The Internet Is Your Playground: Tattoo’d on the Couch Edition

I’ve got a trip for work, so I’m likely out for the weekend, which means I won’t have a Weekending… post up tomorrow.  Suffice it to say that one of the (few) great international club soccer rivalries involving an American team renews itself Saturday night as your D.C. United play host to CD Guadalajara, better known as Chivas – the Goats.  I’ll see you kids Monday – here’s your Playground.

• Let’s keep the self-reference going from a couple days ago.  I’m planning on getting a tattoo this summer – thankfully I wasn’t considering any of these designs.  Wouldn’t that have been embarrassing?  [Radar Online - shout out to AL]
• And speaking of embarrassing… what a way to die.  Death by Couch.  [Reuters - shout out to Ms. Kelley]
• And back to the self-reference.  (What?  We’re a blog – it’s in the job description.)  The week I finally cave and buy a Mac, out leaks photos of the next edition.  Every bleeping time.  [AppleInsider]
• With all the important matters facing the District, from schools to transit and everything in between, perhaps the greatest question is this:  Are we a town or a city, anyway?  [DCist]
• I’ve never been to Yankee Stadium.  I’m doing my best to rectify that this summer, before it’s too late.  If you manage to make it up there, think about following Rick Reilly’s lead… if there’s anything left to pilfer, that is.  [ESPN The Magazine]

Out for the Weekend

Ideally, I’ll have some sort of Weekending post on Fridays going forward, but that will have to wait this weekend because I’m heading to the Dirty South for a wedding, some boozing, and some live tunage.  Going to see a band AL likes to talk about down in Athens, GA – called Modern Skirts.  From their website:

It all starts with our Charlotte Speed Street Fest apperance on Sat May 24th, then we headline the mainstage at our hometown festival ATHFEST: Athens, GA Music & Arts festival on the night of Sat June 21st. Then, wait a minute it gets even better, we fly over to the UK to perform at the Glastonbury festival on Sat June 28th, open for freakin’ R.E.M. in Amsterdam on Wed July 2nd, play on Thu July 3rd at the Werchter Rock Festival in Belgium (opening for Vampire Weekend, The National), then close it all out with an appearance at the 02 Wireless Festival in London (performing on the MTV stage)in Hyde Park. We’ll be playing to some of the biggest crowds of our short career and are extremely thankful for everyone’s help and support in getting us to this point. Be sure to check out our tour schedule page for more details on the shows.

I haven’t had much of a chance to listen to them yet, but they seem to be getting some good gigs, and I’m seeing ‘em, so give them a listen and let us know what you think.  I’ll have my verdicts after the weekend.  Enjoy, kids.

UPDATE: After taking my own advice and listening to a few Modern Skirts songs on their website, I’m definitely enjoying the sound.  It’s very reminiscent of Ben Folds.  So, for those of you who enjoy that particular flavor of music, fire up the old iTunes and start making your ISP mad by clogging those tubes.