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He sang (I'm probably going to get this wrong, and the order isn't right) the following: Grace Kelly, My Interpretation, Everybody's Talkin' at Me (cover), Love Today, Stuck in the Middle, Holy Johnny, and a new song called Century Man (which happened to be very good).

 

 

Wait. He sang a new song? I can't believe he sang a new song. I am completely jealous. I wanna hear!!!

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That sounds amazing you guys!!

 

You know, I thought I'd be super jealous, but I'm not. I'm just happy it was such a great time for everybody and he was in good spirits. (A little jealous about the new song.) Thanks for the reports!

 

--Jack

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mikaontheweb thank you for your report, loved it! you've been so lucky with th acoustic gig..i bet it was an intimate venue, you can see it from the pics that titania posted! i'm a bit jealous, have to admit it, cause i don't think i'll ever see him in such a small venue! but i'm really, really happy for you all, anyway!

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Ok, my busy Mika day actually started last night, when I went to my friend Becca's house with 5 of our friends (including Lovetoday and ThatPinkSock) to "sleep over" before taking a 4:02 AM train to Manhattan. We each got about 2 hours of sleep. It was pretty insane.

 

We arrived at the GMA studios in Times Square at 4:50 or so this morning. There were already about 30 people in line. Luckily, an intern soon came out and separated the VIP people from the regular line. Thanks so much to the people here for the VIP access. My group of 7 girls was on the list, and we brought 2 other girls we met in line as "guests." Our names were checked off a list, and it was very well organized and orchestrated. Finally, we were told that all VIPs were getting in, but everyone else probably would not. We were supposed to go in at 6:30, but that didn't happen, and then 6:45, but that didn't happen, and then 7:00, but that didn't happen, and then 7:15...and we actually started to go in. The wait wasn't too horrible because there was scaffolding up that protected us from the rain.

 

We entered the studio and were ushered to the far side of the stage. We actually had a great spot to stand, and I have a perfect view of the stage. Unfortunately, they kept cramming in more people and telling us to move further into the corner (we didn't listen!).

 

A bunch of news stuff took place, and then around 8, Mika came out and schmoozed with the crowd a bit. He wrote out signs that said something like, "The weather sucks." "We're having a free acoustic gig to make it up to you." "We don't have a location yet, but we'll let you know." The crowd was VERY pleased with this, especially us inside the studio (as opposed to those stuck staring through the big windows).

 

Mika did promos between commercials of Love Today. He later sang Love Today, Big Girl, and Lollipop.

 

Between songs, he came over to both sides of the studio where the fans were lined, and chatted and signed autographs. He recognized my friend Julie and said to her, "I remember you from outside that other show...I recognize all of you" (he was referring to my group of friends). He also read my poster and smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up for it and later signed it. :thumb_yello: :thumb_yello: He was seriously nice...chatted about everything and smiled and laughed.

 

The crowd had an amazing time, as everyone was jumping and singing and dancing. It rocked. Right after the filming ended, Mika made an announcement that the free show would be 1 pm at some random theater, though it was not definite. He was really sweet bc he kept trying to get the people waiting outside to hear what he was saying. We couldn't get on a computer since we weren't at home, so Rachel (ThatPinkSock) gave her mobile phone number to Owen, who is a sound engineer or something (we kept saying he's one of "Mika's people").

 

We then walked Jen (lovetoday) back to the train station so she could go to work, and then we went out to breakfast. Half-way through eating, Owen text-messaged Rachel and gave us details. We rushed over to the theater which was all the way in Chelsea.

 

We had to wait in the rain for about 2 hours (but we were 3rd in line so it was worth it!). It was so cold, and I wasn't dressed correctly for it. I was drenched to the bone and shivering.

 

But once we got inside...oh man was it worth it! First of all, it was FREE, which is amazing. But more importantly, not too many people braved the rain to come, so the venue was SO intimate. I'm horrible with approximations, but I'd say there weren't more than 350 people there.

 

Mika had a great time. He was joking around with Martin and the audience, and told us he had no idea what he was doing (since it was unplanned), but that he "didn't give a sh.t." He was laughing quite a bit. Oh, and we was wearing a white shirt with a white tie, and jeans with sparkley stuff on the sides. He looked dammm good.

 

He sang (I'm probably going to get this wrong, and the order isn't right) the following: Grace Kelly, My Interpretation, Everybody's Talkin' at Me (cover), Love Today, Stuck in the Middle, Holy Johnny, and a new song called Century Man (which happened to be very good).

 

My feet hurt lots after all this, but it was worth it, of course.

 

Overall, it was an amazing, CHEAP day. I expected to see 3 songs from a long distance away, and I got TWO shows, chats with Mika, and the best show I've ever seen Mika do (and I've seen him 5 times counting today...).:bleh:

 

So yea, that's the report.

 

 

Oh god amazing day<3 I like how we all got stuff signed, high fives, and loving words from our man. I'm expecting periodic texts from Owen from now on with Mika updates and secret gigs!

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gosh there's so much to read....did our organising event go well? did fans get interviewed and shizz?

 

Not that I saw. We handed in these purple slips with some of our personal information but nothing became of that. The important thing is that we got to be inside only inches away from the MIKA! Thank you soo much for the VIP passes, MFCers :thumb_yello: We felt bad for those stuck outside but c'mon.. when it comes to mika its every man for himself.

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Not that I saw. We handed in these purple slips with some of our personal information but nothing became of that. The important thing is that we got to be inside only inches away from the MIKA! Thank you soo much for the VIP passes, MFCers :thumb_yello: We felt bad for those stuck outside but c'mon.. when it comes to mika its every man for himself.

 

hahaha :D

 

still you got to be inside, in the warm, and got to be close to him and talked to him. That's worth everything.

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Oh god amazing day<3 I like how we all got stuff signed, high fives, and loving words from our man. I'm expecting periodic texts from Owen from now on with Mika updates and secret gigs!

 

he better give us text updates. The highlite of my day still had to be my picture with mika.

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Wow, thanks for the wonderful reports!:thumb_yello: I guess I should be sleeping now but I feel just hyper after reading all this :punk:

 

yeah i got 3 hours of sleeo before this concert and i havnt slept since and i wont be going to b ed soon, but its all good because thinking about it makes me hyper and super happy

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Okay, I'm back guys. This took over an hour to type. I will do my best to give a report but it will probably end up as a mushy (but probably the most honest thing I've ever written) homage to Mika.

 

My train DID make it in time, I was in a great position at GMA. Sorry for being so annoying hining about that earlier. When I'm nervous, I'm the most annoying person ever.

 

I ran, as planned to Times Square, and fell in a huge muddy puddle of water on the way, as I was running.* I made it at 6 AM on the dot, and everything was fine.

 

We were in line. Mika saw my bigass Leb. Lollipop Girl sign,. He pointed right to it and laughed and waved and what not and I was really happy that he acknowledged that. I worked a lot on the sign and the whole shindig, so I was very happy about that.

 

I made it in, and got into a great side by the stage. I happened to end up with with Jackie, Jen and Rachel (MOTW, lovetoday, PinkSock) and several others (Carrie = amazing). Kjoshi and I talked earlier, but she ended up on the other side of the stage- The lady coordinating it told me to go to the other side, so I did. We then were together at the secret gig. More about that later.

 

Mika came over to us a lot at the GMA taping. He was his cute usual self (to make it short here). He highfived me and everyone was asking him to sign stuff. He was going to sign my poster, but I wanted to give him my card first, and I couldn't really reach so I'm glad he got my card instead. It had everything I wanted to say to him in it, and I'm very happy he got it. Everyone was like, "Mika! Sign this!" and I said, "Mika, this is for you," and he said "Oh, thank you!" with a cute face and that's all the action I got, for which I am very grateful. My Leb. friends here wanted me to ask what part of Lebanon he was from, and I tried to ask 3 times, but he didn't hear me. It was really rush rush. So I do feel really, really bad about that and I've got to apologize to them. They've been trying to figure it out for weeks.

 

So we were finding out bits and pieces of the secret gig which the idea of it, let me say is so, so, so, sweet. Weather like this happens all the time and I don't know any other artist who would do this, especially with the way Mika has been feeling (health-wise) lately. That was the most gracious thing of him to do. Offer us his music. But, more on that later.

 

Once I got the address squared away, my Mom and I went to Alice's Tea Cup, which is a very cute place, Tea, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner all themed Alice In Wonderland! I loved going there in my costume! The tea was fabulous, they had hundreds of kinds!

 

Then we went to Dylan's Candy Bar which was nearby: Lollipop Girl's dream!

 

The employee who rang me up saw me and was like, "GO MIKA! Are you a big fan? I love him!" and all that nad he said if I stick around, I could hear Lollipop, since they play it there. Of course, I didn't though because I had to get to the gig.

 

So we got to the secret gig by 11:30, and Kjoshi was nice enough to let me stand with her. We FROZE in the rain, no overhang or anything. It was at this really random venue in the Meatpacking district.

 

Ray asked us not to take pictures, and I'm glad we weren't allowed to, actually. It was the most beautiful musical experience I've ever had. Nobody was worried about anything. Everyone wanted to be there. There was no pushing or anything. It was total respect. He respected us, and I was very glad to return the favor and not take pictures. There was this one girl who kept asking Mika to get naked, which was annoying and I felt bad for Mika because here he is, trying to do something extra, exta nice and out of his way for us with his music and she just like, blew that off. He was asking Mikey and Martin (Just them, acoustic) what they wanted to do. GET NAKED! :-/ Whatever, the show was sooo far beyond that.

 

We were a few feet from the stage (Like, 3). Me and Kjoshi begged Mika to do Over My Shoulder, but he didn't end up doing it but that's not relevant. The feeling in the room was so gracious and genuine, in the truthiest forms of those words. It was a talky-songy, very intimate fest. I can't even describe how lucky I feel to witness it, it was a great, great feeling. As a music fan, I was totally, totally taken. I'm on cloud nine, and slightly delusional. I don't know if saying it was surreal would be right. I just feel so passionate about this amazing experience, it's hard to describe. I think it's a combination of so elated and tired that I can't believed it happened. It seems so out of this world, and re-confirmed to me in a first hand experience that Mika is super, super special. I just feel so much right now! I don't even think my report is doing my emtions justice. I'm being super general for you guys, but I'm still trying to process all the amazing moments.

 

We heard a new song, "Century Man." Shared the the SITM lyric, "Lookin' at life from the perspective of a boy." I bet it will be on the EP hopefully. It's mostly full voice, reminds me of Elton John, a bit, but of course, it's Mika's originality. I really liked it, and it was really special for us. :-)

 

*Falling in the mud, losing my Mika rosette (it was torn by the rain), bleeding my heels out from my sneakers walking on the way home- All of it is so, so, so completely insignificant. Any other day, even a good day, those this would have brought me down. But this SO beyond that, these things are far past rolled off my shoulders.They're not even as important as if like... I lost a penny or something. Even way less important than that. It's not even significat that those things happened.

 

I didn't get many pics, my mom has a few more on her disposable. I'll post what I have soon.

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Here's my report:

 

 

Went to the bus station at 8:00. The bus was scheduled to arrive at 8:20. It didn't. It came at 9:45ish and we arrived in the city at 1 in the morning. We took at cab to the Bryant Park Hotel, got there around 5, and it was POURING.

I asked the lady at the desk to connect me to Sarina G. and she was a little rude about it. I talked to Sarina, told her i was from the MCF, and she said she'd bring the t-shirts to the studio at 6. She told me the gig was moved to the ABC building because of the weather and she gave us directions to the sudio (she was very nice about it).

When we got there, there were about 20-30 people in line already. We were in line 'til six then Sarina came. She seperated us MCF mebers and our guests into a VIP line.

(I saw Cherisse, Luke, and Martin rehearsing through the window and took pictures)

 

and then Mika came into the room and everyone went carazy. We held up our signs and screamed like fangirls. (Mika was wearing the shirt he wore to Ibiza with a dark jacket over it). He was also drinking starbucks.:naughty:

 

 

I could barely see anything by then so we waited......and waited....and waited....

 

 

and finally around 8:10 we were let into the building.

 

People were still checking the eqipment and stuff.

 

I don't remember if the band came in or if they were already there.

Mika came into the room wearing a different shirt and the pants with the sparkly things on the sides.

 

I was right near Cherisse. My sister and i said "hi Cherrise" a trillion times before she hear us. She was very nice and she waved.

 

Mika was very nice and energetic. He wrote little notes and held them up so the audience could read them. One of them said "So the weather sucks".

 

He singed things and talked to the crowd for a while.

 

And then they started performing. They played "Love Today" (twice), "Big Girl", and "Lollipop".

 

Mika singed stuff in between commercial breaks.

 

He came over to my side of the crowd, i gave him my LICM booklet, he asked me my name, and signed it "To Stephanie, Love Mika". So it's official. He loves me.:mf_rosetinted:

 

He also gave my little sister his autograph, read the posters, smiled a lot, and singed my poster in between commrecial breaks. (I can't really decipher what he wrote)

 

 

A girl near me screamed "Mika i love you" and his expression was "i know" or "that's obvious". I can't really describe it but it was cute. He also blew her a kiss.:sneaky2::bleh:

 

There was a quick interview before he performed (i think)" Love Today".

 

After the show Mikey got off the stage and walked around. He was sorta near me so i yelled "Mikey Choi!" and he turned around. I waved like mad and he waved back.

 

After the show Mika went into the crowd singned things and took pictures. He came over to where i was and i asked if i could have a picture with him and he of course said yes. I wished him a happy early b-day and he said thank you. Then we took the pic. (He had to lean over 'cause i'm so short:naughty: ).

 

My 7 year-old sister also took a picture with him. It's very cute. Then we left because we were all very tired. (i didn't get to go the other gig), but that's alright.

 

My legs were throbbing by then.

 

So that was it.

 

*I went to the GMA gig

*I got a free flashing heart (a nice lady was giving some out 'cause she had extras)

*I saw Mika perform live for the first time

*I got my LICM booklet autographed

*Mika read my poster and he seemed to like it

*He singed the poster

*The lollipop girls gave out Mika lollipopl (regular lollipops with Mika stickers on them)

*I FINALLY met Mika and got a picture with him

 

 

I'm sure i've missed a lot of details but it doesn't matter.:biggrin2:

 

(Mika smelled VERY nice by the way.and he wore the famous silver sneakers:mf_rosetinted: )

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