the bones: An Africian ngaku [diviner]. (Watson,1992).
We begin: (Keen,1986).
Pat Ferrero: Presently Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Cinema at San Francisco State University.
On The Mesa: (Weishaus,1971) When I brought the manuscript to Ferlinghetti, it's title was The Bolinas Poets. Lawrence said, "I don't publish books on particular locations." "I also have another title in mind," I replied. "On The Mesa." "If that's the title, I'll publish it," he shot back.
an ape suffering: (Wilson,1989).
Inverness: "And always another sound, a heavy underground roaring in my ears from the surf farther out, as if the earth were reverberating under the feet of one dancer, a comforting sound, like the note of Paradise carried to the Egyptian sands..." R. Bly. From, "Seawater pouring back over the stones."
Oxherding: (Weishaus,1971).
The First Third: (Cassidy, 1971).
like a stranger: W. Witherup. From, "Robert Bly at Point Lobos."
a hidden meaning: G.L. Bruns, Inventions: Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History. New Haven, 1982.
only long enough: J. Weishaus, General Notebook, 1992.
Xmas vacation: Letter from W. Witherup, Nov 4, 1991. John Collier Jr. is a distinguished anthropologist and teacher. His father was the first Native American director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Sam Thomas: (Thomas, 1973).
Richard Brautigan: "I didn't know Richard well & actually avoided much contact, too much booze & whatever. Interesting that it wasn't till 3 weeks later that his body was discovered...I think by his agent.(?) He was into guns I heard and borrowed the one he shot himself with from a Japanese chef (?) there are accounts." (Letter from Arthur Okamura, 5/25/92)
In trance: (Halifax,1979). "Joel was twenty-one years old when he encountered the old and weathered Dogrib Indian shaman Adamie. The young Brooklynite, like many others in the early 1960s, seemed to be on a quest, but the direction of his journey was not clear." Ibid.
On of the most: J. Weishaus, "Bear Doctors." Ettawa Springs, CA.
that he has accepted: (Hassan, 1987)
the dean: Two years later he would receive a vote of "no confidence" by the faculty, as he was hoarding money for his own program. He resigned, too late for the Video Art collection.
One day Empress: (Chang,1971)
be processed: (Barry,1991).
crow retched: T. Hughes. From, "Crow's First Lesson."
Pastor Dan: Dan Cotrone is pastor of Faith of God's Word Ministry, Farmingville, NY.
seeming cured: "...Angie began to experience eye trouble. Her vision became blurry and unclear. The doctor said it was related to her pregnancy (she was pregnant with her third child), and that she needed to learn to live with it. However, within a few months her eyes began to give out without warning. She could hardly do a thing and the house since she never knew when it would happen. Light aggravated the problem, so Angie kept the house dark. Depression settled over her mind; and, terrified she would go completely blind, she lived in a continual state of torment." (Cotrone, 1998).
Several years later, "Dad saw an evangelist on TV who would pray for people, and sometimes saw miracles taking place right on the screen. The evangelist announced a meeting he was holding at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January 1976. We decided to go; and the Lord gave Angie the strength and courage to believe for her healing." Ibid; p.79 "They arrived at the meeting and sat in the middle of the auditorium. The evangelist preached on healing. Then he walked over and laid his hands on Angie. Suddenly she stood up and screamed, 'I can see!' Her eye sight was fully restored." Ibid.
the level: (Prigogine,1979).
Army Reserve: I had finished serving my six months of active duty when, less than three months later, I was ordered to report for Suumer camp. When I got to the camp, I insisted on going to the base hospital for a physical examination, knowing I couldn't stomach any more time under military juristiction. This led to my being returned home early. The sculptor Robert Smithson, who also served in the six-month reserves, received a discharge "on the grounds that continued service would ruin his creativity." (Smithson, 1979).
God's Eye Theater: Owned by Michael Hamburger. A few doors down was the God's Eye Ice Cream Palor, where Janice Joplin got her buttermilk fix.
a machine: (Butler,1981).
crankdown: J. Weishaus, "Proem to Arrabal's Automobile Graveyard."
"The cemetery becomes a symbol of the wreckage of civilization, of the moral destructiveness of technological society." (Podol, 1978).
John Birrell: (Von Hoffman,1989). Nickolas von Hoffman was a columnist for the Washington Post when he visited the Haight-Ashbury to research this book. (The book was originally published in 1968.) He hung around our house on Stanyon Street, where he smoked marijuana with us, trenchcoat and all.
a guru: (Milne,1986).
O Woman: J. Weishaus, "Rathayatha."
All beings: Poem by Nakagawa Soen, Roshi.
I am suffering: (Smith,1989).
The author: (Stone,1977)
Job: The Book of Job. Berkeley, CA. 1987.
beard: "What in England we thought were the occupational beards of submariners during the war tunred out be to merely the advances of any army. Beards are now so common among men of all ages as to attract little attention..." (Firth, 1973).
The world: J. Weishaus, "A Sailor's Lament."
short-haired: G. Snyder. From, "I went into the Maverick Bar."
nine months: J. Weishaus, "Plans."
I ran into: J. Weishaus. From General Notebook.
you watch television: L. Sears, speaking about his video, "Sorcery." (Youngblood, 1970). I met Loren Sears in 1971 when he was in midst of a divorce with Pat Ferrero. Sears was one of the pioneers of Video Art.
to which: (Epstein,1990).
No biography: Bill Brown. (Weishaus,1971).
Xipe-totec: "Xipe Totec, then was the divine embodiment of life emerging from the dead land, of the new plant sprouting from the 'dead' seed." (Markman & Markman, 1992).
The flayed text: See, (Gabdelman,1991).