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Hi there Universe!

Ready to roll out to enjoy a wonderful day in Sn Fran, and to buy some Xmas/Chanukah gifts (Mash!!!! landing yours at Staples on Xmas ;)) here I am writing a small post…

I LOVED this ad!!! I. Want:!!!

This is probably my last one of the year… and I was held about writing this as well, because in the last day and half I flew half of the world and I’m prepared to have a wonderful Xmas time in California, an amazing (I’m sure it will be) New Years Eve in Las Vegas, and then I’ll be heading towards Paris to keep feeling blessed and in love (thank you life… I’ve probably been a saint or something in my previous one to get so much this time around? ;)).

This time I got Swifty flying with me 😉  He’s seemingly enjoying the new surroundings and apparently he reacted better than me to the jet lag (but he was chemically helped…).

What to say?

I’m super grateful for this mesmerizing year… For the way my family and my new family are lovely together (and both are with each one of us… and trust, K&I really wanted this to happen, because we’re very much fond of our families: they are our roots and force, indeed).

So happy to have still best friends ever, and really grateful to reckon my married status hasn’t changed a thing in the balances of “the crew”.

It’s important to keep things this way for me.

So, was this year perfect?

Well, not.

But this gives room for the new year to even TOP this one.

I like it like this.

Lakers. The Only Team.

Sadly I am fearing one piece of the “let’s top this year in the new one” puzzle won’t be fitting.

I wanna avoid to extensively post my thoughts in full over the blog (that’s why I waited to write, actually) about the sham against MY LAKERS, because otherwise this post would turn out to be the greatest cursing treaty of all times, but…

WTF (in Italian: ECCHECAZZZZZZZZZZO) ?!!!????!!!!!??????

David Stern made it: he destroyed my beloved team, pulling the trick out of the bomb after he placed it comfortably in our  hands.

He made Chris Paul flying to the Clippers (!!!!!!), he made Lamar leave in the worst possible way, and TO DALLAS (!!!!!!!!!), he let Pau stay just to see him convolute into a shadow of himself, and (just because dramas never come alone), to totally trash the Purple and Gold, also the private life of Kobe finally crumbled and so, also a divorce was added to the explosive and deadly mix of the 2011/2012 Lakers season to make sure everything could seize down for the worst.

Yesterday we got humiliated  by Clippers and I wish I didn’t see it coming but… I actually did.

Oh, Kobe...

*sigh*.

But whatever: a fan is a fan.

So, even if this will be an incredible chaos in organizing, for Xmas we are gonna fly in the booth of Staples Center (in helicopter, as you know we have one) to experience the game and then immediately fly back in San Francisco to enjoy the festivities.

My dad can’t wait 😉

So… thinking that I seem to have a certain “good star” up above… can I formulate my Xmas wish to involve somehow my beloved Lakers?

Dear Santa, Baby Jesus, and Dear Great One: I’m not asking anything especially for me, cos really I have way more than a girl can dream (and I used always to dream BIG, so that means something…); it’s not for me that I’m pledging now.

Merry Xmas!

It’s for an army of fans and supporters that share with the little me this burning Lakers passion.

Please… let this season surprise us all FOR THE BETTER.

Let us never fall apart.

Let us grow stronger.

It’d be… that slight improvement on 2011 that I would REALLY look out for in the new year.

Okay.

I hope I can be heard 😉

And to everyone around… Happy Xmas to you all and to your beloveds.

Catch you in the New Year so…

PARTY HARD & RESPONSIBLY.

It seems sort of an oxymoron, but I strongly believe it’s not.

Much Love,

Missus Z. 🙂

So, yesterday my Sporty Fan Year for 2011 officially ended.

If you know or follow me, either here on through my twitter you know I am a fan (and a devoted practicer) of many sports: I love tennis, swimming, horseback riding, volleyball.

I regularly practice them all and add yoga, pilates, general fitness to the list; but when it comes to my way to be a sporty fan, you know I have only 2 teams: MilanAC for football, and Los Angeles Lakers for basketball.

And once again, my two passions couldn’t go hand in hand in celebratory mood at the end of this season, as it has happened a lot lately (for a certainly consistent amount of years, in fact).

Good Job, Good Fellas. GOOD JOB.

So, as you MUST know, Milan won his 18th Scudetto on Saturday (we were in Florence and we found even there Milanists celebrating… super cool!!!), and yesterday we celebrated back in Milan with friends (even NOT Milan supporters, aren’t we kind or what?), waiting for the REAL celebration on incoming Saturday in San Siro (I can’t friggin wait!) happy and chanting and all dressed in Red&Black (they are my two favorite colors anyway 😉 so that’s pretty easy for me to pick up stylish stuff in my closet ;)) first in downtown Milano and then at Karim’s pad – he still lukewarm about this whole “soccer”thing, but he loves to party along at least ;).

I still believe the team is far from amazingly assembled; and Champions League‘s struggles totally proved my point (and you all know Milanists only care about Champions… so a Scudetto is great, but not nearly as great. FACT).

But I loved the way we played with the good attitude in this Serie A and no matter how we weren’t flawless we managed to be sufficiently consistent when the falling off of our opponents opened a wide door for us to pass through and reach a valuable goal.

The struggles are important; my Japanese-shaped working ethic implies that only from battling the greatest things eventually come.

Milan Campione. After 7th years. Hell yeah!

I salute you Milan: you did extremely well with the little you’ve got: now please try to get what we need for getting another Champions because we’re so far away from Manchester United and Barcelona‘s amazing level that it will take a revolution for us to be competetive again where it ONLY does matter.

My award of the year for Milan goes to Allegri.

I don’t have a player to honor… because they were not that great honestly, but he did a great job in not making the cracks show too often or too long to taunt Milan’s legacy in Serie A this year and trust… that requested skills.

Managing a team that shows clearly flaws requests so many good qualities even to begin detailing them is hard.

It requests psychological understanding, charisma, strength, motivational impulses; you have to be patient, you have to get foresight, you have to be cool and clear in your vision and you often have to hide in an unreachable part the most logical essence of you, without letting it disappear, to keep pushing people who are not what you would like them to be, but who are those you need to shape and ameliorate to reach a target which is skipping out of your grab like a ball bouncing, if you don’t set the record straight at multiple times in a season, in multiple ways.

This makes a good link to pass the torch to the Dark Side of my Sporty Tao for 2011.

While Milan is the light part, with a dark core, Lakers sadly have been the Dark side, with what I think still is a luminous inmost part.

I am so blunt and angry we gave up THIS HORRIBLE WAY to Cuban… But I could never give up on my Lakers pride.

Which is acknowledged by the Lakers themselves.

Even more angry that this probably means LeBronze will finally get a ring.

If they pass Celtics (and odds are 60% to me now… even though I still consider Celtics a way better team than Heat, where I only consider Dwade a superior player), sadly the NBA has them as frontrunners: I don’t see Mavs surviving any of the East teams to be honest and OKC seem still so very young and naive (but I’d love to be proved wrong).

But really, it’s months that I don’t feel this had to be (or could be) our year.

In all this, know one fact: PHIL JACKSON IS THE GREATEST COACH / MANAGER EVER.

I am desperate we will lose him.

His way to be what he is is what I think basketball strategy and play should be; I’m a Triangle devoted and I love the Sun-Tzu‘s quality of this game approach and no other coach will ever give that back to me, once Phil’s gone.

Forever in my heart. The one and only, Phil Jackson.

What makes me sad in the way Lakers lost this year, is the fact we waved Phil goodbye with a never-happened-before humiliatingly received SWEPT.

That is awful.

I was speechless yesterday whenever cameras would show Phil’s face on Dallas’ homecourt.

You could see his dignity shining, and I couldn’t believe the history of sport had to have THAT slap as final gift to one of the greatest people EVER in the whole of world’s sport legacies.

He didn’t deserve it and we shouldn’t have allowed it.

But truth is we couldn’t stop it.

For the year that has gone, I never ever felt we were having that clutch quality to us anymore; it hurts me because if you have followed me these years, you know how much I have always had that sureness about our games, even in times when everybody but Kobe and Derek probably would have given up on us (last year’s 7th game for instance) I JUST KNEW.

But this year that inexplicable faith wasn’t there.

I never felt we could move mountains.

I never felt Kobe was there to save us, this year.

Phil Jackson. HERO.

And it hurt. It hurts.

I worship Kobe, and I have this trust in him which is unparalleled and still so it was a shock for me to realize I wasn’t believing he could always have saved us in this season.

But we will get back on top, and so will Kobe, and it will happen just thank of this huge demise (because this is what happened this year… a bounderless demise).

I was scared at the start of the year, when we seemed unstoppable, to realize we hadn’t apparent faults (see above post dedicated to Milan); because no team is perfect, and it has not to be, especially from the start.

You gotta perfect your game, and ask things to yourself to get constantly better and focused in a season; and to start up so easily didn’t put any of us in the right state of mind.

And you don’t get a right state of mind easily, especially as a two time defender champion, if nothing rings a bell in time…

We had to wake up and see incredible losses and blackouts: but unlike previous years, out from mistakes we weren’t growing; we seemed to recycle mistakes in new combination, and never get past them by evolving through them.

My shining sporty hero in pain

I don’t think it was a chemistry issue: in fact I still think we were a BETTER built team than past years; it was I believe a trust issue, but not in the way it sounds when I say it.

I’ll try to explain, because it makes me feel less pain inside to analyze things.

I still a scientist,  you know.

What stopped us this year, was a mental rely that we had in our skills; we past so many battles the past three years, that the players faced an hard time in not feeling able to revolve things anyway, at a certain point.

It’s more than complacency, and it’s not only complacency.

It’s a mental way of the body and the mind to save energies by getting through known and experienced paths that have already worked.

Somehow this year we missed the chance of discovering a new way to be great, and by the time that further quality we should have chased and developed  had tp be there to make us win, we simply… hadn’t “IT”.

And you cannot invent it at the moment.

I don’t claim this lack of craft as a conscious process, otherwise I’d BLAME my players hard; I think it’s a fine psychological balance the one of the achieving athlete, to try to squeeze the best out of himself, and resetting every time the past, although everyone claims they’re able to, is actually the most unbearable of things to be done.

Pau was a ghost in these playoffs but he will step up back.

Every time.

Then there is the real physical struggle: to reach for the FOURTH year straight a final series is something hugely demanding.

There is no comparable efforts in team sports: and simply, this year it couldn’t be done.

It couldn’t.

The way some of our players played these playoffs have been jaw-dropping delusional and disappointing.

Pau and Lamar have been shells of their former and possible selves; Andrew didn’t come up with a strong mind (unless last year) and Ron, Derek, and yes also Kobe just couldn’t be fully themselves.

Being these all players who have been there and done that already, I am sure they COULD see how nothing was actually right.

But what can you do if not trying to make things right nonetheless?

The way we fell apart also in style in Game 4 against Dallas (classless and unforgivable way to end a game to me, but I see from where it came from, just like Derek said) is a clear sign of this all.

Not cool, Lamar. Not cool.

It is the way sports work: we need to reset.

We didn’t reset this year, and if you don’t do that you won’t live another season of glory, because you will be struck in a past one that was gone and couldn’t re-happen.

Many things are on the horizon: I think the team will change, and it will be tough for me to see some people (beside Phil) go away.

I am deeply thankful to all of my Lakers for the emotions they have gifted me with; even today that I am in pain and I mourn over a loss to Cuban’s team.

I respect the Mavs, but I despise violently their hating owner.

I can’t help but love my guys instead: even today…

That was awful, Drew. NO NO NO.

You’ve gifted me two years of Los Angeles celebration, and I would have loved a different one this year that I am marrying; but as my Labyrinthitis kicked out me from my usual way to follow you live every night, I felt this couldn’t be another glory Summer and I can’t blame you for your imperfect effort, when I first I couldn’t do my best as a fan.

Next year, my dears: next year we will be back on top, and I will also be back in my nightly owling support, after all the therapies will complete their runs.

We need struggles to evolve and we needed this to wake up from past dream, so that we could feel what we want to achieve as NEXT dream.

I am not feeling destroyed.

I only feel pumped to chase something huger and better next time; I long to see what we will be shaped like.

I know Kobe now REALLY will have to rethink himself as a player again to have HIS LAST ROUND OF RINGS (yeah, you read correctly: he will get TWO more before he says stop:mark my words) and he will achieve that without Phil.

I am still tall and proud in my Laker faith today; just today that everything seems a ruin.

I will miss this pair together. FOREVER. Thank you.

It’s not.

We will surface back again from our ashes, like a purple and gold burning phoenix.

Don’t doubt, and chin up, Laker Nation.

This is just a Summer a bit longer to rest and collect back forces.

Our next Parade just got delayed a tiny bit.

And just because of that, we will celebrate better and louder when it will come.

I hope my fellow fans are not too down; I hope we will not do anything unclassy and stay confident and cool.

We have the HONOR to be following a wonderful team whose glory shines through the years and so will again and always.

So let’s not be whiny and just let’s put things in the right and real perspective.

We cannot always win, but we will be up in line to win again just immediately, I have NO DOUBTS AT ALL there.

FOREVER A LAKER.

FOREVER A MILANIST.

Good day everyone ;), I still your very happy Miss Z. 😉

Soooooo.

Oldie of Adam and Anne in February 2009 at Lakers game: they just got back from a getaway weekend together actually,prior to his San Francisco gig and prior of her Victoria Secret's Fashion Show.

Lotta to list and to say, so we better start it off.

I’m kinda dead after a really fulfilled time; I had a wonderful and intense 4 days in row Halloween Party time, and I gotta thank that in Italy 1st of November is National holiday, because if I hadn’t rested that day after parties and Lakers Watch, the subsequent further two days, where I have caught both Sting and Prince playing in Milan, and subsequently on each occasion wake up at 3.30 am to catch the Lakers, I would have probably died.

After the intensive streak, even though I was thinkin of updating blogs, we just went on a calmer lock-down along Karim, and enjoyed quieter weekend, a couple MORE Lakers watch on Garda Lake (we brought Swifty along too! My lovely horse enjoyed the surroundings of the lake a LOT!!!) and one back home, and so today which is Wednesday the 10th th November I update, like a week after the originally planned time.

I always try to plan these updates being less delayed, expecially now that Lakers play every two days.

But it never works so, and now I am realizing it won’t get any better in incoming months, so…

Basically…

Get used.

kobe the god bryant. 3 nov. 2010

My days are filled… so much that I am actually thinkin I will have to follow dad’s advice and hire a personal assistant of some sort.

Trouble is… I don’t want to.

I’m the ultimate organizer (and control freak) and to delegate… still a thing of horror to me.

kobe in his glory against Kings, 3 nov 2010

But I have to admit especially with the new USA partnership AND all the things that our incoming marriage brings on the table, a secretary or an assistant might be of an extreme help (just today I had a whole day long meeting which dried me completely off, but which was a complete success, too).

Let’s see ( I will talk more about this later).

Now back on the sporty side, just so I get back by osmosis some kick ass energy  😉

Because there’s a lot (well, there’s a lot everywhere actually that has to be said… life and love… whoooo!)

Yep, I am 6 Lakers games behind commitments, and I will limit myself to post the videos of the games, and just small footnotes because you know that my daily commentaries about Lakers gotta be checked @lakers blog @latmedina…through my daily “Post of The Day” that I link in my own Twitter.

Yep, Lakers have been a test in sure.

But mostly for my skills at being awake, because we don’t have a concern in the world with this INCREDIBLY amazing team.

First game I gotta recap over was on Halloween Day, and we won over Golden State Warriors:

Then there was the Game of Brotherly Rivarly, the one against Memphies Grizzlies of Pau’s bro, Mark:

Pau owned his bro, Lakers just dominated, and we truly are in a great spot with this bench.

W-O-W.

kobe and pau. love and respect - 1 -

Killer B’s and not only.

Kobe and Pau Love and Respect 2

We just rule.

On the subsequent game, the first back to back of the season against the Sacramento King, I had to give up to chatting and game at half of it.

Yep, I was dried up after 6 hours sleep in two and half days, and after a great Prince gig; I tried to stay awake but I wouldn’t have been able to work if I had followed all the game live.

So I waved goodbye to the Fam and went to bed, ASSURED we would have won.

Kobe already in the first half looked fantabulous… so I had no doubts or worrisome thought whatsoever.

Look?

Of course I was right.

Cos THIS was the game:

What say over that?

WE are so much better than anything else and Kobe… wow…

Old from 2008... yummy old I mean. Any almost naked Adam Levine is so.

Karim went at my lab this lunch break to allow me to watch the half of the game he saw live and I did miss to sleep and I couldn’t even eat properly, raptured by Kobe’s shining greatness.

I suppose my system had to sleep and pile that greatness today and not yesterday, because I would have got an overload if after THE AMAZING PRINCE, and after Pippo Inzaghi triumphant game against Real Madrid, I would have also got to memorize so much from him.

Kobe Bryant is unbelievable.

Unbeatable.

The Best.

THE GOD.

End of it.

Accept it, surrender, and bow to him- NOW.

You will have to eventually anyway.

Oh, and while we’re on that subject of Milan, sure I missed to not being in San Siro to pay tribute to the great Pippo… I loved this interview he gave after game: really, really enchanting and true and real. Now take what he did (this is the only comment I could find, and I like the internationality of it 😉 Guy is really into Pippo, too!):

Pippo is unique too. His ethic and love for his sport actually is similar to Kobe’s although class-like he’s not a god-sent.

After that game it was time to face homies… to be more precise Toronto Raptors (finally a game where we got tested and we went a bit messy, but survived thanx especially to Pau and Kobe and Derek. Defensive efforts gotta be checked, but I prefer to be tested rather than not you know it):

Actually the game was watched by us not live… because we were at my Garda Lake house but weather was stormy and the whole of internet connections (Vodafone AND Wind AND 3…) seemed off.

Adam Levine and Anne V at Liv club in Miami, 5 November 2010

We tried to make NBA pass work then we gave up and went to bed (of course tv screens were broadcasting Miami Meat… hilarious cos the Meat LOST… ahahhaah!!! Double pleasure because as you will see later in the Babies’ section Adam and Anne were in Miami that weekend and after the game they went to famous nightclub LIV, celebrating their love and getaway, and certainly Lakers victory AND Miami Meat débacle…).

No chats either but when we watched the game the afternoon of Saturday we LOVED it even though (or maybe exactly because) it was battled out.

Out of a 6-0 run we faced then Portland Trail Blazers, our archi-enemies and at home it happened that Pau Gasol just was unstoppable.

Wow, the game was like a trashing in motion.

Actually the only one not being amazing and incredibly dominant was (hold breath) exactly Kobe.

I wouldn’t start (like BSPN will do…) to break the hair in four pieces about that: it was just an off shooting game, it can happen, and the point is last years we would have suffered out of that, this year instead we just ridiculed our always loathed Portland rivals.

I wouldn’t really be worried at all: in fact poor next in lines, YOU Timberwolves: Kobe can just have plans to eat you alive just to prove there’s no trouble in Lakers Land (and there’s NOT for real):


I am honestly in awe of my Lakers.

And on the other sporty side, Ferrari might win the racers title still (let’s hope, even though Alonso ain’t my buddy); while Milan can have something still to say in Serie A and Champions League.

It’s a good moment of the year 😉

We terminate the sport section with the latest of the 6 games that I had watched…

Exactly Timberkittens Timberwolves this past night:

Kobe points helped us win a way too battled out game.

beware NBA ranking-writers... Adam can hurt you this way 😉

It’s still early seasonal time and I’m actually glad we won, though I had to re-watch the game during today’s lunch break at work cos again Internet and NBA pass were messy this past night and after a stream of lost attempts at regular viewing I stopped chatting and watching and went back sleeping at 5.30 am.

In time to see at least the end of the OT – THAT game was the one broadcasted on tv… shame still on Sky Italia – after which  the 3Chokers finished getting beated up by Utah Jazz (ahhahhahhha…. LOSERS… lmao…).

Wonder if Divine Adam will see his wish coming true and rankings of NBA pay more due respect to our Lakers (I doubt it).

We just need to tic and toc next one… that’s gonna be demanding cos it’s Thuggets at their home and you know I have always a certain scare of Denver (well… not scare.. you get me what I mean, right?).

Anyway, Lakers are gonna THREEPEAT.

No doubts.

Let’s enjoy the ride up and down, and let’s not freakout when (soon or later it’s gonna happen and it will be healthy) we will also lose some games.

Adam in the dark. With transparent tee. Yes, please.

Well, a bit of life blogging now, although I have already said something up above.

Our own Halloween has been easily spectacular, and you know a bit of it if you follow me on my twitter.

4 Days party time, from Thursday to Sunday, and each party was amazing, even though us hosting more than 70 people at Karim’s flat was obviously the best part of it.

We love to throw huge parties, but we are also very open in forcing our best peeps to stay and then help us clear and clean it all the morning after (yes we did ;)).

Everyone had a blast at each party, we met also new interesting people along (a rarity these days) and unsurprisingly our outfits (see previous post) were totally loved and praised and probably made a few a bit green… all good&better, yep ;).

more hob 2007

Of course we keep getting questioned about our marriage, everywhere we go and at any event we are at, and that happened also on the Halloween feasts… people wanna know every detail but baby… it’s ME: of course you will never know until it happens like we want it to happen.

You just have to know your lives are BOOKED and in August 2011 part of your holiday time will be a 5 days trip to Japan.

My friends are freakin out about that, in the best possible sense of the words.

Adam gorgeous smile on the Today Show

See?

Sometimes the fact I am rich and I marry a RIDICULOUSLY richer person is REALLY good.

We can make every person that we love fly and stay with us in one of the most fascinating places ever in OUR great day and this is just sublime.

I shouldn’t brag because that doesn’t depend on any talent or merit and it’s just fate… graciously kind fate that we are upon to; but one thing we can control over and it’s this: since we can afford it, we’ll try our best to spread the joy and make everyone feel in a dream, because it’s how we feel and friends involve friends in their best assets ever, genuinely and generously.

adam riding on Geneva Lake July 2009 (Travis Schneider)

While we were getting questioned about Japan, marriage and trip, we actually also made our minds up about how we will spend New Years Eve, and where: no more Prague or Budapest, because Karim will be there next year for working duties and so we will be there anyway…

We chose Cote D’Azur and Montecarlo 😉

Not bad.

Classy, and nerby and FRENCH.

We’ll love to claim wishes in French those days…

His Hotness. Any angle of Adam Levine is perfect.

I can picture us there already 😉

Beside that, and among lots of incumbencies (for instance, this incoming weekend I can’t be in Rome as Maroon 5 come – see later – because from New York it arrives our wedding planner and we can’t leave Milan… so my family house there will host Marghe alone that better give me QUALITY stuff from their RDS showcase ;)…) we are starting training up for the incoming snowboard season.

Yep.

Soon we will get back to mountains.

Too bad among the many things we’re among (you know mine more, but trust me Karim is as taken if not MORE sometimes… but he never whines. I’m the whining one ;)…) we are ditching what was one of last year’s most  entertaining habit: the Wii League Thursdays.

We will resume those maybe exactly in the friendly weekends at mountains?

I hope cos we really like playing Wii all together.

But these times to arrange a total Thursday all together is really hard.

Shooting from May 2010. Adam Levine

Weekends are easier for these things 😉 and we just had learnt to cope with a limited optionality of time.

Talkin about my Marghe, she keeps deny that but to me she’s willing to become a mum and albeit I believe she’s not pregnant yet, I wouldn’t find strange if she would come and confess at ANY time she actually is expecting.

That golden guitar is blessed and anyone attending a Maroon5 gig this year knows why 😉

Can two BFF be more different?

I totally see her fitting as mum already.

While no thanx… I would DIE&Freakout&Refuse any of that now.

Now and for the next 10 years.

I’ve got too much more to see and experience before I can be a good mum.

Until I won’t feel fit, no way.

Karim agrees luckily.

He also has lots of plans to follow, build up and accomplish and even though he loves kids, he doesn’t feel like be a dad for a long while more.

Pheeeew (I would have refused to marry if I weren’t sure of that correspondence in timing between me and him).

We are looking forward watching the Milan expo of Japanese erotic art.

Adam Levine passion for photography is a well known fact.

I bet none of you is surprised… are you?

We drag our inspiration by all kind of artistic inputs… from Victoria’s Secrets to Murakami to Stravinskji to Flaubert 😉

Oh, and there’s a whole Theathre season we will catch up to (ah… if day time would be 36 hours… how many more things we could afford to do!!!)

Art is so mattering for us.

Shame that for my Country and Karim’s Second home… my Italy is at such an ashaming point we have left one of our best and most incommensurable treasures DISAPPEAR forever.

I’m obviously talking about the Pompei Shame three days ago.

It’s beyond disgusting… and totally in hands with the shame that our politic is.

I’m sick of all this.

SICK.

Why my beautiful Country has to suffer all this?

Why my generation won’t raise up?

This saddens me so much… because I see so much uncaring and superficiality… but I better change subject or I’ll either cry or kill someone.

Well, what else then?

Adam Levine, James Valentine, May 2010 HAO shooting

We will be in New York for the Thanxgiving time, celebrating with Karim’s family in the Big Apple cos we are finally looking also for a two room Manhattan pad.

YESSSSSS!!!!

My deck of house’s shaping dreamily.

But we really just want a small getaway, REALLY small, a bedroom and a kitchen, so that we can avoid hotel rooms.

We still want it in the Flatiron/Gramercy zone and hopefully, especially with Karim’s parents in town, we should seal the deal (even if we get the keys in 12 months it will be okay).

The New York spot will be useful also because with the new working partnership I’m meant to travel frequently there for touch&go’s and to have a pad and not have to rely on hotels for maybe 18 hours just stops would be light years better, you know ;).

Talkin about Thanxgiving...wow.

Lovely Maroon5 laughing. Awww.

Last year memories of when Karim and I still parted for long days… it was the first time I realized I couldn’t really enjoy time parted from him, if it weren’t just a day or two.

I’m so in love, bitches 😉

And yep… I’m already casting marriage gowns.

ITALIAN designer, of course (Vera Wang? LMAO… second rate stylist, sorry. There is just two types of fashion: French and Italian. The rest is not really serious).

Oh… we will have to forcedly rush back to Italy straight after Thanxgiving because I gotta check Lady Gaga in Milan, ;).

Okay… while we are on music subject, let me just say that latest EMA were hilarious.

They should just stop doing awards… they’ve lost any serious relevance and while I was ready to take off Grammies from the lameness, last year Taylor Swift’s win proved also Grammy are a sham, so I’m just on a roll and include them in the whole same list too.

Before I get into Maroon5 territory, let me post a series of videos out of the GREATEST PIECE OF TELEVISION OF 2010.

It’s “Vieni Via Con Me”, on Rai Tre, with Fabio Fazio and Roberto Saviano, the author of Gomorra, which was broadcasted two days ago (November 8th).

Roberto Benigni - Vieni Via Con Me Rai 3

It was the time when I grew back hope in the good genes of my Countrymen.

The highlight, as everytime he does anything, was the purest HUMANIST of the past 6 centuries: ROBERTO BENIGNI.

This man is a miracle of grace.

I post the videos… and I am sorry for any of you who don’t understand him… you should learn Italian just for it.

He’s a genius: the genius blood of his Tuscany ancestors, which gave life to the greatest artistic geniuses of all time, runs blessingly in him too:

The monologue:

The part in honor and with Saviano (totally bewildered and in awe of him).

And then the most awesome and deep and moving rendition of the immense song “Vieni Via Con Me” by Paolo Conte:

My Country is THIS one.

The one who cannot take anymore to be ruled and to dwell into disgustingly thick criminally bound links; the one who’s leader in culture, arts, genius… not the one who seems half-brained through bad opium tv made for idiots.

Italy still has hope.

And pride.

Thank GOD.

Gorgeous. M5. Nuff said.

Time for goodness in music now… and there is LOT to say and track, so… get ready.

Not many videos today, because until kids get back in Europe for promotional duties (starting exactly with Italy) not much is around (some will come from Monday past night in San Francisco as well though, soon or later, I hope), but we have TONS of pics so don’t complain 😉

New and old, of course.

Let’s start from where we left two weeks ago then 😉

Lovely babies where on the last steps of their national tour second leg, and where in Windy Chi Town.

From second leg of the tour - 1-

I was composing tables to guess which space of time Adam and Anne had to complete their respective tasks (question: was the swimsuit shooting of her in Turks and Caicos the one for ANOTHER – it’d be the 7th consecutive… kinda unprecedented! – annual spread for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition? I hope we’ll know about that sooner than later… ;)) so that they could reunite for Adam’s annual Halloween Party and  I was thinkin “Wow… a life on airplanes… but sure it values the efforts!”, when following latest streams of music bites along, that in some moments also made Divine Adam filled with expectations.

When Adam was wrapping up gig in Chicago, Anne was returning in her New York house btw.

I was thinkin they might have gone with matching outfits (Adam and Eve?) but I undervalued the need of Adam of being a kid and loving a lot being covered in bruises and bums in all of his Halloween latest offering as for disguises (not that we complain… >>> *hotness* never makes me complain ;)).

from second leg of the tour - 2 -

In the Chicago date Adam actually went walking in the middle of the crowd (imagine the squealing…) 😉 and I honestly REALLY hope he will replicate that as many times as possible (prepare bottles and jars to store his sweat… one day technology will be able to clone that 😉 *kidding*… THEY COULD ALREDY!!! Okay… still kidding ;)) because of course that can make anyone go crazy.

It’s also their way to be totally lovely when they meet up fans that keeps making me enjoy these guys.

They’re good guys.

Adam made Dallas' director of luxury Zaza's Hotel gift him with a strange piece of vestiary...

Guys were very thankful for the way the month of October had made them feel, and as it always happen, I melt when they are so openly cute (aww).

I also really enjoy to follow the ongoing tacky taste of Adam for his kiddy requested underwear (oh, Adam… Calvin K. is disowning you…), as the gifting of what he asked for in July keeps going on… *sigh*

Luckily after that, and after Anne already did (see previous spaces in this blog and previous post) he managed to be his perfectly loveable self when he also shout out to little Penelope for her runaway introductory contest (little girl has the loveliest godfather ever 😉 and of course she DOES love him… secretely? lol… I’m sure she does love him openly ;)).

I still don’t know (I got mixed reports on that, and I guess they/he might have need rest, but you never know with hyperactive boy…) if after the gig they truly went to beautiful Chicago Club Cuvée, but if they did, they sure enjoyed a wonderful location ;).

Anne V in the spread of her covered Elle Sweden November number. So beautiful she is.

That very day, on the Anne’s camp, I received from my friend Anne-Karin the Elle Sweden November 2010 number with her on the cover (gorgeous… girl has a wonderous face) and this you see aside is the picture I love the most in the inner spread.

Karim kindly read for me all the Swedish Interview and for sure we would love to check some of her New York Tips when we get back there in two weeks ;)).

One more thing you should get note of: BID ON THIS GUITAR FOR CHARITY, thanx. ;).

THEN ENJOY THIS VIDEO OF ADAM ON ELLEN DEGENERES (TOTALLY ADORABLE), as prize ;).

Now after Chi Town the guys had their last date of the second leg of the tour in Minneapolis and that was also the final one along One Republic.

Adam enjoyed their company (it’s not the first time they chose them as openers actually), and was openly praising them – so when we will get a Ryan Tedder + Adam Levine tune?

I would DEFINITELY love it.

Oh yeah.

More shots from HAO session 3 -

I bet the way guys said bye to their bus driver got well enlightened by said bus driver’s mum.

Awww. Kiddy Boy…

Just when the tour was wrapped, we got the assurance they would have come to Italy (I already wrote it in previous post): I’m sorry to not being able to get there, as you know (see above) but well… I can always listen to the radio, also because I generally listen a LOT to RDS Radio anyway 😉 !).

Their stops are Italy on 12, then Paris on 15 (did they save some weekend spread in Rome?? That’d be so sweet), Then there is that Kid BBC benefit you know about since my latest post (CHECK IT) and then on the 17th they are in Amsterdam.

One small voice tells me inside… why didn’t you move your lovely butts here over Europe a bit before?

But anyway better later than ever… ;).

Maroon5 (minus Matty) Halloween 2010 styled 1

But let’s go back to regularly timed updates.

On October 30th, Adam touched back to LA, all involved in basketball talk (lovely…) and actually allegedly Anne arrived home (his home) even before him?

I have probably got that wrong… and they touched down there just together ;)… even though I love to know they hold keys of one another’s places.

That’s very cute.

As cute was Anne’s plixi of herself on Adam’s house balcony with her hair *almost* done for the big party.

Adam as John McClane. AWESOME (barefeet included)

Gorgeous sunset over LA in the background… (hear me sighing out in awe thinkin of my/our house there… that kind of sight takes everyone’s breath away… especially when you’re in love and share it with your lover. TRUST).

Adam announced through Twitter which costume he was going for and when he said that he was going to be John McClane I  thought 1st that he’s really fixed with Bruce Willis and 2nd that he might have been trimmed out his hair (but then the fact got under radar and I was pretty confident Anne would have discouraged it? who knows… ;)).

You actually see from the pictures he didn’t shave head and he was absolutely smoldering actually (is there a way he might be not? Exactly… there isn’t any), as the pics you see here makes you see.

Anne V. Hooters costume for Halloween 2010

Anne was going for the Hooters card instead… and girl was of course hot, and truly NOT in need of boosting up her boobs which are perfect as they are on her totally goddess shaped like body.

I would have guessed for her a different outfit for the party time but whatever girl choses fits her.

And she was lovely tweeting that picture you see (yep… THAT house. IS. THAT. Yeah.)

The party was under every notion applicable a total blast.

Everyone was just windblown by it and naturally: Adam this time magnified himself during his favorite holiday by renting the Hollywood Cemetery.

Yes.

AN ENTIRE CEMETERY, a MONUMENTAL one too.

He did.

Adam Levine as John McClane 2 - by Nathan Scott

Everybody flocked there, and if I only could have I would have sold soul to enter too (I would have know whom I had to address at for it 😉 no problem).

Halloween is really a top way to have a great night out, especially in Hollywood… where everything is twice as crazy and enormous and creative.

And decadent, too (which isn’t bad…).

Photographer Scott Nathan allowed us some privileged shots from the interior too (crazy & coooool!!!), and a lot of LA creative cream was in there to have a set up for good madness (when else is fair to get mad?).

Too bad Alex Greenwald did not show us his disguise ;)…

While Steph and Sam Farrar, how adorable, instead did (Vesper of course wasn’t along ;)…).

Dunno about Jeff Conrad’s costume, but yep it was just like the Phantom Planet + Maroon5 golden joint era all over again allegedly 😉

I loved a lot Seth MacFarlane’s costume as Hannibal Smith too 😉

But yeah… Adam as John McClane and JESSE as Nikola Tesla (awesome!!!) obviously were my fav pieces of disguises.

Maroon 5 Halloween 2010 more

I still found cuter than the originals Austin and Sophia dressed as Russel and Katy, as well.

It seems that not a single one getting there could hold back excitement and the whole scenery and mood and vibe was just off the hook.

I could have collected literally hundreds of reports out of it… after a while I just stopped receiving them because I would have turned green by envy 😉

In a nice way but… still 😉

In Adam's words... action duo 😉

Catch some pieces of news from Los Angeles Times

From VH1

Then from Just Jared

From Akon’s World HitLab 😉

The party was well worthy every kind of praise and ravishing commentary, but I found a bit cruel that Anne had to fly immediately back to New York like… in the wee hours of THAT same morning.

Poor girl, I thought, never catches a break (and she’s made of steel, allegedly… too! Noah Passovoy wasn’t the only one shocked about her resistance there I’m sure!)…

I was wondering which kind of really important task she had to pursue to leave that way from there, after a bubbly chaos and so much fun (Adam slept over the entire after day… happy and destroyed… just saying ;))…

Cuties & lovelies. And badasses. always 😉

But on that you will know in a small while 😉

If you already as I presume don’t. 😉

Adam could stay because the band NEXT duty after the tour was the AT&nT Windows Phone Launch in San Francisco on November 8th.

And of course ALSO because he was due to VOTE in the middle term elections.

He did… of course, even though nothing turned out as he hoped for (well, technically Democrats won in California but it’s hard to take it as a win…).

Also, Jesse wrote a lovely blog about that… I advice you all to read it still (actually he wrote TWO, but the sense is that…).

Jesse and blogging are strictly related and guys’ got a wonderfully empathic brain… catch this one too (btw, I adore Orinoco Flow song too…)

But Anne had to be on the other coast… while Adam had HUGE problems to face in her absence (lol… ;))

Why?

Anne V for Louis Vuitton 2010-2011

She posted one of her new Louis Vuitton campaign pictures while there (the one she shot in Capri back in September… GORGEOUS!!!), but we couldn’t really figure out yet.

Well…

Because she had to answer to Victoria’s Secrets Phone Call ;).

Yes… that kind of FITTING FINALS phonecall.

Something that makes me awe she actually FLEW to  LA anyway for Adam’s party (that was really a love choice indeed).

Yes, after her first actually walkin for Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Runaway in 2008, Anne was actually casted newly for this 2010 edition and…

Anne V Victoria's Secrets Wings to close Country Girls segment at 2010 Show - 1 -

and to make it even more awesome THIS TIME SHE GOT WINGS 😉

Yes she did 😉

I always smile recalling last year when VSFS was broadcasted the guys were back in Switzerland recording and at a certain point in the Alps boredom Adam tweeted that he was finding solace (“Paradise” actually) watching the last year’s show (which wasn’t even that good).

For a modelizer of his genre, sure nothing can look as inviting as a Victoria’s Secret catwalk… but then and now are two very different “Adam”… and it’s one of the models about to walk that catwalk (show gets recorded TODAY and broadcasted on November 30th) who has changed him so much.

I find it awesome.

Anne V Victoria's Secrets Wings to close Country Girls segment at 2010 Show 2

I wonder if he had imagined by then a year later he would have been with one of the winged ones 😉 (sure that plan sounded makeable enough at any time… ;)), not to mention the record holder for most consecutive apparition in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition ;).

Mostly I wonder if he had imagined this link would have turned him into an openly exposed overtender guy, who shouts out freely at his ladylove full of pride and joy for her achievement.

He’s always been that to me… but now he lets this shine along for everyone to see.

That’s very much a great change.

Immediately after Anne’s casting, and in race for winning “most miles flied over in shortest amount of time”, the two lovers left the respective coasts to toast themselves together in a private weekend time (awwww), in between at that point Adam’s duty in San Francisco with Windows and Anne’s Victoria Secret Fashion Show Runaway set for being recorded TODAY.

Anne Vyalitsyna and her first Victoria's Secrets Wings 😉

Anne got cheered by Adam’s assitant’s wife (Penelope’s mother) about the getaway and the working achievements and her answer to her was so sweet and full of familiar vibe I pictured immediately the 5 of them going on holiday all together… maybe soon a 6 trip? Okay okay… I know… I’m reading too much into stuff (it’s my soon-to-be-bride-mode ;)).

While Adam and Anne were flying (we discovered later they were flying to Miami, for a very bouncy type of weekend), we got served the news Maroon5 along Buddy Guy(WOW!!!) and Sara Bareilles will lighten up the Capitol Xmas Tree for the Presidential Stay.

Wow.

I wish I’d be in Washington December 9 for sure 😉

Hands All Over everything's that's THEM.

Then on November 23 they’ll be on the New Conan O’Brien tv show and on December 10 they’ll be East Coast again with Jimmy Fallon (more Questlove greatness to mix with? Yes please).

More awesomeness (and a straight Amazon + iPad purchase by me) was this awesome piece by great artist, writer and filmaker Andrew Zuckerman and his new piece of art called “Music”.

Just get a glimpse and then GO BUY everything like I did.

Amazingness, indeed.

Back at our Lovers (I started to call them ASquared like DSquared fashion brand… I will change it in a while I hope… but these pictures of them glued won’t help discourage the twining comparison ;)), Anne had time to share a cute article from Modelinia, while they were expecting to…

Oh yeah!!! They ended up PARTY AT AWESOME LIV CLUB WITH TIESTOOOOOOOO!!!!

Yes.

Tiesto.

Everyone knows I flip about Tiesto cos I love his music to pieces… awww.

Adam serenades you know who... 😉

And well, Adam also had ways to serenade Anne through Karaoke at Liv private boxes, and not only, too 😉

*cuteness* 🙂

Then if real elections didn’t go well for President Obama and Democrats, at least Maroon5 were crowned Senate of Pop by MTV/VH1 (of course, in a land where Bieber is President, you cannot really feel okay… *sigh* ;))

But ehi… it’s never gonna be the same.

Halt.

My boy hangs on with Tiesto… right? (a proper collab… asap!!!):

A place where I would have loved to be in that EXACT time 😉 Tiesto, Adam Levine, Anne V. Liv Club. Nuff said.

Ended the blissful time, Adam put himself on a airplane to fly back to San Francisco.

Well… he put himself exactly into the COCKPIT of a plane… evidence here 😉

Maroon 5 at Fillmore 8 November 2010 1

Anne too flew back to new York for all of her fittings and trials, because she’s got TWO outfits and you can see some of the pics here that I have been landed from friends and peeps hangin in the fashion territory.

Oh… the beauty… 😉

I also got in mail this week InStyle Magazine…

I had already got it anyway though cos lovely daddy passage at Mondadori this week brought me the Vogue Spain number with Anne on the cover along four other beauties and exactly that InStyle number with Divine Adam + VV fashion spread that you know already about (see previous posts).

Awww…. The two should just pose together in a proper fashion mag

For real.

Adam Levine in InStyle and Anne V in Vogue Spain November 2010 Issues.

Imagine the total shine!!!

Same shine, though of a different kind, spread from backstage into everyone’s eyes and ears when legendary Fillmore was graced by our lovelies for the Windows launch gig.

You’d tought traveling was ended?

NO WAY.

Anne V second outfit for VSFS 2010 1

Adam slept nearby airport a bunch of hours straight after gig ended to jump immediately on a plane and reach Anne in New York.

Of course he wouldn’t miss her shine either, gracing VSFS runaway, would he?

Or any of the pre-promotional duties (call him mad… look… 😉)

I melted… the once never ready to use planes man caught 6 in not even a week for her 😉

ADORABLE.

And he seems to really feel fine in New York by now, as she does seems way more acquainted with LA by now.

But heck… she DOES deserve all this. Look at her!!! 😉

Talkin about things deserving, although the category is a bit strange… well our lovelies are nominated for a People Choice Award so just click over and vote, thanx:

Click over to vote for the People Choice Award

So, at the moment Anne ‘s enetertaining the world on the first of the TWO taping of today’s show, Adam is ready to reach her at Armory Plaza (he slept way more than her… officially so that Chovy could melt more his heart… lol…) and sun shines (or whatever: they’re so happy that probably could substitute Sun through their shimmering smiles at one another).

Anne V second outfit for VSFS 2010 2

I wonder if there’s a small small chance that on the over planing of planes these days she will actually fly with them tomorrow morning to Rome too… I think it’s hard given the work but I’d LOVE that.

What other song will he dedicate to his runaway angel after today? 😉

They MUST visit Rome together 😉

Soon or later?

Sooner than later?? 🙂

They are just so beautiful together.

Anyway, music for today (beside good Akon and DREADFUL Katy Perry) will surely be Lady Gaga on that VSFS catwalk and I  am already amazed at almost all outfits.

I surely want EVERYTHING out of this Anja Rubik’s mise (from Zanotti’s spiked boots to the awesome kimono!!!!):

Anja Rubik and Japanese Kickin Ass for VSFS 1 -

Anja Rubik and Japanese Kickin Ass for VSFS 2

But in the end I just wanna Anne to enjoy herself, the crowd and her man and shine along on this beautiful stage.

Awww... they all look awesome... VSFS preview 2010

What more?

I guess it’s all by now…

I wrote a novel long type of  post!!!

And it’s time to go writing some Lakers.

Oh… there in my Today’s post you can follow my daily music tips.

You get that after such a long recap post putting up more videos would be nonsense 😉

Have all a great great time in our breaks 😉

If/when you feel the need to have bits of me, you know, twitter is the only way.

Or either you MUST hang on in the Lakers Blog 😉

Those are my web places only practically.

Daily ones I mean 😉

Luv, and lotta shinery, Z. 🙂

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My ass. Literally. Sardegna 2010 😉

My lazy ass (still a fairly fabulous, kinda brazilian one I have to say…) has collected pieces of infos during my awesome (help me say it : A-W-E-S-O-M-E) holiday cruise on boat all over Mediterranean Sea.

I am pretty much singing with angels and have fairies brush my hair and polish my nailpainted toes so to come here, open Noah and start to type over it is like a HARD task.

Hope you appreciate the *big effort* ;)…

Actually, this here is where I have to make all those 127 emails related to Maroon5&Music stuff go, or Yahoo mail will explode.

Hence this first update (note: my fantasy gets dried over titles when I am vacationing… so this is the best I could come up with ;))

Maroon 5 on the video set for "Give A Little More" directed by Paul Hunter

Nah okay let’s be more polite… Although I am still sailing, and I will end this only in Verona on 28th of August (I am at Arena watchin Opera, you know… I am a rocking soul who loves opera too…) the amount of Maroon5 related material was a bit overflowing from emails so at least this has to be done, for how simple compared to my usual posts this could look.

Just a note: don’t ask me for blogs about my holidays.

The only reason I was carrying on with Twitter on holidays (thanx, iPhy: without you I couldn’t live ;), and it seems James shares my iPhone love, yep!) was to let you all know some of it to make you AVOID to ask me about it in other ways ;).

Let’s go then.

Pictures in this pages are either mine, gifts from Jennifer Coles or material shared by Maroon5 themselves through their web spaces.

Same goes for videos, audio excerpts and whatever else.

I start happily with a surprise I discovered actually recently when I wrapped up my magazines I brought with me on holidays.

This was in Cosmopolitan Italy August Issue:

Adam in Cosmopolitan Italy. Aww 😉

We left boys starting touring and enjoying nature and friends and girlfriends along (girlfriends who are very friendly with others stunners around… and I LOVE that in beautiful people ;)).

Adam wins. Anne... erm... not. 😉

Anne V, 15 years old time, modeling for Ralph Lauren (awww!!)

The tour goes on smoothly and beside the crossing over to Canada, where Anne wasn’t involved, she pretty much followed her baby along all time, until she flew Europe to pass her holiday time on August 13 (sadly bummed trip due to a missing luggage… YIKES!!! Those LV maybe? *tragedy* if so…. I would be dark for ages if I ever did miss mines…).

Lovely creature from Russia, – who’s right now frolickin in Turkey – though enjoyed a lot of Summer Life Tour previous to her coming back nearer to National Roots (maybe she should just get a bit better with bowling, but everyone gotta have some minus, after all 😉 And she’s so adorable in everything, to be lame in bowling is totally forgivable).

I mean… she was looking like THIS at 15 (awww… my hairdo ;)).

How can anybody not forgive her a wrong bowling game? 😉

I really like the way the guys are keeping people up during their summer traveling with an equal merge of tour bites, lessical nonsense, fun pieces and… well… also some political and ethical issues that they always put in the mix (and that’s something I love them more for).

Maroon5 Gone Good for Green

We also get to know how many grey hair Adam’s got (they look awesome on him, if any ;))

Ry Cuming joins Maroon5 on Summer Tour. Click for video (via popdirt)

That bowling thing that I was referring about above got on after Jones Beach gig on August 11, a stream of love Adam and the boys loved a lot (and you can see why ;)):

Jones Beach before...

It’s actually a very beautiful location, and it was nice to learn after his kidney troubles also Owl City could finally be part of the tour (I knew I would have LOVED to witness…).

Jones Beach Crowd 11 August 2010

Actually the gig I would have loved to see from this tour would be the Boston one (previous one), because beside Owl City I would have got the IMMENSE pleasure to hear live the amazing Janelle Monae.

I can’t wait to catch her live.

She pretty much kicks ass 😉 and she sounds also as person as a totally down to Earth, amazing spirit.

Every single time Maroon5 are involved with new people, and those people are voices or artists I already like (I got shocked by Janelle Monae on Letterman, and started to praise her BEFORE any of them openly did to our acknowledgement), I get giggles inside.

You know I am HOPING so badly they will collaborate now don’t you? 😉

Not always though my hopes about them get fully filled in.

You know I never lie nor hide my true feelings and I have to say the UK version of Misery video is about the wackiest thing ever. WHAT???!!!???

Do they REALLY like to go harakiri there or what?!?:

Maroon 5 Misery Video. Uk Version. No, NO NOOOO. Barf.

But luckely for every wrong move they come up with ten good things, just like this chat:

or like this further statement about Sound Strike:

And more importantly, they JUST ADDED ANOTHER DATE AT THE GREEK THEATHRE IN OCTOBER!!!! So I will spend a day more in LA and I will catch them two nights in row.

*Awesomeness* 🙂

Aside from rocking crowds out this summer, with ballons and coriandoli and kids’ requests (that’s Adam’s, fyi) Maroon5 have been involved in some fancy fancy stuff in this first part of August.

For instance here you can hear lovely Jesse with Lucy Walsh doing a Beatles cover, which is always amazing, innit?:

Jesse and Lucy do the Beatles thing 😉

Most noticeably though, they have shot with amazing Paul Hunter the video for Give a Little More (finally, a word on the fact in May they JUST shot Misery).

There are stills and I can’t wait to see it (also cos I really really like the song from the live I got of it).

Maroon 5 in "Give a Little More" video shooting

And just because we’re talkin about Give a Little More, take this from the Vevo show, Give a Little More:

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exactly the song you gotta learn now and also Wake Up Call:

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Adam also got featured and enlightened in a episode of MTV US “When I Was 17“.

Needless to say, he was hilarious.

His Zen Tao ability to result at once adorably charming and totally nerdy amazes me all the time… ;):

Adam Levine in "When I Was 17" : awww 🙂

When he said he was “repulsive” I cracked out laughing.

He couldn’t be not even trying (and sure he did, he did try at times… ;)).

Sweetheart on stage

That face would prevent him from any bash.

That’s why he could pass the math exam even being DREADFUL in maths 😉

Adam Levine in New York Post article August 2010 (Model Behaviour)

He still such a sweetheart really really happy about being gifted to do what he loves most to do for living.

He always seems fond to share his gratefullness for the amazing life he got to live.

And that is lovely.

Truly.

Adam also got to find more people to follow on Twitter.

Comedians, Snoop Dogg, Ashton Kutcher, Lakers like Lamar Odom (I was surprised he took so much time before deciding for that, considering he is of entourage…), and rockers like Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee (oh, if I were a fly to listen to some of their chats… 😉 okay, I’m nasty… I know… ;)), and amazing friends like Rob Thomas (yesssss!!!! He found him!!! Love that :)).

And Rob, unsurprisingly, praised and proped Adam and the guys’s tough decision about excluding Arizona from touring.

You know how I love when our guys and their friends and fellow people speak their liberal minds.

I SOOOOOO love that.

And so, unsurprisingly my probably favourite tweet by Adam in all these days was the one when he did explain (more cohesively) his view on retarded Prop 8, overturned in his beloved California.

By the way, gotta admit out of all 36 people that I follow on twitter, Mr. West @kanyewest is MY favourite.

I said it.

He’s just awesome, and he can involve my one and only hero Kobe Bryant in Power Remix... that is just unbeatable in my book, folks, I’m a Kobe freak more than anything else cos the man inspires my whole approach at greatness in life… and allegedly Kanye’s too – great minds think alike –  😉

(sorry Adam, you stay gloriously in the runner up place though. I’m sure you agree with me about Kanye after all ;)).

While we speak about Kanye, his album got delayed till November 16.

This could be a good thing for us, if it weren’t that actually the fact AGAIN they are preceeded by Linkin Park on the sales week of September 14 won’t help at all any plan of ruling charts.

If the first single performances are again revealing of the impact the albums may have – which is generally fairly accurate -, sorry there’s no copetition between the Catalyst and Misery (so far, but of course I’d like to be wrong there…)

Still, on August 17 happy people can preorder Hands All Over on iTunes (only USA? darn…).

Let’s say I seem a bit more excited than Adam about 21 September in terms of priorities… That, or I just partially get the “brilliance” of Sons Of Anarchy… ;).

My HERO Kobe Bryant with Kanye West remixing Power

Whatever happens, I’m fine with it.

And so I hope they are, which I think they will be.

Rules of album chart performances after a decade bands are active (and they are active in a very “indie” kinda way, this regardeless the genre of their music) always have their peaks and lay downs and then peaks again.

I still not convinced by their strategy in promotional duties (skipping completely Europe, focusing on just half USA to tour, putting the first single out WAY too soon compared to the album release date, etc…), but as long as they’re okay and convinced, I mean… ALL is fine.

My appreciation as fan stays in the MUSIC and i don’t care how many I am in company with.

I will listen to them always as long as they’re around; enjoying gigs all over the world anytime it will be possible and cheering them.

That’s it.

Charting is important, but relatively at this point: they are in their niche, and allegedly happy to be (as they should;)).

On tour then it’s what you really get the dimension of cuteness about them.

Not strangely, kids (I mean… little people for real) always grab the true essence of adults, and they love them, don’t they? *swoons*

On the other side, socialites might start to find them a bit less intriguing…

He cracks me up… what can I do?

Boys on Tour

He’s hilarious, and probably has a short memory about a couple stuff… this unless back in *those days* he did not consider Paris H. a socialite, but an “entrepreneur” (yes, I’m being sarcastic… can’t help… and still he cracks me up cos I am SURE he would say that he likes to farts to whomever would present herself to him as a “socialite”. He’s made that way… ;)).

He still a kid at heart, and a funny one, to be precise.

You might find it hard to deal with, I find it quite poetical instead 🙂 (that Arrrr might surely be a Simpson‘s reference?).. and then he comes up with sweet words like these, and one just melts (I can see the goodness in New York Summer rain, both if Adam and Anne are in her apartment, or outside strolling together… how adorable are they?).

Chovy (Anchovy), namely Anne's Pomeranian dog.

Another thing that Adam shares with his belle is for sure a lot of Chovy love

I think as well Frankie could be not so pleased with that, but maybe it’s just cos I personally don’t see the point of small dogs.

You know already I just don’t like them: if I wanted a cat sized dog… I would have probably just chose a CAT (tastes, right?).

Yup I had to point that out cos Adam himself after all likes to verbalize out some pretty strong opinions as he goes on tweeting.

After a while he generally backwards a little, especially when what he said could have been sort of too mean, which can be either disappointing or showing him as a reasoning mind.

Depends on subjects… in all senses, I guess ;).

For sure though he has a personal vision of life, which is admirable even when (and it happens by my side, especially when he goes all relativism and immature-like) his opinion is not the one I follow as well.

Maroon5 rocking DC, 13th August 2010

Anyway, the tour still develop, my antennas are raising, and I hope you can still enjoy these updates even though they come so randomly during my well deserved own summer bliss ;).

Hope all of you nice souls (those who are) can enjoy a Summer even tenth as good as mine is.

It would be still Paradise, believe.

Rock On!!!

Cu later, *happy Zaira* 😉

PS1:

thanx to those writing about enjoying my Twitpics from holidays 😉 I am trying my best to make you all part of a wonderful trip. If you enjoy that, the best you can do is actually coming to Italy and see yourself!!).

Chris Martin surfing in the Hamptons

PS2:

Awwww I was about to forget…

Charisse was so cute in sending me a coupla notes about Chris Martin vacationing in the Hamptons.

I so so SO hope in this brilliant 2010 (musically speaking) also beloved Coldplay can put out the album.

It would be just spectacular cos also Radiohead are there to do it again.

Music is a bliss.

Get into the groove, folks ;)!!!

Z. 😉

Oh, boy.

adam arrival at GAME 6 (leftover)

Awake from 2h45 am.

Dried up but actually not.

Feeling so completely perfect.

And I haven’t eaten anything yesterday at dinner.

I was too agitated 😉

I had all to celebrate: naughty sex (a TRIPLET is naughty enough? It felt awesome…) shout outs… and the house is a happy mess.

Marghe comes in a while cos in a few hours we leave (me Karim, Mash and Marghe) to Rome, where we will catch the flight to Los Angeles tomorrow morning.

THE PARADE is IN FOR MONDAY, and you know… I TRULY bet on it, so I deserve it so much.

So many stuff are going through my mind… guess you have to read here what  have just posted in the Lakers Blog.

Today is Laker Day.

Adam texting during Game 7 of NBA Finals. Moody baby? Looks so.

Laker GLORY Day.

Nothing can be better.

NOTHING:

“Okay.
I’ve waited enough.

I’m awake since 2h45 am this morning and no way I will ever sleep.

I got day free from work of course (I called it in since Game 5, sure that in line:
– there would have been a Game 6;
-there would have been a game 7;
– I would have got to take days off to fly to LA and be at the Parade.
YES, THAT WAS THE MEASURE OF MY CERTAINTY, that never ever vanished out, not even during this game, not even when half of the chat and the usual suspects were already throwing stones at our guys, failing to understand how much a Game like this one we just lived had to find its reason in the will, not in the preppiness).

Adam at Game 7 of NBA Finals 2010. Getting to his usual seat.

I’ve celebrated all possible ways. (my way too).

I have already rewatched the game, because we taped it straight.

I have two tvs on (one on our Italian version of ESPN, Channel Sky 214, and the other on CNN News); I have two pc working and my phone is constantly thrilling.

I would go nuts if it weren’t like my adrehnaline and joy right now could hold an entire army of foolish trolls down.

I’m feeling SUPERSONIC.

Gosh, I never even attempted a spliff, and I am teetotal, but I guess this is the way people get stoned along, isn’t it?

Except that the most beautiful part of this all, of this incredible uplifting emotional ride that I am takin, is that I am FULLY aware.
I’m fully in control.
I remember everything.

I will remember everything, crystallizing this push into one of the most wonderful moments of my life.

… CONT  in the Lakers Blog”

I have videos to show, and pics of Divine Adam at the FinalGame (btw… trouble in Paradise? It’s two days that his tweets are way strange… and after all he never reached Anne after Game6 win, as he went with Jason Segel at The Brass Monkey but honestly today there’s no space for stuff like that, I don’t really have any intention to decode his laconism. Today is ONLY Laker Glory Day… there will be time to learn stuff if there are interesting stuff to be known) that you can see from here, courtesy of Jennifer Coles as per usual.

But what it lasts is truly the joy of an accomplished mission.

Adam hugs Kim Kardashian after Lakers are crowned 2010 NBA Champions. Look the new tattoo that sneaks up well on the back 😉

And for my part, the pride of having ALWAYS believed it.

I’m cocky… but actually I am not.

I believe things will go the way they have to and that when you are BETTER, you gotta win.

Regardeless of circumstances.

Yes.

This is winner mindset.

It gives you both confidence and responsibility.

It’s not easy.

But it’s great.

and there is a reason if I admire so much Kobe Bean (GOAT) Bryant. It’s because he’s the perfect example of this mentality, that requests no selfcomplacency, but always hard work to match and surpass expectations.

I will use tomorrow during flight (it’s a LONG flight) to update maybe blogs, telling about Maroon5 advice for charity, realising that we are a week away or so from Misery, putting up more pictures… Being more cohesive maybe.

But today is just a BIG HAPPY LAKER day and despite all the fake fans that are around and don’t really cheer nor Lakers nor bball, those who are into it, like me, just need to gaze at Purple and Golden Glory, knowing there are even better things awaiting for us.

It’s Kobe’s Legacy, and Lakers Dynasty.

JUST BOW DOWN AND SURRENDER.

Sweet 16 Baby!!!

😉 Catch you at the Parade :))))

Good morning world of Internautic Flavour.

Lakers Rulers in Game 6 against Celtics

So here we are.

Planning and actually booking (already done) tickets from Fiumicino to Los Angeles on Saturday (no Florence again, sorry…), because here we are, here we are…

My one and only hero gets ready for the game

Parade time approaches and THIS is my way to BELIEVE it.

Spending money to something that YET can’t be said assured.

Shannon Brown EXCEPTIONAL dunk in Game 6

Except that for me, IT’S COMPLETELY assured .

I’ve chosen that John Wooden quote as a title out from a wonderful post LAKER Truth shared in Lakers Blog yesterday prior game.

All quotes were perfect, but the one about Kobe, of course, it was more.

The Immense Kobe Bean Bryant hugged by Ron Artest

I already said in the blog I won’t YET celebrate what is to me GOAT (yes I said it… these playoffs by him have been LEGENDARY even already… but I do know I haven’t seen the best yet), but once more I just wanna enlighten my admire for this incredible, and totally inspiring athlete, whom we have been graced by above to get gifted from.

What I was asking to see today was finally performed under my greedy eyes. And it was spectacular.

But we have reached NOTHING yet.

So Lakers… remember TODAY:

And then just MOVE on and do even better on Thursday.

I spent already 2700€ out of belief I will catch a Parade on Sunday in Sunny Los Angeles.

Adam Arriving At Lakers Game6 001

This is the measure of my trust.

I know you won’t let me down.

Today I will miss to hear Spain FIFA world Cup game in the background of the lab, cos of COURSE I’ll revive Lakers Greatness.

The World Cup so far has been nice: I really love to watch it, it’s my favourite international sport event actually (well, mine and the rest of the world’s one ;))

Impressed by Germany and Ivory Coast, and yesterday by North Corea stopping Brazil; I loved Japan’s win, and well.. about Italy… It’s my team.

I support them.

But I SO hate Lippi and Camoranesi (he’s NOT italian!!!).

We’ll see.

Adam Arriving At Lakers Game6 002

I know you’re awaiting for music bites, and I have a ton…

Firstly because Maroon5 revealed the artwork of MISERY!!! (yes!!!) which I share happily here:

MIsery Single cover Art. LOVE IT!!!

and then because, beside the pics you see here in this post of Adam attending Game 6 hours ago (scruffy and lovely.. still adorable even that way ;)), we got random pics of James by Jesse, and a LOVELY insight from Octone MainMan about a ballad called “How“, that right now goes right aside Stutter as the song I long the most to hear from the album :).

Adam Arrving At Lakers Game6 - 3-

Awww.

I can’t wait.

Apparently there are people hoping in leaking but Adam’s confidence on the matter is mine: after all, it’s just 12 days away… And then I HATE leaks 😉

If you wonder why Anne wasn’t with Adam at the game, girl being in Palm Springs from a coupla days, reason is that she had to work till middle of it actually.

And you don’t run away from a Louis Vuitton Campaign you know 😉

(awwwww!!! I want all that set too!!! I already  have one but that in new colors is cuter ;)).

No evidence yet if after rushing to Staples Adam moved to his pad, her pad or whatever else, but we know what he was listening to at least: Lauryn Hill, allegedly (excellent, really!).

Adam in his usual positions courtside. (Pic courtesy of Jennifer Coles)

The picture would be perfect if it weren’t for another Creepy reference that was retweeted… does people really know who those two of that show are? If they don’t, better take a look HERE and HERE and hope like me nothing involving Creepy and/or the people he hangs out with will ever get TOO close to Adam.

Because if those are people Creepy sticks and licks for… man, shady times might be looming ahead.

And those are little notions compared to what insighters of the fashion world told me about those individuals.

Sure, maybe not all is true… but almost as sure, it takes enough if SOME of it is to put the ALERT all over.

But okay… no shady thoughts in such a wonderful day, even thought over Milan is rainy and cold.

Tomorrow I will visit Swifty so tonight we get back at me: you know, that LA Parade thing might see me away for a few days and my horse, you know, misses me a lot when he doesn’t see me often 😉

Songs for today are:

We Are The Champions, of best singer’s ever voice:

Then to be silly enough, the video of California Gurls (I know, it’s garbage, but it’s summerish enough 😉 and makes me think of sun and here it rains…) The VIDEO is actually HERE as from YouTube you see only a teaser:

click on pic to see the video

And then the masterpiece of Gorillaz, On Melancholy Hill (exceptional song!) Video is already considered a classic, though yet only stills are available on YouTube:

Have all a great day.

LLL (Lotta Lakers Love ;))

Kobe at practice.Good triumphant morning world!!!

As great things happen best when you’re confident they will, let me inform you that Lakers 2010 are so NOT like Lakers 2008.

Because like Hegel says, and that’s actually my signature opening post of the season in the Lakers Blog, history repeats but in an evolving trace, for those who are smart enough to evolve along:
“History repeats to the same patterns, but evolving from them to a more perfected reality, round after round. So we are the same: just better than last time. And we are getting better with every step more we take within the future. @ : ZAIRA AMATERASU”

Boston learnt it a bit this past night.

They learnt it THIS way:

Yup, I start immediately with this, because so it’s fair and man… I’m so pumped.

GOAT. Mamba RULZ.

I am so proud.

And I knew so well THIS would have happened.

To make it all better, today I had a surprisingly “no working call” because we’re gonna get inspectioned by Pharma Authority (random controls, it’s the standard) and so only dad and our administration gotta be there.

Awesome.

In fact Karim and I will leave to Garda Lake (over his Harley) right after 1 pm.

Gasoft WHO??? Eat that, Garnett 😉

I won’t miss the NBA Final Rerun because… I got it straight with Buffa & Tranquillo THIS PAST NIGHT!!!!

Adding and piling awesome over awesome.

I think THIS of the game: read it in the Lakers Blog 🙂 🙂 🙂

But you know I’ve always been convinced about Lakers.

My faith is unbreakable and it always was.

Sure: this is JUST the start.

Adam at the Game

But if you were watching the game, you would know this is a VERY PROMISING one.

It was team play.

It was superb.

I was having in mind so much for this post (I know, I’m getting lazy with the blog but ehi.. it’s summer approaching. I have lots of stuff to do: work, love, and sport. Plus friends – you take updates when they come right? I won’t miss a bit anyway.. you will see now ;)), but all got skipped in front of the beauty of this Game 1 Final.

It’s like I have only that in mind for today. Well, and sex. I always have that in mind ;)…

Love when he's into game...

As per usual, the connection between Lakers and Music , which always belong to my blog posts, for me is Adam.

Of course at the game, of course delighted by it.

He’s tweeting a lot this morning because Anne is on her way to get a flight from Scandinavia (where she has spent days in Copenaghen and Stockholm working) to New York.

It seems Adam’s tastes for tv series is growing up with her, cos she is happy in seeing Sons Of Anarchy (one of Adam’s rare passions regarding tv stuff) on the flight back to USA.

Strange?

arriving. not late. wow!

Not really ;).

Maybe it’s a bit more strange that Anne can say things like these, but I am playing the kindred spirit and I guess that was just misunderstood and lack of aptly worded expression, because she must know her man is one of the few who KEEPS producing *that kind* of real stuff, right?

in such a great mood 😉

I hope so.

It’d be strange otherwise, there it would 😉

Anyway allegedly they love to stay awake together even on the opposite sides of the world, not only when it’s about Lakers games and flights to catch, but also when this interfere a bit with Adam’s work (tsk tsk… but still cute).

Cute ;).

I would live attached at a skype device too in their places.

do you feel the expectations? Awww

I actually do when it happens (very rarely these days thank God) that I’m not aside Karim :).

Gosh he's so cute 🙂

Cute and adorably kind actually.

All the pics of Adam regarding the game are per usual courtesy of Mighty Jennifer Coles, whose work is awesome in feeding us as soon as things happen.

You rule Jen.

Thanx so much: this is especially great for Italian people that will later read my blog in the other version ;).

Anyway, back at music stuff, during Memorial Day all Maroon5 were actually on vacation (before getting back to that practice Adam was late at…):

Mickey was taken in some Texas stuff along the crew (love these insights!!!);

944 Cover Detail

Jesse and James were feeling bluesy and kinda country instead

Matty was allegedly taken with offsprings and Adam… well, you know… he was taken with Skype , teaching still somebody yoga ;).

While collecting energies through family/happy time, the guys shared something beautiful too:

944 Magazine article (courtesy of Jennifer again, I have got the chance to edit the pieces, and so there you go, I have treated the pics of them with Call&Response color panel, while the interviews I have processed so you can read it all.

Page 1 A 944 Magazine Maroon5

Enjoy 🙂

Page 2 A 944 Magazine Maroon5

More:

Page 2 944 Magazine b and Page 1 B

The interview is really beautiful and I love the way they get so serious about their music.

Page 3 A 944Magazine Maroon5

To me is no surprise their sound can be eclectic.

Page 3 B 944Magazine Maroon5

The reason I love Maroon5 for is exactly that they are VERY eclectic and talented, with tons of influences and a distinctive, peculiar approach at music that makes everything SO theirs.

Maroon5 on 944Magazine Pag 4a

Then there’s Adam’s voice.

944Magazine Maroon5 Interview Pag 4b

I can’t wait to listen to this record.

Adam 944

I can’t.

James 944

But Maroon5 weren’t the only ones delighting me with Music news.

Jesse 944

Because YES!!!!!

Matt 944

Mickey 944

Coldplay too did. Sending me to this awesome Studio time insight :). And therefore, it’s where I send you all too:

Coldplay in Studio with Brian Eno.

Man I am SO gonna love 2010.

It’s from 2002 that Maroon5 and Coldplay didn’t release an album the same year (but then I got Songs About Jane at the start of 2003… so to me it has NEVER actually happened ;)) and I drool literally.

title pager on 944 (luv graphics!)

Literally.

I’m so happy.

Everything is just so much like it should.

My life’s so perfectly fitting me at the moment it’s unreal and almost calling for hybris.

Sport pumps me, love pumps me, music pumps me…

I’m even gaining like a dozen Twitter followers a week?

I have almost ten times followers than people I do follow.

Not that really matters, but my friends love to say if I’d just like it, I could rule the world.

I don’t care.

I know that I am a winner by nature and I have charisma… that’s why I actually can’t stand losers. I am naturally against those by contrast.

But it’s not really something I care of, the way I reslt to people. My ego is way too big to care about other’s opinions on me.

I only care about a few people’s opinions and I just want being happy and make those around me whom I love happy.

I care about family, lover and friends.

I care about my Swifty 😉

I care about this world we live in.

But yep… if my idol is Kobe Bean Bryant, sure I have a penchant for perfectionist people with utmost unmatcheable talent and an attitude to be WINNERS.

And that’s why I feel like that my own way.

So far, nothing is proving me wrong 😉

I’d like to keep things on that track, LOL…

Yes, I know… I can be bad (this week I just played a poor engeneer, *very hot*, at a meeting I was having in San Donato. Poor man is lost. It took me 35 minutes to have him in the palm of my hand, and poor guy is keeping seeking for me. I LOVE when it happens. Namely… *always*? 😉 Yup… I’m that bad. And happy to be).

I can go out disguised in wig & make up to have role plays with Karim, in Milan nights out.

I can because we like it a lot.

And I’m not afraid of anything.

I don’t have time to be afraid of life.

Life gotta be lived.

And won over.

Like Kobe does.

😉

Catch you later, okay?

Translation of this post in Italian comes after we reach Garda… this evening maybe.

Be patient.

Or not: it won’t change my plans still 😉

LOL.

GO LAKERS!!!

Go Francesca Schiavone!!!

(I won’t mention Italy’s shame in yesterday match of football… we’re gonna get SO kicked this FIFA World Cup… ;/)

Catch you later, lotta love 😉

Forget the enthusiastic title… Game 2 was such a never put under menace win even the word “boringly natural” doesn’t serve as for purpose.

Adam and David (!!!! Tattoed hotties bonanza!!!) hours ago at Game 2 Series 2

Not that i did not enjoy it.

I have.

I always love to win.

Note: pics of today game with Adam and David Beckham, and the one of Adam and James Sunday are always courtesy of Jennifer Coles. >>> APOLOGY to Mash.

You were right.

James was there on Sunday, so I lost the bet.

But it was ages he wasn’t bringing Jimmy V along at Staples 😉 Sigh 😉

Back to the game…

And Utah really cannot worry me the single bit.

Adam and James past Sunday at Game 1. Sorry Mash. You were Right. I was Wrong 😉

We will hopefully close this in 4, if Zebras won’t have their deviance displayed against us.

Really… Utah?

Don’t think so.

I had a wonderful chat time in the Lakers Blog (presenting there from the iPhone log in my new Avatar there,  which is Karim’s portrait of Kobe, out from his wonderfull/amazing/superb fashion modeling op, revisited by Karim ditching the wonderful all white flair with a more apt – for the chat – purple and gold penning).

Before I forgot: one of the very few interesting things in the game was looking at the good will of Drew.

Good job kid.

You proved my faith in you okay.

My Baby Karim's portrait of THE GOD, Kobe Bryant. All peeps in the Lakers Blog can download it 😉

(Laker Tom!!! Buddy!!! I bet you’re ecstatic there. Can’t wait to read you later ;))

Our Three Towers combined for a monstrous performance but honestly… Utah?

It ain’t serious.

😉

Kobe… Kobe is KOBE.

Princess Jimmy should learn something about real champions and injuries…

I will voice up my Lakers views later in the Lakers blog, but now I gotta be quick cos Marghe is arriving for lunching with me at lab and really, there is not much we can say here about the game, that won’t be expressed by the usual videos.

Like the recap:

Or some excerpts, like the well deserved spotlight of speaking Bynum (proud of you baby boy!!):

It’s pretty much all?

Think so.

Only small note more: next game and the one after are both gonna be played in Utah.

On SATURDAY and MONDAY.

Dunno about you, but I *might sense* somebody has now the convenient gap of time before next (and hopefully already belonging to Western Finals Series) show up at Staples, to force himself into an airplane and reach New York.

Call it a feeling 😉

Music for today, inspired by an hilarious “comment-mail” some of the Pshyco‘s crew  (or maybe the Psycho herself faking another ID? Gotta ask Fede to track ID there), is Beck‘s Immortal LOSER.

Fits so well, and it defines Utah a bit too (but more Psycho… ah!!! the fun… 😉

Enjoy 😉

*No Mercy For Fakers* is my today’s motto.

Wait.

It’s my EVERYDAY’s motto 😉

Peeps, today I am way too tired out of a GLORIOUS weekend (amazing Alicia Key‘s gig in Verona under pouring rain… girl is SHINING!!! It was a blast!) and I am in no way able to update blogs “regularly”.

BUT.

Lakers did play (caught the last quarter during the coming back to Milan in Karim’s car… Noah did an excellent job in showing up the game… and I did check the chat from the gig 😉 you bet I did even though I clearly couldn’t write amidst the gig itself ;))

I’ll rewatch the game during break at lunch and then I’ll share my views in the blog and that is gonna be all I will write about today.

Because WE WON OF COURSE and here I am just to post a coupla videos about the logical triumph of my Purple&Gold Knights.

Enjoy the recap too:

And then the Awesome Lord Spaniard:

Awww.

Anyway, today the mere sight of Kobe eating his sweater turns me on.

I’m just saying…

😉 Later peeps 😉

Whoooooooo-haaaaa!!!!!

It’s here, it’s here!!!!

It’s Lakers Triumphant Day Celebration, folks!!!

Sure, PROPS to OKC for having played REALLY good.

Kids, you would have beaten ALL other teams in the NBA, hands down.

All BUT us.

Because we are the Los Angeles Lakers and our leader is the Immense Kobe Bean Bryant!!!!

Get ready because today I’m delighted.

So delighted Karim and I in this grey day on Lake Garda have decided to stay in and remain naked all day.

You bet it.

When in a couple hours game will be re-broadcasted (and you can bet we will see it ONCE MORE) in Italy we will go as dirty as possible re-living all that sent us tons of adrhenaline during this past night on.

So supreme.

And to top it all more… Utah sent Thuggets home!!!!

A dream.

Thuggets were the only team I was afraid of (though San Antonio always worries me in itself…).

Just live along the Magic LaLaLand reaching the win…

Take a look at Pau saving us after putting us in the gutter.

Look at the amazement that Kobe is always there to provide (take notice everyone: NONE IS LIKE KOBE!!!!).

Get a grip on yourself and realize D Fish is there cos he can provide the weighting shots in playoffs needing and weightin moments.

Stop questioning that.

Hewl.

Now let’s just hope Drew knee isn’t too affected.

Because yes, we are battling against all kind of possible injuries combined but… this makes wins just so much more tasty, doesn’t it?

Have a laugh along me hearing the always amazing Ron Ron explain how he could diminish Durant’s impact (good job Kevin D: you’re good… wanna wear some Purple&Gold? I’ll take you over LeBronze & his inflated hype any day…)

Bench was consistent (Luuuuke???? what??? you in!!! :)), and Lamar had his best rebounds in the fourth, just when it was preciously fundamental.

Joy is so flamboyantly pouring out of me I can’t hold myself.

We need to do a sauna here in my Lake house cos I need to slow down and relax.

Though generally Karim and I needs in my sauna don’t really turn into any *relax* 😉

Now I can go watching Alicia Keys tomorrow at Verona Arena… I can miss the live on of a Game 1, though in a way.. I anyway won’t.

I’ll bring the iPhone and save its battery ONLY to check out the game chat and know how it goes… DURING the gig.

Alicia knows (lol ;))

Oh, camon… Lakerholism is a serious thing (well, somebody should tell Anne the person who constantly craves for her attention – and who says behind her back the worst things – doesn’t actually know a thing about basketball… if I do remember correctly, ten days ago that person couldn’t even name Lakers players… but maybe some of her other identities she passes on from minute to minute have a decent bball acknowledge instead? Mistery of human brains… LOL… I keep shakin head at  certain individuals, but on the other side, man, to occasionally get a glimpse of those messages exchanged gets more and more entertaining by the day. I advice you all to take a dive into it sometimes. It’s FUNNY. Mostly sad, but funny too ;)…).

Anyway, as I was stating, Lakerholism is something serious in serious’s people worlds.

So Karim and I will enjoy Alicia’s awesome music with an eye (and a full heart) open to what happens at Staples Center.

We’re fine so 😉

I assume Adam will be there, substituting Anne (back in New York) courtside with lovely Sam?

In that case, no pics inside, but we will find a way to know anyway won’t we? (Mash… your duty.. but don’t stalk right? Stalking is a prerogative of nutcases… you know… those who would send everybody of your past and present entourage any kind of message with at least three IDs just because in their regular life they have NOTHING at all going on and they hopelessly target whomever available to be part of their idols lives, kissing asses around as much as possible, but then of course having the worst words behind the backs of all the entouragers, as any split personality would do ;)… don’t be not even remotedly similar to them, right my friend? Those are DANGEROUS people, and in need of help, serious help… Okay, I do know the only help you need Mash is about quit smoking, so… *excellent*).

As usual, now that Divine Creature is not in company, he fills some of his spare time with more tweeting, which is always pleasant.

Always.

Maybe we got what is making him pounding in a bit (you see it from his face generally, or at least I do… I also just a little teased him there… but affectionatively, of course 😉 Adam still gorgeous no matter what!), and anyway what I loved the most of his tweeting in my morning was this about the awesome movie Stand By Me.

Awwww.

Isn’t he a cutie pie with a sweet sweet heart?

Well… at least at times, when he doesn’t bend and goes to love B to D categorized trash movies, of course 😉

Also Jesse tweeted, about Fletwood Mac.

As I said back to him, if that “Top 5” could become “Top 30” I could sign myself in the niche ;).

Music tips for this “Naked Saturday” in Miss Z.s’ life are:

Course Alicia Keys:

Then standing Adam’s tweet,  Ben. E. King:

Plus some Smashing Pumpkins (saw them on VH1 Europe earlier):

And to close it smoothly, Anjulie:

Have a wonderful saturday.

I would advice you to do like Karim and I, and just remain naked on all day.

😉 Good things come by from that…


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