Bart Platenga
Ocean Groove, Ocean Grave
(footnotes)1. "Offenses by juveniles include violations of city ordinances which prohibit ball-paying in the streets, trespassing on private property, sidewalk bicycle-riding, selling newspapers or operating as bootblacks under the proper age, roller skating and using push mobiles after certain hours, making excessive noise, and other minor disorderly acts." Techniques.
2. "... the lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the 'outlaw,' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. But it is not on the fringes of society ... that criminality is born, but by means of very closely placed insertions, under ever more insistent surveillance, by an accumulation of disciplinary coercion." Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish. Penguin. London. 1991.
3. Sample lyric from the song "Satan In Deed" by his favorite band Deth Leper: "I married sin and Satan was our child / I was called dysfunctional, I just call it wild ..."
4. Main character in the 1976 Martin Scorcese film, Taxi Driver.
5. "There are many rootless, open-ended lives in America and many children raised under the shelterless sky of possibility." Robert Stone. "The Loser's Loser." NY Review of Books, June 22, 1995, NY.
6. In a related manner, the hand grenade is primed with a detonator. When its safety pin is pulled free the handle is released which triggers the grenade. The fuse delays explosion for a fixed number of seconds.
7. "Asbury Park is a strange place. It looks like a 19th-century European city that has been gang-raped by rabid California super market architects." Jim Wheelock, "S.O.A.P." National Screw, 1975.
8. "Men in white straw hats and women in white linen, bustled dresses, carrying lace-trimmed umbrellas, would promenade the length of the mile long boardwalk. In the evenings bands would play for the enjoyment of the promenaders." Moss.
9. "... the place where the merchandise casts its loving glances." Wolfgang Fritz Haug. Critique Of Commodity Aesthetics. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. 1986.
10. "The role compensates for the lack: ultimately for the lack of life; more immediately, for the lack of another role." Raoul Vaneigem. The Revolution of Everyday Life. Left Bank/Rebel. London. 1983.
11. In psychoanalytic terms, the anal stage, after the mouth loses the breast.
12. In a desperate effort to control crime, many municipalities, by mid-1996, according to The Nation, June 24, 1996, 146 of the 200 largest cities had curfews in place for those under 18 thereby hoping to curb crime by curbing the freedoms of those too young to voice their protests via the ballot box.
13. Bachelard. "Intentional travel ... to overcome 'the inner tourist', the false consciousness ..." Hakim Bey.Voyage International: Overcoming Tourism. Musée Lilim, Carcassonne, France. 1994.
14. Gaston Bachelard. The Poetics of Space. Beacon Press, Boston.
15. Perhaps it is how C.G. Jung described the dark sea as the direct correlation to what the human soul is comprised of, "the other side of life (or life in its latent state) and the mystery which exerts its fascination over the consciousness from its abode in the abyss." Or how R.M. Buck describes it in Cosmic Consciousness. Dutton, NY. 1969: "... bathed in an emotion of joy ... an awareness of the meaning and drift of the universe ..."
16. in quest of the sacred sea.
17. J.G. Ballard. The Drowned World. Carroll & Graff, NY. 1987.
18. Paul Eluard. Les Yeux Fertiles.
19. Axiom Ambient liner notes, Anonymous, Axiom, Brooklyn, 1995.
20. Axiom.
21. Hildegaard von Bingen. Quote attributed to Bingen from the liner notes of Vision: The Music of Hildegaard von Bingen. 1994.
22. Axiom.
23. When traveling in Europe and arriving in a strange town, one can always find the center of town by looking up for the church spire around which, at one time, all activity emanated from.
24. Peter Sandelin, "Untitled," The Frank #6/7, Paris, pg. 77. 1987.
25. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. William Morrow, NY. 1990.
26. William Shakespeare. King Lear.
27. Charles Baudelaire. Les Paradis Artificiels. Paris. 1860.
28. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Milan Kundera. Faber & Faber, London. 1984.
29. Mayo.
30. For a fuller explanation of this trend see Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor's A Family Occupation. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. 1997.
31. "...in sleep, the mind responded ... to 'faint but significant sounds' such as whispering of an individual's name. The individual would not wake or, if he did, he wouldn't have registered why. This showed that some part of the brain was able to respond to low-key stimuli ... whilst the person remained unaware that anything had occurred ..." Denise Winn. The Manipulated Mind. Octagon Press, London. 1983.
32. "Korsakov's Syndrome ... is an illness which causes lost memories to be replaced by fantastic inventions." The Emigrants. W.G. Sebald. The Harvill Press, London. 1996.
33. T.A.Z. Temporary Autonomous Zone. Hakim Bey. Autonomedia, Brooklyn, NY. 1992.
34. The Reticular Activating System is a small but important nerve network in the center of the brain stem which plays a critical role in determining states of awareness and levels of arousal.
35. From Shell Shock to Combat Stress: A Comparative History of Military Psychiatry. Hans Binneveld. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. 1998.
36. The Adventures of Pinocchio. Colodi. MacMillan, NY. 1925. "Around him all was darkness, a darkness so deep and so black that for a moment he thought he had been dipped headfirst into an inkwell."
37. dated one day before her accident and postmarked the day of her accident.
