Juan 1

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Member Since: 10/18/2001
Total Mixes: 15
Total Feedback: 217

Other Mixes By Juan 1

Cassette | Theme
Cassette | Alternative - Indie Rock

The troubled existence of the nocturnal ice-cream vendor

Artist Song
The Pernice Brothers  Crestfallen 
Wire  Ex-lion tamer 
Dianogah  Wrapping the lamb, sir 
PW Long  You never would have crawled alone 
Below The Sea  Differences Similaires 
Versus  Shangri-Las 
Threnody Ensemble  Tha Roman (formerly Valerie White) 
Palace Songs  Untitled 
Wagon  2 hours alone 
One Last Wish  Burning in the undertow 
The Fall  Touch Sensitive 
Super Furry Animals  Ymaelodi A'r Ymylon 
Labradford 
Nina Nastasia  All your life 
Shellac  Ghosts 
Shannon Wright  Less than a moment 
Fugazi   Sweet and low 
Mark Robinson  Dilated Pupils 

Comment:

This mix is for Rob Conroy. The story behind the title relates to an article I read a long time ago in a small-town paper. Basically, this guy decided to set up a business as an ice-cream man who only drives his van around town and sells ice-cream at night. The reason given for this stroke of marketing insanity was that it offered the public a service no other ice-cream vendor had previously offered. Obviously. Anyway, most people said this man was clearly mad and objected to hearing 'Popeye the Sailor Man' blaring from cranky loudspeakers at 4 in the morning. And after all, it was illegal. So he was immediately banned from playing music from his rusty old van. Inevitably, the poor guy went out of business (after just 5 weeks). He now works in a bank. One of the most hilariously tragic tales I've ever read. I'd really like to have known what he was thinking as drove the deserted seaside streets long after midnight.

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Geoffrey Holland
Date: 5/9/2002
how did he get a job in a bank?
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teapin
Date: 5/10/2002
yeah, i'll bet he was selling "ice cream" late at night. more like "nice dreams", maybe (pardon the gratuitous cheech and chong reference). great mix, juanno.
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SueEW
Date: 5/10/2002
Good stuff, Juan.
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Moe
Date: 5/10/2002
"Nice Dreams"! Good one teapin! Great mix Juan, but no room for Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man"? ;)
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SwankQueen
Date: 5/28/2002
OMG, what a great story. There's a little-known song you should check out if you can find it, "Popsicle Man" by Victims of Luxury.