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Olympically oriented… Holiday Time!
Posted 26 July 2012
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Good morning Universe!
Or Good “almost-full-day” or whatever you want to call this moment in time alike 😉
Look… I am just about to start my holidays and the last I want is to be picky about how I should call the different time sections of the day.
That’s a concern I won’t be having until September, especially after yesterday I had to wake up at 4 am for catching up in a Skype biz meeting with our Chinese partners, the last proper one I had to take part in before I could start my well deserved holiday break.
I’m in the frenzy of packing and I am delighted that we leave towards England…
I am so fond of London and there… when we lived in Uk for a couple of years I had some of the best times of my life.
I adore Brits… I adore that cockney accent I try so hard to master (with alternate results, because I always sound just so purely American, sigh…), I long for their cloudy moody weather even.
Anything is perfect in England&London for me so you can picture how excited I am to spend part of my vacation in such a wonderful place.
And… I don’t wanna mind times.
AT ALL 😉
Thank you very much 😉
Well, actually I will have to be a bit “working-oriented” even during this incoming August, because around the time we are in UK for the Olympics (and you bet I CAN’T WAIT TO STAY in K’s family GLORIOUS mansion just outside London) dad has booked a couple of working days with some local investors we hope to please and expand relationships with.
But I can cope with that, especially if I think that this Summer Swifty will be with us (he travelled through railways this time… no plane ;)) and that I will still have some sea days because we will be moving towards Sardinia sometime around the middle of August and spend some time there too (I need some sea… I know I am so fully and irreparably Italian there… ;)).
Then it’s you know… time for K&I to celebrate one year of a blissful marriage as well in these incoming weeks so…
I can expect/picture/imagine/guess there will be a couple of surprises during August that I have not been informed of.
It’s a given 😉
These past weekends have been spent with the crew as much as possible instead… we even got back in my long-lost and unused house in the Appennini to do some well amazing hiking just last one; I hope my friends can randomly join us both in UK (to cheer the Olympic athletes like they deserve!) and surely in Sardinia; I love to bring with me my people always and space will never be a concern, and that values double-sized when the guest house is of Karim’s side of the family estate.
Can you picture huge?
Ok: now make it bigger… 😉 and that’s how his family (which is now also mine… conjecturally ;)) roll 😉
On the K’s side of the equation, I have also to say that I can’t wait to spend a whole Summer with Charisse!!!!
I love that girl… isn’t it wonderful when you find people in your acquired family that you bond with instantly like you’ve been friends for a life?
Well, I got lotta love for all of K’s cousins… but Chari is special: we connected so immediately even when in 2008 her cousin was just somebody I wanted to bang badly (and he seemed like a priest, not giving up to me at any cost… so much that you know for a while I had the background thought he might have been gay) 😉
She is already in London, she flew directly from California the other day after witnessing Maroon 5 gig at Lake Tahoe last Saturday (July 21st).
The gig has been really great she said, but what interested me the most was that she caught a glimpse of sweet Behati there.
Yep.
Behati and Adam reunited after merely a week and some apart.
He finished shooting his main parts for Can a Song Save Your Life movie on July 13th, and flew back in Los Angeles to record the Fuckery The Voice with Mary J. Blige (Mary J…. tu quoque? *sigh*that show is like a disease that is catching up to all my favorite singing people…) and to film some of American Horror Story, while Behati after their dinner together on July 11 (widely reported by tabloids… and you can look at Adam’s face to realize he didn’t like to be papped, but at least that is so rare with Behati he can stay way quieter than he was forced to for two years) went doing her stuff for Victoria’s Secret charity, then flew to London for a campaign, flew back to New York to do more Victoria’s Secret photo-shoot and then… SHE hopped on a plane and reached her man back and quick in one of the most beautiful places America has to offer (lake Tahoe, that).
All together…
*awwwwwwwwww* 😉
I have realized there are people not into this romance, trying to serve an incredible amount of dirt to either Adam or Behati or both regarding their private life but I don’t get why or how…
I think they are adorable together and absolutely well matched.
For the millionth time… Behati didn’t do anything wrong to Adam’s previous girlfriend.
The lies that were spread that Behati was a friend of Anne V were just… LIES to begin with.
Behati and Anne were never friends, they just happened to share sets twice in their lives?
Adam has had MANY model girlfriends… just try to recap his dating line-life and you get there’s not a single reason in the world he should stop dating them just because some girl could have known the other.
If anyone keeps trusting lies… then it may be useful to listen (again) to what Adam said to Howard Stern this past June to be assured of the fact the two were never anything more than acquaintances, if any (and again… I doubt even that).
Those petty and fake voices are just another chapter in a bad PR spinning that tries to keep linking what is past and done since February 2012 (and again… also Overexposed says all that was needed about Adam’s previous link: the lyrics are so crystal clear and all is detailed so well there all the other notes are just irrelevant. It’s time to move on and get over that, just as well as he’s done ok? Right.)
The fake news about Anne are still many, though, like the one that she is dating Alexander Skarsgard for instance… but we have Gossip Cop to realize that and put everything in perspective, and use the pr spins with a grain of salt.
Not that Anne won’t be paired with somebody most certainly famous soon (she is so beautiful and sexy I am actually surprised she yet hasn’t found a new man… but we are sure that once she will find him, the pictures of them together will float around, aren’t we?), and maybe she could even go for people such as Skarsgard for real (the return of image could be good for both, and both love attention so it could also be a pr dream pairing-up), still the point is that there are still news that keep link Anne with Adam and this when it’s clear they haven’t spoken with one another in months, and not any of the two care about what the other does, and it is time this link DIES.
They are just a past memory for one another and it’s unnecessary that once there are news about Adam, some rag has to spill fake news about Anne, just to keep the two names on the same PR roll.
They are done, and there is no link whatsoever that survives between them two (yeah, they might still following one another on twitter, but I could BET that they have MUTED one another and they actually don’t even read each other’s tweets, just like they have stopped to phone one another or have the slightest of contacts).
I get many people liked them as a couple… and you know (this whole blog testifies it very openly) I also deeply loved A+A but they are not anymore… and there were many and right reasons that lead to their split, so after so many months…
Isn’t it fair to just move on and over?
The tie is cut and cut for good… and although I will forever have a wonderful memory of their coupling, because yes, Anne and Adam were very beautiful together, I am very, very relieved Adam is out of that fake PR haze that always seem to surround her though now that he’s not linked anymore to her skeevy and laterally untrustworthy management, so “well” run by that horrible Ali Kavoussi.
Anne V is a good person – I still believe that, honestly I do, and I am happy she now has the amazing career she always pushed so hard for, with many covers on magazines and a name on the rise through worthy fashion campaigns – but all the rest going around with her is screaming fake PR machine from top to bottom, and I just am overjoyed Adam is not forced to be part of that anymore to please her, because if there is something he has always, always stated clearly is that he hates gossip magazines, the fakery Hollywood promotes as for couple and power couples (see the Tom+Katie, Rob+Kirsten, Travolta + Preston type of total fake shit) completely disgusts him, and in fact now that he’s finally with somebody (Behati) who as similarly as he does despise fake gossip, we don’t see them in spreads all over Internet, most of the times, no matter if in these three months they have been almost CONSTANTLY together.
Behati and Adam are just right now in LA… and you have seen nothing. And this is GOOD.
You don’t see any pap set-ups with Behati.
In fact, Adam cringes when he sees paps are around, and the only openly smiling pictures of Behati and Adam were so far those they WEREN’T aware were being taken (those in Hawaii, where they both SHINE in smiling and PDA, because there were no paps in sight they could decode and they could be themselves, lost in their lovingly match).
It’s such a good, good thing that they treasure their privates just the same way.
For how long or short this Behati + Adam thing will end up to be… now they are together and it makes me smile and I don’t really get why so many are upset instead they are an item.
They make me widely smile, actually, for the fact they are a couple.
I like to know they are probably even right now talking about music or photography and that they laugh for silly things (Behati can be very funny and silly and that is just the same Adam is).
They are so very cute, and low-key, and so sweet paired up.
Two musical souls chirping together… people should leave them alone and see if this can blossom and in any case just respect the fact they are sharing valuable time together and trying to repair themselves from invasive, intrusive gossip (from the very start… from when they have been out on dates in Los Angeles and people barely even knew they were an item, for instance).
I for one bless this union, and the fun that they are CERTAINLY having together in this moment.
It’s not like they have to get married… so people better back off and stop looking for their throats.
They don’t deserve anything but support; they are doing their thing and not hurting anybody.
Support them or at least leave them alone, thank you.
I get many girls (and some MTV blogger allegedly) would love Adam to be alone to fulfill their dreams about him but look at the real life…
there is simply NO WAY he will ever be alone…
Even when not coupled…
Be sure he will hardly spend a night alone in bed, especially in fact when/if not in a relationship.
Even his bandmates know that he’s… different being Adam than the rest (listen and read this adorable interview of James to realize to which degree ;))
It’s simply not his way to be tame or boringly appropriate regarding the other half of the sky: he needs affection and a LOT of sex, and it’s not like he has trouble in finding partners.
He just needs to look, choose, snap fingers and he would have to decide who he would like to take home because still he would have MANY offering themselves (throwing themselves, properly) at him.
His sexual cravings, I repeat, are one of the most known facts in Hollywood, and he has never been shy about his sexual thirst.
Ask anybody who knows him.
Or just ask him ;).
At that point… better coupled with a gorgeous Namibian princess than with a faceless nobody, right?
I think I am right, yep 😉
And you can surely disagree… but it won’t have relevance in my world, let alone in this blog 😉
This blog is my reign and I am really pleased with Behati and Adam being a couple so sorry (not sorry) if you may dislike them… here you will only find positivity about them two.
Deal ;).
I also find this traveling Behati is constantly doing to be so often with Adam honestly amazing, and she will forever gain my praise for that.
Being able to be doing her work, match and spend time working along her fellow Victoria’s Secret Angels, going to London and back to USA, rushing and going and going but never missing a chance to be with her boyfriend… That first requires will and then it requires energy and strong determination to make your relationship work, no matter if you have many other things to take care of too.
That’s such an awesome departure from what Adam had to endure past two years; it’s hard not to think of the difference, and not thinking Behati simply cares WAY MORE than some other girlfriends did about Mr. Levine.
She is just showing it and proving it through actions.
The best way, at any rate, to really send messages out there, in fact (or “through facts” ;)).
She probably didn’t even sleep to be with him as soon as it was possible to in Tahoe (or did she managed to join him from Atlanta’s departure, too? mystery ;)).
She is the evidence if you really want to spend time with the one you say you care about, you take every chance to be with that person, as soon as it comes.
You don’t waste time being apart when you can actually be with one another… because what’s the point in being separated, when you are an item, unless you really are forced to (and in a world full of airplanes… the concept of being forced to stay apart fades pretty quickly doesn’t it?)?
This is true, sincere dedication that Behati is demonstrating right from the start and I adore that she didn’t tweet or say a word about that Tahoe thing, or any of the other times they were actually together; she just went there and if it weren’t from Chari’s word and some minor reports from people actually attending Maroon 5 backstage (see these candids) no one would have ever known she was with him.
But you could tell from his tweets Adam was in a spectacular mood this past weekend, and kept it all along these days, till posting an adorable picture of his dog, lady Frankie, wearing Behati’s Minnie mouse tiara she had in Disneyland the past month when they went there together…
Talking about that Frankie picture… it seems that it’s taken in Adam’s LA house. I think that was snapped by Behati actually, already there from the Tahoe break, waiting for Adam to come back after the Chicago+Milwaukee stops: I can’t be sure, but I am pretty confident I am not far away from truth ;).
Well, anyway Adam is happy nowadays because he is with Bee.
It’s clear Behati makes Adam happy: isn’t this a good reason at least to stop hating on her?
I don’t know and I don’t want to predict a thing about this sexy pair that is still so far just a wonderful Summer Love… but I can’t help myself: I like and love and cherish the fact they are trying to spend every possible bite of time together, no matter how hectic Adam’s schedule is nowadays.
Just to detail that, on Friday 20 he was in Atlanta because Maroon 5 had a private Microsoft event to play at… on Saturday he was in Tahoe… in between this Monday and Tuesday he was in a Chicago suburb to promote his new guitar line and various other endorsement projects at Sears HQ in Hoffmann and also in Milwaukee for an Insurance company event and still… Behati always tries to be with him as much as she can, no matter if she has to revert from one side to the other of USA for keeping up with him.
I love this. I just do. It’s making Adam happy and therefore I am naturally happy too. Yes… I am this lovingly-oriented now that such simple, probably irrelevant – still cute – small facts just make me smile 😉 – I guess I am getting old ;).
But that isn’t the only thought that makes me like this lively 23 years old from Africa.
I actually like her beside the fact she is Adam’s half. I like her on her own right.
I really like, for instance, the fact that Behati doesn’t overpaint her face with make up or step off in elaborated hairdo; whenever you see her, around in her life, she is very fresh-faced, with almost zero make up and a natural feel of originality that goes along with her.
She is always very smiling, and I love the way she has a personality of her own, very well defined; I like that she is bold and has opinions; she is vocal and truthful to herself and she’s got also a very cute sense of humor (that sadly many people just don’t get).
I for sure shared her views about Bieber looking like Hillary Swank in a tweet that she was forced to delete due to the stupidity of ordals of prepubescent narrow-minded monster preteens.
Too bad.
She just stated a very relatable concept.
And Bieber… why is he still around by the way? Hasn’t One Direction madness (which is as bed, but which will also fade away soon) already made his album a flop, and his popularity shrink considerably?
In a little while, Bieber will cease to sicken the world… it’s just a little matter of time and I can’t wait for that time to come and make air cleaner (just like it happened with Jonas Brothers and all the similarly hyped teen stupid phenomena).
Talking a bit more about Maroon 5 (why did I even mention Bieber in this post? it ruins the global goodness of the subjects so far ;)), Overexposed is still doing very good both on the USA and also the UK chart (amazingly good, since they are not promoting it in any way actually, and especially in UK Overexposed it’s keeping up and has surpassed Chris Brown and Linkin Park in longevity and sales, and that wasn’t at all expected, as it was instead in the USA, where they also are keeping up just as well, and selling more than those acts altogether); the band just won a Teen Choice Award for Payphone as best Breakup song (and it truly is a great one… despite the fact that so far has been just acknowledged by tasteless teens who think that Bieber and One Direction and Twilight are something else but darn TRASH, erasing any credibility/relevance to the award they landed to Maroon 5 anyway…) and after some more shooting days for Adam in Cali/East Coast for AHS and probably that other tv thing he does from time to time the guys will leave towards South America to perform a tour that we hope soon or later will hit Europe as well (snort… -_-).
Everything’s pretty fine under Maroon 5 sky.
I am glad about it, now that I fully re-embraced them after I got so positively hit with Overexposed (and so unespectedly, in many ways).
It wasn’t easy for me to almost hate them and Adam for a full year…
I still hate that he’s doing the Fuckery The Voice, but that won’t last much longer… we all know this is the last season of the original line-up and I can see already the new panel (I guess John Mayer, Alicia Keys, John Legend and Miranda Lambert could take the seats up to spin some newness in that horrible karaoke show… see if I got something or someone right in the next season).
I still think Moves Like Jagger is a sub-par song… and I know it gave them back stellar popularity, but it’s a cheap song still.
Overexposed instead is full of amazing pop songs.
They are real songs which have real feelings encrypted and THAT is the Maroon5/Adam Levine that I like to cherish.
To like and be a fan of someone, doesn’t certainly mean to be blind or always agreeing with their choices.
At all (and I am not a yessgirl anyway, so take me or leave it here… it’s simple ;)).
I have been asked often what I think of the fact Adam is branching out to acting; in itself, I love that he signed up for two great acting opportunities.
Working with Keira Knightley (I have always loved her since Bend It like Beckham), Mark Ruffalo, and the major director he is submitted to for Can a song Save Your Life is a wonderful thing; and about American Horror Story I am a fan of the show so I can’t wait to see how he will fare there as well, under the directive inputs of his good friend Ryan Murphy.
Look at the slideshow below out of pictures of Adam and Keira on the Can A song… set (songs that you hear as the slideshow goes are among my Maroon 5 favs… “Come Away to the Water“, “Chilly Winter” and “One More Night“):
That said… I don’t think it’s something natural for Adam to act.
I try to explain: people with a natural charisma (like the one he possesses) and a full larger-than-life true personality don’t find easy to “act”.
Acting requests to be someone else, erasing your true core to be “alter” from it.
If somebody is fully and proudly “himself”… do that shifting is all but easy and even when it happens, it may result forced or not as smoothly resulting as it should be to be convincing on cameras.
I am sure he has the talent to do everything he wants… and I long to see him on mega screen but I am not surprised his first acting experiences will focus on characters which are “similar to his real personality”.
He’s definitely skilled at many things; he has already acted in videos; he has an enormous knowledge about movies and history of the cinematographic techniques.
His grandfather has been a producer; he’s been raised in Hollywood and breathes movie since he was a kid.
Don’t make him read books… but land him a screenplay and he will probably recite many of the most famous from the 80s and 90s fully and by heart.
There’s nothing more “meant to be” in a way than Adam Levine and movies, and not only because he’s so undeniably gorgeous, of that beauty that only actors are meant to display.
But all that said… it’s not gonna be an easy transposition for him.
He’d need to be a more natural “faker” to be a better actor, I think.
But that doesn’t mean he can’t be a good actor anyway, in a convenient time (just like he probably will be a very nice golfer, in a while, just because he want it very badly now).
Another thing: I don’t like that he is bulking up for the roles he has been scripted for.
I don’t.
I like him in his natural body shape which is… PRETTY DAMN PERFECT as it is.
Look.
Then try to deny my point 😉
I don’t like that much the buffer version of Adam that is showing up lately; nothing that is irreversible and he still gorgeous… it’s just that I love his body shape as it is up above.
Lean, sculpted but not overdone.
Anyway Nature will be back soon: you can’t change the way Nature has decided your body has to be so… let’s just wait for things to get back to normal 😉
Talking about very good genes and natural beauty, and not so conventional one… look as well at his lady, and get as amazed as I do at the wondrous perfection of her unique face, with those sublime, sublime cheekbones:
Oh, well…
I have some soft spots, you know 😉 and I am not afraid to voice my supports, as much I am never afraid to detail my distaste when I feel I have any.
Read also this beautiful interview from the Guardian if you like (more British feels, you gotta get used for the incoming month)… I loved it 😉
I have to admit reading it it was hard for me not dream once more of a future Chris Martin + Adam Levine duet in any form.
That would be my musical highlight of a fan.
Hands down.
*sigh*
I leave you with some musical homage, that someway links with my incoming move towards London.
One year ago, we lost one of the most beautiful voices, and one of the most talented artists in contemporary music history.
Amy.
Amy Winehouse.
Let’s remember her, and through her beautiful voice let’s also share a thought for all the victims of the senseless violence in Aurora, Colorado.
Men shall cherish their lives more… and respect other ones in ways that sometimes seem just out of reach when you follow news on tv, and astonish yourself at the barbarism that seems to run rampant.
Let’s make music heal…
Music is the greatest thing, along Love.
Have all a great Holiday time, or the best August you can.
Dream. Think. Act.
Happy life,
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. 🙂
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Good morning and sorry for the long absence.
I know…
I’m late but you know what?
On top of all the planned staying-aways from blogs (due to holidays, schedules, and all that relates to our marriage organization) the past week I have also been plastered with LABYRINTHITIS (no kidding, I face another week of therapy at home, and that actually has forced me to pull out of my planned end of the month trip to New York: you can guess I’m not happy about any of this)… so be kind and realize there’s really a lot going on for this gal and blogging can/will be done in excerpts of time.
Ehi!!!
Combined with schedule and illness (snort…) I have also been forced to kinda miss AGES of Lakers games!!! Milan games!!!
You know it’s serious when even my sporty passions gotta step a bit aback.
This year is a very BIG year for me… I have such schedules that I have resolved to introduce into my life an element to avoid it to become untakeable.
So I have a personal assistant since last week (luckily he timed perfectly with my illness, so that my working tasks haven’t been completely forced to reprogramming, thank God…): he’s called Carlo, he’s kind, capable and gorgeous and he’s wonderfully gay (I actually decided for him among candidates when he was able to confess that in a very manly, totally natural, and even casual speech with me at the third go-through for the job).
The fact that I need even a personal assistant to survive furtherly keeps telling you that blogging really ain’t in my first priorities these days (though I still like doing it, when I have time), and if you follow my Twitter (also aside in this page) you are aware of what I am talkin about.
I’m trying to do my best with a day of mere 24 hours (well, while ill I spent most of that sleeping, but that’s because medicines are heavy, I can’t watch tv, and even music gotta be played really low… I can’t stay standing yet, only laying or seated, and of course no physical activity of ANY kind is allowed so in other words… boredom realm for real!!!)
It’s all I can say 😉
Oh… and I miss sex a lot.
Surprised there, I bet…
I also hate that anytime I fall ill I shrink and I become all skin and bones (and I don’t even have Chris Martin serenading me Yellow… well, actually Karim played it for me on piano the other day ;))
Can’t wait to feel better mainly for that (Karim btw has been an awesome nurse these days and also my friends have been all supportive and they came visiting me in floods… I love you crew!)
I will try to encompass the chronicles of this past month the best I can – given that I reduce chronicles to music basically, cos the sports that I can talk about is secondhand, which I hate in my current state- , but first, and very strangely compared to my usual behaviours, I share first the videos that i made lately.
You know from my previous post that I TOTALLY CAN’T STAND was quite let down regarding the idea Maroon 5 have had to make Hands all Over a single and get the video duties to that criminal who ridiculed the great original video of Misery (that’s just the worst ever video in the whole world, and I mean that stupid cartoonish cheesy horrifying UK version of it of course ).
So I decided that in My YouTube the first video homage of the year would have been the awesome cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” the guys did on Stern back in September (see the raleted post in this blog):
But you know also why I felt betrayed about the choice of pickin Hao as a single.
I WANTED STUTTER (the first three singles again, should have been 1) Stutter; 2) I Can’t Lie; 3) Just A Feeling or How; 4) Misery… THAT would have constituted way more of a positive bandwagon for the album… but that is gone by now… you know my opinion there 😉 if you read this blog don’t you?).
So I will have Stutter.
In Stop Motion.
With Karim and Meli (angel Meli!!!!! THANK YOU) drawing for me (my illness will slow down the preparation for it but March still the date to put it out).
I have a new set of tricks to train my Director attitude with.
And I am so into this all… I created a TRAILER for what will be my next YouTube Upload (by the way, Maroon 5 just shot the video for the fourth single, Never Gonna Leave This Bed, in Los Angeles… you will learn about it later in the updates ;)):
And since we are at it… of course (just like it happened with their real video for NGLTB …) also MY female lead will be Anne 😉 becoming a drawing like the rest of the band and mostly Adam.. in Stop Motion.
Talkin about Anne… look how beautiful she is for the Louis Vuitton Resort Campaign Spring Summer 2011 ;):
Okay… I have been toying with video softwares, you see 😉
Actually I also created a patchwork with stills of the incoming Never Gonna Leave This Bed video.
More shots and actual press videos of the making of will be posted later in this update (they are so cute cuddling one another… awww… the perfect couple they are!!)but for now take this and see all the fun that I am having with this patches (lol!):
I’m properly like a kid with tech stuffs you know me 😉
Everything new on the matter to me is like Play-Doh: gotta put my hands on it and morph it into something that fits my creativity 😉
During the holiday time when Karim family visited they were really shocked about the way I am at once completely tech master and also the way I can be traditionalists (yep, I can prepare homemade tortellini and cook pretty well, and teach that too ;)), at which Karim just said that is “my way to be Tao” ;).
Totally spot on.
Oh, let me add momentarily that I wish my guru Steve Jobs the fastest ever recovery: Steve, we’re with you.
I’m a tekkie and a proud Apple-ist.
I still haven’t the faintest idea on how to organize this post (Karim helps with typing cos I can’t yet obviously, while dear Fede, who will substitute me in the NY trip, put together the video updates under my requests… thank you guys ;)), so I guess I’ll just step back and start where I left you on the verge of Christmas.
LONG shot 😉
I know.
We left the boys and A Home for the Holidays was ready to be broadcasted: so there you go, enjoy it folks!
Red fits Adam so well (as much as it shines on Anne, too!).
Maroon5 have also launched a very interesting Photo contest that could allow you to pretty much roadie with the band on tour: check this especially and see the video (click on the image to jump on the page with video):
Trust me if I weren’t taken with that small thing that is marriage (…) I would ave tried it 😉 and probably so would have Karim 😉
Talkin about trips and who knows… marriage, the guys have added another Russian date to their schedule, in the amazing town of the Hermitage Museums. *sigh*. I’d love to check that one!!!
Adam has also been vocal in his funny way about his new years resolutions (and ask me why again the word marriage comes to mind… lol!).
Talkin about that, the two lovebirds we all love spent all the Xmas times together (awwww) and even though Los Angeles weather was strangely bad (but there have been moment of blissful sun and rainbows even!) they managed to make even rain feel absolutely romantic, as you’ve seen and as you will keep see.
Oh, man they melt me so fully!!!
During holidays beside Adam and Anne James for instance had time to practice with JJAMZ, and I can’t wait for that record in full (of course I’ll grab it).
Sweet Anne managed to have of course ANOTHER Xmas tree in Los Angeles too, and she tweeted an adorable picture of her stay.
Oh… yes: I keep melt of course 😉
Beside the bliss of their time together, and we all can so clearly see how much Adam shines in happiness any time Anne is around him, the festive time didn’t prevent our guy from tweeting some of what REALLY makes me adore him.
He vented against Sarah Palin a couple of times, and thank God, because that woman (??) is really a threat for EVERYONE (and sadly that got even truer around start of teh year, whena Deputy was shot in Arizona after her “advice”…), and his lively liberally oriented (well, he’s more an anarchist at times, but definitely more left than center than right…ALWAYS) soul couldn’t hold his despise any longer (I suppose he was watching Fox News at those times…).
What always makes me laugh is how his fans get surprised by his political beliefs.
Erm… Adam’s family especially from Patsy’s side is a well known liberal think-tank.
The Aunt he honors in the notes of Midnight Miles was the wife of his Uncle Timothy Noah, and whomever reads about politics in USA knows who he is.
Sure Adam may grow wary of politics (for disillusions) most of the times, but SURELY he would NEVER be a Republican, much less of the dull and idiot Palin’s type.
I love his political takes so much… Karim properly cheers at any of them (obviously).
That tweet saved him from my reproaches after they unveiled properly the Hands All Over video (I still can’t believe what they did with that… *sigh*).
BTW, certainly Anne had more fun at the movies with her pal than Adam did watchin Lakers getting destroyed on Xmas by the Meat. SIGH 😉 (He later joined her).
Those days they also started to share that they will play at this year SuperBowl: first as part of an event the day before, then properly at the Fox PreGame event along Keith Urban on February 6th (awesome!!!!), namely the SuperBowl Tailgate Party.
Talkin about incoming (well, that one is really a long way to come yet, it’s in JUNE) music+sports event, Maroon 5 will also play for those who play GOLF this year (and I might just check that, because one of Karim’s cousin is a PRO ;)).
Well, I’ll try my best to be there, accordingly with all the schedules of that period of course.
Of course 😉
After Xmas time it was time for the lovely couple and the whole of Maroon 5 to move to Caribe for the planned performances in Santo Domingo and Trinidad and Tobago.
Adam took it very “Indiana Jones-y” 😉
In the maintime, gotta say I LOVED the frankness of James in the Billboard article about the underperformance of HAO album (you know who and what I blame for it… with different singles and promotion plan, the album would have been a smash as it’d deserved, but now is late to re-adjust, and anyway it still a wonderful album).
BTW, Anne probably would have liked more sun to test her new glasses with in Santo Domingo… still, she managed to be adorable even under clouds.
She’s naturally lovely.
The gig has been wonderful and here I prepared another video out from pictures… Enjoy:
Out of the beauty of the gig (universally reckoned) another really amazing thing was the way the band could actually be at ease in the places around.
I love that anytime it happens.
Another wonderful thing was that they moved out USING U2 airplane.
REALLY 😉
How cool is that (rhetoric question)? 😉
They moved from Santo Domingo to Trinidad and beside another lovely gig finally it seems Anne and Adam could enjoy some beach time (you know, those glasses they did buy in LA days before had to be used… see previous post ;)).
I just love anytime they tweet about food: two very slender people who truly love eating the way they do are refreshing! (now I don’t know about eating shark, Sharky, but I guess it can be tasty… I GUESS ;))
Also the other guys could enjoy the beauty of landscape and lots of other pretty things (aww).
Gig was coooooooool as well like we can imagine (check photos HERE) 😉
I often think how their systems gotta be trained well with jet-lags and stuff, because swirling that much cannot be easy on your body.
I know what I’m talkin about ;).
From Trinidad they had to move to Atlantic City where they were scheduled to perform for New Years Eve and those days (see also the Billboard interview) it seemed that the verbose one was James (I never complain there… I love how bright and full of composure he always is):
While we are at interviews, read also this cute one from the same press tour:
After reading things not mine (tsk… tsk… ;)) let’s roll and notice how the gigs crossing from 2010 into 2011 marked the end of the LONG time of Anne and Adam together in row.
Before the return of the lovebirds into their privateness though they sure had a great great feisty time, you bet (stashes involved shouldn’t surprised a soul there, right?) 😉
Gal had to start workin again, but it’s so sweet what they said about hoping the 2011 would have just to be as great as 2010 for them to be happy (and since professionally we do know Adam wished 2010 would have been better, it’s easy to understand what – WHO – made his 2010 totally unforgettable, right? Awwwww).
Now if only they’d stop watching trash tv… *sigh*.
Okay with How To Train Your Dragon but… Jersey Shore??? Jersey FUCKIN Shore????
Adam, Anne… why? It’s so… irking… O__O (and no way I will link to the tweet of Adam about Jersey Shore because it almost made me puke. Holy… HOLY. JUST NO).
While Anne was getting back into her schedule, boys were heading back to sunny lovely Cali (well, maybe not straight sunny immediately as they went back…), and James for instance was intellectually ready… while Adam… well… Adam was being Linus.
Not the one of Radio Deejay (this is for Italians).
Btw, Anne in between tweets to Adam’s peeps let us know in some way why lately she did not carry her Pomeranian along while visiting and staying in LA… lol.
What was Anne heading to? You are about to see some 😉
First gal changed her look and got back to BANGS!!!! (yes… welcome back in our club Russian Fairy… you look awesomely pure with bangs… totally glorious m’am!!!).
You can see her shots from Paris offices of Elite Models (awwww) and then if you wonder what she used the bangs for as first move of the year…
She worked it out for Pepe Jeans S/S collection ads, ladies and gentlemen!!! (GORGEOUS).
Enjoy the campaign:
She’s just perfect. Perfect beauty. Perfect.
And that is not the only thing she was working for those days (I can’t wait to learn!!!).
As Anne was shining in what she truly does so well, modeling, Adam and James were spending some relaxing time and prepping for rockin Las Vegas at Aria HAZE Nightclub.
But before that, read the 25things you may did not know about Adam from US Magazine (hint: we DID already know ALL of them, didn’t we? I mean… they’re pretty common acknowledge among the longtime peeps by now?):
I bet the maximum curiosity arose about Gene (Hong), because before Adam actually never so openly mentioned him (you might recall him in an episode of Mariah Carey’s hubby Nick Cannon show…?).
And keeping on with Magazines… he was also featured on Men’s Fitness February (the one with Ashton Kutcher on cover, that I obviously bought):
But don’t think I have no idea what you’re waiting for.
Let’s put it this way: the day THIS thing got online in the news, Adam Levine became a worldwide Twitter Trending Topic and as it totally should be the naturality and my blog got almost 1800 clicks in one day, because people were googling “Adam Levine NAKED“.
Yes.
It happened that the images of Adam Cosmopolitan UK spread for the February issue (he’s the charity Centerfold) were leaked or at least previewed online.
Holy.
Moly.
Holy.
He’s just so completely PERFECT.
And of course (talkin about aforementioned perfectionS) the hands covering him as we know are Anne’s (well, of course… like she would have allowed anyone else to volunteer there… lol).
Beside the fact Anne’s hands are actually pretty thick if any, I completely love the way she gently tuckers him inside.
No really… *great job Anne* (collective sighing of complete envy?? You bet. Karim won’t mind… he knows how I feel there, it’s innate in me to lust after Adam… but I’m very respecteful of everybody… *involved* ;)).
His perfect body crafted through yoga practice tells you a lot of things (beside that he’s as fit as hell): he has no fat and he won’t ever have it.
No steroids or over-muscling there, which make grown up men after they hit 35 become FAT once they stop heavy gym regime; no, Adam will stay always that slender and sculpted, and no name could fit him more than “Adam” in fact.
God had really to think about prototypical male handsomely features when he had to shape first man on planet Earth, right?
Oh… yeah.
Well… give me a couple of minutes to re-gain some decency and composure.
Thank you.
If you wonder, the charity Adam had to strip for is the EVERYMAN campaign for prostate and testicular cancer.
Which IS a serious issue so after you’ve cleaned your saliva from desk, push any male you know about do those checks (and check your own partner, as gently as Anne did with Adam’s privates. It’s also a very sexy way to get intimate, beside being useful. And yes… Karim and I did that too ;)).
In the days of solitude from Anne Adam did not really avoid company: he went to Lakers game, then he stuck in the studio (thing that he’s doing a lot anytime he reaches back LA: good boy… keep doing it good boy ;)).
Talkin about Lakers games… *sigh*… I miss watchin them badly these days of illness… (Okay I’ll stop).
Then they went to ARIA HAZE Nightclub (Sam along and Gene too, beside Jimmy V… and some Matchbox20 pal allegedly too).
The night was awesome and I know well because Charisse (Karim’s cousin) actually went there.
Too bad the Arizona shooting actually numbered the night all across ponds for their family…
But Charisse enjoyed the Las Vegas time of course and especially THIS cover Adam belted out of Nine Inch Nails’ epic CLOSER song.
We know it’s an all time fav of Adam and rightly so, because it’s so sexual and dirrrrrrrrrty of course he loves it (and he can do a wonderful rendition of it actually):
LOVE it.
Take the collages again…
and last one…
Yeah… I’m loving cheesy collages lately.
Take it or leave it 😉 (even with Labyrinthitis I am stubborn and a nay-sayer… see?) 😉
After the gig and the beautiful sunsets Adam got back home of course.
My guess is that he avoided to be hungover in Vegas this time because being hungover in Vegas generally leads to strippers all over you and he had to imagine that wouldn’t have pleased Anne (Charisse has said to me there were wars among girls to get nearby to him in explicit way that night, but that he was totally unreacheable for that… GOOD THING ADAM boy. Good boy).
He had things to do… and to plan 😉
He also had to resist humors of good friends and TV mogul writers Hart Hanson and SOA creator Kurt Sutter about bikes… nakedness… you know… those things that haunt you if you’re hot and handsome and you still want to play Easy Rider 😉
Okay, it’s time for a bit of Flashback, okay?
I can put on thanx to my friend Siria the When I Was 17 episode involving Adam (it’s a re-reproduction… Siria thank you for recording it… you may have to do the same with the Critics Choice Awards… ;)), that a fellow British fan asked me about (glad to have filled her request, albeit in a no exactly perfect way ;)).
Enjoy this AMAZING version of Adam with cameos of Jesse and his mum Patsy (HILARIOUS and adorable man he is… also a bit of a bad boy… but with that face he can get along with it no matter what ;)):
And while we are at flashbacks, take also this small funny piece from Splash Tv on Adam’s past ;):
Am I good or what? 😉
Even ill… take note… lmao 😉
The night of the 11th January two things happened: the guys went to the Troubadour club to support (and play along) Maroon5 6th member PJ Morton (an awesome performance from everyone in the word of every witness) and Anne flew aside her man for a very, very blessed and important thing (after having shot her Victoria’s Secret Pink line duties, of course).
Yep.
The shooting of 4th single (but for me is like it’s the 3rd, you know why) “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” video.
The song ain’t my fav ballad on the record, but it’s definitely a good song and I just CAN’T wait for watching the final video out of it.
You have seen some of my own pics for the video, now enjoy proper images out of its shooting from media sources:
And this one too:
I can’t get enough of them together: to me is like watching a beautiful paint in motion.
They’re a livin beautiful art ensemble to me: my aesthete soul just gets fulfilled through their sight together; a peculiar version of Stendhal syndrome? LOL 😉
All I know is that nakedness fits the both of them just SO well ;).
Anne actually could remain just for the brief time of the shooting because she had to fly back to Europe first in Barcelona, for what is a cover and I can’t wait to discover of which magazine, and after that straight then in Berlin for Fashion Week (and in Berlin she was actually First Face for Escada defilée!!! whoooo), so she couldn’t take part in the Critics Choice Movie Awards the following day, when Maroon 5 acted as house band and honored Quentin Tarantino in a wonderful version of “Stuck In The Middle with You“ during broadcast (I will provide the video as soon as possible… blame damn codecs of VH1 and MTV usa 😉 for the delay).
While all that was happening, images of the video stills were making also the French drool ;), while I just have to agree with Modelinia and their article about the event: indeed Adam DESERVES the “best boyfriend” Award: Fo Sho… ;).
While you wait for the proper thing, enjoy this patch-wall of pictures from the event though:
The images of the night and the afterparties were all drool-worthy, by the way (and no one is surprised, is it?) and it seems it was really really a big fat laugh and entertaining jams all night long for all the boys (cute!!!).
I particularly loved to see Mickey and his ladylove (you know I have a soft spot for the silent one with the low deep beautiful voice).
Another wonderful thing happened hours later; Anne was moved to Berlin, and Adam went on voicing his ongoing pride, love and appreciation for his angel this way (awwwww all together):
Hours later, this was Anne’s answer (and I did melt… I was sick and super sick in my bed, but I couldn’t resist the wave of love the two exchanged and I melt… they are so completely wonderful as a loving couple…!!!!):
Oh, they own my heart.
Truth :).
Biker Boy Adam ventured out the days after and beside that he also gave up to Lakers game after taping the Jay Leno performance (incredible!!!! He let James witness our win 😉 bad choice good boy… but at least Jimmy V had fun!), and he generally enjoyed the amazing winter climate of his hometown, ran more bike adventures, had some lunch and working meeting and especially he kept on hanging in the studio, for our future delight.
Btw, you know I am not a fan of Leno so the only thing that I let you see of it is of course Maroon 5 performance:
Okay. He’s hot. We can all agree there ;).
And “he” doesn’t mean Jay Leno of course ;).
What to end?
First of all, Adam unveiled a very unexpected “old camp buddy” name and connection (really!!!!!) and then…
Lovely Matt Flynn had a moment to shine as well (check that podcast!!!)
Well, Anne has reached Adam back in Los Angeles just yesterday… I guess she slept a lot after her heavy schedule and I also bet the City of Angels is very glad to have her as an angel back.
Definitely Adam had someone to take care of after his morning in Santa Monica with Shawn, didn’t he? (a series of truly amusing tweets that one was… Adam is definitely such an hilarious guy!).
We also all wish Adam didn’t have any more strange needs by the time he reached his belle at home (or at least that he gave her the candies... ;)).
We will hopefully have things to see next time too. We know we will 😉
Now let me thank my friends and Karim for having helped me out with this update (even though today I felt slightly better) and let me get back in bed to some more healing.
Catch you next time.
Hopefully decently soon enough 😉
Take care, as I will for sure… your sometimes very friendly (if you deserve) Miss Z. ;).
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Some days, a lot of fun, a lot of food and – also – some good working days later (it feels incredibly cool to go to working meetings in Manhattan… really… I was so happy to hang down there with Brian and the guys I didn’t even mind that was takin away half of my GREAT Black Friday shopping, or the whole almost of the subsequent Saturday!), we’re back to the usual and nice routine, working in a freezy, sometimes snowy Milan and waiting for the GREAT Lady Gaga gig this incoming Sunday AND also the amazing Scala Première with Wagner.
Actually to prepare for that, I was spending reading hours in New York – still do it now that I’m back home – checking again the Eddan (in Swedish of course, with English text aside) and that, like it always happen, easily lead me to read for about the 13th time the whole of Lord Of the Rings (that in English and in Italian too… I love his style in all languages).
I actually read all Tolkien every December (and for every Tolkien I mean everything ever published under his name), because it feels very… fireplace&frosty related to me.
And then he’s one of my favorite writers ever.
Back to the USA days, it was great to spend this holiday finally getting… into it.
Karim’s family is obviously very keen to these traditions, but it was honestly a shining family time that I totally felt complete part of.
Oh… and their house in Manhattan is insane.
Wow.
We were planning to check more apartments while there but then the Black Friday shopping took us quite over (always after work though) so in the end we went checking stuff only a bit the first two days (and trust me… on Wednesday chaos in the roads was so huge we didn’t really put our best efforts there at all).
We are in contact with the people we need anyway so some more chances for a check will arise soon.
I will have to fly newly to New York soon anyway.
We have a couple of ideas, but since the prices there are nuts, we will wait for something that WE REALLY LOVE.
Okay that we have money, but this doesn’t mean we like to throw them away uselessly.
Modesty is the key to a healthy life balance.
When back in Italy my first stop were Swifty and mum&dad…
At evening, that we spent with them, we watched the last episode of the awesome Vieni Via Con Me and this was my fav part of it all (the whole show was as usual fantastic):
Really, the list of great Italians‘ things made me drop my jaw off by amazement (Roby Baggio!!! Pasolini!!! Benigni!!! So deserved :)!) and then the list of Tobagi‘s daughter just made me cry.
Today our Country is in dismay but hopefully Berlusconi will end his shameful and disgustive run and presence soon enough.
Sadly, just during the show we learnt that Mario Monicelli took off his own life to not being submitted to another’s will about when he was his due time.
We’ve lost the true Father of the best Italian Comedy.
On Tuesday evening Karim and I watched a marathon of some of his greatest movies and we plan to keep on all week long.
Rest In Peace, you genius.
Italy misses yet another true artist and a vitriolic, yet deep and senseful insight on its cracks and beauties, something that each youngster around should get educated into and at and throughout.
Karim shed a tear learning of him passing away.
I did too.
We come writing after a back to back sleepless nights because both on Tuesday and Wednesday games were around 2 am.
Considering on Wednesday we went out with the lab crew and we arrived home at 1 am… let’s just say in the past two days we haven’t slept much.
Also because Lakers did not really facilitate that (*rolls eyes*)…
I hope these days of zero sleep won’t compromise my incoming weeks of fun…
It’s just that you know me… I never say NO to fun and friends; I never say NO to live music; I never say NO to my sport passions; I never say NO to anything that I feel passionate about.
And you also know that when any of these things don’t exactly go my way, I need raw Sexual Healing to let the frustration go.
That of course happens especially with Sport stuff (because really, I never experienced any frustration in the other departments in my whole life, thank God!)
Therefore if you try to decode my message above, through witness of the Lakers… You get that there have been a certain number of occasions recently when I had to rely on my favorite anti-stress therapy.
Not that I lament a thing there, but still..
I hope in a stopping of the reasons I have to turn to that kind of safety for my soul for ;).
I also take this good occasion to remind you all that yesterday it was World Aids Day, and beside the fact Coldplay finally released for Red One new music to celebrate the occasion (nice song, but not earth-shattering, still you all should buy it because it’s for a very worthy cause), I also felt the need to point out all charities that were available.
Aids still kill.
Please, don’t ever forget it and never stop to help those in need about it.
Please.
Do it.
Okay… I tried to postpone but you know it’s coming don’t you?
You must be trained about my way to compose posts here by now 😉
Let’s get into sport asap (even though this time at least the first sporty bite intertwines FORCEDLY with Divine Adam and lovely Anne’s chronicles… and you will see why very soon ;)) and let’s start from where I stopped last time, therefore with the awesome win against finally a worthy opponent…
Take a look at Lakers takin over Chicago Bulls:
In the picture you’ve seen enlightened by a heart (I know, it’s cheesy… AND I love it ;)) Adam and Anne witnessing the amazing Mamba scoring…
Later on in the chronicles of them you will see how Adam was featured in the NBA Fan Of The Night segment that day, and how… they arrived and stayed and left in their amazing November 23th together.
Man I love those kids together 😉
But now let’s go on… Because happy times in LakerNation kinda stopped there practically, for a long (way too long) while.
There’s so much more you need to learn about and they are a bit of gloomy stories sadly.
Not all shines in Laker Land nowadays…
Contrariwise we are hitting quite a rough patch and we must gather back forces and strengths and focus somehow.
Quickly.
Here are the demises chronicles until today (can’t imagine it can go on any further… but then, you never know).
On the Black Friday (Black for real) Lakers went to Utah to battle the Jazz, and this is what happened:
I therefore expressed my frustration by sexing it up with Karim downtown Manhattan.
We had a blast.
Yes, he allowed me to play (that way you read about in the previous post) so that after we had the best Sexual Healing therapy… EVER.
I hope Adam and Anne performed something similar because he surely had to feel raging after just moments before our UNFORGIVABLE loss he (like me) had the feeling as usual Kobe (in much Kobe Mode, but still our only Saviour when needed) would have amended for the whole rest of the team (and of the bench) which was unwatchable for large parts of the game.
But no… it ended in loss, which will be really useful afterwards anyway (this is the only way I can look at it…).
It must work so, right?
Gotta put things in a certain perspective.
Then just when we were coming back home, Lakers took their way back home to fight the drizzly Indiana Pacers, and this is what we witnessed (we did some hours later, but there you go) along the whole of Laker Nation:
I was shocked when, landing (LATE) in Malpensa on Monday morning, I got straight that we did lose that TOO!!!
I was really… WTF???
Kobe scores for the 105th time +40 points and we manage to LOSE HOME??
Again on Sunday???
That rang lots of bells…
Poor Adam and Anne (there again too, but not in the usual places… if it weren’t for Mash sending me straight a Divine A + Sweet Fairy A candid shot from Staples, I would have thought they weren’t there…) allegedly had to perform more Sexual Healing too?
I know Karim and I after watchin the game on taxi on our way back from Malpensa to Milan… DID.
Yep.
We met at lunch time at my lab and just had it in my keyed out little resting room.
*HOT*.
Still… “Lakers… WTF????” was the thought constantly struck on my mind.
If I only knew how I were not even half into pain mode…
I upload blog today and I didn’t neither on Monday nor Tuesday (nor actually Wednesday) evening cos my only blogging time after the demise was of course meant to be a stop (well, TWO actually) in the Lakers Blog.
On Wednesday though, the dinner out prevented me from writing there and in so many ways it was better because You’ll see the unthinkable happened.
AGAIN.
I had to mourn with the Family, which I dearly missed in those far away New York days, and I did during latest chat also.
But ehi, for feeling part of an American family I had to follow traditions and it would have felt awkward to say at a certain point: “excuse me ya’ll, got to take my time and spotty-blog a bit” ;)…
I am sure they would have allowed me (they are from Cali after all and they all support Lakers, so…) but honestly in that atmosphere I never really felt like I wanted even to ask.
I was feeling so into family time I let it go (and you can understand how much that means in my world ;)).
So after the double demise, Lakers traveled to Memphis to match up again lil Brother Marc Gasol’s Grizzlies and yes, THIS is what happened (hold yourself… PLEASE):
I WAS SHOCKED AND SHAKED.
Wow, how awkward, and not usual for me about my adored Purple & Gold Knights.
And the worst thing was that during the last few seconds I was again feeling we wouldn’t have made it.
I felt clearly we weren’t there to feel any lucky or mighty.
Last year instead I was always feeling we were there to subvert the impossible.
Grrr.
But don’t fail yourself: we’ll win this Ring too.
And these hard moments will lead us exactly there.
Mark My Words.
After a resounding Three Losses Streak, this past night we faced Houston Rockets at their home:
Yes… I know… YOU CAN’T BELIEVE IT.
I actually can, and that is what makes the whole situation really strange for me.
But as I said, I’m sure we’ll bounce back.
I AM SURE OF IT.
Okay… now it’s time for a lot (and I mean LOT) of cuteness, because after such a gloomy unhappy break we all need it, but especially I DO.
Especially because looks like there’s a lot of people coming round after two days ago CBS broadcasted the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2010, showing Adam and the boys cheering on Anne multiple times and therefore raising the question that yesterday made “Adam’s Levine Girlfriend” the most popular Google topic (WOW!!).
Of course straight after that there started swirling up uncontrolled and idiot news about them being ready to marry or even already expecting a child (PLEASE!!! She’s a model… She won’t feather a baby any quick… though I truly hope they will procreate sooner than later because they’re so beautiful their kids would be SPARKLING) and hilariously some of the pictures of Anne were actually of Angela or of Becky (?? how such shorties could model in catwalks??) and even Maria Sharapova (oh, boy… Internet pics databases… the hell of the unawares… ;)!).
Is it that strange to do some decent web researches before writing idiocities?
Luckily over here we got them together from the very first start… and actually from that first stroll, somebody shared even this link (yep, February 19th, 2010 in Los Angeles… but that was just the first time that month they allowed people to catch them up, as the whole thing started as you know after February 10th…)
Fact is they are blissfully happy together though and surely I wish them all those steps as soon as they’ll like to take them.
But leave them alone… let them be.
They’re a wonderful sight together… no other couple ever pleased me so much that I wasn’t personally a friend of. 😉
I have the whole of the VSFS (and you gotta check from start to end because they keep appearing…) but it comes at the end, because as you know I post things in chronological order here 😉
Lots of videos (and the whole of Taratata) coming today… Literally HOURS of videos. 😉
Before following the timing trail of greatness, let’s step back with a lil LOVELY interview with MICKEY!!! It was released while they were in Amsterdam on November 17th (check previous post) and since I LOVE when Mr. Madden speaks, I put it up straight.
Mickey speaks on papers or radios so rarely, sure it did deserve some kind of highlight here 🙂
Read it and enjoy ;):
After this, and always while we are in “recap” and “trackback” mode, take finally the whole available of Maroon5 RDS Showcase (November 2010) which is not the whole setlist, because the whole setlist was THIS ONE:
But okay, what you will hear still adorable.
This are the songs in My treatment of layout (it’s one after another, okay?):
And then the interview they did, which I left as it is on the RDS site. Enjoy:
While we’re at tracking back the performances that were just described in past post, it’s now the time to put up the UK Lottery Draw excerpts (order? my friend Marghe signaled me the bites but I’m not sure I put all in order correctly) with Gethin Jones.
Adam is seriously fantabulous there.
Sex on legs. Always.
That was a lot right? And we haven’t even started! 😉
Let’s get back to the start from just where we left, the day of Anne and Adam reaching back Los Angeles (of course together.. and they’ve spent a lot of time together this November… awwww the supercuteness indeed!).
Adam could barely hold himself thinkin of what he would have done on Wednesday, because sure his first Lakers game live this season was a treat, but so was the Conan O’Brien show.
He adores comedy, you know.
But before that, Maroon5 let us know that the same Wednesday France tv would have aired the episode of Taratata the guys did actually record back in September (check this post about it… it was when Adam and Anne finally re-met in Paris after a month apart… ;)).
I think the whole show and the interview was AMAZING…
Especially the lovely part in the interview where Adam, after the interviewer was asking him about his dozens of female conquers, and if that about him had changed at all, he just pointed out his girlfriend was there (awww… “petite amie”… sounds so lovely in French).
Check this LONG video of the whole Taratata, and sorry if you don’t know French…
You must learn it (so should Adam, but we all know he’s way too lazy to try it ;)… Jesse maybe just forgot it 😉 right?) in order to decode the special video montage during the show.
Beside the live of Maroon5 songs, there is also the duet of Bang Bang with K’naan of course.
Enjoy, folks… it’s long and totally awesome;):
Another totally awesome thing from the Taratata special is the final video request by Adam and Jesse, showing us and reminding us how much Mr. Levine adored/adores one of my iconic bands, Oasis (still mourn that they split, and I am overexcited that Noel is RECORDING!!!! Whooo-hooo!).
This is nothing that should surprise us and in fact, transcended by empathy about the request, I just created a video with 170 pictures of Adam and the guys (and Adam and Anne somewhere to0), some drawings of Karim, and put in Maroon 5 covers of Oasis’ Don’t Look Back In Anger – sorry for the radio audio quality – and Hello, from Live On Friday The 13th. Then I closed it with a real Oasis jam ;).
Thought it was better than an anonymous YouTube video… Enjoy ;):
Awww 😉
While they were moving from London to LA, it appeared the list of their World tour, encompassing among the rest Australia, Indonesia, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico (check their website, okay?).
I also found this interview that I quite liked:
The morning after their arrival back in Los Angeles, Adam and Anne became very chatty, letting us step into their world together.
I still appalled anytime Adam quotes classic albums, a too wide majority of his “fans” don’t get a clue about it.
What a bunch of illiterate idiots folks…
The times he must shake head had to be countless with some people (Sticky Fingers is one of the most iconic Rolling Stones Album, you darn mo**ns… Fans like you are better being lost than taken…Geez).
Talkin about music, then, that day Adam actually went to a studio (Henson one again?) to record a collaboration that he wasn’t sharing details of, but that gave him “Very Positive Feelings”.
Can’t wait to know/hear about it!!!!
The morning after, we further step into lovely Adam and Anne shine of mutual love.
They woke up and she tweeted this:
And then this… (awww, I just can’t cope with so much… I’d squeeze them like two teddy bears…):
After which he replied so (weeks earlier he was debating with his friends how much his eggs were best eggs ever… ;)) to her:
I feel all kind of butterflies about them.
I have rooted for them straight… the very first sight I caught of Adam smiling for her THAT open way, she conquered me.
And you know which fix I have with Mr. Levine… but she’s like… a person you cannot hate onto.
Too gracious… and so beautiful.
They’re completely perfect for one another…
So much, that when Adam left to go to rehearsal for the Conan show of that day (the show is recorded during daytime to be broadcasted at late evening, ad it’s taped in Burbank, so he had to move quickly after that breakfast), and she took some parking/driving lessons in the maintime, the fact that she hummed one of HIS cars in the process was certainly forgiven by him.
How eras change!! 🙂
We all know how much Adam loves his cars, and everything that is “motor” related so the fact she can even crash them is a perfect measure of how much he loves her, in fact.
When the reharsal became backstage, and after Anne of course joined her beau, Maroon 5 taped their performance (awesome) and so, as you expect, you can actually watch it here.
I actually loved Hart Hanson‘ (Bones creator) tweet at Adam about the outfit he would have worn during the show (yep, it is a reference to what you’ve seen in the previous post), but then he was dressed.
TIGHTLY (oh, man…).
Enjoy ;):
As you know, after the taping of Conan Adam and Anne went to the Lakers vs. Chicago Bulls basketball game.
Adam was very happy to finally check his first Lakers game of the year LIVE, (you’ve seen the pictures up), but another thing that made him happy, and his lady VERY proud and sharing as well, was that he actually also went interviewed for the NBA Fan Of the Week show.
AWESOME… Check it (isn’t he so totally amazing? Oh dear… too bad after that game he had to suffer what we all Lakerholics did… from the stars to stables… but we’ll get back up to starred sky soon, no question!)
After that we learnt once more about Adam (and Anne’s there agreeing too) passion for sushi; I love that he loves mostly Italian and Japanese food (well, when he doesn’t go junk food, which it happens pretty often… if he hadn’t that metabolic fastness he possesses, he would be obese ;)), because… well, I’m Italian with a Japanese crush ;).
Obviously.
The Thursday it was Thanxgiving.
Such an important family time you know.
Adam acknowledged well, and openly, how much he has to be thankful for.
Doesn’t go difficult to catch what (and WHO) was making him particularly grateful in those hours.
I really enjoyed to think that the two lovers were together that day especially.
As you can see, Anne’s just so simple, adorable, truly down to Earth type of girl and she totally sounds and appears as the perfect companion for Adam.
She is that kind of woman who can keep a man, especially when a bit messy, in line with tenderness and plus she can make him laugh (because she can be as cutely dorky as actually also Adam gets very often).
Then of course, being looking as a Fairy Goddess, she has all other qualities any man could ask for, hasn’t she?
The day after Thanxgiving, while they were about to enjoy last hours together (for that week span ;)), Adam tweeted something that some of his fans found strange or unexpected:
Adam’s ADD is certainly a bland form of it, but in many many ways, anyone observing him, or getting how much hyperactive and rebellious he naturally is can understand how some of his fascinating, unique antics come also from the way that disorderly attention plays within him.
I am sure no one thinks he is strange or anything… his symptoms are actually very much in line with TONS of other artists’ ones, and he is such a greater cutie due to those sides of his behavior, it’s hard to picture him with a dysfunction, rather than with a flamboyant persona that has nothing border-ly about it (and to me, there’s nothing border-ly about him) .
Many of the best musicians, actors, play-writers, and a fair majority of past centuries most prolific and genius poets were clearly ADD subjected.
I am a chemist and a biologist and to me that side of Adam is just a sign Nature wanted him special and peculiar.
And then we get to enjoy his totally off the way sitting down style 😉
I’m sure you understand why he NEEDS to be a musician and also why he enjoys the focusing of yoga that much; you probably also get why he’s so impulsive and sexually charged (that is an often related need of ADD people, too), and maybe also why he finds the slowing down power of pot that intriguing (I won’t ever follow him there, but he doesn’t kill anyone with that).
His fast mind slowing down helps him to relax: therefore anything that holds that power is a healing gift for him.
Again… in all of his lyrics you can guess about these dynamics… well, if you’re smart enough and educated enough at least.
I thank above for creating such a lovely man, so full of talent, so that he could turn his uniquely chaotic self into an uniquely inspiring master to many people out there.
Anyway, enough of this (I still appalled on how much ignorant about life topics some of his “fans” are… how could they not get he could have easily been a subject of that? It ain’t such a deal, get over it…) and back to the last hours the two lovers could spend together in Los Angeles before having to move to the East Coast for different working tasks.
Too bad Lakers really did not help them in feeling too quiet… but then maybe they just enjoyed to sex the disappointment up after (Karim and I surely did 😉).
Surely as per usual Adam gets the most romantic and lyrical when he’s with Anne.
And as per usual, his native town truly sets him up for being the best he can be.
Check also LA Magazine December about it if you can:
Past that night, he let us know he was heading to Nashville openly; Anne was instead bound to reach Savannah, for what we did learn the days after was a photo session for Ralph Lauren.
How Awesome!!!
Airport time always makes Adam chatty, and he did also because Anne’s flight was prior two abundant hours compared to his.
A lot.
I love his way to be sexually charged 24/7.
I so do.
Adam in December is also featured in Rolling Stone, because he shared his Fav 10 List (about the Police ;)):
James instead is gracing Premier Guitar Magazine:
Props up 😉
Also interesting is this auction that goes up in December for the Grammy Foundation… if you don’t know what to get for Xmas ;):
As they landed in Nashville, Maroon 5 met straight some legend.
I was thinkin they were there at the CMT Artist Of The Year Awards to honor Lady Antebellum by that point… you will see in a while I was wrong.
Also, it seems that Adam keeps being very inspired about writing lately (who wouldn’t be in his shoes…), this regardless of places or weather actually.
While being apart, on that 30th of November, Adam and Anne had to think about how to list their tv watching.
Because that same day, Cbs was broadcasting finally the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, while on another channel the third season finale of Sons Of Anarchy was on.
You know they’re both SOA freaks… but of course they both wanted to watch VSFS first.
You know that I have the whole show…
And now is actually the time to let you see it.
So, enjoy beauty.
Think that Adam is shown four and plus times, from the start till the very end, and Anne has three highlights too.
They are absolutely wonderful… truly best part of the show was to see how in love these two are…:
Anne though, in between cute tweets exchanged with John Legend’s ladylove Christine Teigen (a fellow SI model… and a very cute kind person, though I keep not understanding how people shorter than me can model, since I am 5’9” and Teigen – like that bland Lily Aldrige – is 5’8”…), had sadly to discover she would have missed the broadcast, due to the fact her plane back from South Carolina to New York home would have been delayed and she would have been traveling just exactly by he time of CBS telecast.
Poor thing!
She sounded disheartened at some point… I would have been not happy as well.
But then, some kind heart managed anyway to let her see it all 😉
Before her flight took over she was watchin tv in the lobby and once again it’s clear that she shares lots of things with her man, who’s a total Stevie Wonder devotee, too.
But what was Adam doing on 30th night?
What were Maroon5 up to for the CMT Awards?
Well, you know I don’t really click with Country… but when I even learnt that they were up to cover TAYLOR SWIFT I chuckled.
Really.
I am having such a hard time dealing with this (in the whole Kanye‘s thing, you know what i think, and I wonder how Adam can feel being of my same school of life about it?), even though I was sure by the time Swift’s “romance” (??) with Jake Gyllenhaal was made public, someway their roads would have crossed.
But really???
Covering “Mine”???
I have trouble there.
Tomorrow I will see the broadcast and decide but… KANYE. TEAM KANYE.
Sorry guys.
I am not always agreeing with anything you do (though I repeat: I’m sure YOUR version of Mine is awesome).
Duh.
Better get back in BEAUTIFUL TERRITORY and let’s enjoy some of the cuteness about Anne’s catwalkin in a couple of actually true (albeit kinda simple) article on her surfaced after from the broadcast it was clear Adam was there for her.
First this one… and well, SURE they were the most beautiful couple there: tall and gorgeous they seem like real life Barbie and Manly Ken…):
Then this beautiful one which quotes Adam gushin on her in September stop at Howard Stern’s show (check my past post… that day where the guys did that amazing radio cover of Let’s Stay Together… and you know I always think he sings it to her ;)):
THESE are the next times you will catch Maroon5 on tv (and I will try and translate all videos here again):
Yesterday then the day was quiet… Guys had a chat time in Nashville (if I can find a transcript of it I’ll put it up next time, along to what hasn’t surfaced yet that I have spoke about today), prior to learn that they had again gained a Grammy Nomination for Misery in the Best Pop Performance category (yesterday there was the Grammy Nomination Day).
Having candidate themselves only in 6 categories (due to the release time for HAO, check my previous post where I did post the prenominees link list) it’s already a good achievement that Maroon5 got again acknowledged as they deserve to.
I am APPALLED just at the composition of the Pop Album Category (only deserving one there is Gaga, but then I sadly knew it would have been an hard time for HAO), and about any of Katy Perry and Justin Bieber nomination, but beside that I am really pleased with the rest of the nominations, especially about Arcade Fire and Cee-Lo’s ones, because if you read this blog you know I tipped those (and Eminem and Gaga) all year long to take the major honors this year.
But yeah… That Pop Album Category and Perry+Bieber let me fear that like last year with friggin Swift there will be some to be ashamed for this year too at the Grammy Awards.
Oh well.
At least we know who’s gonna shine on red carpet, don’t we?:
I told you she’s just adorable 😉
And I don’t even like Pomeranians… but truly she was so cute 😉
Adam tweeted some time after these from Anne… I guess they watched the broadcast of Sons Of Anarchy while talkin that night? 😉
Whatever they do, they are adorable to me.
End of the debate.
They even made me sligtly forget about Lakers in those moments 😉
That’s how much I like the idea of them together 😉
Then this morning, while I was having a meeting … some KINDRED soul posted THIS (hold yourself… it’s DANGEROUS to health!):
It’s the second part of the shot you know from last post... and oh… BOY.
I can’t process the thought.
My fetish for ilium bone and male hips goes to stratosphere with Adam.
I can’t wait to buy whatever magazine is that they shot these nature candids for charity along.
(I repeat: Anne… you lucky lucky lucky woman ;)…*sigh*…)
Karim is NOW mocking me about this of course.
But he knows I can’t help the way this man sexes me up.
It’s… a natural chemical inner and unstoppable reaction (look the smirk he has… it’s everything a promising one should be).
I guess for today we’re okay this way…
I am cooking and very soon I will sleep after for two days I slept a total of 4 hours and half.
I’ll cuddle and enjoy the bless which is my life and the fact my beloved soulmate can even handle my passions about music and… musicians 😉
I’m just so very fortunate and blessed.
😉 Catch you in 7-10 days 😉
Enjoy this start of December, the Xmas await, and if you are Jewish, Happy Hanukkah!! 🙂
Z. 😉
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Gooooooood Wednesday everybody!
Yes, I know, I’m late and what you’re about to read is another HUGE post.
It comes at my late evening, after a sunny wonderful day, after a wonderful, perfect waking up at 4 am for what you’re imagining (yep, MY LAKERS!!!!)
What can I offer as explanation?
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.
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.
This doesn’t mean I don’t wanna us to win them all… 😉
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.
Kobe was so smiling, so happy the entire time (and he’s starting his year as 15th in the row with the Lakers, greatest franchise man ever), even when the game wasn’t seeming that smooth (but as the chat proved, I never worried a moment… ;))
And then the game showed so much how much we have again improved.
You read it all in my Today’s Blog Post that I will link from my Twitter after this update is posted, but I just wanna pinpoint it:
1st Ring has been the Vengeance;
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.
We’re just gonna be so great… and you know, I feel a lot of what Adam said both during the game and at the END of it , sealing his obvious enthusiasm;).
And of course, I totally share what he said about Kobe, too… 😉
But as you see here in this awesome pic of Travis Schneider (Vevey Forever director) shared, Adam’s beloved Lakers is RON RON (and how cannot I understand? Ron rocks :)!)
We. Are. The. BEST. Just surrender. 😉
And even if you don’t surrender, we’re gonna win anyway (no matter Evil Stern tricky ways to favorize Princess Of Losers BronzeY… all heil, Lakers! ALWAYS stronger than them all put together. ALWAYS)
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…:
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.
It’s Divine Creature Adam talkin about passion, drive, talent and basketball.
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?
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.
Today I have ditched fitness for going to the hairdresser and I’m currently sporting extensions which are red on half of my head (and bangs) and blue-sky on the other half.
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:
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.
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.
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 … 😉
What can I say… fact is this: I LOVE Halloween 😉
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.
Yep: Sugarland have prevented Kings Of Leon from Billboard’s top; another shame Country fake band to take laurels so unacceptably, after Zac Ass Brown Band took the 1st place off my Babies.
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.
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.
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.
Next week I will see Prince live in Milan at least ;).
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.
Another amazing thing out of November is of course that we end and leave Otto The Prick out of boards FOREVER.
Gosh… finally freedom from that lurid idiot.
YEAHHHHH!!!
You won’t ruin me another New Year’s Eve 😉
While in New York, if possible I’d love to cross Dani G.
Maybe there is a game worthy at MSG?
Dunno: should check 😉
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 take off with two radio interviews, one of which is related to also a video where Adam professes love for Africa (from Fox).
This is the radio excerpt:
And then there is an interview for Capital Radio:
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.
Guys moved to Sacramento, where time ago somebody decided to enjoy the typical away night: and it’s that “vague” remembrance that tells you how much that could have been *fun* ;).
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.
Adam sets my sex on fire.
End of it.
Btw, the spread is really gorgeous.
Can’t wait to have the magazine in my hands actually.
Back to Sacramento, and to the actual gig, I always have fun acknowledging how their live sets can turn dubious people into believers.
Good thing there are some people who GET them.
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.
Check the Grammy Submissions HERE (honestly, I don’t see spaces for wins but a couple of nominations should/could reach out in fact) and in the end Mutt and the guys should truly get recognition for their amazing work.
I still completely in love with Hands All Over (and here take a Russian review of it ;))
The more I listen to it, the better it gets.
Quality.
But ehi… see above… quality these days is simply not understood.
*sigh*.
Anne isn’t bad in fashion photography you know, so she let us know that she’s on the cover of November 2010 Issue of Spain Vogue (I posted the thumbnail way above!).
I will buy that in Milan as soon as it arrives 😉
Awww… leotards… 😉
In the schedule of reciprocal lovers’ time, gotta start to give room to the December special sounding Holiday events, such as these:
Kiss Mass Bash, Jingle Ball and some first trip to Trinidad…
Then we knew already NEW YEARS SHOW it’s Gonna Be In ATLANTIC CITY 😉
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”…
I didn’t say it: THEY did:
I LOVE ’em boys.
Moving from their beloved Cali to the East, guys stopped and got through New Mexico, and since Adam OF COURSE brought on tour one of his bikes (maybe two?), he took the chance of the moving day to venture into wild nature, and meeting people (which he always like).
I wouldn’t call him organized, but surely (and that’s why I like him) he was completely PASSIONATE about it all 😉
Then as logically expected, Adam and the guys did their thing onstage: just like they do it always, bringing it home greatly.
While they moved to Tulsa, Adam shared that he hung out with THE HANSON (yeah… Mmm-bop ones) time ago there and loved it.
Unexpected connections, but kinda cute 😉
That moment in Tulsa, Jesse took a pic of James , while James took a pic of Adam whom finally took a pic of Jesse, SIMULTANEOUSLY.
I know.
Adam there spotted a goatee.
I hate goatees.
And thank above it seems it did not last on his face.
Adam, honey, you’re the hottest on Earth but not even you can pull that off well.
Go with the beard OR the shave but please NO goatee.
Anne… please force him never to keep one EVER, thank you.
No one looks pretty with a goatee unless he’s not a 1890 French nobleman, sorry ;).
On the mug department instead, no complaint or restraints: Adam is always lovely showing what (I think fans?) gift him with.
Adam is also a very deep and bright person: that kind of person who just can’t think everything is gonna be fine and always so, unless you’re not an unaware idiot.
I wouldn’t say he is cynical: he’s SMART.
VERY smart.
I feel way more than some proximity regarding that approach to life: and I loved this shoutout to Kanye West, who had his album cover art banned (not anymore?).
But now, let’s get into a BEAUTIFUL piece of Los Angeles Times on the guys (really??? I’m almost shocked!!): CLICK here cos it’s awesome, and then watch this from the same Los Angeles Times article, and see FRANKIE!!!:
While we are at the cute videos step, take this awesome pieces from MTV Japan Diary (long 27 minutes and absolutely DELIGHTFUL):
WOW… Yes, I know 😉
Oh, and since we are on the MTV page, let’s share this video of Adam and Kelly Rowland while EMA approach
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:
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?
Yes, At Gramercy (sigh!!!!), surrounded by my beloved Flatiron Building 😉
The day before the catwalk, lovely Russian Fairy took a walk down her memory lane and shared pictures from her Prom Time year, and a couple from past modeling years more close to nowadays.
Overly cute and auto-ironic and always so reliable in talks, isn’t she?
While Anne was getting preppy for her show, Adam and the guys were reaching in Texas, and Adam took the chance to visit a music store and buy a guitar (that he later confessed to carry along since purchase, like obsessed with it).
Adam also did an interview for Virgin Radio Ca,which I hope will get released for us all to catch, and also provided a vocal rendition of Alicia’s If I Ain’t Got You that keeps impressing whomever isn’t deaf.
Before I go on, while we are on the interview train, take this small piece with Adam and Jesse:
Gotta say that while in Texas, the Final of World League of baseball were on.
And we learnt that: ADAM hates the Yankees, – too bad because I LIKE them ;)… – and that Matt is a passionate and almost crazy Giants fan.
Matt is also just like Adam: sport goes good… cookies for everyone!!!
Well… everything got well, because Texas Rangers deafeat the Yankees while Maroon 5 were playing in Texas, advancing to the Big Final, and later also Giants came to the same point.
The fun facts were that both these events were linked to and talked about DURING gigs.
It’s a band of sport fanatics. Granted.
Back on Anne’s runaway and catwalks, we not only could appreciate pics of the event itself, not only got to listen to her overjoyed, and we could sneak in thanx to her at the afterparty, we also got to read that THESE days she is in Turks and Caicos, having more tasks to do.
Fairly enough, she has admitted hers is the kind of job that allows you such wonderful place stays you can’t really complain ;).
This is anyway the Express Show rendition:
From Texas to Tennesse, babies were fastly approaching the final streams of the second leg of the tour, and too bad some very cool ideas couldn’t take place, mostly due to bad weather on their day off.
But when they finally got to play the real thing, as per usual it was awesome.
And oh well… those visions… *sigh*… FIRE on FIRE.
😉
Anne in the same hours was preparing to her trip off by shedding some on her passion:vintage jewelry (lovely piece, gotta say…).
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).
Btw, Anne as specified is now is in Turks and Caicos and someway watching that I feel like I’d like to jump with Karim on a plane and enjoy sun and water 😉
We’re almost done now… just take one more video from Fuse:
Since we’re always bragging about them and Fuse (naw, we aren’t…but we’d like them to always be fine), take a chance to VOTE FOR MISERY ON FUSE COUNTDOWN >>> HERE and then …
While you’re at it, try also this link for the People’s Choice Awards, by clicking here and then do what you’re requested to.
And then know that in middle November, seemingly now, Maroon 5 will be back in Europe.
First they’ve been confirmed for BBC Children In Need:
And also, seemingly in November, (15) they should get back to Paris for a RTL2 sponsored gig.
I love when they hang out in Paris, so to celebrate their “allure” take these two videos from French territories:
and this one from backstage of Paris show in September:
Someway I link the town with them so well 😉
Okay… I might admit I’m quite dead through writing so… just saying bye and see you soon sounds too rude?
Please forgive me… but I need relax 😉 And Lakers Blog 😉
To come here and write I haven’t fully celebrated today glory 😉
Have all a great time.
Catch you soon 😉 (more or less…)
HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!
*evil laugh* 😉
Hugs, Z. 🙂
Let’s call it “Recap 1”
Posted 15 August 2010
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My lazy ass (still a fairly fabulous, kinda brazilian one I have to say…) has collected pieces of infos during my awesome (help me say it : A-W-E-S-O-M-E) holiday cruise on boat all over Mediterranean Sea.
I am pretty much singing with angels and have fairies brush my hair and polish my nailpainted toes so to come here, open Noah and start to type over it is like a HARD task.
Hope you appreciate the *big effort* ;)…
Actually, this here is where I have to make all those 127 emails related to Maroon5&Music stuff go, or Yahoo mail will explode.
Hence this first update (note: my fantasy gets dried over titles when I am vacationing… so this is the best I could come up with ;))
Nah okay let’s be more polite… Although I am still sailing, and I will end this only in Verona on 28th of August (I am at Arena watchin Opera, you know… I am a rocking soul who loves opera too…) the amount of Maroon5 related material was a bit overflowing from emails so at least this has to be done, for how simple compared to my usual posts this could look.
Just a note: don’t ask me for blogs about my holidays.
The only reason I was carrying on with Twitter on holidays (thanx, iPhy: without you I couldn’t live ;), and it seems James shares my iPhone love, yep!) was to let you all know some of it to make you AVOID to ask me about it in other ways ;).
Let’s go then.
Pictures in this pages are either mine, gifts from Jennifer Coles or material shared by Maroon5 themselves through their web spaces.
Same goes for videos, audio excerpts and whatever else.
I start happily with a surprise I discovered actually recently when I wrapped up my magazines I brought with me on holidays.
This was in Cosmopolitan Italy August Issue:
We left boys starting touring and enjoying nature and friends and girlfriends along (girlfriends who are very friendly with others stunners around… and I LOVE that in beautiful people ;)).
The tour goes on smoothly and beside the crossing over to Canada, where Anne wasn’t involved, she pretty much followed her baby along all time, until she flew Europe to pass her holiday time on August 13 (sadly bummed trip due to a missing luggage… YIKES!!! Those LV maybe? *tragedy* if so…. I would be dark for ages if I ever did miss mines…).
Lovely creature from Russia, – who’s right now frolickin in Turkey – though enjoyed a lot of Summer Life Tour previous to her coming back nearer to National Roots (maybe she should just get a bit better with bowling, but everyone gotta have some minus, after all 😉 And she’s so adorable in everything, to be lame in bowling is totally forgivable).
I mean… she was looking like THIS at 15 (awww… my hairdo ;)).
How can anybody not forgive her a wrong bowling game? 😉
I really like the way the guys are keeping people up during their summer traveling with an equal merge of tour bites, lessical nonsense, fun pieces and… well… also some political and ethical issues that they always put in the mix (and that’s something I love them more for).
We also get to know how many grey hair Adam’s got (they look awesome on him, if any ;))
That bowling thing that I was referring about above got on after Jones Beach gig on August 11, a stream of love Adam and the boys loved a lot (and you can see why ;)):
It’s actually a very beautiful location, and it was nice to learn after his kidney troubles also Owl City could finally be part of the tour (I knew I would have LOVED to witness…).
Actually the gig I would have loved to see from this tour would be the Boston one (previous one), because beside Owl City I would have got the IMMENSE pleasure to hear live the amazing Janelle Monae.
I can’t wait to catch her live.
She pretty much kicks ass 😉 and she sounds also as person as a totally down to Earth, amazing spirit.
Every single time Maroon5 are involved with new people, and those people are voices or artists I already like (I got shocked by Janelle Monae on Letterman, and started to praise her BEFORE any of them openly did to our acknowledgement), I get giggles inside.
You know I am HOPING so badly they will collaborate now don’t you? 😉
Not always though my hopes about them get fully filled in.
You know I never lie nor hide my true feelings and I have to say the UK version of Misery video is about the wackiest thing ever. WHAT???!!!???
Do they REALLY like to go harakiri there or what?!?:
But luckely for every wrong move they come up with ten good things, just like this chat:
or like this further statement about Sound Strike:
*Awesomeness* 🙂
Aside from rocking crowds out this summer, with ballons and coriandoli and kids’ requests (that’s Adam’s, fyi) Maroon5 have been involved in some fancy fancy stuff in this first part of August.
For instance here you can hear lovely Jesse with Lucy Walsh doing a Beatles cover, which is always amazing, innit?:
Most noticeably though, they have shot with amazing Paul Hunter the video for Give a Little More (finally, a word on the fact in May they JUST shot Misery).
There are stills and I can’t wait to see it (also cos I really really like the song from the live I got of it).
And just because we’re talkin about Give a Little More, take this from the Vevo show, Give a Little More:
exactly the song you gotta learn now and also Wake Up Call:
Adam also got featured and enlightened in a episode of MTV US “When I Was 17“.
Needless to say, he was hilarious.
His Zen Tao ability to result at once adorably charming and totally nerdy amazes me all the time… ;):
When he said he was “repulsive” I cracked out laughing.
He couldn’t be not even trying (and sure he did, he did try at times… ;)).
That face would prevent him from any bash.
That’s why he could pass the math exam even being DREADFUL in maths 😉
He always seems fond to share his gratefullness for the amazing life he got to live.
And that is lovely.
Truly.
Adam also got to find more people to follow on Twitter.
Comedians, Snoop Dogg, Ashton Kutcher, Lakers like Lamar Odom (I was surprised he took so much time before deciding for that, considering he is of entourage…), and rockers like Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee (oh, if I were a fly to listen to some of their chats… 😉 okay, I’m nasty… I know… ;)), and amazing friends like Rob Thomas (yesssss!!!! He found him!!! Love that :)).
You know how I love when our guys and their friends and fellow people speak their liberal minds.
I SOOOOOO love that.
And so, unsurprisingly my probably favourite tweet by Adam in all these days was the one when he did explain (more cohesively) his view on retarded Prop 8, overturned in his beloved California.
By the way, gotta admit out of all 36 people that I follow on twitter, Mr. West @kanyewest is MY favourite.
I said it.
He’s just awesome, and he can involve my one and only hero Kobe Bryant in Power Remix... that is just unbeatable in my book, folks, I’m a Kobe freak more than anything else cos the man inspires my whole approach at greatness in life… and allegedly Kanye’s too – great minds think alike – 😉
(sorry Adam, you stay gloriously in the runner up place though. I’m sure you agree with me about Kanye after all ;)).
While we speak about Kanye, his album got delayed till November 16.
This could be a good thing for us, if it weren’t that actually the fact AGAIN they are preceeded by Linkin Park on the sales week of September 14 won’t help at all any plan of ruling charts.
If the first single performances are again revealing of the impact the albums may have – which is generally fairly accurate -, sorry there’s no copetition between the Catalyst and Misery (so far, but of course I’d like to be wrong there…)
Still, on August 17 happy people can preorder Hands All Over on iTunes (only USA? darn…).
Let’s say I seem a bit more excited than Adam about 21 September in terms of priorities… That, or I just partially get the “brilliance” of Sons Of Anarchy… ;).
Whatever happens, I’m fine with it.
And so I hope they are, which I think they will be.
Rules of album chart performances after a decade bands are active (and they are active in a very “indie” kinda way, this regardeless the genre of their music) always have their peaks and lay downs and then peaks again.
I still not convinced by their strategy in promotional duties (skipping completely Europe, focusing on just half USA to tour, putting the first single out WAY too soon compared to the album release date, etc…), but as long as they’re okay and convinced, I mean… ALL is fine.
My appreciation as fan stays in the MUSIC and i don’t care how many I am in company with.
I will listen to them always as long as they’re around; enjoying gigs all over the world anytime it will be possible and cheering them.
That’s it.
Charting is important, but relatively at this point: they are in their niche, and allegedly happy to be (as they should;)).
On tour then it’s what you really get the dimension of cuteness about them.
Not strangely, kids (I mean… little people for real) always grab the true essence of adults, and they love them, don’t they? *swoons*
On the other side, socialites might start to find them a bit less intriguing…
He cracks me up… what can I do?
He’s hilarious, and probably has a short memory about a couple stuff… this unless back in *those days* he did not consider Paris H. a socialite, but an “entrepreneur” (yes, I’m being sarcastic… can’t help… and still he cracks me up cos I am SURE he would say that he likes to farts to whomever would present herself to him as a “socialite”. He’s made that way… ;)).
He still a kid at heart, and a funny one, to be precise.
You might find it hard to deal with, I find it quite poetical instead 🙂 (that Arrrr might surely be a Simpson‘s reference?).. and then he comes up with sweet words like these, and one just melts (I can see the goodness in New York Summer rain, both if Adam and Anne are in her apartment, or outside strolling together… how adorable are they?).
Another thing that Adam shares with his belle is for sure a lot of Chovy love…
I think as well Frankie could be not so pleased with that, but maybe it’s just cos I personally don’t see the point of small dogs.
You know already I just don’t like them: if I wanted a cat sized dog… I would have probably just chose a CAT (tastes, right?).
Yup I had to point that out cos Adam himself after all likes to verbalize out some pretty strong opinions as he goes on tweeting.
After a while he generally backwards a little, especially when what he said could have been sort of too mean, which can be either disappointing or showing him as a reasoning mind.
Depends on subjects… in all senses, I guess ;).
For sure though he has a personal vision of life, which is admirable even when (and it happens by my side, especially when he goes all relativism and immature-like) his opinion is not the one I follow as well.
Anyway, the tour still develop, my antennas are raising, and I hope you can still enjoy these updates even though they come so randomly during my well deserved own summer bliss ;).
Hope all of you nice souls (those who are) can enjoy a Summer even tenth as good as mine is.
It would be still Paradise, believe.
Rock On!!!
Cu later, *happy Zaira* 😉
PS1:
thanx to those writing about enjoying my Twitpics from holidays 😉 I am trying my best to make you all part of a wonderful trip. If you enjoy that, the best you can do is actually coming to Italy and see yourself!!).
PS2:
Awwww I was about to forget…
Charisse was so cute in sending me a coupla notes about Chris Martin vacationing in the Hamptons.
I so so SO hope in this brilliant 2010 (musically speaking) also beloved Coldplay can put out the album.
It would be just spectacular cos also Radiohead are there to do it again.
Music is a bliss.
Get into the groove, folks ;)!!!
Z. 😉
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