Mambo!

I thought I should have a non-video-stuffed post! Mika was great! The line to the Nokia Theatre Times Square clogged up the already crowded Broadway sidewalk, but once we made it inside, it was all nice and dim and underground and cool and there were super neat bathrooms with cute mirrors. Lollipop Girls ran around in blonde wigs and hot pink dresses with big white bows at the back, carrying around baskets of lollipops and spreading their good cheer throughout! MTV Guy with Mohawk got in on the fun and told them where the Bear was hiding so two of the Lollipop Girls were like OHNOOOES and they flounced away, denying me my fourth lollipop of the evening. We sat in the old fogeys section (if you hit 20 at this show, you were eligible for fogeydom). The show was supposedly 16+ but I saw an 8 year old kid there. Also tons of grannies in the VIP section (we joked about this til later Mika said that his grandma was in the VIP section. HA!)

The opening act was short and sweet. They later put a breakdancing crew for our enjoyment. Weird music throughout the evening was played, such as Funkytown and other nonsense which i knew way to much of.

Finally, Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 comes on (sis says: OMG SO GAY!!!) and Mika and band comes on, woo hoo!!! Everyone squeals like piglets. People go dancing up and down aisles and generally spazzing out, and waving their arms like they are at the Roxy. Even MTV Mohawk Dood rocks out completely, between audio note taking. Tons of cameras flashing nonstop. As Mika only has one album, he snuck in two covers, one of a Jackson 5 song whose title escapes me and the Eurythmics's Sweet Dreams. There is an absolutely AMAZING rendition of Love Today. There's already lots of vid clips on youtube.

He is such a great performer. His happy dancing, plus these grand silouhettes as he hits high notes = FANTASTIC!! Also he and his band later came on all wearing animal costumes to the Teddy Bear's Picnic which I found mildly creepy (you could hear the audience go AWWW when the bunny was getting picked on by the rest) and which my sis declared the best thing EVAR. Mika is love <3

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I love me some memes! Here are my answers for http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com/

If you were given an unlimited budget for one day, what music-related things would you splurge on? You could buy CDs (or ultra-rare LPs), concert tickets, memorabilia - anything related to music.
WHAT WOULDN'T I GET?!?! I would order rare CDs that I can't even get at Virgin, such as Salsa Celtica and Moi dix Mois online, along with download music that's only availably digitally (I just found out today that the reason I haven't been able to track down Dizzee Rascal's Maths and English is because it's only available by download in the US!! WTF!!). Buy multiple copies of CDs I really really like and give them to my peeps. I would buy lots of CDs that I only have on cassette right now. I would buy lots of CDs of bands I've really liked one song of and hope for the best. Buy a lot of CDs of artists my parents are into. I would buy a lot of those Best of and Taste of compilations. I would order a bunch of band merch, like more Ted Leo junk, band t-shirts, wallets, whatever, stickers and posters, omg posters posters and books and biographies. I would get lots of concert tickets for things I was even remotely interested in, and even use my unlimited budget to get to out of the city/state concerts. I suppose I could go on ebay and see if i could get autographed things, but really I like having my things autographed in person, that's what makes it special! Etc etc ad nauseum.

What is your favorite style of music, or band/artist, that uses the violin/fiddle?
Sorry, can't pick :P I love a good ol' celtic fiddle, classical violin, folk music, world music, opera, country music (Charlie Daniels' Devil Went Down to Georgia = best song with violin EVER?), grandiose metal songs, whatever, I love it. Specifically, off the top of my head, Flogging Molly and Gogol Bordello use violin to great effect in their music.

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Oh snap. Off to Erasure signing!!!