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Good morning!

Nut at table in Play Room

My baby Nut 🙂

Or is it… a truly awkward one?

I guess by now, it’s just a further morning (actually I will finish this at late evening… and prepare to a LOT of typos because there is no way I will double check a thing if I ever want to finish the thing for real ops ;))…

I have been long awaiting to create this post because in the past few days so much that I care of has happened in Italy that I have been on a roller coaster of powerful moods straight for around a week right now.

I have been in need of taking my time in relax… working (going abroad to Berlin again) then just spend time with Karim, and have a wonderful Milan Night in San Siro (whoooaaa we were great against Lazio!!! And I who thought Barcelona Magic was a one night stand!!!), then relax again and be just naked for a whole Sunday before the awkward sensation out of last week vanished enough to let me write.

Then I woke up today basking in Kobe Bryant’s amazing performance against the Atlanta Hawks and got really pumped up (despite the morning chill), and tried to find my way to start put in words what I have been felt lately.

What I have watched on tv yesterday (Presa Diretta about the Tsunami stuff) also has cleared my mind and its knotting reasoning a bit more.

That outcome after past week tho still intense.

Still.

What am I talking about?

flussi_elettorali_elezioni_risultati_pd_pdl_lega_ms5_monti_sel-320x338ELECTIONS.

Italian Elections.

That is obvious.

Wow.

For weeks (months… let’s cut it.. FOR YEARS) I have waited for a sign of change in my fellow Countrymen, and waited for this all to manifest itself in the just-happened turn of ballots.

I waited for them to understand criminal liars aren’t going to do our poor Italy any favor (because the only ones they look forward to would benefit solely themselves) and I was hoping this year would have proven my hopes right.

I was hoping after the worst bunch of years, clearly linked to disarmingly awful management out from essentially one party (person) Italians would have stopped to believe tales and would have boldly faced reality and would have acted consequently, because after all we are an heritage of amazingly talented people and we have skills, talents, brains and creativity to always find our way to become better, no matter how disadvantaged we are feeling or how bad the situation is looking.

Because DAMN… I am PROUD to be Italian… for what we are SUPPOSED to be.

I get so disheartened whenever I realize this concept of “Italian” might be just a thing of the past, since it’s almost all my life that the values that seem predominating in my Country are the exact opposite than what I strive for and I thrive on.

These elections… and my hopes…

Well.

Some HUGE change definitely has been showin… but…

Beppe-Grillo-Movimento-5-Stelle

Beppe-Grillo-Movimento-5-Stelle

Will it do Italy any favor?

I doubt it; and I doubt it JUST BECAUSE of the way Italians are.

Yes.

Grillo has won; I expected a huge result from him (it’s months that I fear it), but not nearly as huge as it was.

Watching Presa Diretta yesterday has made me undertsand better why Italians (and why so many of them) have chosen a former comedian as mentor… but while I do get the disbelief and outrageous anger towards “regular” politicians is a thing that – positively – finally has gotten to the limelight, I still very dubious that a recipe like the one Grillo suggests (? does he in the end suggest something after all?) can fix troubles.

Not only that… the other one, the cancer this Country keeps proudly displaying (oh, poor us),  still around and not as done as anybody with brain and heart wanted him to be.

Berlusconi is sadly alive, maybe not as well as the past but doing decently enough to have again at least a third of this Country lobotomized out of his lies and fake promises, STILL.

I can’t believe the way populism is so ready to mesmerize Italians.

Grillo and Berlusconi are just the same soup baked and cooked in populist sauces, the only difference being the fact Grillo is NOT a criminal while Berlusconi instead is one of the biggest CRIMINALS around.

I get scared when I see how much desperation (or sometimes just laziness) can revolve and push people in trusting what in my book should hardly be trusted.

Yes, Italians love fake promises, they love to have others think for them and find them easy solutions (that never exist in reality, especially in difficult realities such as the times we are in), and they are ready to believe the grossest tales as long as they are pledged to escape a reality that they don’t find flattering.

I cringe at this all, because I am a different breed: I think in hard times people have to FACE the difficulty and get over it by their own forces, with dedication, pride, with determination and drive.

In a way, M5S pledges for this kind of personal push, but I see so many anarchists and unreliable people merged into their following that I can’t avoid to question the goodness of the Movement itself.

I so believe Italians have the resources to finally turn tables and make their (our) Country free from the disgusting stealing robbering behaviors for 60 years its politicians have implemented… I just fear Grillo is not the one to guide this whole process.

Berlusconi keeps being around. DAMN.

Berlusconi keeps being around. DAMN.

I don’t think he’s fit; I on the other hand deeply believe Italians have to do what it takes to save Italy from the cliff we’re hanging on the verge of.

How?

With talent; that talent which Italians have in their genetic pool so strong but which they seem to always forget about, drowned in fears.

This electoral result freaks me, I guess you got it…

Except that it actually doesn’t even surprise me that everything has gone this way, to be honest with you; the more I evaluate the whole situation, the more “surprised” isn’t really the way I feel about this all.

We have even more populists people claiming the little that’s left of Italians’ dignity throughout surrealistic suggestions (which are really dangerous tho) such as “let’s leave Euro” “let’s exit from the Financial system” (which is sucky and so totally wrong, but which pays our debt, idiots), and similarly out of reach “brilliant” (no) agendas.

We are probably the only Country in the world (ever?) to give TWO COMEDIANS the highest rise rate in the last 45 days before an actual “matter-of-life-and-death” turn of election.

Yeah I know this has been said by that German bloke who pissed Napolitano so much off for… but that is exactly what I do think myself as well and I have way before he said it openly to the world.

Italians… Italians make me an elitist… I have come to realize I barely (I don’t?) trust my fellow Countrymen choices that much in times of pain.

The Incredible LOSS of PD

The Incredible LOSS of PD

I go appalled every time “democracy” works over here because every single time they pick up Fairy Tellers promising them solutions which won’t ever work and which generally are not even remotely applicable to the true matters.

We keep having the oldest political class (yes, in the Parliament now many young people are stepping in, but the political parties and all the lobbies and all the commanding chain in this Nation STILL an affair of painfully old people, let’s face it).

How can they reckon what would work for us, when they are not even belonging to the generation(s) they are throwing off a (very high) cliff?

Why we still the only Country where people at the Left don’t really understand a thing about the generation(s) they pledge the voting of?

Why the Left in Italy has about the same talent for win that Inter had to show in the infamous 2002 Serie A League, losing a race that was virtually won just because they simply couldn’t believe they could actually lose?

*sigh*.

Sure… we gotta get up and try (as P!nk would say… I love that song) but sometimes trust me is all but easy.

Sometimes… especially after having been for some days again in a Country like USA… I would love to just give up and leave.

We go there in two weeks again and really… sometimes… I think seriously about that all.

But it’s a very quick thought: I’d never do that… I am an Italian with the love for the Country which is shaped out of the way Japanese people love and adore their own.

I would never leave the boat that sink.

I am not Schettino.

Even if it’s truly (and believe me it is) hard to keep on witnessing the way Italians do pay dust to themselves so constantly.

*sigh*.

Even the POPE has resigned knowing he wasn’t fit anymore for the huge task he has to sustain and what about our political class, where the youngest ones are all above 65?

(By the way, I really got to respect Ratzinger after his stepping off... You all know I NEVER liked him as Pope, but this decision he took about leaving makes his persona gain lots of points in my book. I had to say this).

Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI steps off the Pope's soil

Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI steps off the Pope’s soil

I want fresh forces, but forces who understand politics and LAWS, not a bunch of digerati who can claim this Country (one of those with the hugest debt) can exit frigging Euro or can give a minimum wadge salary (that’d be great, but simply it cannot happen with our financial woes) and an ordeals of retards will believe this all and will create un-governability, will send Stocks down the hill and generally will ruin the already thin chances Italy has to resurface from a downward spiral.

Basically… my problem with Italy is that I don’t trust Italians’ choices again, because those choices are just about as opposite as possible to anything great this Country has ever done in its glorious past.

Why don’t Italians try to be great as they can and work their asses off and stop to wait for others to bail them, instead of believing all Fairy Tellers and let them sink us all any time an inch more down the water?

And I totally agree these politicians must NOT be trusted but then why a third of Italians have kept faith in Berlusconi?

I really have to recall that men can be great.

In fact… I often am envious of K. because he can claim his Country has OBAMA.

It was amazing to attend his Inaugural festivities even if the trip we had was a riddle among snow and delayed flights and chaos…

But we met Cindy Lauper and Nancy Pelosi (exquisite person), we had truly a wonderful family time no matter how brief and we were so into this all both K&I got a little tattoo to commemorate the magic, which not even Fakeyoncé could disturb (for the record: I have the greatest opinion of Beyoncé as singer… but I really perceive her as totally constructed and fake in her “perfection” so I couldn’t bare to stand her excuses for faking her singing, because I am sure if they hadn’t uncovered her lies she would have gone for the gold and never say she was singing in playback. That is what sets me off with her… the fakery, which she shall not be bound to since her skills are HUGE).

Beyonce' fakes on Obama's Inaugural

Beyonce’ fakes on Obama’s Inaugural

But yes, it was amazing, and I so wish Italy could claim a progressive party and man such as USA can.

That was where last post ended… we were just about to witness the magic and I didn’t imagine this post would have come more than a month after but you know me… life has its turns and this blog is just my fun memory and generally February, March and April are very hectic for me; both work-wise and because in them there are always the trips for Valentine’s time (later on that… this year it was marvelous again), our K’s time and then my Birthday time.

So when heavy working schedule mix with long trips to foreign places (or to K’s home, like it will happen in March), it’s not really like I can have time to write posts.

I queue things along and then when I will be able to write, I will (this generally happens in airports halls or when I perform tests at lab, just like now ;)).

Oh, nothing... just best Italian Journalist and Historicist alive ;)

Oh, nothing… just best Italian Journalist and Historicist alive 😉

To make it more understandable: when we came back from Valentine’s vacation in the amazing Caribbean Islands, I went straight to Florence out from the plane for a THREE days conference which was taking place in weekend and then straight drove (well, K did…) to reach Milan and VOTE.

The day of Elections while the results were making me so worked off, I practically fell asleep by exhaustion at 9h30 pm.

I think somehow I am getting old and I need breaks to sustain some pacing my life has.

When I am turning 28 soon I will shed a tear to my former physical invincibility.

Which has gone away, clearly ;).

I am also starting to enjoy quieter nights out dining with the crew instead of the formal super clubby mod we were put on display on weekends.

Sure I do still enjoy to dance and feel musically entangled in lobo strobes but it’s just that I realize “generation-speaking” that is starting (conveniently) not being my thing anymore.

Chapters of life and age showing… and I have to say I actually like this comprehension I have of the rightfulness of this all.

Is there anything lamer than adults trying to deny they are adults by behaving like kids?

I allow that to artists because they MUST remain kids at heart always (so basically I allow K to be so, even if that really isn’t his way to be at all), but regular people with no artistry in their DNA keeping acting teens when they are not… those gain all my disrespect and I don’t plan to be self-hating any time soon ;).

By the way though yes, Ia m aging and I am almost 28… I still super hot and super fit tho so it’s okay.

I’ll just sleep more and have sex at more convenient hours 😉 (still as often as possible as that calls for a perfect shape and beauty appearance too ;)).

But back at what I was writing.

Life is the greatest thing indeed.

Lately I am really trying to figure out what I stand for at the moment… not only these rhythms that are pacing out at different values…

It’s clear I am approaching that phase of life when all of my peers are starting to turn into family units; I love this.

All you need is Love &... cookies ;)

All you need is Love &… cookies 😉

I love that we are together since forever and we are all coming to the same places, this is amazing.

I love that I am starting to feel some kind of urgency towards motherhood, too.

WELL STOP THE PRESS IS NOT LIKE K&I ARE PLANNING A TODDLER.

Not yet 😉

But the more we are around friends (really close ones) with kids, or ready to have some, the more I naturally start to understand I might get there with ease, too.

Look… not because I feel pressured for or towards it…

JUST BECAUSE K&I feel like we are starting to be ready (but again, that yet doesn’t mean we are trying a thing ;)).

While I was traveling like a fool past month, and I also got blasted by flu, Karim was there being amazing and I suddenly felt so HOME.

It was no mattering where I actually was… He’s HOME for me.

His soul is home for mine.

And I think we could be great parents in a while.

We just need to complete our working crafts and feel full with them.

He’s on the verge of wrapping up the most amazing project in three Countries; I have a very FULL 2013 ahead.

Once these things are accomplished and once we both slide in our meant to chairs in our Companies… who knows.

It MIGHT be TIME FOR CHANGES.

One thing I know for sure.

In a month I get 28 and I feel a woman and not a girl by now in full.

Women have a different mind sets than girls.

And I am getting ready to new chapters in my life most definitely and the wonderful things is that I feel so GREAT about this all.

I am loving getting older; the experiences my life has gifted me with are something precious and very special and I believe in a little while I could be good in passing all this to a new generation; and that new generation, THAT’s FOR SURE, would also be fathered by the most perfect man in the world (perfect also because he is not perfect… though people meeting Karim won’t believe he is not, because this is what he looks and feels like to all of us… but I know him better and I can tell you he is not perfect, but just because of it he is PERFECT FOR ME :)).

When we went to Venice Carnival I just glowed in him.

Carnival Loving Time 2013

Carnival Loving Time 2013

The mere things he does to make me smile or to teach me things I didn’t know blow my mind and heart off every single time.

The Valentine’s trip then…

For days and weeks he made me believe we would have gone to Pennsylvania at Hershey’s SPA and then to New York for Maroon 5 MSG gig and then meet with his family in Miami (they obviously have a beach house there too… where’s the surprise ;)).

Weather was freezy POLAR in Italy so I was looking forward to some chocolate and more freeze and then (but only then) some beachy hot time instead…

Instead we went to the Caribbean magic and passed from the Cays in Turks and then move to Santo Domingo and touch a sleeve of Cuban salsa as well…

We touched Nature in the most perfect way, meeting sharks and turtles and iguanas and feeling like Adam and Eve in the Eden and HONEST TO ABOVE…

There I truly felt like if I could get pregnant IMMEDIATELY and even give birth right there and be only K&I forever alone on those islands NOTHING would have been more prefect.

Yes, I am THAT in love.

Caribbean Love 2013

Caribbean Love 2013

And the greatest thing is that while the passion still there (because I live for sex and I am the most sexual kinky fuck you could imagine… and he LOOOOOVES it, no matter what) the real plus part of our bond is that we are completely into one another’s minds and talents.

We look up to one another.

We genuinely think the other can make our world EVOLVE, which is why even when we quarrel (like anybody does if they care about one another) we can actually try to guess if something the other thinks could be in fact… right over our own opinion.

This only can happen when you REALLY think the other is amazing, because then your ego (even our two ones, which are MEGA) can step off a bit and make you get better through the other’s input.

That doesn’t mean I don’t get mad when K beats me at ANYTHING though ;).

Because I do.

My competitive side is just… moon-sized ;).

But I also always say that is a wonderous thing that I can LOVE my best competitor this much and always feel blessed even when he kicks my ass.

The satisfaction I get whenever is HIS ass that I kick multiplies out of this all, too 😉

*insert evil laugh*

*And a LOOOOOOONG kiss* 😉

Talking about competitive sides… it’s hard (especially after the AMAZING performances of late) not to connect with what THE AMAZING MAMBA is doing at the moment.

Since our beloved Jerry Buss has passed away (and you can understand what was missing the past 18 months in the Lakers organization… THE MAN was not there to have his hold on tight…) Kobe Bryant has been even more perfect than ever.

Irreplaceable. Jerry Buss. Lakers MAKER.

Irreplaceable. Jerry Buss. Lakers MAKER.

This guy has the GREATEST STRIVE TO PERFECTION I HAVE EVER SEEN, and he inspires me so much I can’t really put it in words.

He’s starting to think about retirement of course but just as I said to him… that day for me will make the transition about him from INHUMAN PERFECT ATHLETE to SUPREME SPORT LEGEND ICON.

He’s doing it all to save the Lakers from the shame of NOT being in the playoffs (currently we are seating at ninth place), easily ALSO for honoring the man whom brought him in the BEST FRANCHISE IN SPORTS EVER:

Lakers position after Atlanta Win

You all know how much I love the Lakers…

I will also – of course – when Kobe won’t be playing anymore.

But like it always happens with my sporty idols… when THEY stop, a part of me buries with them and what they have inspired me out of LIFE lessons properly, through their sport’s mastery.

So when Kobe retires… a part of me will be completed and a seed will be planted forever in me and its offsprings (hopefully) will be also part of me forever.

Kobe is my FOCUS&Determination icon.

He will always be an hero for me, long past his Lakers’ days (and his obvious status as legend).

Laker and Legend for LIFE

Laker and Legend for LIFE

I always love when he connects with my other sporty loves… and just to say one thing, tonight Djokovic was also at Staples witnessing Mamba’s greatness and so the circle MILAN>LAKERS>TENNIS got full because Kobe and Nole are both Milan devotees 😉

Love how Kobe LOVED his coming too 😉

utter perfection in Kobe and Nole

utter perfection in Kobe and Nole

Great minds… ;))))

I love that Kobe has the same way Karim has to download stress… playing classic sonatas on piano.

Talent is something that flourishes so highly in them two… and you know I can only like talented (multi talented actually) type of people.

So will the Lakers made it to playoffs?

I don’t think chances are that high at stakes actually…

His Mamba-ness

His Mamba-ness

This because it doesn’t ONLY rely on Lakers… we have to hope those ahead slow down and this is never a good way to obtain things. But it’s our fault to have let the opportunity slides off our hands to be the sole responsibles of our own future so, whatever it happens, it will be on us and teach us better for the future (hopefully).

What I do know is that I adore to see Kobe and Nash play together; I have let go of Pau‘s disappointments by now (he’s injuried so it wouldn’t even be cute to speak about it) and Howard keeps being… I don’t know… resilient to finally give in to us and be a COMPLETE Laker?

Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant Lakers LOVE

Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant Lakers LOVE

I still on the fence about him; can’t help but feeling Kobe’s feels there (I know, I am biased probably but this is how I am ;)).

I hope Lakers make it to the playoffs also because being in the USA for a while in the next two months, I would love to witness again a game live at Staples

I will actually be soon at Staples but that will be again just for a bunch of hours of gig catching when Maroon 5 play there in two weeks (less than it!!!) and it won’t last much , as we will be based in San Francisco by the time of K’s festivities 😉 and then we move to New York for both mine and his work (yes, no leisure time this time in NY)… and then from there is – hopefully if nothing goes wrong – HANAMI TIME IN JAPAN FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!! (and THAT will surely be only leisure time 😉 because I do deserve ;)).

Hanami Time for my incoming 28th birthday!

Hanami Time for my incoming 28th birthday!

So right now I generally start to go backwards to the past post and put up Maroon 5 & then Adam (and Behati’s) things.

I will this time too, but since more than a month and A LOT of things have happened, I will try to be quick (none of you believe I will actually be able to, do you?) because already the video things are like a million pieces and this is going to be one of the longest posts ever already just out of them.

Take a seat?

Good 😉

Before I start, let me just point out for the millionth time that when I write about M5 or Adam… I do it only because they are part of my entertainment and “world of likes”.

The two lovebirds pose alike - Adam and Behati

The two lovebirds pose alike – Adam and Behati

This is not a gossip blog; this is my blog and here I list what I am interested in.

The day I will not find this fun anymore, I will stop; or the day I won’t find reasons to update about all my likes; I’ll stop this.

Gossip is not my thing; in fact, I love that for instance now Adam is very private about his personal and love life: that’s the way I carry my life too (I don’t let strangers enter for real in my circle and  am very picky in my true life friendships) and for sure, the best way to have a safe and healthy and HAPPY life is let the crazy outsiders as separate as possible from the core of your inmost and safest personal place.

Super Classy Adam Levine - vintage

Super Classy Adam Levine – vintage

I am glad Adam has learnt it through bad experience off his (recent and not so recent) past: no true lover will ever ask you to display your privateness, unless it’s for gaining personally out from your weaknesses.

He seems to learn, and it’s about time since he’s getting old (and he feels it ;)).

I always get appalled anytime “fans” claim the “idols” owe them anything other than the consuming of their professional creations; what fans are responsible for it’s the fame the idols may have but that fame came because what artists and idols PRODUCED matched a taste and a liking and then the only thing fans are to be credited for are to have been rewarded with THE PRODUCTS off from their idols.

The fans don’t own the idols at all; they can just own the products that the idols put off, and the occasional proxemity derived from the live consuming of that product, too.

Fans are fans because they LIKE THE PRODUCTS the “idols” make; in no way the “idols” life belong AT ANY PART to no fan.

I wish the ordeals of crazy heads who are way too invested in celebrity lives would understand this, that in no way the life of their idols are linked or will ever be linked for real to theirs..

In some years, Maroon 5 won’t be public anymore, just like it always happens with musicians – or actors –; Adam and the guys will lead very private lives and stay in themselves like it’s only fair to be… what will the crazy fans do then?

Stop breathing?

In the past month I got harassed by some very amusing mad folks and in all occasions (beside laughing my ass off at them) I just thought “poor them… do they really believe any of the people they worship would ever think anything different than “these are crazy” about them?” It’s sad when lives are so poor you have to borrow some celebrity’s one to feel you have a purpose in your days.

Behati and Candice in Caribbean Blue ;)

Behati and Candice in Caribbean Blue 😉

This isn’t how I work and this isn’t what this blog is up for.

These are my youth memories and my music likes are of course involved, as music plays such a HUGE part in my daily things, but as you have read before, I am not that young anymore so these chronicles (and all the material I upload) could just be gone at ANY GIVEN TIME from now on.

I won’t keep on writing for much longer, be sure ;)…

I will surely be stopping as soon as I have a kid for instance, or just turn this into a “mummy care” blog (with no pics whatsoever of my family of course… you know that privacy and I are double tied).

It’s just about what I decide to do, the rest of the days this blog may or may not have, and it’s no big deal really… just a phase of my life that takes place onto another one which ends, right?

Oh, and always remember… Internet is not real life.

A fandom is not real life.

For how important that all may seem (at least to teen people, and everyone has been teen so I do understand… I much less understand grown people spending TONS of time online following celebrities in their every move, as they couldn’t live a hour without imagining what they do or what they don’t… really? I suggest to go out and take a look at the sky 😉 and maybe talk in real life with real people flesh and bone, for a good change ;)), in reality it is just NOT important at all; it should not matter till the point you don’t feel fine if for a day you don’t check your internet, twitter or whatever in fear you miss Above-Knows-What that your idol might be sharing there.

These stuff… are not mattering for real in your life; trust ;).

It has happened to me quite a number of times by now to reject some material some people were sending me to be published here just because it seemed to me way too much of a reach by said people to suggest me to write one thing or another – for instance under a picture they sent – and to just completely reject the entire ideas they had about things the pictures or the link had to stand for (to be more clear: some people were sending me material to empower their sort of fans/stans wars through this blog and NO THANK YOU, I have left sixth grade a lot time ago and this is just ridicolous, especially when coming from grown up people well past their TWENTIES even. I don’t use, thank you very much ;)).

I don’t even know how to react to these things; they seem all so out of world to me… I can’t really picture how those brains work (or if they do exist at all).

A fandom might be nice, but not if it becomes borderly obsessive, or an obsession entirely.

Ewwww.

That’s gross and sad and just plain wrong: read a book in case… do not create  a book in your mind using by suggestions living people’s lives.

Real life is made of the real people in your life, not a celebrity dream: try to step aside this all if you come here to read about celebrities (here or anywhere else), because you’re destroying your life this way.

Adam Levine and mum Patsy at Lakers old games

Adam Levine and mum Patsy at Lakers old games

Okay 😉

Now I can start to put the pieces of the past month together, musically speaking ;).

I will actually put together the timelines of both M5 & Behati + Adam (sort of) because there’s no other way to do this in a quick way (today is testing day but is not like I can just play at work… I don’t want the lab cubicle to explode, especially NOT with me in it ;)!)

I will try my best to be understandable…

In case I wouldn’t (it’s fairly possible); just have fun with all the videos and magazines which are gonna be put up ;).

Let’s start from where it all ended previous post then.

It was 20 of February and Adam had just shot a video for Saturday Night Live with the Lonely Island, after (check previous post) have also shot a video for Love Somebody.

Talking about that video… what if BOTH Love Somebody video and The Man Who Never Lied one (which have both been done already, with Emily Ratajkowski and Valerie Van Der Graaf) will be part of the re-edition of Overexposed, which I suppose will be packed around the Summer, as part of a bonus content (which hopefully is going to include a new song, a new version of Lucky Strike with a female vocalist featured, and some more surprises)?

I’d be VERY down to this all.

It’s not the moment to make Love Somebody a fourth single: as I predicted Daylight went to Top Ten in BBHot100 just for a hot minute (still, that is the best chart achievement of ANY Maroon 5 album ever: 3 Top Ten hits were not even possible with Songs About Jane!) but the sappy mood just won’t do much more (as it won’t the insane new rule for the BBHot100 chart… what a travesty, Bill Werde!!), and it would be foolish to push another similarly sounding single in Love Somebody.

the impressive chart success of Maroon 5 currently

the impressive chart success of Maroon 5 currently

Please guys don’t do it.

You have THE PERFECT songs in Lucky Strike, Doin’ Dirt and Wipe Your Eyes to rule the chart again… cut the sappy stuff and although I really like the way Daylight sounds live, I still don’t think it is at all that memorable song.

It’s in the line of Won’T Go Home Without You… cute but nothing historical; in years it won’t ever be mentioned in your best 7 tracks meme.

It’s time to let it go and bring the groove back ;).

But back at the chronicles; That week My Life, the amazing track that 50 Cent recorded with Adam and Eminem (KIIINGG!!!) debuted at number 2 in the UK charts, besting Justin Timberlake’s super hyped Suit & Tie but not Will.I.Am & Britney Spears horrific Scream and Shout (ewww).

While Adam was around in Cali, before moving to New York for the SNL rehearsals, Behati was working to something we will know about soon (I guess), as her stylist Lisa Houghton tweeted.

Behati was also up for the Victoria’s Secret promotion for the Valentine Day’s festivities, and a bunch of videos started to be shared which are showing her amazingness really well:

A thing that bugs me (but I do understand where it comes from) is that the media and VS are trying obvioulsy to milk the fact Behati is with Adam; SHE DOESN’T DO THAT, being respecteful of her boyfriend and so good for him… but the media outlets do and this causes stress and charge for the couple.

By now is UTTERLY clear Adam and Behati won’t talk publicly of their relationship and THAT IS GREAT AND RIGHT; but the fact they won’t is making newsmakers trying to push them into doing it , even if by denying lies.

Case in point (which generated a LONG mess): on January 23, Ryan Seacrest had to have Adam live to speak about his incoming gig.

When the interview aired, the usual brainless suspects tried to read into Ryan talking with one of Adam’s assistants (NOT ADAM, be careful) the sentence that he (Adam they hoped, but it may have been the assistant, right?) was “newly single”:

This caused havoc online; the many mad people who hate Behati just because she is with Adam took the chance to vent into her account and offend her all possible ways; the psycho widows around had no hesitation in covering her with hateful names and horrible reactions; doesn’t matter that she was (and STILL IS) clearly with Adam (clearly to anyone a bit into his circle); the fact is that the careful media handling of some previous famewhoring exploiter has depicted Behati so bad, fragile minds have fallen for the lies and just cannot see the truth not even when it’s as bright as the Sun.

In all this insane and undeserved hate, not only Behati behaved so very classily and never stepped down to her haters sad levels; she just kept on being herself and being protected by her people (Candice, Doutzen), after she tweeted simply “Haters Will Hate, Lovers Will Love: It’s You’re Choice“.

And aside the grammar flaw, the point is exactly that: she doesn’t owe explanations; her life and Adam’s are only THEIRS and it’s good the hate she gets still hasn’t affected that one bit.

I admire her way to be about this all, and as usual I praise her for having in mind always and only ONE THING FIRST: ADAM.

Adam also has always made clear his private life is now SUPER private and he won’t put it on display; but I am fairly certain for every wound senseless and disgusting people cause to his Mermaid Angel, he has a way to heal her and make her feel the best on Earth, otherwise she wouldn’t be this brave in facing so vulgar hatred she definitely doesn’t deserve, being so lovely and caring.

Adam will fight (but privately) for his love, the way it should be.

No disrespecteful “fans” have rights to get a glimpse of their precious lives.

BTW, before I forget… Adam was again up in the last episode of American Horror Story Asylum (I have watched the Italian version on our Sky but the dubbing is ATROCIOUS to be frank… I came back to the original audio all times ;)):

I love the way his acting potential shows in the series; I can’t wait to see the way he does in the giant screen when Can A Song Save Your Life will be out 🙂

He has the classic beauty of all old school Hollywood studs; he just needs to practice and refine his moves.

I am sure he can do it all 🙂

That day it was out an interview Adam had in Vanity Fair of February:

Adam Levine for Vanity Fair Feb 2013

Adam Levine for Vanity Fair Feb 2013

Behati is strong. Haters won’t break her or so I wish her.

I am glad she has people supporting her also openly; especially Coco Rocha, who has always been adorable with her.

Talking about connections, VS as I said didn’t waste time to pair Maroon 5 and Adam’s personal Angel.

In fact they used a – wonderful – version of old gem “Woman” for this promo video… the funny thing being that Behati actually is in it for not more than a blink… ;):

Behati anyway is gorgeous… her fresh beauty is refreshing for the eyes and her soul is so cute and quirky, just as Adam’s.

And anyway Vanity Fair was not the only magazine which Adam graced these weeks…

This is Men’s Health March number and you just… ENJOY 😉 (I have bought both the digital and print version… you know ;)):

Adam Levine for Men_s_Health Magazine March 2013 - 1

Adam Levine for Men_s_Health Magazine March 2013 – 1

Adam Levine for Men_s_Health Magazine March 2013 - 2

Adam Levine for Men_s_Health Magazine March 2013 – 2

And to feast your eyes some more… this is the video that was into the iPad edition:

GORGEOUS. This is what he is ;).

His body is awesome and so it’s his attitude, and the way he crafts things so fine regarding himself.

The fact he’s got an ego just make this all BETTER.

But not everything was fine, press speaking, those days… It surfaced a piece of Billboard about Prince where we found out why, months ago, the version of “Kiss” which was part of the Deluxe Edition of Overexposed disappeared suddenly, replaced by a cover of Let’s Stay Together (I have both deluxes in digital AND vynil and Cd of course… collector Zaira never fails ;)).

Allegedly Prince was not amused about the cover inclusion and of course, as the huge Prince worshipper he is, Adam immediately took the song off the album:

Prince and Maroon 5 KISS cover quarrel

Prince and Maroon 5 KISS cover quarrel

Things like that happen; the only important thing is that Maroon 5 made up for their mistake (and I keep having the very beautiful Kiss cover, tho ;)).

Adam flew to New York to work on his SNL stint; in days, his people (AND BEHATI of course, who was adorable and laid back and approachable and as usual very gracious and kind with fans coming to cheer her man) arrived there too to be by his side; also friends, tv mogul friends , life long almost sisters and caring godmothers and family and of course long lost bro Jesse supported him and these were the results (promo and then the full episode):

then this:

and finally the episode:

Now sure he wasn’t perfect and sure the cue cards bugged him BUT those bugs also very trained actors (which Adam is not yet) so I won’t put a crux on Adam’s shoulder for having done what everyone does there  (by SNL crew’s ORDERS everybody gotta read cue cards) and blast him for having not been perfect or totally natural reading the suggestions.

Some have done it but they were clearly biased; I liked this report a lot instead, because it’s fairly true:

Adam Levine Pokes Fun at Himself on SNL _Popcrush

Adam Levine Pokes Fun at Himself on SNL _Popcrush

Fact is he was very good in the taped skits, especially the Catfish one; so much the Original NEV Praised him 🙂 Also Pat Monahan of Train was praising his friend for the skit about Train and M5 and John Mayer (cute ;)!).

The whole SNL he did was really good; it was actually GREAT for a non actor with zero live acting experience; and it was SUBLIME for the YOLO collaboration with The Lonely Island.

The guys also had their time to do some good while in NY for SNL; pledging for charities:

MTV Act Blog – Adam Levine Is Hosting SNL + Helping Haiti This Weekend

MTV Act Blog – Adam Levine Is Hosting SNL + Helping Haiti This Weekend

What was adorable was anyway the after party bonanza with friends and famous ones and the satisfaction of having accomplished something that is a standout for anyone’s career.

Here his almost sisters Savannah Buffett (that Savannah) and Lucy (that cousin Lucy, yep) share love and joy at the SNL after party at the Cutting Room with THE GIRL that rules Adam’s world.

Yep… Behati (the one that he’s supposed “not to be with”… *rollseyes*):

After party Saturday Night Life: Behati, Savannah, Lucy

After party Saturday Night Life: Behati, Savannah, Lucy

The multi-hypenate Adam has come a long, long way since his Kara’s Flower rejection days.

He surely deserves it all; he works his ass off and always tries to stay alerted and focused (and being him an ADHD person, that alone is a struggle and a huge task in itself).

The most important thing though was that even if he has ZERO live acting experience, Adam Levine is now a HUGE rating force (ask yourself why Ryan Murphy pushed his presence so much in AHS? or why any rerun with him crashes ratings?), and this means his SNL episode was the HIGHEST RATED OF THE SEASON (Justin Timberlake will break this I guess this Saturday, but the point is Justin Bieber nor anyone else couldn’t, and Adam has zero experience compared to Timberlake so his one it is still an enormous achievement, that he can only improve ;)).

If you want to know though, Adam is not the only one venturing outside M5; of course there is James with JJAMZ, but you all better be ready also for May 14th, when PJ Morton will put out “New Orleans”.

If you want to please your ears, listen to the BEAUTIFUL track PJ & Stevie Wonder did, called Only One:

Beautiful right? I bought it of course and so you should do as well 😉

After the SNL happy time, Adam went back to California while Behati had to stop in Miami for work.

This would be a double duty time in Miami actually (always having her friends & lover in mind it seems)… first she shot with Bruce Weber and Noah Mills (allegedly… and the two apparently just shot something together again in Zanzibar, but this come later on); while later she would be there again to share with her fellow Angels the Victoria’s Secret spot by Michael Bay (that the week after though):

And while we are at it… take into all these amazing shots for VS 2013 Behati’s campaigns 😉 gaze into her beauty and spunky attitude and try to understand why Adam is blessed to have gotten her :

While his lady was rocking beaches and lingerie and swimsuits, and also some good female professional company, Adam played golf with actor friend Greg Ellis (mocking the stupid fans who keep on believe the twitter account  RealAdamLevine is actually his, and with the compliance of Greg actually… I love how he is sometimes cruel with the stupidity of people 😉 I love to do the same), then went with his mum at his brother Michael Rent’s performance:

Adam Levine Mum Patsy and Family at Rent in LA 3 February 2013

Adam Levine Mum Patsy and Family at Rent in LA 3 February 2013

Then he taped The Fuckery that thing The Karaoke Showtime with his co-mentor for season 4, Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott, and then (this is very recent) on February 9th he went to the recording studio with Glee’s Matthew Morrison (who’s signed to his 222 label) to put a duet in the works.

Busy man?

Sure 😉

In fact, Adam is SUPER busy, because now he has the luxury not many people have in the industry to be a household name.

In fact is pretty difficult for male NON SOLO artists to ever accomplish that status.

Adam has reached it, and now, beside the music career as part of Maroon 5; as writer and composer; as solo artist (with other artists); as record label owner; as tv personality; as tv actor; as MOVIE actor… he is now ALSO at a status which allows him to have endorsements OUT of the music world (which he already has: for Samsung and JHC speakers along Maroon 5, and for First Act Guitars as a solo entity), like the very lucrative Proactive one:

Just know that the rumored fee (very likely) Adam has obtained for endorsing Proactive after Katy perry did (3.5 Million$) and Justin Bieber did (4.1M$) is around 4.6M$ for 18 months.

This is the power of being a household name, folks.

And you know Adam hasn’t stopped endorsing here because he is at that stage where he can create things IN HIS name.

Like… yep. The fragrance deals, which are rumored to be putting in his pockets a predicted 25M$ in the next dozen of months:

Adam Levine fragrances - WWD magazine

Adam Levine fragrances – WWD magazine

This is amazingly rewarding… but sure it’s also a bit draining as for scheduling and arrangements…

In fact in Los Angeles he had the first meet and greet for the Perfume the first week of February, in between rehearsals for the Grammys and recording with Morrison:

In fact Adam has never spare days practically… in his media tour for the perfumes and the clothing line he looked exhausted (I let you see this now even though it’s a patchwork  which involves events happened the second half of February because it works better this way to make you see his tired eyes and face ;))

I am glad he is surrounded by people who love him dearly and since forever and by now no leeches or exploiters are around him anymore because his energies would be drained completely if he couldn’t find rest in love comfortably now that his whole world never really stops at all.

Love and honest care and zero exploiting is VERY important… especially considering since the start of his tv adventure, Adam has become richer and richer (he always still so awkward when he has to promote things… he says the funniest and strangest things, and the cute fact is that he can get away with almost anything ;)).

Out of his tv judge stint he has so far collected 3+6+10+ 12M$ in that role alone; add the figures up above for the Proactive and the fragrances; add the projected 18M$ contract he has started to get for just the first moves of the clothing line; and then consider his music royalties, the fact in 2012 Maroon 5 have been one of the most played bands; add the incoming tour; add the fact the as Billboard reports he is in the Top 40 moneymakers worldwide; add the out gigs… you can easily see in the past 2 and for the incoming 2 years Mr. Adam Levine will easily cross the astonishing sum of 75+M$ income ALREADY out of taxes.

Top Money Makers Billboard 2013

And I am being low.

Think that he wasn’t exactly poor before this all, because he was always the author of his music, Maroon 5 are well successful worldwide since a decade (a decade when music was selling way more than now) and you know… he was born with a silver spoon already.

And probably you get why it is always more important for him to protect his private life and stay as clear as possible from fake exploiters and leeches.

Leeches that have kept using him even when it was really not necessary (or smart or fair… but have they ever been fair to him? no way…).

Case in point, the SUPER CREEPY 7 Hollywood Magazine “Icons” issue.

This glossy magazine was launched in November with David Gandy as main train… he failed miserably to sell it and then the team behind it (read the contributors in the magazine credits, and you will laugh your ass off at the fact they all belong to a “team” so very familiar… a team of people I won’t even mention because they are the worst of the worst) decided ONCE more to use the name they always used to get relevance again, and began to promote it in the media outlets (complacent ones, I suppose paid as well) to present Adam Levine naked again on the cover of it (and that, oh! miracle! finally sold the glossy piece of trash the magazine is).

Too bad that nakedness by Adam was dated July 2011, as the entire Levine’s spread is recycled and repainted work out of the Vogue Russia cover feature he shot then, and which then was out in November 2011.

Adam Levine used again for 7Hollywood Magazine winter 2013_the photos are from 2011

Adam Levine used again for 7Hollywood Magazine winter 2013_the photos are from 2011

To make it all creepier, (the words in the article are all old, because of course Adam wasn’t reached for a new interview, and they had to recycle words material, just to have a promo push without being object of lawsuit), also the video of the shot was a recycled one from 2011 of course presented as if it was not old (I have the iPad version of / Hollywood and also that number of Vogue Russia, so I do know…):

I guess some famewhoring crew won’t ever learn decency and realness.

Good luck with the new venture… it’s not as good or rich as what they lost this new cow they can try to milk, nor even remotely as popular or worthy, but as long is giving them something that can be spent they won’t mind, and hopefully on the other side we have finally finished to be milked by all those losers this way, which is the only thing that matters.

Long gone the exploiters, let’s get back to the specific status Adam is in now, which is extremely rewarding but also which causes a tons of stress and fatigue, which sometime soon might be showin in some of his behaviors (I hope not, but when he is stressed he can be unpredictable, and he’s very human and mistaken when that happens).

First of all: Adam totally deserves this all which is pouring onto his head at the moment: he is very talented and although I HATE (properly, I do) that this all virtually started with a role that I detest and despise (because even I can reckon The Fuckery that thing success started this all at this scale), the fact it all happened finally so greatly for him is something that I am very happy for.

Maroon 5 Grammy Party 2013 with STING

Maroon 5 Grammy Party 2013 with STING

Adam has never tried to hide the fact he loves to make money (and his honesty there is something I respect… I just hate the fact the medium to get that better is a sub par Karaoke show, because that is not good for music, although I admit it has been actually good for HIS music, giving him new perspective and energies and inspirations for sure), and I see the fact he is finally having and making more than many could ever dream of like a signal he will in a while  be able to retire and have the family that he deserves.

Not yet, and not for some years more for sure… but now he knows, and sometimes hints at, at the fact in a while he will kiss everyone’s goodbye and just live with the well deserved wealth and memory of a worldwide fame his talent has created for himself and those who will be lucky enough to be there the day he will decide it’s time to become, for instance, a father (I still have doubts he is going to ever marry anyone to be honest, but surely he will father children).

I think in itself that is a marvelous thing indeed, to realize you have worked and reached all your goals and then you feel entitled to take a backseat and live a “normal” life, just way less ordinary than most people could.

I hope only he can find peace and not get stressed in the way to that retirement of gold he most definitely has already planned, or is starting to plan.

Grammy time 2013

Grammy time 2013

I don’t really think he’ll be public anymore by the time he is 40 and it doesn’t take long to there… he turns 34 in two weeks ;).

Anyway…

While Adam was spinning from one side to another of LA to take care of all his number of biz ventures, and also always open to do some charitybecause he’s just cute like that – , Behati too was doing her things; back in new York after the first Miami duty, and before getting back there for Michael Bay, she had nights with fellow models Caroline Winberg and Lily Donaldson and then went to support her dear Coco for her The Face première, an event which was making Behati VERY happy & surely Coco Rocha was overjoyed too; then spend some time in the city after Miami VS shot to take part at the NYFW correlated events:

The latter part of this video is something that we will talk about later after commenting another FAKE piece of “report” regarding Adam and Behati’s life (will they ever stop to try to ruin them? Leave them alone and let their relationship be, for as long as THEY – and ONLY they – will decide it has to last!).

Ops, before I forget… also Airlines have fallen for Adam on their covers… this I took it personally while flying from New York to Miami (then to Turks) the morning after MSG Maroon 5 gig ;)):

Adam Levine covers Sky Delta Magazine Feb 2013

Adam Levine covers Sky Delta Magazine Feb 2013

It was Grammy time in Los Angeles…

And Maroon 5 was gearing up with fabulous Alicia Keys for that (when I heard it I jumped in my seat… even thought it was a bed atually ;)!).

I never thought Maroon 5 had a chance in the winning department this year, but I was extremely proud of their two nods, because Overexposed SO deserved recognition and I am so happy it got it; it’s a perfect pop album, as great as good pop gets and to see it nominated was making me so proud 🙂

I am sure deep in their hearts all the guys knew they wouldn’t have won a thing, despite these interviews ;):

and these:

and:

But Grammy Awards have always respected the guysThey have been regularly nominated and won a lot (sometimes unexpectedly even for them…) so the point is that they are Music Royalty and this is all that matters; not many can claim such a career and sure they do realize this.

I am sure another Grammy will come before they cease to be.

Oh and … hard not to agree with Neil Patrick Harris about Adam on the Grammys, either 😉

Mark my words 😉

Anyway… this is the whole Grammy Night (in two sections):

and this:

Now take a careful look at all the hints; see how HAPPY Adam and the guys were?

See how it was planned from quite a time that he would have taken HIS MUM to the night?

Remember how I wrote already during the 8-9 February Behati was in Miami working with Michael Bay, and pourtant it would have been just impossible for her to attend the Grammys?

Maroon 5 Grammy After Party at Soho House LA 2013

Maroon 5 Grammy After Party at Soho House LA 2013

Good.

Then remember this fact, and where Behati was and why she couldn’t be with Adam in Los Angeles being in Miami… and take a look at this beautiful train of pictures about the Grammys (highlight… Sting coming to Maroon 5 Soho House after party, which incidentally was another plug for Adam’s fragrance ;)…):

Right…

After the Grammys Adam had some organization time with Milo just before the band had to start his North American tour (just like it did happen before Grammy actually) as he’s his wingman, of course (a very dark one ;)):

While the boys were gearing and moving towards the first location for the tour, Steph Farrar and Gisella Tellez shared pictures of their lovely offsprings, with a message of love towards the snaptaker… Behati of course (now tell me… why would the two ladies be this friendly with her, beside due to the fact she’s PART OF THE FAMILY? Is that hard for people to understand that the fact there is no publicity about Bee and Adam’s link doesn’t mean at all that the link is weak, contrariwise, it really DOES MEAN THE LINK IS VERY SERIOUS INDEED?)

Another person who has a direct insight into M5 life and especially Bee and Adam’s is Maroon 5 main photographer, Travis Schneider (the amazing man behind Vevey Forever movie).

Travis is definitely someone in the knows.

But the fact he is, doesn’t mean strangers have to be too, so keeps that in mind as well in the continuous of this post (or simply, plug in your brain ;)).

While we are at it, know and appreciate the fact Rozzi Crane is up with Maroon 5 as featured artist on tour, as she sings a couple of duets with Adam at any gig (I love the way she takes on Mary J. Blige’s version of Wake Up Call a lot).

Adam has bet a lot on the girl; in fact out of all the money he is making I suppose a fair chunk of it is destined to his 222 label, which Rozzi was signed onto FIRST almost two years ago in fact, so her success means and it will mean for him a new venture to develop especially when he won’t be an active musician himself anymore (it will happen sooner than later).

Girl has a great voice, but so far I have to admit the thing I like her most in is still the Come Away To The Water duet on the Hunger Games Soundtrack.

The tour started on the verge of Valentine’s day…

And no matter how much stupid people wants this not to be, Adam and Behati counted the hours to be spending time together even if they technically couldn’t spend the proper Valentine’s Day together (not that it matters for Adam, because as he has said always for a healthy relationship, Valentine’s Day doesn’t count… each day must be Valentines, in fact).

Oh, and is not surprise Jewish women everywhere would love Adam as their Valentine… too bad he’s taken ladies ;).

But I am willing to bet a lot of men would love Behati to be their Valentine, too ;)…

But I am sure as these Valentines video for VS prove, that the two lovers have a very beautiful way to celebrate their bond in each given hour they can be together; take a look and get inspired ;):

Style of this girl is so effortlessly cool and rock-ish… I love it (even if it’s not my own style, I love it on others when it’s genuine and for sure Bee’s style IS genuine for her.

Behati was not at the start of the tour as I wrote before due to The Pharmacy night out for NYFW festivities; she met with her people and had fun and had her PR duties done and have Galore time with Galore Magazine; but that doesn’t mean she was not focused on her man, who was ready to come to New York a day before the MSG gig to (again) do his stuff for his fragrance at Macy’s.

Before that though Adam ventured into Instagram, too… he needs practice with the linking feature still, I guess, but he will get there ;).

Another thing I am sure of is that, while he has also the new option of the clothing line for kMart (I find it so cute… that someone who has probably not even ever stepped into a Kmart can develop an entire line for them; but then again that’s the point of endorsing: developing biz that would languish otherwise) he definitely find comfort in the vision of his personal Angel swaying privately for him at any time he requests:

Pieces of fabrics are WAAAAY optional, we guess ;):

This Fabulous commercial Behati stars in is amazing.

Honestly.

She is breathtaking there 🙂

Anyway… as we put on some more interviews Adam did for his Perfume&Clothing&various things, take another careful note at the fact Behati was WITH HIM, already that day before the gig; she was with him; with his crew; with his family and closest friends; she went to the night out before the gig; and to all the activity; she met fans at the hotel Adam was at; she was gracious and awesome.

Behati with Ali and Savannah and James at MSG gig prenight party Feb 2013

Behati with Ali and Savannah and James at MSG gig prenight party Feb 2013

She shared the pride of all Maroon 5 closest people in seeing the band finally fullfilling at best their premises; she sure was proud as well; like all of the fam&acolytes are.

She was undoubtedly with Adam all those 40+ hours BUT…

Behati, Sam and Steph Farrar at MSG Feb 2013

Behati, Sam and Steph Farrar at MSG Feb 2013

Guess what?

Insane people claiming a long list of lies; obsessed losers and stalkers; hopeless retards who probably seriously need mental therapy; and a bunch of fake “journalists” mostly fed up by the evil PR side of leeches had the balls to claim that she wasn’t there; that Adam and Behati have troubles “and that’s why she didn’t attend Grammys” (while the thing was a schedule known from a while, and the two had no problems at all with it, or between themselves) and that “insiders” (yeah, sure…) said she was not at MSG during the gig.

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Bunch of lies, courtesy of Page Six, promptly rebooted by a series of similarly scum-mish tabloids.

The point is that again nobody from Bee or adam’s sides said a word on this trash.

Why?

Because they keep NOT caring at all.

Mario Batali cheers Adam Levine and Maroon 5 at MSG gig

Mario Batali cheers Adam Levine and Maroon 5 at MSG gig

Tabloids and insane people can keep believe what they want; while Behati and Adam can keep having their very private and personal life (together, still) which doesn’t belong to strangers; therefore they won’t ever answers the trash.

I totally support their attitude regarding this, you know; and I am really proud this is the way they chose to be.

Let’s just be open about the professional stuff and let the people know only that.

Naturally once again after the article surfaced Behati got attacked again; again no answers direct… just a very revealing picture of happiness, romace and a Bob Marley’s quote which means a lot in her and Adam’s story.

Behati Prinsloo and Maroon 5 crew in Connecticut and New Jersey February 2013 for M5 gigs

Behati Prinsloo and Maroon 5 crew in Connecticut and New Jersey February 2013 for M5 gigs

And here we go, just to dismantle the fakers (that keep roaming the story… just the other day The Huffington Post kept saying “Adam is single since April last year” LOL… while he was coupled AGAIN exactly after April last year… not that you can expect them to know it all, especially when they cannot even write “romantic” correctly in their own language ;)).

Maroon 5 left New York immediately after the gig at MSG; Behati stayed in New York for a very important event; do you remember when in November at the VSFS taping she said after her apartment flooded she was guest at a model friend’s house, and that the model friend was pregnant?

Well that model friend was Shannan Click and she had a baby shower the day after the gig, hosted by the Aunt of her baby daddy… the legend, Anjelica Houston.

Of course Behati attended.

Would you say no to a legend and a dear friend who helped you when in need?

No, you wouldn’t.

I just hope Behati avoided at all costs the slimey individual that was there too and who has caused Adam’s a lot of dirt in his life; I won’t even name that piece of trash, I just hope Behati stays well away from him because THAT in case would be the end of the relationship, given the opinion Adam has of the “man” and his “posse”.

Achtung, Behati!

Stay steer clear out of his greedy touch.

For your best future.

Anyway…

Not only Behati and Adam were well together again in Connecticut and New Jersey a coupla days after MSG… but Adam also sang She will Be Loved to Behati (and only to her) while she was in the middle of the crowd to take pictures of her beau singing.

Behati Prinsloo at M5 gig when Adam sung SWBL to her

Behati Prinsloo at M5 gig when Adam sung SWBL to her

Tabloids lies can suck it: Adam and Behati are still together and quite (very much) happy still.

This is actually their time together ut in video: ENJOY :

I mean, I repeat for the millionth time: Adam is not up to marry; this lovestory (which is at its tenth month by now, and which is very strong actually) could finish TOMORROW (in case it would I’d expect Taylor Swift to jump on Adam’s bones in a millisecond… she is SOOOOOOO thirsty for him it’s getting ridicolous ;)).

Nothing is given or promised for future but I find disgusting the way these two lovers cannot have their moments; I find horrible and repulsive the lies spread about them; I find terrible that Behati gets harassed anytime because of her relationship, especially when all she’s doing is loving Adam FOR REAL; and without exploiting him a bit, and instead of being praised for it she gets hated.

It must be difficult but then again; she doesn’t care, because her prize is Adam and then any obstacle shall disappear in front of such a thing.

Now take these videos of “Professional” Adam…:

This one…:

and this one:

Surely the man is doing a lot; sure he is tired; but sure he is also a happy man who knows he has fortress in love finally, and not a chain or a weight to drag him buried down.

Adam Levine for Shop Your Way Feb 2013 Refinery29 Interview

Adam Levine for Shop Your Way Feb 2013 Refinery29 Interview

So, even when stress and weakness get into him, and for instance make him have larynghitis… Adam goes on and keeps it on, because he has inner force that derives from a good place he’s at this very moment (which I trust is Behati’s gift to him).

Adam sick in Grand Rapids Michigan

I have to say he didn’t really tweet much after that, but if you took note Behati was having also need of him that day… I am sure he was a CLOSE witness of her day at the Soho Store in VS lilac glory 😉 (Perks of video chats in phone):

Similarly, Behati can now shine and you can totally get she is happy, like when she had to come back from the tour bus in New Jersey and get back to New York first to present The Fabulous Swim line, alone and with Miranda Kerr at location.

Check her grace, gorgeousness, style and cuteness.

And enjoy how Adam’s family showed her love by greeting her in this very important (professionally speaking) day:

Messages of love from family and friends to Behati

All in different pieces, but always all together, check the fabulous Behati :

Then this:

isn’t she adorable in interviews? Her accent is fantastic!

Now look the launch event in itself:

and finally listen this interview (I won’t even mention the way Hollywood Life titled this… It’s hilarious the way fake lies spread and people don’t even bother to check facts… but who cares, this is the audio, but after that I will post a written piece taken the same day where Behati actually says se is with Adam, but as usual won’t get into details about it (the way she should not do):

And this is the ACTUAL written interview where you can clearly realize Adam and Bee are a couple (this if you care to know the truth ;)):

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Last but not least, enjoy some slideshow of her cuteness that I made:

I ma also very happy Behati’s style (again, not my own style… but I do appreciate it because it’s HERS undoubtedly) gets’ reckoned by good people:

Style Icon Behati Prinsloo

Style Icon Behati Prinsloo

After this Behati flew to Zanzibar for another misterious shot with amazing Cass Bird (photographer extraordinaire)(again with Noah Mills?) in Africa and after that, just yesterday, she apparently ventured in the Caribbean for more VS things...

Zanzibar magic

Zanzibar magic

We will learn soon what that was about I guess.

For now know that Behati is also the face for ESPRIT 2013.

I love that she is carefully picking up campaigns which cannot harm her VS Angel status; in fact, just like it did happen with NEXT and Seafolly, which are competitor in theory with VS brand, these firms are ALL not operating on the USA soil (Esprit doesn’t since last winter) so Behati can be their face without being a damage to her main source of work.

Smart Behati.

Oh… and GORGEOUS:

Behati Prinsloo for ESPRIT 2013

Behati Prinsloo for ESPRIT 2013

I am not really on the fence or at a window; about when the lovebirds will reunite.

I suppose easily in California when Adam is there to tour with his band mates and then up for his 34th birthday celebration in LA and Las Vegas.

Sure she will know how to make him feel the most special birthday EVER.

I wonder when she will finally be able to go to her homeland for real and maybe spend some quality family time there…

She must miss some of that; but she has found love at least so that shall be fine.

Love is the answer and once you get it all the rest loses grip.

Let me just preach a bit before I can end this HUUUUGE post.

Maroon 5 tour keeps going awesomely and in fact let me show you what it was in February, and that’s basically what I Do care the most:

I strongly advice all of you to try and witness this tour because as I have written in the video… this time around they are REALLY reaching out for the stars (that they are themselves), as each gig is monumental and really engaging this era.

It’s an experience you will treasure I swear even if you are not even familiar with them.

At MSG they were fantastic and I expect even more at Staples Center; I am also quite curious to see how this American energy will translate in the UK gigs…

But whatever… you TRY to catch them.

You won’t regret it and no matter how not cheap their tickets are… this time around more than any other time IT’s WORTHY.

Trust me on this.

Do it 😉

Let the music shine.

It’s all that I have ever wanted for this blog to display, actually.

MUSIC RULES.

Have a great March… catch you sometimes in April 😉

Missus Z. (very tired… ;)).

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Today is the 150 birthday of our beloved (and so very trashed by her own governants/citizens) Italy.

This whole happy recurrence has of course been object of controversy in my Country (it shows well how low we’ve stepped… but I’m positive we can go even lower… *sigh*).

Karim and I are instead overjoyed and we are gonna spend the entirety of the day together in Museums, Galleries, then being by ourselves at home while reading about history, Civil Rights and CONSTITUTION (yeah, that thing some criminal ruling us is trying to make paper cut for wiping his ass… his face it’s the same, so his ass works…).

I’m very happy Karim feels home here; it will be amazing for us to have double citizenship, because for us the belonging to a place we actually root for is a major bond linkage.

Today is not only Italy’s birthday (and Billy Corgan‘s too… you know how I adore the Smashing Pumpkins do you?); it would have been also the birthday of awesome Rudolph Nureyev, and in fact just the other day K&I went to Teatro Smeraldo in Milan to enjoy a magnificent night out celebrating the legacy of the one and only King of Ballet.

Please, enjoy ballet at his peak:

These days of ours though are still hard… because all that is happening in Japan deeply wounds us.

We constantly follow news on tv; my time in Berlin (beside a wonderful evening out with the new partners in one of the coolest restaurants in the world) has been spent Skyping while watching reports from Honshu.

We are yet unable to get passes for my Birthday trip… it seems hard to enjoy Hanami this year over Nihon but even if the celebrations wouldn’t be there… now and even more NOW I wanna get there to see and possibly help the Country…

I so bleed for my Japan.

And Karim does the same.

Before you wonder: NO WAY we change location for the marriage.

Don’t even kid.

Our marriage is sacred and it’s gonna be a Japanese Time.

End of the debate.

Talkin about marriage, and linkin it with birthdays… YES.

I know.

I promised that on the eve of Adam and Anne’s birthdays (which are tomorrow, March 18th, and the day after tomorrow, March 19th) I would have uploaded my most beautiful Homage Video yet, which coincidentally is also Karim and I marriage song.

STUTTER.

Yessir.

And well… given the happy recurrences (and the fact the video Meli – and K – helped me made is glorious), this post hosts a little truce in my temporary dislike of Mr. Adam Levine (the temporary dislike, you do know, runs and will run until The Voice Of Fuckery will still a thing), which allows me to do a little twisting of small updates strictly related on the birthday boy and his gorgeous gal (whom I still love daily and utterly. Anne has no part in my temporary dislikes… I still heart her 110% and continuously).

Adorable Anne V Collage

Anne actually makes me feeling better towards Adam these days, you know.

In fact, during her time in Los Angeles this month, her tweets were the only ones that were making me liking him like I used to that fair a bit still.

She has that much power, yep.

Anyway, a promise is a promise so… enjoy STUTTER (you can also catch it from my YouTube page of course) :

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I don’t know if this year the two lovebirds will be able to spend again their birthday weekend together, because just hours ago Anne had to fly back from Los Angeles to New York (she was missing from there for a whole month, so it was time), and Adam has to stay in LA for … THAT THING THAT I WON’T MENTION.

But they sure had a great time together in the past ten days, as you can see here:

Adam Levine and Anne Vyalitsyna enjoy a Laker night out on March 14th 2011

The couple spent a huge amount of time together… but I don’t wanna take ages in detailing it – this is a TRUCE post, not a PEACE post, after all – then you know what?

For all your dose of Maroon 5 news (I know many come here for that), I am kind enough to link the work of my friends Margherita and Serena, who will fill my reluctant shoes for the time The Voice Of Fuckery will be a thing in getting you served with band’s updates.

I can’t personally like ANY of it, and I still bummed like many others about what that choice forced the band to do.

I am also trying to read the less I can of their twitters, unless they are not news about valuable things like live dates, new music available, and similar things that DEFINE a real band… (I swear I am trying to not write bitterly, but it’s hard… that is why I have decided to not update Maroon 5 related news until I keep being let down by Adam’s choices: exactly because I am unable to put a brake on my running brain, and shut it down to avoid explaining how his actions make me feel disappointed in him).

Anyway, my friends have done a pretty nice job covering my unwilling gap so, enjoy:

Maroon 5 March 2011 Updates by Margherita and Serena (Not All Who Wander Are Lost blog).

The good news (the bad one is that just yesterday the Voice of Fuckery actually started taping, and our YOUR bad boy with angel face is so stepping up his fame-chasing antics he even uses to publish promoted tweets – REALLY???? – which I am guessing are actually paid by the producers of the Fuckery Show, to be honest) is that Maroon 5 RESCHEDULED their canceled dates in Europe for November and December and I bought STRAIGHT not only the rescheduled Milan date

I also bought Rome, Padova and… BOTH Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Think that just the day before their revamped Italian stint starts, I will be at La Scala for its première.

New Adam Levine's tattoo

Adam Levine in Amsterdam. Getting a new tat & playing live.

Music all the way.

The best way to get ready for anything…

And in fact as Maroon 5 are shaping up some round in America in festivals & fairs, even though yet we don’t know if we are free, Karim and I have asked Charisse to buy for us too the attendance to BOTH dates at Ravinia Festival in between June and July.

Just to be sure… 😉

Yes… I still adore Maroon 5 music.

Especially when it’s LIVE.

And it’s JUST because I love so much their music, that I can’t stand Maroon 5 had to stop touring to please only the decision of one of their members (okay, it’s the main member… but that doesn’t justify the move at all…).

In Paris (yep, I ended attending the concert actually…) the guys were PURELY awesome; Sara rocked… but nothing can touch Adam and the guys playing live and in fact the most of Sara’s shining came when she joined the band for a wonderful rendition of Out of Goodbyes (and you know I am NOT keen on the song either… so imagine how beautiful it was live if even I fell under its charm).

Yes… Paris gig was simply a gem.

Really.

Maroon 5 and Adam Levine in Paris, March 2011.

Oh, how hard is to dislike somebody so talented…

But in the end, my dislike is huge at the moment JUST because he’s SO talented.

I don’t get, I still don’t, why the heck he decided to stop relying on his true skill for doing some lame tv reality.

My whole blood boils if I think about it.

To tame me, somebody (you will be surprised… that somebody was actually Karim) sent me this ARTICLE, that shows…erm… shape details of Adam’s assets.

Karim sent me those to remind me how in the end I will still be charmed by Adam, no matter what… but think that I am so upset by him still that not even his hotness wins me these days.

If I see his body, and think of his voice, and remind myself of his many blessing talents… and THEN I recall he sold it all on THE Fuckery… I can’t help.

I still boil over.

But ehi… this post is a truce post, I said it and I maintain it so enjoy Adam Levine’s bulge details.

And some awesome yoga posture of his that I keep lust over (Karim knows and he keeps making fun of me about it… ;)):

Pretty sure Anne V tucked him into in those naked Cosmo pictures... *yeah* 😉

This part of my upload of course falls under the “Gifts” part of the title…

LOL.

If your style in visual gifts though is less “physical” and more regularly oriented, then enjoy this other series of way more tamed shots:

Mega Gift Adam Levine collage

What can I say… that he’s gorgeous is under everybody’s eyes.

*sigh*.

But I have decided I don’t wanna close the post with him.

So I will leave the final spotlight to Anne, because she just makes me happier than he does these times.

Enjoy shining Russian Fairy in her Victoria’s Secret 2011 campaign:

Anne V for Victorias Secrets PINK 2011

And also this little patchwork video I made with her tv ad campaign shot for H&M with Freja, for the brand Spring Summer 2011 collection:

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I close the update with a surprising thank you to Inter (yes, you’ve read correctly) for having kept Italy in Champions League (wish Milan had been able to do the same), because it’s fair in the day of Italy’s birthday to put aside even sporty rivarly to honor just the Country sporty pride.

Then I will also say that Lakers are starting to shape up for playoffs.

I hope the tests that I am undergoing for finding the best therapy to fight my Labyrinthitis tendency will allow me to wake up at nights at least during playoffs.

Reruns of games are nice… but the true fan can’t content him/herself with merely those.

I need the thrill of live stuff.

And so…

Happy Birthday, Italy!

Happy Birthday Adam and Anne!

Happy life everyone.

And you, you my dearest… Hold On, my adored Japan.

Catch you soon again, your never tamed Miss Z. out in Milan to celebrate her Country with PRIDE 😉

Hola!

19 hours after the takin off from Malpensa...

I’m around packing and unpacking and repacking for a very intense  schedule, folks… and since it has been one month without updates, I thought about givin you some.

I’m in a very dreamy place as I am writing this… I have a breathtaking view in front of me and I am relaxing with my man after hours of meetings and professionally mattering dinners out.

I am at a very wonderful place right now… you will see at the end of the post ;).

I am actually patching something like… erm… 450 links into this one update, as I am traveling Milan > Los Angeles > New York > Paris (and then it will be Paris > Milan > Berlin > DEATH BED I guess ;)…).

Get used to these very sporadic dates with me in this fashion, because life is just too full for me to have more time to ponder about blogging.

Twitter has taken over as my favorite way to communicate thoughts around: it’s faster, less invasive, immediate and carrying the phone around everytime makes it a quickie that fits my fast life pacing way better than blogging.

It’s just the way it is 😉

I have been recovering quite decently from Labyrinthitis (see previous post), even though I still a bit dizzy at times.

Cuteness female...

Before taking off to Los Angeles (via London) I had finally the permission from doctors to ride my Sweet Swifty again (well, I didn’t really ride him… I mounted him for some dressage… the both of us needed some “contact”  between us after almost two months parted and even if that isn’t our favorite thing to do together, believe me it was clear my lovely horse was finally ecstatic I was on him again).

I also had a wonderful Carnival party in Milan just the other Tuesday: Sami decided to do her best and allow Karim and I to not miss the bash (as we are all over the world in the main festivities… we will have to also attempt a strange version of Ambrosian Carnival in between Milan and Berlin moves…).

I also probably chose my marriage dress.

I said “probably”.

I completed my 8th fitting and out of 8 stylists I have one dress that I have fallen in love with.

As I return home from the other side of the world I will have the final say.

The stop in New York with our wedding planner will furtherly drive me there, I guess.

Cuteness male 😉

Though you know… all these trips are actually for working meetings mainly (but I always manage to fit in more things,especially after at the end of January it was Fede the one flying to New York to substitute me in the originary planned first partner meeting of 2011…).

While in Los Angeles Karim had actually been invited to some of the gazillions luxurious super parties that are in town for the Academy Awards… but he denied all of them because in the small free times that we have out from working commitments we like to live the quieter side of the City of Angels, staying in our surroundings, getting accustomed to our house (which we sooooooo love) and share time with just one another.

Then, Mash is in Europe for the Weeks of Fashion in the main cities and we have no chances for threesomes this time (okay, at the aforementioned parties sure that could have been an option but we don’t like cokeheads and those parties LIVE up and on on cocaine… so no thanx ;))

Vintage gig 2007

The best part of the Oscars time is that we will get to get off from LA to NY takin off from LAX when NOBODY will leave the town… that will make our internal USA move way more pleasant 😉 (yes, I consider lots of famous people absolutely insufferable so I actually hate when it happens that we find them in first class… mainly because the wide majority of them are ALL but first class people in the end ;))

But okay… let’s be a bit more clear in this update… tracking back from last month or something 😉

Not that I have actually done that much myself, because for a good cut I had to be struck at home battling the development of “Laby”; I thank the Skies that I have the cutest friends, the most awesome family and the best boyfriend and fiancé in the world because without their care and support I would have really become gloomy.

I hated being dependent and I hated to not be able to be me; now it’s better (of course, I’m even traveling…) but I still unable to swim, do yoga, and do all my regular things so there’s space to improve yet.

I also am very blessed to have Carlo now, who’s the best personal assistant a human could ask for.

LOVE YOU ALL 🙂

One of the greatest news of the past weeks is that I WILL FINALLY SEE THE HANAMI IN JAPAN:

Yes, we will go there for my birthday as we have also to check the in-location places our wedding planner has selected for the marriage itself.

NO NEED TO SAY I AM OVER THE MOON!!!!

Spending Sunday Morning in LA: No Lakers on tv. We stroll around 😉

Talkin about trips, we also managed to have a lovely Valentine Day’s private time, unexpected, and awesome, in beautiful France again.

Nothing like Paris… we have rented a house we are just about to use again in a few days from now when we will fly from New York to Paris: first for Maroon5  gig and then for more working commitments (both of Kand myself).

I must admit these hectic times, my Laby stumbling, the fierce chaos of my life trying to keep pacing with the marriage organization, the pr duties, Karim and I needs for time quietly together, the way we cannot ever neglect our amazing families and friends, forced me in many ways to give up on things I do love, like for instance watching Lakers games at night (I am forbidden by doctors: I have to sleep at least 6-7 hours a night) and therefore also writing in the Lakers Blog has been cut (not the reading though), even though some special events, like honoring phred, had to be done anyway ;).

I also gotta have a moment of pride still related with Laker Nation Fandom…

Because when Adam talks about Lakers, Lakers listen and sometimes they retweet him: of course that prompts a double enthusiastic response from me, that got acknowledged by… GOSH!!!!

Amazing @Lakers THEMSELVES, who…

So, The Lakers sent me a Direct Message on Twitter... 😉 *Me #FTW* 😉

YEP… They sent me a direct message.

That made me giggle (okay, it’s idiotic but I reacted so 😉 what can I do… ;))

The one and only Kobe Bean Bryant ALL Star MVP. For the 4th time 😉

We are pondering about some Laker-Land moment… we have been on such a roller coaster about our Purple and Gold, but we keep rooting, always and insistently, because our blood PULSES in Lakers colors and we just couldn’t be anything less than fanatics about them.

Some things put us in a great orientation (the All Star Game, the Boston Game, The Portland Game…) but some other things just don’t ring true…

STILL.

We just gotta hope playoffs see us blossom- and we gotta trust the one and only Black Mamba. ALWAYS.

The way the latest trades have shaped the NBA is tricky in my opinion and not in a good way for us.

I don’t like (unlike for instance Adam) the way the East seemed to get tougher: I strongly believe the best the competition is in the League of belonging, the toughest and most focused a team becomes; plus you may imagine how disgusted I am about the way DARN KNICKS TREATED MY DANY.

Homeboy got betrayed.

From now on, think of that, my list of dislikes about teams goes this way: 1) Miami; 2) New York; 3) Boston.

That’s it.

My very productive time in Los Angeles.

It’s also too bad while in Los Angeles we missed a good chance to see the GOOD version of the Lakers (double disappointment because Anne was there too with Gene and Noah… getting sweetly excited and as funny as ever…), because these some as 56 hours in LA are only dedicated to work for me (meetings on Friday, representative dinner on Friday, Meetings on Saturday, representative meet and greet on Saturday – when everybody not working would be partying for pre-Oscars…- then on Sunday we are chosing to rest and… to have a special surprise then takin off to New York at evening.

People are calling us insane for givin up the BIG “W” party (Karim’s family… how to put it in… is “friendly” of them brothers…) but we couldn’t care less: we went  (I WENT) in LA this time for my business, and sorry, when it’s about focusing on serious things, the party girl in me disappears in front of the “I’m gonna become a millionaire on my own” one ;).

Without regrets at ALL.:)

But ehi, at least Lakers do look better now even though Kobe Bryant’s elbow newly injured against the Clippers might be a new and further concern.

Oh… a worthy mention in this blog update – before I forget – FOR SURE has to be the amazing show Roberto Benigni did at Sanremo Festival.

Benigni is this era Charlie Chaplin… only even better if it’s possible to say.

The most exciting thing that is actually keepin on making even these days that I am away is the video homage I’m planning for what will be OUR MARRIAGE SONG, namely the wonderful STUTTER.

Meli started working on it by the end of January and she has provided some amazingness so far that I am willingly sharing with you all (the video will be nothing like this… believe I’m putting my best in it).

I think this time the best link in between the posts about my life and the M5 related stuff is clearly this fact 😉

So take some sneak peek at what Meli has drawed and remember to tune in around middle march on my Youtube Page, because this time the homage to Adam (and Anne)’s birthday(s) will actually be Stutter:

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And now after my business let’s try to track back more than a month of M5 news, even though starting with music I should say first that:

NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM  THE KING OF LIMBS IS AMAZING and definitely already best album of 2011 (sorry, I know… you may try to argue but you lose): as soon as it came out (a day earlier than planned) Karim and I went to Florence for an awesome weekend and we did listen to anything but that. Codex is at the moment our favorite song in the world and that’s why I have used it as backsound of the lil collage in motion that I have made of Adam and Anne at the 2011 Grammy Awards (you will see it later ;))

NEW ADELE ALBUM IS FANTASTIC and I’m thrilled all the world is tributing her glory (it’s months that I am saying she’s best female vocalist currently), plus, Adam himself declared the most right of loves about the whole package (so his taste still good, because incoming awful collaboration with Travis McCoy could have set people off there… me certainly 😉 ) Gym Class Hero my assADELE is one voice he should aim to collaborate with. PERIOD.);

COLDPLAY ARE PLOTTING FESTIVALS AND I WILL SEE THEM IN ITALY AND BRAZIL (cos when they’re in UK  I am taken with marriage ;)),

GRAMMY AWARDS THESE YEAR WERE AWESOME (but that is gonna be encompassed in the M5 post part anyway ;))

I ADORE BEADY EYE’S “THE ROLLER” AND THEIR WHOLE RECORD, and I have got further evidence Liam Gallagher’s voice is just magical to me.

We were leaving from past post Adam and Anne in Los Angeles together; she had arrived after her own commitment that made her miss the Critics Choice Awards after shooting Never Gonna Leave This Bed video, which was shot after Adam and the guys had a great night out with PJ Morton at the Troubadour.

I recuperated a video of the after party of the Critics Choice Awards, but I still unable to break the codex that keeps the USA images of the performance honoring Tarantino impossible to be viewed outside US (I haven’t really minded that enough maybe, but ehi, I have a life so content yourself ;)):

And while we’re at, check the awesome duet on Heavy of Adam and PJ at the Trobadour from this post (click over and you will see the page and the live video, too):

Adam Levine and PJ Morton perform Heavy at the Troubadour

I also found a very cute page with a video of Adam and Jesse sharing some cityseeing tips that you might like (they’re always hilarious together); again, click on the pic and get to the video page:

Maroon 5 can't live without this...

Anne in that maintime as you know had to rock her new bangs in the Pepe campaign that I showed you before; those days away she also tweeted about some things she was doing in Spain that later shaped up to be a WONDERFUL celebratory issue of Harpers Bazaar’s Spain: for their 1 year anniversary issue Anne got the cover and a gorgeous editorial; she also did some things in Germany do you remember?

Yep.

And do you remember (see last post) when around Xmas time she tweeted from LA that she had a photo session with Yu Tsai?

Well, that ended being a wonderful spread for TUSH Magazine.

Since I like all those, I created a little video to present you all the pictures 😉 (and I like the song that I picked up for soundtrack… I know… you know… I might be cold towards her voice but I LOVE all her songs which are dance-y and speak of heavily sexual stuff 😉 I rely 😉 LOL):

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Anne was away also to be the first Face at Escada’s defilé, as you remember, and those images are also into this other mini video that I created that unifies some random images of Adam and Anne (also from her previous years’ Sports Illustrated spreads… more to come about THIS year after of course):

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After all those commitments Anne flew back to Los Angeles, where she could appreciate lovely romantic things such as the full moon and less iconic, but still great more playful things like bowling… and allegedly she as skills there.

Anne beats Adam in bowling 😉

Many skills ;).

Adam and Anne spent some lovely days in Los Angeles, and Adam also came out to support Sam’s gameshe could be a perfect soccer mom – ; allegedly they ventured out all lovey dovey in their own business time, but we got to learn through third parties that allegedly they couldn’t keep much hands off one another.

And I mean…

Also in public places 😉

I so totally picture that… *sweet* and *very sexy*.

Karim and I do the same so I completely support them there ;).

In fact the two lovebirds, after the cuteness of their Los Angeles rendez-vousflew way before the rest of Maroon 5 in Jamaica; Maroon 5 were meant to be part of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, but Adam and Anne decided to go to the beautiful Caribbean Island before and alone to… well… to keep minding their own business.

And they decided those days alone they would have been REALLY alone: they cut off all phone related facilities.

*lovely*

In full.

Then they had business, and a good one, as a band of course.

Read some interview of James about the way the guys love islands ;):

James about Jamaica Jazz

You will see from the pics from the event that FINALLY after more than a gap of 16 months (last time he had done it he was with Angela Bellotte in New York in September 2009!!!!) Adam DID SHAVE HEAD AGAIN, rocking again one of his many styles (and you know I love him with the razored-off hair… his face is so beautiful he can rock it so well).

Finally!!!!

I was like “What is, Anne is banning you from doing it?” (insert cute laughing ;)… I don’t think she actually did it), because you know that elapsed time without chopping off all his Chia-Pet like hair was really unusual for Adam ;).

I actually remember that years ago somebody told me Jane (yes… THAT Jane, the one and only, Miss – now Missus actually – Jane Herman, daughter of Fred Segal’s owner Mr. Herman, the Muse behind “Songs About”) used to mock Adam’s shorter do.

Jane Herman. That Jane of "Songs About Jane" ;)

Don’t know if that is true (by those times they were in not happy terms with one another, though now they are ) but whatever it is, you know I am grateful forever to Jane because without her cruelty to Adam, we wouldn’t know Maroon 5 at all ;).

Really... trash. REALLY. Glad it never blossomed. UGH.

And by the way, you know the only girlfriend Adam had that I really HATED to see him paired with was the Bunny Ho herself, Janine Habeck, the German playmate.

I am so so glad after that downfall (I don’t consider the flings he had with Parasite Hilton a serious thing, so she’s out of the UGH list but just because it was a fuck&go thing, that anyway gave us a cooooool song like Figure it Out ;)) Adam’s taste in women got back decently arising.

And you know how ecstatic I am of his choice over Anne.

Because I like him with classy looking people (you know I always loved him with Natalie P. too, even though she loved to make him feel culturally inadequate… like she uses to with anybody not “Harvard”-ed after all ;)…

But better a noisy obnoxious LOVELY and talented Natalie than anything nearby the trashy territories that Janine Habeck symbolized.

But okay, let’s stop this gossip back down to a not so stellar memory lane and let’s get back in Jamaica where the two lovebirds took sun and

well…

You will see from tweets and images from the gig…

Some kind of reproachable fashion sense.

*sigh*.

Adam… dear Lord… why oh why sometimes you go THAT color blind?

The wrong kind of rainbow around your body can kill even your undebatable hotness.  And capri pants on a male… gosh they’re so awful… Okay that Jamaica (in the words of Jesse I presume) may have changed you forever, but hopefully your perception of what’s good to wear will get back soon to “PRIOR” to it? 😉

The pictures in the small video are a sneak pick out from THIS SET on Flickr that you should check cos it’s AWESOME:

Okay that you loved those shoes… but why being a colorful hippie meeting an emo guy?

Adam and Mickey in Porto Rico, January 2011

Luckily the stop after Jamaica (Porto Rico) saw Adam keep the shoes, but being way better matched in the rest of the outfit…

As this picture evidences 😉

It makes me laugh sometimes to see how Adam can transition from being PERFECTLY ELEGANT AND PREPPY to be honestly looking like a homeless (and still hot, because with that body and face, he would be hot even dressed in recycled paper…)

Take a Journey in Adam Levine’s Style Rollercoaster through clicking this link (and know that for me the preppy style is actually his best and will forever be, because his noble features SHINE when he’s aptly dressed…)

The Caribbean tournament in Porto Rico wasn’t followed by Anne who had to fly away (and she also of course had loved the Magic of the Island… I wonder if she’s the reason Adam claimed there it changed him forever? I guess SO);  but we learnt soon that the two lovers would have reunited a bunch of days later in Dallas for the Superbowl: Maroon 5 were set to perform, both at the Saturday Direct TV Celebrity Bowl Bash, and for the Tailgate Party of Fox the actual Day of The Superbowl on the official entertainment schedule.

While parted, Anne got to see the movie that I loved the most personally out of the Oscars’ roaster, the AWESOME The Kings Speech. And since her taste are great (who can argue?) she seemed to love it as much as me.

Adam… well… Adam has other tastes for movies.

SIGH. 😉

Btw, you do remember Anne filming with Freja in London when she was there in the days of Maroon5 presence past October, do you? (yep, the very romantic time they had there, and the days when Adam shot the Cosmopolitan naked spread, yep)…

Well, that was for the H&M new Spring Summer Campaign, and now you can see it (click on the picture and you’ll reach the page with the video of the spot):

Anne V and Freja E for H&M Spring Summer Campaign: click on for video

Now let’s instead get into lovely Mickey Madden’s world (you know how much I do have a soft, soft, SOFT spot about him!!!) because he proved once more how much of a lovely and deep creature he is by speaking again about his veganism.

You know I am not into that, but after reading him you know also I totally respect that vision too (mostly because he doesn’t act nor speak like a self assured blinder about it):

Mickey and his dedicated vegan behaviour

You gotta just love Mickey don’t You?

While on the break before Super Bowl, and among chronicle still of their Caribbean times, all of the guys obviously returned to Los Angeles.

The tenderness that California home inspires to them all, but mostly Adam makes it so hard for them to bend to touring.

Gotta reflect on that, because now that they’re actually on the other side of the world, you often, very often get the clear feeling that although they sure love to meet and play for fans everywhere, they also undoubtedly are kind of resident types of musicians.

They always were.

In a way I am glad in my life I’ve got to see them so many times (these incoming triades of Paris, Milan and Berlin marks if I recall correctly my 16th, 17th and 18th times I’ve seen them live…) already because a tiny voice inside me says quite insistently that it might be not much time left before they openly and totally change their vision about going all over the world to play live.

Adam tweeted from Superbowl (see later) about the 17th Birthday of Maroon5 – then Kara’s Flowers – on February 6th: I can’t help but thinkin this time 17th might actually be a not so happy number.

As they would say…

“It’s just a feeling that I have”.

But it’s pretty consistent and I have to say some of the rumors that are floating around about tv shows (I will talk of that later) pretty much confirm these feelings, actually.

Let’s see 😉

PS: In this very moment I’m listening to one of the best albums ever, by a recent discover of mine (how late I am there? I feel ashamed!).

PLEASE CHECK ANYTHING BY “JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN“.

That’s pretty PERFECT awesome music.

For real.

I’m also very into I BLAME COCO at the moment. Northern European music genes produce amazing beats.

And then, beside Radiohead and Adele (see above), I am TOTALLY and completely in LOVE with the awesome iTunes acoustic session of Maroon5, which is pretty spectacular and which I have used a lot in all my patchwork videos of this update as backsound tracks.

It’s AWESOME.

GET IT FROM THIS LINK: and do like me… buy only original music if you want to keep music alive.

Okay, back in tracking 😉

Oh… while I’m all over the world Meli still drawing for me of course… though u gonna know THIS PARTICULARLY drawing she already made a few weeks ago had been brought to our Los Angeles home

Gotta put it where it belongs the most (see above about Adam being difficult in partying from his native town… LOL!).

I thought it was fine to place his portrait in a convenient space…

Am I sweet or not?

Also sweet are Maroon5 Latin America fans (and I wonder… don’t they deserve a tour there too? Do it guys, don’t be cruel…).

Among curious news then know that Maroon5 music is also good to train for… FIGHTING.

Seriously 😉 Oh… and as usual Jesse keep sharing cute and brainful things, and they still SWEETHEARTS (Haiti isn’t forgotten right?) and so we all must follow their charitable lead, too.

Let's paaaarty 😉

As on the West Coast the guys were relaxing prior to Dallas, Anne was gearing up for the commitments with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit stuff. She also seemed so happy, poor lovely sweet creature… unaware yet how she would have been tricked – and STOLEN, in my not so humble opinion –  there once more.

You will see I had so much foresight there… unfortunately (not that I have anyhow ever trusted the taste of that magazine… they seem to prefer the most trivial models instead than those who could give them a classy sparkle anyway… So very and uncannily trashy americanism… so far away from European appreciation of elegance also in semi-nudity…).

Anyway, after all that it was SuperBowl Time, with the parties and the playing duties (too bad Adam did not also play at the Celebrity Beach Bowl, but only providing the music to it… I mean… Adam Levine, Matt Bomer at one sight? Malish beauty straight and gay at its peak ;)…)

The three days (that Adam almost missed due to the snowfalls and the late airplanes arrivals, while Anne flew way before him and way more in time… ;)…) were fullfilled and cute and among the minions things they did do, also regarding Anne including fellow SI Swimsuit gals, I have decided to cut the chase short and put all images in a mini video, so that you can get a complete glimpse of images and events, and I can just limit myself in comments by linking Adam and Anne’s twitter posts about the events later (and now).

I am starting to optimize also inspired by Adam’s witty mood – maybe – … or getting almost there 😉

Oh and yes… Adam was darn ORANGE at Dallas weekend.

Embarassingly so: I guess since he did shave from Jamaica, the gradient detach from the tanned skin and the shaved face forced him to a repair… but good Lord… that was so Jersey Shore it did hurt even his perfect face!!! (and in fact he admitted it later… though maybe his way to even the orange madness might not be that good of a solution either lmao… ;)).

From the tv take this excerpts of their perfomance from the Tailgate Party:

I just adore the whole of this to be honest… Getting glimpses of the happiness and satisfaction they all communicated out is satisfying for their listeners / followers too and makes you feel sweetly empathic.

It’s a mood booster in many ways, honestly: then I just feel fine in picturing all of the guys happy, in whatever way or due to whatever reason… I’m this much of a lightweight, yep.

And to be still more honest Keith and the guys would have been a better half time performers choice than dreadful Black Eyed Peas were in my book... the only thing I liked there was Usher’s dancing and since you know for me Usher‘s so overrated, you get an idea… ;).

During the days of Superbowl finally the awesome video for Never Gonna Leave This Bed was released: I STRAIGHT bought it from iTunes and unlike it did happen with the HAO video awfulness, the greatness of this latest video actually made me like the song MORE.

It’s an awesome video, check it:

Everyone was so excited about it, and RIGHTLY so 😉

Past the  SuperBowl Time, it was time for everybody to get back to Los Angeles, as Grammy week was approaching (Adam seemed inspired about fashion choices days before the event… LOL).

Yeah... you saw it already but why not again? 😉

Anne was actually able to reach LA safely and way before Adam did, obtaining good Venice spare time in between.

Days prior the event were a round of preparation, and also there were a pre Sports Illustrated public relation management for Anne, and for Adam a preparation pre European Tour take-off and add to that some time in the studio (hopefully for something we will be able to hear soon?).

But they managed to spend their good times together, and Adam couldn’t hold his praise for his lady not even with his more famous friends, like Ryan Seacrest.

And to be cute to one another (awwww… how cute is of Adam to worry about her safety driving?), of course (and to FrankieGirl!!! Look how cute she is…).

During the days in Los Angeles Adam got to see the video of Sara Bareilles‘s incoming new single, UNCHARTED, in which he sings and stars along with tons of others musicians, being part of the “writer block” song.

You all know I heart massively Sara and to me is always a soothing moment whenever she and the guys merge visions to produce true art in sound and motion and whatever else they decide to put efforts into.

Can’t wait to see the results (the video director is Travis Schneider, the same behind Vevey Forever video and book).

They of course headed to the pre-Grammies bashes, and the best among them is ALWAYS The Roots’ one.

Adam also gave some interviews.

One is on the March Issue of Women’s Health:

Adam on Women's Health Magazine March 2011

The other instead was given the days prior to the Grammies at the Jewish Chronicle and I TOTALLY loved it to pieces:

Adam Levine interviewed by The Jewish Chronicle Feb 2011

Back to the Grammy thing now… You know how much of a let down was last year’s Grammy to me, because I thought it was a pure shame to land Taylor Swift the major prizes, and I was fearing something awfully similar could have happened in 2011 too: instead, seriousness was restored.

This year instead I have to say practically all results were awesome to me, and I would have just let Eminem win more landing him the two SOTY and ROTY awards instead of landing them at over boring Lady Antebellum (I can’t help: country-pop to me is lame, lame, LAME).

I have also to confess that I think Train deserved the Grammy they took over Maroon5.

Maroon 5 in iTunes shots

That song (Ehi Soul Sister) was straight a pure pop-rock  gem and I have loved it completely since I first heard it: if any, you gotta criticize the Academy to not reckoning the greatness of that song in its due year (last one), but like it did happen with Maroon5’s win for This Love, the fact they put the “live” version of the song up for grab told everyone they were rightly the frontrunners for the prize.

I repeat… I think it was fair, actually. Too bad we couldn’t see Adam and the guys televised in another Grammy grab though, like they did in 2005.

Misery is a very good song, but it was no better: now if STUTTER had been instead the first single out of Hands All Over, I keep saying all the performance of the album would have been better, and I am SURE the success both the song and the record could have then enjoyed would have landed Maroon5 their fourth Grammy.

Adam said he is ready for 2012.

I appreciate the positivity.

Let’s see 😉

For sure one awesome thing was the fact Adam performed onstage with Rihanna, Eminem, Dre and awesome vocalist and songwriter Skylar Grey (they bonded at the after party, too allegedly), showing us once more how much of great musician he is, taking duties playing PIANO (I was blown away: that man can do EVERYTHING… if he only would focus on music “Kobe Mode”… *sigh* he can be so perfect being naturally himself):

Adam Levine’s talent is just MASSIVE. Face it.

But let’s start from the start…

Better… let’s start from the PRE-Start.

Adam caused a bit of Mayhem the Friday before Grammies when he couldn’t help but notice (as anyone older than 13) that the new Lady Gaga’s smash hit, Born This Way, was like a Madonna’s medley.

Given that Adam has always expressed admire for Gaga, it’s hard not to notice he was right.

Well, funny enough…

Anne had her entrance at the Grammies NOT along Adam… but Along Lady Gaga 😉 (you hear the song… tell me if Adam wasn’t right ;)):

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No shock or tricky facts… she just had the honor of being part of Lady Gaga’s theatric entrance in an egg, dressed by Thierry Mugler as a horned tall amazon, holding… a vassel that carried Gaga inside, like a womb.

And it was so sweet the way Adam rooted for her, once again Oh man they’re so adorable paired :)…

In this interview from the Official Grammy Red Carpet you see Ryan Seacrest interviewing BOTH Anne and Adam, as they reached the event on February 13th (this is a French News covering of Anne, too):

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Adam’s look was object of some controversy, too (and object of a funny tease by Kurt Sutter, Sons Of Anarchy creator, via Hart Hanson ;)).

I personally loved it (even tough you know I hate capri pants on a male, those pants were instead very European Fashion Forward, very stylish, and loved the whole of his mise).

Of course the Americans are too tacky to understand male fashion and they blasted him on the subsequent Fashion Police Show:

To be honest I don’t think Joan Rivers was actually rude or anything… I think she’s just a bit obsessed about Adam’s sexual life (you may remember a few weeks ago she said that thing about being a female in Hollywood, and getting busy with either Adam or John Mayer…)

Anyway after their entrance they of course stay together all time, and Anne changed her Alien Outfit in favor of an adorable silver and grey dress which was a very good match with Adam’s mise, too:

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The party night was only partially shared though, because Anne had to fly straight towards New York to attend the David Letterman’s unveiling of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover.

Hence, after she praised her man, and before her man headed to the best and most secluded VIP party of the night, she ventured to LAX to catch a red-eye flight to Big Apple.

Adam's Valentine sent to Anne in New York

When she woke up, it was Valentine’s Day too… and she wished happily to everybody to feel it… because Adam sure made sure she had felt it, sending her flowers while she was at the backstage at Ed Sullivan’s Theathre with Letterman (AWWWW).

I wonder how cute that could feel…

Sending love from Coast To Coast 😉

It was maybe that one the call Adam was taken with while shopping in Los Angeles those hours – as you see in the collage below -, before leaving to Europe?

Adam Levine shopping in LA on Valentine's Day 2011

Because as Anne was getting preppy for the big appearing and all the 10 SI Swimsuit girls were gathering in New York, the guys were putting together the final details in their schedules (and suitcases) before saying “bye bye” to United States for a first tranche lasting 5 weeks (the 5 weeks where I WILL SEE THEM, so some truly amazing five weeks on my own behalf, sure ;)… but a strong streak for far away lovers, even though they will sure re-meet before… well, before Russian times for sure, at least ;)).

Anyway, Adam was cheering for Anne a lot, but as I predicted, and as the PR campaign was mostly making clear in the past month, the cover of SI SWIMSUIT 2011 went to a girl who keeps looking to me like a person whose face screams “I cost this much per hour” even though Anne seems of a very different opinion than mine (but she’s always so lovely, I wasn’t expecting any differently).

I can’t help: I find Irina Shayk‘s face really gross and vulgar (also her Intimissimi ad that keeps running on Italian tv screams pornstar to me…).

Girl has a wonderful bottom body (legs and ass especially) but she’s got plunging belly and an axis eyes/nose/lips which seems too much unelegant and trashy to me.

Adam and his love for Italian food

I can’t help.

To me this is a PR mistake, as bad as modeling choice as it was the lame Brooklyn Decker (but at least she was having huge breasts… Irina hasn’t even them instead).

I fear next year cover can go to Chrissy Teigen now, which would be a total laughable shame, as the girl TOTALLY is average looking (even less than that to me) and she’s short and pretty boring on any shot I’ve seen of her.

But she has a very strong support, the editors totally ride her up and it seems everyone finds her funny (Adam also started following on twitter both her and John Legend… I can understand the latter, at least ;)).

Well, it’s not really like Sports Illustrated is THAT much of a big deal (it maybe WAS, but to be honest Anne has the kind of body/features/style/shape that can allow her to do way more high fashion stuff, than SI Swimsuit could ever land to her).

It’s a long time SI cover models are never high fashion ones: Marisa Miller (beautiful, but short), Beyonce (I know… ;)), Bar Rafaeli (short and with tendency to get fat); Brooklyn Decker (a pair of HUGE boobs, no runaway shape, and a face that to be defined butterlike is way too kind).

Irina Shayk may be the closest the cover has gotten to fashion these past years, but still nowhere near credible fashion (her face is too overly sexualized to be ok in high fashion photography).

Anyway… These are Anne’s SI shots (not fine those bikini peachy colors… but she’s so beautiful nonetheless):

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This instead is a patchwork of Anne’s pictures outside Ed Sullivan’s Theathre:

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And to be complete, take the excerpt from David Letterman’s show (with Italian captions… so you can learn a bit of languages too ;)) with the girls reading the Top Ten and the final reveal of the cover:

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Adam touched down on UK soil keeping feeling very lovey doveyprobably remembering all the strolls he and Anne did that previous October I mentioned before.

It’s so sweet the way love makes the guy mellow… 😉

Maroon 5 for David Lynch Foundation: click over to jump there

Anne instead after the Letterman thing weekend started the celebratory in between New York and Las Vegas about the Sports Illustrated issue reveal; I’m not really sure about first outfit/makeup/hairdo (very 80’s… maybe a bit too much to my taste ;)), but she always manages to look adorable even in the worst kind of mises.

On the other side, her body is just to die for… ALWAYS (look the way her stomach is flat… awesome!)

I found cute beyond words the way Anne hinted at her stay in Las Vegas, because that was where she and Adam first met last year (when Maroon5 were the resident musical guests for SI Swimsuit launch – this year it was Ne-Yo); and as teasingly lovely the way Adam said he would have stayed mum about “details” ;).

The whole event was well covered, and as you saw in the above videos of Anne she also managed to take cooking lessons (awww… those might always be useful girl; also because you’re with a gourmet type of man and although he can cook, it’s never bad to learn how to do it also yourself, so you can kinda… tease him – and yourself – more ;)).

I really like the way Anne seems always upbringing and cheerful.

She’s the definition of a sweetheart, with the perfect look of an elf goddess.

In Uk Land in the maintime lovely Sara Bareilles (best tourmate ever with Maroon5 , because they’re friends from a life and she’s naturally fitting in with the boys) was sharing good vibes as well.

The tour started in Brighton, and then moved on to a stream of Uk dates.

Here it is a compendium video out of first night in London at Brixton Academy:

And after that, take Adam’s sweet whispers along, too (so tender!).

Those hours, some of the concertgoers had the amazing experience of having Adam PHONE CALLING THEM (well, some of their friends or lovers who weren’t actually at the gigs, actually); thing that as you can easily picture drove more than one happily insane.

Aahahhaha.

Click on this link and you will see a video of the phone call 😉 (AWWWW!!!).

If I can ever get that as well not (that I will push to be front row… Karim’s with me and we have kinda of a “good manners” type of deal ;)…) I would make him call Serena.

She’s the one who’s gonna miss both Paris and Milan gigs actually so… it’d be due ;).

Anne V in Los Angeles, February 2011 times

While in break times in London, Adam went actually shopping for clothes in one of the COOLEST (if not THE coolest) place the town can offer, namely Dover Street Market (Comme Des Garçons: whenever Japanese style is, Style RULES)

As the Las Vegas mayhem ended, Anne went flying to Los Angeles.

She’s one her track to become a perfect Cali person as well?

Oh, God knows how I wish it so!

Anyway, she was there for attending All Star Game (and poor Adam really was envying her there… poor baby ;)), and then (actually just by the time this post is being written and posted) the Academy Awards Vanity Fair Party.

Awww she is gonna be so so cute there!!! (and Adam had his Oscar time last year… so this year is fair she will send to him cheering shout-outs, right?)

In the days there (a full on week and counting) she also had Malibu sweet & dorky time, she had more driving testing experience (and all around car maintenance) and also, completely cute, she attended as you read way above the game Lakers played against Clippers, along Gene Hong and N.P. 😉 (the game Karim and I would have attended too, if I weren’t more than only focused on my business these LA quick days ;)).

Maroon 5 in Manchester, 21st February 2011

Think that weather hasn’t exactly been always perfect… but it doesn’t matter: I’m really glad Anne is shaping up to be Cali-obsessed.

It’s the way it has to be.

You know…good  influences ;).

Hopefully the two lovers had ways and time to be in long contact: also because Adam as per usual gets so homesick traveling far away he has the only remedy of keeping his system loaded on PacificStandardTime.

Adam also has a way to deal with touring boredome and that’s video-gaming.

Somehow new portatile phones facilities help him even more there.

Fruit Ninja is apparently a good cure as well, indeed.

Then there is always the ADD stopper by excellence to keep Adam relaxed while on tour… yep… the thing Snoop Dogg gets the most shouting up for… from Adam too, of course ;).

It’s very heart-warmening then to know and realize (as per usual actually) everybody gets ravished at their gigs.

It’s so making me angry (but after so many years of wrong biased reps, I am kinda used to it) how many people realize Maroon5 actually KICK ASS only when they go to their live gigs (where it’s impossible not to get how great they are).

It’s the “pretty boys making pop” kind of misunderstanding impression.

Adam in Kilt in Glasgow, 22 Feb 2011

Because of the way they look, and the way their music sounds, people assume Maroon5 is “just” pop.

Instead Maroon5 is GREAT pop, made by guys who can deliver magic live and who have actually their roots in the indie style of playing, more than any pop field.

But ehy… I know the wrong assumption is so rooted by now people will just change their perspective on them only if they get smart enough to actually catch them live.

I hope this is an option that can be kept going on for a while more.

I’m speaking like this because after their Scottish gig (look in the collage how funny Adam was wearing a kilt… BACKWARDS ;)) a news started spreading up in USA:

Adam and Cee-Lo Green seem to be in talks to become judges for a new singing competition, named The Voice, and produced on NBC (Universal TV partner… and Maroon5 is under Universal).

I HOPE THAT WON’T EVER HAPPEN.

Mostly because that would mean no tour, and I am not the only one thinkin people prefer great artist to tour and not being on tv judging; then I also think there’s no space for more audiences for more singing competitions (American Idol and XFactor are already enough filling); then honestly… unless Adam would plan a year break in case he had to become father or anything related… it’s just wrong for him to land his (undoubtedly awesome) face and expertize to a lame tv show.

I was so loving the impression I used to have he wasn’t fond of singing competition.

I sure hope this is a wrong feed of media.

Then… hasn’t Cee-Lo Green dissed Maroon5 lately?

I don’t really want to see a tv beefing in judging (and I love both Cee-Lo and Adam too much to wish for them to go on tv that way: they have to be on tv for singing THEIR music only.).

I better focus on UNCHARTED VIDEO PREVIEW (click on this)

Then I better share with you pictures of just happened gigs in Luxembourg (coolest state name for Adam… Lux indeed ;)), and keep thinking about boys touring the best way.

I mean… Adam, think twice about tv shows… Andrew WK wouldn’t find it any cool, so that maybe he wouldn’t ever think again you can still “Party Hard“, no matter how you could brag still about it (reversal psychology ;)).

Then take these links and pieces of news about incoming schedules (for Spring and Summer again… so no space for tv shows?) for Maroon5 in Usa, and Caribbean again.

Beside the June show for the Golf tournament, Maroon 5 are set to headline along their Grammy buddies Train the Mid State Fair on July 23:

Maroon 5 and Train for Mid State Fair

Prior to that, and before Maroon 5 will get back to Europe and Asia for keeping on their World Tour (from Istanbul, to Cairo, to Dubai… and all over Asia), the boys are slated to perform on April 12 for Tru Tv special series launch Performances:

This is gonna be cool... 🙂

I think BEFORE this Tru Tv thing (because Istanbul gig is on April 15th, so they got to fly over Mediterranean at least April 14th? Or they could be there by April 13th and then fly from Barbados to Turkey? Who knows ;)), they are going to be part of Breakfast in Barbados event too (and that is overchill and really pleasant scenery, yep):

Breakfast in Barbados 2011 event: click to be informed

So by all counts, I truly truly hope Maroon5 keep being on the road and not really put on hold by any tv show madness.

To me they are a band…

And a band is mostly and ultimately so when it performs live for their fans.

minutes ago... Los Angeles shining from Griffith Park Observatory

That’s why I can’t wait, after we take off to New York in some hours (btw, how cool is to type on iPad from Griffith Observatory and Park?), to fly over to Paris to see them once more…

And then in Milan, once more…

And again in Berlin… once more again.

I hope this chaotic and filled update was worthy the wait.

To be honest I won’t review it much because this weather over LA today is promising and Griffith Park is awesome; we don’t care at all about Oscar Chaos over downtown so we will just taste our hours in a very sexy way.

Oh… we know we’re missing Lakers game with OKC in these moments but… trust me… we are gaining magic nonetheless.

Kobe will forgive us.

Catch you in March.

Bye Bye and be All Up^^^^ ;)!

Miss Z. 🙂

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Oh…

Anne V backstage @ VSFS 2010 - via Modelinia

DAMN.

I wasn’t meant to come here today.

I wasn’t.

This update would have come halfway through this week if Lakers didn’t provide such a disappointment this past night that I had the need to come online and pour on over about it do distress.

*sigh*.

Yep.

We lost.

AGAIN.

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 1

But while the loss against Denver in Denver on Friday really did not affect me (as you can know from my usual daily posts from Los Angeles Times Lakers Blog), this time against Phoenix Suns REALLY I was disappointed because I did not expect such a downlow.

We played JUST as Phoenix wished to.

We always leave up open 3s, but this time really I felt like we were just letting it go.

We kept being (just like we were against Denver) majorly unbalanced and unconnected.

And yet Kobe isn’t Kobe fully (but this I know it was bound to happen, I gained my Reader Comment Of The Day upon that idea so it’s not there that I felt my disappointment coming).

Oh well… these are the two games that we have lost in the past 3 day (we still THREEPEAT… no question about it… don’t take my disappointment as a lack of faith cos my faith is backed by way more certainties than not the little moment of blur we lived this past night):

And then what brought me here today…:

Oh… I can’t cope.

You read in my Today’s post in the blog what this game left me with as for regrets and frustrations.

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 2

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 3

To keep track on bad sporty things, Formula 1 was also a blowout, but then Alonso and I aren’t buddies so I did not really feel that trashed at all.

To save the DAY and WAY more than the day and sporty weekend though…

There you go and rejoice, world!!!!!

Milan stays up leading Serie A because yesterday WE TRIUMPHED IN THE DERBY, no matter if we did play for a lot 10 against 11, and thanx to the best scorer we could have been picked to bury Inter, IBRAHIMOVIC!!!!!

What a satisfaction, man!!!!

Inter… this ain’t your year finally!!!

Hewl yeah, this makes up amazingly for the pain Lakers left me with 😉

Actually also the awesome sex Karim and I had this morning after the game did… but then you know I do my best to take Sexual Healing seriously and so does Karim 😉

Take some images of our triumph… YEAHHHHH!!!!!:

To keep now track about awesomeness, and link it to football but widening it up, take this (you can read it also in English and Spanish) and honor Roberto Baggio because my forever favorite football player and awesome man received the World Peace Award in Hiroshima the other day, for his ongoing humanitarian efforts:

Roberto Baggio. Awesome Athlete, Artist, Man, Peacemaker.

Click on the picture.

And as me… LOVE this creature.

Adam and Jesse prior to VSFS

Roberto is one in a million.

I don’t even care if he loves Inter… or if he likes Berlusconi.

Nobody is perfect… but ultimately he is.

Talkin about Berlusconi, finally today we hope to see the end of his dirty reign.

Though with the way Italy works you can always expect nasty turnovers for MORE worst.

One of the things that I loved about Baggio’s speech in Hiroshima was his love professed for just freed Aung Sun Suu Kiy.

This lady free means something great. Hope takes over hopefully.

Free. Finally

We must free Burma and all people who cannot make their righteous voices be heard in safety.

Okay.

Oh, and while I write I’m of course watching again Vieni Via Con Me. GO FAZIO & SAVIANO!

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 4

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 5

Now let’s talk about my wonderful weekend and the way we spent time with our wedding planner, the flamboyant yet stylish Vic.

She rocks.

I fell in love with her and her ideas; Karim was so happy because he insisted for us to hire her and now I can see why he’s always right in my book ;).

She met and stayed with us; she took us all out for shopping (both clothes and piece of furniture, just to check out our tastes and the way we match them) and out to dinner… she met my family and enjoyed Lodi’s Chocolando Feast (too bad weather was awful).

It goes alone that I am already thinkin about my marriage dress ;).

We had a wonderful and really useful time and we practically agreed in getting to Japan first for checking venues around my Birthday time.

Yep.

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 7

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 6

HANAMI, baby!!!!

To call myself delighted is an understatement.

In this blissful series of event, really, I didn’t even mind to have to lose Maroon5 in Rome.

Well, that goes easier because Marghe got to live it all instead from my parental house in Borgo Pio, so I have a lot of… erm… souvenirs 😉

What will be shared here tough still as usual things you can find by yourself through researches, starting with the link at RDS Radio that is gonna upload soon the WHOLE of their showcase and interviews on Friday 12th of November (Next upload I will convert the videos hopefully).

What I love is to keep hearing from Anna Pettinelli how awesome live they have been (I know because I got Marghe’s words there, but Anna is another thing obviously ;))

Click here for  jumping to the page, but think the pieces will be up later this week:

Click to jump in RDS Radio Showcase page

The day after they went as planned to Amici, but due to the fact they had the plane to Paris at 5 pm, they had to perform straight in the presentation segment.

That was GREAT because they could avoid DePippis’ awful face, but on he download they had to face that idiot subpar journalist which is Luca Dondoni messing it all up during the interview (luckily Adam couldn’t really get a word that idiot said in Italian, because he would have punched him… erm… let’s inform Dondoni that Maroon5 are active from 2001, NOT 2005. In 2005 your lame ass knew about them because you only reckon what comes in Italy by the time it does come here… but not everyone gets famous first here, you dumb one!).

Anyway, this is the performance that I could retape out from Mediaset Plus:

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Talkin about their days in Rome, take this Interview from ANSA (in the page you can click to a lil video with the interview):

Registering in Tuscany at Sting? Where do we have to sign?

And clickin here you go to the video:

Click to jump to video interview

Okay.

I actually should have started later with Maroon5, but this was in some way also part of my weekend so… I did it now.

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 8

This weather so far isn’t brilliant BUT if things go well this weekend we should finally go to the mountains also because week after we fly in USA for Thanxgiving so we better take this chance 😉

After that, past Lady Gaga gig, we will attend again Scala Première and WAGNER’s Valkirya!!!!

Can’t truly hold my excitement on any longer about it.

I adore Wagner 🙂 🙂 🙂

I am a melomaniac and he’s among my total fav musicians ever… I adore Eddan miths too so… BINGO!!!!

I will buy my long dress at Barney’s 😉 Yup. 🙂

But okay, let’s get back into Maroon5 chronicle because actually in a way this “sooner than expected” update is functional to the impressive amounts of Victoria’s Secrets Fashion Show pictures that I have  to show off.

We know Adam and actually the band as well attended the show, and it was an outburst of loveliness and open affectionate display of pride.

Before that though, I gotta post a lil stream out of Halloween bash where we got to see Adam and Anne together (register if you like to the site for the bigger pics if you like, by clicking on the shots):

Adam and Anne at Halloween Party 2010

I gotta post also a further note about the Miami retreat of the beautiful couple, because we got to know more from People Magazine:

People Magazine on Anne and Adam in Miami, November 2010

If you wonder, yep, we got the pics of the beach (those of the club you can see them in the previous post).

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 9

But we got those of Anne only because as per usual “Batman” Adam avoided like cancer the ‘razzi around (which I love him for).

Take a look at Anne’s shining beauty.

Girl is to die for, PERFECT body and lovely face.

What one could ask for more?

Note that all the beach pictures have been taken out from Celebslam and that they are all over the page starting from up above ;).

Too bad we couldn’t really fix eyes into Adam’s underchest tats…

And speaking of tats, allegedly Anne seems interested in finding her way to some shining ones?

Don’t wound your body baby.

Even though I should shut up because after all I have got one too, albeit minuscule, mattering and… strategically positioned (nobody would see it if I’d wear a bikini like this one she wore ;)).

Adam, James, Gabe Saporta ay VSFS November 2010

Okay, back at the chronicles of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show now.

While Anne was getting preppy starting from the wee hours of the morning, (show was taped twice… first at 3 and then at 8 in the evening with the whole crowd of public attendance, and it will be broadcasted November 30th), in her apartment Adam was having his “perfectly self-served” breakfast, at a time that I won’t comment (afternoon?).

adam cheering up anne in standing ovation 😉

Having time before heading to the Armory, he just decided watchin Sons of Anarchy was more than due (like he needs a push there ;)).

But when he went down to please and praise his lady…

OH!!!

He truly outdid himself.

He was with James and Jesse and he met also Cobra Starship’s Gabe Saporta (they’re gonna touring with them and Sara Bareilles in Australia in May actually, and they’re longtime buddies), but really he outdid himself,starting as soon as he went into the Armory:

Adam proudly supporting Anne

As I was writing the previous post, guy truly is so open about his love right now he melts me.

Fully.

And he doesn’t melt only me of course ;).

Even people not regularly keen at him had to reckon he’s just so tender when in love

Adam cheers Anne - E Entertainment

Even the way he dressed was an open praise to Anne.

Adam on VSFS

His shirt in fact was a gigantography of her face, in beautiful B&W outlines.

Just GOOOOORGEOUS.

And very, very, very sweet.

The after party post defilé was held at Lavo (there is one in New York too, yep) and it was soft and cozy and again very affectionate allegedly :).

I just ADORED Anne’s dress, with passion.

First you gotta have the body to wear that and second it was sexy as hell but still really fashionable and classy.

Rawwwwr 🙂

These Collages are all via The Fashion Spot, and if you click on threads you will be taken to the posts (please give credits where due always):

Anne V runaway images from VSFS November 2010 - via The Fashion Spot

She’s gloriously beautiful… and I SO want her wing-less outfit. Karim already knows I want it all, jewels included 😉

Anne V's first Wings - Via The Fashion Spot

awwww…. 🙂

More HQ via Fashion Spot of Adam and Anne at VSFS Nov 2010

What can I say? I’m in love with them together 😉

Adam and Anne at VSFS Pink Carpet (Collage via The Fashion Spot)

Quite aptly, there were fashionistas who were smart enough to give Adam a note up for his style at the event (and indeed he managed to just be fashionably himslef this time) :

 

Adam es un hombre chic? Yep. He is.

After the well due party, Adam and Anne had both a day to cope with posthumous of partying it up.

Actually Adam had to fight symptoms better cos he had a flight to catch from JFK to Rome at around 5 pm ;), while she actually was able to sleep and rest and cuddle the whole day.

Adam Radio Z 100

He managed to kill waiting time by buying something that I have bought as well this summer for my iPhone (somewhere in the posts of my summer you see my iPhy cased into my protection waterproof… if I remember correctly there was a magazine of Anne aside actually ;)).

As soon as he went into Italy’s soil, of course first thing he thought of was pizza (oh, man…), while Jesse, way more lyrical, at sunset shot this beautiful picture from Monte Mario (where RDS Auditorium is).

In our territory they had time to tell us about new sections available for SIN members (I’m not, so I know this thanx to Marghe ;))

M5 and Julian Perretta

Also Anne had to leave soon from NY: her gig these days is actually in Los Angeles (the irony…) but she’s there in hotel and enjoying the facilities there as she shots her campaign in Golden Coast.

Her modeling gig left her in a look that seems directly taken off from her boyfriend’s style as of late, don’t you think?

After Rome, guys went to Paris (where they still be) and have recorded a showcase, got the news that they are candidate at NRJ Awards, and are warming up to move first to Amsterdam for another shocase (exactly tomorrow) and then to UK for the Children In Need BBC benefit (during weekend).

In Paris they also had time to meet up with their friend Julian P., who’s always so cute (and quite tall, the guy is!).

Adam chats with Jesse waiting for Anne's show

In their frenzy times of course they still manage to be funny and loveable.

And as it always happens when boredom catches him (or when he has to wait for his lady to catch up from the other side of the world and viceversa), Adam produces some of his best tweets when he notices things foreign in his unique way.

9 hours of time gap also get on Anne, but she has found ways to cope with that thanx to a gal pal (the same gal pal that was in the very very first photo of Adam cheering on her from LA while she was catwalking in Paris back at the start of March – I never forget a face, check freely… gal is the same.).

Another gal pal instead was with her shopping at The Grove (sigh… wanna get there too…) and catchin up movies ;).

About Lakers… I prefer to not comment any furtherly (sigh…).

Adam on benefits of digital music

Okay… more or less I have filled the page and considering I wasn’t even due to be here, it’s more than okay and enough right?

I’m following the best type of tv, Saviano and Fazio getting serious in Vieni Via Con Me.

So it’s a great night.

Karim aside… love ruling, hopes flying high.

I’m very fortunate and blessed.

Have all a great few days ahead, folks.

Catch you soon – enough – 😉

Bye, Z.


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