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LeBron got half a ring, Italy saved its football face, Overexposed is surprisingly good and true and Florence was awesome
Posted 1 July 2012
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G… goooo…
Good afternoon and Sunday Universe!
Summer shines on (or burns you out, depends on which town you are at in this moment…), the slow yet hectic rhythms of the Great Season of Tan are starting to take over, splitting days and nights in two very differently paced realities, and I keep feeling so well and happy and in love.
In a little while we’ll be celebrating a year long marriage: it’s been a pure bliss, and I am very grateful for it.
We just had a wonderful sex time on my boat and that is the best way to be sweaty in Summer right? 😉
We are moving back from Liguria, where we spent the weekend wandering over coasts, to Milano because… well… in a bunch of hours there is the Final of Euro 2012 and ITALY is THERE!!!! (more on that later ;)).
The more Sun makes day long, the more I am active so I am not suffering all these short trips, and the change of sights because I am always super energetic in this part of the Year that I simply access to a seemingly infinite bucket of power ;).
And then amazing things keep happen to me; for instance I am now followed on Twitter by Maria Latella!!! (really? awesome ;)) and friends are making a mountain out of this (I won’t be in the limelight ANY time soon… better, I won’t EVER be in the limelight, but they keep telling the days of my super exposure are seemingly coming. *sigh*. I still will be a reclusive super rich kid no matter what, deal with it, thank you, on both sides of Atlantic. I am NOT into fame, sorry 😉 I prefer a good life ;)).
Then the other night we had the blissful chance to share air with the Dalai Lama who has been in Milano; thanks to Karim’s and my family’s personal ties we could attend a special event… it’s my second time witnessing the greatness that the Dalai Lama is and I can’t express… the man exudes purity and sanctity.
I feel… so innerly touched by him.
We have spent a couple of days in beautiful Florence last week instead (we came back this Monday actually because both K&I had work to do there); we got to hang out with our local crew there, and we always have so much fun that way, and we are even starting to develop a Florentinian attitude they say (well, Karim was already good with that: it’s me actually stepping up my game of witty and sarcastic humor, with a side of charming vitriolic shades ;)).
In Florence past weekend we witnessed San Giovanni’s fireworks from a Settignano villa; but being the day of Italy vs England (VICTORIOUS) Euro 2012 game, we skipped most of the anticipation for the pyrotechnical spectaculum in favor of a very loud football cheering.
You know how critical I was at first in this tournament of the NON game of our Italian team, but honestly against England we just DID DESERVE 1000%, and from there I have re-qualified everybody in the squad. Everybody.
I don’t know how we managed later to even DEFEAT MAJESTICALLY the German panzers (the team that I thought would have won it all hands down) but darn we TOTALLY did it and it was epic and we partied all the way back from my parental house towards Milan in the night between Thursday and Friday chanting our asses off like it were no tomorrow 😉
It was AMAZING and now I don’t want to swirl hopes up but you know… WE Have Chances. At least.;).
We are now moving to our house so that we can have THE GREATEST VIEWING PARTY EVER for the Final that we are about to play against Spain…
We all hope we will spend the night out in Milan carouseling again but you never know. You can only hope 🙂
That sporty satisfaction healed me from the tragedy occurred that Le Bronze King Of Overrate James finally won a NBA ring.
Except that he won just HALF of it, being this specific league ring out from half a season.
This is the way I keep avoiding to rage about Miami win.
And I am not even against Miami; I am VERY happy for Wade; in fact I would be happy they won if this wasn’t part of the FakeKing hype train machine.
Wade made Miami won; Wade kept them on track with his class and leadership when Bronzey was flopping; but of course the hype is all on the Monkey’s shrine.
It makes me sick :/.
But ehi… Wimbledon started (with some surprises, like Nadal’s sudden and fast loss), I will be following live from Uk the Olympics (and throw bad wishes LIVE to Bronzey, while admiring Kobe, Kevin and CP3 and Wade) and sport is just too awesome to be carried up and on with heavy hearts right?
Right 😉
I am sure by now all of my long-time readers have already decoded that I have filled this post with Maroon 5 related pictures (which I wasn’t used to since when Mr. Adam Levine betrayed my faith in his artistry signing up for The Fuckery The Voice, abandoning an European Tour that was JUST to touch Italy (twice, actually, as also in the rescheduled date last November his sudden “voice trouble” strangely was perfectly timed with The Voice taping… *ewwwwww* -__-).
Are you shocked?
I know that by now you are wondering IF.
IF I have heard it (you know if you follow my twitter I have…).
IF I own it (Sure… I do and I will again have multiple versions out by hard copies and iTunes versions, as well: I kept buyin ALL of their stuff and also collectors hard copies even when I have been at the peak of my complete dislike of Adam, due to that choice he made about his career that I STILL dislike; I did because his voice for me STILL BE A MIRACLE, and it will always have that influence of miracle-related epiphany to me).
IF I like it.
And I am of course talking about Overexposed, the new Adam Levine’s solo album Maroon 5 record.
Well, you all know how displeased I was with Moves Like Jagger; how much I hated (and STILL hate the concept of) the fact they let other people step into writing along them, outside of the band; you know I was more than against the full on turning pop, which I felt and still feel as a poisoning derived output from The Fuckery that awful karaoke tv show The Voice.
All this all still values, all these are concepts I still have in me… but then I heard the record and it was beyond me… I LIKED it.
Straight up to, too.
I actually properly LOVE it in most part, because it’s SO INCREDIBLY HONEST AND TRUE.
There are flawless songs in there… most notably, there are a few gems which are TRUE Maroon 5 because they are truly out straight from Adam’s soul.
Firs evidence: Sad; second one: The Man Who Never Lied, then Beautiful Goodbye, and Love Somebody (oh, boy… Adam Levine’s Love Inclination in a nutshell!!).
Those songs… those songs have such a power on me because (as the whole album is actually, but those especially) they are real; and when pop meets real… I’m fine with it, you know it.
I am actually so surprised this album clicked so majorly with me.
What was scary to me was the fact I feared Maroon 5 and Adam’s truthfulness about their music would have been compromised by merging with Blanco, Tedder, Max Martin & Co: but you listen to the record and if you know what (WHO) that is written about, and what they lived… then you can place each song in a real human landscape and that makes that glistening, bubbly, simple pop sounds something other and more.
Yes, Overexposed traces all that has been lived between Adam Levine and Anne V, even if not all the songs are about her (only Jane Herman could have had an entire record dedicated to herself and obviously, being still the only one Adam TRULY loved with all of his teenage, unprepared and pure heart).
It’s so obvious and clear that the most special songs are about Adam’s ex girlfriend though that only a retarded would deny it.
Adam is out of the haze of that failed relationship, and this article in the Sun helps understands how well (he’s happily coupled again, we all know, with adorable and super rock Behati Prinsloo and what I love the most is how quiet and out of paparazzi calling Behati is being since she started being his official girlfriend, one month and a half ago):
Anyway after listening to the songs in Overexposed, maybe also pushed by the super involved reactions of my – female – friends, I can’t help but feel sorry for how Adam and Anne went unlucky with their feelings for one another.
It’s painful that beautiful-ness had to end because it couldn’t go on, given the two different meanings Adam and Anne had inside themselves regarding what a Love Relationship gotta be.
For Adam, it’s clear, Love doesn’t involve a ring need; Love is something huge and immense, but not something you can promise forever before the time of forever arrives (I am near to that concept, even though I am married, so I get him and I can see where all that comes from).
For Anne, and that broke them (but you can’t blame her if that is what she believes in), Love is a Marriage bound thing that HAS to produce a stable and declared commitment (her family never divorced so her image of marriage is way different than what Adam’s had to endure).
Listening to the album I actually felt regret for having thought they broke up viciously and for having believed she cut off with him maliciously (he probably knew about the statement she would have given to People, though I still believe Anne’s camp tried to milk out all the press she could have gotten in a not fair and opportunistic way after the break-up, and still for many weeks after that); they sure had massive fights and that never really was confessed for how bad it went to the world (well until now with the record at least), but sure they both had to suffer when realizing they couldn’t do anything else than break up, because neither of them could change what they really wanted out from their relationship to move forward to.
When I listen in row to Sad and Beautiful Goodbye (that might have been written when they last spent a good night together, and Adam knew already it would have been their last, even if the thing in a way progressed after for a while?) through the random feature of Overexposed in the iPod… I can’t take it.
I start always to sob a little.
That’s the AWESOME POWER OF TRUE MUSIC ART and since Maroon 5 and Adam there proved me they still HAVE IT, I can’t avoid to declare myself once again a fan.
It wasn’t easy to buy me back… and I would have NEVER believed they would have with THIS kind of album but in the end… it happened, and it’s quite a shock for me, first and foremost.
It’s so heavy to know that; it gives multiple degrees of despair to paint Overexposed with; and it makes the record so much more than bubble gum listening super pop (which it still be at a superficial listening).
The crew have come with their usual debates about the record; but none of us reached the perfection of Angel Meli conclusions so I will post HER reviews, and various insights she gave about for instance the video of One More Night (which I find amazing)… because nobody could do better.
We all know we contributed with our numerous debates to Meli’s craft in perfect review territory (and it’s since last Friday we are debating Overexposed from town to town, and with lots of passion) and I always tingle and get stupidely proud whenever she refers to me and thanks me (among others) because you who know me personally are well aware that I simply ADORE, admire and I feel the greatest of gratefulness to that special woman and feel like a scholar basking in her glory anytime she speaks to me (and this happens… just with her, because otherwise I am Dominatrix of the World, thank you ;)).
So here it is the review of Meli, taken from her posts at ATRL (where she Queens around, because how cannot you feel her power whenever she goes and manifest her angel spirit of perfection and goodness ;)):
All that said about the record, and how it makes my heart break anytime I reference any song to the real life that it mirrors (Adam said in interviews this week all of Overexposed’s inspiration is actually “LIFE”, and we never had doubts there after hearing it), I am even happier than Adam and Behati Prinsloo are together still (she just went with him two weekends ago in Disneyland, she has been with him in New York all these days for Overexposed promotion – and there’s a bit of a video you will see also here and not only in the NAWWAL pages -because that cuteness had to be shared – and in Miami with him and the band for the iHeart Radio Pool Party at the Fountainbleau, and they are just now coming back together in New York because Adam is due there to keep on filming his movie with Keira Knightley and what I like is that she isn’t publicizing it AT ALL, thing that Adam surely loves and most of all, thing that Adam NEEDS after the previous relationship had to face the press and media pressure, brought in by Anne’s camp which was craving for it to raise her profile, and so any time they were out there were paparazzi snapping pictures to be ending in hideous blogs such as Just Jared, which Anne loved to “keep informed” much to Adam’s dislike).
Behati SAVED Adam from despair: she came to him like a saving grace, with her joyous, sparkling, lively attitude – who doesn’t know about her awesome personality, should inform themselves: you would be surprised how she is actually VERY similar to Adam’s personality in many ways – and I am SO happy about this, so happy in illogical ways, but I still be.
The more you understand about Overexposed, the more this sparkles clear: Adam would have drowned in despair over the way his love got wasted and misused, if Behati wouldn’t have suddenly and soon come with her smile to cheer him up.
Whoever has affection for Adam shall be grateful to Behati: she indeed is responsible to having brought Adam back to a happy life track and no matter how long they stay together, or how just of a fling this might be, truth is without her Adam would have risked his mood and sanity way too riskily, out of the forced way Anne went off of his life (albeit with his consensus, given that he knew without that ring, the story would have ended… and he didn’t offer that ring willingly, that has never to be forgotten).
I bless Behati: and I am sure she will star in Daylight video if as I hope and believe she and Adam will still be together by September (when I imagine it will be filmed).
Adam may seem a jerk at times and all but he needs love like nobody else; Anne couldn’t be the one or he would have kept her, but her fading away certainly broke his heart (and I am sure it broke Anne’s too, if all her tweets for months were about how love shouldn’t be broken by distance, and people shall not give up in difficult times, most like she was addressing Adam instead decided those were the reasons that had to break them apart).
The way in many songs Adam was keeping saying he couldn’t maybe profess those words “be with me forever, marry me” but at the same time the way he kept asking for her to stay at by his side (and Anne never did: she never sacrificed her time and career for him… that is the “distance” that broke them apart in Adam’s book, though he has stated clearly that Anne did what she felt was right for her and he doesn’t blame her for it at all; and Anne can keep tweeting that Love isn’t measured by distance but truth is if you are not enough with the person you claim to be in love with, then you are NOT in love, or you would feel the need to spend all of your time together, or at least way more than she spent with him anyway) tells that he came out VERY hurt by the end of their relationship.
But that is past… look this pieces for the other day (29th June) Today Show and at the start, look whom Adam addresses at after Mickey says “Cape Town” shall be next fav place to play (Behati was born inn Namibia, but lived her childhood in Cape Town ;))
He said it on Howard Stern too that the end of the relationship was painful (and way longer due than just by April the 2nd)… where he trashed the magazine reports (fed by Ali Kavoussi, so it’s an indirect dig at Anne’s camp maybe?) that there was drama in the break-up, and also pointed out as I have that Anne and Behati aren’t friends at all (“maybe acquaintances” he said, just as I did…) again indirectly trashing what tabloids published out of Kavoussi’s feeding of the press… I will post the latest Stern interview in Radio form below, and you will listen how Adam gracefully and gentleman-ly put an end to everything Anne and him ever were, with no blame, with respect and clearly with the memory of a very important part of his life that still is now PAST and FINISHED, as he’s now involved with someone else whom he wants to protect from intrusive witnessing… .
Adam’s heart has been cracked enough about this beautiful story of affection gone wrong… I’d love if past would remain past and never get mentioned again, especially when there’s nothing more that is real to talk about, and I am so glad Behati’s attitude towards gossip press is as strict and reserved as Adam’s: she won’t use him the way he was anyway a bit used in his previous love fest.
Now he’s mending that wounded heart, it’s doing it through and thanks to Behati and we should be happy for him, because he just hates to be alone (hasn’t he said that so many times, too? Whoever claims to love him has to realize for properly doing it you have to spend time with him, because he needs the physical contact, even if that may just be a lovingly intertwining of hands, which is the cutest way to show someone you truly love them…).
That fling-possible-outcoming-relationship maybe will produce new music as well, and who knows, maybe next time it won’t be a super pop record production, but it could be something VERY Soul-oriented too (or rockish… after all Behati is all about rock, she quotes amazing songs and she’s a perfect rocker’s girlfriend… maybe in the foreseeable future she could even sing choruses along him? we’ll see ;))
Take by now some commentaries about the record by the band…
From SPOTIFY (each track has an insight):
From Saturday Night Online:
And finally, take the Audio from Maroon 5 Radio Take Over on June 28 2012, firstly AUDIO part:
And then the video extras:
I have tons more of material (as I always had even when I was just posting it up for Margherita and Serena’s blog) but I will put it up in the Storage Page later on along these. It’s not like I will start to have this blog like I used to all of a sudden again 😉 I am not really as in charge anymore and I prefer to sex up my hubby … the Storage Page will keep serve for the rest 😉
All I know is that I like Overexposed, I truly do, and I am happy if Adam’s life isn’t anymore a sad mess, but it’s turning back to a smiling one.
Summer is up for sunny days and sunny love… it’s the way it should be and I feel it will be just so 🙂
Have all a great time of Summer…
Enjoy 😉
Missus Z. 🙂
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Good evening!
Malpensa hub, a very late flight with private allowance (and one has to ask why the private planes have to fly at impossible slots… *sigh*) and we are waiting for all the checks to be completed and all papers to be signed.
“We” means Karim and I and my parents and my grandparents.
We’re heading to Saint Petersburg and there we’ll be finding also Karim’s parents.
And hopefully grandparents? (I love them so much!).
We’re gonna have a very peculiar Thanksgiving, all there in a rented place that I am pretty sure will blow my mind away.
I love Hermitage since my early, early years and I have a pure fascination with Catherine The Great, so to be there in such a special frame of situation is gonna be awesome.
We have planned this strange reunion shortly after I bought tickets for Maroon 5 gigs in Russia; we thought about having a very special time regardless of the fact the gigs would have taken place or not (you know… since what did happen last time…).
Karim’s family was delighted about this and so were my own folks: it’s gonna kick ass to be so many there and appreciate family in a place that is not ours nor theirs (well, actually K’s family lived here for a few months due to Ambassy’s requests… but that is implied in their job of choice, you know ;)).
What about Italy instead?
Mario Monti has taken over and I really hope he can provide at least a small patch to 17 years of despare and delusion that the criminal Berlusconi stunk in our side, and even praised out for (poor Italians, how clueless can you be?).
When we will be back, there is gonna be Scala’s première and actually another couple Maroon 5 gigs, in Rome and Milan.
But you know by now, I’m not THAT thrilled about any of that.
Sure, I will enjoy them and love them, but I still believe that Moves Like Jagger is generic and Stero Hearts is sub-par decent.
I am glad if they are happy such songs helped them getting back under the radar of people and awards, but artistically… they are far from where they used to shine and shit on others, even if those times might have been less commercially rewarding.
Their choice, and I am sure lots of people still love them wildly and even more than before.
I love them, still, just not as passionately and maybe as blindly as before.
But I still obviously worship Adam’s voice, that is almost a spell on me he keeps exercising , which is why, even though I HATE The Voice of Fuckery, I have bought immediately the song he has recorded with its winner, Javier Colon, which is called Stand Up (nothing groundbreaking, but they have two lovely voices, sure), out of his album which I have no idea of, for the rest of it.
Since we are talking about Russia and Love, then, I have put the above song in a video made out of pictures from VSFS 2011 (the loveliness that are Adam and Anne together remains a fix of mine… I go awwwww everytime they interact 😉 STILL), because I wanted it so, and then I also put together all past appearances of lovely Anne V from her VSFS times, from 2008 to this present year (it’s a 40 minutes video), waiting for the actual show to air when I will be in Russia (I will put the piece up soon or later, complete, you know in the storage page).
Hope you can enjoy beauty (and close an eye to some of the outfits… *sigh*).
and
What else?
Nothing much left.
We still waiting for these damn papers to sign so that we can take off towards one of my most treasured towns in the world.
Wish you all a great time till our next break in 😉
Stay Young, Stay Foolish 😉
Missus 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. 🙂
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