Brand Beckham
Forgot to put this up the other day but it's kind of evergreen so here you go any way. HypeBeast,
purveyors of all things stylish & urbanely urban, have done a tasteful sitdown interview with our
David that covers everything from his beginnings at Man U to his fashion endeavors to his time with
the Galaxy.
I have no idea what Jason Kreis said to David Beckham but my uneducated guess is that it was
something along the lines of "your Moms." Lip-readers, try to prove me wrong.
Ricky is back. And he works, unconvincingly it would seem, at Target. He may not have the shoppers
completely fooled but he does make me laugh so. Chuckle chuckle y'all.
The Galaxy need to return to Oz just so we can have more beachside, french fry-eating interviews
with Landon Donovan. Also, he'd be perfect on the cover of Woman's Day.
Becks has no regrets about coming to America. Not even this haircut. But in all seriousness, this
is probably the most MLS-centric interview with our David we've seen since his first season here.
But why do they have to bring on the chicken?
Them boys are all in and I like it. And is that a new Justice track I hear?
11+ minutes of an Englishman and Scot having a laugh without aid of drink.
It must be nice to be David Beckham. Dude can get on stage and receive a major award from Sir Bobby
Charlton with his outlandishly attractive family filling the front row and damn near cry and no
one's going to say sh*t. Or at least I won't say say sh*t because I'm an artist cotdamnit, and I
know what it's like to be all sensitive and whatnot.
I can guarantee you that this hidden camera video of David Beckham and a masseuse has nothing to
with Becks coming out of a Thai massage parlor late one night and everything to do with Ellen and
David being bezzie, bezzie mates. This is actually much funnier than I would think it would be.
You can tell David Beckham has never played in Philly before. For the past 3 days it's been 2007
all over again with boatloads of old-school "BeckhamWatch" news coming out of southeast
Pennsylvania. "David Beckham ate a $100 cheesesteak with lobster and truffle oil." "David Beckham
is practicing at UPenn and taking pictures with coeds.
I recently said that I've been trying not to write anything that I wouldn't say to someone's face
and here's a great example of why that's a good move. You never know when your snide remark will be
seen/heard by it's subject and when it is you better have the stones to back up it. Otherwise you
come off all chickensh*t like this dude.
Just his future, not ours or the general future that we all have to look forward to. You know the
one where you get all saggy, have less sex, cry more and try not to get killed in some
post-apocalyptic version of America filled with Terminators and whatnot? He's not touching that one
so don't get too excited.
I have no idea how old/olde/auld this clip is but Jesus H. Christ can you imagine what Wayne Rooney
and Diddy got up to on a night out in New York? Gun charges, women of ill repute, Cîroc
snowcones...all kinds of sh*t man. They probably provided The Sun with a solid 3 weeks of
headlines.
People who shop at Walgreens apparently.
[Spotted at TOW]
David Beckham participating in a live interview by fans with questions coming from UK, France,
Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore,
Malaysia, Australia, India, Dubai and perhaps even Uranus. Feel free to submit your own via
Facebook now.
Here is Becks at England training in South Africa repeatedly hitting a ball hard enough that if it
where a melon he would have put his cleat through it. Surely this is against doctor's orders. Oh
wait, that's the doctor telling him "No! I already told you...keepy uppy and nothing else".
I swear even the already injured will find a new way to be injured at this World Cup.
As you've probably already heard, the red half of Manchester will be heading stateside this summer
for the first time in while, with a nationally televised appearance in Houston for the MLS All Star
game headlining their North American schedule. A lot of people think they are great including their
former midfielder David Beckham.
Our David was on Good Morning America this a.m. talking World Cup 2010, kids, his wife's shopping
habits, the injury and the state of professional soccer in America. No MLS or Galaxy talk though he
did ply the hosts --all four of them-- with customized LA kits. Watch and wanh-wanh.
Here's the question of the day: "Would you let David Beckham do your hair?" I probably would
because being that I have virtually none it could only go pear-shaped to a point. Unless I grew my
sh*t out like Drogba or Dam-Funk and rocked some kind of smoothed out S-Curl thing, but I doubt he
deals with all that (best to call up Louis Saha when dealing with these sort of hair decisions).
Tonight, tonight, to-ni-ight
Oh-oooooh
We could make it right tonight, to-ni-ight
Oh-oooooh
I already have loads of respect for the Riot Squad because of the hospitality that they showed the
New York supporters at MLS Cup last year; anyone who treats me to tacos, beer and bike jousting
after such a crushing defeat are my people for life.
You may have recently read that Bruce Arena received the award for Coach of the Year for rescuing
the LA Galaxy from the depths of the last few seasons all the way to the Western Conference final.
The most high-profile part of his salvage job was the healing of the San Andreas Fault-sized rift
between Lando & Becks.
According to TMZ, "David Beckham didn't grab the mechanical bull by the horns -- but dude
definitely appreciated the busty, jiggling ladies who did last night at the Saddle Ranch." What, no
love for Alan Gordon? The only thing featured more prominently in this clip than his mug is the
bull's ass.
You know what would be bad ass? If Becks would shave the beard but keep the mustache. I really feel
like what we need right now is a return to wide-brooms and "real ales" beards. It's kind of sad
that Shep Messing --who has been retired for more than 20 years-- is the dude who's really holding
it down for consistent and prominent facial hair in the American soccer diaspora.
If the blog of the Philippine Football Federation treasurer is to be believed the Galaxy's
post-season trip to Australia might be turning into LA's "Last Call for David Beckham" Tour*. PFF
executive bean-counter Bonnie Ladrido, erm, spilled the beans last night by mentioning on his blog
that LA Galaxy president Tom Payne will be in Manilla next week to tour facilities and all that
other executive-type stuff.
Leave it to ESPN Los Angeles' Scott French, who incidentally looks like a hybrid between Terry
Richardson and his excellence David Hirshey, to knock out probably the lengthiest written piece on
Goldenballs since The Beckham Experiment. It may not be a book but make no mistake this is a long,
damn near ginormous article that might actually be worthy of being described with the much-overused
adjective "epic.
The Beardy Boy Wonder talks to Marvelous Martin Rogers about taking a title with a third team. It's
part one of a three part series over at Yahoo! Sports. Part 2 is here and part 3 is here; get 'em
while it's hot i.e. before the next match when this all becomes completely dated.
I have no idea where this came from but if you can get past the first 1.5mins it's kinda fantastic:
25+ minutes of outtakes and unfiltered footage from the 2007 SuperDraft, the first MLS draft to
ever be televised.
It's as long as Marco Ethceverry's Jheri Curl mullet but kinda funny.
It really does not get any better that Daft Punk doing a deal with Hans Solo, Greedo trying to
shake down Beckham to play for FC Jabba and Snoop Dogg getting ghetto on a couple of marks in the
Cantina out of Star Wars. Throw in cameos by DJ Neil Armstrong, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown & Der
Kaiser and Adidas has almost (almost) caught up with Nike in the chase for that cool factor.
The Rest
Obama beams, Beckham steams. Love it.
Not that we needed conclusive evidence that the Beckhams have more money than could ever be
necessary, but here is proof that they truly have more than anyone can need: a dude get paid to
carry his Posh's bag. Mind you if I had the option I would do the same thing; I love my wife but is
it really necessary for me to be holding it down in regard to her purse in the middle of Target?
In case you were not aware of Fred's Australian sex-symbol past, you now have an underwear model to
call your own Philadelphia. Personally I think you guys should start a petition for a "Banana
Hammock Cup" to played against the league's other teams with undergarment pitchmen on their
rosters, LA & Seattle.
