Member Since:
10/23/2001
Total Mixes:
87
Total Feedback:
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Dougie Fresh1
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Protest Mix: Let My People Smoke
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Kent Brockman
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Eye On Springfield
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Rolling Stones
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Street Fighting Man
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Dave Van Ronk
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Talkin' Cancer Blues
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Coolstep
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Drugs Make Me Happy
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Motley Crue
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Smokin' In The Boys Room
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Smithereens
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Cigarette
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Winston Presents...
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The Flinstones
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Supersuckers
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One Cigarette Away
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Hefner
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The Hymn For The Cigarettes
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Cake
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Nugget
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The Thrills
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Deckchairs & Cigarettes
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Discount
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It's The End Of The World As We Know It
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Pulp
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Common People
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The Beatles
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Piggies
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Patrick Sky
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Luang Prabang
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BJ Snowden
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America
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Comment:
My adopted hometown of Somerville, MA recently passed a smoking ban (following Boston & Cambridge) covering bars & restaurants. The effect has been crippling, and those of us with interests (business or recreational) in the local bars have been either ignoring the ban or leaning on the mayor to revoke it (via pressure on the board of health, an un-elected tribunal). All the chatter led to another public hearing on the ban, which made the local news due to the "feisty" exchanges. After taping the whole meeting from the local cable station, I decided to whip up a mix using sound clips & relevant songs. This is the result of many late, late nights at the computer. The songs are wrapped with quotes from the speakers, clips from the Simpsons & South Park, and vintage radio cigarette ads (details in the comments below). I think it's gonna go over big!
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I'm glad to see someone is still putting up a fight against these ridiculous smoking bans! What's next? Are they going to ban certain books, movies and albums we look at and listen to. Oh yeah, they are starting on what we can eat, look at the Fast Food issue. What's scary is if you look at some of the first things Hitler did when trying to establish control over Germany and then compare them to some things that are occurring in this country. Something to think about.
Interesting idea and skillfully executed. But Gossamer, you're not REALLY comparing the ban on PUBLIC smoking (which seems pretty clearly to be a health issue, not a morality issue) to a ban on books, are you? Seems like a pretty tenuous argument.
I'm going out to have a smoke just now. Rock on, man.
excellent concept - funnily enough, I spent some time in Luang Prabang.
