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Jello Biafra Biography

Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. He is active as both a musician and spoken word artist.

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I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

Charlie, Circles, Inspire, Plenty, Think, Thinking

When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.

Nike, Search, Shoes, Song, World

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

Running, Song, Home, Stay, Run

I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

Body, Buried, Culture, Michael, Ralph, Slipping

We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.

Automatically, Law, Military, Owners, Sports, Suvs

In the case of Michael Moore, having a deep, I'd even say passionate, understanding of other types of people in America who might be progressive thinkers without even realizing it.

America, Case, People, Realizing, Say, Understanding

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

Alternative, Danger, Inspiration, Inspire, Passion

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Corporations, Dead, Die, Mass, Produce, Punk

I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

Hate, Holiday, Rocks, Rock, Like

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

Teacher, People, Dresses, Music, Conservative

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

Chomsky, International, National Treasure, Thinking, Treasure

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

Helping, Inspire, Involved, People, Vote

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again. ' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.

Hendrix, Said, Serf, Surf, Tonight

. . . balance the budget ? Tax religion.

Balance, Budget, Budgets, Religion, Tax, Taxes

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

Chain, Mtv, Shopping, Think, Thinking

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

Gonnnnna, Ifs, Lovvvvve, School, Work

One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.

Independent, Cnn, Media, Given, Report

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Creating, Important, Originally, Punk, Stupidity

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

Black, Born, Hard, Older, Stuff

It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.

Advice, Kid, Kids, Offending, Religious

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