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Liz Phair

  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Posed somewhere, unsure
  • Profession = musician
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Her pictures at SmokingCelebs.com
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  • Liz Phair at MrSkin.com
  • Miscellaneous information
              •  "cf: if you could legalize one drug, what would it be? liz: marijuana of course", website, Spring '93
              •  "indulging in her favorite guilty pleasure -- smoking pot having finished a close second", Rolling Stone, Oct. 14, '93
              •  "earlier, she and her companion got baked, high-school style ,in the parking lot ... We commence two hours of pot-addled fish gazing", Rolling Stone, Oct. 6, '94
              •  "[Tom Billings] Well, let's go to the roof and finish this thing off. (Pause.) Scene: The roof of the Flat Iron Building at the intersection of Milwaukee, Damen and North Avenues (in Chicago). T.B. Enough talking about rock 'n' roll. (Tokes.) L.P. I don't want to get high, do you?", Chicago's Subnation, Dec. '94/Jan. '95
              •  holds a cigarette in the music video for "Whip Smart", '95
              •  "Liz Phair has come into her own and ... has grown up. Smoking pot has been exchanged for swimming laps", JAMtv, Jan. 28, '98
              •  "'I'm a mom - there's no time for pot'", Rolling Stone, Aug. 20, '98
              •  "YOU WOULD LEGALIZE... Marijuana, euthanasia, and streaking. YOU WOULD OUTLAW... Smoking cigarettes.", George Magazine, Sep. '98
              •  "Phair insists on an Oreo-cookie ice-cream. It's what passes for an indulgence since she's sworn off pot ", Details, Oct. '98
              •  "Occasionally, Phair and her young-mother friends despair of ever going out at night again 'to smoke a joint'", Times of London, Mar. 13, '99
              •  talked about hiking into the mountains to smoke a joint, between performance of "Perfect World" and "Fuck and Run", PBS's "Sessions at West 54th", Oct. '99
              •  "As for my own art, there are many, many songs recorded over these last four years that we're deciding what to do with. Many are just me and my guitar, maybe not as good as at twenty-five, when all I had to do in the world was sit around, get stoned and play guitar, but a lot are pretty special", Mesmerizing Liz Phair fan site, Dec. '02
              •  "I'm not 25 and smoking pot and getting high all the time anymore, Boston Globe", Jun. 22, '03
              •  "I remember thinking about the times around Exile in Guyville as being a period in my life. I certainly didn't enjoy it. I was too thin and I smoked too much pot", Venus Magazine, Summer '03
              •  "Before she went to Ohio's infamously artsy Oberlin College and began smoking pot, she says she was just a 'suburban chick'.", New York Post, Aug. 10, '03
              •  "Liz Phair, who has a six-year-old son, used to be known for graphic depictions of sex in her songs, which, she has said, she would write while heavily under the influence. 'I used to have a few drinks and smoke pot and sit around and write songs. But after he was born, I couldn't fuck around like that any more. So I have less time, but I get more done when I'm writing. I'm much more focused'", The Guardian (UK), Sep. 25, '03
              •  "Liz Phair refers to an affair she had during her marriage, a disastrous relationship she experienced after her divorce, her brother's alcoholism, her days as a pothead and getting into'scenes'", New York Daily News, Sep. 25, '05
              •  "[Jancee] Dunn's first cover interview for [Rolling Stone] in 1994was with Liz Phair, the indie rock star, who was making waves in theAmerican music industry at the time. 'That was a very decadent time', shesays. 'We ended up smoking a lot of pot, and she said: 'Let's get reallybaked and go look at fish', so we went to an aquarium absolutely out of ourminds'. After looking at the fish neither of them could form propersentences so they had to postpone the interview", Telegraph (UK), Jun. 30, '06
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  quit - "'But it's really hard like a drug,' she admits, having quit smoking cigarettes (a pack a day) for a year now and presently preferring to munch on green apples", BigO magazine, Feb. '94
              •  "Phair would drink whiskey on the rocks, smoke cigarettes", Chicago Tribune, Sep. 25, '94
              •  "I look at pictures and I was really thin in an unhealthy way. I smoked a lot of pot", Spin Magazine, Sep. '98
              •  "evenings where I drink and smoke much too much ", Les Inrockuptibles, Oct. 21, '98
              •  no - "I hardly ever drink and don't really smoke. I know I'm supposed to be a rock star, but I feel so much better now.", Jane Magazine, Jun./Jul. '03
              •  quit - "Other than the fact that I don't smoke much anymore and drink much anymore -- just because I'm a mom I can't, like I'd love to, but there's not that many times in the day when I could be messed up", Venus Magazine, Summer '03
              •  "in my 20s ... I wasn't doing anything valuable - just sitting around all day smoking pot and playing guitar.", Boulder (CO) Daily Camera, Jul. 24, '03
              •  quit - "lifeisphair in Onstage1 asks: Hey Liz, should I quit smoking? Liz_Phair_Live says: Yes! Absolutely! I smoked a while when I was younger and it took a bit of a time to get over the cravings, but once they're gone, they're gone and I think you should stick around here on planet Earth.", MSN.com online chat, Jun. 30, '03
              •  "I sobered up. I used to have a few drinks and smoke and sit around and write songs. But after (my son) was born I couldn't fuck around like that anymore", salon.com (for-pay), Aug. 1, '03
              •  said when she was younger, growing up in Chicago, she used to go to see bands like Big Black and smoke and drink and try to act like she wasn't from the suburbs, netizens sighting (The Metro, Chicago), Aug. 23, '03
              •  "What was your musical life like in and after high school? 'I basically ran out of money and my parents recalled me from San Francisco. I'm suddenly stuck, at the age of 22, back at my parents' house living in my goddamn old room. Whenever they would go out, I would pour myself a whiskey on ice, have a cigarette and blow it out the window'", Women.com, Apr. '04
              •  "I'm a roadie on her current tour; Marlboro Mediums are [in] demand at every venue for her. She NEVER smokes in public, just behind the scenes. She's very good at not encouraging others. I'd guess she's slightly under a pack a day and I know her policy is not to be photographed nor interviewed with a cigarette in hand.", netizen sighting, c. '05



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