What I am listening to now....

Just to date-stamp it. I saw these guys in 2004 at the Paramount in Santa Fe. I remembered this song when I watched the Coachella video the other night (can't go this year, sadly) and thought about how great it was then and how great it is now. See it here courtesy of YouTube:


"Rebellion" by the Arcade Fire

I Have No Credibility

So tonight, I had the stellar opportunity of having someone tell me that bloggers have no credibility, that alternative presses and established newspapers have a credibility that I will never have. And no one reads us, I was told, which I wholeheartedly agree with.

And yet, I wonder - WHO IS CREDIBLE? As I've said before, who among the mainstream or alternative presses managed to denounced the war before it was fashionable to do so? I did. On a blog. In cyberspace. In "un-credible" land.

I was further told that until I had some academic credentials for the fields I write in, that I'd just be a guy with an opinion...ummmm...and with a larger circ. than the fucking academics who want to dis what I say from the position of their unread journals.

Martin Berman said it best..."the 20th century...will be a time when all that is solid MELTS INTO AIR." (He was a little early, but not by much. Theodore Roosevelt said it well also - "If you can't stand the heat, get [the FUCK] out of the kitchen." You want credibility? Ask Ari Fleisher for a quote from President Dumb-Ass. That's about as close as you could get. Sounds like fun, that CRED-A-BILITY shit.