<I asked him about his message, which is done by Carson Daly. He told me that his day job is producing Carson’s show on New York radio station Z100. He referred to it as a dangerous tidbit of information>

PZO: What is the weirdest combination of food you have eaten?
Kennedy: Actually I have a recipe; it’s Boston baked beans with bananas cut up in it.
PZO: Uch, that’s terrible.
Kennedy: Yeah it really isn’t though it’s pretty good.
PZO: Really?
Kennedy: Yeah I swear.
PZO: Hmm I’ll have to try that. You have a name for it?
Kennedy: No not yet.
PZO: Chopped up bananas in beans.
Kennedy: Yeah well right now it’s called uch you’re sick.
PZO: There you go, that’s the initial response.

PZO: What is the worst advice you have ever been given?
Kennedy: Worst advice I’ve ever been given. These are tough questions man! You got to just call up with favorite color shit.
PZO: Eh, why should I? We like to stump people.
Kennedy: Well I have to say that would be to put my savings into Amazon.
PZO: Just hold onto your money.
Kennedy: Yeah, don’t put into a
PZO: dot com
Kennedy: Yeah put in to gas and general motors.
PZO: Well Pop Zine Online is good.
Kennedy: Yeah.

PZO: What is your best 'caught in the act' story?
Kennedy: Oh ha well, about three and a half years ago I was playing a show and decided to pop into the bathroom for a quick one. And like ten people came into the bathroom and it was about at the very end of the first one, they all saw and I had to go out and play, so after that I was a little embarrassed. It kind of lingered with me until now.

PZO: What was the strangest or most embarrassing story you can use that happened to you? I think you already told me.
Kennedy: Not only that, another was when I was in high school, I went to see a band play in the Hollywood Palladium, and I was crowd surfing and I got passed up to the front where the bouncers are between the stage and the audience. And there was a bar there and I put my feet on the bar and kind of jumped back out into the crowd, and right when I jumped back a bouncer grabbed my pants and pulled my pants down to my knees, in front of the whole Hollywood Palladium. And that was probably the worst thing ever.
PZO: That’s why you should not crowd surf.
Kennedy: Yeah after that I was like you know what crowd surfing is for jocks.
PZO: I hurt myself crowd surfing so I don’t do it anymore.
Kennedy: What you fall on your head or something.
PZO: I was crowd surfing and the bouncers pulled me right into the friggin bar and I hit my elbow and I couldn’t feel it for a day. And I hate getting kicked in the head so.
Kennedy: Wow, yeah me too, wonder why.
PZO: Hmm, wonder.

PZO: What is the best insult you've heard or used?
Kennedy: Your momma has an afro with a tube strap.
PZO: That doesn’t make sense.
Kennedy: That’s what makes it so funny; your mom has a peg leg with a kick stand. That’s fucked up shit.
PZO: Yes it is, that’s good I’m going to have to use that one, I’ll write it down.

PZO: What is a common compliment people give you?
Kennedy: Well a lot of times the ladies tell me that I’m gorgeous. But other than that, that I’m very clean, and I brush and floss my teeth. I keep myself very groomed and I listen to Motley Crue.
PZO: There you go. What else do you need?
Kennedy: Not much.

PZO: If you could work with anyone in the world, who would it be?
Kennedy: Living or dead?
PZO: Yeah, or do both.
Kennedy: I would like to get a job with my dad, maybe working in a fast food restaurant or something. But I think that would be a, I don’t know if it would be a good thing, but it would be interesting for about a week.
PZO: Why, do I have to ask?
Kennedy: Well, he’s a crazy guy. And I have a question for you; you know when you’re working with somebody like a co-worker almost like a co-pilot, you know co-workers where you make small talk or conversations, like I kind of know some of my co-workers better than friends because I spent all day talking to them. I don’t know if it would be fun but it’d be interesting.

PZO: What was the worst job you ever had?
Kennedy: Well I worked construction for about an hour once, and I showed up with all these really big tough guys, and they’re like go move that I beam over there. It was like this big huge piece of metal, and I went over and tried to pick it up and I couldn’t even move it so I just left.
PZO: I worked with my dad, he’s a plumber, for a whole summer, and I had to do shit like that. Like dig holes in sweaty basements, it’s not fun.
Kennedy: Yeah I’m not fit out for physical labor.

PZO: If you could write something on a bathroom wall, what would you write?
Kennedy: Probably my phone number.
PZO: The whole phone number?
Kennedy: Yeah I’d probably put my home and my cell number.
PZO: Well I hope it’s in the women’s bathroom.
Kennedy: Oh yeah, I’m always in the women’s bathroom anyway.

PZO: If you could claim one invention to be your own what would it be?
Kennedy: Well I already got the banana Boston baked bean recipe, that’s a good invention right?
PZO: That’s new though.
Kennedy: Can I put that as my second answer?
PZO: Sure.
Kennedy: If I think of something else I’ll shout it out.
PZO: Maybe toilet paper or something?
Kennedy: No I definitely didn’t invent that.
PZO: Well this is you can steal someone else’s invention.
Kennedy: Oh I can? I invented fire, and I burned half the forests of the planet.
PZO: This is why we have the ice age huh?
Kennedy: This is why we have plains. Plains is the result of me using my invention of fire.
PZO: That explains it, Kennedy burned down the woods.
Kennedy: Yeah.

PZO: What is one of the weirdest dreams you've ever had?
Kennedy: I have a lot of really weird dreams, one of them was I got out of the shower looking into the bathroom mirror, and I can see through my forehead, and there was like a dark black thing in there. I stuck my hand through my skin into my head, and pulled out a computer chip.
PZO: Holy shit, are you sure that’s not a Tool video?
Kennedy: No is it?
PZO: It could be, you should pitch that idea over to them.
Kennedy: I woke up and I was like, what happened?
PZO: Maybe we are computers.

PZO: What's one misconception you’ve had about the music business?
Kennedy: I don’t know I’ve been in it for a while now. But maybe when I first started playing, I was under the impression that doing music wasn’t really work you know? You know like fun, it is fun, but like partying and crap like all the time. It’s actually like it takes a lot of focus, you have to stay focused on what you’re doing otherwise you’re distracted by other people asking you to play in your band or go out in fear stuff like that.
PZO: Well it is a full time job, for some people it’s their main source of income basically.
Kennedy: Yeah.

PZO: What do you have to say to the people who have a negative response to your music?
Kennedy: Well I can say, first of all apologizing to them for being stupid. Because it’s not their fault, they were born that way. And I don’t try to convert them if you don’t get it
PZO: You’re never going to get it.
Kennedy: They don’t get it you know. It doesn’t bother me, if everybody in this world liked what I was doing; I’d be in a bad spot <laughs>. If everybody in the world heard Cold Pussy and really liked it, one part of me would be happy but the other would be very worried it.
PZO: Well if everybody liked the same things, you know we’d all be boring.
Kennedy: Well everybody likes Survivor.
PZO: Not me, I hate that show.
Kennedy: I’ve actually never seen it.
PZO: I think I saw the first episode and said what is this shit? And turned it off really quickly. I’m not into the whole reality TV thing.
Kennedy: I haven’t had a TV in a long time, like five years or something like that. The only thing I have seen is, my friend got me into The Osbournes, he has all the episodes on one video and I thought it was pretty funny.
PZO: Yeah it is, well Ozzy.
Kennedy: Yeah it was totally original and fun to watch.

PZO: In your opinion why should people buy the new self-titled Kennedy album?
Kennedy: Well besides from it being called possibly the best record in pet sounds, it has a parental adversary sticker on it. I don’t know if you ever heard of these things, but basically they warn kids about dirty lyrics.
PZO: Really?
Kennedy: Now when I saw them, the parental adversary sticker, I really thought just like when I was little I got to buy that thing, it’s probably saying something that I should be hearing. So that’s a good reason.
PZO: And it’s got Cold Pussy on it.
Kennedy: It has Cold Pussy on it. I think it’s a great record; I listen to it almost every day.
PZO: Well if you like your own music then you know it’s definitely good. That came out wrong, you know if you can listen to it everyday.
Kennedy: Yeah well right now I’m probably my favorite artist.
PZO: That’s reassuring, so everybody go out and buy it, right now.

PZO: You have a lot of 60’s and 70’s influence in your music, so they had the whole peace love no war theme going around there, do you think at any point we will be reliving this sort of attitude and are you thinking about writing any songs that pertain to this?
Kennedy: Well I think we’re reliving the attitude right now, I was in San Francisco on Friday and there was this huge peace protest rally. It’s good to see that people are doing that because for a while because if you look in the newspapers, September 11th, people were following whatever George Bush said. The whole 60’s thing was pretty amazing but it got killed off by the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. I generally don’t write about politics as much as what’s happening around me. But if it were more like crazy, angry, pushing happening, if that becomes more paired around me I might. Actually I have a song called This Country Is Going To Hell and I’m Driving, it’s about this combined with this boating trip I had when I was nine years old.
PZO: Those two things go together.
Kennedy: Apparently they do.
PZO: Awesome.