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[A. Clay]

BRAVO MIKA

Edited March 26, 2012 by A. Clay

[AshleyMiranda]

I wish Mika would come tour in the US.... like in NC

[A. Clay]

I wish Mika would come tour in the US.... like in NC

 

I second that emotion . . .

[YOUTUBE]YpDGj-HaCBU[/YOUTUBE]

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

@Jenkida123

'thank you sir'

In reply to Daniel

 

Daniel ‏@Jenkida123

@mikasounds

'you were amazing there!'

Can't wait to see you in NY on the next tour!'

In reply to MIKA official

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'check this out from last night's tv performance on Star Academy Canada !!!'

 

 

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

‏@mikasounds

'sooooooooo,

U've got plan some performances for the

good ol' USofA, RIGHT?'

In reply to MIKA official

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

First time back in NY since my show

at the United Palace theatre.

For some reason

I never have to adjust to this place,

feels v familiar

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

‏@mikasounds

'watched it on-line; 'twas fabby . . .'

In reply to MIKA official

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'in the studio in New York after doing Star Academy

last night in Montreal,

it was such a blast.'

 

Edited March 27, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

MIKA, you are well appreciated:

http://amplicate.com/love/mika

 

 

CURRENT FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER = 243,000+

https://twitter.com/#!/mikasounds

Edited June 9, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

LOVED the waterworks!

Reportedly, the broadcast was watched by at least 2.4 million people!

Edited March 27, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

MIKA official @mikasounds

'I really like this'

http://t.co/YMTobhBO

by @ScotteeScottee

'Its a v different/personal perspective on a very English trad of Camp theatre'

 

 

MIKA official @mikasounds

'Did Grease III call?' @Charlie__Rbt

'Well, tell them I'm busy,

I already agreed to The Chiswick Tabbard Pub Theatre production of Happy Days'

In reply to Charlie ♪♫

 

 

Charlie ♪♫ ‏ @Charlie__Rbt

@mikasounds

"'Grease' called.

They want you to play in the third movie" 0:D

 

 

 

MIKA official @mikasounds

'So True!

From what I saw your party looked epic btw,

happy belated birthday!'

In reply to Perez Hilton

 

MIKA official @mikasounds

@PerezHilton

'clearly its my favourite off the record'

In reply to Perez Hilton

 

@mikasounds

'Bang bang! Shoot ya dead!!!'

In reply to MIKA official

Retweeted by MIKA official

 

 

 

MIKA official @mikasounds

'there must be a better way.

an old-fashioned 'rent-a-plate' system would be so much better.

return your plate and cutlery & get money back...'

 

MIKA official @mikasounds

'after a yr in the studio am visualising the huge pile there would be

if you stacked up all the plastic and paper from 12 months of takeout'

Edited March 28, 2012 by A. Clay

[Marilyn Mastin]

LOVED the waterworks!

Reportedly, the broadcast was watched by at least 2.4 million people!

Let's hope that means 2.4 million album sales straight off the bat, for you Mika!

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

‏@mikasounds

'I don't know why exactly,#MIKA,

but I was kind of surprised that this caught your attention . . .'

In reply to MIKA official

 

[YouTube]rFQ7T8iiNEo[/YouTube]

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'PLEASE watch this its AMAZING'

http://tinyurl.com/7h2949q

'Congressman Bobby Rush is so right,

fear those wearing quasi official clothes not a hoodie'

http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/p2pps.jpg

 

Trayvon Martin Case:

Skittles, Arizona Iced Tea Speak Out About

'Commercial Gain' In Death Of Florida Teen

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/320193/20120327/trayvon-martin-case-skittles-arizona-iced-florida.htm

Edited May 12, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

! I C O N I C !

[YOUTUBE]RSAnsYtIu6Q[/YOUTUBE]

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

MIKA XL Column April 2012

The Return Of Pulcinella

A woman with dark brown hair, sits on the subway on a January afternoon in New York city. She is conservative looking, wearing khakis a sweater and a long black coat to shield her from the January cold. As she reads her book, she has no idea that she is being secretly filmed and that she is about to star in a piece of absurdist theatre that would make even Ionesco proud. The train stops, a man walks onto the carriage and stands in front of her. He is normally dressed, wearing a coat and backpack. The only thing missing are his trousers. Over the next 6 consecutive stops, 6 more men are waiting to get on to the same carriage, all of whom are also not wearing any trousers. As they each get on to the train, they do not react to each other, leaving the brunette baffled and somewhat intimidated. It is only when, 10 minutes into the video, she makes eye contact with the person sitting in front of her that her nervousness disappears and she breaks into a smile. By sharing this moment with another observer like herself, she is able to enjoy the absurdity of the situation and no longer feels threatened. It is this moment, where she shifts from being a solitary whiteness to part of a group sharing a remarkable experience, which makes it one of the best pieces of street theatre I have ever seen, and it set my mind spinning; could more moments like this actually help make the world a better place?

 

This video from 2002, is the work of Charlie Todd, founder and director of Improv Everywhere, a New York street theatre company that has overseen over 100 Flash Mob ‘missions’ around the world. Over the past few years the term Flash Mob has become part of popular culture. Who could deny the rush of stumbling across 50 people standing in the windows of a department store in New York doing a choreographed dance, for no reason what so ever. Or the joy of seeing a few hundred people all break into random dance in the middle of a train station, whilst listening to the same song on their iPods. In a public flash mob event, the accidental spectator is as much part of the performance as the volunteer in on the surprise. Flash mobs are now often looked upon with distrust, as a pointless disturbance by unemployed time wasters with nothing better to do. This is not true and although the concept has been exploited and abused by corporations trying to push their products, in its purest form, it is culturally significant and a reaction to the time we live in and is a continuation of absurdist theatre that goes back hundreds of years.

 

According to folklore, the absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco, used to do similar things on the Paris Metro in the 1950s. He would strike up a conversation with a woman, who appeared to be a stranger. They would take turns asking each other questions, reacting with great surprise when they shared the same answer. The questions would get increasingly personal and the conversation more and more excited, as the rest of the passengers would watch it all unfold. The climax would be reached when Ionesco and the woman would finally discover that they were in fact husband and wife. Happy with the news they would embrace and get off together at the next stop, leaving behind them a dumbfounded ‘audience’ in the train car. Like in the New York missing trousers sketch, what the fellow passengers didn’t realise was that they were unified by the experience and probably much happier and more alive than before it.

 

As human beings we are often our own worst enemy. We are always so desperate to find value and meaning in life, yet we know that finding a real answer to that is humanly impossible. There is just too much information out there and too many uncertainties, so how can a certain answer ever be found? This chase for an answer is in itself absurd. So often, I find myself sitting on a train completely divorced from the world around me. My ambitions and ultimately my goal to justify why I am here and my self worth, take control of me and leave me unhappy. Witnessing a moment like the missing trousers sketch, would make me re-engage with reality and find beauty right in front of me.

 

Absurdity could help make the world a more tolerant place. By finally laughing at the situation on the NY subway, the brunette, ‘let go’ just a little. She chilled out and enjoyed herself. She no longer judged the men without trousers she accepted them. She saw that they could make everyone smile and come together and in a small way, saw that they had value. Her smile was probably the most philosophical decision she made that day. Remember a time in your life when you received a fantastic piece of news. Suddenly in your good humour, nothing irritated you any more and things that would normally make you angry suddenly seem irrelevant. Kinda of like being in love; inevitably your love spills over on to others, even total strangers. In this state of mind, there is no need for God fearing heaven or hell, there is no obvious right and wrong, there isn’t even a need for hope. If you are not given the choice of hope, then you forced to make the absolute most of every moment. You don’t just say, like a politician, that things ‘will one day get better’ you say ‘I have just done something which has made life a tiny bit better and will continue to do more of those things.’ By not having a clear right or wrong, no one can be vilified and no one is a saint. Instead we are forced to be more tolerant of each other. We realise that life, and also hate are absurd.

 

These concepts are not so strange. They are presented to us every day, unfortunately mostly in art and hardly ever in politics. We find it in works such as Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan, Fellini’s Dolce Vita, Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, almost all Woody Allen films, Exupery’s Petit Prince, AA Milne’s Whinie The Pooh, and in my hero Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist.

 

In 17th century Naples, Comedia Del Arte found an absurd comic hero in the character of Pulcinella. Always playing dumb, he made people laugh at himself and themselves. He used absurdity to criticise politics and to humanise even leaders of the Roman Catholic Church. We still need and crave Pulcinella. Perhaps in times of such instability like today, leaders of faith and politics could learn from the beautiful moment in the New York Subway in 2002. However, seeing as they probably won’t it is our responsibility as individuals to show them how absurdity can undermine the abuse of power and by admitting that we all share the same fundamental struggles, bring us together. This I suspect is what governments and religious institutions alike, really fear the most.

 

[YouTube]217mhbpADN0[/YouTube]

 

[YouTube]ooUqOwh-2LE[/YouTube]

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

@krysady

'the new article posted on Facebook has the end chopped off.

getting it fixed now, then will post link'

 

Cristina ‏@krysady

@mikasounds

'Already read it,it's on your Facebook page.'

In reply to MIKA official

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'check out this link to my XL La Repubblica column,

new one about to be posted'

http://tinyurl.com/bwdahad

Edited March 31, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

@alexandergold

'this is a nice tweet'

In reply to Alex Goldschmidt

 

Alex Goldschmidt @alexandergold

@mikasounds

'You're looking sauve and sexy, sir.'

 

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

@Froy

'yes. But only Jamaican food'

In reply to Troy Lambrecht

 

Troy Lambrecht @Froy

@mikasounds

'So you guys do free delivery? Can I order something?'

 

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

@YulsMcFuls

'haha!!'

In reply to Yulia Bananita

 

Yulia Bananita ‏@YulsMcFuls

@mikasounds

'hahah, Just because you were there,

you know if any of the MFC won, you'de be doing private shows for the rest of your life haha'

 

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

@notyourdan

'I wish'

In reply to Daniel Conroy

 

Daniel Conroy ‏@notyourdan

@mikasounds

'any chance you're performing in NYC this weekend?'

 

 

 

Eli Sadoff ‏@sadoffeli

@mikasounds

'haha. Don't get your hopes too high 1:127 million.'

In reply to MIKA official

Retweeted by MIKA official

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'Of course he said he is going to give me just a couple million when he wins.

You know... to be nice'

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'Lunch break.

Hello from NYC.

Lotto millions fever over here. 641 million jackpot.

Nick L has bought tickets of course'

View Photo:

Edited March 31, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

MIKA official @mikasounds

'Not one number.

'Nick hasn't been made ridiculously rich tonight,

so fear not he will continue getting the record done'

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

'your silence is golden'

In reply to MIKA official

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'its in 6 minutes'

 

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

'So you're going to see if Nicks #MegaMillions numbers are drawn at 11;

well tune in to #LottoFrenzy on @ABC2020 an hour earlier.'

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

'I'll light a votive candle for you fellows . . .'

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'only an hour to go before we find out if Nick Littlemore

has won $641m with his lottery ticket, and if he will be giving me some'

Edited March 31, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

GREAT 'STAR ACADEMY' SHOW, MIKA, LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT:

 

YouTube [HD] links

 

Lollipop

 

Relax

 

Grace Kelly

 

Happy Ending

 

Interview I

 

Big Girl

 

Rain

 

Love Today

 

Elle Me Dit

 

Interview II

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'tomorrow night Woody Allen quartet at the rather magic carlyle hotel,

i would be lying if i said i wasn't a complete and utter Allen fan boy'

 

 

 

CAFÉ CARLYLE

Jan. 9-June 18

WOODY ALLEN & THE EDDY DAVIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND ~

Every Monday at 8:45 p.m. except March 19

Cover $135 per person ($95 bar seating + $25 drink min., $185 premium seating)

 

 

 

“I can’t listen to Wagner that much.

I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.”

Woody Allen

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'back late from a writing session,

wrote a song that i completely love,

nyc is covered in rain tonight.

sessions tomorrow am and then....'

Edited April 2, 2012 by A. Clay

[Marilyn Mastin]

I want to hear the song Mika!!!!!

*Pants like Melachi!*

[mer]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

MIKA XL Column April 2012

The Return Of Pulcinella

A woman with dark brown hair, sits on the subway on a January afternoon in New York city. She is conservative looking, wearing khakis a sweater and a long black coat to shield her from the January cold. As she reads her book, she has no idea that she is being secretly filmed and that she is about to star in a piece of absurdist theatre that would make even Ionesco proud. The train stops, a man walks onto the carriage and stands in front of her. He is normally dressed, wearing a coat and backpack. The only thing missing are his trousers. Over the next 6 consecutive stops, 6 more men are waiting to get on to the same carriage, all of whom are also not wearing any trousers. As they each get on to the train, they do not react to each other, leaving the brunette baffled and somewhat intimidated. It is only when, 10 minutes into the video, she makes eye contact with the person sitting in front of her that her nervousness disappears and she breaks into a smile. By sharing this moment with another observer like herself, she is able to enjoy the absurdity of the situation and no longer feels threatened. It is this moment, where she shifts from being a solitary whiteness to part of a group sharing a remarkable experience, which makes it one of the best pieces of street theatre I have ever seen, and it set my mind spinning; could more moments like this actually help make the world a better place?

 

This video from 2002, is the work of Charlie Todd, founder and director of Improv Everywhere, a New York street theatre company that has overseen over 100 Flash Mob ‘missions’ around the world. Over the past few years the term Flash Mob has become part of popular culture. Who could deny the rush of stumbling across 50 people standing in the windows of a department store in New York doing a choreographed dance, for no reason what so ever. Or the joy of seeing a few hundred people all break into random dance in the middle of a train station, whilst listening to the same song on their iPods. In a public flash mob event, the accidental spectator is as much part of the performance as the volunteer in on the surprise. Flash mobs are now often looked upon with distrust, as a pointless disturbance by unemployed time wasters with nothing better to do. This is not true and although the concept has been exploited and abused by corporations trying to push their products, in its purest form, it is culturally significant and a reaction to the time we live in and is a continuation of absurdist theatre that goes back hundreds of years.

 

According to folklore, the absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco, used to do similar things on the Paris Metro in the 1950s. He would strike up a conversation with a woman, who appeared to be a stranger. They would take turns asking each other questions, reacting with great surprise when they shared the same answer. The questions would get increasingly personal and the conversation more and more excited, as the rest of the passengers would watch it all unfold. The climax would be reached when Ionesco and the woman would finally discover that they were in fact husband and wife. Happy with the news they would embrace and get off together at the next stop, leaving behind them a dumbfounded ‘audience’ in the train car. Like in the New York missing trousers sketch, what the fellow passengers didn’t realise was that they were unified by the experience and probably much happier and more alive than before it.

 

As human beings we are often our own worst enemy. We are always so desperate to find value and meaning in life, yet we know that finding a real answer to that is humanly impossible. There is just too much information out there and too many uncertainties, so how can a certain answer ever be found? This chase for an answer is in itself absurd. So often, I find myself sitting on a train completely divorced from the world around me. My ambitions and ultimately my goal to justify why I am here and my self worth, take control of me and leave me unhappy. Witnessing a moment like the missing trousers sketch, would make me re-engage with reality and find beauty right in front of me.

 

Absurdity could help make the world a more tolerant place. By finally laughing at the situation on the NY subway, the brunette, ‘let go’ just a little. She chilled out and enjoyed herself. She no longer judged the men without trousers she accepted them. She saw that they could make everyone smile and come together and in a small way, saw that they had value. Her smile was probably the most philosophical decision she made that day. Remember a time in your life when you received a fantastic piece of news. Suddenly in your good humour, nothing irritated you any more and things that would normally make you angry suddenly seem irrelevant. Kinda of like being in love; inevitably your love spills over on to others, even total strangers. In this state of mind, there is no need for God fearing heaven or hell, there is no obvious right and wrong, there isn’t even a need for hope. If you are not given the choice of hope, then you forced to make the absolute most of every moment. You don’t just say, like a politician, that things ‘will one day get better’ you say ‘I have just done something which has made life a tiny bit better and will continue to do more of those things.’ By not having a clear right or wrong, no one can be vilified and no one is a saint. Instead we are forced to be more tolerant of each other. We realise that life, and also hate are absurd.

 

These concepts are not so strange. They are presented to us every day, unfortunately mostly in art and hardly ever in politics. We find it in works such as Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan, Fellini’s Dolce Vita, Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, almost all Woody Allen films, Exupery’s Petit Prince, AA Milne’s Whinie The Pooh, and in my hero Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist.

 

In 17th century Naples, Comedia Del Arte found an absurd comic hero in the character of Pulcinella. Always playing dumb, he made people laugh at himself and themselves. He used absurdity to criticise politics and to humanise even leaders of the Roman Catholic Church. We still need and crave Pulcinella. Perhaps in times of such instability like today, leaders of faith and politics could learn from the beautiful moment in the New York Subway in 2002. However, seeing as they probably won’t it is our responsibility as individuals to show them how absurdity can undermine the abuse of power and by admitting that we all share the same fundamental struggles, bring us together. This I suspect is what governments and religious institutions alike, really fear the most.

 

[YouTube]217mhbpADN0[/YouTube]

 

[YouTube]ooUqOwh-2LE[/YouTube]

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

@krysady

'the new article posted on Facebook has the end chopped off.

getting it fixed now, then will post link'

 

Cristina ‏@krysady

@mikasounds

'Already read it,it's on your Facebook page.'

In reply to MIKA official

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'check out this link to my XL La Repubblica column,

new one about to be posted'

http://tinyurl.com/bwdahad

OHHH thanks for your new information i promise to read and to read...

again and again now...

Edited April 2, 2012 by mer

[A. Clay]

 

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3675832&postcount=3257

 

Edited April 3, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

GOOD NEWS!

 

http://acharts.us/song/64565

 

http://acharts.us/canada_singles_top_100

 

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html

 

http://allcharts.org/music/canada/albums.htm

 

Edited April 6, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

'I KNOW It'll be great.

It's ready when it's ready, right?'

In reply to MIKA Official

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'but the record has never sounded better and is almost done' x

 

 

 

Alice ‏ @ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

'. . . gawd, take a break man . . .'

In reply to MIKA Official

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'have eyes hurting from the sun,

tired and bleary eyed from sessions

and no longer knowing what time it is,

in short slightly mad, or madder'

Edited April 5, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

"How cute is THAT 'how ya doin' ?"

In reply to MIKA Official

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

"lyric for today;

'standing on the field with your pretty pom pom,

now your working at the movies selling popular corn..'"

 

Edited April 6, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

'That's Columbus Circle at the corner of Central Park.

Glad you're enjoying a good meal before heading home.

In reply to MIKA Official

 

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'Loving my first day off in NY before flying home tonight.

Had lunch at MAD with THIS view from the table !!'

 

Image:

 

From:

http://www.madmuseum.org/

 

Mad About Design

http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/mad-about-design

 

RUBBER GLOVE DRESS--

Edited April 8, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

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FROM Mr."M"

 

Alice ‏@ACLAYsuper

@mikasounds

'LOVE IT. ALL GOOD WISHES TO YOU.'

In reply to MIKA Official

 

 

 

MIKA official ‏ @mikasounds

Happy Easter everybody Mx!

http://pic.twitter.com/AgvtjPHH

View photo

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Edited April 8, 2012 by A. Clay

[A. Clay]

http://twitpic.com/ht6f0

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FROM Mr."M"

 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds

'the soundtrack to The Mission by Ennio Morricone

and

Vangelis' blade runner are so good.

So worth re-discovering.'

 

[YouTube]MuyQQD-EAOQ[/YouTube]

 

[YouTube]C9KAqhbIZ7o[/YouTube]

Edited April 9, 2012 by A. Clay