Mike: I am sure it was a tough time for people!
Jello: And they say that Gearge W Bush was the most divisive President in recent history..No Way! It was fucking Nixon! Way more so...way more so! To me, "Tricky Dick" will remain one of the great screen monsters! It really depresses me that a lions share of presidents have mostly been the presidents in my lifetime.
Mike: One thing I have enjoyed are your "What Would Jello Do" Videos on Youtube.
Jello: Yeah, I make those when and only when I feel like it...because I have no interest in doing a regular blog, or tweeting everybody everytime I shave. (laughing) Yeah, I dont think that every thought in my head is just so goddamn important that I need to tweety tweet to everyone out in cyberspace. Besides, there are a lot of Farcebook pages out there...there is an Aternative Tentacles one, there is even one for me because there are so many fake ones out there. It's just not part of my world. I am already driven half insane because some people figured out how to email me. So I am greeted with a mountain of them every single day! Exactly what I didn't want and why I resisted becoming more internet friendly over the years. There are many handy things about it too, of course. There are times when I am just typity tyipty type and I realise the fun went away three hours ago. It's just not how I want to live my life. Apparently, I missed out on a lot of the mischief and stuff. It seems Al Jourgensen is back on Spacebook again and announced he and Burton Bell had gottten married. (laughing) He got 400 to 500 people chiming in about how happy and grateful they were that he came out. (laughing) Then the next day, he announced that he and Burton had broken up because and he got all these hostile responses and people were "Oh poor Burton" and all that shit. Then day three, he put up another one that Burton had caught Al in bed with me! (laughing) I haven't talked to Al since, I have no Idea how many likes and dislikes came pouring into his phone.
Mike: Yeah, Al is quite a character on Facebook! Al is now making a big deal about an internet site called Farmers Only .Com!
Jello: He is what? (laughing)
Mike: You haven't heard about that yet?
Jello: No, I haven't even gotten around to turning in my come on to Christian Mingle yet! I have too much other shit to do! Sounds like a site for guys looking for wives that will work in the field so they can sit around and drink all day. (laughing) Maybe they should do one for all the violent drug cartel people and make it Carnal Cartel.com (laughing)
Mike: I am sure someone reading this article is going to buy that web address on GoDaddy.com (laughing)
Jello: Yeah I am sure. There is an old CD I have by a band called 'Lumbee" called "Overdose". The music was kind of Latin tinged rock but it really does come with a game you can fold out , its kind of like Monopoly; only instead of trying to be property barons and shit, you're all dealing drugs! (laughing) I dont think the game was included in the reissue unfortunately....I have never been much of a board game guy so I have never busted it out and tried to play it with people, but hopefully someday!
Mike: How does it feel to perform the old Dead Kennedy songs and see fans still react in a huge way?
Jello: Well I wouldn't perform them every now and then unless I believed in them and loved them. I wrote most of the music as well as the words, so when I was going to start doing some live shows I wanted to do nothing but our shit and new shit, but Buzz and Dale really dug in thier heels saying that they wanted to do Dead Kennedys songs too. Thier point being was "Look, part of what made us want to play in a band was seeing you guys in Seattle in 82 or 83, whenever that show was". It was Ten Minute Mourning and Mr F who would morph into Mudhoney and some other things now down the road..But Buzz and Dale talked me into it. Once they did, I felt it was a bit of a different situation than some other people from back then that were not deeply involved in writing the whole thing and try to reclaim some great music from corporate pirates and try and bring back the dignity and what not. I made a list of all my old stuff that would be cool to play and the list would have been so long it would have been worse than a Grateful Dead Show, so compromises had to be made. We usually play between two and five, depending on the lenght of the set. Folks that come to the shows to hear the old stuff are pretty much in our corner from the get go once they hear the new songs. Of course they want to hear the old stuff, but it's part of what I do, but not the whole thing. I am grateful for anyone that likes what I do at this age. I try to repect that legacy as much as possible, which goes a long way to explaining why I have no interest in pissing on it, unike some other people I know. We will leave it at that!