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Today is the 150 birthday of our beloved (and so very trashed by her own governants/citizens) Italy.

This whole happy recurrence has of course been object of controversy in my Country (it shows well how low we’ve stepped… but I’m positive we can go even lower… *sigh*).

Karim and I are instead overjoyed and we are gonna spend the entirety of the day together in Museums, Galleries, then being by ourselves at home while reading about history, Civil Rights and CONSTITUTION (yeah, that thing some criminal ruling us is trying to make paper cut for wiping his ass… his face it’s the same, so his ass works…).

I’m very happy Karim feels home here; it will be amazing for us to have double citizenship, because for us the belonging to a place we actually root for is a major bond linkage.

Today is not only Italy’s birthday (and Billy Corgan‘s too… you know how I adore the Smashing Pumpkins do you?); it would have been also the birthday of awesome Rudolph Nureyev, and in fact just the other day K&I went to Teatro Smeraldo in Milan to enjoy a magnificent night out celebrating the legacy of the one and only King of Ballet.

Please, enjoy ballet at his peak:

These days of ours though are still hard… because all that is happening in Japan deeply wounds us.

We constantly follow news on tv; my time in Berlin (beside a wonderful evening out with the new partners in one of the coolest restaurants in the world) has been spent Skyping while watching reports from Honshu.

We are yet unable to get passes for my Birthday trip… it seems hard to enjoy Hanami this year over Nihon but even if the celebrations wouldn’t be there… now and even more NOW I wanna get there to see and possibly help the Country…

I so bleed for my Japan.

And Karim does the same.

Before you wonder: NO WAY we change location for the marriage.

Don’t even kid.

Our marriage is sacred and it’s gonna be a Japanese Time.

End of the debate.

Talkin about marriage, and linkin it with birthdays… YES.

I know.

I promised that on the eve of Adam and Anne’s birthdays (which are tomorrow, March 18th, and the day after tomorrow, March 19th) I would have uploaded my most beautiful Homage Video yet, which coincidentally is also Karim and I marriage song.

STUTTER.

Yessir.

And well… given the happy recurrences (and the fact the video Meli – and K – helped me made is glorious), this post hosts a little truce in my temporary dislike of Mr. Adam Levine (the temporary dislike, you do know, runs and will run until The Voice Of Fuckery will still a thing), which allows me to do a little twisting of small updates strictly related on the birthday boy and his gorgeous gal (whom I still love daily and utterly. Anne has no part in my temporary dislikes… I still heart her 110% and continuously).

Adorable Anne V Collage

Anne actually makes me feeling better towards Adam these days, you know.

In fact, during her time in Los Angeles this month, her tweets were the only ones that were making me liking him like I used to that fair a bit still.

She has that much power, yep.

Anyway, a promise is a promise so… enjoy STUTTER (you can also catch it from my YouTube page of course) :

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I don’t know if this year the two lovebirds will be able to spend again their birthday weekend together, because just hours ago Anne had to fly back from Los Angeles to New York (she was missing from there for a whole month, so it was time), and Adam has to stay in LA for … THAT THING THAT I WON’T MENTION.

But they sure had a great time together in the past ten days, as you can see here:

Adam Levine and Anne Vyalitsyna enjoy a Laker night out on March 14th 2011

The couple spent a huge amount of time together… but I don’t wanna take ages in detailing it – this is a TRUCE post, not a PEACE post, after all – then you know what?

For all your dose of Maroon 5 news (I know many come here for that), I am kind enough to link the work of my friends Margherita and Serena, who will fill my reluctant shoes for the time The Voice Of Fuckery will be a thing in getting you served with band’s updates.

I can’t personally like ANY of it, and I still bummed like many others about what that choice forced the band to do.

I am also trying to read the less I can of their twitters, unless they are not news about valuable things like live dates, new music available, and similar things that DEFINE a real band… (I swear I am trying to not write bitterly, but it’s hard… that is why I have decided to not update Maroon 5 related news until I keep being let down by Adam’s choices: exactly because I am unable to put a brake on my running brain, and shut it down to avoid explaining how his actions make me feel disappointed in him).

Anyway, my friends have done a pretty nice job covering my unwilling gap so, enjoy:

Maroon 5 March 2011 Updates by Margherita and Serena (Not All Who Wander Are Lost blog).

The good news (the bad one is that just yesterday the Voice of Fuckery actually started taping, and our YOUR bad boy with angel face is so stepping up his fame-chasing antics he even uses to publish promoted tweets – REALLY???? – which I am guessing are actually paid by the producers of the Fuckery Show, to be honest) is that Maroon 5 RESCHEDULED their canceled dates in Europe for November and December and I bought STRAIGHT not only the rescheduled Milan date

I also bought Rome, Padova and… BOTH Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Think that just the day before their revamped Italian stint starts, I will be at La Scala for its première.

New Adam Levine's tattoo

Adam Levine in Amsterdam. Getting a new tat & playing live.

Music all the way.

The best way to get ready for anything…

And in fact as Maroon 5 are shaping up some round in America in festivals & fairs, even though yet we don’t know if we are free, Karim and I have asked Charisse to buy for us too the attendance to BOTH dates at Ravinia Festival in between June and July.

Just to be sure… 😉

Yes… I still adore Maroon 5 music.

Especially when it’s LIVE.

And it’s JUST because I love so much their music, that I can’t stand Maroon 5 had to stop touring to please only the decision of one of their members (okay, it’s the main member… but that doesn’t justify the move at all…).

In Paris (yep, I ended attending the concert actually…) the guys were PURELY awesome; Sara rocked… but nothing can touch Adam and the guys playing live and in fact the most of Sara’s shining came when she joined the band for a wonderful rendition of Out of Goodbyes (and you know I am NOT keen on the song either… so imagine how beautiful it was live if even I fell under its charm).

Yes… Paris gig was simply a gem.

Really.

Maroon 5 and Adam Levine in Paris, March 2011.

Oh, how hard is to dislike somebody so talented…

But in the end, my dislike is huge at the moment JUST because he’s SO talented.

I don’t get, I still don’t, why the heck he decided to stop relying on his true skill for doing some lame tv reality.

My whole blood boils if I think about it.

To tame me, somebody (you will be surprised… that somebody was actually Karim) sent me this ARTICLE, that shows…erm… shape details of Adam’s assets.

Karim sent me those to remind me how in the end I will still be charmed by Adam, no matter what… but think that I am so upset by him still that not even his hotness wins me these days.

If I see his body, and think of his voice, and remind myself of his many blessing talents… and THEN I recall he sold it all on THE Fuckery… I can’t help.

I still boil over.

But ehi… this post is a truce post, I said it and I maintain it so enjoy Adam Levine’s bulge details.

And some awesome yoga posture of his that I keep lust over (Karim knows and he keeps making fun of me about it… ;)):

Pretty sure Anne V tucked him into in those naked Cosmo pictures... *yeah* 😉

This part of my upload of course falls under the “Gifts” part of the title…

LOL.

If your style in visual gifts though is less “physical” and more regularly oriented, then enjoy this other series of way more tamed shots:

Mega Gift Adam Levine collage

What can I say… that he’s gorgeous is under everybody’s eyes.

*sigh*.

But I have decided I don’t wanna close the post with him.

So I will leave the final spotlight to Anne, because she just makes me happier than he does these times.

Enjoy shining Russian Fairy in her Victoria’s Secret 2011 campaign:

Anne V for Victorias Secrets PINK 2011

And also this little patchwork video I made with her tv ad campaign shot for H&M with Freja, for the brand Spring Summer 2011 collection:

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I close the update with a surprising thank you to Inter (yes, you’ve read correctly) for having kept Italy in Champions League (wish Milan had been able to do the same), because it’s fair in the day of Italy’s birthday to put aside even sporty rivarly to honor just the Country sporty pride.

Then I will also say that Lakers are starting to shape up for playoffs.

I hope the tests that I am undergoing for finding the best therapy to fight my Labyrinthitis tendency will allow me to wake up at nights at least during playoffs.

Reruns of games are nice… but the true fan can’t content him/herself with merely those.

I need the thrill of live stuff.

And so…

Happy Birthday, Italy!

Happy Birthday Adam and Anne!

Happy life everyone.

And you, you my dearest… Hold On, my adored Japan.

Catch you soon again, your never tamed Miss Z. out in Milan to celebrate her Country with PRIDE 😉

Trying to find time enough for this update, before my work ends at midday and we get straight to Genova to SAIL MY BOAT (my own fellow Zaira… sounds crazy and still awesome to think about it!!!) it’s duty to report that, just like I was paventing hours earlier in the Lakers Blog, Lakers lost Game 4, mostly due to an overwhelming performance of Celtics bench (see again my post in the blog…).

Oh, well.

We’ll still rule them in 6 AND this way it’s gonna be better for me to reach LA for the Parade.

A touch down soil and Fly straight away experience, but dad agreed there, and Karim is as thrilled as me about repeating 2009 experience.

And we WILL.

So, Green Enemies, be happy of this win… it won’t be enough:

What makes me laugh is that meeting Dani G. at Armani Jeans game on wednesday, he said just “beware Davis”.

And I was like “Yeah, sure…” (I was more concerned with Nate Robinson, if any…)

Darn 😉

Gallo…. why why why????

Anyway you still a cutie and an adorable guy. But you know as well Lakers are gonna take this, don’t you?

Right.

Other pleasant things happening?

Well, stateside on that exact day of wednesday were the dinner out at Nobu (Mash, how could you name that Mastro’s???) AND the subsequent usual wednesday stay at Las Palmas of Mr. Levine and old buddy Jake Gyllenhaal.

I can’t help thinkin I would have loved to be the chauffeur there… ahahaha!!! I can’t help.

Longtime pals Adam & Jake out of Nobu, 9 June 2010 - 2 -

I can’t… I can’t… I can’t… 😉

Longtime pals Adam & Jake out of Nobu, 9 June 2010 - 1 -

Awww.

Hotness squared.

I love when they are together.

It’s great to know longtime pals remain pals no matter how far both career may go.

And let’s talk about more hotness…

Yesterday Maroon5 uploaded the 3rd Webisode of the College tour, and I advice you all to check it in its entirety first because it’s great, and secondhandly because…

OF THIS:

Shirtless Adam is always a tease 😉

So just look, okay:

While the guys keep waiting for the machine of promotion to start (it takes maximum one more week) and while *someone* awaits also a bunch of days more to remeet his lovely half in LA/PalmSprings (awwww), let’s be fair and share this announcement of Maroon5 about more charity auctions.

Writing Adam still from the webisode. Awww 😉

Do your move. 😉

About me, today I will live the lovely experience to sail my boat.

Karim is all smiling.

He’s so into this and I am so into him 😉 (he’s into me too… okay, that was NOT very subtle, LOL…).

We will watch the opening of FIFA World Cup and he’s finally calling football “football” and not soccer anymore.

I made him read Pasolini‘s writing about the poetry of football.

It did work.

I’m sure we will love the tournament TOGETHER.

And although I have no hopes for us, of course I’m gonna cheer Italy.

I still think it’s Argentina’s year, or England’s.

We’ll see.

I left you with my favourite Coldplay Song, because I am a scientist, too:

then Tinie Tempah, Pass Out:

and finishing it with Gramophonedzie, “Why Don’t You“:

Right peeps… catch you maye from my sailing 😉

Or then after Game5 on Monday Morning.

😉

NOTE: Adam’s and Jake’s pictures have been offered to your greedy eyes (and mines) thanx to the always awesome Jennifer Coles. Bow down to the Mighty Queen 😉

So, I made it, after a LONG Monday when I couldn’t upload this:

This video is the original (and regularly bought through iTunes) out from the celebratory edition of the longtime classic “We Are The World”, originally recorded on January 28th, 1985 and published a month and half later, on March 7th, 1985.

I edited the credits at the end mantaining only the artists’s ones and the publishers’, plus of course the links to donate for the charity and the iTunes logo, to shorten it from 13 minutes and counting to less than 10

This version, first of all, is a very good remake.

The critics I have heard about this version, for the most part, made me laugh a bit, for how much they totally misunderstood either the spirit of the song and charity and (or) the “myth” surrounding the original recording.

Lots of the critics come out from people who were loving another line up, the old line up, or no line up at all.

This song would have been remade anyway, it was a longtime project to remake it, as you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti.

The way they have remade it is really contemporary and current. Just like it was logic for it to be.

I know.

I wouldn’t have either included Bieber, Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers.

Actually not either Isaac Slade and Nicole Sherzinger, cos all those five fail to have the multiple Grammies wins ALL of the other soloists have on their credit (which should be enough testiìfying they are more than allowed to stay there, right?), and I would have loved to see in their spaces Rob Thomas (who couldn’t have his actually planned solo due to conflicted scheduling), John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston and Maxwell or Jason Mraz – whom would have all being very dignified to appear there, actually, being all great vocalists with a strain of Grammy wins – now also Mraz has them -), BUT on the other hand this is charity, and like it or not, the little tweens will make the kids buy the single TONS and MILLIONS of times more than any other performer on this rerecording (or on the older, actually), and that’s make their presence VALUABLE for the cause a lot, in the end.
It’s clear why they’re in: to cash it in. And as the outcome has to be for charity, let’s be honest: they are good for the cause hence they are good for the song.

I got even to say that (shame on me for admitting) Miley Cyrus sounds better here than she ever did on any of her “stuff”.
She’s the current Britney. The reason why We Are The World 25 was a Twitter trending topic are she and Bieber, let’s face it.

I loved the rap part, I am the hugest hater of AutoTune but if you gotta to paint current music, 90% of hip hop songs have it since 3 years AND then it’s better to have Lil Wayne, T-Pain (whom invented its rise) and Akon vocoding themselves than Rihanna who uses it cos she can’t catch a note otherwise, right?

It’s funny to read the critics: the original version, now so praised, was a huge debate and lots dissed it when it first came out, for lots of reasons that are smilar to those nowadays running (pick up choices for solos, refusals to show off – see Prince – people not being there – Madonna – the level of songwriting, the contemporarity of it, the lack of rock’n’roll… the hate of those NOT being there…): read this freely here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World

It HUGELY makes me laugh to hear Jay Z comment then: http://hiphopwired.com/2010/02/15/jay-z-disses-%E2%80%9Cwe-are-the-world%E2%80%9D-remake/

The man who’s got a career by stealing everyone’s melody on his “samples” and who is responsible for the whack “Stranded”, the man whose concept of vocals include Queen of AutoTune Rihanna, is pontificating about what’s “untoucheable”?
PLEASE.
What an hypocrit.
He’s just jalous Beyonce was banned from the Jackson’s family due to disrespect on Janet and Michael. That’s it.

All other people who might have been missed here, and whom I absolutely feel no lacking of (those I miss are the ones listed up),were already on other Haiti charitable projects so no big deal there.
And by the way, if you compare for instance the lacklustre version of Justin Timberlake of “Halleluya” and compare it with the amazing rendition KD Lang did of the amazing classic on the Olympic Winter opening ceremony the other day, you really realize no one is missing in this We Are The World 25 version…

I don’t see any adding to the power of Jennifer Hudson or Celine or Barbra or Groban voices, truly. As for rock gods… Santana covers it pretty darn well, just like Bruce did on the original.

All that said, I also think the original is a gem and no one wants to debate that. It-s one of my longtime favourite classic, and sure it-s the BEST of the two versions. Like it ALWAYS happens with covers, actually.

But this is a very good remake and it will make a new generation of people hopefully fall in love with the beautiful meaning the song keeps carrying on.

So buy it and be good.

People in the chorus are these (and by the way, in the original too there were actors and actresses and socialites.. again this is all a remake of the original thing, in a contemporary way):

* Patti Austin
* Bizzy Bone
* Ethan Bortnick
* Jeff Bridges
* Zac Brown
* Brandy
* Kristian Bush
* Natalie Cole
* Harry Connick Jr.
* Hayden Panettiere
* Kid Cudi
* Faith Evans
* Melanie Fiona
* Sean Garrett
* Tyrese Gibson
* Anthony Hamilton
* Keri Hilson
* Julianne Hough
* India.Arie
* Randy Jackson
* Taj Jackson
* Taryll Jackson
* TJ Jackson
* Al Jardine
* Jimmy Jean-Louis
* Joe Jonas
* Kevin Jonas
* Gladys Knight
* Benji Madden
* Joel Madden
* Katharine McPhee
* Jason Mraz
* Mýa
* A. R. Rahman
* Raphael Saadiq
* Trey Songz
* Musiq Soulchild
* Jordin Sparks
* Robin Thicke
* Alex Williams
* Rob Thomas
* Vince Vaughn
* Ann Wilson
* Brian Wilson
* Nancy Wilson

all artists are listed at the end of the song crediting, anyway.

Enjoy this all, with lyrics old and new, and notes.

Now a little twist and some gossip updates...

Adam and russian model Anne Vyalitsyna

Which is just the pic of Adam‘s “choice” (pick up? hook up for sure, that’s needless to be said ;)) out of the parade of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models he was among due to Maroon5 playing in Las Vegas for the celebration of the issue last week.

Adam’s not tweeting since they put feet in Vegas on February 10.

He had so much to take care of during those days, Valentine Day included AND if you see the gal, you just know you can’t hate on him for it 😉

Just his type, that Anne Vyalitsyna (wow… Russian names are a trick ;)).

Just his type ;).

Man keeps having an excellent taste for the candidates to… erm… recreative gymnastic.

Lucky gal. That’s it.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is one of those days during year when EVERY single person on this planet should take a moment and ponder about the biggest things about life.

And ponder about LIFE, as a whole.

It’s too much of an important day to talk about easy things such as sport or personal events or funny, pleasant tidbits.

Today is one of those days when you, and I, and the world as a compact unit must face the task of dwelling into human tendency to be beasty, cruel, abominable and just plain… NOT human.

Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and I strongly suggest you all to take a surfing among the many resources that are online provided about this important recurrency:

http://www.ushmm.org/

www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/

Don't forget. Don't EVER forget.

I leave you wth some video that I picked from YouTube. It’s never enough.

Don’t close your eyes in front of the evil truth, don’t hide, don’t find excuses, don’t shut your heart along your eyes, and moreover, DON’T FORGET.

Those who forget will mostly likely repeat the mistakes.

This world nowadays seem just ready to be all about hate and cruelty once more.

It’s up to us, tu us all, to stop the hate before anything remotedly similar to this could happen again.

Human beings are created ALL EQUAL.

Human beings must fight their demons and fears inside, and not blame other humans for their disgraces, and must never cause other humans disgraces.

Take your time to ponder today.

And chose love, openess, grace, and MOURNING today.

Take a look at this:

Take a look at this too:

and then at this as well:

Take your time to think about how many lives hate blew away without ANY right to do that.

Don’t forget.

Don’t ever forget.


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