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2011 in review
Posted 1 January 2012
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Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 37,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 14 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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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 from the sunniest Milan folks!
Day shines and night shone.
The La Scala Don Giovanni Première was SUBLIME in my book, with a direction that I personally really enjoyed, with that final twist in the set that I totally dug, with the interactivity of the performers down the halls and overall thanks to an amazing night with my family and Karim (last year there was also his family, but this year to me the representation was better so it’s a deuce of the past two years as global rewarding for my spirit&soul!).
I can’t get how people could not enjoy that…
And there have been allegedly some (I can’t at lameness of uneducated people…).
Anyway, this is gonna be a very short post because after Maroon5 bailed out (AGAIN!!!!) of their Italian and not only duties, my weekend ain’t gonna be anymore an XFactor (pheeeeewwww… I was hating to have to attend the show just to see M5, but our friends who work in production there had land us special places to enjoy the performance and I couldn’t say “No thanx your show makes me feel icky” that easily to them, although they DO know their show as any other reality makes me feel awful…. ;)) + Rome + Milan trips to their gigs, and this means…
Wonderful Weather + Free Time = Amazing Snowboarding Long Weekend At The Mountains!!!!
At first I was kinda bummed and way disappointed about the further postponing (if there will ever be a postponing at all…) by Maroon 5 but then honestly I recovered very quickly (is not that I trust them that much anymore anyway so it didn’t truly “shock” me this time that they canceled again) and now I am actually happy that my weekend will be a snowy one 😉
I have seen them in Russia, and then a lot of times in this HAO tour in Usa so I don’t care for more of the same cup if they are NOT in it (I’m sure Adam has something USA-related to do these days he will be happier to commit for than not a four dates stopping in far away Europe… I don’t totally buy that he’s sick, surely not as sick as he claims to be because his voice didn’t sound sick at all in Russia, sorry. Maybe he’s sick for real, and then it means I am mean, but my distrust in him comes a long way after certain decisions he made about his professional life that will never make him the person he used to be in my eyes, ever again, sadly).
He’s a TV personality after all… he has stopped to be a serious musician the day he decided to sell his soul to reality tv: canceling gigs again without thinking of fans traveling COUNTRIES to catch them in Europe, and again giving those committed fans merely HOURS of coping time to patch bookings comes naturally after that (Adam’s credit will never be recovered, but I’m sure he doesn’t care much about this either, or he wouldn’t have chosen to put his feet into that degrading world he now claims to love and root for. Too bad the way he ‘s behaving is causing also HIS BAND to experience a lacking of credit and a generally spreading distrust: I wish I could have recorded what people at XFactor Italy and Alcatraz staff production confessed me feeling towards Maroon5 the other day, when they spoke with me about their impromptu canceling… Let’s just say they are now high in their list of “people who we hope to never have anything to share with again”…).
Enough of this broken record of mine (still bugs me a lil, but that pain also is recovering fast, trust me: I’ll enjoy the music he/they will share when they will, but no way I am gonna ever again lose any sleep on their decisions which are gonna keep taking credibility away from them in the eyes of educated music lovers. It’d be a waste of time from my part, since he/they don’t care about that firstly).
I leave you instead with the Tribute for John Lennon in the 31st anniversary of his sad and tragic death, because John is always ruling, dead or alive.
He’s eternally a boss 😉 and eternally every and each one of us must celebrate his supreme legacy :
I am loving it
Posted 9 November 2011
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So… Gaining some time after reunion with husband, as works almost ends and I have a couple minutes to spend online.
Yesterday has been an utterly unreplicable experience of re-meeting.
We shut phones down, and we didn’t leave each other’s bodies for hours.
And hours.
And hours.
And this morning we replicated. What a holy situation of bliss…
It truly has been fantastic, and you must know by now my standards are really tough to meet, and match, especially continuously, in the lovemaking department.
But yes… this man can outdo himself (and me) so much, so greatly, all the times… that I couldn’t have married anybody else, really (without him I don’t think I would have married at all. Marriage was supposed to NOT be my thing at all, he fought to make my mind change there and it did JUST because of him).
I think I had to be someone really good and great in my previous times here because that’s the only way that can explain all of my blessings in this current passage over Mother Earth.
Truth.
But let’s try to be understandable.
It has been so hard to fly back from New York alone, as he had to fly to Berlin for work instead, and I couldn’t give up to my own work commitments to follow him as I had hoped to (I love Berlin, but it seems always when I have to be there, Karim can’t follow me (not all the time) and when I am too taken, he has to be there, again alone).
I had an incredible hard time in not merging with his skin for almost five entire days.
You know me… I develop an incredibly bad mood if I can’t have daily sexual activities, and the Skype/cybersexual/kinky online stuff we nonetheless did just couldn’t even remotely match the way we have flawless, amazing sex together (some of you would call it making love… but it doesn’t work for me cos we make AWESOME SEX while being in utter love. We’re just so totally fitting one another’s wild dreams there, the “making love” thing seems just not enough to describe us ;). Then to me sex is one of the greatest things ever, if not THE greatest thing ever and it works just better if love is involved but you know… it can function very well even when love isn’t.).
So my days Karim-deprived were telling me right now I really feel our lives are a UNITE thing.
Not that my friends haven’t been great to be with me and make me happy while I was alone in Milan.
Contrariwise: they were all amazing.
I still believe any person has to be an individuality FIRST, so even when alone, I of course am capable of having fun, be cheerful, do my own stuff and have satisfaction.
It’s just that now that I can’t enjoy out of coupling sexual encounters (faithful, I promised and I mantain, unless we decide ourselves to be open and let somebody sneak in… but that are for very selected people, and generally my own Valentine wild card that Karim has learnt to love and appreciate…) that energetic fulfilling need that I daily have stay someway caged in, making me… feeling appetites I can’t let go.
And from there, it comes some of that bad mood above.
Thank above all my friends know me enough to understand where it comes from, and they are able to forgive me and cheer me and uplift me when things like that happen (some will still offer themselves for some revival of my amazing wild days of friendly benefiting, but by now they do know those days are gone, but always dear to my heart and memory… and somewhere other parts of my body too ;))
My crew is awesome: they know me and so they really took care of me.
We had a quiet night out, because the tragedy in Genova just didn’t call for wild antics out; then we had an awesome clubbing night, sessions of weekend shopping, dinner out with just my gals, and sporty stuff (Milan in San Siro is always good).
But… maybe I am just growin up… I don’t know.
It seemed to me that all the fun I had wasn’t complete still, without not a single moment of me gazing into Karim’s eyes and smelling his skin.
I had fun dancing, I had fun turning down the usual plethora of guys and men tryin to catch my attention (some were cute and also classy…and as usual some kept on trying no matter my note that I wasn’t up for anything, or that I was married. Marriage doesn’t discourage any hunter, I know ;)), and I had the most awesome time of chitty chat with my best friends…
But missing Karim was hard.
I can’t wait for next trip together: it will be in Russia for the end of the month when we will be in Saint Petersburg and Moscow for partly the Maroon 5 gigs over there and partly to celebrate in a very strange fashion a far away Thanksgiving with our families (let’s just call it a reason to celebrate, why not ;)… as we all adore art, I can tell you the place we look the most to be at is OBVIOUSLY The Ermitage :)!
Our time in New York was pretty much all ours; yep, we met with grandmother but mainly we enjoyed our new apartment in the Upper West Side (LOVE IT!!!) just a shot away from The Beacon Theater, Riverside and Lincoln Center.
Gosh I love our house there so much!
We went to Letterman too and enjoyed at the same time (they were taping two episodes) Justin Timberlake (well, not that I really like him at all, and he SUX as actor still), the awesome The Civil Wars, and then the subsequent taping JOHNNY friggin DEPP and the someway disappointing Foster the People.
We also had the great pleasure of being invited by lovely beauty Brooke Shields at her Broadway show and enjoy the cast company quite after it, and we also went to watch another piece, Mamma Mia!, as New York was preparing to find some snow hours later.
Then the whole of Soho (where some very good friends reside) and the night outs, The Chelsea Piers, dinners at the Top of The Sky…
Oh, New York!!!
As an European, I’ll never be tired of saying it, NY IS the city… I meanI love California and I love to have a house there, but California love expresses itself fully towards the entire Country, while talking about TOWNS, New York just BE IT.
We couldn’t obviously remain these latest few days so we missed Saturday Night Live on the 5th November (too bad, episode is hilarious and yes, I actually enjoyed Maroon 5 there even though I still only moderately like both Moves Like Jagger and Stereo Hearts):
Today we were actually invited to be witnessing the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, where Anne walks and Maroon 5 (and KANYE!!!!!) will perform; but honestly, I will happily content myself with watching it on tv, because I feel not any urge of crazy fandom by now.
I still obviously love Maroon 5, but I can live with missing them sometimes.
It doesn’t nor wouldn’t hurt me anymore at all, like it used to when they used to be flawlessly epic to me, and therefore any missing of their “existence” would have felt like a deprive to my soul.
Now, I am a fan that likes and loves and praises, but not longer completely adores and worships them, pros and cons no matter what.
This makes me somebody who has a number of huge likes in music, but not anymore a devoted and 110% fan of ANYBODY (still, I have my list of likes that I can put in a numbered list, and the top positions still always the same, even without worshipping I presume).
But there’s a thing that they did this past week that I truly loved that involved Maroon 5, and that thing was a chat they did for z100NY radio where Adam confessed his fandom for my other favorite band (and they still them two who keeps being my favorite, no matter Moves Like Jagger, Mylo Xyloto mistakes of various sorts and crimes against music, bad reality tv shows The Voice shame), namely Coldplay (I also adores that he gives hints about Rock In Rio, a gig that I adored to attend to, for both bands).
Watch it because it’s so cute (in its entirety, actually, not merely the part where he talks about Coldplay, or when he rightly defends his position against those idiots of Fox News, for instance):
Talking about idiots, politics and douchebags – all things that apply to Fox News and anybody trusting that racist, angsty uninforming trash – , and I use the term way too generously, in Italy that stupid criminal Berlusconi is keeping us hanging while the Country falls apart, drowns itself under water, generally struggles to survive and he still speaking like everything’s fine and like he actually has a voice to raise to make things better.
Can he die already, please?
I mean… NATURALLY (he’s old enough, isn’t he?).
I think Rino Gaetano said it best (it’s scary how this song works now like it did decades ago…):
I really hope my Country can raise the bar, raise its head up and start understanding to be OKAY, to be fine, to be respected and trusted you gotta WORK, be responsible, be true, be HONEST and never give up to ANY of these things.
We have more brain and more talent and more strength than we think; and the fact so many in this Country believed in a rotten, fake, poisoning and poisoned criminal’s “fairy tale” has brought this amazing place on the verge of despare, and bankruptcy.
I know we won’t permit this any longer.
So… as I keep being blessed and happy… I hope my generation will provide the great energy to start a new and better chapter for many, and for all the Italians too.
John Lennon wasn’t the only dreamer.
Last song I post, makes me remember New York in the sweetest way:
Have you all a great time.
The happiest woman on this planet. Ever 😉
Missus Z. 🙂
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Today I lost my Hero.
Steve Jobs, the man whose life has inspired mine since I started to know him and his amazing vision, has died due to pancreatic cancer (cop off the “PC killed Steve jokes… there’s no fun in this at all, thank you) and I feel so null and void inside.
Till I realize what Steve has inspired me and millions of others with through his powerful, restless imagination, and work and accomplishments, well that won’t ever die, nor fade.
Ever.
That’s the legacy of a man whose importance stands there with geniuses of history of humanity.
Einstein is Steve’s peer.
Gandhi is Steve’s peer.
Newton is Steve’s peer.
Leonardo is Steve’s peer.
This is the range of Steve Jobs.
There are tons of words I could say, and tons of images and pieces of writing I could address you to…
But always I think of these two whenever I think of Steve and who he was, and IS STILL, because in them you can feel the power of dreaming he had and knew he could share to push many other into breaking barriers, never feel lazy to try and try and try until they could make that dream a REALITY.
And beyond.
Because if there’s a thing that Steve has taught me and many others to do, that’s the fact you don’t ever have to let things drag you down, slow you down, blur you off.
Life is precious… too precious to waste it in mourning and regrets.
He said that death is the greatest inventions because it gives rooms for NEW.
Steve wouldn’t like us to waste not even a second crying for him, if that second could be devoted by us to make our dreams become true.
So in this day which is forever sad for me, I leave you with Steve’s Stanford University Addressing, and with the amazing Think Different commercial he made with Ridley Scott.
I do it because in his charisma and words and LIFE you can reckon how far a man’s imagination can reach and make, so that you all along me can keep honoring Steve and his touch on humanity by spreading THAT vision which is a pure message of HOPE and trust in the best qualities of human beings (and God knows how much we need such a positive perspective on things in such dire and dark days).
Steve Jobs. 1955-2011.
WORLD’s HERO.
MY HERO.
Goodbye and Thank You.
The amazing Ridley Scott’s commercial, and the impeccable and fast forward Apple style:
Missus Z.
Hectic day: check.
Last directions from father for the business meetings in Rio De Janeiro: check.
Swifty ride to not let my horse miss me another week: check.
Sex in the bathtub: check.
Expectations for Saturday Coldplay + Maroon5 gigs in Rock in Rio: check.
What else?
Oh, yeah… Calvin Harris made me INSTANTLY like (and buy) a Rihanna song, We Found Love:
Marco Travaglio Rocks.
What else?
Nothing that crosses my mind at the moment.
Check you all when we’re back from Brazil 😉
Have our same fun (I know it’s far from easy… ;))
Missus Z.
Reaching New York in 3 hours
Posted 10 July 2011
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Note: edited on July 10, GMT -5 hr 23.15
Good morning from the United States!
We’re prancing around in this awesome colonial house (Hamptons, baby!!!!) and we are about to leave to New York in a little while.
We reached Karim’s clan from London, where we went past weekend to enjoy the FINAL OF WIMBLEDON!!!
Nole won over Rafa in a Final that was amazing for me (they are my two fav players), as much as it was the time in London and the great dinner FTP for the winners, the night of the victory.
Meeting Nole was precious: he’s very lord-like and absolutely enchanting to exchange words with 🙂
Still, Rafa keeps the number one spot in my tennis heart, and Djokovic stays a very close second.
I told him and he smiled and said that he will try his best to make me change my mind.
*cute* 🙂
We had a total fantastic time here in the Big H, filled with parties, family time, yacht leisure (okay… K’s family yacht is INSANE… amazingly so!), horse rides along with dinisties of horseracers (WOW!!!) and in a way we would like to stay here a couple of days more but we are heading to New York to have the first parties out of the stream of ones K&I will have for our “Bachelor/ette Celebrations” and people are flying in from literally all over the world so it’s not like we can demolish so much fun for our romantic times alone 😉
It’s gonna be pretty wild.
And yep— I hope the boys will have fun because we girls SURELY will.
Don’t be prudes or don’t read further (or incoming posts): I wish my future hubby lots of wild sex at these parties.
He knows for me sex can be like gymnastic if heart is not involved, so as long as he’s safe, he can bang at those parties whoever he likes.
To me he could even out of the parties, he knows how I feel about sex so he knows I’m very honest there: I am not one who feels any type of jealousy… it’s a conceptual forced feeling our historic culture and religious belief has placed within us to feel like sexual exchanges are breaking promises or faith, but that happens only if those elements strike in for what I am concerned… therefore for me – I get is not a common though – a sex thing can happen without any feeling or faithfulness involved.
I don’t lie about that, and I have always make it clear with all people who have been fortunate enough to share my sheets (or whatever else of the same category of “physical fun items”).
I’m an honest libertine BUT for the love I feel for Karim I don’t have problems in ditchin this for him to be happy…
Still I don’t see the point in being possessive with the one you love because the more you try to hold someone back, the more he/she’s gonna slippin from your chains.
I let him free, even though he has explained to me he can’t do the same…
I get you my K.
Don’t worry.
I understand and you know I don’t feel trapped with you anyway.
But yes, for me he’s free to bang around, even though I imagine he will give up most of chances also at the parties (I suggested to my friends who are there to push him instead… camon!!! Have fun you darn hot thing… make someone else happy with what Nature so kindly and abundantly has given you ;)!)
He won’t find anyway anybody who’s even remotely as unforgettable as me in a sex encounter, that’s for sure, so…I have no fears someone else can involve him as I do.
What about me then? Oh, it will depend on my mood, given the little boundaries I have agreed to accept and the fact we are in New York so probably lots of the people whom will be at the places we will hang at might be acquaintances of Karim or his clan (not that those hipster/rich types have sexual codes that involve normality anyway…).
And also it could depend on the fact I might find somebody sexy enough to raise my interest at my parties (and you know my taste are refined so it’s really not easy to catch me eye and even less easy to catch my attention after… but I expect people trying as usual).
Karim isn’t as open as me though so I know he had requests to undervalue when we were planning our “party times”.
He cannot stand me with anybody else unless he’s present, so that’s why we have parties in shifted days, this round and also all other rounds that are gonna happen in different towns (his is Monday, mine is Tuesday) so in case I feel the urge, he can… well, operate ;)).
I don’t really complain because by now you know that three is a very interesting number in my life ;)… And in these multiple parties it could even be surpassed.
I don’t wanna over think anything ;)… I let all doors open to *major fun*.
Rule number one in my life: I don’t give a damn about other’s concept of life.
I have mine and I am very sincere.
If you wanna mash with me, you better take it or leave it, and in any case, that won’t affect the way I will keep conducing myself.
Your judgment isn’t important to me: my life is fabulous just because I drive it very much as I like it to be.
Probably I would have been an amazing star in the decadent times in France or Spain by the end of 1800… but then the protections and the acknowledge of the STDS weren’t developed so no… I prefer very much to live nowadays, in the end.
Lots more things to do and chances to take 😉 and way safer.
I love to talk these subject in very pleasant literary debates… and people of huge culture and education actually get very engaged about this all; latest additions to my “literary and artistic circle of friends” are actually Karim’s father and uncle.
We had a very great series of conversations these past days.
They’ve seen the world and experienced all variety of people so I love to talk with them because their minds are very open and very rich.
We will be back in Italy next week: Swifty misses me so in the July travels I have to sneak in chances for rides along him (wonder if he will smell again the taste of another horse on me… he hates that ;)).
Next move will be in California, and Las Vegas.
It will also be a musical trip because after The Fuckery “that thing” ended I have finally allowed myself to re-listen to Maroon 5 so the Hollywood Bowl gig is what we will also do in Los Angeles in two weeks.
I actually also hope to catch Stevie Wonder the day before at the same venue but yet that has to be confirmed.
I still not enamored with Maroon 5 as I used to be though; I fear that wound will never be healed, and that type of worship I used to have for them and for Adam especially will never be restored in full force again.
And so in many ways Moves Like Jagger, which is an undoubtedly little summer pop gem, sounds like Katy Perry to me (and that is NOT good, though catchy-powering), making my liking of the song diminished in value (I can’t appreciate the fact pop-garbage producers like Benny Blanco have taken charges of Maroon 5 songs now… I don’t really like Stereo Hearts as I hoped I would have, either, and he’s involved in that too).
These are my summer songs by the way (part of them have been influenced by my stay away from Italy, especially number 4, which I LOVED as soon as I heard it on the radio the other day :)):
- LMFAO Party Rock Anthem (I was the one telling you months ago this was going to be universally HUGE);
- JOVANOTTI and Michael FRANTI The Sound Of SunShine
- GIORGIA Il Mio Giorno Migliore (LOOOOVE IT!!!)
- ONE REPUBLIC Good Life
- COLDPLAY Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
- MAROON 5 & CHRISTINA AGUILERA Moves Like Jagger (can’t avoid to like it even though I don’t love it)
- JOVANOTTI Il Piu’ Grande Spettacolo
- ALOE BLACC I Need A Dollar
- BRUNO MARS The Lazy Song
- place number ten is free for grabs 😉 I will have a final word at the end of the summer 😉
I leave you with cuteness though.
One thing that hasn’t diminished at all regarding M5 related stuff is still my appreciation of the Adam Levine + Anne V love story (still rooting for them to be together forever and have many gorgeous and physically perfect little Levines with a boost of Russian genes in… oh! how cute they would be!!! Adam and Anne are the best celebrity couple I have ever seen so…) and in fact I had to compose this collage when I downloaded for my friends Marghe and Sere some pictures for them to upload in their Maroon 5 dedicated blog (they will update it someday soon… I have no idea when though because they are bound to reach me in New York just today?):
They are so incredibly cute together.
That melts me since their beginnings, and to be fully honest I don’t even really like the fact Adam will be half naked in the Moves Like Jagger video because Anne wasn’t there with him this time, filming along him (she was in Montenegro for a birthday party, and that explains why they were so huggy and affectionate in the Los Feliz cafe’, before her departure from California).
This by the way are some of the stills from the shooting of Moves Like Jagger video, filmed by one of my fav directors, the uber talented swede Jonas Akerlund, whom Adam interviewed in 2009 for MTV (search this blog):
Anyway I am sure they will reunite very soon, considering Chovy stays at Adam’s pad (cute… he said he was watching a movie with his DOGS… so now he feels Anne’s one is as well his 🙂 who knows how Frankie feels about that?).
I know Love Will Rule.
And talkin about that, Karim and I will travel to New York in a limo with closed space.
We will be about to rule love in 3…2…1… 😉
Catch you sometime around two weeks I think 😉
Kisses, Miss Z. 🙂
Glastonbury 2011
Posted 27 June 2011
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Whoooooooo!!!!
I just want to express my joy for having been part (again!!!) of the amazingness that is Glastonbury Festival.
Random thoughts coming in shuffle…
Forget the unchained-ly awkward stream of observations… time is strict but I like it (three more days at lab and then is PRE-MARRIAGE PARTY MONTH…. *All Around The World*!!!!).
So, back at K&I amazing Glasto days.
Perks:
- Coldplay.
- Coldplay. (;)) (they were so great even weather held up again for them… just like at Heineken Jammin. Plus, new songs are FANTASTIC!!!)
- Primal Scream (whoooo!!!)
- Hurts (we planned our private flight right after them… I couldn’t care less of Beyoncé ;))
- Mumford&Sons (overall EXCELLENCE live)
- Janelle Monae (perfection… she was WAY better than Jessie J, who wasn’t bad anyway)
- Tinie Tempah (my possible new hip hop crush… musically only cos he’s VERY short ;))
- Morissey (crazyhead, but sparkling).
- Weather surprisingly decent (for Glasto standard)
- Camping in the fields!!! (awesome. I mean… K&I and a tiny tent? Amazing. We made friends in incognito ;))
Downsides:
- Not having believed the rumor that Radiohead would be performing on Friday, therefore skipping at changing stages to try them. ARGH! Forever sad Zaira 😦
- Not having been able (for time schedule) to watch Queens Of The Stone Age (damn!)
- I realized I couldn’t care less of watching U2… because their latest album really was one of the biggest disappointment ever to me.
- The mess of the dead body @ camps, and the protestors (don’t ruin a festival with politics, ever?)
- The trouble at finding clear water…
- The fact too many good acts again were playing overlapped, and you couldn’t have the full best from the schedule.
- iPhone substitutive batteries: way too short on charge.
- The price of private bathrooms (REALLY?????)
- Way too many weirdos, and way too drunk (even for the notoriously DIFFERENT UK standards ;))
- Press passes people trying to hitting on me way too hard. Karim at a certain point had to *politely* (NOT) lift from their ground a pair of the most annoying. 😉
So… This is it.
I’m a very happy lucky bitch 😉
Have all a great start of the week!!!
Whooooo!!!!
Miss Z. 😉
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Oh… how awesome!!!!!!
Today could be one of the best days of the year!!!!
Back after days of COMPLETE no connection (I got hacked past Wednesday in a very obnoxious way… obnoxious especially because it faked I could have ANY darn interest in THE Voice Of Fuckery… Yikes!!! I despise despise despise all about any reality tv show, ESPECIALLY when it butchers THE art of MUSIC!!! The day I will ever watch that thing may the Judgement Day come and bury me down in flames!), today from a very quiet lab, as my tests roll on, I HAVE to get you all on the amazingness that has been the WHOLE Heineken Jammin Festival 2011 experience, and SO much more that is going on in these beautiful – although rainy – hours.
In so many ways, I loved to be not connected because I got even more pleasures out of being with my friends and lover in such awesome spaces and events.
I also had some wild super rewarding sex plays in the mud and washed up through rain which was SUPERBLY satisfying.
Dirrrrrrrt in the best way 😉
I just took a space to read this coming from Save The Children (for obvious reasons) to honor Gwen Stefani and No Doubts efforts for Japan Relief. YOU ROCK guys. YOU ROCK GWEN!!!
Three words: WE MET COLDPLAY (that of course wasn’t my first time, but it always is a FINE pleasure, especially when Guy is all chatty. He’s a dreamboat and always will be), and this time even Karim admitted he liked them – in that break AND especially for their rocking performance on stage.
I think it could all stop there if that were NOT actually the peak.
The peak?
I TALKED WITH LIAM GALLAGHER.
THAT is the peak and forever will be (though I really think he was intimidated by both my and K’s height… not that he would EVER admit it, of course).
My Oasis-Mania will always EQUALLY love both brothers, because one has THE most amazing raspy voice of his generation, and the other the most amazing easy writing skills (can’t wait for Noel’s solo album to drop… and while we’re at it, happy incoming marriage Noel!!!).
The days of the Heineken Jammin have been awesome… maybe not everybody loved the line-up as we did, but to me one of the peaks WAS DEFINITELY FABRI FIBRA!!!!
We re-met him (no big deal… he’s a homie ;)) as well, and actually as usual I had a blast.
We loved especially day one, even though weather wasn’t bright (but during the PERFECT Coldplay set, even rain stop bothering because NOTHING had to mess with the complete bliss that their set was. Gosh, they get better and better and better as performers every single time: the whole thousands and thousands were all so transfixed… males, females – because they have as many males fans as they have females, for God’s grace – everyone just stated the obvious: COLDPLAY are this generation’s U2. End of it. Another level, yep).
Cremonini and Elbow, the amazing Verdena, Negramaro (on second day) were really really good too.
Vasco Rossi on third day is a giver, I mean, Vasco is always a great fun live… but the rest of day three and some of day two was really a filler.
Taylor Momsen should just model because her music SUCKS; then… All Time Low??? REALLY???
Painful awfulness.
Never call them back again (not merely at this festival… just don’t let them come back in Italy ALTOGETHER, for the sake of music!).
Before we took off for the four days of Veneto’s magic we drowned in more bliss thanx to Apple and Steve Jobs, who revealed to the world the news about US:
Watch the whole of the Keynote from Apple Site:
I adore Steve Jobs.
He is what I’d love to become, as I wrote, he’s an imaginative genius ahead of his time and full of dreaming power, without being naive or empty for it.
Steve… I suffer seeing you so weak and consumed… you’ll NEVER know how good you did for the world and… ME.
Love You.
Keeping up with amazingness of the past few days. we had to leave Venice soon on Sunday because Ladies and Gentlemen we had to VOTE for the Referendums (please let the Quorum be reached!!!).
This absolutely fantastic video from Sora Cesira, with its distinctive half Italian-English mash up, tells everything:
Genius again.
The total bliss ensued when this morning, just as I had hoped yesterday before getting some deserved rest, when I woke up to the GREAT news that LeBron(ze) James once again proved himself as the BIGGEST LOSER ever and choked again, overshadowed by Dirk Novitzky‘s TRUE class and losing the ring (he will never get) in favor of the very deserving Dallas Mavericks.
AMAZING.
Amazing.
AAAAAMMMMAAAZZZING.
This picture also is genius and it will keep me going smirking ALL day:
I’m very happy of the MEAT demise: I am sorry for Wade, who’s a great champion (in Dirk’s league), but you know my un-appreciativeness of Bronzey’s HYPE is as vast as sky and I hope finally it will stop, after the further proof that he simply CANNOT WIN.
He’s a choker, a loser, and will NEVER ever win, no matter how many (better than him) players he will surround himself with, he has NOT *that* factor that makes people win (read: COJONES).
He’s NOT a champion. He’s just a very good player with a set of natural skills that he NEVER developed rightly because he’s a lazy unfocused PRICK.
Yes.
This is what he is, because the only thing that holds himself from success is… HIMSELF.
What a waste of human being (You know I consider CRIMINAL when great talents get wasted due to people’s characterial FLAWS… it’s a damage to humanity to me, and let alone how can I take such a low form of life can get HYPED??? Please… shut up and hide under rocks. Losers will remain losers forever, because it’s in themselves the problem, and they just won’t solve that).
Stop hoping he will blossom because at 26 he’s starting to get old and stale ALREADY and should be ashamed the way he lost once again, once more.
Awwwwwwwww. The Laker Fan in me REJOICES so much.
I had really hoped a lot this would happen, and I am so delighted my fears past post were overcome by events 🙂
Today at lab, though, something else arrived that in a way made me very happy (I was thinking about buying it in Japan once there for marriage, because my record collection gotta remain intact a and complete NO matter THE FUCKERY that thing currently making me bleed), but on the other end still signify for some weeks more I can’t bend over that liking.
I can’t be derogatory to my life’s principles.
That means also (among brackets) that although I HAVE listened (once) to the song Adam and Gym Class Heroes did, Stereo Hearts (it’s a cute, unarming song… not a masterpiece, because NOTHING produced by those who write for KESHA and Britney Spears could ever be, but it’s a nice generically cute happy pop summer song that surely will do well everywhere, because generic is what rules the charts nowadays, if you exclude AWESOME Adele), and I reckon is a nice effort (nowhere near as good as the real rock song Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, of course, but still a sweet happy pop urban song), I won’t buy the song until The Fuckery Voice ends, no matter if technically the song will be available TOMORROW from iTunes (this breaks a LONG habit, where I would buy ANYTHING off from any of Maroon 5 guys even before listening to the thing, JUST because they’d deserve… but now my fanship has way reduced, due to the musical crime Adam did when he sold his artistry out to a reality tv show… sorry, this is not amendable for me, and it never will. That super status is forever lost in my book, and it won’t come back, because I can’t really take him any seriously anymore, no matter his unmistakable talent and his beautiful voice…):
But I mean… confront the above (cute, I admit it) song with a real rock song full of guitars and real musical play, and with WAY better substance, then draw your conclusion on why I feel so let down about somebody after all:
I mean… there’s NO comparison regarding real artistry quality between these two tracks right?
It doesn’t mean Stereo Hearts won’t succeed (I think it will, and I hope it will because Adam NEEDS a hit after all) but have you looked what is in the chart these days? Kesha? Katy Perry? Taio Cruz? PITBULL???? If that’s what people buy, let me be with the music people DON’T buy, all way long (even if I am sure ETIAW will be bought a LOT everywhere, because it’s just too much of a good song anyway).
Oh well… a least so far Adam didn’t dare to ruin completely his credibility and duet with Justin Bieber or a Jonas Brother… but the way he’s now, I won’t be surprised when he would (ah, the good times when duets were with REAL people like Alicia Keys are forever gone, aren’t they?… what a shame…).
Anyway, back to the gift I got sent.
My Chinese partners sent me this as a present this morning ( they wanted to be kind after I served them with boat rides and Italian Sea last month… cute).
Hands All Over ASIAN Tour Edition, which is a CD + DVD.
They also sent me a bid guitar. That I will immediately give to Karim.
Way to keep me cringe over what has gone that won’t return (namely the pure unaffected joy of having special M5 items, when I was proud of them…).
Lucky me, the mail was cute today though most especially because Radiohead FULL package for The King Of Limbs arrived (that’s what I call music…) ;).
That saved me someway.
And kept the mood just as perfect as it can get.
Now we just need a QUORUM.
Do it, Italy.
Do it.
I trust you 😉
Love, Miss Z. 🙂
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