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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…
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.
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.
*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.
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. 🙂
My 2011 Sporty Tao: Milan and Lakers
Posted 9 May 2011
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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. 😉
Let’s call it “Recap 1”
Posted 15 August 2010
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My lazy ass (still a fairly fabulous, kinda brazilian one I have to say…) has collected pieces of infos during my awesome (help me say it : A-W-E-S-O-M-E) holiday cruise on boat all over Mediterranean Sea.
I am pretty much singing with angels and have fairies brush my hair and polish my nailpainted toes so to come here, open Noah and start to type over it is like a HARD task.
Hope you appreciate the *big effort* ;)…
Actually, this here is where I have to make all those 127 emails related to Maroon5&Music stuff go, or Yahoo mail will explode.
Hence this first update (note: my fantasy gets dried over titles when I am vacationing… so this is the best I could come up with ;))
Nah okay let’s be more polite… Although I am still sailing, and I will end this only in Verona on 28th of August (I am at Arena watchin Opera, you know… I am a rocking soul who loves opera too…) the amount of Maroon5 related material was a bit overflowing from emails so at least this has to be done, for how simple compared to my usual posts this could look.
Just a note: don’t ask me for blogs about my holidays.
The only reason I was carrying on with Twitter on holidays (thanx, iPhy: without you I couldn’t live ;), and it seems James shares my iPhone love, yep!) was to let you all know some of it to make you AVOID to ask me about it in other ways ;).
Let’s go then.
Pictures in this pages are either mine, gifts from Jennifer Coles or material shared by Maroon5 themselves through their web spaces.
Same goes for videos, audio excerpts and whatever else.
I start happily with a surprise I discovered actually recently when I wrapped up my magazines I brought with me on holidays.
This was in Cosmopolitan Italy August Issue:
We left boys starting touring and enjoying nature and friends and girlfriends along (girlfriends who are very friendly with others stunners around… and I LOVE that in beautiful people ;)).
The tour goes on smoothly and beside the crossing over to Canada, where Anne wasn’t involved, she pretty much followed her baby along all time, until she flew Europe to pass her holiday time on August 13 (sadly bummed trip due to a missing luggage… YIKES!!! Those LV maybe? *tragedy* if so…. I would be dark for ages if I ever did miss mines…).
Lovely creature from Russia, – who’s right now frolickin in Turkey – though enjoyed a lot of Summer Life Tour previous to her coming back nearer to National Roots (maybe she should just get a bit better with bowling, but everyone gotta have some minus, after all 😉 And she’s so adorable in everything, to be lame in bowling is totally forgivable).
I mean… she was looking like THIS at 15 (awww… my hairdo ;)).
How can anybody not forgive her a wrong bowling game? 😉
I really like the way the guys are keeping people up during their summer traveling with an equal merge of tour bites, lessical nonsense, fun pieces and… well… also some political and ethical issues that they always put in the mix (and that’s something I love them more for).
We also get to know how many grey hair Adam’s got (they look awesome on him, if any ;))
That bowling thing that I was referring about above got on after Jones Beach gig on August 11, a stream of love Adam and the boys loved a lot (and you can see why ;)):
It’s actually a very beautiful location, and it was nice to learn after his kidney troubles also Owl City could finally be part of the tour (I knew I would have LOVED to witness…).
Actually the gig I would have loved to see from this tour would be the Boston one (previous one), because beside Owl City I would have got the IMMENSE pleasure to hear live the amazing Janelle Monae.
I can’t wait to catch her live.
She pretty much kicks ass 😉 and she sounds also as person as a totally down to Earth, amazing spirit.
Every single time Maroon5 are involved with new people, and those people are voices or artists I already like (I got shocked by Janelle Monae on Letterman, and started to praise her BEFORE any of them openly did to our acknowledgement), I get giggles inside.
You know I am HOPING so badly they will collaborate now don’t you? 😉
Not always though my hopes about them get fully filled in.
You know I never lie nor hide my true feelings and I have to say the UK version of Misery video is about the wackiest thing ever. WHAT???!!!???
Do they REALLY like to go harakiri there or what?!?:
But luckely for every wrong move they come up with ten good things, just like this chat:
or like this further statement about Sound Strike:
*Awesomeness* 🙂
Aside from rocking crowds out this summer, with ballons and coriandoli and kids’ requests (that’s Adam’s, fyi) Maroon5 have been involved in some fancy fancy stuff in this first part of August.
For instance here you can hear lovely Jesse with Lucy Walsh doing a Beatles cover, which is always amazing, innit?:
Most noticeably though, they have shot with amazing Paul Hunter the video for Give a Little More (finally, a word on the fact in May they JUST shot Misery).
There are stills and I can’t wait to see it (also cos I really really like the song from the live I got of it).
And just because we’re talkin about Give a Little More, take this from the Vevo show, Give a Little More:
exactly the song you gotta learn now and also Wake Up Call:
Adam also got featured and enlightened in a episode of MTV US “When I Was 17“.
Needless to say, he was hilarious.
His Zen Tao ability to result at once adorably charming and totally nerdy amazes me all the time… ;):
When he said he was “repulsive” I cracked out laughing.
He couldn’t be not even trying (and sure he did, he did try at times… ;)).
That face would prevent him from any bash.
That’s why he could pass the math exam even being DREADFUL in maths 😉
He always seems fond to share his gratefullness for the amazing life he got to live.
And that is lovely.
Truly.
Adam also got to find more people to follow on Twitter.
Comedians, Snoop Dogg, Ashton Kutcher, Lakers like Lamar Odom (I was surprised he took so much time before deciding for that, considering he is of entourage…), and rockers like Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee (oh, if I were a fly to listen to some of their chats… 😉 okay, I’m nasty… I know… ;)), and amazing friends like Rob Thomas (yesssss!!!! He found him!!! Love that :)).
You know how I love when our guys and their friends and fellow people speak their liberal minds.
I SOOOOOO love that.
And so, unsurprisingly my probably favourite tweet by Adam in all these days was the one when he did explain (more cohesively) his view on retarded Prop 8, overturned in his beloved California.
By the way, gotta admit out of all 36 people that I follow on twitter, Mr. West @kanyewest is MY favourite.
I said it.
He’s just awesome, and he can involve my one and only hero Kobe Bryant in Power Remix... that is just unbeatable in my book, folks, I’m a Kobe freak more than anything else cos the man inspires my whole approach at greatness in life… and allegedly Kanye’s too – great minds think alike – 😉
(sorry Adam, you stay gloriously in the runner up place though. I’m sure you agree with me about Kanye after all ;)).
While we speak about Kanye, his album got delayed till November 16.
This could be a good thing for us, if it weren’t that actually the fact AGAIN they are preceeded by Linkin Park on the sales week of September 14 won’t help at all any plan of ruling charts.
If the first single performances are again revealing of the impact the albums may have – which is generally fairly accurate -, sorry there’s no copetition between the Catalyst and Misery (so far, but of course I’d like to be wrong there…)
Still, on August 17 happy people can preorder Hands All Over on iTunes (only USA? darn…).
Let’s say I seem a bit more excited than Adam about 21 September in terms of priorities… That, or I just partially get the “brilliance” of Sons Of Anarchy… ;).
Whatever happens, I’m fine with it.
And so I hope they are, which I think they will be.
Rules of album chart performances after a decade bands are active (and they are active in a very “indie” kinda way, this regardeless the genre of their music) always have their peaks and lay downs and then peaks again.
I still not convinced by their strategy in promotional duties (skipping completely Europe, focusing on just half USA to tour, putting the first single out WAY too soon compared to the album release date, etc…), but as long as they’re okay and convinced, I mean… ALL is fine.
My appreciation as fan stays in the MUSIC and i don’t care how many I am in company with.
I will listen to them always as long as they’re around; enjoying gigs all over the world anytime it will be possible and cheering them.
That’s it.
Charting is important, but relatively at this point: they are in their niche, and allegedly happy to be (as they should;)).
On tour then it’s what you really get the dimension of cuteness about them.
Not strangely, kids (I mean… little people for real) always grab the true essence of adults, and they love them, don’t they? *swoons*
On the other side, socialites might start to find them a bit less intriguing…
He cracks me up… what can I do?
He’s hilarious, and probably has a short memory about a couple stuff… this unless back in *those days* he did not consider Paris H. a socialite, but an “entrepreneur” (yes, I’m being sarcastic… can’t help… and still he cracks me up cos I am SURE he would say that he likes to farts to whomever would present herself to him as a “socialite”. He’s made that way… ;)).
He still a kid at heart, and a funny one, to be precise.
You might find it hard to deal with, I find it quite poetical instead 🙂 (that Arrrr might surely be a Simpson‘s reference?).. and then he comes up with sweet words like these, and one just melts (I can see the goodness in New York Summer rain, both if Adam and Anne are in her apartment, or outside strolling together… how adorable are they?).
Another thing that Adam shares with his belle is for sure a lot of Chovy love…
I think as well Frankie could be not so pleased with that, but maybe it’s just cos I personally don’t see the point of small dogs.
You know already I just don’t like them: if I wanted a cat sized dog… I would have probably just chose a CAT (tastes, right?).
Yup I had to point that out cos Adam himself after all likes to verbalize out some pretty strong opinions as he goes on tweeting.
After a while he generally backwards a little, especially when what he said could have been sort of too mean, which can be either disappointing or showing him as a reasoning mind.
Depends on subjects… in all senses, I guess ;).
For sure though he has a personal vision of life, which is admirable even when (and it happens by my side, especially when he goes all relativism and immature-like) his opinion is not the one I follow as well.
Anyway, the tour still develop, my antennas are raising, and I hope you can still enjoy these updates even though they come so randomly during my well deserved own summer bliss ;).
Hope all of you nice souls (those who are) can enjoy a Summer even tenth as good as mine is.
It would be still Paradise, believe.
Rock On!!!
Cu later, *happy Zaira* 😉
PS1:
thanx to those writing about enjoying my Twitpics from holidays 😉 I am trying my best to make you all part of a wonderful trip. If you enjoy that, the best you can do is actually coming to Italy and see yourself!!).
PS2:
Awwww I was about to forget…
Charisse was so cute in sending me a coupla notes about Chris Martin vacationing in the Hamptons.
I so so SO hope in this brilliant 2010 (musically speaking) also beloved Coldplay can put out the album.
It would be just spectacular cos also Radiohead are there to do it again.
Music is a bliss.
Get into the groove, folks ;)!!!
Z. 😉
16 times to shout out LAKERS!!!!!!
Posted 18 June 2010
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Oh, boy.
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.
Laker GLORY Day.
Nothing can be better.
NOTHING:
I’m awake since 2h45 am this morning and no way I will ever sleep.
I’ve celebrated all possible ways. (my way too).
I have already rewatched the game, because we taped it straight.
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.
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 :))))
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Good morning world of Internautic Flavour.
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…
Parade time approaches and THIS is my way to BELIEVE it.
Spending money to something that YET can’t be said assured.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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 :).
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!).
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:
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 ;))
Hegel would be delighted
Posted 4 June 2010
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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.
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.
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.
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 ;)…
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?
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?
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.
I actually do when it happens (very rarely these days thank God) that I’m not aside Karim :).
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!!!);
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.
Enjoy 🙂
More:
The interview is really beautiful and I love the way they get so serious about their music.
To me is no surprise their sound can be eclectic.
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.
Then there’s Adam’s voice.
I can’t wait to listen to this record.
I can’t.
But Maroon5 weren’t the only ones delighting me with Music news.
Because YES!!!!!
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.
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 😉
Lakers Love!!!
Posted 5 May 2010
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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.
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.
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.
You proved my faith in you okay.
(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 😉
Tired, but awing at Lakers
Posted 3 May 2010
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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 😉
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