Is Jello Biafra still pimping for St. Ralph?

[zulchzulu]

I was listening to some spoken word CDs that Jello did during the 2000 election. Some very good points, some funny moments...but he was all about how there was no difference between Gore and the Chimp. As we well know, um..., there was indeed a difference.

I haven't heard anything about what he's doing these days in regards to the election or whether he's either supporting St. Ralph or telling people that we need to do our best to get the Chimp back hoeing pigshit in Crawford next year.

[jonnyblitz]

1. yeah. hindsight is 20/20

who knew then what would unfold...

[retread]

6. A gang of thieving thugs takes over a government. The question

should be --- Who didn't know???

[vi5]

2. Jello is the most one-note shtickmeister ever...

I loved the DK's growing up. But he has literally been using the exact same material for almost 2 decades. When Gore ran for the democratic nom in the 80's his hi-larious line was rhyming Gore with "no one to vote for". Then he used the same line in '92 only added "Clinton and Gore..."....also in '96...and surprisingly enough he trotted it out in 2000 as well.

I saw him do spoken word in the mid 80's, the mid 90's, and the late 90's and his material was almost identical every time. Granted a lot of the same cr*p exists but he is so rote and verbatim with everything that it just comes across as nothing but assembly line product rather than impassioned speaking.

I don't even care that he supported Nader. I care that he's devolved into a ridiculous parody of himself.

[Gato Moteado]

3. jello wants radical change....

....so he's bound to offend lots of people, including dems. we need people like jello to help keep the left planted on the left. i'm sure you saw the democrats slide to the right in 2002 for the midterms.....and you also saw how well that worked out.

[vi5]

4. That's not even what I'm talking about...

It doesn't bother me that Jello is a radical. I expect it of him. His message isn't the point to me.

I just think he's gone from being an invigorating showman and creative wit to being tired, boring, old, and repetetive and telling the same jokes and tired lines over and over and over and over and over again.

I think he got lazy and it shows in his work.

Compare him to someone like Michael Moore who is always evolving and changing the nature of his work to some degree while the basic message stays the same. I'm not saying Moore does drastically different stuff each time, but he does grow and move forward in his work. That's all I expect of anyone who calls themselves an artist.

[zulchzulu]

5. On target with that...

I was listening to Jello's 3 CD set of his spoken word stuff "Become The Media" (borrowed from local library), and while it's got some compelling and even humorous stuff explaining his views (besides pimping for St. Ralph), the same stuff is repeated over and over again in different tracks. It could be a decent 1 CD collection, but the 3 CDs show the redundancy that his message is.

What he said in SF is pretty much the same stuff he says in Philly and the same stuff he says in Seattle. The only differences are the various types of hoots and hollars from the audiences. SF sounds like there are a lot of Haight Street homeless kids while Philly sounds like stoned hippies and some punks...

Jello needs to reinvent himself.

[TexasSissy]

7. The nicknames are getting so cute I no longer know you're talking about!

[Cheswick2.0]

8. the chimp is bush...because he looks like one

St Ralph is Nader, because he portrayed himself as the only honest man in politics or some such nonsense.

[goodhue]

9. he actively supported Kucinich over the last year

but I would not be surprised if he shifts his focus to Nader.

"Dennis Kucinich is the only Democrat that I, a hardcore Green, would feel comfortable with in the White House." - Jello Biafra
http://www.kucinich.us/endorsements/endorsements/jello-biafra.php