I guess by now, it’s just a further morning (actually I will finish this at late evening… and prepare to a LOT of typos because there is no way I will double check a thing if I ever want to finish the thing for real ops ;))…
I have been long awaiting to create this post because in the past few days so much that I care of has happened in Italy that I have been on a roller coaster of powerful moods straight for around a week right now.
I have been in need of taking my time in relax… working (going abroad to Berlin again) then just spend time with Karim, and have a wonderful Milan Night in San Siro (whoooaaa we were great against Lazio!!! And I who thought Barcelona Magic was a one night stand!!!), then relax again and be just naked for a whole Sunday before the awkward sensation out of last week vanished enough to let me write.
For weeks (months… let’s cut it.. FOR YEARS) I have waited for a sign of change in my fellow Countrymen, and waited for this all to manifest itself in the just-happened turn of ballots.
I waited for them to understand criminal liars aren’t going to do our poor Italy any favor (because the only ones they look forward to would benefit solely themselves) and I was hoping this year would have proven my hopes right.
I was hoping after the worst bunch of years, clearly linked to disarmingly awful management out from essentially one party (person) Italians would have stopped to believe tales and would have boldly faced reality and would have acted consequently, because after all we are an heritage of amazingly talented people and we have skills, talents, brains and creativity to always find our way to become better, no matter how disadvantaged we are feeling or how bad the situation is looking.
Because DAMN… I am PROUD to be Italian… for what we are SUPPOSED to be.
I get so disheartened whenever I realize this concept of “Italian” might be just a thing of the past, since it’s almost all my life that the values that seem predominating in my Country are the exact opposite than what I strive for and I thrive on.
Watching Presa Diretta yesterday has made me undertsand better why Italians (and why so many of them) have chosen a former comedian as mentor… but while I do get the disbelief and outrageous anger towards “regular” politicians is a thing that – positively – finally has gotten to the limelight, I still very dubious that a recipe like the one Grillo suggests (? does he in the end suggest something after all?) can fix troubles.
Not only that… the other one, the cancer this Country keeps proudly displaying (oh, poor us), still around and not as done as anybody with brain and heart wanted him to be.
I can’t believe the way populism is so ready to mesmerize Italians.
Grillo and Berlusconi are just the same soup baked and cooked in populist sauces, the only difference being the fact Grillo is NOT a criminal while Berlusconi instead is one of the biggest CRIMINALS around.
I get scared when I see how much desperation (or sometimes just laziness) can revolve and push people in trusting what in my book should hardly be trusted.
Yes, Italians love fake promises, they love to have others think for them and find them easy solutions (that never exist in reality, especially in difficult realities such as the times we are in), and they are ready to believe the grossest tales as long as they are pledged to escape a reality that they don’t find flattering.
I cringe at this all, because I am a different breed: I think in hard times people have to FACE the difficulty and get over it by their own forces, with dedication, pride, with determination and drive.
In a way, M5S pledges for this kind of personal push, but I see so many anarchists and unreliable people merged into their following that I can’t avoid to question the goodness of the Movement itself.
I so believe Italians have the resources to finally turn tables and make their (our) Country free from the disgusting stealing robbering behaviors for 60 years its politicians have implemented… I just fear Grillo is not the one to guide this whole process.
Berlusconi keeps being around. DAMN.
I don’t think he’s fit; I on the other hand deeply believe Italians have to do what it takes to save Italy from the cliff we’re hanging on the verge of.
How?
With talent; that talent which Italians have in their genetic pool so strong but which they seem to always forget about, drowned in fears.
This electoral result freaks me, I guess you got it…
Except that it actually doesn’t even surprise me that everything has gone this way, to be honest with you; the more I evaluate the whole situation, the more “surprised” isn’t really the way I feel about this all.
We have even more populists people claiming the little that’s left of Italians’ dignity throughout surrealistic suggestions (which are really dangerous tho) such as “let’s leave Euro” “let’s exit from the Financial system” (which is sucky and so totally wrong, but which pays our debt, idiots), and similarly out of reach “brilliant” (no) agendas.
We are probably the only Country in the world (ever?) to give TWO COMEDIANS the highest rise rate in the last 45 days before an actual “matter-of-life-and-death” turn of election.
We keep having the oldest political class (yes, in the Parliament now many young people are stepping in, but the political parties and all the lobbies and all the commanding chain in this Nation STILL an affair of painfully old people, let’s face it).
How can they reckon what would work for us, when they are not even belonging to the generation(s) they are throwing off a (very high) cliff?
Why we still the only Country where people at the Left don’t really understand a thing about the generation(s) they pledge the voting of?
Sure… we gotta get up and try (as P!nk would say… I love that song) but sometimes trust me is all but easy.
Sometimes… especially after having been for some days again in a Country like USA… I would love to just give up and leave.
We go there in two weeks again and really… sometimes… I think seriously about that all.
But it’s a very quick thought: I’d never do that… I am an Italian with the love for the Country which is shaped out of the way Japanese people love and adore their own.
I would never leave the boat that sink.
I am not Schettino.
Even if it’s truly (and believe me it is) hard to keep on witnessing the way Italians do pay dust to themselves so constantly.
Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI steps off the Pope’s soil
I want fresh forces, but forces who understand politics and LAWS, not a bunch of digerati who can claim this Country (one of those with the hugest debt) can exit frigging Euro or can give a minimum wadge salary (that’d be great, but simply it cannot happen with our financial woes) and an ordeals of retards will believe this all and will create un-governability, will send Stocks down the hill and generally will ruin the already thin chances Italy has to resurface from a downward spiral.
Basically… my problem with Italy is that I don’t trust Italians’ choices again, because those choices are just about as opposite as possible to anything great this Country has ever done in its glorious past.
Why don’t Italians try to be great as they can and work their asses off and stop to wait for others to bail them, instead of believing all Fairy Tellers and let them sink us all any time an inch more down the water?
But yes, it was amazing, and I so wish Italy could claim a progressive party and man such as USA can.
That was where last post ended… we were just about to witness the magic and I didn’t imagine this post would have come more than a month after but you know me… life has its turns and this blog is just my fun memory and generally February, March and April are very hectic for me; both work-wise and because in them there are always the trips for Valentine’s time (later on that… this year it was marvelous again), our K’s time and then my Birthday time.
So when heavy working schedule mix with long trips to foreign places (or to K’s home, like it will happen in March), it’s not really like I can have time to write posts.
I queue things along and then when I will be able to write, I will (this generally happens in airports halls or when I perform tests at lab, just like now ;)).
Oh, nothing… just best Italian Journalist and Historicist alive 😉
To make it more understandable: when we came back from Valentine’s vacation in the amazing Caribbean Islands, I went straight to Florence out from the plane for a THREE days conference which was taking place in weekend and then straight drove (well, K did…) to reach Milan and VOTE.
The day of Elections while the results were making me so worked off, I practically fell asleep by exhaustion at 9h30 pm.
I think somehow I am getting old and I need breaks to sustain some pacing my life has.
When I am turning 28 soon I will shed a tear to my former physical invincibility.
Which has gone away, clearly ;).
I am also starting to enjoy quieter nights out dining with the crew instead of the formal super clubby mod we were put on display on weekends.
Sure I do still enjoy to dance and feel musically entangled in lobo strobes but it’s just that I realize “generation-speaking” that is starting (conveniently) not being my thing anymore.
Chapters of life and age showing… and I have to say I actually like this comprehension I have of the rightfulness of this all.
Is there anything lamer than adults trying to deny they are adults by behaving like kids?
I allow that to artists because they MUST remain kids at heart always (so basically I allow K to be so, even if that really isn’t his way to be at all), but regular people with no artistry in their DNA keeping acting teens when they are not… those gain all my disrespect and I don’t plan to be self-hating any time soon ;).
By the way though yes, Ia m aging and I am almost 28… I still super hot and super fit tho so it’s okay.
I’ll just sleep more and have sex at more convenient hours 😉 (still as often as possible as that calls for a perfect shape and beauty appearance too ;)).
But back at what I was writing.
Life is the greatest thing indeed.
Lately I am really trying to figure out what I stand for at the moment… not only these rhythms that are pacing out at different values…
It’s clear I am approaching that phase of life when all of my peers are starting to turn into family units; I love this.
All you need is Love &… cookies 😉
I love that we are together since forever and we are all coming to the same places, this is amazing.
I love that I am starting to feel some kind of urgency towards motherhood, too.
WELL STOP THE PRESS IS NOT LIKE K&I ARE PLANNING A TODDLER.
Not yet 😉
But the more we are around friends (really close ones) with kids, or ready to have some, the more I naturally start to understand I might get there with ease, too.
Look… not because I feel pressured for or towards it…
JUST BECAUSE K&I feel like we are starting to be ready (but again, that yet doesn’t mean we are trying a thing ;)).
While I was traveling like a fool past month, and I also got blasted by flu, Karim was there being amazing and I suddenly felt so HOME.
It was no mattering where I actually was… He’s HOME for me.
His soul is home for mine.
And I think we could be great parents in a while.
We just need to complete our working crafts and feel full with them.
He’s on the verge of wrapping up the most amazing project in three Countries; I have a very FULL 2013 ahead.
Once these things are accomplished and once we both slide in our meant to chairs in our Companies… who knows.
It MIGHT be TIME FOR CHANGES.
One thing I know for sure.
In a month I get 28 and I feel a woman and not a girl by now in full.
Women have a different mind sets than girls.
And I am getting ready to new chapters in my life most definitely and the wonderful things is that I feel so GREAT about this all.
I am loving getting older; the experiences my life has gifted me with are something precious and very special and I believe in a little while I could be good in passing all this to a new generation; and that new generation, THAT’s FOR SURE, would also be fathered by the most perfect man in the world (perfect also because he is not perfect… though people meeting Karim won’t believe he is not, because this is what he looks and feels like to all of us… but I know him better and I can tell you he is not perfect, but just because of it he is PERFECT FOR ME :)).
When we went to Venice Carnival I just glowed in him.
Carnival Loving Time 2013
The mere things he does to make me smile or to teach me things I didn’t know blow my mind and heart off every single time.
The Valentine’s trip then…
For days and weeks he made me believe we would have gone to Pennsylvania at Hershey’s SPA and then to New York for Maroon 5 MSG gig and then meet with his family in Miami (they obviously have a beach house there too… where’s the surprise ;)).
Weather was freezy POLAR in Italy so I was looking forward to some chocolate and more freeze and then (but only then) some beachy hot time instead…
Instead we went to the Caribbean magic and passed from the Cays in Turks and then move to Santo Domingo and touch a sleeve of Cuban salsa as well…
We touched Nature in the most perfect way, meeting sharks and turtles and iguanas and feeling like Adam and Eve in the Eden and HONEST TO ABOVE…
There I truly felt like if I could get pregnant IMMEDIATELY and even give birth right there and be only K&I forever alone on those islands NOTHING would have been more prefect.
Yes, I am THAT in love.
Caribbean Love 2013
And the greatest thing is that while the passion still there (because I live for sex and I am the most sexual kinky fuck you could imagine… and he LOOOOOVES it, no matter what) the real plus part of our bond is that we are completely into one another’s minds and talents.
We look up to one another.
We genuinely think the other can make our world EVOLVE, which is why even when we quarrel (like anybody does if they care about one another) we can actually try to guess if something the other thinks could be in fact… right over our own opinion.
This only can happen when you REALLY think the other is amazing, because then your ego (even our two ones, which are MEGA) can step off a bit and make you get better through the other’s input.
That doesn’t mean I don’t get mad when K beats me at ANYTHING though ;).
Because I do.
My competitive side is just… moon-sized ;).
But I also always say that is a wonderous thing that I can LOVE my best competitor this much and always feel blessed even when he kicks my ass.
The satisfaction I get whenever is HIS ass that I kick multiplies out of this all, too 😉
*insert evil laugh*
*And a LOOOOOOONG kiss* 😉
Talking about competitive sides… it’s hard (especially after the AMAZING performances of late) not to connect with what THE AMAZING MAMBA is doing at the moment.
He’s starting to think about retirement of course but just as I said to him… that day for me will make the transition about him from INHUMAN PERFECT ATHLETE to SUPREME SPORT LEGEND ICON.
I will also – of course – when Kobe won’t be playing anymore.
But like it always happens with my sporty idols… when THEY stop, a part of me buries with them and what they have inspired me out of LIFE lessons properly, through their sport’s mastery.
So when Kobe retires… a part of me will be completed and a seed will be planted forever in me and its offsprings (hopefully) will be also part of me forever.
Kobe is my FOCUS&Determination icon.
He will always be an hero for me, long past his Lakers’ days (and his obvious status as legend).
Talent is something that flourishes so highly in them two… and you know I can only like talented (multi talented actually) type of people.
So will the Lakers made it to playoffs?
I don’t think chances are that high at stakes actually…
His Mamba-ness
This because it doesn’t ONLY rely on Lakers… we have to hope those ahead slow down and this is never a good way to obtain things. But it’s our fault to have let the opportunity slides off our hands to be the sole responsibles of our own future so, whatever it happens, it will be on us and teach us better for the future (hopefully).
What I do know is that I adore to see Kobe and Nash play together; I have let go of Pau‘s disappointments by now (he’s injuried so it wouldn’t even be cute to speak about it) and Howard keeps being… I don’t know… resilient to finally give in to us and be a COMPLETE Laker?
Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant Lakers LOVE
I still on the fence about him; can’t help but feeling Kobe’s feels there (I know, I am biased probably but this is how I am ;)).
I hope Lakers make it to the playoffs also because being in the USA for a while in the next two months, I would love to witness again a game live at Staples…
I will actually be soon at Staples but that will be again just for a bunch of hours of gig catching when Maroon 5 play there in two weeks (less than it!!!) and it won’t last much , as we will be based in San Francisco by the time of K’s festivities 😉 and then we move to New York for both mine and his work (yes, no leisure time this time in NY)… and then from there is – hopefully if nothing goes wrong – HANAMI TIME IN JAPAN FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!! (and THAT will surely be only leisure time 😉 because I do deserve ;)).
Hanami Time for my incoming 28th birthday!
So right now I generally start to go backwards to the past post and put up Maroon 5 & then Adam (and Behati’s) things.
I will this time too, but since more than a month and A LOT of things have happened, I will try to be quick (none of you believe I will actually be able to, do you?) because already the video things are like a million pieces and this is going to be one of the longest posts ever already just out of them.
Take a seat?
Good 😉
Before I start, let me just point out for the millionth time that when I write about M5 or Adam… I do it only because they are part of my entertainment and “world of likes”.
The two lovebirds pose alike – Adam and Behati
This is not a gossip blog; this is my blog and here I list what I am interested in.
The day I will not find this fun anymore, I will stop; or the day I won’t find reasons to update about all my likes; I’ll stop this.
Gossip is not my thing; in fact, I love that for instance now Adam is very private about his personal and love life: that’s the way I carry my life too (I don’t let strangers enter for real in my circle and am very picky in my true life friendships) and for sure, the best way to have a safe and healthy and HAPPY life is let the crazy outsiders as separate as possible from the core of your inmost and safest personal place.
Super Classy Adam Levine – vintage
I am glad Adam has learnt it through bad experience off his (recent and not so recent) past: no true lover will ever ask you to display your privateness, unless it’s for gaining personally out from your weaknesses.
I always get appalled anytime “fans” claim the “idols” owe them anything other than the consuming of their professional creations; what fans are responsible for it’s the fame the idols may have but that fame came because what artists and idols PRODUCED matched a taste and a liking and then the only thing fans are to be credited for are to have been rewarded with THE PRODUCTS off from their idols.
The fans don’t own the idols at all; they can just own the products that the idols put off, and the occasional proxemity derived from the live consuming of that product, too.
Fans are fans because they LIKE THE PRODUCTS the “idols” make; in no way the “idols” life belong AT ANY PART to no fan.
I wish the ordeals of crazy heads who are way too invested in celebrity lives would understand this, that in no way the life of their idols are linked or will ever be linked for real to theirs..
In some years, Maroon 5 won’t be public anymore, just like it always happens with musicians – or actors –; Adam and the guys will lead very private lives and stay in themselves like it’s only fair to be… what will the crazy fans do then?
Stop breathing?
In the past month I got harassed by some very amusing mad folks and in all occasions (beside laughing my ass off at them) I just thought “poor them… do they really believe any of the people they worship would ever think anything different than “these are crazy” about them?” It’s sad when lives are so poor you have to borrow some celebrity’s one to feel you have a purpose in your days.
Behati and Candice in Caribbean Blue 😉
This isn’t how I work and this isn’t what this blog is up for.
These are my youth memories and my music likes are of course involved, as music plays such a HUGE part in my daily things, but as you have read before, I am not that young anymore so these chronicles (and all the material I upload) could just be gone at ANY GIVEN TIME from now on.
I won’t keep on writing for much longer, be sure ;)…
I will surely be stopping as soon as I have a kid for instance, or just turn this into a “mummy care” blog (with no pics whatsoever of my family of course… you know that privacy and I are double tied).
It’s just about what I decide to do, the rest of the days this blog may or may not have, and it’s no big deal really… just a phase of my life that takes place onto another one which ends, right?
Oh, and always remember… Internet is not real life.
A fandom is not real life.
For how important that all may seem (at least to teen people, and everyone has been teen so I do understand… I much less understand grown people spending TONS of time online following celebrities in their every move, as they couldn’t live a hour without imagining what they do or what they don’t… really? I suggest to go out and take a look at the sky 😉 and maybe talk in real life with real people flesh and bone, for a good change ;)), in reality it is just NOT important at all; it should not matter till the point you don’t feel fine if for a day you don’t check your internet, twitter or whatever in fear you miss Above-Knows-What that your idol might be sharing there.
These stuff… are not mattering for real in your life; trust ;).
It has happened to me quite a number of times by now to reject some material some people were sending me to be published here just because it seemed to me way too much of a reach by said people to suggest me to write one thing or another – for instance under a picture they sent – and to just completely reject the entire ideas they had about things the pictures or the link had to stand for (to be more clear: some people were sending me material to empower their sort of fans/stans wars through this blog and NO THANK YOU, I have left sixth grade a lot time ago and this is just ridicolous, especially when coming from grown up people well past their TWENTIES even. I don’t use, thank you very much ;)).
I don’t even know how to react to these things; they seem all so out of world to me… I can’t really picture how those brains work (or if they do exist at all).
A fandom might be nice, but not if it becomes borderly obsessive, or an obsession entirely.
Ewwww.
That’s gross and sad and just plain wrong: read a book in case… do not create a book in your mind using by suggestions living people’s lives.
Real life is made of the real people in your life, not a celebrity dream: try to step aside this all if you come here to read about celebrities (here or anywhere else), because you’re destroying your life this way.
Adam Levine and mum Patsy at Lakers old games
Okay 😉
Now I can start to put the pieces of the past month together, musically speaking ;).
I will actually put together the timelines of both M5 & Behati + Adam (sort of) because there’s no other way to do this in a quick way (today is testing day but is not like I can just play at work… I don’t want the lab cubicle to explode, especially NOT with me in it ;)!)
I will try my best to be understandable…
In case I wouldn’t (it’s fairly possible); just have fun with all the videos and magazines which are gonna be put up ;).
Let’s start from where it all ended previous post then.
Talking about that video… what if BOTH Love Somebody video and The Man Who Never Lied one (which have both been done already, with Emily Ratajkowski and Valerie Van Der Graaf) will be part of the re-edition of Overexposed, which I suppose will be packed around the Summer, as part of a bonus content (which hopefully is going to include a new song, a new version of Lucky Strike with a female vocalist featured, and some more surprises)?
I’d be VERY down to this all.
It’s not the moment to make Love Somebody a fourth single: as I predicted Daylight went to Top Ten in BBHot100 just for a hot minute (still, that is the best chart achievement of ANY Maroon 5 album ever: 3 Top Ten hits were not even possible with Songs About Jane!) but the sappy mood just won’t do much more (as it won’t the insane new rule for the BBHot100 chart… what a travesty, Bill Werde!!), and it would be foolish to push another similarly sounding single in Love Somebody.
the impressive chart success of Maroon 5 currently
Please guys don’t do it.
You have THE PERFECT songs in Lucky Strike, Doin’ Dirt and Wipe Your Eyes to rule the chart again… cut the sappy stuff and although I really like the way Daylight sounds live, I still don’t think it is at all that memorable song.
It’s in the line of Won’T Go Home Without You… cute but nothing historical; in years it won’t ever be mentioned in your best 7 tracks meme.
It’s time to let it go and bring the groove back ;).
A thing that bugs me (but I do understand where it comes from) is that the media and VS are trying obvioulsy to milk the fact Behati is with Adam; SHE DOESN’T DO THAT, being respecteful of her boyfriend and so good for him… but the media outlets do and this causes stress and charge for the couple.
By now is UTTERLY clear Adam and Behati won’t talk publicly of their relationship and THAT IS GREAT AND RIGHT; but the fact they won’t is making newsmakers trying to push them into doing it , even if by denying lies.
When the interview aired, the usual brainless suspects tried to read into Ryan talking with one of Adam’s assistants (NOT ADAM, be careful) the sentence that he (Adam they hoped, but it may have been the assistant, right?) was “newly single”:
This caused havoc online; the many mad people who hate Behati just because she is with Adam took the chance to vent into her account and offend her all possible ways; the psycho widows around had no hesitation in covering her with hateful names and horrible reactions; doesn’t matter that she was (and STILL IS) clearly with Adam (clearly to anyone a bit into his circle); the fact is that the careful media handling of some previous famewhoring exploiter has depicted Behati so bad, fragile minds have fallen for the lies and just cannot see the truth not even when it’s as bright as the Sun.
In all this insane and undeserved hate, not only Behati behaved so very classily and never stepped down to her haters sad levels; she just kept on being herself and being protected by her people (Candice, Doutzen), after she tweeted simply “Haters Will Hate, Lovers Will Love: It’s You’re Choice“.
And aside the grammar flaw, the point is exactly that: she doesn’t owe explanations; her life and Adam’s are only THEIRS and it’s good the hate she gets still hasn’t affected that one bit.
I admire her way to be about this all, and as usual I praise her for having in mind always and only ONE THING FIRST: ADAM.
Adam also has always made clear his private life is now SUPER private and he won’t put it on display; but I am fairly certain for every wound senseless and disgusting people cause to his Mermaid Angel, he has a way to heal her and make her feel the best on Earth, otherwise she wouldn’t be this brave in facing so vulgar hatred she definitely doesn’t deserve, being so lovely and caring.
Adam will fight (but privately) for his love, the way it should be.
No disrespecteful “fans” have rights to get a glimpse of their precious lives.
BTW, before I forget… Adam was again up in the last episode of American Horror Story Asylum (I have watched the Italian version on our Sky but the dubbing is ATROCIOUS to be frank… I came back to the original audio all times ;)):
I love the way his acting potential shows in the series; I can’t wait to see the way he does in the giant screen when Can A Song Save Your Life will be out 🙂
He has the classic beauty of all old school Hollywood studs; he just needs to practice and refine his moves.
In fact they used a – wonderful – version of old gem “Woman” for this promo video… the funny thing being that Behati actually is in it for not more than a blink… ;):
Behati anyway is gorgeous… her fresh beauty is refreshing for the eyes and her soul is so cute and quirky, just as Adam’s.
And anyway Vanity Fair was not the only magazine which Adam graced these weeks…
Allegedly Prince was not amused about the cover inclusion and of course, as the huge Prince worshipper he is, Adam immediately took the song off the album:
Prince and Maroon 5 KISS cover quarrel
Things like that happen; the only important thing is that Maroon 5 made up for their mistake (and I keep having the very beautiful Kiss cover, tho ;)).
Now sure he wasn’t perfect and sure the cue cards bugged him BUT those bugs also very trained actors (which Adam is not yet) so I won’t put a crux on Adam’s shoulder for having done what everyone does there (by SNL crew’s ORDERS everybody gotta read cue cards) and blast him for having not been perfect or totally natural reading the suggestions.
If you want to know though, Adam is not the only one venturing outside M5; of course there is James with JJAMZ, but you all better be ready also for May 14th, when PJ Morton will put out “New Orleans”.
This would be a double duty time in Miami actually (always having her friends & lover in mind it seems)… first she shot with Bruce Weber and Noah Mills (allegedly… and the two apparently just shot something together again in Zanzibar, but this come later on); while later she would be there again to share with her fellow Angels the Victoria’s Secret spot by Michael Bay (that the week after though):
And while we are at it… take into all these amazing shots for VS 2013 Behati’s campaigns 😉 gaze into her beauty and spunky attitude and try to understand why Adam is blessed to have gotten her :
While his lady was rocking beaches and lingerie and swimsuits, and also some good female professional company, Adam played golf with actor friend Greg Ellis (mocking the stupid fans who keep on believe the twitter account RealAdamLevine is actually his, and with the compliance of Greg actually… I love how he is sometimes cruel with the stupidity of people 😉 I love to do the same), then went with his mum at his brother Michael Rent’s performance:
Adam Levine Mum Patsy and Family at Rent in LA 3 February 2013
In fact, Adam is SUPER busy, because now he has the luxury not many people have in the industry to be a household name.
In fact is pretty difficult for male NON SOLO artists to ever accomplish that status.
Adam has reached it, and now, beside the music career as part of Maroon 5; as writer and composer; as solo artist (with other artists); as record label owner; as tv personality; as tv actor; as MOVIE actor… he is now ALSO at a status which allows him to have endorsements OUT of the music world (which he already has: for Samsung and JHC speakers along Maroon 5, and for First Act Guitars as a solo entity), like the very lucrative Proactive one:
Just know that the rumored fee (very likely) Adam has obtained for endorsing Proactive after Katy perry did (3.5 Million$) and Justin Bieber did (4.1M$) is around 4.6M$ for 18 months.
This is the power of being a household name, folks.
This is amazingly rewarding… but sure it’s also a bit draining as for scheduling and arrangements…
In fact in Los Angeles he had the first meet and greet for the Perfume the first week of February, in between rehearsals for the Grammys and recording with Morrison:
In fact Adam has never spare days practically… in his media tour for the perfumes and the clothing line he looked exhausted (I let you see this now even though it’s a patchwork which involves events happened the second half of February because it works better this way to make you see his tired eyes and face ;))
I am glad he is surrounded by people who love him dearly and since forever and by now no leeches or exploiters are around him anymore because his energies would be drained completely if he couldn’t find rest in love comfortably now that his whole world never really stops at all.
And probably you get why it is always more important for him to protect his private life and stay as clear as possible from fake exploiters and leeches.
Leeches that have kept using him even when it was really not necessary (or smart or fair… but have they ever been fair to him? no way…).
Case in point, the SUPER CREEPY 7 Hollywood Magazine “Icons” issue.
This glossy magazine was launched in November with David Gandy as main train… he failed miserably to sell it and then the team behind it (read the contributors in the magazine credits, and you will laugh your ass off at the fact they all belong to a “team” so very familiar… a team of people I won’t even mention because they are the worst of the worst) decided ONCE more to use the name they always used to get relevance again, and began to promote it in the media outlets (complacent ones, I suppose paid as well) to present Adam Levine naked again on the cover of it (and that, oh! miracle! finally sold the glossy piece of trash the magazine is).
Too bad that nakedness by Adam was dated July 2011, as the entire Levine’s spread is recycled and repainted work out of the Vogue Russia cover feature he shot then, and which then was out in November 2011.
Adam Levine used again for 7Hollywood Magazine winter 2013_the photos are from 2011
To make it all creepier, (the words in the article are all old, because of course Adam wasn’t reached for a new interview, and they had to recycle words material, just to have a promo push without being object of lawsuit), also the video of the shot was a recycled one from 2011 of course presented as if it was not old (I have the iPad version of / Hollywood and also that number of Vogue Russia, so I do know…):
I guess some famewhoring crew won’t ever learn decency and realness.
Good luck with the new venture… it’s not as good or rich as what they lost this new cow they can try to milk, nor even remotely as popular or worthy, but as long is giving them something that can be spent they won’t mind, and hopefully on the other side we have finally finished to be milked by all those losers this way, which is the only thing that matters.
Long gone the exploiters, let’s get back to the specific status Adam is in now, which is extremely rewarding but also which causes a tons of stress and fatigue, which sometime soon might be showin in some of his behaviors (I hope not, but when he is stressed he can be unpredictable, and he’s very human and mistaken when that happens).
First of all: Adam totally deserves this all which is pouring onto his head at the moment: he is very talented and although I HATE (properly, I do) that this all virtually started with a role that I detest and despise (because even I can reckon The Fuckery that thing success started this all at this scale), the fact it all happened finally so greatly for him is something that I am very happy for.
Maroon 5 Grammy Party 2013 with STING
Adam has never tried to hide the fact he loves to make money (and his honesty there is something I respect… I just hate the fact the medium to get that better is a sub par Karaoke show, because that is not good for music, although I admit it has been actually good for HIS music, giving him new perspective and energies and inspirations for sure), and I see the fact he is finally having and making more than many could ever dream of like a signal he will in a while be able to retire and have the family that he deserves.
Not yet, and not for some years more for sure… but now he knows, and sometimes hints at, at the fact in a while he will kiss everyone’s goodbye and just live with the well deserved wealth and memory of a worldwide fame his talent has created for himself and those who will be lucky enough to be there the day he will decide it’s time to become, for instance, a father (I still have doubts he is going to ever marry anyone to be honest, but surely he will father children).
I think in itself that is a marvelous thing indeed, to realize you have worked and reached all your goals and then you feel entitled to take a backseat and live a “normal” life, just way less ordinary than most people could.
I hope only he can find peace and not get stressed in the way to that retirement of gold he most definitely has already planned, or is starting to plan.
The latter part of this video is something that we will talk about later after commenting another FAKE piece of “report” regarding Adam and Behati’s life (will they ever stop to try to ruin them? Leave them alone and let their relationship be, for as long as THEY – and ONLY they – will decide it has to last!).
But the fact he is, doesn’t mean strangers have to be too, so keeps that in mind as well in the continuous of this post (or simply, plug in your brain ;)).
Girl has a great voice, but so far I have to admit the thing I like her most in is still the Come Away To The Water duet on the Hunger Games Soundtrack.
Bunch of lies, courtesy of Page Six, promptly rebooted by a series of similarly scum-mish tabloids.
The point is that again nobody from Bee or adam’s sides said a word on this trash.
Why?
Because they keep NOT caring at all.
Mario Batali cheers Adam Levine and Maroon 5 at MSG gig
Tabloids and insane people can keep believe what they want; while Behati and Adam can keep having their very private and personal life (together, still) which doesn’t belong to strangers; therefore they won’t ever answers the trash.
I totally support their attitude regarding this, you know; and I am really proud this is the way they chose to be.
Behati Prinsloo and Maroon 5 crew in Connecticut and New Jersey February 2013 for M5 gigs
And here we go, just to dismantle the fakers (that keep roaming the story… just the other day The Huffington Post kept saying “Adam is single since April last year” LOL… while he was coupled AGAIN exactly after April last year… not that you can expect them to know it all, especially when they cannot even write “romantic” correctly in their own language ;)).
Maroon 5 left New York immediately after the gig at MSG; Behati stayed in New York for a very important event; do you remember when in November at the VSFS taping she said after her apartment flooded she was guest at a model friend’s house, and that the model friend was pregnant?
Would you say no to a legend and a dear friend who helped you when in need?
No, you wouldn’t.
I just hope Behati avoided at all costs the slimey individual that was there too and who has caused Adam’s a lot of dirt in his life; I won’t even name that piece of trash, I just hope Behati stays well away from him because THAT in case would be the end of the relationship, given the opinion Adam has of the “man” and his “posse”.
This is actually their time together ut in video: ENJOY :
I mean, I repeat for the millionth time: Adam is not up to marry; this lovestory (which is at its tenth month by now, and which is very strong actually) could finish TOMORROW (in case it would I’d expect Taylor Swift to jump on Adam’s bones in a millisecond… she is SOOOOOOO thirsty for him it’s getting ridicolous ;)).
Nothing is given or promised for future but I find disgusting the way these two lovers cannot have their moments; I find horrible and repulsive the lies spread about them; I find terrible that Behati gets harassed anytime because of her relationship, especially when all she’s doing is loving Adam FOR REAL; and without exploiting him a bit, and instead of being praised for it she gets hated.
It must be difficult but then again; she doesn’t care, because her prize is Adam and then any obstacle shall disappear in front of such a thing.
I have to say he didn’t really tweet much after that, but if you took note Behati was having also need of him that day… I am sure he was a CLOSE witness of her day at the Soho Store in VS lilac glory 😉 (Perks of video chats in phone):
Similarly, Behati can now shine and you can totally get she is happy, like when she had to come back from the tour bus in New Jersey and get back to New York first to present The Fabulous Swim line, alone and with Miranda Kerr at location.
Check her grace, gorgeousness, style and cuteness.
And enjoy how Adam’s family showed her love by greeting her in this very important (professionally speaking) day:
For now know that Behati is also the face for ESPRIT 2013.
I love that she is carefully picking up campaigns which cannot harm her VS Angel status; in fact, just like it did happen with NEXT and Seafolly, which are competitor in theory with VS brand, these firms are ALL not operating on the USA soil (Esprit doesn’t since last winter) so Behati can be their face without being a damage to her main source of work.
Smart Behati.
Oh… and GORGEOUS:
Behati Prinsloo for ESPRIT 2013
I am not really on the fence or at a window; about when the lovebirds will reunite.
I suppose easily in California when Adam is there to tour with his band mates and then up for his 34th birthday celebration in LA and Las Vegas.
Sure she will know how to make him feel the most special birthday EVER.
I wonder when she will finally be able to go to her homeland for real and maybe spend some quality family time there…
I strongly advice all of you to try and witness this tour because as I have written in the video… this time around they are REALLY reaching out for the stars (that they are themselves), as each gig is monumental and really engaging this era.
It’s an experience you will treasure I swear even if you are not even familiar with them.
At MSG they were fantastic and I expect even more at Staples Center; I am also quite curious to see how this American energy will translate in the UK gigs…
But whatever… you TRY to catch them.
You won’t regret it and no matter how not cheap their tickets are… this time around more than any other time IT’s WORTHY.
Trust me on this.
Do it 😉
Let the music shine.
It’s all that I have ever wanted for this blog to display, actually.
MUSIC RULES.
Have a great March… catch you sometimes in April 😉
Well… I like to live 😉 and Fall sets all paces back to a careful and cozy slowness, especially when evening falls and give rooms to darkness shades, and all I ask is to share a hug (and then… lots of other stuff) with Karim.
The Lakers Book everyone should get
That’s why I always push updates forward and forward.
Because at work these days I have too much to do… and at nights… well 😉
*You must know me by now* 😉
I have so much to say and share, but of course, as that’s the first thing that has happened today (it was already MY wednesday, as you have gotten above ;), yes) let’s start with NBA roll and my beloved Lakers in their Ring Celebratory Night!
I was longing for the start of the new Quest For The Ring, and as you know from my daily posts in the Lakers Blog (which I regularly link from my Twitter), the first games won’t really see me worried.
I have been delighted by the entire Ring ceremony in fact.
The beautiful words our Knights spoke, their faces, their chemistry… the total feeling they REALLY are a team of committed people who genuinely enjoy being in the same team.
2nd Ring has been the Rising up Above Adversities (injuries);
THIS INCOMING 3rd Ring (yes… it’s happening) will be a TEAM play, not because Kobe will let it be (he still THE BESTEST BEST) but because WE FINALLY HAVE A BENCH.
Today we’ve been rusty, imprecise… but even then, it’s clear we have so much more than anybody else.
Moment of pun intended: ahahahahha… collective moment of laugh at the obvious demise of The 3 PUPPETS Chokers of the Hyped Land, namely Miami Meat of total loser LeBronze: wiped off by the Celtics, who will always be better than them.
But sorry… we’re always gonna be better than Celtics, as well ;))
I was really really amused by the way lots of delusional hyped chokers tried to justify the obvious, namely the much expected loss of the Meat in front of a true basketball team (albeit hated sportly speaking by us).
What did you expect?
Anybody understanding basket would have taken the Celtics over the Meat.
Co.mon.
Be serious.
But enough… now take some images, starting with the TRULY amazing Ring Ceremony (that I risked to lose cos Sky Sport Extra stopped broadcasting after Meat demise… idiots…):
And then the Game recap. So very us… so very Lakers Thrill:
It was amazing.
AMAZING.
let me hear your Lakers screams 😉 Adam Levine vintage 2007
PS: I love the way we are interacting in the Lakers Blog: we are also being very musical… I’m about to learn a lot more on classic soul, rap, hip hop and rock thanx to the amazing people there.
Oh… and I have also been honored with the RCOTD award.
What made me proud about it is that it was about Kobe, my hero.
So you know… I get emotional when I am reckoned for my sporty commentaries, but I get touched innerly if and when that happens for a piece that I was writing about my one and only hero.
It felt sweet.
Dunno how much I deserved it, but surely all I was thinkin about and of and with then was PASSION.
So for me that was pretty much it.
They got it…:
My Reader Comment Of The Day in The LA Times Lakers Blog 😉
Awesome 😉
Love my Family 😉
Since we are in Basketball territories, and soon you know you will know about Maroon5, (and anyway you’re gonna see all way through this post tons of very recent AND quite old Adam pics…) let me share a video titled as Accomplished Renegades that I have been played and replayed since I have been sent of.
I can’t start even to let you picture how all those things, united THROUGH and IN him, makes me feel even more why and how he’s my favorite singer and favorite “person-Idont know-but I wish I would”):
Oh, we’ll be on that soon enough, but surely as soon as the second leg of Maroon 5 tour ends tomorrow, Adam will be quickly returning to LA to have his infamous Halloween Party.
Anne and Adam in the main-time have all changed their twitter pictures, maybe cos they are training to change their both overall appearances for the big festive celebration?
Adam Levine's new twitter icon (Summer 2009)
Anne Vyalitsyna's new Twitter icon
Dunno, but both pics are adorable (see evidences right and left ;)…
Adam‘s one was taken on his was from Switzerland to Saint Tropez last year summer, and that really looks like an Italian ESSO gasoline pump.
I also well remember that day he wrote on twitter – see what he’s actually doing – that in Italy food is so great even a stop at a gas pump would let you eat better than in the majority of other Countries finest restaurants…
I so so so so hope pics surface from Levine’s Crib Hollywood Halloween BUT that will be talked about later because what I TRULY look for is OUR Halloween time over here.
This because for the next 4 days it’s Halloween Bonanza, we will have 4 parties (biggest one Saturday at us ;)) and THESE are our costumes:
Karim disguise : Tao Zaira disguise: Conscience
I love this so much!!!
We were all thrilled when a friend who works in the Fashion department (for a very famous maison) offered to us to create our disguises this year.
Adam Levine History - Cosmopolitan Party 2008
And then you know… Karim‘s gonna wear the tightest stuff arising my excitement and desire… my dad said we like S&M too openly in costumes this year, and he’s right.
Adam shortcut February 2008
LOL 😉
Oh… and yep… this kind of hairdo I have described and I have put on me today will be carried until November starts even in everyday life.
I can pull it off.
I’m anyway too hot for makin people trying to argue too much.
And then there are chignons and hats to let hair stay composed and anyway elegant, even if flirtatiously and flamboyantly colored, so just let me be (no, won’t anyway set you free cos I never cage anybody in the first place … 😉
Adam Levine and Anne Vyalitsyna - Misery set, May 2010
I also love to cook, and in fact the latest weeks have seen both me and Karim train ourselves in the fire(s) department (in the fire department we are already great, thanx ;)).
Last weekend, while we were in my Florence House (aww… we adore spend time there!) I even tried to spread Italian cookin mastery and I properly posted a series of more than 25 Plixies from my Tweet Page so that everybody could have learnt how to actually prepare TRUE lasagne ;).
You can start from here and go on till you see the whole recipe… Try it !
What else?
Well, in a great day after two great weeks, where Florence rocked our love and NBA started at its peak, of course something had to go wrong, just because philosophically it’s impossible to be always in a perfect state.
Well, music shame in America GOES on.
Another Country Ass act prevents real music from deserved spot recognition.
Adam in tight pants, Oct. 2010 - tnx Florence 71!
Yep: Sugarland have prevented Kings Of Leon from Billboard’s top; another shame Country fake band to take laurels so unacceptably, after ZacAss Brown Band took the 1st place off my Babies.
Adam belting out soulfully April 2009 (Green Ball)
And expect Princess of Nothingness, brain-seizured Taylor Swift to rule again throne of lameness next week.
Gosh: this girl writes as a 13 years old, fakes goodness, then sleeps with famewhore and notorious manslut John Mayer, and writes an hilarious take at him after?
Oh, boy.
Go John… dick-matize her more: I don’t find you attractive at all, but if you can trash he fake image of this fake undeserving “singer”, then please DO IT.
I’m sick of fake Country.
Adam Levine MTV VMAs 2007
Give me back Faith Hill and Neil Diamond… I’m not telling bshit… Give me HUGE stuff like Dave Matthews and Neil Young… and those fake new “stars” at least would be fairly disappearing in front of solid songwriters and performers such as these mentioned .
Taylor Swift? Please.
PLEEEE-A-SE.
Adam At Greek on October 9, 2010
Girl is a PR intervention.
Much like LeBronze, except that LeBronze is actually very naturally skilled (I don’t deny that) while Taylor Swift sings like a dying cat.
Nothing substantial, beside a great way of selling fakery.
What can I say?
Right now in USA the only things that work are Autotune (yikes) fake teeny pop (barf) and Country Asses (ewww).
Oh well.
Let’s focus on the good.
I completely LOVE Adam with shaved head. His face is just perfect for it.
After that, we are planning to spend the week of thanxgiving in New York, joined by Karim’s family there.
We should arrive on the 24, celebrate on 25, and then stay there a coupla days till we get back on Sunday 28th.
We do that because I have to arrange another meeting with the new partners (Brian!!! Whooo!) and then we are on the roll to find a tiny apartment in the West Village OR Gramercy.
Man I can’t wait.
I LOVE Gramercy.
I love New York.
A two room house would be entirely perfect for Karim and I… we truly want it.
While in New York, if possible I’d love to cross Dani G.
Maybe there is a game worthy at MSG?
Dunno: should check 😉
More from Adam and Rihanna performnce joint, 2008
My calendar revolves around Lakers anyway 😉
What I know for sure is that we will be back for the week after cos there is Lady Gaga’s gig in Milan and I can’t wait!
Originally I should have caught her in November in Turin but then Milan new tickets were made available and it was better to stay in my town, and in a weekend, rather than going in Turin in the middle of a week 😉
Rah-Raah… Oh, la, laaaa! 😉
Gaga suits also Halloween week very well 😉 innit?
Okay.
I might have ended my personal sweet nonsense, and I am anyway not recalling other things I might have liked to say…
Am I aging?
Probably.
I can start the Babies’ updates then, and you know that includes all the surroundings (read: ANNE) ;).
I have 14 more videos of the babies beside the one I linked above of Adam playing basketball so… sit down and take a breath… also cos some of them will make your need of oxygen arise 😉
Some of them are historical pieces from the previous album’s boxset.
And here I list them, before I get back into October Life chronicles, starting with how they formed the band:
Then the writing of Harder To Breathe:
Then the one of She Will Be Loved (I SO Loved James’ hairdo that exact way and that exact lenght! – and talkin about James, know that he’s featured in GUITAR Magazine of November!! I also always adored, as you read above, any time Adam would completely shave his head off. It brings out his facial features so perfectly…):
Then This Love:
And how they started writing It Won’T Be Soon Before Long:
Okay. Now let’s start the run of the past two weeks.
Beside that fun, take a look at In Style of November 2010 ( Charisse has send it to me!!! Whooo thanx babs ;)!!) where Adam and british singer VV Brown shine their beauty on (awww).
What can I say??
Oh, boy.
I can’t help he sets my pants on fire.
Karim is resigned to my physical reactions to anything he is, and by now I guess he’s still confirmed that doesn’t mean I don’t adore him.
Talkin about some of those people, well, actually very special ones, while guys were leaving Cali to cross State borders, Sweet Russian Fairy was finally coming back to New York after a long run all around the globe, to hug back Chovy (I was wondering exactly about him in my last post… telepathy?).
In that same day, the Final Drafts for the 2011 Grammy were revealed.
Oh… if you go to a Maroon5 gig (which I wish you to, cos they are amazing live) please think twice before throwing panties onstage, unless they’re “lived”…
More about guys: Adam shared that among inspirations for Hands All Over there are two of my fav musicians EVER, Tupac and Marvin Gaye.
Look, he isn’t saying the MUSIC sounds like those; he said the approach to honesty in music they tried to pour into HAO links the record to them.
Which I agree with completely:
HAO inspirations are Gaye, Tupac
And while we’re on the subject, take these videos about Hands All Over release party in New York :
Then an Introduction about the record:
And a further piece about it:
Okay… to let you recover, I turn a moment to fashion stuff and Anne (so maybe MALES will choke a bit ;)) because in New York Sweet Princess had a wonderful runaway for Express OUTSIDE, and guess where?
Adam Levine - Modeling a hoodie
Yes, At Gramercy (sigh!!!!), surrounded by my beloved Flatiron Building 😉
Dunno about her cooking mastery… but I’m pretty sure if she’d like to, she’d be a very good cooker (see my recipes if you like, girl ;)).
She seems certainly to have that same sweet touch Adam has with little kids; and in fact she’s rooting for Penelope, Gisella and Shawn’s daughter (whose godfather IS Adam actually) in her attempt to start modeling (awwww).
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