There is this feeling, every time I read about another broken record or professed love through a big award for Adele. I catch myself feeling almost maternal and proud. Crazy! So you can easily imagine the bliss, when Goddess Adele so deservedly received the 6 Grammy Awards she was nominated for, including the 3 most prestigious prizes in the music industry: Best Song, Best Record, and Best Album of the Year…!

Coincidentally, it’s been a little bit more than a year since I started my loving tirade here, with a neverending set of boring overwhelming posts that were meant to warn you of the perfection coming right at your ears… and God did it come. What a year! And what a rise to success, in so many incredible ways, that was set in stone this Sunday, celebrating the triumph one of the best albums of the decade: 21.

I think it profoundly touched me all through the year because I had started enjoying this little gem from the very beginning, enchanted first by the album 19 and hoping for her to continue producing brilliant work later on. She is beautiful! It’s refreshing to have someone genuinely humble and normal and simple, with no need of choreography, über-sexiness, colored lights or special effects – she just IS there, not caring about anything but singing. And that this can still be recognized nowadays! Wow, there’s still hope.

And she is 23. Damn 23, people, meaning that there is SO MUCH MORE perfection coming!

Here are a few videos to enjoy, as a sort of mini Adele Report (you will have noticed that I tried to keep it short and not to write an essay!). Delight yourself with that visible confidence, constant cheekiness, and newly-found happiness of her!    : )

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xolmzz

Summer is here! Today, on the first day of July (aka ‘yay’ month), I’m leaving for my yearly musical fun odyssey: two weeks in great company at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva (damn how I still hate its English name). Work, fun, food, sun and music – the full lineup is here, along the free program! And it will do me some needed good.

I’ll see you in 16 days! xx

Today, there will be no ‘Monday’s Silly Archives‘. Today is a very special day.

In a few hours, after having spent two years in the USA, I will be flying back to my European lands – forced to leave Los Angeles for an undetermined time, until I find a good way to come back. This is a really hard thing to experience, but I will keep fighting until I get the sought out satisfaction.

Instead of a boring article about the circumstances, I have compiled a few media memories to create a goodbye video… Today is Monday, this is a very silly situation, and I hope these images won’t feel too much like archives.

So long and thank you, beautiful city of angels!

• We’ve come to it! Today is the last update of photos from my time in Los Angeles before… God knows when. It’s a pretty big update, more than 1400 pictures compiled in 12 albums and covering 3 months worth of fun events and visits! It includes: my Spring Break weekend in New York, Charlotte and Thibault‘s stays in LA, my last film of Diana F+ pictures, adventures in Downtown LA, Griffith Park, UCLA and Atlanta, Kandis‘ big Graduation day, my birthday celebration in Malibu, and the fantastic Graduation/Goodbye party thrown by amazing friends… : ) You’ll probably need quite some time to browse everything! So I guess I have nothing more precise to say than… see you in the next chapter.

• C’est l’heure! Voici la dernière mise à jour de photos de ma vie à Los Angeles avant… Dieu sait quand. Ce coup-ci, c’est une grosse mise à jour -plus de 1400 photos compilées en 12 albums et couvrant 3 mois d’événements et visites! Sont inclus: mon weekend de Spring Break de retour à New York, les visites de Charlotte et Thibault à LA, mon dernier film de photos Diana F+, des aventures à Downtown LA, Griffith Park, UCLA et Atlanta, la grande journée de Graduation de Kandis, les festivités de mon anniversaire à Malibu, et la magnifique fête de Graduation/Au Revoir, organisée par des amis fabuleux… : ) Vous aurez sûrement besoin de bien du temps pour tout parcourir! Alors faute de vous donner un rendez-vous plus précis, j’ai envie de dire… la suite au chapitre suivant.

Reminder: in order to get the best quality and size for a photo, don’t ‘drag & drop’, hit the ‘download’ button…

N’oubliez pas: pour une photo de taille et qualité optimales, ne faites pas de ‘glisser-deposer’, cliquez plutôt sur le bouton ‘télécharger la photo’!

You need to understand that you are not irreplaceable.

And it is through the necessary fighting against that injustice, that you will comprehend and accept what you are meant to bring into the world.

One of the biggest excitements of my pre-summer has been CRUSHED because of a laryngitis. Adele cancelled the remaining of her US tour due to a total vocal rest forced upon her by doctors. HOWLS.

Cette semaine, en l’honneur de… ouais… la série nostalgique ridicule et quotidienne présente: La Bête! Quelque part dans un mobil-home implanté dans un camping du Sud de la France, une mystérieuse créature s’est réveillée… sous la douche. Ne cherchez pas à comprendre – une jeunesse innocente et excentrique? En tout cas, des moments emblématiques qui forment ce chouette souvenir estival : )

« Peuuur », comme dirait Charlotte.