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-Jello Biafra shock treatment intends to educate By KARLA TIPTON stead, there would have been Assistant Showcase Edrtor enough radiation in our atmos- ello Biafra is glad the phere to cause cancer in the en- Challenger exploded. tire world's population. The former Dead Ken- "The thing that scares me the nedys lead singer even most is, they apparently are Jwrote s spoken word piece about planning to put the plutonium on the tragedy, titled: "Why Im the next scheduled space shuttle Glad the Space Shuttle Blew anyway." Up.'' Although he hasn't worked It isn't that Biafra takes mor- with the Dead Kennedys sine their break up in 1986, Biafra will be presenting about an houjs worth of spoken word ms- terial Tuesday at the Roay, 9009 fought misdemeano; charges Sunset Blvd., Hollywmd, (213) brought against him by the Los 276-2222. Joinina him on the bill Angelea city attorney for distrib- uting pornographic material to minors. The charge centered around the Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist LP. which inelud-

JELL0 BIAFRA, formerly lead ringer of the Deod Kennedyr, will be pre- renting his spoken word moteriol Tuesday night ot the Roxy 19009 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood) olong with Timothy Leory, Ray Monrarek ond Michael ...... , --- .., ... .- .. McClure. even more than the Soviets - speak with their guns rather namely the America" public and than their brains." the American press. Biafra's philosophies mntain "If that one had exploded in- Jello Biafra shock treatment . . . From n4 grains of the original intentions much rather listen to something many I- ends to be cleaned of the '60s munterculture. "One interesting, inspiring and eon- up." of the things we're taught fmm fmntational in the sense that it Eventually he will write some very early on is the fact that we sbmulates the brain and inspires songs and bring together a new need to cheat an other people and you to think." band. "But people should not ex-

that we need in.. nnspe*a=....-. a~~ lot~~~ of~~ Still. raek'nmll is a viable wct somethina overnight," he material things in order to be said. happy - and that isn't really For now, he's putting his time true. into his record company Altema- 'VWe need to) just say ho' to tive Tentacles as well as the No this whole society we're bmught More Censorship Defense Fund up in," he said. '"People are (P.O. Box 11458, San Francisco, brought up to believe that no CA 94101). Occasionally, he dws change is worth working for un- spoken word performances. legs it mmes as quickly as Concerning his material, Bia- switching the channels. Ba didn't cite as influences Allen "It wasn't the '608 that failed. Ginsburg or Walt Whitman -' It was the '70s that failed the hvo other artists who had their '60s because people got lazy." works censored - but roek'n'roll And the New Age Movement lyrics and magazines. He often is about as far from '60s sensi- writes about things he reads in bilities as you ean get, said Bia- clippings people send in to the fra. "The New Age Movement is Defense Fund. pure and simple fascism. It's a "I think 1 get my inspiration great way for people to just hide fmm people like Rev. Vernon in their own meoons and wait for Cayten of Niles, Ohio. To me some totalitarian leader to make this is poetry in motion," said all their decisions for them." Biafra. Biafra doesn't watch televi- "What Rev. Cayten did was to sion, nor does he listen to eom- declare the Easter Bunny a pa- mereial mck radio. "Bands like gan god and burn a 5-foot rabbit U2 and REM bore me to the effigy in the town square to point of tears," he said. '.I would prove his point."