MUEN: HELLO JIMMY, WHAT AN ABSOLUTE HONOR TO INTERVIEW YOU! WE LOVE WHEN WE COME ACROSS A BAND THAT CAN BE CUTTING EDGE, BUT YET STILL HAVE THAT APPEAL POWERFUL ENOUGH TO LEAP ACROSS THE GENRES AND WIN THE HEARTS OF EVEN THE MOST SKEPTIC BASTARDS... HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

JIMMY URINE: Because we slip Roofies in your musical drinx and now we are gonna date rape your ideas of what is possible!

MUEN: ARE YOU ALL ORIGINALLY FROM THE NEW YORK AREA, OR DID SOME OF YOU COME FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY?

JIMMY URINE: We are so originally from NYC that we can't afford to live there anymore.

MUEN: IT WAS JUST YOU BACK IN 1989 RIGHT? AND YOU EVEN HAD AN ALBUM NAMED MSI? YOU WERE SOLO AND WORKING WITH STEVE RIGH? (correct spelling), BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL 1999 THAT YOU WERE CONSIDERED A FULL BAND.. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY IT WENT FROM SOLO TO A FULL BAND, AND HOW DID YOU MEET LYN-Z AND KITTY TO LATER FORM THE FULL VERSION OF MSI?

JIMMY URINE: Why don't you tell me it's obvious you spy on me, you fuckin' stalker!

MUEN: AND SO JIMMY AND STEVE'S SIDE PROJECT CALLED "THE LEFT RIGHTS" IS REALLY JUST WHAT YOU WERE DOING BEFORE MSI AS A FULL BAND, RIGHT?

JIMMY URINE: Nope, it was what me and Steve needed to do to infuse positivity in Latino, Asian, and African American communities...

MUEN: WHY DO YOU CALL YOURSELVES THE LEFT RIGHTS? IS IT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED? DOES IT MEAN THE CENTER?

JIMMY URINE: Uh.. wow! You're thinking about it way too much. You should be a teacher or something ... don't be a writer, that is a nowhere job for God's sakes, don't squander your true calling!

MUEN: MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE IS A BRILLIANT NAME, BUT WAS THERE EVER ANY THOUGHT OF CHANGING THE NAME ALONG THE WAY, ESPECIALLY EARLY ON?

JIMMY URINE: Nope... and I will give special gifts to anyone who can guess exactly where I got the name.

MUEN: IS IT TRUE THAT THE FIRST ALBUM, "TIGHT" WAS MIXED ON ATARI-STYLE EQUIPMENT? WAS THIS BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T AFFORD MUCH ELSE, OR WAS IT PURELY VOLUNTARY?

JIMMY URINE: Firstly, "Tight" is the third album, ("Mindless Self Indulgence," and "Pink" were the first two), and secondly, It was voluntary. In fact, I still write on Atari ST computers... I go on Ebay and buy tons and keep them in storage, and every year or so when one dies on me, I chuck it and bust out a new one from storage... Always have and always will use them.

MUEN: WHAT HAS BEEN JIMMY URINE'S EXPERIENCE WITH INSANE CLOWN POSSE? DID YOU TOUR WITH THEM EVER? AND WE HEARD THAT BOTH STEVE, RIGH? AND JIMMY URINE LIKE TO INGEST URINE........ IS THIS TRUE?

JIMMY URINE: Easy questions, easy answers: yes and yes.

MUEN: WITH WHAT BAND, DID YOU HAVE THE BEST TOUR WITH IN THE PAST, AND WHY?

JIMMY URINE: Well we bring something to and bring something away from every tour we go on... sometimes it's friends, sometimes it's equipment, and sometimes it's life lessons... we never go out and come home the same exact band... we learn and teach, but never preach at the same time like a cosmic prism.

MUEN: OK SO THE BIG NEWS IS THE RELEASE OF "IF," OUT APRIL 29.... WE KNOW YOU'VE HAD A FEW EP'S AND THE PAST ALBUMS "TIGHT," "FRANKENSTEINS GIRLS WILL SEEM STRANGELY SEXY," "YOU'LL REBEL TO ANYTHING".. BUT WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS NEW RELEASE? ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT THE RESULTS THUS FAR? AND HOW DO YOU THINK YOU'VE MATURED AS ARTISTS SINCE THE FIRST RECORDINGS?

JIMMY URINE: We've dematured as artists. We are far less mature than when we started.. isn't that why anyone does this for a living in the first place??? We are here to tell you how it is... our message is the anti-message... not everyone cares about what's going on outside of their own minds... there's a letter in the mail addressed to the past from the future, with no return address... people love to be ideological and they dogmatically do so... until they face the truth, and we are the truth.. and the truth is, "you don't know shit" (and neither do we) so don't say you do (and we won't either)... it's all up in the air. Yes, I am excited, can't you tell?

MUEN: WHAT SONGS ARE SLATED FOR A SINGLE, OR VIDEO?

JIMMY URINE: What??? Man, I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow... I'm in Tokyo.. I better be playing a damn show!

MUEN: HOW ABOUT THE VIDEO FOR THE SONG TITLED, "MARK DAVID CHAPMAN" IS THAT SONG ON THE ALBUM, AND IS IT BEING DIRECTED BY THE SAME PERSON?

JIMMY URINE: The video for Mark David Chapman is being directed by a young whipper snapper we like to call Mike Diva, and he has a posse!

MUEN: SPEAKING OF TOURING TOGETHER, THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE (plus COMBICHRIST AND LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, ON SOME DATES) WILL BE JOINING YOU ON THE U.S. LEG OF THE TOUR, THROUGHOUT APRIL, MAY AND JUNE. AND IT APPEARS YOU COLLABORATE AND DO REMIXES OF SONGS TOGETHER.. SOUNDS GREAT WHAT WE'VE HEARD, .. SO WHAT IS THE MOTIVATION BEHIND IT THOUGH, AND WHERE ARE THESE REMIXES AVAILABLE?

JIMMY URINE: Money, power, glory, fame and pussy is the motivation behind everything anyone in the world does, and anyone who denies it, is a lier... that being said, The Birthday Massacre & Combichrist remixes are both really great and are available on the "Never Wanted To Dance" remix single release by our friends at The End Records. You can buy it super cheap on their site as well.

MUEN: YOU PEOPLE MUST HAVE BEEN VERY HYPER-ACTIVE AS CHILDREN, AND ARE HOPELESS WORK-A-HOLICS WHO ARE NEVER SATISFIED WITH ANYTHING, RIGHT?

JIMMY URINE: The truth is that we are all control freaks who like to pay our rent at the most difficult time in the last hundred years to be a working band.

MUEN: LYN-Z DID THE COVER-ART ON SOME OF THE ALBUMS CORRECT? AND WHO DID THE COVER ART ON "IF"?

JIMMY URINE: Mindless as a whole, art direct all of our records... our hands-on design man, Jorden Haley, who does our merch designs and album grafixxx, created the front of "You Will Rebel To Anything" along with Lyn-z... Jhohan Vasquez did the art for the deluxe version of the record "IF" ... and we did the regular version of "IF".

MUEN: WHY DID FORMER MEMBERS, VANESSA YT, AND MARKUS J. EURINGER LEAVE MSI?

JIMMY URINE: I would totally leave this band if I could, wouldn't you?

MUEN: WHERE DO YOU SEE MSI IN 5 YEARS, DO YOU EXPECT TO STILL BE CRANKING OUT ALBUMS AND TOURING, OR WHAT?

JIMMY URINE: If I could look into the future, I would not waste it on looking at where this band will be in 5 years... I would look to see where the world will be in billions of geological years. Now that shit is far more interesting than some band's career.

MUEN: WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT YOUR LEGIONS OF FANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD?

JIMMY URINE: That they even exist.

MUEN: IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?

JIMMY URINE: Just that the CD is out on the same day we start touring the states, and see you all on tour!

Interview by G. Cataline