I guess by now, it’s just a further morning (actually I will finish this at late evening… and prepare to a LOT of typos because there is no way I will double check a thing if I ever want to finish the thing for real ops ;))…
I have been long awaiting to create this post because in the past few days so much that I care of has happened in Italy that I have been on a roller coaster of powerful moods straight for around a week right now.
I have been in need of taking my time in relax… working (going abroad to Berlin again) then just spend time with Karim, and have a wonderful Milan Night in San Siro (whoooaaa we were great against Lazio!!! And I who thought Barcelona Magic was a one night stand!!!), then relax again and be just naked for a whole Sunday before the awkward sensation out of last week vanished enough to let me write.
For weeks (months… let’s cut it.. FOR YEARS) I have waited for a sign of change in my fellow Countrymen, and waited for this all to manifest itself in the just-happened turn of ballots.
I waited for them to understand criminal liars aren’t going to do our poor Italy any favor (because the only ones they look forward to would benefit solely themselves) and I was hoping this year would have proven my hopes right.
I was hoping after the worst bunch of years, clearly linked to disarmingly awful management out from essentially one party (person) Italians would have stopped to believe tales and would have boldly faced reality and would have acted consequently, because after all we are an heritage of amazingly talented people and we have skills, talents, brains and creativity to always find our way to become better, no matter how disadvantaged we are feeling or how bad the situation is looking.
Because DAMN… I am PROUD to be Italian… for what we are SUPPOSED to be.
I get so disheartened whenever I realize this concept of “Italian” might be just a thing of the past, since it’s almost all my life that the values that seem predominating in my Country are the exact opposite than what I strive for and I thrive on.
Watching Presa Diretta yesterday has made me undertsand better why Italians (and why so many of them) have chosen a former comedian as mentor… but while I do get the disbelief and outrageous anger towards “regular” politicians is a thing that – positively – finally has gotten to the limelight, I still very dubious that a recipe like the one Grillo suggests (? does he in the end suggest something after all?) can fix troubles.
Not only that… the other one, the cancer this Country keeps proudly displaying (oh, poor us), still around and not as done as anybody with brain and heart wanted him to be.
I can’t believe the way populism is so ready to mesmerize Italians.
Grillo and Berlusconi are just the same soup baked and cooked in populist sauces, the only difference being the fact Grillo is NOT a criminal while Berlusconi instead is one of the biggest CRIMINALS around.
I get scared when I see how much desperation (or sometimes just laziness) can revolve and push people in trusting what in my book should hardly be trusted.
Yes, Italians love fake promises, they love to have others think for them and find them easy solutions (that never exist in reality, especially in difficult realities such as the times we are in), and they are ready to believe the grossest tales as long as they are pledged to escape a reality that they don’t find flattering.
I cringe at this all, because I am a different breed: I think in hard times people have to FACE the difficulty and get over it by their own forces, with dedication, pride, with determination and drive.
In a way, M5S pledges for this kind of personal push, but I see so many anarchists and unreliable people merged into their following that I can’t avoid to question the goodness of the Movement itself.
I so believe Italians have the resources to finally turn tables and make their (our) Country free from the disgusting stealing robbering behaviors for 60 years its politicians have implemented… I just fear Grillo is not the one to guide this whole process.
Berlusconi keeps being around. DAMN.
I don’t think he’s fit; I on the other hand deeply believe Italians have to do what it takes to save Italy from the cliff we’re hanging on the verge of.
How?
With talent; that talent which Italians have in their genetic pool so strong but which they seem to always forget about, drowned in fears.
This electoral result freaks me, I guess you got it…
Except that it actually doesn’t even surprise me that everything has gone this way, to be honest with you; the more I evaluate the whole situation, the more “surprised” isn’t really the way I feel about this all.
We have even more populists people claiming the little that’s left of Italians’ dignity throughout surrealistic suggestions (which are really dangerous tho) such as “let’s leave Euro” “let’s exit from the Financial system” (which is sucky and so totally wrong, but which pays our debt, idiots), and similarly out of reach “brilliant” (no) agendas.
We are probably the only Country in the world (ever?) to give TWO COMEDIANS the highest rise rate in the last 45 days before an actual “matter-of-life-and-death” turn of election.
We keep having the oldest political class (yes, in the Parliament now many young people are stepping in, but the political parties and all the lobbies and all the commanding chain in this Nation STILL an affair of painfully old people, let’s face it).
How can they reckon what would work for us, when they are not even belonging to the generation(s) they are throwing off a (very high) cliff?
Why we still the only Country where people at the Left don’t really understand a thing about the generation(s) they pledge the voting of?
Sure… we gotta get up and try (as P!nk would say… I love that song) but sometimes trust me is all but easy.
Sometimes… especially after having been for some days again in a Country like USA… I would love to just give up and leave.
We go there in two weeks again and really… sometimes… I think seriously about that all.
But it’s a very quick thought: I’d never do that… I am an Italian with the love for the Country which is shaped out of the way Japanese people love and adore their own.
I would never leave the boat that sink.
I am not Schettino.
Even if it’s truly (and believe me it is) hard to keep on witnessing the way Italians do pay dust to themselves so constantly.
Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI steps off the Pope’s soil
I want fresh forces, but forces who understand politics and LAWS, not a bunch of digerati who can claim this Country (one of those with the hugest debt) can exit frigging Euro or can give a minimum wadge salary (that’d be great, but simply it cannot happen with our financial woes) and an ordeals of retards will believe this all and will create un-governability, will send Stocks down the hill and generally will ruin the already thin chances Italy has to resurface from a downward spiral.
Basically… my problem with Italy is that I don’t trust Italians’ choices again, because those choices are just about as opposite as possible to anything great this Country has ever done in its glorious past.
Why don’t Italians try to be great as they can and work their asses off and stop to wait for others to bail them, instead of believing all Fairy Tellers and let them sink us all any time an inch more down the water?
But yes, it was amazing, and I so wish Italy could claim a progressive party and man such as USA can.
That was where last post ended… we were just about to witness the magic and I didn’t imagine this post would have come more than a month after but you know me… life has its turns and this blog is just my fun memory and generally February, March and April are very hectic for me; both work-wise and because in them there are always the trips for Valentine’s time (later on that… this year it was marvelous again), our K’s time and then my Birthday time.
So when heavy working schedule mix with long trips to foreign places (or to K’s home, like it will happen in March), it’s not really like I can have time to write posts.
I queue things along and then when I will be able to write, I will (this generally happens in airports halls or when I perform tests at lab, just like now ;)).
Oh, nothing… just best Italian Journalist and Historicist alive 😉
To make it more understandable: when we came back from Valentine’s vacation in the amazing Caribbean Islands, I went straight to Florence out from the plane for a THREE days conference which was taking place in weekend and then straight drove (well, K did…) to reach Milan and VOTE.
The day of Elections while the results were making me so worked off, I practically fell asleep by exhaustion at 9h30 pm.
I think somehow I am getting old and I need breaks to sustain some pacing my life has.
When I am turning 28 soon I will shed a tear to my former physical invincibility.
Which has gone away, clearly ;).
I am also starting to enjoy quieter nights out dining with the crew instead of the formal super clubby mod we were put on display on weekends.
Sure I do still enjoy to dance and feel musically entangled in lobo strobes but it’s just that I realize “generation-speaking” that is starting (conveniently) not being my thing anymore.
Chapters of life and age showing… and I have to say I actually like this comprehension I have of the rightfulness of this all.
Is there anything lamer than adults trying to deny they are adults by behaving like kids?
I allow that to artists because they MUST remain kids at heart always (so basically I allow K to be so, even if that really isn’t his way to be at all), but regular people with no artistry in their DNA keeping acting teens when they are not… those gain all my disrespect and I don’t plan to be self-hating any time soon ;).
By the way though yes, Ia m aging and I am almost 28… I still super hot and super fit tho so it’s okay.
I’ll just sleep more and have sex at more convenient hours 😉 (still as often as possible as that calls for a perfect shape and beauty appearance too ;)).
But back at what I was writing.
Life is the greatest thing indeed.
Lately I am really trying to figure out what I stand for at the moment… not only these rhythms that are pacing out at different values…
It’s clear I am approaching that phase of life when all of my peers are starting to turn into family units; I love this.
All you need is Love &… cookies 😉
I love that we are together since forever and we are all coming to the same places, this is amazing.
I love that I am starting to feel some kind of urgency towards motherhood, too.
WELL STOP THE PRESS IS NOT LIKE K&I ARE PLANNING A TODDLER.
Not yet 😉
But the more we are around friends (really close ones) with kids, or ready to have some, the more I naturally start to understand I might get there with ease, too.
Look… not because I feel pressured for or towards it…
JUST BECAUSE K&I feel like we are starting to be ready (but again, that yet doesn’t mean we are trying a thing ;)).
While I was traveling like a fool past month, and I also got blasted by flu, Karim was there being amazing and I suddenly felt so HOME.
It was no mattering where I actually was… He’s HOME for me.
His soul is home for mine.
And I think we could be great parents in a while.
We just need to complete our working crafts and feel full with them.
He’s on the verge of wrapping up the most amazing project in three Countries; I have a very FULL 2013 ahead.
Once these things are accomplished and once we both slide in our meant to chairs in our Companies… who knows.
It MIGHT be TIME FOR CHANGES.
One thing I know for sure.
In a month I get 28 and I feel a woman and not a girl by now in full.
Women have a different mind sets than girls.
And I am getting ready to new chapters in my life most definitely and the wonderful things is that I feel so GREAT about this all.
I am loving getting older; the experiences my life has gifted me with are something precious and very special and I believe in a little while I could be good in passing all this to a new generation; and that new generation, THAT’s FOR SURE, would also be fathered by the most perfect man in the world (perfect also because he is not perfect… though people meeting Karim won’t believe he is not, because this is what he looks and feels like to all of us… but I know him better and I can tell you he is not perfect, but just because of it he is PERFECT FOR ME :)).
When we went to Venice Carnival I just glowed in him.
Carnival Loving Time 2013
The mere things he does to make me smile or to teach me things I didn’t know blow my mind and heart off every single time.
The Valentine’s trip then…
For days and weeks he made me believe we would have gone to Pennsylvania at Hershey’s SPA and then to New York for Maroon 5 MSG gig and then meet with his family in Miami (they obviously have a beach house there too… where’s the surprise ;)).
Weather was freezy POLAR in Italy so I was looking forward to some chocolate and more freeze and then (but only then) some beachy hot time instead…
Instead we went to the Caribbean magic and passed from the Cays in Turks and then move to Santo Domingo and touch a sleeve of Cuban salsa as well…
We touched Nature in the most perfect way, meeting sharks and turtles and iguanas and feeling like Adam and Eve in the Eden and HONEST TO ABOVE…
There I truly felt like if I could get pregnant IMMEDIATELY and even give birth right there and be only K&I forever alone on those islands NOTHING would have been more prefect.
Yes, I am THAT in love.
Caribbean Love 2013
And the greatest thing is that while the passion still there (because I live for sex and I am the most sexual kinky fuck you could imagine… and he LOOOOOVES it, no matter what) the real plus part of our bond is that we are completely into one another’s minds and talents.
We look up to one another.
We genuinely think the other can make our world EVOLVE, which is why even when we quarrel (like anybody does if they care about one another) we can actually try to guess if something the other thinks could be in fact… right over our own opinion.
This only can happen when you REALLY think the other is amazing, because then your ego (even our two ones, which are MEGA) can step off a bit and make you get better through the other’s input.
That doesn’t mean I don’t get mad when K beats me at ANYTHING though ;).
Because I do.
My competitive side is just… moon-sized ;).
But I also always say that is a wonderous thing that I can LOVE my best competitor this much and always feel blessed even when he kicks my ass.
The satisfaction I get whenever is HIS ass that I kick multiplies out of this all, too 😉
*insert evil laugh*
*And a LOOOOOOONG kiss* 😉
Talking about competitive sides… it’s hard (especially after the AMAZING performances of late) not to connect with what THE AMAZING MAMBA is doing at the moment.
He’s starting to think about retirement of course but just as I said to him… that day for me will make the transition about him from INHUMAN PERFECT ATHLETE to SUPREME SPORT LEGEND ICON.
I will also – of course – when Kobe won’t be playing anymore.
But like it always happens with my sporty idols… when THEY stop, a part of me buries with them and what they have inspired me out of LIFE lessons properly, through their sport’s mastery.
So when Kobe retires… a part of me will be completed and a seed will be planted forever in me and its offsprings (hopefully) will be also part of me forever.
Kobe is my FOCUS&Determination icon.
He will always be an hero for me, long past his Lakers’ days (and his obvious status as legend).
Talent is something that flourishes so highly in them two… and you know I can only like talented (multi talented actually) type of people.
So will the Lakers made it to playoffs?
I don’t think chances are that high at stakes actually…
His Mamba-ness
This because it doesn’t ONLY rely on Lakers… we have to hope those ahead slow down and this is never a good way to obtain things. But it’s our fault to have let the opportunity slides off our hands to be the sole responsibles of our own future so, whatever it happens, it will be on us and teach us better for the future (hopefully).
What I do know is that I adore to see Kobe and Nash play together; I have let go of Pau‘s disappointments by now (he’s injuried so it wouldn’t even be cute to speak about it) and Howard keeps being… I don’t know… resilient to finally give in to us and be a COMPLETE Laker?
Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant Lakers LOVE
I still on the fence about him; can’t help but feeling Kobe’s feels there (I know, I am biased probably but this is how I am ;)).
I hope Lakers make it to the playoffs also because being in the USA for a while in the next two months, I would love to witness again a game live at Staples…
I will actually be soon at Staples but that will be again just for a bunch of hours of gig catching when Maroon 5 play there in two weeks (less than it!!!) and it won’t last much , as we will be based in San Francisco by the time of K’s festivities 😉 and then we move to New York for both mine and his work (yes, no leisure time this time in NY)… and then from there is – hopefully if nothing goes wrong – HANAMI TIME IN JAPAN FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!! (and THAT will surely be only leisure time 😉 because I do deserve ;)).
Hanami Time for my incoming 28th birthday!
So right now I generally start to go backwards to the past post and put up Maroon 5 & then Adam (and Behati’s) things.
I will this time too, but since more than a month and A LOT of things have happened, I will try to be quick (none of you believe I will actually be able to, do you?) because already the video things are like a million pieces and this is going to be one of the longest posts ever already just out of them.
Take a seat?
Good 😉
Before I start, let me just point out for the millionth time that when I write about M5 or Adam… I do it only because they are part of my entertainment and “world of likes”.
The two lovebirds pose alike – Adam and Behati
This is not a gossip blog; this is my blog and here I list what I am interested in.
The day I will not find this fun anymore, I will stop; or the day I won’t find reasons to update about all my likes; I’ll stop this.
Gossip is not my thing; in fact, I love that for instance now Adam is very private about his personal and love life: that’s the way I carry my life too (I don’t let strangers enter for real in my circle and am very picky in my true life friendships) and for sure, the best way to have a safe and healthy and HAPPY life is let the crazy outsiders as separate as possible from the core of your inmost and safest personal place.
Super Classy Adam Levine – vintage
I am glad Adam has learnt it through bad experience off his (recent and not so recent) past: no true lover will ever ask you to display your privateness, unless it’s for gaining personally out from your weaknesses.
I always get appalled anytime “fans” claim the “idols” owe them anything other than the consuming of their professional creations; what fans are responsible for it’s the fame the idols may have but that fame came because what artists and idols PRODUCED matched a taste and a liking and then the only thing fans are to be credited for are to have been rewarded with THE PRODUCTS off from their idols.
The fans don’t own the idols at all; they can just own the products that the idols put off, and the occasional proxemity derived from the live consuming of that product, too.
Fans are fans because they LIKE THE PRODUCTS the “idols” make; in no way the “idols” life belong AT ANY PART to no fan.
I wish the ordeals of crazy heads who are way too invested in celebrity lives would understand this, that in no way the life of their idols are linked or will ever be linked for real to theirs..
In some years, Maroon 5 won’t be public anymore, just like it always happens with musicians – or actors –; Adam and the guys will lead very private lives and stay in themselves like it’s only fair to be… what will the crazy fans do then?
Stop breathing?
In the past month I got harassed by some very amusing mad folks and in all occasions (beside laughing my ass off at them) I just thought “poor them… do they really believe any of the people they worship would ever think anything different than “these are crazy” about them?” It’s sad when lives are so poor you have to borrow some celebrity’s one to feel you have a purpose in your days.
Behati and Candice in Caribbean Blue 😉
This isn’t how I work and this isn’t what this blog is up for.
These are my youth memories and my music likes are of course involved, as music plays such a HUGE part in my daily things, but as you have read before, I am not that young anymore so these chronicles (and all the material I upload) could just be gone at ANY GIVEN TIME from now on.
I won’t keep on writing for much longer, be sure ;)…
I will surely be stopping as soon as I have a kid for instance, or just turn this into a “mummy care” blog (with no pics whatsoever of my family of course… you know that privacy and I are double tied).
It’s just about what I decide to do, the rest of the days this blog may or may not have, and it’s no big deal really… just a phase of my life that takes place onto another one which ends, right?
Oh, and always remember… Internet is not real life.
A fandom is not real life.
For how important that all may seem (at least to teen people, and everyone has been teen so I do understand… I much less understand grown people spending TONS of time online following celebrities in their every move, as they couldn’t live a hour without imagining what they do or what they don’t… really? I suggest to go out and take a look at the sky 😉 and maybe talk in real life with real people flesh and bone, for a good change ;)), in reality it is just NOT important at all; it should not matter till the point you don’t feel fine if for a day you don’t check your internet, twitter or whatever in fear you miss Above-Knows-What that your idol might be sharing there.
These stuff… are not mattering for real in your life; trust ;).
It has happened to me quite a number of times by now to reject some material some people were sending me to be published here just because it seemed to me way too much of a reach by said people to suggest me to write one thing or another – for instance under a picture they sent – and to just completely reject the entire ideas they had about things the pictures or the link had to stand for (to be more clear: some people were sending me material to empower their sort of fans/stans wars through this blog and NO THANK YOU, I have left sixth grade a lot time ago and this is just ridicolous, especially when coming from grown up people well past their TWENTIES even. I don’t use, thank you very much ;)).
I don’t even know how to react to these things; they seem all so out of world to me… I can’t really picture how those brains work (or if they do exist at all).
A fandom might be nice, but not if it becomes borderly obsessive, or an obsession entirely.
Ewwww.
That’s gross and sad and just plain wrong: read a book in case… do not create a book in your mind using by suggestions living people’s lives.
Real life is made of the real people in your life, not a celebrity dream: try to step aside this all if you come here to read about celebrities (here or anywhere else), because you’re destroying your life this way.
Adam Levine and mum Patsy at Lakers old games
Okay 😉
Now I can start to put the pieces of the past month together, musically speaking ;).
I will actually put together the timelines of both M5 & Behati + Adam (sort of) because there’s no other way to do this in a quick way (today is testing day but is not like I can just play at work… I don’t want the lab cubicle to explode, especially NOT with me in it ;)!)
I will try my best to be understandable…
In case I wouldn’t (it’s fairly possible); just have fun with all the videos and magazines which are gonna be put up ;).
Let’s start from where it all ended previous post then.
Talking about that video… what if BOTH Love Somebody video and The Man Who Never Lied one (which have both been done already, with Emily Ratajkowski and Valerie Van Der Graaf) will be part of the re-edition of Overexposed, which I suppose will be packed around the Summer, as part of a bonus content (which hopefully is going to include a new song, a new version of Lucky Strike with a female vocalist featured, and some more surprises)?
I’d be VERY down to this all.
It’s not the moment to make Love Somebody a fourth single: as I predicted Daylight went to Top Ten in BBHot100 just for a hot minute (still, that is the best chart achievement of ANY Maroon 5 album ever: 3 Top Ten hits were not even possible with Songs About Jane!) but the sappy mood just won’t do much more (as it won’t the insane new rule for the BBHot100 chart… what a travesty, Bill Werde!!), and it would be foolish to push another similarly sounding single in Love Somebody.
the impressive chart success of Maroon 5 currently
Please guys don’t do it.
You have THE PERFECT songs in Lucky Strike, Doin’ Dirt and Wipe Your Eyes to rule the chart again… cut the sappy stuff and although I really like the way Daylight sounds live, I still don’t think it is at all that memorable song.
It’s in the line of Won’T Go Home Without You… cute but nothing historical; in years it won’t ever be mentioned in your best 7 tracks meme.
It’s time to let it go and bring the groove back ;).
A thing that bugs me (but I do understand where it comes from) is that the media and VS are trying obvioulsy to milk the fact Behati is with Adam; SHE DOESN’T DO THAT, being respecteful of her boyfriend and so good for him… but the media outlets do and this causes stress and charge for the couple.
By now is UTTERLY clear Adam and Behati won’t talk publicly of their relationship and THAT IS GREAT AND RIGHT; but the fact they won’t is making newsmakers trying to push them into doing it , even if by denying lies.
When the interview aired, the usual brainless suspects tried to read into Ryan talking with one of Adam’s assistants (NOT ADAM, be careful) the sentence that he (Adam they hoped, but it may have been the assistant, right?) was “newly single”:
This caused havoc online; the many mad people who hate Behati just because she is with Adam took the chance to vent into her account and offend her all possible ways; the psycho widows around had no hesitation in covering her with hateful names and horrible reactions; doesn’t matter that she was (and STILL IS) clearly with Adam (clearly to anyone a bit into his circle); the fact is that the careful media handling of some previous famewhoring exploiter has depicted Behati so bad, fragile minds have fallen for the lies and just cannot see the truth not even when it’s as bright as the Sun.
In all this insane and undeserved hate, not only Behati behaved so very classily and never stepped down to her haters sad levels; she just kept on being herself and being protected by her people (Candice, Doutzen), after she tweeted simply “Haters Will Hate, Lovers Will Love: It’s You’re Choice“.
And aside the grammar flaw, the point is exactly that: she doesn’t owe explanations; her life and Adam’s are only THEIRS and it’s good the hate she gets still hasn’t affected that one bit.
I admire her way to be about this all, and as usual I praise her for having in mind always and only ONE THING FIRST: ADAM.
Adam also has always made clear his private life is now SUPER private and he won’t put it on display; but I am fairly certain for every wound senseless and disgusting people cause to his Mermaid Angel, he has a way to heal her and make her feel the best on Earth, otherwise she wouldn’t be this brave in facing so vulgar hatred she definitely doesn’t deserve, being so lovely and caring.
Adam will fight (but privately) for his love, the way it should be.
No disrespecteful “fans” have rights to get a glimpse of their precious lives.
BTW, before I forget… Adam was again up in the last episode of American Horror Story Asylum (I have watched the Italian version on our Sky but the dubbing is ATROCIOUS to be frank… I came back to the original audio all times ;)):
I love the way his acting potential shows in the series; I can’t wait to see the way he does in the giant screen when Can A Song Save Your Life will be out 🙂
He has the classic beauty of all old school Hollywood studs; he just needs to practice and refine his moves.
In fact they used a – wonderful – version of old gem “Woman” for this promo video… the funny thing being that Behati actually is in it for not more than a blink… ;):
Behati anyway is gorgeous… her fresh beauty is refreshing for the eyes and her soul is so cute and quirky, just as Adam’s.
And anyway Vanity Fair was not the only magazine which Adam graced these weeks…
Allegedly Prince was not amused about the cover inclusion and of course, as the huge Prince worshipper he is, Adam immediately took the song off the album:
Prince and Maroon 5 KISS cover quarrel
Things like that happen; the only important thing is that Maroon 5 made up for their mistake (and I keep having the very beautiful Kiss cover, tho ;)).
Now sure he wasn’t perfect and sure the cue cards bugged him BUT those bugs also very trained actors (which Adam is not yet) so I won’t put a crux on Adam’s shoulder for having done what everyone does there (by SNL crew’s ORDERS everybody gotta read cue cards) and blast him for having not been perfect or totally natural reading the suggestions.
If you want to know though, Adam is not the only one venturing outside M5; of course there is James with JJAMZ, but you all better be ready also for May 14th, when PJ Morton will put out “New Orleans”.
This would be a double duty time in Miami actually (always having her friends & lover in mind it seems)… first she shot with Bruce Weber and Noah Mills (allegedly… and the two apparently just shot something together again in Zanzibar, but this come later on); while later she would be there again to share with her fellow Angels the Victoria’s Secret spot by Michael Bay (that the week after though):
And while we are at it… take into all these amazing shots for VS 2013 Behati’s campaigns 😉 gaze into her beauty and spunky attitude and try to understand why Adam is blessed to have gotten her :
While his lady was rocking beaches and lingerie and swimsuits, and also some good female professional company, Adam played golf with actor friend Greg Ellis (mocking the stupid fans who keep on believe the twitter account RealAdamLevine is actually his, and with the compliance of Greg actually… I love how he is sometimes cruel with the stupidity of people 😉 I love to do the same), then went with his mum at his brother Michael Rent’s performance:
Adam Levine Mum Patsy and Family at Rent in LA 3 February 2013
In fact, Adam is SUPER busy, because now he has the luxury not many people have in the industry to be a household name.
In fact is pretty difficult for male NON SOLO artists to ever accomplish that status.
Adam has reached it, and now, beside the music career as part of Maroon 5; as writer and composer; as solo artist (with other artists); as record label owner; as tv personality; as tv actor; as MOVIE actor… he is now ALSO at a status which allows him to have endorsements OUT of the music world (which he already has: for Samsung and JHC speakers along Maroon 5, and for First Act Guitars as a solo entity), like the very lucrative Proactive one:
Just know that the rumored fee (very likely) Adam has obtained for endorsing Proactive after Katy perry did (3.5 Million$) and Justin Bieber did (4.1M$) is around 4.6M$ for 18 months.
This is the power of being a household name, folks.
This is amazingly rewarding… but sure it’s also a bit draining as for scheduling and arrangements…
In fact in Los Angeles he had the first meet and greet for the Perfume the first week of February, in between rehearsals for the Grammys and recording with Morrison:
In fact Adam has never spare days practically… in his media tour for the perfumes and the clothing line he looked exhausted (I let you see this now even though it’s a patchwork which involves events happened the second half of February because it works better this way to make you see his tired eyes and face ;))
I am glad he is surrounded by people who love him dearly and since forever and by now no leeches or exploiters are around him anymore because his energies would be drained completely if he couldn’t find rest in love comfortably now that his whole world never really stops at all.
And probably you get why it is always more important for him to protect his private life and stay as clear as possible from fake exploiters and leeches.
Leeches that have kept using him even when it was really not necessary (or smart or fair… but have they ever been fair to him? no way…).
Case in point, the SUPER CREEPY 7 Hollywood Magazine “Icons” issue.
This glossy magazine was launched in November with David Gandy as main train… he failed miserably to sell it and then the team behind it (read the contributors in the magazine credits, and you will laugh your ass off at the fact they all belong to a “team” so very familiar… a team of people I won’t even mention because they are the worst of the worst) decided ONCE more to use the name they always used to get relevance again, and began to promote it in the media outlets (complacent ones, I suppose paid as well) to present Adam Levine naked again on the cover of it (and that, oh! miracle! finally sold the glossy piece of trash the magazine is).
Too bad that nakedness by Adam was dated July 2011, as the entire Levine’s spread is recycled and repainted work out of the Vogue Russia cover feature he shot then, and which then was out in November 2011.
Adam Levine used again for 7Hollywood Magazine winter 2013_the photos are from 2011
To make it all creepier, (the words in the article are all old, because of course Adam wasn’t reached for a new interview, and they had to recycle words material, just to have a promo push without being object of lawsuit), also the video of the shot was a recycled one from 2011 of course presented as if it was not old (I have the iPad version of / Hollywood and also that number of Vogue Russia, so I do know…):
I guess some famewhoring crew won’t ever learn decency and realness.
Good luck with the new venture… it’s not as good or rich as what they lost this new cow they can try to milk, nor even remotely as popular or worthy, but as long is giving them something that can be spent they won’t mind, and hopefully on the other side we have finally finished to be milked by all those losers this way, which is the only thing that matters.
Long gone the exploiters, let’s get back to the specific status Adam is in now, which is extremely rewarding but also which causes a tons of stress and fatigue, which sometime soon might be showin in some of his behaviors (I hope not, but when he is stressed he can be unpredictable, and he’s very human and mistaken when that happens).
First of all: Adam totally deserves this all which is pouring onto his head at the moment: he is very talented and although I HATE (properly, I do) that this all virtually started with a role that I detest and despise (because even I can reckon The Fuckery that thing success started this all at this scale), the fact it all happened finally so greatly for him is something that I am very happy for.
Maroon 5 Grammy Party 2013 with STING
Adam has never tried to hide the fact he loves to make money (and his honesty there is something I respect… I just hate the fact the medium to get that better is a sub par Karaoke show, because that is not good for music, although I admit it has been actually good for HIS music, giving him new perspective and energies and inspirations for sure), and I see the fact he is finally having and making more than many could ever dream of like a signal he will in a while be able to retire and have the family that he deserves.
Not yet, and not for some years more for sure… but now he knows, and sometimes hints at, at the fact in a while he will kiss everyone’s goodbye and just live with the well deserved wealth and memory of a worldwide fame his talent has created for himself and those who will be lucky enough to be there the day he will decide it’s time to become, for instance, a father (I still have doubts he is going to ever marry anyone to be honest, but surely he will father children).
I think in itself that is a marvelous thing indeed, to realize you have worked and reached all your goals and then you feel entitled to take a backseat and live a “normal” life, just way less ordinary than most people could.
I hope only he can find peace and not get stressed in the way to that retirement of gold he most definitely has already planned, or is starting to plan.
The latter part of this video is something that we will talk about later after commenting another FAKE piece of “report” regarding Adam and Behati’s life (will they ever stop to try to ruin them? Leave them alone and let their relationship be, for as long as THEY – and ONLY they – will decide it has to last!).
But the fact he is, doesn’t mean strangers have to be too, so keeps that in mind as well in the continuous of this post (or simply, plug in your brain ;)).
Girl has a great voice, but so far I have to admit the thing I like her most in is still the Come Away To The Water duet on the Hunger Games Soundtrack.
Bunch of lies, courtesy of Page Six, promptly rebooted by a series of similarly scum-mish tabloids.
The point is that again nobody from Bee or adam’s sides said a word on this trash.
Why?
Because they keep NOT caring at all.
Mario Batali cheers Adam Levine and Maroon 5 at MSG gig
Tabloids and insane people can keep believe what they want; while Behati and Adam can keep having their very private and personal life (together, still) which doesn’t belong to strangers; therefore they won’t ever answers the trash.
I totally support their attitude regarding this, you know; and I am really proud this is the way they chose to be.
Behati Prinsloo and Maroon 5 crew in Connecticut and New Jersey February 2013 for M5 gigs
And here we go, just to dismantle the fakers (that keep roaming the story… just the other day The Huffington Post kept saying “Adam is single since April last year” LOL… while he was coupled AGAIN exactly after April last year… not that you can expect them to know it all, especially when they cannot even write “romantic” correctly in their own language ;)).
Maroon 5 left New York immediately after the gig at MSG; Behati stayed in New York for a very important event; do you remember when in November at the VSFS taping she said after her apartment flooded she was guest at a model friend’s house, and that the model friend was pregnant?
Would you say no to a legend and a dear friend who helped you when in need?
No, you wouldn’t.
I just hope Behati avoided at all costs the slimey individual that was there too and who has caused Adam’s a lot of dirt in his life; I won’t even name that piece of trash, I just hope Behati stays well away from him because THAT in case would be the end of the relationship, given the opinion Adam has of the “man” and his “posse”.
This is actually their time together ut in video: ENJOY :
I mean, I repeat for the millionth time: Adam is not up to marry; this lovestory (which is at its tenth month by now, and which is very strong actually) could finish TOMORROW (in case it would I’d expect Taylor Swift to jump on Adam’s bones in a millisecond… she is SOOOOOOO thirsty for him it’s getting ridicolous ;)).
Nothing is given or promised for future but I find disgusting the way these two lovers cannot have their moments; I find horrible and repulsive the lies spread about them; I find terrible that Behati gets harassed anytime because of her relationship, especially when all she’s doing is loving Adam FOR REAL; and without exploiting him a bit, and instead of being praised for it she gets hated.
It must be difficult but then again; she doesn’t care, because her prize is Adam and then any obstacle shall disappear in front of such a thing.
I have to say he didn’t really tweet much after that, but if you took note Behati was having also need of him that day… I am sure he was a CLOSE witness of her day at the Soho Store in VS lilac glory 😉 (Perks of video chats in phone):
Similarly, Behati can now shine and you can totally get she is happy, like when she had to come back from the tour bus in New Jersey and get back to New York first to present The Fabulous Swim line, alone and with Miranda Kerr at location.
Check her grace, gorgeousness, style and cuteness.
And enjoy how Adam’s family showed her love by greeting her in this very important (professionally speaking) day:
For now know that Behati is also the face for ESPRIT 2013.
I love that she is carefully picking up campaigns which cannot harm her VS Angel status; in fact, just like it did happen with NEXT and Seafolly, which are competitor in theory with VS brand, these firms are ALL not operating on the USA soil (Esprit doesn’t since last winter) so Behati can be their face without being a damage to her main source of work.
Smart Behati.
Oh… and GORGEOUS:
Behati Prinsloo for ESPRIT 2013
I am not really on the fence or at a window; about when the lovebirds will reunite.
I suppose easily in California when Adam is there to tour with his band mates and then up for his 34th birthday celebration in LA and Las Vegas.
Sure she will know how to make him feel the most special birthday EVER.
I wonder when she will finally be able to go to her homeland for real and maybe spend some quality family time there…
I strongly advice all of you to try and witness this tour because as I have written in the video… this time around they are REALLY reaching out for the stars (that they are themselves), as each gig is monumental and really engaging this era.
It’s an experience you will treasure I swear even if you are not even familiar with them.
At MSG they were fantastic and I expect even more at Staples Center; I am also quite curious to see how this American energy will translate in the UK gigs…
But whatever… you TRY to catch them.
You won’t regret it and no matter how not cheap their tickets are… this time around more than any other time IT’s WORTHY.
Trust me on this.
Do it 😉
Let the music shine.
It’s all that I have ever wanted for this blog to display, actually.
MUSIC RULES.
Have a great March… catch you sometimes in April 😉
Today could be one of the best days of the year!!!!
Back after days of COMPLETE no connection (I got hacked past Wednesday in a very obnoxious way… obnoxious especially because it faked I could have ANY darn interest in THE VoiceOf Fuckery… Yikes!!! I despise despise despise all about any reality tv show, ESPECIALLY when it butchers THE art of MUSIC!!! The day I will ever watch that thing may the Judgement Day come and bury me down in flames!), today from a very quiet lab, as my tests roll on, I HAVE to get you all on the amazingness that has been the WHOLE Heineken Jammin Festival 2011 experience, and SO much more that is going on in these beautiful – although rainy – hours.
In so many ways, I loved to be not connected because I got even more pleasures out of being with my friends and lover in such awesome spaces and events.
I also had some wild super rewarding sex plays in the mud and washed up through rain which was SUPERBLY satisfying.
Three words: WE MET COLDPLAY (that of course wasn’t my first time, but it always is a FINE pleasure, especially when Guy is all chatty. He’s a dreamboat and always will be), and this time even Karim admitted he liked them – in that break AND especially for their rocking performance on stage.
I think it could all stop there if that were NOT actually the peak.
The peak?
I TALKED WITH LIAM GALLAGHER.
THAT is the peak and forever will be (though I really think he was intimidated by both my and K’s height… not that he would EVER admit it, of course).
My Oasis-Mania will always EQUALLY love both brothers, because one has THE most amazing raspy voice of his generation, and the other the most amazing easy writing skills (can’t wait for Noel’s solo album to drop… and while we’re at it, happy incoming marriage Noel!!!).
The days of the Heineken Jammin have been awesome… maybe not everybody loved the line-up as we did, but to me one of the peaks WAS DEFINITELY FABRI FIBRA!!!!
We re-met him (no big deal… he’s a homie ;)) as well, and actually as usual I had a blast.
We loved especially day one, even though weather wasn’t bright (but during the PERFECT Coldplay set, even rain stop bothering because NOTHING had to mess with the complete bliss that their set was. Gosh, they get better and better and better as performers every single time: the whole thousands and thousands were all so transfixed… males, females – because they have as many males fans as they have females, for God’s grace – everyone just stated the obvious: COLDPLAY are this generation’s U2. End of it. Another level, yep).
Cremonini and Elbow, the amazing Verdena, Negramaro (on second day) were really really good too.
Vasco Rossi on third day is a giver, I mean, Vasco is always a great fun live… but the rest of day three and some of day two was really a filler.
Taylor Momsen should just model because her music SUCKS; then… All Time Low??? REALLY???
Painful awfulness.
Never call them back again (not merely at this festival… just don’t let them come back in Italy ALTOGETHER, for the sake of music!).
Before we took off for the four days of Veneto’s magic we drowned in more bliss thanx to Apple and Steve Jobs, who revealed to the world the news about US:
Watch the whole of the Keynote from Apple Site:
Can't post the video here so CLICK over and watch from Apple site the WHOLE Keynote 🙂 Steve rules!!!
I adore Steve Jobs.
He is what I’d love to become, as I wrote, he’s an imaginative genius ahead of his time and full of dreaming power, without being naive or empty for it.
Steve… I suffer seeing you so weak and consumed… you’ll NEVER know how good you did for the world and… ME.
Love You.
Keeping up with amazingness of the past few days. we had to leave Venice soon on Sunday because Ladies and Gentlemen we had to VOTE for the Referendums (please let the Quorum be reached!!!).
This absolutely fantastic video from Sora Cesira, with its distinctive half Italian-English mash up, tells everything:
Genius again.
The total bliss ensued when this morning, just as I had hoped yesterday before getting some deserved rest, when I woke up to the GREAT news that LeBron(ze) James once again proved himself as the BIGGEST LOSER ever and choked again, overshadowed by Dirk Novitzky‘s TRUE class and losing the ring (he will never get) in favor of the very deserving Dallas Mavericks.
AMAZING.
Amazing.
AAAAAMMMMAAAZZZING.
This picture also is genius and it will keep me going smirking ALL day:
Dear Dirk and Lebron, thank you for a great movie... THE LOSS OF THE RING (Genius again!)
I’m very happy of the MEAT demise: I am sorry for Wade, who’s a great champion (in Dirk’s league), but you know my un-appreciativeness of Bronzey’s HYPE is as vast as sky and I hope finally it will stop, after the further proof that he simply CANNOT WIN.
He’s a choker, a loser, and will NEVER ever win, no matter how many (better than him) players he will surround himself with, he has NOT *that* factor that makes people win (read: COJONES).
He’s NOT a champion. He’s just a very good player with a set of natural skills that he NEVER developed rightly because he’s a lazy unfocused PRICK.
Very deserved. Congratulations TEAM Dallas Mavericks (Cuban still a jerk)
Yes.
This is what he is, because the only thing that holds himself from success is… HIMSELF.
What a waste of human being (You know I consider CRIMINAL when great talents get wasted due to people’s characterial FLAWS… it’s a damage to humanity to me, and let alone how can I take such a low form of life can get HYPED??? Please… shut up and hide under rocks. Losers will remain losers forever, because it’s in themselves the problem, and they just won’t solve that).
Stop hoping he will blossom because at 26 he’s starting to get old and stale ALREADY and should be ashamed the way he lost once again, once more.
Today at lab, though, something else arrived that in a way made me very happy (I was thinking about buying it in Japan once there for marriage, because my record collection gotta remain intact a and complete NO matter THE FUCKERYthat thing currently making me bleed), but on the other end still signify for some weeks more I can’t bend over that liking.
I can’t be derogatory to my life’s principles.
That means also (among brackets) that although I HAVE listened (once) to the song Adam and Gym Class Heroes did, Stereo Hearts (it’s a cute, unarming song… not a masterpiece, because NOTHING produced by those who write for KESHA and Britney Spears could ever be, but it’s a nice generically cute happy pop summer song that surely will do well everywhere, because generic is what rules the charts nowadays, if you exclude AWESOME Adele), and I reckon is a nice effort (nowhere near as good as the real rock song Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, of course, but still a sweet happy pop urban song), I won’t buy the song until The Fuckery Voice ends, no matter if technically the song will be available TOMORROW from iTunes (this breaks a LONG habit, where I would buy ANYTHING off from any of Maroon 5 guys even before listening to the thing, JUST because they’d deserve… but now my fanship has way reduced, due to the musical crime Adam did when he sold his artistry out to a reality tv show… sorry, this is not amendable for me, and it never will. That super status is forever lost in my book, and it won’t come back, because I can’t really take him any seriously anymore, no matter his unmistakable talent and his beautiful voice…):
But I mean… confront the above (cute, I admit it) song with a real rock song full of guitars and real musical play, and with WAY better substance, then draw your conclusion on why I feel so let down about somebody after all:
I mean… there’s NO comparison regarding real artistry quality between these two tracks right?
It doesn’t mean Stereo Hearts won’t succeed (I think it will, and I hope it will because Adam NEEDS a hit after all) but have you looked what is in the chart these days? Kesha? Katy Perry? Taio Cruz? PITBULL???? If that’s what people buy, let me be with the music people DON’T buy, all way long (even if I am sure ETIAW will be bought a LOT everywhere, because it’s just too much of a good song anyway).
Oh well… a least so far Adam didn’t dare to ruin completely his credibility and duet with Justin Bieber or a Jonas Brother… but the way he’s now, I won’t be surprised when he would (ah, the good times when duets were with REAL people like Alicia Keys are forever gone, aren’t they?… what a shame…).
Anyway, back to the gift I got sent.
My Chinese partners sent me this as a present this morning ( they wanted to be kind after I served them with boat rides and Italian Sea last month… cute).
Hands All Over ASIAN Tour Edition, which is a CD + DVD.
I have to wait a while more. But thank you 😉
They also sent me a bid guitar. That I will immediately give to Karim.
Way to keep me cringe over what has gone that won’t return (namely the pure unaffected joy of having special M5 items, when I was proud of them…).
This is it: your very happy Miss Z. is starting to feel quite dizzy because well… in two months I am gonna marry in Japan and preparations for that are swirling a notch up every day?
I still smile like an idiot about this because finally my Country has raised up and sent a powerful message to THE CRIMINAL Berlusconi who’s keepin it under tutelage by brainwashing its citizens with the lamest, fakest, more repulsing tricks.
From East to West, North to South the only message loud and clear given out from Administrative Elections was ONLY this one:
Look, I’m not an extremist of the Left: I am somebody with sure Progressive views, I can’t stand racism or narrow-minded people who let fears of the differences exhaust their positive outlook at the openness of the world , but I want the Law to be respected, I have the strongest work ethic, I am not there to see anything even remotely anarchic takin anything of my Country out, and I despise Communism as any other type of tyranny (though Nazism will forever be worse than anything else, because its plan was first and foremost to destroy and to commit genocide).
And that’s why I am happy about these results.
The people who like me are repulsed by Berlusconi aren’t coming out from Social Centers and do not live raising fists and chanting all day long.
We are hard-workers with great skills, in my case pretty wealthy, we love art and fashion and traveling and we LOVE CULTURE and EDUCATION and never for a single day in our lives we would fall under the charm of a tv-seller with the culture of a caveman who says the same stale FAKE things from 1994.
Let’s hope THIS generation of young people can send this poisoning criminal where he belongs: in JAIL, or anyway NEVER in a public office again.
He has ruined this beautiful Country (with the sad collaboration of too many blinds and lazy italians) for way, way, WAY too long.
Let the downfall of the awfulness he represents START.
Awww 🙂
And if you wonder how can a Milanist like me despise Milan’s owner so bad, that’s not an issue: I would prefer Milan to be under ANYONE ELSE’s grab.
Really.
18th and counting!
I cringe everytime he uses Milan to his paving nasty plans.
Because that’s what he has always done: USING Milan, and no matter if we won under him… he won way, way more for himself than he made us win through him.
It was cool to stay in my boat… even though the fact Karim arrived after me and left way before (his own stuff to do, of course… I love when he has an agenda he can’t ditch!) left me sexless way too much (and I can’t ever be fine sexless).
We found a way to celebrate and have LOTS of lovely role plays the weekend after clubbing on the Lake Garda with the whole crew.
I was allowed to play people REALLY bad (I am a bad bad bad girl) and that turned out to be a wonderful source of sexual rawness.
I am a master exercising power onto men: Karim loves to witness that; I never know enough if it’s because he knows now he can stop me from crossing the borderline (if he likes to), or if it’s because he knows I never had better sex than the one he keeps gifting me with (and you know… I have a pretty HUGE list of people of skill there that I slept with, chewed and spat out, and left with broken bones/hearts…).
The icy on cake that day was that actually I was so successful in my hunting for the perfect person to be played and tricked that night that I got offered by two lesbians too .
And well… that for me is always almost MORE flattering than catch men’s desires.
Men are way easier to intrigue and please than women. Men are simpler. It’s like the difference that passes between having a dog following you – it’s a no brainer, dogs can’t avoid to – or having cats willing to please and follow you – that is only a cat’s choice, their imprinting is dominant, unlike canine’s –.
So, those two stunningly looking Dutch beauties went up catching me and from their Vip area to our own one they tried hard, OH! so very hard to bring me along at their suite in Sirmione.
Too bad I really don’t see the point in being tasting the lesbian world (beside a dream to see Natalia Vodianova or Michelle Pfeiffer naked maybe, because to me they are the description of females beauty), because in that case the threesome (or foursome) could have been really nice for Karim to appreciate.
But you know I wouldn’t get jealous of you in any case. Save the option for your bachelor party 😉 I am anyway sure nobody could come nowhere as near as me when it’s about sexual skills 😉 Try freely anything else.
My confidence there is border-less 😉
(P.S.: if you’re prudes, this is not your place to read over. I don’t care what you may think like… my life is mine and my only principle is BEING TRUE AND HONEST AND REAL. Say always what you think and feel, so that if people stay with you, they stay WITH YOU and not with a person they think you may be, that you are not . Sex is the greatest thing in life. Sex and Love to go hand in hand have to mutually acknowledge one another in total openness and realism. Sexual desires are the most powerful of engines to ANY long lasting love. If sexual desire fades, soon or later love will fade too. The concept of possession is nowhere as important or working as the willing of belonging, which is almost the opposite of wanting to possess’ anyone. Jealousy is a cover up for insecurity about oneself, not the other one. Every woman and every man true to their own sexuality will always want to experience sex in many ways. FACTS).
Good Lord… I will have a hard time suffering this Heat ring (they are so lucky, Dirk got even injured in the Finals… GRRRR).
But I am way too happy these days to fuse out.
So… whatever, MEAT. You get this ring out of others’ collapses. Treasure it, because it won’t ever repeat: take notice, Bronzey (and go licking Dwayne Wade‘s ass because that’s the only reason you will finally embellish your finger for….)
My very happy mood translates also in my sweet molding heart (NOT… I am not like that I know… but it did sound good? Did it matched my previously sex-overloaded tirade? No? Lol… ;)) acknowledging for once a good thing again about Adam (the one that shouldn’t be mentioned until The Voice of Fuckery still going on… even though, as that thing has been already renewed, I risk to never speak again of him if I don’t start to avoid thinkin he does… that thing – convoluted thoughts comin off from my still unaccepting soul. My soul will never accept that he took part in a reality show. *sigh*).
Okay…
When we were at Garda Lake, on Sunday May 29th, we were breakfasting at the cafe’ (we were 16: my house is big BUT I don’t have 16 milk bowls, sorry ;)) and we were checking our phones.
At a certain point, reading my Twitter timeline, I stumbled upon the sweetest ever message Adam gave out to Anne on twitter.
And even I, I admit, even if I am pissed with him about that thing, well I couldn’t avoid to melt.
He was at Prince Forum gig in Los Angeles (May 28th for them) and he totally LIVES for Prince…. but as Anne couldn’t be with him for working matters, he said this:
Damn you, Levine!!!
You and your adorable sweet lovingly heart.
Grrr.
When you turn THAT sweet, I forget even about your reality show musical crime.
That was so sweet, I had to openly say something over twitter (I was almost tempted to listen to a Maroon 5 song before that thing ends, but I held on: my principles for God’s sake survived the cuteness of him. I am happy with myself ;))
how could anybody refuse such a sweet thing? Not even I could.
I could never ever escape the magic that these two sparkle together.
I am a sucker for them since February 2010 (this whole blog testifies it) and I can’t wait for when they will mix their perfect genes together and gift the world with a new generation of handsomely looking babies.
Seriously… this is a collage made with two super recent pictures of them both: Adam, on Memorial Day 2011 at his place, and Anne, a bunch of days prior of that, in Gran Canaria, shooting for we don’t know yet what:
Everything I wanted to say about this stays in the photo. Adam Levine and Anne V together are PERFECTION.
The super hot couple will always be a blessed sight for me.
Most awesome couple (beside Karim and I, obviously), Adam Levine and Anne V strutting their hotness in Venice, Italy, June 1st 2011. Awww.
They charm me EXACTLY together, even more than I have ever been charmed by Adam alone (and that’s to say SOMETHING, indeed).
the lovely Anne V
Anne V can make me forget the fact Adam let me so down when he decided to “land his talent to The Voice of Fuckery” (any LeBronze’s pun IS intended, because you know how I don’t like Bronzey, exactly because he was given THE BEST of talent skills, but he never does his very best and he never fully commit to play hard to perfect them and be REALLY the best – in the end, I can’t stand underperforming people…).
I still striking on them until that thing won’t end.
And as it will reprise (sigh… already at the start of 2012? This cuts my flesh deep under and rips it out… *bleachhhh*), I will get back on strike again.
I love music too much to accept a reality show in ANY of my music digs, sorry.
Maroon 5 and Adam Levine are beauty of music to me… but NOT when they mix with such garbage stuff: I let retards like retarded things, and there is NEVER a possibility that the true art form of REAL good music or performance can EVER have a single thing to share with pre-fabricated stupid reality tv shows, all built up for low-standard-aiming masses.
Would Thom Yorke, Bruce Springsteen, Kurt Cobain, Freddie Mercury… John Lennon… and you go on with that… would they EVER had the dirty thought of accepting be part of such unforgivable sham EVER cross their minds (let alone have them sign onto the contract for it)?
NEVER.
Adam Levine and Anne V spotted by fans in Venice, Italy, on June 2nd 2011
And those are my type of artists: there is where I did ALWAYS hope and believe Adam could and should have aimed at.
Fuck…Even more contemporary artists, such as my nerdy genius Chris Martin, or Matthew Bellamy… surely never Noel Gallagher, or Lenny Kravitz… darn they would NEVER touch a role in reality shows with a long 50 inches pole: and in this sorry, all them will always from now on stand a notch up to Adam (while before I always considered Adam the type of multi-talented artist who could have eventually even SURPASSED them all).
FOREVER.
What Adam did downsized him forever as an artist to me.
I still love him, his huge talent, his amazing perfect voice, and I will always be charmed by his looks forever but after what he did, he will never anymore be someone I will worship for the artistry of music, like I used to do for so many, many years, FIRST & FOREMOST.
Doesn’t mean I won’t love his music: I probably always will.
I just stopped think he’s up there with the “Pure artists” club in my book of “perfect likings”.
He’s a fantabulously talented individual with an unique voice and a heck of amazing talent, and he has one of the most special and funny personalities you will ever come across, but that choice he made proved him also like somebody whom is too lazy to battle only with that set of God-given skills the perks of fame and show-biz: he prefers to rely to mere popularity tanks, whenever is it possible: because it’s easier, immediately rewarding, and more ego-pleasing probably.
Maroon 5 at Ca's Foscari private Biennale Party, Venice, ITALY, 2 June 2011 - 1 -
His (respectable, but not approachable for me) choice.
It doesn’t affect his talent; but it DOES affect his status as an artist and his reputation among “serious” ones, surely.
And among brackets… I don’t really think he cares about being taken as a too much of a serious artist: probably it was too much of a responsibility for him and he’s somehow happy about how, with his very commercial tv choice, he erased the need of being taken “seriously” by music critics anymore.
He likes to not think of himself as “all that”, so he’s fine with people screaming at him just “You’re HOT!” and buying his stuff, regardless of any of competency skills about the true appreciation of true music those type of folks (mostly overweight chicks from 18 to 45) can offer in the music debate.
I’m now sure of that: and for me that is a huge darn disappointment, but ehi, not everybody gotta die for art, right?
He doesn’t, and similarly the wide majority of his fans doesn’t seem to, either (and that will never be a good thing for Maroon 5, face it: numbers almost never equals quality, when it comes to music artistry).
Maroon 5 at Ca's Foscari private Biennale Party, Venice, ITALY, 2 June 2011 - 2-
Too bad because his talent was by far enough to let him be a GREAT one, without any of the tricks he has decided to let himself go for, and in the long run vanish along with.
Can’t change my perspective there though, so “the strike” will be the only apt solution for times when “garbage” will risk to affect “beauty”in my very demanding eyes (and ears).
It’s like… a vaccine.
Or an induced coma to preserve true life.
You choose the metaphor you like best 😉
But I ain’t mad at any of Adam’s choices: his life and career are of course a deliberate pattern he only chooses how to shape like; I just can’t fake feelings and if something ain’t at all my taste, I won’t ever claim it is.
Adam Levine, Anne V and James Valentine party at Ca's Foscari in Venice Biennale - Russian Pavilion - 2nd June 2011
Now let me post two small things about Anne (the fact I am not uploading about her is because when I’d do it I would TOO easily fall in the charm and risk to write way too much about Adam then… and it’s bad because she is doing TONS of great stuff fashion-wise these days, and she would deserve space…).
Anne not only has shot campaign incoming for Dylan & George denim campaign, but (way more important and interesting) she will be the face along handsome Gabriel Aubry (Adam, be careful 😉 kidding…) of True Religion‘s new brand campaign (awwww: she’s dominating the jeans field, if you add Pepe to these!).
But there is some major make-up campaign allegedly looming ahead (Go Anne, Go!!!!) and then there is the new Chanel Chance perfume ad, 10 years after her debut in the fashion industry, with the first version of the same scent.
And the first version (look how adorable she always has been!):
You deserve all success, sweet Russian Fairy 🙂
And I really, really hope soon you will add to your achievement list a beautiful family.
I loved when you said back months ago that you were looking forward to that a lot.
Weather also wasn’t that hip, but still… who cares when you are drowned into the greatest love with your fiancé and your families?
Exactly 😉
We got that somehow Karim’s family would like a Tuscany marriage but sorry… no way.
Kyoto is.
Stop trying 😉
In Florence the first night out dining with our families, we had a chunk of buzz about Shaquille O’Neal‘s retirement announcement.
Wow… the whole place started to speak as Italian news on tv (Restaurant had giants walla screens all around) were showing images of the Former Great Player.
But I just can’t forgive (you know I am not a forgiver at all).
Everytime I look at him now, I can’t separate from anything his mouthful hatred against all things Lakers for almost a decade after he made us (undeniably) GREAT.
They’re so awesome to talk with; so elegant without being affected… so real and so much a true family (which is rare among those of their status, and even rarest when it comes to families who run great companies and are also involved in Politics… darn t was incredible when they brought us to an AGRITOURISM and we past the day pickin up black cherries from trees. THEY’RE FRIGGING BILLIONAIRES!!!! And they came up with the idea of staying in the Countryside and be all farmers…. and looked like they had NO PROBLEM whatsoever about it. Now THAT is really, really, REALLY cool!!!).
We had a blast together: we all get along so well, and it’s all but given, especially coming from different Countries as we do (though, to be fair: my family and I have lived in multiple Countries… K’s family OF COURSE did as well all of their lives, given the headfamily working duties 😉 so that’s actually pretty natural for all of us to feel at ease with foreign people, whom we don’t ever perceive as foreign after all…).
They’re very respecteful of everything: but at the same time very honest and open to never let you have second guesses at their words: what they speak, it’s definitely the truth they see, and so you can decide if you can get accustomed, or not.
They are honest and they obviously ask that same honesty to people around them.
But yep… my super holiday approaches, marriage approaches… everything is falling into its spaces.
In fact, I am leaving towards Heineken Jammin Festival in two days (I get back my two days of lost freedom I had to spent in that Southern Italian sea, you see ;)) because June, albeit NOT yet a month of holiday, will anyway see me JAMMIN’ & SHUFFLIN’ a lot!!!
And yes, I am all pumped because after Heineken Festival it’s gonna be GLASTONBURY, bitchessssss!!!!!
Both events have the highlight in catching again ADORED CHRIS MARTIN and Coldplay ;).
Can’t wait to re-catch my four musical babies live!!! It’s gonna be a blast, they’re so amazing live, everything gets a singalong treatment and they just command the stage… in every possible way!!!).
Coldplay live are just everything a gig should be: rocking singalongs for never less HUNDRED THOUSANDS of people, and a full 12 years of decade remixed and reworked like a giant massive powerful jukebox 🙂
found Anne V in Repubblica Venerdi summer glasses feature. LV rules 😉
And you know, I love it 😉
Plus I can’t wait to hear Liam Gallagher‘s snarling again from Heineken festival stage, too (Beady Eye there!!)…
And Fabri Fibra!!! Whooo!!!
Then there will be Cesare Cremonini and I pretty love his singing live…
There will be Negramaro…
Yep, it’s gonna be really really good this incoming long weekend, and after that we will stay a bit in Venice and enjoy Biennale parties too (cos yep, we can ;)).
I’m still undecided if we want to move boat along, or just stay as per usual at Danieli.
Dunno.
We’ll see (Karim has a pass anyway… but we have great memories of Venice together from last year, and it all involved HIS parental friends’ HUGE boat rocking…so mmmh… it’s like we long for a boat anyway ;)).
I expect wonderfulness coming off from Veneto times, and most especially Glasto: hopefully weather won’t be much of a bitch but who cares… music happenings alongside my crew, best friends and my amazing fiance is something that can carry sun inside my soul, no matter if rays from our star shine or not for real.
It’s gonna SO rock.
Catch you after all the gig-banging.
And when I’ll catch you, I’ll be on my way down the aisle… or something 😉
We had a wonderful time, we visited countryside on both days, and yesterday we had a very pleasant ride day over our Harleys.
Rob Coff on his Harley sunday
I cherish time with friends and I am always happy in decoding how much Karim fits with any of them he gets to meet for multiple days after maybe a dinner or a quicker introductory visit went out okay.
Today we pack.
Fitting in for one month for me is huge… but for how big my boat is, I know I better avoid to move a closet.
I can always buy something on the journey… 😉
The itinerary has been approved.
We skip Ibiza and the Spanish coast because we’ve been there a lot anyway, and we went to Barceloneta in May so we rather try the other side of Mediterranean instead.
We will move from Genova to Saint-Tropez, then move to Corsica, and then reach Palau and the northern of Sardinia.
From there, we will direct to Elba and Maddalena, then down to Ventotene, and then we will do Ischia and Capri.
We will then go to Eolie islands, we hope to see Agrigento too in Sicily, and from there, feeling quite like Ulysses, we will pass the sea and reach the bottom of Italy, the beautiful thriade Gallipoli, Leuca and Otranto.
From there we will do a bit of Greece and we will finish with Croazia, and get back to Venice.
Boat Life - Maroon 5 (6) in New Hampshire, 31st July 2010
Sounds pretty awesome, right?
Man… I am so happy.
I feel so blessed and lucky… well, it’s that I AM that in fact.
And in all this, I am with Karim (friends will reach us at the various stops, so that we will enjoy also friendly care beside the personnel we have on board to take care of us ;)).
The main thing of yesterday was my well debated, but then really approved, Top Ten Songs 0f 2010 List (so far… but I see it hard to beat at least any of the top 5 places…).
I listen and buy a shitload of music every month; my tastes are variated and I listen to music in 5, 6 languages so my range to pick up from is huge.
Basically, when I evaluate “the best” I try to see the complete package: music, vocals, lyrics, overhall feeling, impact, a sense of personality displayed, and boldness.
it’s not really about genres as much as it’s about… honesty in art.
Anne and crew in Saratoga, first date of Maroon 5 Summer Tour
I am a big fan of her, and she has actually created one of the songs I feel nearer to (Handle Me), but in “Dancin On My own“, the situation s completely unknown by me (I reject if any… never been rejected or even not considered holy in my life 😉 I know… seems like I bitch out but that’s how my life has worked… and like it will keep on working. Sorry. I’m hot ;)).
Still, she sings it so well I feel like I actually empathize.
That is good music (and then the melody reminds me of Limhal’s Never Ending Story, which I love!!!).
Another point that people got surprised was the fact I named “Airplanes” (#4) best duet of 2010 for me.
They expected either Gotten or Promise out of Slash album to be named that for me… and it should have, if I hadn’t feel those like no duets.
"People" on a boat in New Hampshire at the end of July... 😉
To me a duet has to imply two vocalists: featured vocalists by a legendary guitarists make me not feel that as duet.
And by the way, both Gotten and Promise would definitely belong in my TWENTYFIVE best songs of the year list so far.
But not in the top ten.
😉 Sorry. I’m picky. Even more when it’s about my favourite musicians. I espect always the over top, and being really really good sometimes isn’t enough for pleasing my taste 110%.
Saratoga and a Disco Ball...
I keep being this honest. I think it’s a total virtue, and I don’t care how YOU do feel about it. DEAL with me, or go away. 😉
There are also some lovely homage of the one and only Queen that I have to share, that she sent over days (and that I caught only a few hours ago because you know me… Holiday = Holy = No Internet for hours = Fun of Real Life = JOY… ;)).
I wonder if they’ll follow the plan strictly as last tour or will surprise me with unexpected dates in pleasant European corners.
I still think they are making a mistake in overlooking Europe for too long already, but ehi… they’re adult and experienced: hopefully they do realize what this might imply, and are okay with the outcome anyway.
Choices.
It’s all about choices and responsibility. 😉
Michele Merkin. I wanna be as toned when I am 35 😉
Anne must be really a sporty person… because THIS is Michele (not strange, she’s of Russian Jewish descent. + Swedish. Practically perfection, right? Well, in European optics, DEFINITELY you can’t beat a female 5’11”, with THAT bust and THOSE eyes and lips coming from Sweden and Russia mix of blood. Elves in Tolkien were inspired by THAT genetic. I’m just saying ;)… ;)).
But you know my way of thinkin and phylosophy there: jalousy is the most useless of feelings, both to manifest or carry inside, both to feel object of or make somebody feel inspired with).
Losers, and/or very insecure people are jalous.
Beautiful, successful people who are jalous just haven’t grown up enough, and to me they’re pretty much frauds.
If you do your best and are the best you can be in a relationship, you don’t have to be jalous and you don’t have to fear a single thing (and for me, betrayal is a fragile concept anyway…); so in the end, Anne is safe, as long as everything works and when it eventually wouldn’t anymore (which I hope never happens… you know I am a sucker for them to keep being together)… it’s not another one who is the problem.
It’s still YOU the only problem AND the one and only possible solution as well.
Anne V on that boat in New Hampshire, 31st July 2010... 😉
And by the way, Anne still looks so >>>
Don’t think we could have have any problem, right? 😉
Pearls of sexual Wisdom provided by Miss Z. The gal who wouldn’t mind her man to have sex with others and who would probably just ask “who is better in bed now?” only to have the obvious answer “None can beat you, Z.”
Because there couldn’t be any other possible answer, baby. GUARANTEED 😉
(Yep… I am THIS bitchy 😉 and that full of me. And so far, around 200 people think my nickname is Totally well-deserved. I’ll re-evaluate my self perception in case something earthqwakes that reality… ahahaha!!!)
After we pack at Karim’s house we will move back to my territory, also because today I have to spend my last chance with my Swifty before I say bye to him for one month.
I will miss my horse so dearly!!! Hopefully he has been getting used to the idea of not seeing me for a while. *hopefully*… 😉
I’d just say to close this… enjoy yourself.
I’m going to be REALLY enjoyed in a bunch of hours…;)
Yesterday I actually met this cute guy from Senegal out during lunch time, trying to sell me some French book. I love when I get to talk in French, cos it’s quite rare compared with the daily chances of talkin in English.
I just like my French accent.
What can I do?
Anyway this book of Senegalian poetry was really lovely to be read, and the Fall season always inspires me in writing.
The weekend in Venice was simply AMAZING.
I have already posted it on Twitter (though it’s a different side), but I need to repost it here: I bought the most beautiful Venice mask for Carnival (and for New York Halloween!!!! Gosh I can’t wait ;))
Look at it: €420 so damn well spent, yes!
Venice mask I bought two days ago
Karim said with that I should dress as cat woman. Just in satin and laces instead of leather liotard. I might think of that. I will definitely dress that way for him just.
For the mask I actually think of dressing with the Chanel gaunt I bought last year for New years eve. It’s a siren dress, very elegant and very simple. The mask is enough for gaining me attention. Though I am sure the way that dress fits me would increase it anyway.
Venice on Sept. 19th, 2009, from our boat.
Venice by the way was sunny, lovely… and we stayed again at Danieli, just like we did months ago when spending time with our friends there as well.
But alone… it was just better.
As usual Karim was very much full of surprises.
On the side of the Main Canal there was this HUGE (help me say it: HUGE) yacht that must have been of some Prince or Sheik, all blue and as long as two palaces in row. We saw that walkin off Danieli’s, and I said for teasing my man:
“You should have rented it… I would love to sail over around Venice just you and me… but no Gondola…”
He smiled and showed me a delicious Azimut 58 Fly. 17,68 meters of adorability.
“We’ll sail around with that. Do you like it?”
I smiled cos by now I know he can pull off anything at any moment, totally unexpectedly. I asked if it was his.
“It’s of a very close friend of my father, who happens to be in Italy these days. But we also have one of those, at our place.”
So we sailed and saw Giudecca from a very privileged point of view.
I love to make love on boats. The rocking can add so much. And I love to know people driving that can hear, but not see what happens inside. If we were alone, we might also have done something outside. On summer we did… Ouch 😉 . We both love that, actually. Our egos get pleased by torturing poor fellas around, or just is that we can’t give a shit about judgemental of others. We are really comfortable with ourselves, one another and our quite open and free sexuality. I’m not gonna ask forgiveness for something that makes me and my hal feel so fine.
Fall is in.
I feel incredibly well.
Karim played the poker tournament at Casino, in Venice. There were seriously a number of jerks there. No class whatsoever. On saturday night instead there were interesting people at tables. I discovered that Roulette bores me to death. BlackJack gets annoying after a while. But I love to follow Karim playing Poker. Though… sorry, my luck gets no comparison. I know 😉
I made him pay in nature.
That was a double win.
Happy day everyone. Gotta start to cook for him. He’s ready to come over here soon. 😉
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