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French Quarter - Durinq mardi Gras week meet Kay Johnson, poet/
painter. Her painting of Dan Propper done a year earlier is
un the wall. Go by thumb to the Purple Onion, then on to
Mexico City. Find Doc there. I live at his pad awhile.
Hn to Acapulco. Become friends with on indian

Porto Marquez. I live with him by a lagoon with mangrove trees with
orange moss. He has a dugout canoe. There are 5 flocks of
Big White Heron living in the tree tops. The indians hunt
them with big slingshots. Reading Henry Miller. D.H. Lawrence
Kafka.

Thg flower Thief," San Francisco - I thumb into town with Mickey Lee
and meet Bob Kaufman (Bomkuf) and his wife, Eileen, and
son. Parker (named after jazz saxophonist, Charlie Bird
Parker). We stay at the pad. Meet
Ron Rice. we become feet friends. He is filming "The Flower Thief.
starring
CAST
Taylor Mead, in title role

Bob Kaufman
Turk. I stay with Rice day and night working on film
with him
Eileen Kaufman
Phil McKenna
Ella Fitzgerald
Mickey Lee
Plus multitudinous North Beach Baatniks

Beatitudes Magazine, 1960 - A scene From "The Flower Thief" with a
large part of the North Beach cast. including myself,
is on the cover (1960 or 61). 

"The Adventures of Don Peyote" (1961) is being shot in the Village 
when I  thumb into town from S.F.
CAST
Director, Doc Humes
Ojo. in the title role
Taragoo, as the Post
Turk, I design scenery also.

"Village Documentary", a film by Dan Drayson.
Cock and Bull Coffee House, Bleeker St. I meet Ivor. He teaches me
Tarot, I Ching, Ouspensky. Gurdjieff. 
Jim Kolb, Village Street Painter - I move into East Village Studio
with him. He is my master. meet the painter
Bill Hinie. He is also an astrologer, musician and magaician.
Taragoo gets a big loft. Fills it with Mobiles. The landlord throws
him out in the street with all his stuff. He starts holding
an auction. Most of us shooting alot of speed and taking
eeecaline at this time.

1962 - Get my own studio. Start doing slot of watercolors, black and
white Sumi paintings. make mobiles, do a mural on the wall,
start learning to pley the soprano recorder, make 2 books
(both lost, N.Y.C., Mexico). -

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