There's no first impression like the first track off of any band's debut album. If you want to know how any artist really wanted the world to understand them when they first emerged from the tortuous obscurity that I'll likely be stuck in until my last breath, look no further than what I like to call a band's "first song." For the first half of high school, Jimmy Eat World's "Thinking, That's All" was my favorite first song, and I may have even posted it on here at one point. Eventually, I found others that I loved even more, but here's one of my favorites from college:
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Evergreen
I might run with this theme for awhile. So it seems Israel has apologized to Turkey (in a signed letter from Netanyahu, no less) over the infamous photo depicting the Turkish ambassador at a very low height. Believe me, I tried to find a way to word that sentence that didn't make the whole thing sound damn ridiculous.
Foreign Policy has a nice, thorough piece about the various historical schools of thought in American foreign policy, where Obama's ideas fit in, and why he might be revolutionary. Don't ask me to sum this beast up, just go give it a look-over; you'll be glad you did.
I want to direct your attention to two photo essays that I've enjoyed, one from Foreign Policy about daily life in Yemen, and one from The Boston Globe about the protests that took place in Iran a week or so ago. If you ever read my old Euro/Central America/Israel and Palestine blog, you will know just how fond I am of the photo essay format. When I start traveling again (or when I just start taking pictures of mundane things here at home again), I'm going to put a good song up, followed by a nice photo essay about either a day of adventure in the Middle East or maybe some pasta I made in Austin. Either way you win, right?
I shall be back tomorrow! Probably!
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