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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).

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. 😉

Good day, wonderful world!

What can I say…

I am happy?

I am incredibly fortunate to live the life I do?

I can’t believe that at 26 (yes, I am 26 since  almost a week…) I have got so many wonderful experiences that I have been gifted already to live, and it seems that’s a fountain that won’t end spilling over anytime soon?

Oh, man…

What a wonderous trip we had for my birthday week.

Before words will be found (somehow… but I know I won’t be able to paint not even a fraction of what I felt and still feel about that all), please take this amazing song, as guideline of amazement (lyrics are somehow imprecise but I loved the pics):

Karim and I listened to the song frequently during our stay… he sang it to me at least in four different versions (most amazing one the night of my birthday arising, in the Namibian Desert, in a tenth, with locals drumming along… it was pure magic!), because he says it’s really fitting the way he sees me.

And that he always felt that; and that he always had the will of taking me “down to Africa”, also to sing me that song under the right sky and with the convenient atmosphere.

Now tell me if I am not the luckiest person that ever lived ;)…

Of course the Namibian trip, for how perfect it has been, couldn’t move completely our minds and hearts off from Japan: it keeps wounding us the way this amazing Country so near to our souls keeps facing adversities; just the day of my birthday, and just to remind us we couldn’t be there as we wanted in that day, another qwake shaked that beautiful, unique land

Will it end?

next year we will be there for Hanami: it's a promise, adored Japan

Those people are so noble and proud and dignified: they don’t run away, they don’t beg help… they stay there to help their own roots and Country rise back with the most impressive love, dedication and loyalty.

So much for me to look forward to, especially when my own Country (Italy) is digging lower and lower into shame (I will carefully avoid to mention Berlusca here because this is a post about purity, love and perfection and he’s all that is OPPOSITE to that, the criminal midget…).

So while we were in Japan, feeling the love totaly upon us and inside ourselves, at a level that almost crashed us in complete bliss, the thoughts of Japan and about Japan were still with us.

I thank all my friends and family, that donated almost 35.000 euros to Japan relief instead than gifting me material things (that I have in abundance); I was stunned when in Africa a beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers arrived from Karim’s parents (awww) and along that a check receit of 20.000 dollars that they devolved in my name to the Japan Red Cross.

Now THAT is my way to celebrate birthday.

Thank you everyone… you are all wonderful and it humbles me and makes me feel so happy and secure that you are ALL part of my life.

I love you all.

In Africa we met the real sense of what humanity should stand for.

Namibia is an incredible Country… vast and different… you cannot avoid to love it, nor to notice and appreciate the extreme dignity they have, no matter how poor they are, and how they respect their territory and are very open to others, even though “others” for centuries exploited and bad treated them.

In Namibia there are for real the roots of civilization: some of the most ancient traces of human evolution are there, and there there is the oldest tree in the world; Namibia is also as all of you must know a place of wildlife and a paradise for feline lovers (and I totally am a devoted “big cats” admirer, you know that).

We went to Etosha, to Okonjima, we saw the dried Okawango starting to receive a little bit of water (season of sudden rain just started when we went in, even though we had the best weather actually and just caught a small shore for half a day in ), and while flying on a small private plane (we had used that all week long, to shorten the moves from internal zones to the coasts) we also saw the strange circles that cover the NamibRand Reserve.

I know I have been with jaw falling for marveling myself constantly ALL the week long.

ALL the week long.

We have enjoyed some special places, some incredible resorts (Kulala… oh wow…), but one of the things I REALLY love and admire in Karim is that he never really wants to be the classic super rich kid trying to fake taste exotic places.

So in fact the most amazing experience of our holiday was our day long volunteering for charity, the first full day in.

We dearly love children, and we know how privileged we are… so we have started to collaborate with the Children In Need Foundation and it’s not gonna be just a fancy “once in a while” pop-up.

We are gonna be serious about this.

Our families are gonna be involved too and we hope also our friends will.

Namibia, like most of Africa, has an incredible high rate of HIV positivity and that affects mostly children.

It’s not rethoric…it’s a true fact and the so-called “civilised” (don’t think so) world gotta stop having their heads stick in their asses and turn head around to catch the cries for help that the majority of the rest of the world constantly outs, unheard.

There won’t be ever peace nor collaboration until inequalities as intolerable as these won’t be erased.

In Namibia… the biggest luxury is WATER.

WATER, right?

That water we waste constantly without even thinking… there it’s something that values infinitely more than gold and diamonds (and Namibia HAS diamonds).

We’ve been profoundely changed by our trip.

Karim has already visited a great part of Africa along with his parents and uncle, and it won’t be surprising to know for those of you who know him that he could speak a bit (grrrrrrr) of the local dialects (he speaks fluent German, but the local language has NOTHING to do with it).

There’s something about him that charms everybody… our guide gifted him with a very precious bone completely sculpted as soon as he revealed to him he was into sculpting.

Then he said he would wait for us again to come over, but not at the resort: at his village and into his house, as “cloudly brothers” (it’s a way Namibian people have to call guests that they feel are coming for God’s Grace and Will).

Man, if I think of the sound of his voice when he said it and the way he was looking at us… I feel again the tears filling my eyes.

So powerful.

Indeed.

Only downside of our far away trip is the fact in the maintime Lakers managed to put 5 LOSSES IN A ROW.

Damn… 😦

I feel it’s very unlikely to have a wonderful further Parade before our marriage… but hey, a supporter gotta support and hope always.

ALWAYS.

In all this bliss, music as usual plays a wide part in my life… I have TOTALLY to mention that before flying over to Namibia, Karim surprised me bringing the two of us at Adele’s concert

WOW.

Girl’s unbelievable and it’s gonna be hard to top this life experience in 2011 (and I have many Coldplay gigs booked, as well as Radiohead as soon as they are again on the road… but trust me Adele OWNS).

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This weekend we will probably go to Liguria and … SAIL!!!!

Weather in Italy is purely amazing and completely Summeri-ish so it’s about time we renew the frequency with my boat (I still shake when I realize that the boat is MINE…).

Let’s cross fingers it won’t change cos I’d like to maintain my supremely uniform and healthy tan 😉

And then… well… you know Karim and I love to sexually tease our boat crew.

We can be so damn naughty and bad… (and when I did celebrate my birthday in Italy at Garda Lake with my posse, trust me we’ve been REALLY cruel and teasing… LMAO. My final “score” at the “Tease the most beautiful and leave them crazy with nothing at all” game reached a grand total of 12 poor hunks left dying over the floor. Karim was all pleased. He likes when  his supremacy gets conformed through someone else’s pain… it’s his dark side, and I love that he has one. Perfectly “good” people are boring and unreal, ya’ll ;)).

Oh… for next clubbing routine we will work over S&M of Rihanna.

Girl has got my mind in copycat.

I was exactly like her at her age.

Well, maybe even younger, way younger than her age… but I so understand and I like her dance-y tracks with heavy sexual references (I don’t like her voice, but there she gets heavily filtered so it works, both for the dance floor and for the upbringing mood).

Also because it’s clear that she KNOWS what she talks about there and doesn’t give a flying “F” about puritans getting shocked (puritans have the most boring and fake life, and will never get how amazing a great sexual life is ;)).

So take S&M and learn the routines… (the new version with Britney Spears is awful… Britney never was sexy, and especially is not now that she moves zero and still be chunky and short):

That’s all for now folks 😉

Catch you in a while…

Be wild and happy and true to yourselves, and GO KICK ASS 😉

I made it!!!

I was honestly givin up at the idea of properly upload the blog this whole month of December… then I wanted to make it and come… then suddenly I almost gave up again.

Mostly because just when I was about to start writing, my friend Marghe sent me this APPALLING news, that unlike my usual behavior I put up (as a rejecting/coping sort of therapy: after that I will be able to write all that I was meant to, including PRAISE to Maroon5… but this atrocity doesn’t belong to the rest of my post):

REALLY??? REALLY??? That Uk version is a CRIME!!! It's cheap and terribly done... WTH???

Oh dear Lord… who the hell is advising them on these stuff?

Can’t they see how disastrous this is gonna be???

I am a complete fan of comics, cartoon art, being a Japan addicted and all: to me cartoon art has a meaning and a really high dignity but that in the Misery thing is GARBAGE, plain and simple.

Can’t they reckon how the “revamped” SHIT version of UK Misery video was terrible?

And I KNOW, because being the fan I am, even if I totally barfed at it… I BOUGHT IT to stay as a completist towards their stuff!!!, and it almost made me feel GUILTY to watch the fuckery that is:

Worst. Idea. Ever.

I don’t get it… have they collectively developed a disease which mistakes awful for awesome? Are they kidding? (I wish…).

Then… Hands All Over as third single?

REALLY?

I am unable to cope with so much WRONG.

That is a good song, and I really love it, but after a weak performance from Give A Little More, you try HAO, which won’t ever be embraced by any of those who will never think you can do rock, and will be not fully taken by those who love you more on the rnb-popside than the funk-rock one???

*REALLY*???

And to make it even MORE difficult to embrace it, instead of going with a refined classic video (the story of the song would have given tons of chances for it) you betray its spirit and seriousness (and adultness) with a CARTOONED version, that looks like a kid trial at Photoshop???

Who do you think can enjoy that, really???

Can A video be that bad to make me dislike a song I actually LOVE? This video could... AWFUL.

You are not on the road of Pearl Jam great cartoon videos with that, nor that of Queens Of The Stone Age, nor in case 1 nor in case 2, because the style of the video still gross and poorly done, just like it was in Misery’s case.

You’re far away from Linkin Park even, because their cartoonish video have a depth and style that this horrifying trial couldn’t reach in 1000 light years (and I am not even a fan of Linkin Park…).

It’s ages away also from the one you were maybe aiming at, Kanye West’s Heartless… because Kanye has a true dig at graphic stuff and he uses colors and dynamics WAY better than your “director” could dream of in that video (whic I adore).

You’re on the road of the Smurf with that and I can’t really take it lightly, because it embarasses my educated fan conscience like a bad, bad, bad – and unsexy – slap on the face.

What is it… an Harakiri process? A test to see how strong can you try and be stretching things? A forcedly violent farewell???

Oh, boy… Luckily Karim sculpts and I can distract myself.

But it’s hard: this horrible news shocks me and it’s a bad surprise after what they tweeted, which I was hoping was a great video idea for Stutter.

I am disappointed… and it hurts, coming from them: I feel a bit empty at the moment if I think of this all.

You know how much I love every track of HAO… what I think of each one… you know I love the title track (read it here if any): but really this video can be capable or culpable of makin me DISLIKE the song even.

Grrrrr. This “director” is on my DARKER list: terrible, terrible and terrible: it looks beyond patched up and cheap. EWWWW.

I still love your flair... but that HAO thing HURT, Levine...

Then I thought this shouldn’t prevent me from update finally the blog.

Awww... such a beauty!

Because I have TONS of amazing material to share (you’ll see later, and as per usual random pics are of Adam and Anne from my pretty much infinite collection ;)… this because BEAUTY RULES MY LIFE and they’re a pretty darn fine form of it, which leads to me have pleasure watchin them > which is what this blog is all about: THINGS THAT PLEASE ME ;)) and I love to write bites of my life here, for  the pure sake of it (mostly for my foreign friends who can know that way… and this makes my mail exchange virtually VERY MUCH easier ;)), and if I won’t write about it down now I won’t anymore so I just really had to face the reality.

No matter that hurtingly bad surprise… I gotta write what I planned to today.

When I left you on the verge of watching the amazing Lady Gaga gig (really awesome, she’s a great performer/entertainer!) dressed aptly for the event I must say (too bad I lost my tricot hat there and never found it back…), and I would never have thought I would have written down some words again ONLY by now.

Lady Gaga gig (from my plixis from twitter)

I was looking forward to update you about the awesome (help me say it… JUST FANTASTIC and also with proper deeper contents provided by Director…) Première at La Scala, but things just got way too much in to even attempt it now.

DECEMBER IS LIKE AUGUST FOR ME… (just way, way more … “crowded“).

Not even gonna try to put in words how gorgeous he is. WOW.

I don’t have time at all to write… even willing it, I just have tons of dinners/meetings/events to attend and/or prepare and/or organize and then, you know me, it’s not like I belong to Internet.

If I can come through it, fine… if I can’t… FINER.

I love Christmas dearly, you know… all the traditional stuff are mine in the core… and also the kitch-est parts 🙂

These days I have been so completely taken I had also to give up to write in the Lakers Blog (and there you could realize how much it’s REALLY impossible for me to write anywhere, when I can’t make it writing in there!).

I managed to read also because of the iPad/iPhone help on that, but really, there’s not a chance in the world I can have half an hour spare to write anywhere before… you know, before 7th of January I guess ;).

And you know me: I write there very seriously, so I would never step in just to say “heya”.

😉

This is the only post you will get before the 2011 comes (I am sure you saw that coming after this intro, right?)… so it encompasses my wishes for Xmas and my best wishes for a very Happy and Rockin End+Start of the Year.

I had an amazing 2010.

Found this one from one of my Italian Fashion Magazines: Anne in all her glory 😉

An year fulfilled with all the possible magic a soul can ask or dream for.

And in 2011…

Well, in 2011 I marry so I expect even more 😉

Tomorrow morning Karim parents arrive (yep, they couldn’t make it sooner than that… but no worries.. they stay until Karim and I leave for our amazing time ALONE for New Year’s Eve in Montecarlo and Nice, so we have time for Family after all), and today I finally completed the Xmas gift bringin to all friends.

Sure, these weeks I have been wandering through parties but to my special crew members, that wasn’t the proper way to exchange OUR gifts (Marghe thought the same which is why yesterday she hosted a ROCKIN Xmas party, which was absolutely wonderful at any rate ;)).

We visited those who couldn’t make it to the mountains last weekend (amazing weather and time… truly special… TRULY. If you read my Twitter – and you SHOULD… ehi!!! I’m nearly at 1500 followers and counting, ya’ll ;)! lol!- you know what I am talkin about ;)) and just landed them a very special thing to let them know how much we treasure them.

Oh… yeah… I wrote “we”.

Right now it comes so natural from my heart & mind to think of me as a double entity, or as a half of an unit… this is the way Karim has completed his miracle on me.

oh, that tongue...

What a wonderful feeling is the one of belonging.

Yeah.

This even if I still love threesomes and I am dirty and kinky… I belong.

To him.

Who loves me also because I am exactly like that 😉 and I never feel ashamed of it 😉 (why should I… I rock, me ;)!).

On these festivities I look forward to my adorable grandmother to teach Karim’s one (yep, she comes along) on how to prepare tortellini.

If you follow me on Twitter, you will see properly what I mean 😉

While we are on Xmas hints, know that my song for Xmas (beside as usual the awesome cover the guys did of  John Lennon, of course, song which I created the video for in 2008, but stupid YouTube took it down… no problem, I reposted it in Yahoo videos… ;)) is Coldplay’s Christmas Lights 🙂

Lovely, Sexy Anne with her natural do

The Lovely Four (to not be mistaken with the Lovely Five, of course) have started shakin off the rust before incoming year roading with this awesome song and its adorable video and I am in love as per usual, of course.

I also like Train’s song and Pink‘s Raise Your Glass, and The Killers Xmas Single… but in the end you know those two above songs are the only ones in my book these days of happiness.

Ah! 😉

I really wish to you all a wonderful Xmas time with your family and friends and everyone you love, being near to you and make your hours shine.

Then I wish you all to do a tenth of the sex I will…

Trust me it’d be enough for a magic orgasmic overdose (so make your calculations… lol!)

Oh… yeah… sadly our Country still under Berlusconi: I try to forget it everyday to start with a smile… but then… nightmare comes back.

SIGH.

Now let’s have a little end of the year SPORTY RECAP (sort of… but mostly because I let ages of games pass by with my no -update span… LOL ;))

Okay… As I said, the sporty season so far sees Milan still lead Serie A no matter the latest demise (but ehi… cousins feel way worse don’t they?)

I’m really lukewarm and kinda appalled about us acquiring Cassano (WTF was actually my proper reaction to the news… ewwww) but what can I do.

At the end of the day, I support Milan no matter what (and the main no matter what is actually FORGETTING who the team belongs to… If you wait for me to comment on Berlusconi’s shame which keeps going on… I am trying to part myself from that because otherwise I’d die of inner pain and struggle. While you know… the only one who should die… yeah, YOU GET IT. YOU DO. *sigh*…)

lakers time is always right

About the Lakers.

Wow… there is much to say… I still feel twisted about us… there’s something missing in the puzzle but I have restraint in naming it.

Now Bynum‘s back and that’s a very good thing; but Pau still look strangely averted from games… Lamar has really flourished, and Shannon and the bench Killer B’s are a plus… Kobe still Kobe of course, but somehow he seems working like a very very slow Diesel Engine yet (still amazing, even so).

I write just hours prior of the Xmas Game which should see us prevail after last year shame… but I don’t know what to expect.

Meat are on the rise (hyped rise, still on it) and we SURELY are a better team but we have to prove it and we know in this moment we aren’t in a great shape (it’s not now that counts, but we need it now to win against a team on the rise, don’t we?)

I will update about the results of the Xmas game after the New Year steps in, all I wanna say is now and forever:

GOOOOOO LAKERS!!!!!!!!!

We Are The Best Team/Franchise On Planet Earth (and Milky Way Galaxy… 😉 ) and I am a PROUD Purple&Gold Freak.

His Hotness in His Shine

Right.

Now roll in for recaps of all the games played in the span of time where I did not update the blog.

Let’s get backwards till December 3, for the home game against Sac Town, that we won (well… winning against the Kings is not exactly shocking but that moment we were rolling in a deep struggle so… better we brought it home!)

A few days after, it was again a home game against this time the Washington Wizards: another win for a less than perfect Lakers team, but a win is a win is a win, of course.

The day after, December 8th, we were starting our road trip, except that we were still at Staples Center, being guests of the Clippers. We won, but really just thanx to a magic Fish play, and I have to say finally Clippers have a great player to watch.

That win… rang some bell just like a loss, too.

Her Hotness in Her Shine 😉

We hadn’t to wait much for a proper loss though… as soon as the proper road trip started in Chicago on December 10th, Bulls bullied us enough to make us have another scar on our skin in this less than pleasant phase of the regular season.

I could feel Kobe’s anger and rage by miles then…

And the rest of the five team we faced on the road had to, because after that game we won against the New Jersey Nets, then again against the Washington Wizards, which signed last moments of Sasha Vujacic as a Laker, as he’s now a Farmar’s joiner with the Nets exactly (note: I predicted MONTHS ago Maria Sharapova would have allowed him to move ONLY to Nets or New York…See? I just KNOW ;)) subsequently we rode Indiana Pacers and also poor Philadelphia Sixers, before wrapping it up in Toronto against the Raptors (minus an absent and injured Bargnani).

The road trips are never easy for the Lakers…

And this year in particular… we had to be tested way beyond the mere responsive tests on the floor.

There’s something more going on with us… and hopefully the final output of all this will be cheering us. The right way, I mean.

An appalled Adam watches Lakers demise against the Bucks, 21 december 2010 (Anne is lovely though, at leat ;)...)

First game home after the run has then been, just hours ago, pre-Christmas one against the Bucks, that could have led at least to lovely courtside watchin, right?

Yes, because of course ASquared went there attending (they had spent day searching for sunglasses… you’ll see later on. Shopping before Caribbean gigs? I bet ;)).

And just like it has already happened… it’s not exactly like Lakers helped their evening at ALL.

At least I hope they again fought the bitter taste the game left with lots, and I mean LOTS of Good Old Sexual Healing because the game was a TRAGEDY.

Obscene.

A constant craving for all that is wrong…

Kobe even got EJECTED for a tech foul (he basically fucked off the referee…)

Really… it’s a pain to depict how bad it was so I better let images speak themselves.

Yep.

This game at least, being the latest one, has the pleasurable worthy (not really, it’s more like a nightmare before Xmas without the grace of Tim Burton…) plus of an encompassed video directly here (while the previouses have the LINK to the video, as you saw):

Although for instance Adam has a different view on it... I just can’t really feel like we lost this neither due to referees (they were bad, but they always are) nor because we were focusing on the Heat already.

It was not referees fault if we did play painfully, dear lovely Seraphine.

Adam at Staples Center, hours ago.

There’s something wrong with us in this moment and it is that wrong from a while.

Pau isn’t really himself… and the way Kobe reacted tells me he feels deeper that this untangible (or maybe very tangible) malaise that we’re having is way more mattering than we’d like it to be.

I am really (albeit JUST a BIT) worried…

No… not about the Heat or anyone else.

As I always say, it’s all and always and ONLY about us.

If we deliver, there is no space to win for NOBODY, because we’re by far the best team.

But the point is that: it’s OUR fault this situation because we’re NOT delivering at all, not even by percentage.

I feel this year everyone thinks that just because we’re used to do it, we can rely again on the “switch on/off” factor, even worse, that we can do it even better and with less effort, just because our roster has actually improved (and it has).

Well… WAKE UP CALL my Purple&Gold Knights: the switchin works only through bleed /sweating, not by divine imposition.

Kobe Bryant reacts to referee in Lakers vs Bucks game: he'll get ejected.

Our complacency is like a bad cancer this year so far and in no way leaves me quiet nor serene.

Of course yeah, I STILL BELIEVE.

I will always believe.

But it’s in OUR camp.

If we fail… WE DO.

Technically others would beat us but the awful truth it’d be that WE DID NOT DO OUR BEST.

And this would make my Lakers Heart severely wounded.

So raise up.

Do it.

I'd like to be all of his stage gear: micstand, guitar, microphone... *whatevs* 😉

Lotta love, Z&K (who just had the best sexual healing today, staying naked home alone all day… because this is what you do your only free day of Xmas time before relatives stick into the picture, right?)

And here we are.

As per usual, Lakers introduce us to some music time, quite aptly, since the courtside connection just depicted.

I have updated the bites of Coldplay up above, (awwwwwwww… can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait to hear Chris live soon again… I’ll love their 2011 I know already… *sweet child of mine* ;)) in my life chronicles because as per usual the Maroon5 stuff is gonna have so many videos and as I anticipated a lil Xmas candy Plus that to interfere with it with whatever else, no matter how great, would be unfair 😉

As I said, it’s Xmas post and Happy New Year post so I have decided to put up a couple of gifts you find with difficulty elsewhere ( I treated them so at least is not a stealing of too great material).

Let’s say that we left lovely Maroon 5 and ASquared at the start of the month, right?

I was saying November seemed to have treated them right, but you will see how December did as well.

They’re just so darn cute and adorable together… (yes, I write it about 100000 times a update… what can I do… it’s how I feel ;))

My good Goodies Time start with this small piece of Interview, which is peculiar only for the fact Adam did record it JUST AFTER THAT FAMOUS NAKED Photoshot (that we can’t wait to see in spread right?):

Oh… the beauty… 😉

Guys also updated us with the third installment of the Palm Trees&Power Lines series (I forgot to create the mpeg video because I receive it through the iPhone / iPad app of Maroon5, so you take it from their Youtube… 😉 Sorry ;)) :

What I start with is the December issue of Los Angeles Magazine, because Adam’s one of the 50 Los Angelenos D.O.C. interviewed about the town:

The scanning of Adam Levine's interview in the Los Angeles Magazine, Dec 2010 Issue

Yeah… I know… it’s a really awful scanning but I did it for actual copyright purpose.

Adam on December 3rd, 2010 - Miracle On State Street, Chi-town 😉

Do as me: BUY it 😉 After all all my hints here are up for makin you people BUY THE DARN THING (a fan should?) after I give out suggestions.

My physical copy reached me thanx to Mash (you rock man); but before it I also bought a digital copy (well, I ad to subscribe for a year, but after all the magazine is lovely AND I have a house in LA, so it’s gonna be useful after all ;)).

I am also awaiting for the number of Guitar Magazine with James on it (found in Mondadori Milan, but it was a damaged copy so they’re changin it), because I am a completist about them FULLY of course ;).

So, get ready now…

Recap days trip in notes and visual is about to start properly and believe you’re gonna LOVE IT a lot.

A whole lotta…

… *love* 😉

If you wonder, December has been very freezy not only in Italy, but in USA too.

Evidence in Adam’s reactions to his traveling outdoors facings 😉

On December 3 guys were back in Chicago for The Miracle on State Street annual event play, while Anne was instead enjoying elsewhere a very intense massage (lol… her descriptions are so graphic and adorable…) 😉 beside being logically very excited for another minor thing ;):

Gal's shining right?

She’s so incredibly cute (and actually very humble, which doubles the cuteness) ;).

No need to point out that the most proud boyfriend EVER did not waste time to bless his wonderful half, and so there you go, get ready to melt again (I do every time they show affection towards one another… gosh I’m such a sucker for them… I know it’s absurd and ridiculous from my side but I have developed this straight and straight about them I thought “let them stay together forever because perfect beauty and skill should match always ONLY another perfect beauty and skill”… and surely they fit the profile of my preferences, don’t they?):

Isn't he absolutely adorable once again? Oh, the power of love 😉

Awwww: I just can’t cope with so much love (I lie… I sure can… and I do adore it ;)).

Anyway, guys were at Miracle On State Street and this is some of what did happen:

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and also this at your ease:

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I could witness their live gigs about for an eternity.

Hewl… yeah. 😉

While guys were around to play, Anne was in New York and really really excited to decorate her Xmas tree.

She truly loves it and showed it several times… updating us through her twitter multiple times (including the sweet proper pictures. I mostly love the way she’s always so down to earth and sunny in her mood. So enchanting, really).

Another one of her plus, I never get bored in tellin it, is her skill for comedy (much like her boyfriend… also there they look so much like a perfect match ;)): her talkin iPhone friends are growing and allegedly they’re getting kind of spelling lessons that are shocking EVEN to Adam (and that says pretty much all, being Adam cussing Prince… lmao!)

While Maroon5 were actually performing in Chicago, CMT (Country Channel) broadcasted the Artist Of The Year Event that you know about from the previous post (because it was performed days before).

Adam Levine gets cheered by Taylor Swift at CMTAOTYA- 1

Yeah… I know…

They covered FRIGGIN Taylor Swift.

Oh, man.

Now don’t get me wrong: I find the girl REALLY cute (she’s sleek and stylish and looks like a model which is a plus for me); she writes her stuff and although she really can’t sing live she has some flair.

It’s just that I really really REALLY can’t stand hype and I completely HATE fakeness and she seems a master in BOTH.

Sure it’s a sign of brain… but I can’t value what I despise… therefore although Mine rendition from the boys was AWESOME and brought the kinda flat song to whole new heights, I couldn’t stand the “OMFGAWWWD” constant expression Taylor was obnoxiously acting the whole time they performed it.

I am sure she loved it all GENUINELY.

But I still can’t reckon any ounce of genuineness in her, which is a set off.

Then you know… Country and I don’t match.

Anyway, THIS IS THE WHOLE SHOW.

Enjoy:

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And now, let me serve you with a Xmas Candy.

Being now in sorta “Country” territory, I bring up for your enjoyment a WONDERFUL Country (and CMT) related old piece from start of 2008, when Adam and Maroon5 did a Crossroads Episode with Country Lady Sara Evans.

IWBSBL times. Those of the Crossroads thingie, too 😉

I have ALWAYS loved everything about that episode.

First, Adam’s look in that period was turning me on like Fire on Dried Bushes (insert all tongue in cheeks you like), at an even higher rate than he normally does – and which is already like the maximum human can take – : it’s like in Goodnight Goodnight video (which is my fav ever of their videos), but with his face actually shaved.

I ADORE him that way… the head shaved that lenght makes me wanna hold his head and caress it… caress it… till putting nails in it almost and Holy Sky… his perfect facial cheekboned outlines are just shining with that look, in a stunning way.

The best you get from his flawless, noble face gets so emphasized that way it’s unreal .

Okay…

Flawless Anne V.

I’ll stop (you know man turns me on… ;))… but it’s hard ;).

Anyway I love the whole of the sung parts of the show (also the extra on Wake Up Call).

There’s so much of Mr. Levine there, in such a short amount of time, it’s properly mindblowing 😉

I love to pieces the interviews parts, where he said that famous “I won’t do this forever” thing (and he said it right: if you wanna have a serious family, you can’t be all over the world. He just shows once again how smart and great he is. He won’t leave music cos music is HIM… but sure willing to have a real family, he will soon or later stop being what he is now, to be some other kind of musically engaged and devoted man, still. I love his mind and heart there even more, because he just gets so real there, and he’s so totally himself…).

Then there are two pluses: the face he makes when Sara Evans says to him she is the mother of three (and you see so clearly the “damn… I want to bang you… and now how? Oh… let’s see anyway” – kinda look… ;)), and then the completely AMAZING impersonation he does of Fabio (the regrettable Model For Sexless Middle-Aged Ladies Peeps).

HILARIOUS.

Adam is pure genius, always (the lovely ode to James’ hair desrves mentions too ;)).

So…

THIS IS THE COUNTRY I LOVED MAROON5 IN.

Enjoy (for real: editing is mine and thank you Meli for the pre-edit work ;)):

*in love* 😉

Okay, let’s get back on track now, after this lovely break in that exiles from the calendar we follow 😉

After the Chicago thing, and not before serving Mr Tellez (Adam’s assistant) a certain intense post gig threat (lol) guys moved to Buffalo for the KissMas Bash, on December 4th, and of course I can provide you some from there as well.

Enjoy a link to a Charice snippet involving them (click over), and then an interview:

and then a snippet of their gig, too (awww) :

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In the freezy town is anyone surprised Adam actually searched for an EATERY?

How he remains so miraculously skinny is a wonder to me… and after all he candidly confessed the only way he really loves to use his fame is the chance to reserve in restaurantsbecause I love to eat.

WUC still frame. Drool freely. 😉

I fear in time of hunger he could easily eat me (no okay… that risks to start a whole lotta of NOT ALLOWED thoughts… I better come with another metaphor…) up ;).

At least he isn’t the only one enjoying his passion wherever he goes: James for instance had more tennis time also in Buffalo, too: *ACE*!! 😉

As models live with a suitcase ready, Anne in the maintime was already bound to leave her greatly put up real tree, heading to (again frosty place) Paris.

Adam and the boys instead could move back for 48 of rest in Los Angeles, which was more than cherished by them all of course; oh, and someway Adam managed to remind us all that he still have troubles in dealing with airplanes so constantly… ;).

His first eating stop back in LA?

Italian Place, Dan Tana’s.

Of Course. Then a check of the Green Hornes at The Trobadour.

Once again… all about  friendly happy times and we all know how much he treasures those ;).

As the lovers were flying away in opposite directions (awww… both their jobs are a bless, aren’t they?), something actually flew the RIGHT direction to me: I’m speakin about the awesome BOOK and Movie of Andrew Zuckerman, MUSIC.

Man that is just ASTONISHINGLY AMAZING material.

I won’t share copyrighted stuff (just like it happens with all related with Vevey Forever) but I post a collage of things because if you are a music lover, beside being a Maroon5 fan, man you GOTTA own this.

It’s really awesome:

Music: by Andrew Zuckerman. JUST BUY IT. REALLY. A+++++

Word.

Probably I was too excited about the book then because when Anne in Paris asked for a tip for something to do, I adviced her about something she had DONE already when she actually was in Paris for the Fashion Week back in Fall (and I remembered it clearly as soon as she actually told me. Still, she always manage to be simply adorable and graceful in anything she says, so after all it was okay. I am dumb, but she’s lovely, and always ready to shout out good positive vibes, in a very inspiring way ;))

On a “good vibe note”, you will probably be happy to know that Ryan Murphy (Glee mastermind and creator) has confirmed to Rolling Stones that Misery will be in the spring renditions.

I didn’t know Murphy and Adam were mates; but this of course doesn’t surprise me after all:

So, Misery will be on Glee. I like that. 😉

COOOOOOOL. 😉

After the two (well, one and half) spare days in Los Angeles, before jetting off again, Maroon 5 recorded On  what people will actually see TONIGHT, December 22 on CBS (you will see it on these pages with the next update… of course), namely A Home For The Holidays 12th Special for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

A Home For The Holidays - rehearsal

It’s gonna be a lovely lovely performance and so far you can enjoy at least a couple of pictures (awwww, red is not only Anne’s color, but also Adam’s ;)!) and also some twitpics they sent from rehearsal, too.

A Home for the Holidays 2010 - 1

It’s always amazing when their art matches their hearts, ain’t it?

A Home For The Holidays 2010 - 2

After that Adam *graciously* (no 😉 but he still so cute when he “dork-izes” up ;)) let us see what his boundaries are when it comes to the concept of… dirty.

Dirty SHOES, that’s it 😉 (you wish… lol!).

Nothing groundbreakin there, if it weren’t that he was actually bound to… erm… LAND AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

For serenading Obama and the Family during the lightning of their Xmas Tree (the day after…).

Quite aptly, 9th of December is the date of Lennon’s death so the song they chose was PERFECT to perform, with amazing pluses on that made Adam go awing.

Divine Seraphine... and a regrettable look at the White House 😉

And those were JUST the things happening on the 8th!!!

*sigh*… THESE are the boys that I love… not that awful thing at the start of this post (I can’t cope still… I will heal… in some more hours/days… but now it’s a bullet in my head); all skillful and sparkling talent

There was a bunch of hours for Anne to reach back for the event… but while in Paris she managed to be again very very sweet and cute (California Gurl in pectore… of course!), but then she RUSHED to where she belongs, namely aside the sweetest of man with the sweetest of voices (okay, the White House occurrency was fine on its own, let’s admit it ;)…).

The morning of her man started still awing at the people singing along to him (awww… cute!), which included also lovely Sara Bareilles, one of the FAMILY ;).

Hard not to agree with Bones Mastermind Hart Hanson on the fact 9th of December 2010 of Adam was better than everyone’s average… 😉

Hard also not to agree with Anne’s enthusiastic approach to reaching the White House… 😉

She was also enjoying Santa at The White House (sounds like a Will Farrell movie title… ;)) and she was amazingly joyous in updating us about that and everything else she did experience that day: I love her way with words… :).

Just like the boys, of course 🙂

Adam seemed particularly impressed with the kid winner of XFactor (the one that beat Susan Boyle in the UK), and of course he loved to meet those other three he mentions you know… Obama, BB, Michelle… 😉

So, this is a collage (yep, that’s BB King… ;))

Maroon 5 at the White House. 9 December 2010 😉

The performances were amazing…

So now… enjoy the whole show and get festive (this is the apt post, isn’t it?):

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Okay… as the gig finished, the guys moved straight up to New York, as the day after they had to perform on Jimmy Fallon.

This you see here is not a homeless riding on a fast train… is actually Adam with all of his bandmates and his fiancé gear to keep him warm (it’s a messy pic, but at the same time so cute… :)):

I wonder what did Anne wear, as her furry vest-coat is on Adam? 😉

As her man was finding solace in some nap, she had time to verbalize her emotions regarding her rushing to DC (and believe, 8 hours flight from Paris just to spend a bunch of hours there and then get straight back to NY ain’t a joke…I travel and I know what I ma talkin about! That’s love ;)), expressing joy and pride and mostly grace (as she usually does).

Maroon 5 on Fallon Live

The day of Jimmy Fallon Show was a great experience for everyone: for Adam, for Questlove, for Jimmy Fallon, for any famous attendant, for the crew… basically it was a great amazing time and you sure see a lot in the video I will post but NOT ALL OF HOW GREAT IT ACTUALLY was, because some of the best was behind scenes.

There is also the moment of Dee Snider’s controversy which wasn’t that controversial: Dee got rebuked by his wife and his son for havin behaved dully, then apologized himself to Adam, praised him (but not his band), and got the usual AWESOME ANSWER by Adam himself on the whole thing.

Man is so full of virtues.

He can handle stuff with class effortlessly.

He also probably really like Dee Snider actually.

Anyway, this is the show, enjoy:

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After the taping, Anne and Adam enjoyed New York City nightlife.

First evening they went to Adam’s fav Standard top (the former Boom Boom Room); while during the day after, Adam bought a new jacket because they went also to the premiere of The Fighter (awesome movie?), looking just HOT.

AdamLevineAnneVTheFighterNY

Because well, there’s not really any other way they could look 😉

One more from the premiere

Right?

😉

The day after the time together it was again time to say farewell for the two lovebirds, because Adam and Maroon 5 had to move to Florida, to rockin out Tampa first (the day after it’d be Orlando).

Adam didn’t miss chances to quote one of his fav movies while moving towards his destination…

white fits Florida 😉

Both towns were unnaturally cold (unnaturally being that Florida you know), and Adam you know is sensitive to chill

Anyway check both some Tampa Goodies (from links this times… you’ll forgive me? Pics!!! Forgive? Right ;))

And also some Orlando ones.

About Orlando I had to discover an irking thing: Adam befriends Mike Posner, namely the worst JT copycat ever (and I don’t even like JT… MEH. MEH. MEH. I won’t like this… I know.)

What was Anne doing while she was in New York still?

SHE HAD A PHOTOSHOT FOR VICTORIA’S SECRET: can’t wait to see it 😉

Post Florida, it was well due time for some Xmas Holiday time so Maroon 5 got back to Los Angeles (PJ has become father again and he missed the Florida times… he will be back in the Caribbean ones and Anne – who had a long writing cards moment earlier that day – was so cute to ask while complimenting and congratulating him on his beautiful newborn… awww… feeling maternal sweet Fairy? That’d be SO awesome!!!).

Anne V: Sports Illustrated BodyPaint (STUNNING)

Adam used first night home to visit Trousdale along good friends (though there was a bit of a hissy fissy moment inside, leading to a pouring out caught by cameras), and enjoyed straight some familiar time (although well… you know Hollywood nights can be rockin in many ways… sometimes TOO MANY ways ;)).

He didn’t have to endure solitude much longer, because his half flew rapidly by his side, as expected and as it’s fair to be (collective AWWWWWW thank you ;)) because who could be parted from him too long?

Even Frankie gets depressed when he’s away

Anne had a première moment by herself in New York the night before flying into Adam’s arms (look, she’s STUNNING, as a gooddess…!!!) at the Little Fockers Premiere (less marv movie than the Fighter though).

BEFORE WE GET INTO LOVERS MODE, please take note of this awesome Photography Contest Maroon5 have up to talented people to enjoy: PRESS AND read and you won’t regret it.

So… Can we guess from Adam’s tweet that new driver Anne could get a Prius for Xmas?

Who knows 😉 Certainly the lovebirds found a way to deal with some really BAD Los Angeles weather (LA is under the biggest floodings in elephant memory… is it raining from a week… but that ain’t affected them, because beside a small note of the obvious, they wandered hand in hand… and tongue on tongue everywhere around Hollywood and Beverly Hills.)

Adam Levine and Anne Vyalitsyna in Beverly Hills, 18 december 2010

Anne even made it to a further photoshot sesh (oh… can’t wait to see this either!!!), before dedicating herself only to the one she gotta take perfect care of (lucky, lucky, lucky gal… ;))

Singing In The Rain? Burt Bacharach? Awww 🙂

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Karim made a great portrait of the two angels kissing…

They are so incredibly beautiful and perfect together... ❤

They went shopping and Adam noted he likes to play Jewish Santa (lol), and that after all there’s no point in having if you won’t sharing.

I so agree.

Before I forget, taken in all this lovey bliss… Maroon5 have been chosen for The Critics Choice Awards, and it means on January 12 they will tape it for VH1:

YES!!!

Adam also shot a Funny Or Die video that we hope to see soon… and there, his alter ego is this fella… BRODY (lmao…), allegedly at Bardot? That’s the place he goes at on that day but until we see it we can’t know for sure 😉

Prepare to enjoy the last collages that come from hours ago: what they did prior to the Lakers Shame that you know from above.

Remember, in a bunch of hours there is the broadcast of a Home For The Holidays on CBS.

And now… enjoy Beauty and Love.

Adam Levine and Anne V: love is in the air, Dec 21, 2010 - 1

I’ll try to forgive you for that AWFUL Hands All Over Video, Adam…

I know in the end you and your voice win anyway: darn ;).

Adam Levine and Anne V: love is in the air, Dec 21, 2010 - 2

how could somebody hate on you, so shining…?

Hope you and the guys have a blast these days, and look forward to meet you several times in Feb/March.

Adam Levine and Anne V: love is in the air, Dec 21, 2010 - 3

Then the game of shame… but they are so beautiful, even the awfulness at Staples gets cleared by their shine:

Adam Levine and Anne V: love is in the air, Dec 21, 2010 - 4

And maybe in Fall, too ;).

Have all a great Xmas time and a super amazing End of The Year and Start of The Year.

Catch you in 2011: the year of me becoming a wife in Japan.

W-O-W.

😉

Kisses, Z. :O)

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Oh…

Anne V backstage @ VSFS 2010 - via Modelinia

DAMN.

I wasn’t meant to come here today.

I wasn’t.

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

*sigh*.

Yep.

We lost.

AGAIN.

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 1

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

We played JUST as Phoenix wished to.

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

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

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

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

And then what brought me here today…:

Oh… I can’t cope.

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

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 2

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 3

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

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

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

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

What a satisfaction, man!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Click on the picture.

And as me… LOVE this creature.

Adam and Jesse prior to VSFS

Roberto is one in a million.

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

Nobody is perfect… but ultimately he is.

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

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

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

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

Free. Finally

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

Okay.

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

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 4

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 5

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

She rocks.

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

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

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

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

Yep.

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 7

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 6

HANAMI, baby!!!!

To call myself delighted is an understatement.

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

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

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

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

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

Click to jump in RDS Radio Showcase page

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

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

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

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

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

And clickin here you go to the video:

Click to jump to video interview

Okay.

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

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 8

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

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

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

I adore Wagner 🙂 🙂 🙂

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

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

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

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

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

Adam and Anne at Halloween Party 2010

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

People Magazine on Anne and Adam in Miami, November 2010

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

Anne in Miami with Adam, November 2010 - 9

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

Take a look at Anne’s shining beauty.

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

What one could ask for more?

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

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

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

Don’t wound your body baby.

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

Adam, James, Gabe Saporta ay VSFS November 2010

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

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

adam cheering up anne in standing ovation 😉

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

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

OH!!!

He truly outdid himself.

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

Adam proudly supporting Anne

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

Fully.

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

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

Adam cheers Anne - E Entertainment

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

Adam on VSFS

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

Just GOOOOORGEOUS.

And very, very, very sweet.

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

I just ADORED Anne’s dress, with passion.

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

Rawwwwr 🙂

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

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

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

Anne V's first Wings - Via The Fashion Spot

awwww…. 🙂

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

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

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

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

 

Adam es un hombre chic? Yep. He is.

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

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

Adam Radio Z 100

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

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

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

M5 and Julian Perretta

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

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

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

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

Adam chats with Jesse waiting for Anne's show

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

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

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

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

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

Adam on benefits of digital music

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

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

So it’s a great night.

Karim aside… love ruling, hopes flying high.

I’m very fortunate and blessed.

Have all a great few days ahead, folks.

Catch you soon – enough – 😉

Bye, Z.

I am trying to be Zen.

Kobe Bryant portraited by Karim, 13 June 2010

It will work out eventually but for the remaining of this morning, I think I’ll indulge into rage and anger a bit more.

Don’t take it too seriously.

No, I have no doubts still that Lakers will Parade again, and that I will be in LA then

But the way the team I was asking for, prior to this Game5, NEVER showed up REALLY is making me Radioactive Green at the moment.

So, gotta live with it.

For a while today, a while more.

I’ve poured in the Lakers Blog, and now for how it hurts… I can show you what happened.

Yes, I can show you how we disappeared as a team in front of a team stick together to roll onto us.

From the biting shame, will our champions surface back?

They MUST:

Karim yesterday drawn that beautiful portrait of Kobe, which has become my new icon in chat.

I bleed along my hero.

Heavenly Skies, please… allow him to get this ring: nobody wants it more, and nobody deserves it more.

After tonight my dad fully said me if I want, sure I can go to LA at the Parade. I tried to ask him also a Game 7 ticket but he said no way.

Karim said to me the most beautiful, beautiful things after we lost, to cheer me up.

I felt so secured in him.

Felt amazingly during this weekend on our boat (see evidence of Paradise), and once more I just know and realize this man is all I could have asked for my life to really being just hybris subjected in full…

I have so much to be happy for, and in fact, I know, sport is just sport…

But ehi, I’m passionate, and I balance my scientist brain and my overcontrolling attitude exactly with allowing myself in being as free and openly exuberant about things that make my heart beat so…

Adam's portrait Karim drawn for me this morning

Today I wanna mourn my Lakers a while.

Leave me alone on that.

Knowing me perfectly, Karim decided to draw for me a further Adam‘s portrait, that now stays just in front of me at lab along all the rest that you already know about.

Hopefully Russian Fairy, who’s back in LA and right there with him , along Chovy and her loveliness, will do the same Karim did for me and help his Lakerholic heart to not feel all the pain too pushing him down (btw, I see that lots of people right now pretend they’re bball lovers JUST because Adam is… seriously, some of Adam’s fans are ridicolous in selling themselves as basketball lovers, when they don’t understand a THING of it, and really they don’t even care… A true Laker Lover like me simply loathes that. And to be honest, I also think it brings us bad luck. Fake people, fake feelings, fake charm. GO AWAY you losers! & before some of those nutcases think wrong , I’m not thinking nor talking about Anne, here: she SURELY has reasons to be a Lakers appreciator in her man’s passionate guide, and  by the way she never stated she was a die-hard fan, quite honestly and quite appreciably -. I am thinking and talking of the Circus of Psycho and Company… boy, all those are ridicolous… what passion would they fake just to attire his attention? Get a real life and a real personality already… Fakers are so low-cut life! And you are jinxing the Lakers, with your fakerism. Pray that nothing wrong happens next two games…)

Love can heal all wound, btw… And I’m happy in a night like that, at least Adam was not alone  (now if we could just take Creepy outta picture thoughthat would make me feel more relieved).

Perfect timing ;), as  nothing like Sexual Healing helps forgetting a Laker Loss (we are experts over here… ;)).

Talkin about good things in Adam’s life, what the heck was People Magazine reporting about on Adam and Jakey G. night out last wednesday?

Get it together People! Adam and Jake went to schools together… they’re friends from a life, *idiots*!

Anne btw received her first retweet ever from her man thanx to a John Wooden’s quote, parted in two, that Adam retweeted, a coupla days ago. Awww. Cute 🙂

It was also cute from Anne to answer me – unexpected!-, less smart by me to NOT knowing Russia was not part of the Fifa World Cup (ehi, I learn tournaments as they are played… I don’t even know who Italy‘s play, beside Paraguay tonight yet ;)).

It should have been all so fine, if only Lakers…

Okay, okay… Gotta stop it I know…

But it’s hard.

Let’s focuse again on good things.

Sure, Karim and I on boat in a simply awesome *Zaira* experience (owning a boat is truly the truest luxury… though honestly I still feel the boat is Karim’s… because he’s the only one knowing what to be like over there… LOL! Our crew was awesome… and having our master room insonorized helped, as well ;)).

Then there is the FIFA World Cup that he’s learning to appreciate and love (really!) and as an Italian, well… that is the most beautiful sport event ever for me.

All the world coming together in colours and pride and skill. It’s fantastic.

Fantastic.

I love to follow that a lot.

Other good stuff involve the fact that in 14 days I will finally hear Misery along the rest of the world.

Talking about Misery, check what Director of the video told us about it.

A Good Ass Job. Go Kanye

I can’t wait!!!

I wanna have my hands all over Hands All Over (btw, I am crossing ALL fingers about Kanye’s new album – that I can’t wait to have ALSO – won’t really drop in September. That would kill me but also in a n good way. Kanye… not on 21 right? But anyway, it’s due time that Kanye comes back. The whole Taylor Swift thing was a media idiocity. Leave the man alone!, he’s all talent, right?)

🙂 To warm up your Maroon5 cells, take this set of photos by Mandalay Bay private Las Vegas event on May 18th. 😉

I need good good vibes, and this all helps ;).

Even though the video for today is Nirvana, cos it fits my fisty mood:

😉

I will soon get back in a cheerful mood though.

Karim just called to say he loves me… and that tonight he cooks his special plan for me as I get home.

*ZEEEEEEXYYYY*

😉

Catch u later & always and forever.. GO LAKERS!!! (from an original and no faker fan ;))

Trying to find time enough for this update, before my work ends at midday and we get straight to Genova to SAIL MY BOAT (my own fellow Zaira… sounds crazy and still awesome to think about it!!!) it’s duty to report that, just like I was paventing hours earlier in the Lakers Blog, Lakers lost Game 4, mostly due to an overwhelming performance of Celtics bench (see again my post in the blog…).

Oh, well.

We’ll still rule them in 6 AND this way it’s gonna be better for me to reach LA for the Parade.

A touch down soil and Fly straight away experience, but dad agreed there, and Karim is as thrilled as me about repeating 2009 experience.

And we WILL.

So, Green Enemies, be happy of this win… it won’t be enough:

What makes me laugh is that meeting Dani G. at Armani Jeans game on wednesday, he said just “beware Davis”.

And I was like “Yeah, sure…” (I was more concerned with Nate Robinson, if any…)

Darn 😉

Gallo…. why why why????

Anyway you still a cutie and an adorable guy. But you know as well Lakers are gonna take this, don’t you?

Right.

Other pleasant things happening?

Well, stateside on that exact day of wednesday were the dinner out at Nobu (Mash, how could you name that Mastro’s???) AND the subsequent usual wednesday stay at Las Palmas of Mr. Levine and old buddy Jake Gyllenhaal.

I can’t help thinkin I would have loved to be the chauffeur there… ahahaha!!! I can’t help.

Longtime pals Adam & Jake out of Nobu, 9 June 2010 - 2 -

I can’t… I can’t… I can’t… 😉

Longtime pals Adam & Jake out of Nobu, 9 June 2010 - 1 -

Awww.

Hotness squared.

I love when they are together.

It’s great to know longtime pals remain pals no matter how far both career may go.

And let’s talk about more hotness…

Yesterday Maroon5 uploaded the 3rd Webisode of the College tour, and I advice you all to check it in its entirety first because it’s great, and secondhandly because…

OF THIS:

Shirtless Adam is always a tease 😉

So just look, okay:

While the guys keep waiting for the machine of promotion to start (it takes maximum one more week) and while *someone* awaits also a bunch of days more to remeet his lovely half in LA/PalmSprings (awwww), let’s be fair and share this announcement of Maroon5 about more charity auctions.

Writing Adam still from the webisode. Awww 😉

Do your move. 😉

About me, today I will live the lovely experience to sail my boat.

Karim is all smiling.

He’s so into this and I am so into him 😉 (he’s into me too… okay, that was NOT very subtle, LOL…).

We will watch the opening of FIFA World Cup and he’s finally calling football “football” and not soccer anymore.

I made him read Pasolini‘s writing about the poetry of football.

It did work.

I’m sure we will love the tournament TOGETHER.

And although I have no hopes for us, of course I’m gonna cheer Italy.

I still think it’s Argentina’s year, or England’s.

We’ll see.

I left you with my favourite Coldplay Song, because I am a scientist, too:

then Tinie Tempah, Pass Out:

and finishing it with Gramophonedzie, “Why Don’t You“:

Right peeps… catch you maye from my sailing 😉

Or then after Game5 on Monday Morning.

😉

NOTE: Adam’s and Jake’s pictures have been offered to your greedy eyes (and mines) thanx to the always awesome Jennifer Coles. Bow down to the Mighty Queen 😉

I had mumbled and pondered over this since it happened almost 11 hours ago.

I was scared of this Game 2 against the Celtics, way more than I was actually fearing (I didn’t at all) Game1,  cos I was so not buying the fact Celtics were dead, and not really surprisingly, all my concern and foresight was right.

I woke up at 2, and never slept after.

Today I am still at work past 4 pm cos tomorrow I go watching Muse + Kasabian in San Siro (whooooooo!!!! It’s gonna be even better than Muse gig in Turin in November !!!) and I have to do the extra task so that tomorrow I can leave work at 2.30 pm.

But really… the more time past… the more the pain for having let that game slip away from our hands hurts me.

Don’t get me wrong… I KNOW series is OURS and still morer than believe we will have this 16 ring in 6, but here you can read from my current Lakers Blog post what it pains me right now.

But it’s okay.

You gotta bleed to achieve status and glory.

It’s all okay.

Even if THIS did hurt:

It did and it still do.

Deny it is a no pointer.

Oh well, at least we still have Divine Adam‘s pics from the game (same position, just that he shifted on the last seat to allow Sam to stay closer to the finish line… look how cute he is with his little stepbrother… he’d be such a doting dad… aww!!):

Adam and Sam at Game 2 of the Finals - 1 -

All these four pictures you see are as per usual courtesy of the ultra reactive Jennifer Coles, btw:

Adam and Sam at Game 2 of the Finals - 2 -

Adam and Sam at Game 2 of the Finals - 3 -

and last one:

Adam and Sam at Game 2 of the Finals - 4 -

Adam was really pissed about the game, so much, that probably his clarity went off and he had the *really bad* initiative of answering PSYCHO in one of her usual lame, completely fake and uninformed attempts in talkin basketball (really.. seriously? I though Wikipedia and Google could do better in “informing” you about the game, lol…).

Now imagine Psycho’s joy, and imagine how her stalkering impulse will grow… poor Adam… he has no idea he risks not only to have her tweet him and ALL of his people – or whomever he answers to, or get mentioned by him or his chain, too –  now not anymore 1200 times a day, but 3000 at least… he probably risks to have her trying to live in his backyard, thinking they’re “friends” just because he answered her once out of 13000 times she fullfills his mailbox (and not only his…).

Luckely she has no money to afford any complex flying to LA… but she will try soon or later… (be careful at stabbing, Adam. If her 3rd or 4th personality sneaks in, you’re into major trouble… LOL).

Oh, boy… It was hilarious anyway, to imagine (and read) her reactions there.

Delusional & crazy.

But having no life, you can surely spend 23 hours online trying to feel like you’re “friends” with celebs… *RIGHHHHHT*

*rolls eyes and laughes* 😉

But hey, he still cute in trying to be kind, especially after he had lost way too much time answering idiot haters previously this week.

He’s really naive when he thinks those deserves his time and replies… or that they could actually make a difference for them.

Sometimes he’s just so insecure he gets even cuter.

(Strange sentence said by me, cos I don’t like insecure people generally… but we already know he’s my all exceptions… I didn’t even liked tattoes before him… well, and Karim.. ;)).

Anyway to me he looked pretty down during the game.

Sure, it could be just due to the game in itself, and definitely it seemed so from his tweets, but maybe he feels a bit lonely, considering he’s separated from Anne from a while, and allegedly for a while more, standing her new found New York’ fondness??

Talking about Anne and things that couls have upset Adam (but maybe not… he has a certain sense of humour after all…), these are a couple of tweets she had answering THIS question the other day

Somebody's question to Anne...

that had me thinking a bit (though ehi, there I have to agree on The God Bryant… GAME wise though)>>> answer 1

and that maybe did not bring the best luck at Lakers tonight, either 😉 >>> answer 2…

But after all   last Adam tweet today was cheerful, so his mood was probably just affected by the game, and talkin about Anne, maybe cos today my Elle Magazine arrived, (I’ve got subscriptions to all major fashion magazines… being a fashion victim, and having modeling friends, you gotta expect it…) you cannot question she has a certain number of stuff he naturally falls for, no matter basketball related stuff…

Just look evidence 1;

and evidence 2 (I want that Just Cavalli swimsuit for this weekend boat sailing!!!).

The whole photo spread is GORGEOUS and she’s got a beautiful body & face.

Girl is hot.

Camon… if you got eyes, you MUST see it.

Be fair about the look at least.

😉

Anyway, my mood is doomed by the game.

I need to sleep A LOT, because tomorrow we have the gig and then as soon as we get back at Karim’s home there’s GAME 3 and that’s a Game that generally belongs to the one hosting it.

No need to say Lakers must break the tradition.

We need 2 games out of Boston.

As simple as that.

To turn my mood for the better, here it goes the music.

Which is of course Muse:

And Kasabian:

Plus latest Vasco Rossi’s video, with a message to Valentino Rossi for his complete and quick recovering:

And to celebrate Francesca Schiavone and Rafa Nadal victories at Roland Garros, some Dead Weather:

Have all a great day 😉

GO LAKERS STILL!!!

Good morning world 😉

I have actually a pretty huge amount of stuff to do, but I update blogs because otherwise I won’t for a few days more, and there’s at least one MAJOR wonderful thing to celebrate…

*evil squeal*:

JUST as I Predicted, Crabs lost in 6 to Green Enemies (and if they weren’t helped by referees, that would have been in 5):

Let’s go finding Stern a new tongue now, because his own original one is sadly lost up into Princess Jimmy’s sticky loser’s ass, and it’s gone…

LMAO… Can’t wait to have more fun later this evening in the Lakers blog, where allegedly my fans love to read my vitriol (even though I am not often vitriolic, but The Biggest Loser Bron-zey is such a funny subject, I won’t retreat there, LOL!).

I have a pretty hectic week, and we leave to Florence tomorrow in the very wee hours of the morning (no hotel this time… directly in my new house!!! My lawyer will arrive along, and hopefully in time… can’t wait can’t wait!!! Karim is so thrilled he’s mentioning the word “Florence” every ten minutes these days ;)… I love to see him that happy!).

Work is going amazingly, and we have actually a pretty huge availability of sponsors for our next Project, which will be developed in Europe and in Usa.

I went to a briefing the other day down at CorSera and I have to say there I re-evaluated 50 years old.

But I behaved.

I’m such a good girl now 😉

Yesterday we had to bend (Karim and I) and go to the Rotary Club usual dinner-meeting (they are held on thursdays). You know I can’t stand pretentiousness.

And while Rotary Dinners in Milan have someway a decent conversation going on, in small towns such as Lodi, or Crema, they really are like “let’s try to fake we are here to expand cultural and philantropic horizons, and not to show everyone our latest purchases…”.

I can’t stand that (funny, cos being arguably one of the richest, with definitely the richest BF, I am like object of equal envy and licking-ass performances… which makes my sarcastic mode being on all night when I’m attending those dinners… I know…. I can be pretty cruel ;)), but especially I can’t stand ignorant people pretending they’re into literature, theathre, art in general.

Yesterday evening Karim and I (with my mum trying to stop us… and failing) had an incredible fun at “kindly” showin those idiots how many times they seemed a bad Wikipedia small page of info bites that could impress only a retarded three years old who cannot yet read fluently.

Advice: don’t try hard. Just be yourself. You’ll always find someone who knows more than you otherwise, and you won’t find mercy there, if you had faked a know-how that isn’t yours.

In fact at the middle of the dinner we found a couple which was very nice to hang with and along. They were interesting and not faking a thing. We had a real pleasant time along them and we went home without too much nausea thanx to them.

We’ve even asked them out for an incoming tennis match (Karim and I won’t ever stay in the same team: I have to BEAT him… he squashed me totally already in the first game after the rust of winterly months… argh!!!! I hate to lose. Especially to him ;))

Anyway, the reason we went to the Rotary dinner (as guests of my parents. I won’t EVER be a Rotary member myself, no matter how many times they’re gonna ask for it) was that next thursday we have that Aircraft Cruiser checking in down in Liguria.

Yep.

I’ll meet a whole NATO crew.

That’s gonna be interesting, so I had to put up my best behaviour and attend the dinner to thank the Club about including Karim and myself in the visiting list. The funny thing was that Karim had less trouble than me in checking into the list for the Carrier, due to his obvious family connections.

Wow.

Infos run so fast with some people.

That’s power.

I like that.

Luckely Lakers game starts at 3 am that morning… I hope to check it fully before we leave with the military cars at 6 am 😉 Otherwise, I will follow the latest part through iPhone chat 😉 (the military forces will be allowed to think what they like: I never care anyway ;)).

Think that the day after we will leave to Barcelona again at the wee hours of the morning, but luckely from Linate and not Malpensa.

I love traveling.

It’s my biggest crush in life (well… almost ;)).

Before I leave, of course there is some musical bits.

Happy Birthday MickeyM!!!

Given that yesterday it was Mickey’s Birthday (Happy Birthday to the most mysterious of M5, and my little M5 teddy bear!!!), which he allegedly celebrated (aptly) at MickeyM(ouse) Manor (yep, Disney Manor), sweet babies have been involved around 28 hours ago at the Cable Show

A Night With NBC Universal

at Universal Studios in Hollywood, and they’ve played (lovely I’ve been told… >>> Mash I love you: that Convention Badge looked hot on your dark skin 😉 ;)) for the private event, from which James kindly sent us this pic (after Party was held at new hot spot Las Palmas, from what I’ve been told):

Awww. Aren't they lovely?

Anne could make it there after kinda of a rushing from a NY missed flight, allegedly 😉 (I thank above that I can sleep on planes… it has to be a pain to never recover from jetlags when you have to take them weekly, otherwise. But well, she’s got the best push at flying back and forth, doesn’t she? Thousands of girls would walk on soles to reach what she can once stepping off those planes, wouldn’t you hop on every Boeing at any given time, too? 😉 I bet that ;)).

Out from the previous day and of from the Ellen Degeneres Show, check the video of the performance of Slash and Adam by clicking on the link over the picture:

Awww. Click on picture to see the video of the performance

Adam also had a lil message to share with us, that you can get directed at clicking >>>> here.

I always love the way he’s totally camera shy for these things: look at his body (face) language.

Gosh he’s so clumsy-ly cute.

I adore that, because it’s a side of him that disappears when it’s about hanging out normally with his people and into his real life.

I like him cos he’s that kind of clumsy only when he has to pr himself.

Also that to me just speaks volumes about his real-ness, which is one of the things I love the most in him.

Can’t help 😉

About Gotten, I know I am painfully behind in the video homage creation of it for my YouTube FanPage.

I have all the pieces ready, and zero time to work on them. I might upload it later this evening… or maybe tomorrow after the Florence property mayhem 😉

Not my fault if days are made of only 24 hours, and my life is just too filled with stuff… 😉

About Hands All Over, Maroon5 shared this about Rolling Stones preview of it: go CHECK it (Exile On Main Street featured cover!!!! Whooooo!!! I have only the vynil, gotta buy the remastered version!!!).

And if you haven’t already (like you should have) check these about the Tour, as well: LINKS for Packages.

As usual, I bought some, even though I probably will be cruising the Mediterrean Sea still all time in August.

But you know me: I bought tickets anyway, letting options open at going seeing them.

If I can use them, fine.

Otherwise, I keep making them rich, don’t I?

😉 (Money are mine and I decide how to spend them. At least I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs, and I don’t waste them in unhealthy things ;)… beside chocolate. Chocolate is out of ranks with me, LOL).

Music advices for today are Ligabue (of course, already bought album):

Then my clubbing song of the moment (I love songs in French!!!), by Stromae:

Some Sa Sa Ding (today I’m very “world-ly” with music):

and just because I mentioned, let’s close with Uber Classic Rolling Stones:

Catch you later peeps!!!!

😉

Jeez.

What an awful sport Saturday-leading-ito-Sunday it has been…

First Milan got again ridiculized by Palermo (excellent score of Miccoli, but we were embarassing…):

and that already would have been enough to make me put a giant X over sport pride during weekend…

But then it happened way worst drama and shame, and the only thing that made the situation bareable were the fact we were watching the game at a lovely dancing club (thank you Giorgio for allowing us the game watch in itself!), that I re-met Samuele after two years (Samu!!!! You still gorge man), that I could make it anyway from there to the LA Lakers Blog chat, and that Karim and I mixed in one of the most epically pleasing Sexual Healing sessions ever after the shame.

You might have got right now that yes… Lakers lost again against OKC.

This time truly, truly badly and without a sign of life.

A total OFF game which I will analyze this evening in the LA Lakers Blog after we get back from Garda Lake:

Ouch.

I bet this ruined a lot what seemed to have started as a wonderful Saturday for Divine A. (and which was actually looking a lot similar to mine and Karim’s saturday: bikes as well, maybe a less sun over Garda Lake than in SoCal…), because sure he was not expecting (as any of the Lakers fans I know, included myself) another – and worst actually – beating up from OKC.

Too bad that in fact Adam‘s saturday definitely went way worst than mine though, because (oh, boy…) look what Anne tweeted just a little while ago:

How do you convince someone to go out when they don’t want to? It’s been so long for me, where r my girls when I need them?

Adam and Anne at LA Eatery Johan The Third on thursday, 22 April 2010 (Images through NewsCom/Wenn)

Poor angel (Adam of course).

He can’t catch a break.

Like losing that way the game did not ruined his evening enough.

I guess the Sexual Healing therapy is just a thing of me and Karim?

What a shame and what a waste.

Now I have erased from today’s music mix some songs that were included because in his songs kinds of situations like these are way too well detailed and explained and I don’t like right now to picture up them fighting, and mostly I hate to picture out him angry, bitter or sad.

Yep.

I never like to imagine Divine Creature bitter for no reasons.

But I can bet a conspicuous part of my fortunes that he is, and moreover I can see him REALLY angry about the fact that tweet was left under everyone’s eyes.

(btw, this privacy matter makes me willing to insert a little tweaking bit in now: do you remember the hilarious Delia Dobbs and her lol-ing tweet the other day? Well Marghe and some friends have come to my same conclusions there. That “new” person tweets the same style in words and the same style in obsessions as another person many known of. Same lexicon, same punctuations, same type of musical, sport and fashion hints, and a general total equal vibe. Plus that other person has slowed some of her constant tweeting down after that Debbie girl shown up, like she was her mirroring bird. Of course they are mutual followers, too. It takes a little to make ID tracking -thank you Fede, nobody beats you with tech stuff- and surprise surprise… they are most definitely the same person. Ouch. Kinda scary. Or sad. Or both… Never ask me why I don’t trust Internet people. Internet is full of very strange, strange inhabitants. Be careful in share personal items online. And when you do, save all evidences in hard-disks, just like I do. Prevents from bad surprises. Just a heartly given advice ;))

Anyway, on the Divine chapter, the weekend had started with Marghe frolicking over a news that made her stay wide awake on Friday.

Apparently, all leaked dates for those gigs with Owl City and the Kansas State Fair were canceled (not yet the Today tough, which I think can actually stay).

To me no news there: as I wrote and well predicted, it was senseless to expect now an album in June: there are three months of planning moves for a marketing plot before an album comes out, even 4 when it’s about huge bands.

You start with the one month and a half of single promotion, & from the moment you start talkin about it, to the one when Radio gets it, and then video, and then around 5 weeks later from that the thing can be actually purchased, lots of steps have to be carefully synchronized and pursued.

You don’t do site restyling NOW if you plan an album in June.

You do when you plan it in September.

Which it is.

Today Show can stay if it’s a way to promote the single.

I have no problems there.

As long as the album is into Grammy eligibility, it’s okay with me and actually that way I don’t miss a tour in Summer, since this summer I can’t be in USA that much due to the fact we will spend it sailing on my boat in the Mediterranean sea.

I keep sensing it’s an album full of Fall feelings more than Summer-ish.

And I still hope the first single, dropping in Summer, won’t be totally depressing (especially with the image that runs in my head this morning after the quarrel revealed through twitter. Man… what an unfortunate choice… The more I think of that, the more I shake my head. He wants to stay in? Darn… CELEBRATE YOUR LUCK, don’t whine… Absurd…).

But camon people, it’s Sunday and gotta light up, no matter what: Garda Lake looks awesome today, Harley is rumbling and we can’t wait to taste Spring flavours with all of our 5 senses around here.

My music choice of the day, inspired also by the need of substituting a couple tracks in my today mix for avoiding too bright picturing of fights (problems with songwriters: you know how they deal with personal stuff cos they use them for creating songs… so a fan can’t really escape being introduced in their mental state, can we?), is  a really good discover in my 2010, The XX.

Enjoy:

And have a good Sunday, because I will get it no matter sport and music turnovers today (wish Divine Creature the same… I truly do: he should always be blessed and supported, and he should always wear that gorgeous smile that moves mountains. Get it back soon, Adam. Get it back. ).

Yin and Yang always compose themselves for the better.

Always.

Be Zen, Zaira.

Just be Zen.

Forget that yesterday Otto was the usual complete idiot; forget that.

Focus on good things that followed that: Swifty and a wonderful ride, Karim‘s loveliness at evening and night, and Fini that has ridiculized Berlusca and shown him off how pathetic and out of any democratic scheme he is.

Think of the loveliness of sweet Marc and his adorable package full of love (awwww dear… you made me cry 🙂 sweet!!!).

Be Zen, Z.

Try to.

It’s  hard though.

No matter the awesome session of sexual healing that has saved me from coming inflamed at work, it still hurts.

What?

Well, Lakers lost against OKC and although I could expect it (I predicted a win in 5, so one must have been theirs), it hurts a lot because we could have won if just we had used a grain of salt more.

Durantula finally lived up to his name (especially in rebounding he killed us), but overall the game win – of Thunders –  is to be ascripted firstly to their tight defense on us all the time, then to Stern&Fester “caring eye” (PJ, you said it so well at the start…), and finally to the fact we just didn’t do our best.

Lamar, for instance, never did so far in this series (saving yourself for the Thuggets? Fine for me… but we have to get there first you know…)

I don’t wanna put too much of whining in here cos it’s not my style and in a few hours I will just have all the talks in the Lakers Blog, but I can’t deny it hurts.

Generally I would try and have a moment of charme by referring to Divine A., but even Adam in his last appearing wasn’t living up to his name…

Adam out of Tuesday's Game at Staples, wearing... *something*. Image courtesy of WENN

Just take a look at the obscenity he was wearing on the previous game (yep, he attended that too of course), and like me start shake your head and wonder if he wanted to go back to Kara’s Flowers Style first grunge-y version (plaid-ly speaking, at least).

I mean… there are fashion (?) choices that I just can’t take, and plaids are one of them.

Coloured plaids with acid mixes then… even more ewww in my book.

But after all, when even Prada male collection for Summer 2010 (I tried to buy yesterday some for Karim in MonteNapo.. and failed) has a degree of horrible tanktops beehived, you gotta ease up and then maybe it’s just that I am a little too picky? (well, if I am, I am glad to be so in the end… I kiss no one’s ass, never ever. Therefore right… I still hate colorful grungey plaids and all holed up tank tops on males. And females. Gross and tasteless).

Of course he still HOT, so the picture still something positive to catch eventually.

But ehi, Adam… in times of need, at least you should provide just comfort, not wearing a suggestion for a further headache on my already proven nerves 😉

Luckely on Earth Day‘s birthday sweet Jesse was festive and cute and sent us all through Twitter a wonderful collage of polaroids of the guys.

the cuteness!!! LOVE that Matty has 2 of them 😉

That saved the eyes *completely* at least 🙂

Music bites of the day are the four songs that yesterday lifted me up and rocked me a bit while Otto was driving me mad (keep looping them in my head while he was senselessly trying to hit on me. The delusional fat loser…).

First of all, Temper Trap:

K’naan Soccer Version:

Ellie Goulding:

and the song that always makes me smile these days, Train‘s Soul Sister:

Have all a nice day.

Kobe my leader… you’ll have your revenge on saturday, and after all this means a more game at Staples to watch on Tuesday, and I like that as a new chance of… “nicewatching” ;).

Go get ’em, Lakers; after all everyone lost the third game so… (no okay.. I don’t care and I wish we’d won. Can’t fake my feelings ever. I am disappointed and angry still).

Always faithful in you still, my babies in Purple&Gold.

Kick some serious asses on Saturday, and make those Smurfs mute.

😉


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