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Vive La France! Moving towards Tours and feeling love (much like Adam and Behati?)
Posted 8 June 2012
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Good morning Universe!
We are about to move to Tours, from St.Hilaire.
Yup, we are touring Loira‘s castles and sites (yesterday, dolmens) after a wonderful marriage weekend in Alsace (there weather was really nice) and after a couple of days in the always oh! so adorable Paris, where we had the chance to also witness Maroon 5 at the Alhambre (I LOVE One More Nights, can’t wait to hear the studio version of it).
We also caught lovely Nole Djokovic twice reaching the fifth set at the Roland Garros and YEAHHHHHH Nole 😉 You made us proud there (even though you destroyed our Seppi’s hopes…).
I am quicky-quick because I am using laptop and charge is virtually unexistant while driving is going on but I really didn’t want to wait too much to post something else on the blog.
Summer time means I just wanna do things and writing a blog is cute, but let’s do it occasionally in “death times”… just like a driving one 😉 (I am NOT the driver obviously).
So…
These weeks up from my last post have been amazing, but they didn’t start well.
When we went to Cannes, the tragedies in Brindisi and the numerous Emilia’s earthqwakes made us fledge away from the Rivière.
I couldn’t bare the darkness.
Karim has been amazing in cheering me up, and so have been our friends.
Just when I was feeling the gloomiest, he said that we should have planned a very different Summer holiday.
“What about Britain, and Olympics, while experiencing our house in the lovely Countryside too?”
Oh. My one and only absolute love…
How can you be so always spot on Karim?
It has instantly cheered me up to start to plan such a space of time.
He always knows what to say and do to make me feel at my best.
I am very lucky in my life… and I’m trying my very best to be as much as great to him as he is constantly to me.
I also will be able to witness Kobe live… OKC have just reached the Finals and just this past night DARN Monkey Bronzey has done a REALLY impressive performance to tie Miami to the Celtics 3-3.
Gotta admit from the highlights Bronzey was spectacular but I still hope Boston takes it so that he won’t still get a ring.
Sorry, Wade… you would deserve but I just can’t stand James.
Anyway Kevin Durant MUST win, if Lakers can’t (and this way beloved Derek Fisher would get another ring, which would please me endlessly).
Am I that bad for really, really disliking Lebron?
I might.
But I can’t help.
I can’t… he could be such a jaw-dropping historic athlete if he weren’t so shallow and not consistent, and if he wouldn’t just relate to his un-dubious athleticism, developing instead also the skills he has in minor amount (the post… erm!).
Talking about sports, if weather here in the Loira zone wouldn’t be so bitchy so far, we would have tried some horseback tour as well, but it’s better to move in covered manners.
Plus Margherita is having lots of little pregnancy-related quirms 😉 and we prefer to take care of her at our best.
Not all the crew has moved from Alsace to Paris and now to Loira… of course (though Karim’s parental mansion in Paris could have probably handled it effortlessly…).
We are just 6.
And we are having a lovely fun.
We just stay well spending time together.
We grew together… and after men have completed us, we still feel like sisters and we adore how our men have bonded in similar ways (the strange ways men bond anyway ;)… kidding).
Love and relationships are important.
But I have never really traced the line between which kind of love people do actually need.
For me… it’s a complex need.
For Marghe for instance is way simpler: you either are a friend, a life-companion, a relative, and the things never cross.
For K&I… love with a lover can’t be detached from burning passion. But at the same time you gotta connect to a way deeper and cohesive level… you gotta have an amazing number of similar interests. This even if your personality isn’t alike at all (which is exactly K and mine’s case).
Yesterday for instance we started to talk about philosophy in the middle of a Dolmen tour… K&I almost had the same words out from our mouths at the same time, and trust the whole context really was estranged to that conversation until we didn’t bring it up (followed with enthusiastic response by the rest of the guys… I love to have educated friends around ;)).
I hope this bliss of love and links I can live in never fades.
It’s so very important to me… I would feel deprived without such stimulating inputs.
Talking about the importance of friends and lovers, Adam Levine rebounded at the speed of light (did we ever have any doubt? NO. See my previous post ;)) out from his previous girlfriend’s impromptu dumping.
I was sure Anne V and Adam had split way before the People Announcement she did, but reading the newly printed Details interview of Adam, it’s clear she actually dumped him mercilessly by the phone for real: they couldn’t have met in the span of 5 days between the second part of the interview and the press release she released being in different time zones… and… wow. That harsh move really made me question Anne as a whole, but in a way it just reinforces my idea something was so broken since the start of the year between them two, so she just took the time advantage of being in the press at the time The Voice was getting back on tv, linking her name to the press Adam would have received for the tv show (smart PR move, really tasteless move in human terms instead… but ehi, if she dumped him, she clearly couldn’t care less anymore of Adam “humanly”, so, it’s all fair game isn’t it?).
Trying to patch their relationship seemingly didn’t work after their February burst-up… and the quickness of Adam’s rebound, as well as all the press releases by Anne’s camp in the magazines (Ali Kavoussi is a real master in handling names and making profile rises through connections, I must admit) just tells that the both of them didn’t care much about one another since a while.
It’s Hollywood, baby, no surprises there.
Love is just a dress to wear and change most of the times there, let’s face it.
But still unrelevant: Anne and Adam were not meant to be together; they really didn’t share much affinity in personality: they were just gorgeous to look at, mainly, as a couple, and that is undeniable (yes, their pictures together will always have a special place in my heart for how beautiful they looked), and for a while it seems like she bonded with his interests and life circles; but evidently not enough, and evidently that was a sort of an effort on her part she just decided wasn’t worthy anymore (a mean person would note she felt stressed by that effort when her profile had risen enough through the course of exact that relationship… but I am willingly to not depict Anne as such a cold spirit, so I don’t agree with this opportunistic view of her).
I am sure Vyalitsyna will find soon another famous guy to pair herself with, especially now that she wants to be an actress and I am sure she will find success in that “casting” of a new beau at her side, as girl is beautiful, determined, smart and definitely she can have plans on how to move on with her profile and career.
She will eventually also find love, if that’s what she wants and look for: many men will be ready to love such a beauty, and hopefully till down the aisle (thing Adam could never do… I hope Anne never really hoped for a marriage with him, because he’s just not the type for marriage… yet).
She is a pro, surrounded by pro and if you want to make it in Hollywood you need the right press, the right connections, the right company and team: Anne will be fine and she knows how to stay in the limelight, and hopefully that will lead to a more successful and solid relationship for her as well, eventually, and with someone sharing more of her interests than Adam ever showed to be sharing.
I hope she doesn’t hold a heavy heart towards Adam… and that she is just looking out to be happy, without hoping he won’t be.
But let’s get back at Mr. Fast Rebounder: Adam is now with GORGEOUS chiseled-faced Namibian goddess Behati Prinsloo (Victoria’s Secret official PINK Angel, if you care to know ;)).
I am really happy about this new couple, for the time being.
First you know I am keen at Namibia since last year’s trip for my birthday… (okay, that’s a not relevant reason ;)); seriously… I think Behati (whom also split in April from his model boyfriend, and so this is a rebound for her too, which means Adam and Behati are just taking it easy and having fun, as they should… ) is a way more convenient fit for Adam, personality-like, from the start compared to Anne (remember how Adam and Anne hated each other at first when meeting through Angela Bellotte… no surprise that later became a reason for splitting).
Behati (see her videos on VS and interviews) is a music enthusiast; she has knowledge about it, she loves to sing, and adores BASKETBALL (see? this is important a lot).
Miss Prinsloo has also a passion for photography (much like Adam, who is constantly snapping pictures of his acquaintances), and has a rock chick chic vibe all attached to her.
From all news, she is incredibly easy going, talkative and fun.
I’d say a perfect match (and it seems she pursued Adam so… she must thinks so too).
I am saddened by the way Anne’s camp (it’s obviously her camp, namely again Ali Kavoussi) is trying to put dirt on Adam and Behati for dating…
Anne dumped him. Why should she care whom he dates after? Why should Behati or Adam restrain from dating? It’s not really like they are doing Anne any wrong.
Why should have they more gap time pass before dating? We are in year 2012… those hypocrite “codes” are retrogrades, and Anne was never that much of a friend with Behati actually (I don’t remember a single tweet between them in two years of following of Anne… must not have been that deep of a friendship, if there ever was one?).
No, I don’t really see why Adam and Behati can be culpable of dating one another. They are free. No obligations towards their exes (especially Adam, since he was the one left and again without Anne talking to him face to face, even! THAT seems to me worst than dating a colleague of her a month and some after the split? But ehi, that’s me… Haters gonna hate I suppose, and out of preconception very often).
I don’t get this pontificating backlash and I hope nor Adam nor Behati care about that press (much like I don’t get why Adam shouldn’t date another model, just because he was with one… what? Anne was his girlfriend shortly after Angela Bellotte too? That always happens with Adam… he loves models, can you blame him? I won’t for sure, I applaud his choices, he always steps up in looks every time he picks a new one, see Kelly > Arielle > Angela > Anne > Behati : it’s an escalation to me, always, so good for the genetics and keep it up Levine… You aren’t missing a beat).
To heal after a relationship, nothing is better than seeing other people straight, isn’t this also a golden rule?
Didn’t Anne’s rep (Ali Kavoussi) land to magazines that Anne was ready to date immediately after the split, too and that she “was telling her friends she wanted to meet boys”?
Well, Adam and Behati waited a month after their own splits before seeing one another.
It’s more than enough. They look adorable together (beside the cigarettes… darn, Adam will get back to smoke that way, ruining his voice which by default is so delicate and thin… NO. that is the only thing I don’t like about Behati: they should BOTH stop smoking straight ;)).
Behati was with Adam in Paris (assured: witnessed. So much cuteness there).
She will probably be again with him soon after Maroon 5 get back to USA from Europe – these hours actually.
I hope she stars in One More Night Video, too.
But whatever happens, I am just happy to see Adam and his friends smiling in pictures, and if she is responsible of those smiles, bless and power to her.
Life goes on… every experience is a further step into awareness of things, and no one should ever stop to quest around the way to feel and being better.
Let Love Rule.
I know for sure that’s my constant target… and the way Karim is holding me just now that I am finishing writing this tells me I am pretty comforted in the fact the target has been SURELY spotted in this girls’ life 😉
Have a wonderful June… From France with Love 😉
Missus Z.
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Hola world! 🙂
Soooooo…. TAKE THAT STUPID MONKEY BRONZE-Y!!!!!!!!
*trying to gain back some composure* (…) > FAILING!
I am sooooo happy!!
I slept only 4 hours tonight (and now at work I feel like trash) because after Lakers won against the Miami Meat and the Monkey that is LeBronze James (LMAO!!!) & we celebrated at a friends’ house (big fun for 15 crazy Lakerholics!), K&I went home and were so super pumped we had one of the most awesome (and long, even by our standards) sex marathons ever.
I’m dead and reborn and exhausted and shiningly joyful!!!!
End of story.
My pride, my pumpness will never abandon me today!!!
And Milan is doing darn greatly too… it’s such perfection in my world of sports right now… and okay I still believe Lakers this year are not serious NBA contenders but who knows?
Miracles happen and we have a miracle playing with us always so…
who knows?
When we will be in LA in April we will surely check some Lakers action, beside Coachella and Radiohead.
I wish I could still say “and Coldplay at the Hollywood Bowl” but sadly I will have to be in Sweden for a weekly working project by April 30th so… goodbye Chris.
I will have to catch you elsewhere (bye also to backstage passes… but I will gift a couple of friends with them, if the promoter accepts the names changes).
Not always things may go my way… but ehi!
I’m not here to complain because my life is fantastic, and I have the luck of being able to travel everywhere, and catch my favorite things any place in the world.
I mean… in this past month Karim took me to the most wonderful and wild Valentine Vacation (Africa’s Islands in the Equatorial Chain are off the hook… what a Paradise!!! Bob Dylan knows best ;)), which lasted well over a week…
And just this past weekend we spent three lovely and well loved-up days in my Roman house.
You can’t really complain ever… we can do all we like, we are blessed to be able to being invited personally by King Giorgio Armani to his defilées in every town (though Karim passed that… which allowed me to spend times with some of my gal pals I never get time to be with enough, due to our careers and our constant traveling in the above-mentioned “world” ;)), we can share tables with some of the most influential people in the whole globe and overall we lead a life people can generally just dream of (or not even… because people are used to guess celebrities life, but they rarely have a clue about what really powerful and rich people live like, when radars never emphasize them up – and let me add – LUCKILY).
Too bad sometimes sadness still come…
Lucio Dalla passed away and my family (especially my dad, a longtime acquaintance of his) has been seriously hit.
I also keep reminding myself of the person (and not the persona) Lucio… it’s hard, but his unbelievably awesome legacy as musician and artist will TRULY keep him alive for us all.
It won’t dry the tears, sure… but it’s a treasure still that we have and we will always have.
I chose this for Dalla tribute because it honors my favorite football player ever (no, you know it’s not Kaka’ ;)), the Divine Roberto Baggio, whom Lucio loved dearly, just as me:
Love, art, truth, research… inspiration.
All this makes LIFE worthwhile and Lucio was a master of this delicate balance like a very few people I’ve had the honor and the pleasure to meet in my life.
He will live forever (my favorite Oasis song right there ;), in my favorite video version):
About the topic of love and living forever… my friend Marghe has decided to stress me this whole morning about Adam Levine and Anne V. and the state of their relationship (like it’s any of our business…) because her skeevy “agent” Ali Kavoussi this past night has tweeted strange messages that in her opinion are jabs at Adam (who was in Cabo for golfing for the Haney Project, in a place FULL of Playboy chicks, allegedly, while she is in Paris for fashion duties, and that Kavoussi is there with her).
I don’t know.
My opinion of Kavoussi is really bad, due to what my dear BB has always claimed of him, and I believe he might have been one of those making the split rumor going around actually; but honestly… I don’t really care about any of that he said, because well… if Anne’s okay with that, why should strangers mind?
The celebrities’ lives are mostly foggy in reality; what we do know is often a well-carved surface that more often than not isn’t anywhere near the truth.
I hope they are fine and well, because I like and love them together but do I think we really have the true bites about them?
I don’t.
It never happens, especially in Tinseltown Universe.
Sure, Adam and Anne have paraded the state of their relationship post split rumors at the Grammys, and then with a (mostly hilarious to me, as I adore Howard) interview with Howard Stern:
Does this mean all is fine?
I hope so, since to me they should marry and gift the world with perfectly looking babies (Stern allegedly agrees), and I have always rooted for them from the start.
But then… that interview and the rest Adam has given those days in New York (or the look on her face those days, or his these recent days in Chicago for instance, at the Plot Your Escape event which showed him totally grunty – and that might have to do with Jesse not being in Maroon 5 anymore, but maybe not) in a way resonate with me as “We do love each other, but distance is a problem, so don’t get shocked when distance will part us off… love was great, but sometimes it doesn’t suffice” kind of preparatory explanation to be given to an audience that by now knows them as a couple, and would be someway disappointed by their split at this point.
I might be cynical there.
Well, I am cynical always ;).
But is this relationship of them really a problem for anybody other than them two?
NO.
I wish them to be together forever and happy and have the most beautiful birthday together soon, and for years to come… if it happens, I will be joyful; if they break up, well, I hope their lives will still be fine and stuff.
It’s not really a world class issue (but yeah, the genetics of the world would miss their possibly perfect off-springs, that would bother me a little ;)).
The fact that Maroon 5 line up is a mess, and they are not addressing Jesse’s departure (temporary? I doubt it but I hope so because to me Jesse IS Maroon 5), THAT is a problem to me instead.
But at least there is something involving them I like these days, and that is the new PJ Morton songs that features Adam and James (he sung it live a year ago, but now we have the recorded version with him and James and I really LOVE it, because when Adam goes soul I still adore him, no matter how many things I hate he’s now involved with):
In the end, all that I care for is MUSIC.
When that is good, the rest is just irrelevant.
And also when that is bad, the rest goes unnoticed.
I leave you musically then: because tomorrow Bruce Springsteen readies the album that will be THE album of the year and you gotta be worshipping the Boss:
I know I will.
WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN (but then all we need is also love, you know ;)).
Have a wonderful March.
I will!!!!
Missus Z. 🙂
About to have a great Valentine’s time… and crossing fingers my fav celeb couple will still have theirs, too.
Posted 10 February 2012
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Good morning universe!!!
I’m super thrilled because Lakers won over the Celtics just this past night and this makes a great start for my day today, in a sketchy season… (Milan lost in Italy’s cup to Juventus the other day so any victory in sport field nowadays looks gold to me today ;)).
But moreover, no matter snow that keeps affect the northern of the Country (well, not only), the moment is approaching where I say goodbye to work and I reach the airport to fly away for the Valentine’s time along my amazing hubby, Karim.
Where do we head?
I have NO IDEA.
It’s a surprise that not even the plane will solve because we fly private and therefore destination still disclosed to my eyes ;).
I love this (and I truly hope our week long time in the location will be a HOT time also regarding weather because all this frozen ice is enough for me, thank you ;)).
I know it will be awesome.
Talking about coupling, Valentine’s Day and love I cannot avoid to share a bit about the only celebrity couple that ever made my heart stan.
I really hope just as Karim and I are going to have a great Valentine, also Anne V and Adam Levine will.
I say this because the Page Six folks shot this awful rumor yesterday:
Now, the thing looks to me WAY not correct, and it sounds like a push in for making the AWFUL Kate Upton get the good press for taking the SI Swimsuit Cover (thing that sadly looks very likely to me, because SI Swimsuit likes trash looking girls fit for porn, and they haven’t had a classy and deserving cover model since Beyoncé…) just on February 14th actually…
But I do hate the rumour Page Six spread, that many others media outlet immediately quoted (of course, now that Adam’s hot in the press due to The Fuckery Voice, that would have happened).
Talking back to its incorrectness though, we do know that:
1) Adam went solo at the Golden Globes just because Anne was flown away for WORKING, and therefore no sign of a split can be related to that event, if any;
2) Adam and Anne spent the last days of January TOGETHER, as this X17 pictures prove:
3) Anne went to the shooting of Maroon 5 NEW ALBUM cover shot and also attended ALONG ADAM its filming of the Hank Haney Project day of golfing on January 31 in San Diego, as her twitter (and Hank and Suzanne Haney’s ones) testifies:
4) Anne remained sure in California and did not come along Adam for the SuperBowl festivities (which may seem strange, I admit), but in those days Adam was supposed to do press a lot for the Voice, and also SHOOTING the VIDEO for Slash’s “Gotten”. Maybe as she hadn’t business to do it seemed better to avoid overcharging him with her presence? Still, on February 3rd this was one of Adam’s interviews, and he states pretty clearly that he’s NOT single:
These are signs of the fact the Page Six claimed crap (E Online’s Mark Malkin also quotes the report as false, but again…it’s always just “rep’s reporting” and sometimes reps are crappy talkers too).
Now… it does maybe seem strange that nor Anne’s tweeting anything about Adam lately (she expressed praise for the Voice commercial but she never said a word about any of the Voice episodes, nor on any of Adam’s late tasks, such as the new record label, his cover shots, Teddy Richardson’s spread and so on… and that is DIFFERENT from the past, it’s undeniable); it sure seemed strange to me.
The same (and that actually makes me suspicious), Adam never actually pimped Anne’s chances with the SI Swimsuit thing lately. Again, that is strange, because last year he was all over this, and one of his word THIS year that he’s way more popular could have meant something (but maybe he’s just aware of the crappiness of the SI editors and know his would be wasted breath again).
Now all that I can say is that I hope they are still together.
It’s that.
I love them together so much and since the start I wanted them to procreate perfect babies one day (possibly soon).
I know it’s none of my business at all and after all their lives are theirs and that don’t affect me anyway but I would surely be sad for a while and a little if they actually did break up (the reports suggest or they seem to that it night have been Anne’s choice… in that case, with the Grammy performance with the Beach Boys up and lots of others stuff up these days, it would be logical for Adam’s camp try to dismiss the fuss at least until these event wouldn’t be passed, giving him breath…).
Whatever.
I hope they stay still together and will have an amazing Valentine as a couple.
I also HOPE that Anne get her well due SI Swimsuit cover but I haven’t much faith in their editors’ taste. They would be easily go up with a slut looking big boobed bimbo like the awfully faced Kate Upton, rather than with a classy lady as Anne.
I hope to be wrong about the cover, but also last year it was clear to me that they would have given the cover to that transvestite-looking Irina…
And I hope that when I will be back from my vacation I will have still a celebrity couple to stan up for.
Let’s have this little prayer, because they are so good together and it would take ages to Adam to find anybody as fit for him as Anne always seemed to be 😉
Have all an amazing time around, folks!!!
Happy Valentine to anybody celebrating being in love 😉
Missus Z. 🙂
January 2012 will taste precious
Posted 16 January 2012
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Good morning!
Still trying to cope with getting back in regular-life territory after a wonderful three weeks break around the world, and a great weekend back with my beloved crew, I better try to update some of this blog.
I better?
I don’t know… maybe it’s just that waiting for tests to produce results can be very boring and today I got nothing better to do than update this, instead?
*considers the fact she is tired after a snowy weekend and the heart-wrenching Derby in San Siro, then checks her self-assumed state of boredom again to realize that ain’t the truth*;)
If any, the derby’s awfulness of yesterday night could have prevented me from coming here and writing due to pain/anger/disappointment overload, but then Karim luckily was there this past night to heal everything the best way I know & works for me: SEXUALLY.
😉 Now things are manageable again 😉 and moreover every now and again I still like to show up round here and write a bit, for no particular reason.
Writing relaxes me, and somehow doing it clears my mind which is used to pace way too fast.
I won’t ever feel the update over here as a duty though so my reasons to open this and put some – virtual – ink at it are volatile, dependable and completely unpredictable.
I don’t come often, but I still?
I am also probably aging (EEEEEEKKKK!) though I perceive that only remotely sometimes (I still a party freak whenever chances come, of course, as this past weekend furtherly proved actually!); this means when I have spare times, 97% of chances are that I will love to focus on different things than staring at a pc to write stuff superfast (because writing DO relax me BUT I still produce that at my usual fast pace… that someway manages to slow me down inside… I know… *it’s complicated* 😉 like the whole rest of myself!).
Talking for a moment of aging, to be honest the only field where I perceive I’m aging is the one of sport.
But I need to clear water there: I keep being a daily sport practicer, and no way my body is aging there, nor my mind and focus… no, the field of disappointment (in myself) comes now that I am banned from waking up at nights to catch the Lakers live.
After last year’s labyrinthitis, I simply cannot do that anymore, and definitely not once every two days.
I hate that.
I miss following the events directly, even though this season isn’t exactly shaping up to be anything more than a transitional one (last hint, the dreadful loss – that I totally expected – against the Clippers on Saturday).
But watching Kobe still gives me emotional charge, and that works better when done straight when things happen (this year that might happen just like it did over the holidays, being there in person at Staples Center, which rocked especially with K, my father and his, in the best position namely the upper boots of the venue…)
He’s on a pretty amazing roll of performances, while still struggling with his physique (everyone gets old, no matter the class unmatched).
Amidst all of Kobe’s personal life lows and mistakes, as long as he plays basketball with that drive and passionate and committed approach, united to his crystal clear class…
That’s all I look for on a basketball court (while still supporting HARD my homeboy Dani, who’s playing really fine so far!).
Anyway, in case Kevin Durant wants to be traded to Lakers Land… well I won’t raise any hand in opposition.
He’s the only player I see capable of keeping up well after Kobe’s legacy: I don’t care for Howard (who’s already shaping up as a sort of a loser to me), or other names which are thrown this days around to Lakers’ ears – things that are bound to happen often when the season clearly won’t be a winning one, no matter how much I’d like it to be -.
I have even started to follow him on Twitter, just to explain how much I like him (and I follow very few people, so that means a lot in my world).
I have also started following Lana Del Rey because I am in love with her video and song “Born To Die” and “Videogames” , that made me fall hard for her crispy, deep, sexual voice.
I found her a cross among my dear Amy (forever missing), the amazing Shirley Manson (Garbage may be back soon… WHOOOO!) and Fiona Apple so I was all over her these past weeks BUT…
Then she went on SNL the other day and she was dreadful so I am taken aback for a while, until she won’t prove herself live.
I am not here for artists who are good only in the studio: real music is LIVE (more on music later on ;))
Let’s get back to the past chronicles… During times in between last December and last week, I had the pleasure of taking along Swifty, my beloved horse, through all of our holidays spots (well, those houses are all family’s property, but I perceive them as holiday places, naturally yet).
He LOVED both of Karim’s houses (the one PALACE in San Fran, with the stables in their own park… awesome) and also the mansion in Paris (there the stables are a little out of reach, but he loved them anyway, and especially he didn’t really mind any of the airplane traveling. He likes to fly private just as much as I do ;)).
I had a truly special time abroad.
I fit marvelously in Karim’s family: they are always so sweet, kind and caring.
I love them, their way to be at once really upper class when it comes to interests and manners, but then really, really, REALLY down to Earth, true, and very gentle and polite with everyone so that they would never try to upstage regular folks just because they can out from their millions, positions and status.
I love this and I could have fit among them just that way.
While we were away, Italy proved itself to be a place where being unloyal, stealing and generally behaving in no civil nor right way gets way more than a pass. I was appalled to discover that a RIGHT fiscal inquiry that proved beyond any contest that in Italy to fraud the State is a routine, people had it not against the stealers… but against the Finance Police???
WTF.
It’s Berlusconi’s fault again, to have promoted such a loser&sucker&awful practice as “needed”, “forgivable” and sometimes even “right&requested” (!!!!!)
I hope Monti will be successful in his attempt to give a spinal tap to this Country that risks to crumble ONLY due to its faults and cracks, but still too dumb (allegedly yet) to realize no fairy tale, only work and commitment is gonna make itself rise up again.
And tragedies somehow pile up for our Country… not only the BBB rating (expected) from the S&P’s people will affect us for a bit, but so many things keep going in the wrong direction out of a strange and tenacious combination of destiny & bad humans’ choices.
The tragedy of the Costa Concordia keeps making me cry after two days.
I couldn’t even THINK at first when I got the news and even less after I saw the images.
So much pain, and so much wrong, and so much unacceptability.
What was the Commander in Chief FUCKING thinking?
Then he abandoned the ship sinking PRIOR to many of the guests???
I can’t fathom my despise.
So I won’t.
But hopefully all these signs of fuckery all over the world aren’t a sign of the Mayans creepy prophecy (that, needless to say, I absolutely DON’T BELIEVE in), because I have way too many things to accomplish yet in my life and I moreover am always optimistic in the things that have yet to come.
The “Universe Countdown” just cannot happen while I’m alive, please and thank you (this is my ego speaking and I love it).
Anyway I’m trying to pack the year 2012 with LOTS of amazing experiences already, so in case I’m wrong… I’ll have lived it to its fullest.
And you know, that for me mostly mean two things: TRAVELING & MUSIC.
When the two things merge it’s just the perfection so… I can’t wait to attend Coachella because of Radiohead, that among brackets will make me fly again ALSO to Japan in July, because you can’t miss at once Thom Yorke and Japan, can you? (and the rest of people at Coachella are PERFECT by the way!!! Noel!!! Florence!!! No Doubt!!! the whole line-up is pretty much flawless to me!):
Those weeks I will be in Los Angeles and California for three weeks again (for life & work) so it’s all perfect… also because guess who’s gonna be at LA venues as well?
COLDPLAY!!!!!
Amazing.
All my tickets in and I can’t wait 😉
Ah!
Don’t get me wrong I still LOATHE the pastiche that Mylo Xyloto is (hard) especially now that with Charlie Brown being the third single they have no more left of good songs in the album to promote (they used already the only three up to Coldplay usually flawless high standards), but whatever they play, live they are awesome (as Rock In Rio furtherly proved to me).
Too bad next in line for them is that TERRIBLE and commercialized whoring-up partnership with Rihanna, that created the cringe-worthy Princess of China.
Mark my words: that Princess Of China song will sell a LOT, it will boast Coldplay just when they will be touring USA in Spring and make the only single of Mylo Xyloto to reach top ten and maybe (probably) the top of Billboard. But that won’t change the fact the song is LAME. LAME. LAME.
Chris knows what it gets to get spotlight, and the song is so bubble gum pop it will surely please the dumb masses enough to be a super hit… but in all that, half of my esteem for the once un-mistaking Four Kings went way downhill artistically.
Still love them of course… but this year Coldplay just like Maroon 5 did decided to step down from my pedestal due to the wrong turning towards a famewhoring attitude that is affecting their artistic credits.
Nonetheless, I also hope Paradise (which I adore ) wins the Grammy for Best Pop Song for a Duo or Group.
The only other winner I’d take would obviously be Amy, but I don’t like the fact she sings a cover (same problem I have with the Black Keys‘s chosen song).
Paradise is the most deserving song in that lot; I consider Foster The People an overrated & way less talented copy of the Dandy Wharols crossing Phantom Planet, so I really wouldn’t like them to win even though that song is cute & catchy, while about Moves Like Jagger…
Dear Lord… the song is the most generic Maroon 5 have ever been.
I can’t expect well with the fact that song could be their return to Grammy win because if it’d happen we would get a fourth album filled with Benny Blanco’s type of unremarkable crap & I can’t take it.
Maroon 5 are (or were? Let’s hope they still ARE) so, so, SO much better than that.
Just listen to these songs that they did for charity compilations (the first and the last out of this mix of songs in the collage – with the always adorable Anne V, which I keep continuatively love – I did for Margherita and Serena’s M5 related blog), and I hope like me you will wish they get back to THIS and not praise such reductive crappy songs like MLJ or SH (please, let’s be serious… Pitbull could have sang those… Yikes!):
I want their soulful and funky and NO AUTOTUNED talents back in full display and I fear it wouldn’t happen if a Grammy would rise for a song of Moves Like Jagger type (which I think still possible to happen, actually I think if the commissioners won’t praise the late Amy Winehouse, MLJ is the frontrunner for victory due to its astonishingly huge sales).
So what if Moves Like Jagger sold a shitload?
Sales means zero regarding artistry (see Katy Perry streak of number ones with less than a sub-par album).
Moves Like Jagger is a hugely popular song that is by far surpassed by almost anything else on Hands All Over (which I love and I find shameful it only went platinum after & due to MLJ, which became popular probably only due to the overexposure of Adam in *that dreadful tv thing*, and consequent fangirls’ screaming about how he’s HOT!!!! – which he surely is but that’s not the point in buying his music, darn…).
Sure, so far it has gained Maroon 5 an incredible limelight… they just won again an award (a People’s Choice one, which means they really are popular at the moment), they are candidated also at the Brits, they got multiple certifications and stuff going but… I want back quality, not quantity.
QUALITY, because they were so capable there, better than any other in group pop music, and now all that seems worthy is Adam’s hotness?
Sure, just look at him this past night at the Golden Globes, he’s FINER than FINE but… I want him back to willing to be a fantastic singer, not the one tasteless ordals of last-minute fans worship due to the fact he’s on a lame tv show and is “hot”.
For God’s sake Adam get back to your roots (but still wear tuxedos cos you’re flawless when well dressed… Lord Almighty you are), because out of the many blessings Nature gave you the first is your unique voice and your ability to touch inner chords of souls everywhere when you pour your own spirit in your songs, and forget to chase fame in the easiest way just because you’re also – it happens so – handsome and that comes easy in our society for folks like you.
Well, I hope 2012 sees the rise back of Maroon 5 (read Adam) and Coldplay (read… Coldplay ;)) back up in that pedestal they used to share in my world, things that will happen when they get rid of some nasty habit they seems keen with at the moment.
Do I have to call up the Mayans for it or…?
Okay 😉
Let’s find a deal: I know there’s still a pure artistic art in each one of you guys, so just show it soon again and I will be really happy.
I’m not asking much after all (lol ;)!).
Shizzzz it’s late and my tests are done!!! Therefore… hugs everybody, my logorrhoea produced the effect of making me forget totally about Milan’s loss.
Mission accomplished then: so thank you and catch you later again ;).
Missus Z.
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Hi there Universe!
Ready to roll out to enjoy a wonderful day in Sn Fran, and to buy some Xmas/Chanukah gifts (Mash!!!! landing yours at Staples on Xmas ;)) here I am writing a small post…
This is probably my last one of the year… and I was held about writing this as well, because in the last day and half I flew half of the world and I’m prepared to have a wonderful Xmas time in California, an amazing (I’m sure it will be) New Years Eve in Las Vegas, and then I’ll be heading towards Paris to keep feeling blessed and in love (thank you life… I’ve probably been a saint or something in my previous one to get so much this time around? ;)).
This time I got Swifty flying with me 😉 He’s seemingly enjoying the new surroundings and apparently he reacted better than me to the jet lag (but he was chemically helped…).
What to say?
I’m super grateful for this mesmerizing year… For the way my family and my new family are lovely together (and both are with each one of us… and trust, K&I really wanted this to happen, because we’re very much fond of our families: they are our roots and force, indeed).
So happy to have still best friends ever, and really grateful to reckon my married status hasn’t changed a thing in the balances of “the crew”.
It’s important to keep things this way for me.
So, was this year perfect?
Well, not.
But this gives room for the new year to even TOP this one.
I like it like this.
Sadly I am fearing one piece of the “let’s top this year in the new one” puzzle won’t be fitting.
I wanna avoid to extensively post my thoughts in full over the blog (that’s why I waited to write, actually) about the sham against MY LAKERS, because otherwise this post would turn out to be the greatest cursing treaty of all times, but…
WTF (in Italian: ECCHECAZZZZZZZZZZO) ?!!!????!!!!!??????
David Stern made it: he destroyed my beloved team, pulling the trick out of the bomb after he placed it comfortably in our hands.
He made Chris Paul flying to the Clippers (!!!!!!), he made Lamar leave in the worst possible way, and TO DALLAS (!!!!!!!!!), he let Pau stay just to see him convolute into a shadow of himself, and (just because dramas never come alone), to totally trash the Purple and Gold, also the private life of Kobe finally crumbled and so, also a divorce was added to the explosive and deadly mix of the 2011/2012 Lakers season to make sure everything could seize down for the worst.
Yesterday we got humiliated by Clippers and I wish I didn’t see it coming but… I actually did.
*sigh*.
But whatever: a fan is a fan.
So, even if this will be an incredible chaos in organizing, for Xmas we are gonna fly in the booth of Staples Center (in helicopter, as you know we have one) to experience the game and then immediately fly back in San Francisco to enjoy the festivities.
My dad can’t wait 😉
So… thinking that I seem to have a certain “good star” up above… can I formulate my Xmas wish to involve somehow my beloved Lakers?
Dear Santa, Baby Jesus, and Dear Great One: I’m not asking anything especially for me, cos really I have way more than a girl can dream (and I used always to dream BIG, so that means something…); it’s not for me that I’m pledging now.
It’s for an army of fans and supporters that share with the little me this burning Lakers passion.
Please… let this season surprise us all FOR THE BETTER.
Let us never fall apart.
Let us grow stronger.
It’d be… that slight improvement on 2011 that I would REALLY look out for in the new year.
Okay.
I hope I can be heard 😉
And to everyone around… Happy Xmas to you all and to your beloveds.
Catch you in the New Year so…
PARTY HARD & RESPONSIBLY.
It seems sort of an oxymoron, but I strongly believe it’s not.
Much Love,
Missus Z. 🙂
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Good morning!!!
Back at lab after one of the most beautiful bunch of days ever.
What a wonderful trip our own one to Russia has been!!!
So much beauty and love and family bonding…
So much art and precious time… we didn’t even mind the weather, which for the most part was a bad mixture of rain and icy drops… never too much or long-lasting enough to say we had the proper “snowy” apt Russian feeling.
But who cares?
It has been mesmerizing nonetheless.
We spent every kind of differently-vibed “love” time: with families, with friends (I made Margherita, Serena and a couple other of my girlfriends privately fly to Moscow for a VIP trip surprise to see Maroon 5 there 😉 let’s say they were delighted ;)…), then alone after the familes flew back part to California and part to Italy after the most treasured and peculiar Thanksgiving reunion ever.
What can I say… I feel so blessed.
Although Moscow is beautiful, we actually feel this holiday (both Karim and I) as entirely Saint Petersburg-related only.
We went to Moscow by train only to witness the first Maroon 5 gig (the day after we replied the gig experience in Saint Petersburg… good vibes and good gigs both, with a slight preference to the first one probably, but maybe just because acoustic was better then than the subsequent night, and we were closer to the stage), and we stayed there only short of 20 hours (enough for me to buy what will be my Scala Première dress for the incoming days).
We will be back again in Moscow… but we wanted to taste Saint Petersburg mostly and its amazing surroundings only this time.
So much history and fantabulous-ness… such a glorious town indeed.
Everyone must visit there in their lifetimes… it’s mind-blowing if you love art and culture even a fraction than K&I do 🙂
At the Hermitage I truly had the time of my life… I did.
I cried even and that moved my sweet K a lot 🙂 (and someway shocked my in-laws but in the best way that it’s possible to be, fortunately!).
There was an Italian Retrospective at the Museum so it was really MEANT for me and K.
But the town is so much more than just that awesome museum!
We stayed in this dacia on the Neva, and old retire that we could rent thanks to the always powerful connections of my newfound broads.
We had as usual to walk around everywhere (gig included) with bodyguards but by now I truly don’t even mind anymore… I’m used to it whenever we are in long far away trips, or K’s fam is with us (grannies included!!!) or we visit places that rink higher in the special “care” list the fam observes.
But that all isn’t really a bothering after all.
The Thanksgiving menu was a very peculiar mixture of USA, Italian and Russian recipes (the cooks that came along my in-laws are really kick ass pros there!) and I have to say I truly enjoyed the cooking of St. Petersburg restaurants we went at, too.
Then landscapes… oh!!!! Those Russian landscapes!!!
The train trip to Moscow has been one of the most beautiful ever for me… I think I have taken no less than 500 pictures all the way along.
I feel so well after this trip I can share some little bit of the gig in Moscow, as well (my bickering towards the band’s regretful TV choices fades and goes away whenever I witness them live, because they still amazing when they hit the stage and make me fret and make me always get back in love with them…):
They are just so good…
It still make me so angry and disappointed to reckon their second wave of ultra success has to be ralated to such inferior material as MLJ & a Tv show tho… *sigh*.
To think that Moves Like Jagger may take a Grammy and a superior song like Misery was (and it’s not even my favorite out of HAO) didn’t makes me cringe… though I reckon compared to other songs candidated (beside maybe Paradise) it’s the clear runner up (but once shit like Bruno Mars and Rihanna’s albums are candidated for Album Of The Year, that means a little indeed):
I still can’t cope with that… but by now that’s the reality, and there’s nothing to change it, no matter how much my inner music lover core refuses to face it.
Talking about music… I decided straight after watching the bill we will be at Coachella this year, cos line-up is SIMPLY PERFECT oh, yeah :)!!! :
Music and I just get along the best 🙂
The tickets for Coachella won’t be a problem.
It’s the perk of knowing some really “into it” folks back in Cali.
And for music I treasure I will use all bonds and links and whatever.
It’s gonna be fun.
Other GREAT things lying ahead: NBA STARTS FINALLY!!!!
I had lost hopes really… though I have no idea how the Lakers will survive the cut time… we are not a young team so this shortened season will affect us the most but WHO CARES?
Though the Xmas time will be actually spent in San Francisco and we will move to LA properly for NYE actually (maybe Vegas is a throw-in? we’ll see 😉) I hope to snatch the Xmas game tickets, no matter if we stay in town like only the proper time of the game only and then we hop onto a plane back and forth to San Fran ;).
I’m sure again our contacts will make this possible.
It’s Xmas after all and my family (old & new) can content me SO easily with that ticket… No need for courtside… I will be okay with anything 😉 (Mash!!!! You ready? ;))
What else?
Mario Monti has just unveiled the measures for avoiding Italy collapse and as a wealthy Italian I will be glad to help for my part.
Let the man work and put a patch onto this poor Nation destroyed after 17 years of fuckery from criminal Berlusconi (allowed blindly by the so-called “lefts” who are almost equally as responsible of this disaster as that criminal, because they never stopped him when they seemed to get a chance to).
We can make it and we must.
What else?
Oh, sure… the LOVELINESS that was the VSFS 2011 with the full display of Adam and Anne’s amazing love!!!
That always put me in a great mood because they are so special and perfect together and you know I treasure true beauty over everything because to me it’s a testify of the greatness of creation :).
I was meant to create a video out from the VSFS but I decide to post just the show entirely and a cut of interviews.
Enjoy (here there is also the lip-sync version of the Angels of the hit of the year… wonder which? Moves Like Jagger. *sigh again* ;)):
As for video celebrating the two lovebirds (the two lovebirds the world better start to worship as their beauty and loveliness deserves them to be worshipped for), I actually bumped in this AWESOME creation tribute that is dedicated to them and fell in love (the creator is a genius and from their tumblr they also share my view on Anne’s Adorableness and the stupidity of her haters, so that’s a double good point for me too) with it.
So I hope you enjoy it as well and go to the creator’s page and thank them for such a quality tribute work whoever they are:
Adam Levine and Anne V.’s Tribute Video from TeamAdamsAngel Tumblr
Really go to the page of this girl/guy/people and just thank them and praise them as I did multiple times.
It’s a wonderful work, so don’t steal it okay?
I know some of you may had expected the Yoga video of Details Magazine as well but when I will prepare it I will post it into the NAWWAL Storage page ;).
But I don’t have time at the moment, so content yourself.
Gotta get back to work now or daddy will kick my so well shaped ass 😉
Catch you soon 😉
Missus Z. 🙂
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