but had quite a hazy picture about the people with only two exceptions: first Lebanese I had ever met was a man half-Greek and half-Lebanese, as he said, with whom I had came across in diving club near Aqaba last October when I stepped on sea urchin. That man had set me back on my feet. My poor foot looked like a cactus and it was really bad but about 30 minutes later, after quite a nazi treatment (there was no option) all pain had gone and I was able to continue my holiday as nothing had happened and I am very thankful to that guy for that. Second contact with Lebanese was when I had a chance to see Rabih Mroue’s piece “Make Me Stop Smoking” and I liked it. Hope to see his play “How Nancy Wished …” and the film with him and Catherine Deneuve “Je Veux Voir” which was presented in Cannes lately, one day.

So Mika as an intelligent thinker and an excellent story-teller fits perfectly to the little collection of “my Lebanese” through whom I'd put together a picture of the country. That night I spent maybe an hour listening the interviews with him and mostly skipped his music except those which were in interviews because I already knew that I would need to buy his album or singles or, better, all of them, anyway.

Next day I went to the music store to buy Mika’s music, but they told me that his album had been sold out and new delivery was on a way. And they had no singles. I got really disappointed and wondered what was the point of a music store that didn’t have music people want to buy. Unfortunately, on that day nor the whole week I couldn’t find time to go for an extra hunting. So, the last night before leaving for Beirut I downloaded some music from internet to my MP3 player I could listen them as during a flight you have not much to do anyway. I know it wasn’t a nice deed to download and now, back home again I’ve been cleaning my karma by buying Mika’s singles and album versions all over the world and replacing the downloaded tunes with originals in a good quality:naughty:

So, I listened his songs from the very beginning to the very end and then kept listening again and again. I like Mika's music and the lyrics of his songs even more and in this context I can say I am a fan of him. I admire his talent to create tunes and to write lyrics and to put them together and perform the result in a way so as if you listen it you’ll see visions. Even Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie becomes alive when performed by Mika. I never liked the song until I heard Mika’s version :thumb_yello: and only then discovered that Hips Don’t Lie was actually a dialogue between man and woman (a la tango dancers on the floor). When performed by Shakira it is mostly a song about Shakira’s bellydancing.

But now I’ve got a problem. Since I listened Mika’s songs first time properly on a flight to Beirut and mostly while driving about Lebanon his songs when hearing them now get me back to some beautiful areas in Lebanon and I want to go back but ,as seems, can go only next spring. :thumbdown: And in order to cope with this I try to listen other artists. Yesterday’s mail brought George Harrison’s and Friends album of live concert for Bangladesh 1971. I truly need to make a break for a while, or I am getting sad.

So that's a full and true story how I feel about MFC , how i found Mika and a bit about myself, too. Many thanks to those, who were patient enough to go it through :roftl: and promise I won't make so long posts never ever again :naughty:

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Hele_Noor

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welcome! i can c u put quit some time into that didnt u?? goodjob! and welcome!:thumb_yello:

 

Thanks! Yeah, I have my moments:roftl:

Sometimes I can't stop and words just flow out, but sometimes I can be silent too... month or a bit less :naughty:

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Blimey am I famous?:mf_rosetinted::naughty:

Thanks:blush-anim-cl:

 

:roftl: Yes you are! And soon they'll (perhaps MIKA:wink2:) put you into another song and you will have no way out from that. So better be prepared to that very big moment, which may come tomorrow morning :roftl:

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Hello and welcome to the MFC!:thumb_yello:

 

Thank you for the long and interesting introduction, I’m sure you will like it here!

 

Thank you sienna! Hope didn't bother you. But anyway you did'nt have to go it through. My problem is, I don't know how to make a short. Sometimes I'm like a lawyer to whom every detail seems very important for the whole picture :roftl:

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What a lovely introduction, Helle! :welcomeani:

 

I think you'll enjoy it here, really! :thumb_yello:

 

dcdeb

 

Thank you dcdeb! You know, I am already :wub2:.

But I knew it. Remember, I had been spying for a while, not daily but still :wink2:

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:roftl: Yes you are! And soon they'll (perhaps MIKA:wink2:) put you into another song and you will have no way out from that. So better be prepared to that very big moment, which may come tomorrow morning :roftl:

Do you know something I don't?:naughty:

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That was the most complete and thorough introduction ever!:shocked::punk:

 

I'm glad you're having a good time! Welcome!:dance_man:

 

Hei, did you really read it through?!

Poor you! :roftl:

And thank you! :blush-anim-cl:

 

Sometimes I wonder when newspaper editors say that people are not used to read long articles any more so they have to give them more pictures and less text. (Of course, I'm not speaking about my today's bulla, that was a bit toooooo long, that's true :naughty:)).

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