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I can practice with strength if that's what you want Let me zip off my boots, we can go for a walk If I rein you in, you can follow my lead We can ride so fast, just remember to breathe If you start to gear up, then I'll tighten my grip If you try to talk back, I'll be using my whip Not be hard to hear you with my whip in your mouth If it starts to hurt then you'll have to scream loud There's no use going back 'cause the damage is done Go away, all the rules 'cause it's gonna be now Come on and let yourself go, 'cause there's no time to think Now I'm in control of your animal instinct If you want, I'll treat you like an animal If you want, I'll feed you like an animal If you want, I'll hunt you like animal If you want, I'll treat you like an animal If you misbehave, I can make you submit If you start to act up, I can force you to quit If you want me to break you, I can bring you the heel It'll be hard to tame you when it's me that you feel There's no use going back 'cause the damage is done Go away, all the rules 'cause it's gonna be now Come on and let yourself go, 'cause there's no time to think Now I'm in control of your animal instinct There's no use going back 'cause the damage is done Go away, all the rules 'cause it's gonna be now Come on and let yourself go, 'cause there's no time to think Now I'm in control of your animal instinct If you want, I'll treat you like an animal If you want, I'll feed you like an animal If you want, I'll hunt you like animal If you want, I'll treat you like an animal If you want, I'll treat you like an animal If you want, I'll feed you like an animal If you want, I'll hunt you like animal If you want, I'll treat you like an animal

If you go away on the summer day, Then you might as well take the sun away; All the birds that flew in the summer sky, When our love was new and our hearts were high; When the day was young and the night was long, And the moon stood still for the night bird's song. If you go away, if you go away, if you go away. if you go away. But if you stay, I'll make you a day Like no day has been, or will be again; We'll sail the sun, we'll ride on the rain, We'll talk to the trees, worship the wind. Then if you go, I'll understand, Leave me just enough love to fill up my hand, If you go away, if you go away, if you go away, if you go away. If you go away, as I know you must, There'll be nothing left in the world to trust, Just an empty room, full of empty space, Like the empty look I see on your face. I'd have been the shadow of your dog If I thought it might have kept me by your side. If you go away, if you go away, if you go away, please, don't go away

By ZaCK, www.absolumentmadonna.fr The Huffington Post just published a very moving letter from columnist Cathleen Falsani to Madonna, thanking her for paving the way for people willing to adopt orphans from Malawi. Read the amazingly beautiful testimony… www.absolumentmadonna.fr Dear Madonna, Thank you. Earlier this week, after a month-long sojourn in Malawi, my family arrived home in California with our newly-adopted son, Vasco Fitzmaurice Mark David Possley. His adoption would not have been possible without you and the bold actions you took in Malawi last year when its High Court denied you the adoption of your precious daughter, Chifundo “Mercy” James. You didn’t take no for an answer. You didn’t buy their argument that allowing your adoption of Mercy would encourage human trafficking. You didn’t agree when they said Mercy would be fine at an orphanage and without a loving family from a foreign land. When you appealed that myopic ruling and then won approval of Mercy’s adoption from the Malawi court of appeals, you effectively made case law that kicked open the door for other American families to adopt some of the 1 million children orphaned by HIV, AIDS and other diseases (including a grotesque indifference to the suffering of the most vulnerable among us). Your actions paved the way for families to be created across thousands of miles, through forests of diplomatic red tape and seemingly unbridgeable cultural chasms. My husband and I met Vasco in October 2007 while we were traveling in Africa on holiday. A few years earlier, we had made a donation to an organization in Blantyre that works with some of the 60,000 children who live on the streets of Malawi — the vast majority of them, as you are well aware, AIDS orphans. We were on the ground in Malawi for about 48 hours and spent most of our first day visiting with a few dozen teenaged boys — “street kids,” in the parlance of Malawi — at a drop-in center in Limbe. On our way back to the motel in Blantyre, our guide asked if we would mind making one more stop to visit a street kid that, in his words, was “just kind of special.” We drove on the road to the airport to Blantyre’s rural Chileka district, clambered down a muddy embankment and saw a clutch of mud-and-waddle huts. Our guide yelled something and we heard a squeaky boy’s voice shout something back — “I’m coming!” in Chichewa, his native language. Out came this little fellow Vasco — tiny, skinny — maybe 35 pounds soaking wet — with huge eyes and a smile that would split your heart in two. He was about eight years old but was the size of a five-year-old American child. While we visited with Vasco, who had lived alone on the streets of Blantyre for months after his mother and father had died, he sat on my lap. When he pressed his bony back into my chest, his heart was beating so violently it was shaking his little body and moving mine. I took a good look at him and noticed that he was sweating and struggling to catch his breath even though he’d been sleeping when we arrived and not running or playing. “What’s wrong with him?” I asked. “He has a hole in his heart,” we were told. With the time we had left in Malawi, my husband and I tried to get him medical attention, but there was none to be had. When we left to continue our holiday in East Africa (which we had won in a raffle — no, really), we stopped to see Vasco one last time. We hugged him close, told him that we loved him, and then we climbed back into the van and headed to the airport. As the plane took off and I looked down at the African city, I thought of the hundreds of times I’d taken off from American airports, and I knew that if Vasco were the poorest child in the U.S. — even a homeless orphan — he’d be in the hospital that night receiving the care he needed. I began to cry and then I began to wail, making a scene on the flight all the way back to Kenya. My tears were fueled by righteous anger knowing that Vasco probably would die a sinfully early death because he was poor and African. That is the worst kind of injustice. I felt impotent, helpless. Then I remembered something our family friend Bono had told me a few years earlier: “We can’t do everything, Cathleen, but what we can do we must do.” I couldn’t fix his heart myself, but I could tell his story. When we returned to Chicago, where we lived at the time, I told Vasco’s story in the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times, where I was a columnist. The piece ran on a Friday morning. By Saturday afternoon, three hospitals had offered to fix Vasco’s heart for free if we could just get him to Chicago. It took 18 months to get him to there, but on April 29, 2009, Vasco arrived in Chicago. Two weeks later, while we were in church on Mother’s Day (because God has a sense of occasion, apparently) he spiked a fever. The next day, doctors determined that he was suffering from malaria. The infection, we learned, has a two-week incubation period. Vasco had had malaria twice before in Malawi and it nearly killed him. If he had spiked the fever before he left Blantyre, he would not have been able to travel and we doubt he’d be alive today. As Vasco recuperated from malaria and a host of other parasites he’d brought with him from Malawi, surgery was pushed back for more than a month. He was staying with us in our home outside Chicago and during that time, we got to know Vasco better. We saw the amazing person that he is — incredibly bright and curious about the world, deeply intuitive and compassionate, soulful, grounded and so very funny. We also learned more about what his life would be like once he returned to Malawi with his repaired heart. That had always been the plan. Get him to Chicago, fix his heart, and send him home. It didn’t matter that we had fallen in love with him, or that he could really use a family, parents, consistent love and security. International adoption, we were told, was all but impossible. We prayed for an answer, an alternative, an escape plan and we waited, filled with equal parts hope and terror. Vasco underwent successful open-heart surgery on June 10, 2009 at Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Two days later, as he was about to be moved out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room, we heard the news that the Malawi High Court of Appeal had overturned the lower court decision and approved your adoption of Mercy. Legal precedent! Case law! A miracle! A door swung open and a way had been made for us to become a legal family. It was a mitzvah created by many human (and divine) hands, including yours. Shortly after Vasco was released from the hospital, we moved to Laguna Beach, California and began the process of adopting him. First we became his legal guardians in Malawi, then came months of bureaucratic paperwork on both sides of the world. We had a home study done, got fingerprinted by the FBI, collected recommendations from friends, family, our pastor, our rabbi. You know the drill. Meanwhile, Vasco absolutely flourished. He’s grown more than six inches and put on more than 30 pounds. He enrolled in school for the first time and excelled beyond anyone’s expectations, learning English and how to read in record time, playing soccer on the town’s championship team, learning to swim and ride a bike, to snow board, skate board and even to surf. By early spring, everything was in place. We were just waiting for a court date in Malawi to make it legal. Late last month, the three of us — Vasco, my husband and I — returned to Malawi for our adoption hearing. We prayed to God for favor and mercy and tried to not to panic. Hearts in our throats, on June 1 we walked into the chambers of Judge John Chirwa at the High Court in Blantyre. The judge began reading his ruling and about half way through I began to cry tears of joy when Chirwa announced that he was legally bound by decision in the “Mercy James case” in making his ruling and, therefore, he approved our adoption. Because of Mercy.

Warhol is such a big influence in your work, and Madonna is as well. How is it having a personal relationship with her now? After all she did know Warhol, and I think we can state he’s your biggest influence. Meeting you for 1 minute was so surreal (you gave me an autograph after a concert.) I can’t even imagine having a personal relationship with someone I adore so much. How do you feel when someone not only so iconic, but also such a big personal influence, is suddenly an accessible person? – Asked by Laurent James, Antwerp, Belgium. Lady Gaga: Madonna is a wonderful wonderful person. She is so full of the most wonderful freedom and spirit, and is so kind. Working with her has always been very exciting and very fun. We have shared some wonderful honest moments together. She comes to my shows, I’ve asked her questions, she give me advice. It’s been my experience in the industry that I’ve connected on a much deeper level with the more iconic and legendary people that I have admired, and not with any of my contemporaries. The one things the legends all; have in common are that they are the nicest human beings I have ever met. As a segue-way from knowing, and meeting and loving Madonna it has allowed me to meet amazing, wonderful iconic people. By meeting these people, I have discovered myself. My freedom. My security. Myself. Thanks to John

Guy Oseary via Twitter There are over 1 thousand articles today on Madonna being a judge on idol. Again, she is NOT going to be a judge on idol

Lady Gaga : Nobody will be the new Madonna. Nobody will ever take her place. What Madonna did for feminism and for women all over the world, for the sexual revolution, can never be replicated because it has alreay done .

Madge is focussing 100 per cent now on her film making career and has said her new movie W.E has taken over her life, leaving her no ‘time or energy’ to sing. Talking to Interview magazine, the 51-year-old said: “I’ve been writing it for the last two and a half years, to tell you the truth. “It’s been kind of an obsession of mine. I started writing it when I finished filming Filth and Wisdom.” Madonna made Filth and Wisdom before W.E because she wanted to make a smaller film before taking on a larger project. Regarding her next album, she told the magazine: “I don’t have a record deal right now with anybody. “I don’t know how I’m going to get my music out the next time I make a record. "I haven't really been focused as much as I should be on the music part of my career, because this movie has consumed every inch of me. "Between that and my children, I don’t have the time or energy for anything else.”

GUS VAN SANT: Hey, Madonna. MADONNA: Gus, is that you? VAN SANT: Yes. I'm at my house in L.A., just reading the paper. MADONNA: Are you living in L.A. now? VAN SANT: I still live in Portland [Oregon], but I have a place in L.A., and I'm starting to work on this film down here. MADONNA: You're always working on a film. VAN SANT: Usually. MADONNA: But that's what you do. VAN SANT: It's my habit. [laughs] I heard you're going to Africa. MADONNA: Yeah. I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. I made a documentary about it [i Am Because We Are, 2008], and it's just become part of my life. I'm going to meet with Jeffrey Sachs [the economist]. I'm sure you've heard of him. He's starting a global education initiative, and I'm going to be his Girl Friday, so to speak. We're going to hold a press conference to talk about the school for girls that I'm building in Malawi. It's kind of our way of making sure that every kid has a chance to have an education-more specifically girls, but boys as well. Girls, though, in a lot of developing countries don't have the opportunity to go to school, nor are they encouraged to go to school, so what we're doing is the beginning of a dream. But I'm going to Malawi for lots of reasons.

After the two successful books "Madonna - The Eighties" and "Madonna - The Nineties", Frédéric Gillotteau will be out in the next few days with his new piece of work: "Madonna - The Millenium". With contributions from the major collectors around the world, the volume completes a trilogy compiling over 2,500 references, covering the entire Madonna career, making this her first bio-discography. This third volume, spanning from year 2000 to 2009, presents hundreds of releases (vinyls, CDs, audio tapes), press cuttings, international charts and sales figures for singles and albums, promotional items and even some of Madonna's personal belongings. "Madonna - The Millenium" also features dozens of rare or unpublished stage and studio photos, all full page, straight from the archives of the major photographs who have collaborated with Madonna along her career. A nice little surprise to make this book even more special is the inclusion of a section dedicated to some of the OOAK Madonna dolls created by Ale & Giu at www.artistcreations.it with images from Madonna's career translated in the "doll" format with costume concerts and some previously unreleased creations. Pre-order the last part of this historic trilogy now to be sure to have yours! Product details Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm (open : 60 x 30 cm) Hard cover (2,5 mm) Content: 212 pages on high quality glossy paper Release date: April 30th, 2010 Retail price: 40,00 Euro (VAT incl.)

WENN Madonna has admitted that she is an "adrenaline junkie". In backstage footage from her 'Sticky & Sweet' tour, the singer explained that she does not think she will ever retire. According to the News of the World, she said: "I am a gypsy at heart. I can't imagine that I will ever stop touring. People call me an adrenaline junkie - I am about to prove them right." Madonna also revealed that she is always working on new material so that she doesn't get bored. "Whenever I'm working on old songs, even new ones, I am inevitably bored and sick of them already," she explained. "I have to reinvent it to make it exciting for myself." Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' Concert will be released on CD, DVD and Blu-Ray on March 29.

Madonna is fixing for daughter Lourdes to make it in the movie business by giving her a role in her new film. Madge starts shooting the flick about Edward VIII in London this summer and a source said: “She’s arranged a small role for Lourdes.” “It’s not a significant part but it will give her a good taste of life in the movie business.” “Lourdes has made it clear she wants some kind of career in the entertainment industry and her mum is more than happy to help.” “She’s already an incredible dancer, thanks to years of classes and she’s also been having singing training.”

http://www.facebook.com/pages/madonna-is-the-queen-lady-gaga-is-not-/107470465940311#!/?ref=home MADONNA MUST BE THE WINNER!!!

In my life, I’ve had the opportunity to meet strong, smart, independent women from every walk of life. They’ve inspired me in many ways, and continue to remind me that women around the world are connected by many common threads. Sharing stories of women’s achievements on International Women’s Day is an amazing way to honor and pay tribute to the incredible women who have inspired us to be the people we are today. My dear friend and the CEO of the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, Anjimile Oponyo, recently shared a story with me that I will never forget. Please take just a few minutes to read a story from Anjimile that brought a smile to my face and tears to my eyes.

What you gonna do when your love is gone Who you gonna play when the game has ended Where you gonna go when the bird has flown How you gonna play when you're all alone Keep the fighting spirit of love(x2) What you gonna do when you're on you're on your own What you gonna have when you've got no place to call your home What you gonna try when your cover's blown How you gonna fly when your wings are broken Keep the fighting spirit of love(x3) Don't let it get you down Keep the fighting spirit and turn your head around Don't let it take you in Keep the fighting spirit and you'll begin again Keep the fighting spirit of love(x4)

If I was an animal I'd be a lion If I was a car I'd be an Aston Martin If I was a genius I'd be Isaac Newton If I was a hero I'd be Martin Luther Chorus: If you want to reach the top [reach the top] If you do you'll never stop [never stop] [The top] If I was an actor I'd be Marlon Brando [the top] If I was a painter I'd be Frida Kahlo [the top] If I was a drink I'd be a Lemon Drop [the top] If I was a song I would be Super Pop (chorus, repeat) [The top] If I was a star I would be who I am today If I was a fighter I'd be Cassius Clay If I was emotion I would be intense If I was a man I would be president I'll be different if I'm the president I'll be different if I'm the president Ooo, yeah Ooo, yeah Ooo, yeah If I was an animal I'd be a dog If I was a dog I would be a man If I was a man I'd be the president If I was a president I'd be different (chorus, repeat) [The top] If you want to reach the top You would start it and never stop [never stop] [The top] If you want to reach the top You would start it and never stop [never stop] If you want to reach the top [if you want to reach the top] [Never stop] You would start it and never stop [if you want to reach the top] [Never stop] [The top] [Reach the top] [if you want to reach the top] [Never stop] [The top] (repeat and fade)

Well, I know from experience That if you have to ask for something more than once or twice It wasn't yours in the first place And that's hard to accept when you love someone And you're led to believe in their moment of need That they want what you want but they don't Bridge: Don't go breaking my heart like you said you would Baby, you're no good And you hurt me like no other lover ever could Don't go making me cry You're gonna say goodbye Baby, tell me why Tell me why or you're gonna have to justify this Chorus (substituting "This" for "I'm" in 2nd line): Waiting for you I'm waiting Can't you see I'm waiting for you Don't break my heart (repeat chorus) It was so easy in the beginning When you didn't feel like running from your feelings like you are now What happened? What do I remind you of? Your past, your dreams Or some part of yourself that you just can't love? I wish I could believe you Or at least have the courage to leave you Life has taught me that love with a man like you Is only gonna make me blue But I love you anyway no matter what you do You don't come around here like you did before When you did adore Tell me what I did to deserve this (chorus) (chorus, substituting "Just" for "I'm" in 2nd line) Intermediate: Finally I see a different man Only love can hurt like this can Finally I see a different face Tell me who is going to take my place (bridge) I knew it from the start that you would desert me You're gonna break my heart Baby, please don't hurt me (repeat) (intermediate) (chorus, repeat) I knew it from the start that you would desert me You're gonna break my heart Baby, please don't hurt me (repeat) (chorus) Break my heart Don't break my heart (repeat twice) Break my heart You broke my heart (repeat twice) Uh, next time you want pussy, huh Just look in the mirror baby

I feel it, it's coming Chorus: Rain, feel it on my finger tips Hear it on my window pane Your love's coming down like Rain, wash away my sorrow Take away my pain Your love's coming down like rain When your lips are burning mine And you take the time to tell me how you feel When you listen to my words And I know you've heard, I know it's real Rain is what this thunder brings For the first time I can hear my heart sing Call me a fool but I know I'm not I'm gonna stand out here on the mountain top Till I feel your (chorus) When you looked into my eyes And you said goodbye could you see my tears When I turned the other way Did you hear me say I'd wait for all the dark clouds bursting in a perfect sky You promised me when you said goodbye That you'd return when the storm was done And now I'll wait for the light, I'll wait for the sun Till I feel your (chorus) Here comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say, never go away Waiting is the hardest thing [it's strange I feel like I've known you before] I tell myself that if I believe in you [And I want to understand you] In the dream of you [More and more] With all my heart and all my soul [When I'm with you] That by sheer force of will [i feel like a magical child] I will raise you from the ground [Everything strange] And without a sound you'll appear [Everything wild] And surrender to me, to love Rain is what the thunder brings For the first time I can hear my heart sing Call me a fool but I know I'm not I'm gonna stand out here on the mountain top Till I feel your Rain, I feel it, it's coming Your love's coming down like (repeat) (chorus) Rain, I feel it, it's coming Your love's coming down like (repeat) Rain

Madonna herself released a statement to Access Hollywood in memory of the designer, calling the loss “a tragedy.” “Lee McQueen was a truly unique visionary in the world of fashion,” the fashion-forward star said in the statement. “A creator of beauty. What a tragedy.”

She’s 0-for-2 in the marriage game, but that won’t stop Madonna from judging other people’s domestic disputes. The pop icon will appear on NBC’s The Marriage Ref, the Jerry Seinfeld-created show about warring couples that premieres Feb. 28, the network confirms. Twice divorced (from Sean Penn and Guy Richie), the Material Girl will sit on a celebrity panel to determine the winner of the family feud.

Madonna herself released a statement to Access Hollywood in memory of the designer, calling the loss “a tragedy.” “Lee McQueen was a truly unique visionary in the world of fashion,” the fashion-forward star said in the statement. “A creator of beauty. What a tragedy.”

The fashion designer Alexander McQueen has died, his company has said. His office confirmed to the BBC that Mr McQueen, 40, was found dead at his London home this morning. Paramedics called to his home pronounced him dead at the scene. Police said his death was not being treated as suspicious. A statement said his family were “devastated” at the “tragic news”, and added that they shared “a sense of shock and grief”. A former British Designer of the Year winner, Mr McQueen started his career as an apprentice in Savile Row, where he learned how to make jackets at Gieves and Hawkes. Madonna wore his designs at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, 2005 Vogue photo shoot etc.

“To think, I only had to wait 50 years for this!” That’s what Madonna told a friend months ago discussing her love affair with the 22-year-old Jesus Luz. (And she wasn’t just talking about the sex.) Mr. Luz is apparently attentive, tender and in tune with Madonna in a way she feels she missed out on with her two ex-husbands and, well, others … Nobody believes me when I say it, but Madonna is an old-fashioned romantic. A bouquet of daisies and a candlelit dinner go a long way with famous women who can buy and sell any guy they meet. (As Elizabeth Taylor remarked of her last hubby, Larry Fortensky, who was 20 years her junior. “No boy is poor if he has a loving heart.” And, no boy is poor if he can make a killing in the divorce settlement.) Talk swirled last week that Madonna and Jesus had split. Within 48 hours of this gossip flurry, there they were in London, kissing up a storm at a movie premiere. She also chatted up her ex, Guy Ritchie, at the same event. And she danced like a dervish with a bevy of hot men at the after-party. (Insiders insist that Jesus will accompany Madonna to Rio on February 14 for Carnival.) Do I think Madonna might marry Jesus? Not likely. She may be a romantic but she’s not a fool. Still, I expect this relationship to endure for several more happy years. More power to them both.

Top Italian fashion designers Domenico Docle and Stefano Gabbana had to think twice before approaching Madonna asking her to be the new face of their luxury label, because they feared a business deal would sour their friendship. Madonna was unveiled as the spokesmodel for Dolce & Gabbana’s spring/summer 2010 campaign last year when black and white shots of the pop superstar, taken by noted photographer Steven Klein, hit the Internet, and the celebrated designers admit they hesitated at the thought of working with the Material Girl. Gabbana tells W Magazine, “There was a sort of fear on our behalf of asking Madonna to do anything business. We thought it could impact our relationship, and Madonna is one of the few people we’re really in awe of. To have Madonna in our campaign is a dream come true.” source: female first