Posts Tagged ‘Haiti’
Glass still half full. No drama.
Posted on: 11 June 2010
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Trying to find time enough for this update, before my work ends at midday and we get straight to Genova to SAIL MY BOAT (my own fellow Zaira… sounds crazy and still awesome to think about it!!!) it’s duty to report that, just like I was paventing hours earlier in the Lakers Blog, Lakers lost Game 4, mostly due to an overwhelming performance of Celtics bench (see again my post in the blog…).
Oh, well.
We’ll still rule them in 6 AND this way it’s gonna be better for me to reach LA for the Parade.
A touch down soil and Fly straight away experience, but dad agreed there, and Karim is as thrilled as me about repeating 2009 experience.
And we WILL.
So, Green Enemies, be happy of this win… it won’t be enough:
What makes me laugh is that meeting Dani G. at Armani Jeans game on wednesday, he said just “beware Davis”.
And I was like “Yeah, sure…” (I was more concerned with Nate Robinson, if any…)
Darn 😉
Gallo…. why why why????
Anyway you still a cutie and an adorable guy. But you know as well Lakers are gonna take this, don’t you?
Right.
Other pleasant things happening?
Well, stateside on that exact day of wednesday were the dinner out at Nobu (Mash, how could you name that Mastro’s???) AND the subsequent usual wednesday stay at Las Palmas of Mr. Levine and old buddy Jake Gyllenhaal.
I can’t help thinkin I would have loved to be the chauffeur there… ahahaha!!! I can’t help.
Longtime pals Adam & Jake out of Nobu, 9 June 2010 - 2 -
I can’t… I can’t… I can’t… 😉
Longtime pals Adam & Jake out of Nobu, 9 June 2010 - 1 -
Awww.
Hotness squared.
I love when they are together.
It’s great to know longtime pals remain pals no matter how far both career may go.
And let’s talk about more hotness…
Yesterday Maroon5 uploaded the 3rd Webisode of the College tour, and I advice you all to check it in its entirety first because it’s great, and secondhandly because…
OF THIS:
Shirtless Adam is always a tease 😉
So just look, okay:
While the guys keep waiting for the machine of promotion to start (it takes maximum one more week) and while *someone* awaits also a bunch of days more to remeet his lovely half in LA/PalmSprings (awwww), let’s be fair and share this announcement of Maroon5 about more charity auctions.
Writing Adam still from the webisode. Awww 😉
Do your move. 😉
About me, today I will live the lovely experience to sail my boat.
Karim is all smiling.
He’s so into this and I am so into him 😉 (he’s into me too… okay, that was NOT very subtle, LOL…).
We will watch the opening of FIFA World Cup and he’s finally calling football “football” and not soccer anymore.
I made him read Pasolini‘s writing about the poetry of football.
It did work.
I’m sure we will love the tournament TOGETHER.
And although I have no hopes for us, of course I’m gonna cheer Italy.
I still think it’s Argentina’s year, or England’s.
We’ll see.
I left you with my favourite Coldplay Song, because I am a scientist, too:
then Tinie Tempah, Pass Out:
and finishing it with Gramophonedzie, “Why Don’t You“:
Right peeps… catch you maye from my sailing 😉
Or then after Game5 on Monday Morning.
😉
NOTE: Adam’s and Jake’s pictures have been offered to your greedy eyes (and mines) thanx to the always awesome Jennifer Coles. Bow down to the Mighty Queen 😉
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Morning crew!
Kobe vs Manu Ginobili
I’ll be quick.
Very quick.
I hope ;).
It’s running time in so many ways, and this road to the lab today never ends (Karim drives, I type on Noah… ;))
Milan yesterday evening got humiliated by Parma, and trust me it was hard to swallow because we were just so completely UGLY.
Luckely all sport pride got restored by my sweet Lakers guided by the one and only, the Mighty Kobe, the unique Gazamba commanding on court everyone and everything in such a ease it got almost overwhelming (sort of… ;)):
To celebrate it all, I officially ended the lurkerdom in the Lakers Blog and so from today I will be writing there again, beside having always kept the habit of being in chat (still one of the most entertaining things to do while watchin the game on tv. During playoffs it’s gonna help me not scream like a devil ;)).
What more?
Gotta be quick cos really I have a lot to do.
In the maintime, this is what radio passes, namely Giorgia…:
and this (I so find this video funny…then Adam Duritz‘s voice is just so beautiful to hear… :)):
What else?
Sure!!
In the runner topic we gotta update and put Divine A. & his Russian Fairy (who’s coming back from Denmark to allegedly LA again) because this is what the two wrote yesterday evening on their twitters (Adam posting his own one just minutes away from the first shout out of Anne. They mirror one another… how cute ;)):
Anne: “Training begins tom in LA! I hope this time around the mission sticks, and pls no more sore backs, I wanna do a marathon again.”
Adam: “Running shoes feel like two little clouds…but two really ugly clouds with unnecessarily complicated designs and poor color combos…”
Run baby run!
I remember when they first started to date (well, when she first arrived to LA February 19th along him) at a certain point Adam tweeted “I’m gonna run a marathon”.
Dunno about you, but this it’s something I WANNA SEE.
Can’t stop smirking at the thought 😉
Good luck with the training guys (Anne will have to keep him in check. 26+ miles? Running? Adam? LOL… let’s see. I lurk miracle needed over there…).
Still I find the thing just cute in itself.
Running in two is just sweet. Really.
Last but not least, let me post a message directly from Maroon5 about the bidding of the piano: DO IT (I gently requested my people to bid on it for my birthday. That’d be a cute, cute birthday present after all :))
Okay.
This sums up my morning and day fine enough.
Today is Wii League at me, after a while.
It’s gonna ROOOOCK!!!!
Have all a great day 😉
Catch you later (I leave you with Sophie Ellis Bextor, most beautiful females cheeckbones in music EVER!):
Bye!!!;)
Sleepless, glorious night
Posted on: 16 March 2010
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Okay.
Adam and Jesse performing along Hollies at Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame Induction Night, March 15, 2010
Ya’ll about to read here: consider I have slept merely from 23.30 to 1.15 am this past night.
Forgive the info bites in minor style and just overlook a tad more than usual to all my typos, right?
Fine 😉
This past night has been GLORIOUS.
The evening of Monday was in all cuttingly fit preparing to this much glory though, cos Meli and Stef visted us!!! Awww 🙂 as promised.
It was actually from the afternoon that I was glowing.
Awww. And I don't even like bow ties 😉
Unexpectedly I closed work earlier and flew to teh stable to ride and jump along my Swifty. Weather was amazing and we stayed open air for more than two hours.
Again, splendid.
The sporty night (technically I should write of this later, but I have so much to post from the R’nRoll Induction that I prefer to do this way) was great: Lakers won their usual “creepy” fashion against a very battling Warriors in Golden State 😉 It was a great fun and a nice chat as well (MM, you’re a sweetheart!).
Game was like this:
And tonight we play again 😉 (this if I survive today…)
In a short showdown, and before reaching the highlight of this past few hours, I gotta serve you the links for the Crafted Mini Piano my adored Maroon5 have put on bid for Haiti (just click on the three different bolded words…).
Then here we go.
Simply gorgeous. And if you wonder whom he's smiling to... later on 😉
(All pictures here and those which will be part of tomorrow’s collages are without tags thanx to Jen 😉 the mastermind behind M5Board).
The Induction Night of Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame which has just taken place at the Wardorf Astoria in New York, and which I witnessed through Fuse.com (the reason of my very short sleep, of course).
I just found out a beautiful video of Jesse and Adam talkin about the honour of being part of this all along the Hollies.
Awww. How adorable. They are.
Sigh.
Luckely for my daily composition of posts, and also and specifically helpful today, that my brains is clearly frustrated by the ZERO sleeping allowance, I found online in the Tube already a video with the exibithion of the Adam and Jesse along the Hollies.
Please give credit to YouTube fan nstuewe for the excellent and superfast job and slide into beauty:
Right.. my brain is ready to burn, but of course being me always more romantic these days, I have to post the final note on the night.
Sweet Anne OF COURSE was there, and this was her visual side of the show.
This is the position Anne was watching the show from...
(side note: how CUTE is that she defined “pieces” of Maroon5 Adam and Jesse? It was so charming. She is gracious in not focusing merely on Adam in that written note. Absolutely and innerly elegant. I liked that a lot.):
Look carefully the zone, cos now you can better evaluate the next picture that I am gonna put up, and also you can guess better why Adam just turned that way as well in the previous one I posted upwards:
Adam CLEARLY turning to Anne and gifting her a shining smile. Awww.
Just look at the smile he wears.
I can’t get enough of the shining mood he reveals just by turning face at her.
Cos it’s clear whom he was smiling to.
Awww.
So…
I guess I could be writing more about all this but my brain cells are dead and I have so much work to do I just have to give up.
Expect more tomorrow or just wait and be patient.
This is the Birthday(s) Week and so much can and will actually happen for us to have to talk more about special smiling faces, love, music and all that goes and revolves around that.
Just gotta close with a personal and beautiful note: this weekend I am again in Florence with Karim and I guess Meli’s down visiting her parents too 🙂
It’s all gonna be so special.
I am so happy and glorious as well, folks.
Lotta love 😉
We Are The World 25 – for Haiti
Posted on: 16 February 2010
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So, I made it, after a LONG Monday when I couldn’t upload this:
This video is the original (and regularly bought through iTunes) out from the celebratory edition of the longtime classic “We Are The World”, originally recorded on January 28th, 1985 and published a month and half later, on March 7th, 1985.
I edited the credits at the end mantaining only the artists’s ones and the publishers’, plus of course the links to donate for the charity and the iTunes logo, to shorten it from 13 minutes and counting to less than 10
This version, first of all, is a very good remake.
The critics I have heard about this version, for the most part, made me laugh a bit, for how much they totally misunderstood either the spirit of the song and charity and (or) the “myth” surrounding the original recording.
Lots of the critics come out from people who were loving another line up, the old line up, or no line up at all.
This song would have been remade anyway, it was a longtime project to remake it, as you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti.
The way they have remade it is really contemporary and current. Just like it was logic for it to be.
I know.
I wouldn’t have either included Bieber, Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers.
Actually not either Isaac Slade and Nicole Sherzinger, cos all those five fail to have the multiple Grammies wins ALL of the other soloists have on their credit (which should be enough testiìfying they are more than allowed to stay there, right?), and I would have loved to see in their spaces Rob Thomas (who couldn’t have his actually planned solo due to conflicted scheduling), John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston and Maxwell or Jason Mraz – whom would have all being very dignified to appear there, actually, being all great vocalists with a strain of Grammy wins – now also Mraz has them -), BUT on the other hand this is charity, and like it or not, the little tweens will make the kids buy the single TONS and MILLIONS of times more than any other performer on this rerecording (or on the older, actually), and that’s make their presence VALUABLE for the cause a lot, in the end.
It’s clear why they’re in: to cash it in. And as the outcome has to be for charity, let’s be honest: they are good for the cause hence they are good for the song.
I got even to say that (shame on me for admitting) Miley Cyrus sounds better here than she ever did on any of her “stuff”.
She’s the current Britney. The reason why We Are The World 25 was a Twitter trending topic are she and Bieber, let’s face it.
I loved the rap part, I am the hugest hater of AutoTune but if you gotta to paint current music, 90% of hip hop songs have it since 3 years AND then it’s better to have Lil Wayne, T-Pain (whom invented its rise) and Akon vocoding themselves than Rihanna who uses it cos she can’t catch a note otherwise, right?
It’s funny to read the critics: the original version, now so praised, was a huge debate and lots dissed it when it first came out, for lots of reasons that are smilar to those nowadays running (pick up choices for solos, refusals to show off – see Prince – people not being there – Madonna – the level of songwriting, the contemporarity of it, the lack of rock’n’roll… the hate of those NOT being there…): read this freely here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World
It HUGELY makes me laugh to hear Jay Z comment then: http://hiphopwired.com/2010/02/15/jay-z-disses-%E2%80%9Cwe-are-the-world%E2%80%9D-remake/
The man who’s got a career by stealing everyone’s melody on his “samples” and who is responsible for the whack “Stranded”, the man whose concept of vocals include Queen of AutoTune Rihanna, is pontificating about what’s “untoucheable”?
PLEASE.
What an hypocrit.
He’s just jalous Beyonce was banned from the Jackson’s family due to disrespect on Janet and Michael. That’s it.
All other people who might have been missed here, and whom I absolutely feel no lacking of (those I miss are the ones listed up),were already on other Haiti charitable projects so no big deal there.
And by the way, if you compare for instance the lacklustre version of Justin Timberlake of “Halleluya” and compare it with the amazing rendition KD Lang did of the amazing classic on the Olympic Winter opening ceremony the other day, you really realize no one is missing in this We Are The World 25 version…
I don’t see any adding to the power of Jennifer Hudson or Celine or Barbra or Groban voices, truly. As for rock gods… Santana covers it pretty darn well, just like Bruce did on the original.
All that said, I also think the original is a gem and no one wants to debate that. It-s one of my longtime favourite classic, and sure it-s the BEST of the two versions. Like it ALWAYS happens with covers, actually.
But this is a very good remake and it will make a new generation of people hopefully fall in love with the beautiful meaning the song keeps carrying on.
So buy it and be good.
People in the chorus are these (and by the way, in the original too there were actors and actresses and socialites.. again this is all a remake of the original thing, in a contemporary way):
* Patti Austin
* Bizzy Bone
* Ethan Bortnick
* Jeff Bridges
* Zac Brown
* Brandy
* Kristian Bush
* Natalie Cole
* Harry Connick Jr.
* Hayden Panettiere
* Kid Cudi
* Faith Evans
* Melanie Fiona
* Sean Garrett
* Tyrese Gibson
* Anthony Hamilton
* Keri Hilson
* Julianne Hough
* India.Arie
* Randy Jackson
* Taj Jackson
* Taryll Jackson
* TJ Jackson
* Al Jardine
* Jimmy Jean-Louis
* Joe Jonas
* Kevin Jonas
* Gladys Knight
* Benji Madden
* Joel Madden
* Katharine McPhee
* Jason Mraz
* Mýa
* A. R. Rahman
* Raphael Saadiq
* Trey Songz
* Musiq Soulchild
* Jordin Sparks
* Robin Thicke
* Alex Williams
* Rob Thomas
* Vince Vaughn
* Ann Wilson
* Brian Wilson
* Nancy Wilson
all artists are listed at the end of the song crediting, anyway.
Enjoy this all, with lyrics old and new, and notes.
Now a little twist and some gossip updates...
Adam and russian model Anne Vyalitsyna
Which is just the pic of Adam‘s “choice” (pick up? hook up for sure, that’s needless to be said ;)) out of the parade of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models he was among due to Maroon5 playing in Las Vegas for the celebration of the issue last week.
Adam’s not tweeting since they put feet in Vegas on February 10.
He had so much to take care of during those days, Valentine Day included AND if you see the gal, you just know you can’t hate on him for it 😉
Just his type, that Anne Vyalitsyna (wow… Russian names are a trick ;)).
Just his type ;).
Man keeps having an excellent taste for the candidates to… erm… recreative gymnastic.
Lucky gal. That’s it.
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Oh, my…
tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow…
Marghe marries!!
I am freakin out (and it’s not only due to the vision of the We Are The World 25 première…) and my whole body tickles.
Yep, for Marghe’s big day.
And not merely that.
In 3 hours my body will receive some ink.
Oh, gosh… what love can drive you to?
My soon-to-be tattoo
It’s not gonna be big. It’s sized like a 2 euros coin.
The design is the one you see aside.
It’s a Tao… with the ideogram of tao.
It’s me.
The only symbol I feel myself ready to wear forever.
It’s mattering and defining me at all levels of my life.
Mentally, spiritually, philosophically.
It’s really the closest to my soul you can get and attempt to reach at.
So that’s it.
I will wear a tao on my skin.
Nobody will see it unless he makes sex wit me or take a shower with me, cos…
Not even the skankiest bikini could show it probably (not sure for skankier underwear, that at time isn’t even covering the minimum…)
It’s gonna be placed right up my “special entrance place”.
The V that attracts all P.
(what you think a bout? Nasties… “V” stays for “virtue” and “P” stays for… Prayers ;))
This decision came out from my concept of Valentine’s Day.
I don’t care about costly excuses for shopping in the name of love.
That’s bullshit.
Green Music Group Pre Grammy Event (more)
A Valentine gesture and gift that matters to me is a person who tries to do something to lose a bit of himself/herself to step into his/her significant other’s world and likes.
Karim will gift me with something I love, and he accepts to love through me as well (yep, a threesome with a friend. Game already played. But still TOP), for this enforces and major our bond, self acceptance, intimacy, dedication, mutual acknowledge and generally TRUTH; hence I had to come up with something as important for him, to be reciprocal.
A life longlasting tribute to him, and to the way he has changed (and keeps changing en evolving) me, living onto my skin.
“You can’t even begin to guess what this means to me, delightful Princess of mine. I never ever thought you would have inked your body out from my will or wish. It’s something precious and eternal and it shows to me better than so many other things that you’re keen and committed to me, to us, to a vision of sharing life. Fully right now. This is the most beautiful gift you could have gifted me with, altogether.”
The ink will be colourless, and for a while I have to confess I thought about putting into it the letters “K”, and “Z”.
But that wouldn’t have been me.
By inking that special part of me, the way I would have never imagined I would have agreeing in doing (let alone come up with the idea MYSELF!!!), I already stated everything, actually.
Now let me confess I am scared as hell cos I know it will hurt and I hate self inflicted physical pain.
I have to be so totally Zen and Yoga about it.
We will do that out of the Milan Tattoo Convention. The inker that will ink both me and Karim again (he wants get another small tattoo near to his intimacy as well, but he’s not gonna tell me about the design…) is a British master that Karim loves a lot, and whom has already inked him.
Maroon5 At Sports Illustrated SwimSuit Edition Event this Thursday
Wow.
Aside today’s posts you’re watching the M5 collages.
One is out from the pre Grammy Party and it encompasses more pics.
The other comes straight from the Vanity at Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel where the beloved boys performed to entertain a fluke of models in swimsuits (well, not really then… but yep, when off from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition they were actually celebrating).
Out from the red carpet pic, I always get amazed at the total unability of Adam of getting “natural” at the duty of it.
He constantly looks in another direction compared to all of the rest of the band.
Not to mention he’s clearly not at ease having to grin forcedly, while he’so luminous and shining when he really WANTS to smile and he’s free to do it just because he feels so, and not because he has to.
Awww. (ps: only Adam could have harmonized Wyclef on WATW 25…)
It tells so much about his natural shyness and inmost refusal in front of staged up things.
Man is just pure at heart.
He’s totally unable to act.
I love that.
Makes him so valuable in my book.
Even more than he already is.
Have all a great weekend.
Tomorrow is my best friend’s BIG day.
I don’t think I will post or twitter pics unless she won’t tell me that I can.
But really… it’s her moment and I think I will be so emotional that I will probably be unable to even hold the iphone, if any.
Kisses everybody 😉
Catch you on Monday;), when I will also speak about the Winter Olimpics (KD Lang’s “Halleluya was AWESOME!!!!)
*INKED*!!!!
Whooof.
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Sigh…
Arrived at work with this numb over me.
Kobe and Jerry West: LEGENDS face to face
Lakers just won 99-97 against the Charlotte Bobcats but it was such an ugly win I can’t be happy.
I was okay with Lamar and Drew. Not okay with Pau, but as I wrote in the Lakers Blog it’s a matter of shape and he’s on a down moment now. I am not worried.
Though I am sad.
Sad for Kobe, my light and hero… he has FURTHERLY aggravated his ankle injury due to Lamar steppin onto him.
I mean… WTF??? What he’s Kobe like this year… freakin Fantozzi?
Thinkin that everything started so sweetly at Staples Center tonight. Kobe honoured as a legend by the whole of the attendants and Jerry West (another legend) and Magic (THE legend). All witnessed by Divine Adam in his usual seat (enlightened… just as usual in front of our bench… aww). Evidences below:
The legend gets his spotlight... and Divine Adam's position enlightened.
Too bad then everything went just off.
I mean.. completely off.
I can’t feel fine. Karim and I were watching the game in bed, and man… we did perform LOTS of our favourite terapy about how to deal with bad stuff and frustration. That is some of teh best sex ever. Seriously.
But when the rush ends… I still worried about Kobe. Wonder if Vanessa heals him the way Karim and I use to heal one another 😉 Hope so. It should work.
Anyway, yesterday it was another HUGE working day. After the marriage of my dear Marghe I will fly in LA and stay there… (laugh) a total of 18 hours. Yep. I fly for the triple of the staying time. I think I will barely eat. *sigh*.
No way I will be able to catch anything beside the working place. But it’s okay. Anyway Summer comes soon and after all I will stay in LA soon for way more.
Swifty my beauty... 🙂
I rode Swifty indoor yesterday. It downloads my stress to jump with him after long and tight working schedules.
Hopping along him is like jumping over and leave back me all of my worst tickling feelings.
I guess I will need some jumps today too.
Though today is also the usual Wii League so I don’t know if I’ll manage to.
Well, at least musically speaking, the past two days have been awesome.
Adam choruses along in WATW
Not only I keep luring and expecting for February 12th to hear the updated version of We Are The World – 25 for Haiti, but my sweet babies are up to some more, and Adam himself is up for even *some* more.
Where to start from…
I guess I should start from February 11th, which comes prior than February 12 when WATW ramade will be heard and seen.
On February 11th (thanx for telling, Venus!) my adored Maroon 5 will be again in Las Vegas to play for a special event, namely the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special Issue.
Divine creature singing for the Haitian song
Sounds just about as good as it can get (beside a Victoria Secrets‘ fashion special) in the field of Adam’s favourite surroundings, ain’t it?
Lol 😉
The news is here:
Yesterday it was also a good day musically wise cos the babies’ posted a new webisode on their pages, containing excerpts from the College Tour (hear my heart which breaks… yes, that’s it… If I think back of it I keep damning my own bad luck and chicken pox… *sigh and double sigh*)
I love everytime they share videos and especially these kind of those, so you can bet I am posting it:
You know me.. I always leave the best at ends though (works in EVERY situation, believe.. ;)).
And the best is coming courtesy of NME, which posted yesterday evening the confirmation and tracklist for Slash’s album, due just in time for MY BIRTHDAY 😉
Think I found one of my gifts 😉
Slash album by Slash (and friends)
This is the tracklist of the eponimous Slash album:
‘Ghost’ (featuring Ian Astbury)
‘Beautiful Dangerous’ (featuring Fergie)
‘Nothing To Say’ (featuring M Shadows)
‘Crucify The Dead’ (featuring Ozzy Osbourne)
‘Promise’ (featuring Chris Cornell)
‘By The Sword’ (featuring Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother)
‘Doctor Alibi’ (featuring Lemmy of Motorhead)
‘Saint Is A Sinner Too’ (featuring Rocco De Luca)
‘Watch This’ (featuring Dave Grohl and Duff McKagan)
‘I Hold On’ (featuring Kid Rock)
‘Gotten’ (featuring Adam Levine)
‘We’re All Gonna Die’ (featuring Iggy Pop)
‘Starlight’ (featuring Myles Kennedy)
This is simply awesome.
And hugely flattering.
Now Adam can add “hard rock” to the list of his collaborations. He’s gone anywhere from pop to rock, to rap, to hip hop, to soul, to country, to disco trance music, to soundtracking to crooning till hard rock now.
I think he lacks just raggae at this point.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if he would get in there soon too. *Sublime*.
Can’t wait to have the record.
Now if they’d drop THEIR own record detailes… I’d be just plain fine. And I’d feel WAY better after Kobe’s trouble.
Have a great day everyone 😉 I’ll try to cope with my own one, I promise.
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Terrible bombing in LakerLand against the CRabs
Today I can also play on the repeat just this song (one of my favourites EVER and FOREVER, cos Lakers lost again against the Crabs and to add insult to injury, the man costing us the win was my adored Pau.
Well, not only him, but his missed FT at a bunch of seconds from the end, wich costed us a potential useful lead to play along conveniently, was sincerly like a kick in the mouth for me.
Awful. This song heals. Like Karim’s sexmaking with me did just hours ago after the slap in our Lakers core.
NOTE: the video has some wrong intermission with the words, like messing up “want” with “need” but I loved that in the image there are tons of Natalia Vodianova‘s Calvin Klein’s ads. So I kept that choice up. Love Natalia. She’s gorgeous.
Of course I will write later in the Los Angeles Times Lakers Blog about all this, but not now. I need to focus on good things and to fill this page with good things.
On the Good things… This evening I will tune in on Italia1 (shame on me) cos finally after 1 year and four months the channel broadcast in First Vision CSI:NewYork “Page Turner” (they call it in Italian “Il Libro della Morte” namely The Book of Death . I know. We suck with translating titles…).
The episode with the opening clip in Central Park by Maroon5, exactly that one. I have it from iTunes since it were available in iTunes USA, but it will be nice to see it also on Italian screen with the Italian words (not that they can translate the song… or Divine Adam’s voice of course ;))
Divine Adam who finally spoke again on his Twitter to thank those who helped raise funds on tuesday night in LA for Haiti tragedy.
Adam sings for Haiti Relief
I leave aside some collage.
I just wanna to underline that it’s about time that Adam and Seth McFarlane, Family Guy’s and American Dad’s creator, stop to just jam and sing together (it has happened already a few times) and decide themselves for a duet on some sort of cartoon episode. I would SO love to see Adam guest star as a voice in Family Guy. Not as himself… as a flip off character singing at some point along Stewie. Now that would be awesome.
Plus Seth and Adam’s voices merge awesomely together.
But as you know, what I surely love the most out of these pictures (and the following ones) is that Adam played drums again.
I adore him “drummer version”. I just do.
His fascination with drumming explaines me a lot why he tends to sing hopping on the beatrolling. There’s a part of his brain that works things out depending on the beat.
I love, love love that.
Oh, yesterday it was Wii League.
Adam and Seth McFarlane for Haiti Relief
A short version of it cos the game started soon (sooner than I had thought… and that the night would have been s*it I could have got also by the fact the internet connection that allowed me to see the game on NBA Pass went off for abundantly a quarter and half… Ironically, the first part of the game was the one we played better… argh… Gotta stop think at the game… Gotta stop!!).
Btw, I won at tennis again. My own sporty pride is safe 😉 Friends here are actually happy that Karim and I stay more in Italy and don’t leave suddenly too soon for Los Angeles. Though all of them want to visit us when we will be there over summer ;).
Call them fools… LOL.
Another good thing (always babies-related: for bringin a smile back to me I need TOTALLY my music healers on my side): you all know how much I love to have my Maroon5 & Related collection complete, and how much I love to have, beside “liquid” tunes for iPod, also phisical CDS to keep in my hands. Well, the cover of Frank Sinatra they did for iTunes of course couldn’t be held physicallly in my hand in form of a cd. Until NOW.
Cos (thank worlld!!!) that song… THIS song (how I love my video for it… ;))…
is part of the Official Soundtrack for the Film Valentine’s Day. No need to argue that as I learnt it, I ran over Amazon and ordered it. Now that collection you see in the video above will include one more cd ;). I don’t care about any other song. I bought it EXCLUSIVELY for the M5 one. I don’t either care about the movie actually. Don’t know if I can stand that much sugar…
Happy Zaira nonetheless 🙂
To finish with the good things in stylish way, James is right now recording stuff with JJAMZ.
Aww.
Love that.
James jams with JJAMZ (I know, I know... sounds fun ;))
I have included in my Twitter watch all of the members who actually have Twitter. You all know how soft spot I have for Alex Greenwald so… Can’t wait to listen to this material. I just can’t wait 🙂
I leave you with another small pic, and then I rush to FaceBook and MySpace to save JJAMZ there too.
So okay… we lost against CRABS. PrincessJimmy and his whining are unsufferable, his singing of Eminem’s rap to mock us just proved once more he’s a selfreferential pri*k.
He’s as classless and as jerky as possible. King James? Please.
He has the grace of a gangster. Come to us in the Final (if you reach them) Cavs: we will destroy them and have our revenge there.
You Cavemen will never prevail when it counts. NEVER.
I believe in style and justice.
There you go 😉
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Wow.
Kobe against Spurs
Two days in a row of wakin up at 2h30 am to catch Lakers road trip in the big Texas.
We lost badly against the Spurs two days ago (I haven’t updated on that yesterday cos the Haiti tragedy was still way a bigger thing…I reiterate: donate through those links available on yesterday’s post, please!), and it was hurtful due to Kobe‘s unability to properly play (back injury). It seemed like everything was going downhill (well, no ring without Kobe, that’s simply obvious…) and I was pretty concerned.
On the good side, we were just starting to experience a Los Angeles Times Lakers Blog Chat with no fakers, due to a registry process through either Twitter (check), Facebook (check), and MySpace (yes… now I created that too… check), and that was truly enjoyable, to say the least. So, first trip in Texas went painfully wrong. I had my way to be consoled for it, don’t worry…
Tonight instead, things went WAY, way better:
Yes, it was a team game, an awesome team game, and once more the one and only THE GOD Kobe proved he’s not human.
It was so beautifully intense to fear for him, take part for him, see him struggle and feel pain and then… overcome all that.
Kobe versus Mavericks' Shawn Marion
I have no idea on how he can do that.
He’s an alien made of steel.
I wrote in the Lakers Blog that he’s like Alexander The Great and Ramses II all together. He’s truly that. The perfect leader and athlet. A monster. A monster that I adore.
We had this fantastic team effort that just made me so darn proud, winning over Mavericks at their home 100-95. Great feeling. Great.
I went on with Karim in bed for abundantly one hour after that. No need to add that I am a bit tired today. I will skip the horseriding and rest. No Wii League tonight. We’re out dinning.
What we celebrate?
The Holy White Heron: Freedom of Choices.
Well, I told you yesterday there were lots of things going on. And indeed, they are and they’re all important.
Karim has been offered an awesome position by his mentor at University. A position that would see him rooting in Italy and generally Southern Europe for the incoming three years.
He’s dead serious about his art love. He’s born ridicolously rich, and he’s a son and a nephew of a former Ambassador and Diplomathic. He could just sit his ass out and do nothing more than banking for the rest of his life. Instead… he’s an artist and a lover of beauty. And he wants to pursuit his life journey by doing something mattering to his own self. For real.
No mystery why I do love him.
But yes… this offer, of course, made him doubtful cos you know… I should be in Los Angeles with him by ending of February.
For MY own work career. We did buy a house around Glendale last July. We have it there ready, totally fit for us. We love that place even though we’ve been there just twice. We long to be a bit of Los Angelenos for a while. That town is in our hearts dearly, not only for Lakers love. It’s amazing how somebody that bound to San Francisco as Karim is can love so deeply also Los Angeles. I thought there was a rivalry there. Not within Karim though. And he studied there after all, so he’s got all connections needed.
All is Full of Love (Bjork video)
He went at me and we had a long, awesome, profound time talking.
It’s not about marriage, it’s not about anything people can see on the outside. It was about me and him and our time together. We treasure that. We both suffer while we are parted.
For a lot of reasons.
We just stay wonderfully together.
Which doesn’t mean we have to feel like we can’t live as singular individuals.
He knows I will never give up on my life for nobody. I am independent. And I love independent people.
Then what… will we be parted for months?
Not necessarily.
My representative work in USA doesn’t need a complete staying. We were planning that cos we would have loved to set a bit up in Los Angeles in a more stable way. We love the town for millions of reasons… but we are young and we can postpone a proper move in. This is a bit of a struggle on the side of documents though. Next week I will have a meeting with the local Consolate of USA and then a formal hearing with my chief (who’s my father, you know…) about re-scheduling all and maybe set up with my German pairing for the job a shared and more fitting Los Angeles schedule.
I think I will just have lots of planes to take. Not spending the time I was looking forward to in LA as soon as I expected, in terms of social life and erm… Fixes Haunting, you know… 😉 (oh, you can bet I still want that. Karim knows. He’s okay with that. No need everytime to flame me after I state my obvious target on the Special Catch, my one and only, holy Levine war…)
The good side is that having a house we will be free to take vacations in LA any time our work will allow that. For our entire lives.
It’s not bad, let’s say it.
“I just want to tell you that my place is where you are. I don’t wanna ask you to do a thing. My choice is to let myself free to be with you. If I won’t have to sleep to be with you as much as possible, I will learn how to survive not doing it. I am honoured to get this chance to stay in Italy. I have always loved here. But now I feel like I have to belong here. Cos it’s here that you have your roots. When they asked me to stay… it was like I was feeling I did belong here. It was no brainer. I know there’s part of Italian blood in my genetics. Just I never imagined that small part could mean all this much to me.”
It was awesome to hear.
Also cos I do know how proud and fierce about being American Karim is.
“Our other place anyway will always be Japan, my adored Princess. You know… one day we will have a house there too…”
I can’t tell you the way we made love after that powerful conversation. It was just incredible. Incredible. UNBELIEVABLE. Beyond magic. Beyond wildest imaginations.
Hewl.. I feel so blessed.
But what made me tell him how much I love him was this line:
“Feel free to stay in LA or wherever you wanna go, Zaira. I trust you. Our love. The fact you love me. I will never cage you. Never. The way our love makes me feel is all about being free and amazingly true to one another. I die when we are not together. But if I do love you the way I completely adore you… it’s cos you taught me that love is freedom, not imposition. Choice day by day, not a sterile contract. And my aim is makin you chose me every single day more than the day before. I know I can make it...”
My answer has just been this one:
“You make it every day better, Special K. There’s no one I can see myself with when I would be old and grey. But no marriage in sight, okay? When we will feel we wanna be parents maybe… And even then I would like a thing me and you and the priest just… In Japan, why not ! They marry anyway lots of Japanese in Italian style there…”
So… Alitalia will be pleased to know I am gonna make their bankruptcy less wide in the next year. Yikes 😉
I am happy Karim feels home here. And in a way, I am also happy Swifty will have a chance to grow along me here.
PS: Leave COLDPLAY ALONE!!!! Stop this. Jalous people. Leave my boyz alone. Yikes. Btw, about Chris &Gwyneth supposed break up and infidelities. Seriously.
Chris Martin. One of the greateast poets of the past 15 years.
Chris is a rocker. Although definitely not hot in my book (awesome poet and songwriter.. but well, hottness isn’t among his amazing skills at all, he’s not erotic at all to me, totally unharming…), a rocker will NEVER be faithful.
Period.
He can be for a while, Sure h’es not certified “bastard inside” type (like… erm… *someone else*…) as I am sure for years he hasn’t been used to be considered valuable by gals (then success and money can do ALL I guess…). But I would never bet my money on any musician or artist in general predisposition at fidelity.
I know, I am cynical.
As long as kids are safe, I can easily see a divorce coming sooner than later. Yep.
And this is the awesome Clocks. Enjoy magic in music:
Haiti shock. Do something.
Posted on: 13 January 2010
Haiti devastation
I am in the middle of a tough day and full of important decisions to be made, but I won’t waste time on this now cos there is something more important to do: by now all of you should be aware of Haiti Earthqwake and tragedy.
I hope you all can do something. I leave you with a link to MSN NBC page where you find a list of truthful organizations active in that wounded, disgraced region to set up a donation of your choice to help people who hadn’t a thing before this drama, and who now have in the wide majority also lost their lives.
MSNNBC page with the “How To Help Haiti” links.
Be human.
Do something.
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