[>] “Glory be to God”: Baral, Turn West on 23rd, 81.
[>] healing rhythm: Jeffs, Brendan Behan, 207.
[>] “I’m a lonely”: Ibid., 298.
[>] “I Should Have Been”: Ibid., 21.
[>] L’Après-Midi d’un Faune: Baral, Turn West on 23rd, 80.
[>] chasing the maids: Smith, “The Madcap Chelsea.”
[>] she was shocked: Jeffs, Brendan Behan, 212.
[>] engage passersby: Miller, “The Chelsea Affect.”
[>] occasionally asked an acquaintance of his: O’Connor, Brendan Behan, 300.
[>] “natural high tenor”: Francis X. Clines, “About New York: The Chelsea Is Still a Roof for Creative Heads,” New York Times, February 4, 1978.
[>] nothing but a phony: O’Connor, Brendan Behan, 299.
[>] photograph of Charlie Chaplin: Jeffs, Brendan Behan, 214.
[>] had a seizure: Ibid., 217–19.
[>] like a “snake pit”: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 234.
[>] to spot Nelson Algren: Drew, Nelson Algren, 318–19.
[>] featuring Nubian warriors: Aschenbrenner, Katherine Dunham, 161.
[>] two full-grown: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.
[>] “Demolish Serious”: M. Oren, “Anti-Art as the End of Cultural History,” Performing Arts Journal (May 1993): 1–30.
[>] “Everybody collapsed’: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 366.
[>] Clarice Rivers watched: Clarice Rivers, interview with the author, November 27, 2007.
[>] absent themselves: Special Agent in Charge, New York, to Director, FBI, Assassination Records Review Board, Document #124-10160- 10009 (November 26, 1963), http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/20th_Issue/arrb_13a.html.
[>] told to report: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 366.
[>] “Well, that’s”: Ibid.
[>] “You’re like a god!”: Miller, After the Fall, 72.
[>] one neighbor in the hotel: Scott Griffin, interview with the author, November 14, 2007.
[>]a mere three weeks: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 376.
[>] thoughtfully chain-smoking: Barbara Gelb, “Question: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” New York Times, November 29, 1964.
[>] shot a prostitute: Miller, “The Chelsea Affect.”
[>] detective’s quadruple-locked apartment: Ibid.
[>] had once counted: Emma K. Penner, “Christian Dior and Charles James,” On Pins and Needles, Fashion Institute of Technology, September 27, 2010, http://pinsndls.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/christian-dior-and-charles-james/.
[>] beautiful wife, Nancy: Turner, At the Chelsea, 90.
[>] opposite temperaments: LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 264.
[>] gray Smith Corona: Ibid., 267.
[>] breakfast with Miller: Miller, “The Chelsea Affect.”
[>] help of the U.S. State Department: Binkiewicz, Federalizing the Muse, 51–52.
[>] Ellis Island: Marvin Elkoff, “The Left Bank of the Atlantic,” Show (April 1965): 58.
[>] creating “trap” pictures: Chernow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 155.
[>] erotic images: Weitman, Pop Impressions Europe/USA, 109.
[>] created Chelsea House: Charles Sopkin, “The Chelsea Boys and How They Grew,” New York (March 2, 1970): 46–50.
[>] startling Steinberg’s wife, Mary: Lingeman, “Where Home Is Where It Is.”
[>] “What? You want shit”: Chernow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 133.
[>] crying, “Ah!”: Bill Wilson, interview with the author, December 12, 2005.
[>] “the most human”: Chernow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 150.
[>] top two floors: Ibid., 145–46.
[>] looked the other way: Ibid., 152.
[>] Stanley had resented: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, May 15, 2006.
[>] to see the world: Hamelcourt, “Oral Histories at the Chelsea Hotel: Margit Cain Interviews Juliette Hamelcourt” (audio recording), Juliette Hamelcourt Collection, SAAA.
[>] letters of his first name: Oldenburg interview with Bruce Hooten.
[>] “Why don’t”: Chernow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 148.
[>] “You look”: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, May 15, 2006.
[>] providing drop cloths: Lingeman, “Where Home Is Where It Is.”
[>] “point men”: Miller, Timebends, 324.
[>] Green Gallery representative: Chernow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 155.
[>] “Artists’ Key”: David Galloway, “Arman—Made in America,” ArtPress, no. 371.
[>] “odds of having fun are 104 to 1”: Chernow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 156.
[>] “cheese pieces”: Ibid.
[>] happily unrolled and read: Ibid., 157.
[>] Southern arrived from Malibu: Hill, A Grand Guy, 139.
[>] Village publication Fuck You: Miller, “The Chelsea Affect.”
[>] suitcase-size tape recorder: Randy Kennedy, “The Unknown Loved by the Knowns,” New York Times, June 27, 2010.
[>] four hundred separate rooms: Eugenia Sheppard, “The Lonesome Monsters,” New York Herald Tribune, March 1965.
[>] a golden age: Hill, A Grand Guy, 154.
[>] “change the curve”: Southern, The Candy Men, 246.
[>] the “dead-beat mediocrities”: Hill, A Grand Guy, 128.
[>] “like black worms”: Yevtushenko, Stolen Apples, 185.
[>] “a jungle”: Miller, Timebends, 54.
[>] “Listen all you boards”: Burroughs, Nova Express, 3.
[>] “Hell consists of falling”: Burroughs and Hibbard, Conversations with William S. Burroughs, 11.
[>] “no foundation”: Miller, Timebends, 514.
[>] “I watched”: Ibid.
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[>] invited him up: Rosebud Feliu Pettet, interview with the author, March 25, 2010.
[>] Rivers had helped transform: Rivers, What Did I Do?, 343.
[>] It was August of 1958: Bill Morgan and David Hale, e-mail to the author, July 26, 2011.
[>] “this old guy”: Singh, Think of the Self, 2.
[>] “alchemical magician”: Ibid., 3.
[>] theosophist parents: Ibid., 212–13.
[>] turn lead into gold: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 16.
[>] Lummi Indian reservation: Ibid.
[>] called “thought-forms”: Besant and Leadbeater, Thought-Forms, 3.
[>] “hard-lipped”: Dylan, Chronicles, 6.
[>] marijuana for the first time: Singh, Think of the Self, 16.
[>] “decoy duck”: Raymond Foye, “Harry Smith: The Alchemical Image,” The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (exhibition catalog), September 10 through October 19, 2002.
[>] Fischinger’s abstract animations: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 23.
[>] hand-painted simple shapes: Singh, Think of the Self, 133.
[>] true “mystic”: Allen Ginsberg to Gregory Corso, August 27, 1958.
[>] Ginsberg discovered, to his amazement: Singh, Think of the Self, 2.
[>] hole in the elbow: The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music (documentary film), directed by Rani Singh, 2006.
[>] “upset or destroy”: Singh, Think of the Self, 83.
[>] “Wife’s Logic”: Harry Smith, Anthology of American Folk Music (liner notes), Folkways Records, 1952.
[>] to retune the world: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 29.
[>] “small hunchbacked”: Singh, Think of the Self, i.
[>] “tremblingly high”: Ibid., 4.
[>] “exposition of Buddhism”: Dixon, The Exploding Eye, 152.
[>] “an extraordinarily intelligent”: Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs, October 29, 1960.
[>] “totally awed”: Singh, Think of the Self, 4.
[>] “the perversion”: Leland, Why Kerouac Matters, 33.
[>] supply the still-legal hallucinogen: Schumacher, Dharma Lion, 347.
[>] “The Revolution”: Allen Ginsberg to Neal Ca
ssady, December 4, 1960.
[>] “I was beginning”: Interview by Paola Igliori, “Allen Ginsberg and Paola Igliori,” September 24, 1995; http://www.allenginsberg.org/index.php?page=paola-igliori-interview-on-harry-smith.
[>] “Who is this”: Singh, Think of the Self, 4.
[>] “We are concerned”: Sitney, Film Culture Reader, 79–83.
[>] rebellious daughter: Cecile Starr, interview with the author, April 11, 2006.
[>] Barbara Rubin: Jonas Mekas, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.
[>] “From now on”: Pennington, History of Sex in American Film, 32.
[>] “for an audience”: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 262.
[>] backers’ screening: Singh, Think of the Self, 5.
[>] yelling at the projectionist: Ibid., 137.
[>] threw a projector: Jonas Mekas, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.
[>] landlord had evicted him: Ibid.
[>] searching with friends: Ed Sanders, e-mail to the author, July 29, 2011.
[>] nicknamed Rosebud: Rosebud Feliu Pettet, interview with the author, March 25, 2010.
[>] “would have been embarrassed”: Judith Childs, interview with the author, September 21, 2007.
[>] “liberated zones”: Bey, Temporary Autonomous Zone, 100–102.
[>] synergistic energy: Foye, “Harry Smith.”
[>] “free enclave”: Bey, Temporary Autonomous Zone, 102.
[>] far east end of the seventh floor: Bill DeNoyelles, “Subduing the Demons in America: An Interview with John Giorno,” 2003, in Brick by Brick, July 5, 2008; http://billdenoyellesbrickbybrick.blogspot.com/2008/07/john-giornosubduing-demons-in-america.html.
[>] “virus power”: Hibbard, Conversations with William S. Burroughs, 12.
[>] “It was very exciting”: Randy Kennedy, “The Unknown Loved by the Knowns,” New York Times, June 27, 2010.
[>] impact on Arthur C. Clarke: McAleer, Arthur C. Clarke, 184.
[>] neighbors’ psychedelic experiences: Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001, 35.
[>] “it gives you”: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 121.
[>] “underground movement”: Daniel Belasco, “Barbara Rubin: The Vanished Prodigy,” Art in America (December 2005).
[>] “spiritualization of the image”: Mekas, Movie Journal, 144.
[>] John Palmer: Jonas Mekas, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.
[>] “the most beautiful”: Belasco, “Barbara Rubin.”
[>] “religious” film: Mekas, Movie Journal, 145.
[>] “I cannot in good conscience”: In “December 7, 1964: Andy Warhol Receives the Independent Filmmakers’ Award,” Andy Warhol Chronology, June to December 1964, http://www.warholstars.org/chron/andy_warhol_1964b.html.
[>] “He couldn’t take”: J. Stein, Edie, 228–29.
[>] tapped her cigarette ashes: Ibid., 230.
[>] a virtual prisoner: Ibid., 105.
[>] the psychiatric unit: Belasco, “Barbara Rubin.”
[>] treated everyone to dinner: J. Stein, Edie, 167.
[>] “There must be”: Singh, Think of the Self, 288.
[>] “I would like to make”: Ibid., 64.
[>] “pleasure city”: Sadie and Macy, Grove Book of Operas, 53.
[>] “Oh moon of Alabama”: Brecht, Rise and Fall, 34.
[>] “It wasn’t just”: Rani Singh, interview with the author, November 12, 2009.
[>] aided now by Peggy Biderman: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, July 29, 2010.
[>] wandered off to Haight-Ashbury: Rosebud Feliu Pettet, interview with the author, March 25, 2010.
[>] Ochs, his neighbor: Foye, “Harry Smith.”
[>] “anarchist folk-rock”: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 32.
[>] Crazy Crystal: Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford, “Border Radio,” Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ebb01.
[>] “wildness and weirdness”: Dylan, Chronicles, 33.
[>] “the way I explored”: Ibid., 18.
[>] “underground story”: Ibid., 103.
[>] “power of spirit”: Ibid., 14.
[>] “All those songs about roses”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 248.
[>] it seemed natural to: Rebecca Leung, “Dylan Looks Back,” 60 Minutes, June 12, 2005, www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/02/60minutes/main658799.shtml.
[>] that “Civil War period”: Dylan, Chronicles, 89.
[>] “America was put on the cross”: Ibid., 86.
[>] he saw things: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 54.
[>] “I had a heightened”: Dylan, Chronicles, 9.
[>] “go past the vernacular”: Ibid., 51.
[>] “chilling precision”: Ibid.
[>] “You hear Bob Dilon?”: Allen Ginsberg to Peter Orlovsky, November 20, 1963, Allen Ginsberg Collection, HRC.
[>] annual Bill of Rights dinner: “Bob Dylan and the NECLC,” Half-Moon Foundation, estate archives of Dr. Corliss Lamont, http://www.corliss-lamont.org/dylan.htm.
[>] “rebellion songs”: Dylan, Chronicles, 83.
[>] “governing me”: “Bob Dylan and the NECLC.”
[>] “lived where”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 158.
[>] “There was an undercurrent”: Dylan, Chronicles, 26.
[>] “I had a feeling of destiny”: Ibid., 73.
[>] “change my inner thought patterns”: Ibid., 71.
[>] “start believing possibilities”: Ibid.
[>] “change the world”: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 82.
[>] “politics is bullshit”: Ibid., 83.
[>] “It was looking”: Dylan, Chronicles, 22.
[>] “They were so easy”: Ibid., 204.
[>] “The Poet”: Rimbaud, Illuminations.
[>] “stare at for hours”: Dylan, Chronicles, 34.
[>] “Strike another match”: Dylan, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.”
[>] “cuneiform tablets”: Dylan, Chronicles, 84.
[>] “one of the loveliest”: Ibid., 127.
[>] “constant commotion”: “Bob Dylan and the NECLC.”
[>] “just two holy”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 225.
[>] “all determined”: Dylan, Chronicles, 180.
[>] the fat lady: Richard R. Lingeman, “Where Home Is Where It Is,” New York Times Book Review, December 24, 1967.
[>] the Preacher who roamed the halls: Arthur Miller, “The Chelsea Affect,” Granta 78 (Summer 2002).
[>] Patti Cakes and Cherry Vanilla: Turner, At the Chelsea, 24.
[>] solitary woman: Ibid.
[>] pretty West Indian maid with her hair dyed bright red: Elaine Dundy, “Crane, Masters, Wolfe, Etc. Slept Here,” Esquire (October 1964).
[>] Santa Claus: Ibid.
Larry Rivers chatting up: Eugenia Sheppard, “The Lonesome Monsters,” New York Herald Tribune, March 21, 1965.
[>] Peter Brook rushing out: Dundy, “Crane, Masters, Wolfe.”
[>] Arthur Miller walking his basset hound: Ibid.
[>] Alphaeus Cole hobbling: Turner, At the Chelsea, 78.
[>] “I have these”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 232.
[>] Sara had met Richard Leacock: Beattie, Pennebaker, 97.
[>] “right back”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 241.
[>] the artist Brice Marden: Charlie Finch, “What Becomes a Legend Least,” Artnet (October 27, 2006).
[>] closer to the surface: Brice Marden, Audio Guide interview, “Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective,” Museum of Modern Art (January 2007).
[>] “No one went to bed”: Bob Dylan 65 Revisited (documentary film), directed by D. A. Pennebaker (New York: New Video Group, 2007), deluxe-edition DVD.
[>] “They were all”: Faithfull, Faithfull, 42.
[>] “long piece”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 239.
[>] “It’s like a ghost”: Dylan, Chronicles, 212.
[>] shouted “Traitor!”: Shelton, No Direction Hom
e, 306.
[>] “city songs”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 249.
[>] “New York type period”: Ibid., 248–49.
[>] “great art”: Wilentz, Bob Dylan in America, 75–76.
[>] “biggest transatlantic”: John Ashbery, Warhol show review, New York Herald Tribune, May 17, 1965.
[>] “a retired artist”: Jean-Pierre Lenoir, “Paris Impressed by Warhol Show,” New York Times, May 13, 1965.
[>] “frightening and glamorous”: J. Stein, Edie, 250.
[>] “such assholes”: Ibid., 280.
[>] “Andy Warhol would not be”: Richard Burnett, “John Giorno at Festival Voix d’Amériques: Buddy, You’re a Poet,” http://hour.ca/2008/01/24/buddy-youre-a-poet/.
[>] “I don’t know”: J. Stein, Edie, 243.
[>] “not be a spokesman”: Ibid., 282.
[>] “supreme hip courtier”: Faithfull, Faithfull, 43.
[>] on a snowy night: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 287.
[>] “a hang up”: Ibid., 274.
[>] “a lot of medicine”: Shelton, No Direction Home, 341.
[>] “the undertaker”: Bob Dylan, “I Wanna Be Your Lover.”
[>] “the rainman”: Ibid.
[>] carnival-like atmosphere: McCandlish Phillips, “Blackout Vignettes Are Everywhere You Look,” New York Times, November 11, 1965.
[>] “You’ve got to”: Dylan, Chronicles, 219.
[>] “they’re not gonna”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 297.
[>] “taste for provocation”: Dylan, Chronicles, 48.
[>] “terrific girl”: J. Stein, Edie, 166.
[>] “exciting girl”: Scott Cohen, “Bob Dylan: Not Like a Rolling Stone,” Spin (December 1985).
[>] “a tremendous compassion”: J. Stein, Edie, 167.
[>] “called me up”: Rhoda Koenig, “Edie Sedgwick: The Life and Death of the Sixties Star,” Independent, January 9, 2007.
[>] first images: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 294.
[>] “The one thing”: Dylan, Chronicles, 201.
[>] “Sad-eyed lady”: Bob Dylan, “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.”
[>] “I keep a close”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 211.
[>] “Dylan’s band”: Shelton, No Direction Home, 334.
[>] stuck to his resolve: Schumacher, Dharma Lion, 455.
[>] Sedgwick herself had turned up: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 288.
[>] searching for his superstar: Nick Patch, “Robbie Robertson Gets Personal on New Album, His First in 13 Years,” Brandon Sun, online edition, March 29, 2011.
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