Sorry to say, the worldwide recession seems to have hit Brazil's tenuously musical pre-World Cup TV ads. Check out this effort which, despite featuring stroppy genius Robinho and being set to Beyonce's "Single Ladies", is puh-ritty budget: Lest we forget, in 2006 Ronaldinho and pals were part of this balletic masterpiece set in an airport: That's quite a drop in quality over the last four years. If the Brazilian Football Confederation's marketing department were a band, they would be The Killers :( [via Who Ate [...]
Sorry to say, the worldwide recession seems to have hit Brazil's tenuously musical pre-World Cup TV ads. Check out this effort which, despite featuring stroppy genius Robinho and being set to Beyonce's "Single Ladies", is puh-ritty budget: Lest we forget, four years ago Ronaldinho and pals were part of this balletic masterpiece set in an airport: That's quite a drop in quality over the last four years. If the Brazilian Football Confederation's marketing department were a band, they would be The Killers :( [via Who [...]
I got to two minutes four seconds in before the tears began to sting too much, which I think is pretty good. You? [via Best Week Ever ]
I hope that if I ever have a children, and a rather up-and-down movie career, I'll do a better job than John Travolta when the inevitable father/daughter movie tie-in cover of Bobby Brown comes a-knocking. I'll never better the centre-parted plugs or wacky madcap antics that clearly take place in Old Dogs , though. At the time of writing the movie is sitting pretty atop a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes , so at least the amount of damage this ickyvid can do is pretty limited. "Ella Bleu" sounds a bit [...]

Kings Of Leon have *finally* brought out a clothing line , hurrah! It was getting pretty tiresome wandering around Top Man and H&M, not being able to find a single pair of skinny-fit black trousers or elegantly distressed plaid shirt. You took your sweet time, Kings! Of Leon! Here's a hat from their "collection": Nice hat, isn't it? It's got a brim, and a whatever-you-call-the-bit-that -covers-your-bald-patch. There's a pretty bit of string (or "ribbon") there too, and a couple of those pleasing dents where you can place your digits as [...]
If you get a birthday card from Heidi, Amelle and Other One, and it looks like it was bashed together in Microsoft Word, and it employs AN UNAPPEALING FONT - this awkward little video will explain why. Expect Keisha, Mutya and Siobhan to proclaim their Mac-ness in the very near future. [via Popjustice ]

Here's Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand disclosing what he plays in the dressing room, what with him being the chief selecta and all: I've got some old school tunes to fire me up, some old school [UK] garage. Plus there's other stuff. The mix has got a bit of Kanye West on there, Lil Wayne and stuff like that, so that everyone in the changing room is happy. I wonder which of those is Gary Neville's favourite. [via [...]
French footballer Franck Ribery takes a break from working desperately to construct a move from Bayern Munich to Manchester United Chelsea Real Madrid, to appear in the music video to a song called "Meme Pas Fatigue" for someone calld DJ Kore. The video is not a whole lot of kop, but if it happens to be thudding out of a bar across the road the track might provide an effective soundtrack as you vomit cheap shots of schnapps into the lavatory of a Costa del Sol hotel :( [...]
Mark Ronson appears in PETA anti-fur campaign with his dog Maude.
Entourage star Adrien Grenier is the drummer in a band called The Honey Brothers, and on this evidence they're not breathtakingly bad. Worrying signs of wackiness abound, however.