In highschool, the Dead Kennedys song "California Über Alles" caused me to have the nickname Über for about a month (because the German word Alles is pronounced like Alice, my name).  But I didn't hang out with those skater guys for very long.  I liked the Dead Kennedys before then, having bought my first cassette of theirs, Plastic Surgery Disasters, at the mall in Des Moines, Iowa while visiting Grandma for Christmas when I was 16.   In fact, based on that album, I decided that I would name my daughter (if I ever have one) Luna Marin (because of the song Moon Over Marin).  When I lived in San Francisco, I always hoped that I would run into Jello Biafra (lead singer of Dead Kennedys) but I didn't.  I had friends that claimed they'd seen him out with his girlfriend at Trannie bars.  Jello Biafra once ran for Mayor of San Francisco on a platform that included, among other things, forcing businessmen to dress in clown suits.  My love of the Dead Kennedys has always made me feel a little cool, a little like an outsider.  I also *just* learned on Wikipedia that Jello played on Supernaut and was credited as Count Ringworm.  I saw Ministry perform Supernaut at the Warfield in San Francisco.  I also heard the song all the time at the Goth club I frequented in SF.  I had no idea that Supernaut was a Black Sabbath song.

I have a point.  For those of you that don't speak to me in person, this is how conversations with me go sometimes.  I just kinda say a lot of things that seem related. You are pretty sure I'm not going anywhere with it.  You think, "Maybe she has organic brain syndrome and it's making her tell random stories."  But eventually, I get to the point.  But you miss the point because you are so shocked that I actually had a point.

So I'm telling you that I'm going to get to the point, so you don't miss it.

Jello Biafra sings EXACTLY like Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music.  Completely, utterly the same.  It can't be an accident.  After all of these years of thinking of Jello as an iconoclast and idiot savant of singer-dom ... it's kinda funny and weird to realize that he was imitating someone.  You can hear it quite a bit in "If There is Something." (Not Ladytron, though, but "If There is Something Über Alles" didn't sound like a good post title.)

[photo taken 1/10/2007 in Philadelphia]>