THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL

Adam Ellsworth

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL When Jules Siegel stopped writing for publication, he felt like an unbelievable burden had been lifted. It was the early 1980s and he had recently moved to Mexico. I really felt as if I was released from the chain gang, he told me in October 2011 from his home in Cancun. Hed just had a book rejected sight unseen and he no longer saw the point. I felt, What am I doing? What is the reason for subjecting myself to these humiliations? He went so far as to sell his typewriter. He was done.1 Of course he wasnt really done. He still wrote and he occasionally even tried to get published, but from then on, writing wasnt going to be something he did to make a living. Almost everything Ive written since 1983 has been because I just wanted to write it, he said. I wrote only out of what I realize now is passion.2 It seems then that Jules Siegel has been passionate about a lot these past three plus decades. Online alone his writing has appeared on Huffington Post, Mexconnect, The Blacklisted Journalist and LA Progressive. He administers the websites The Peoples Republic of Moronia, Caf Cancun, and Newsroom-L.net. Since 1997, he has published or self-published four books: Lineland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internets Pynchon-L@Waste.org Discussion List, Cancun Users Guide, The Human Robot: Understanding the Emotional Effects of Industrialism, and most recently, Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Today, its a piece of writing from Siegels more distant past that has him back in the spotlight. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! his 1967 Cheetah magazine article that followed the creation and collapse of the Beach Boys lost masterpiece, Smile, has been published as an ebook by The Atavist to coincide with the release of the much anticipated Smile Sessions Box Set.

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL The entire e-book project came together in about two weeks, Evan Ratliff, founder and editor of The Atavist said in a phone interview. He wanted to make sure it was out in time for the box set release, which not only meant getting Siegel on board with the project, but also getting him to read the story for the audio portion of the e-book. This was something Siegel was not keen to do. It turned out great, Ratliff said. We also have a lot of funny outtakes with him absolutely furious, saying, I will never do anything like this again in my life.3 The e-book itself includes more than just the text and Siegels audio. It includes footage of Brian Wilson, alone at the piano, singing Surfs Up during the fabled 1967 television special, Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution. Theres biographical and other information to enhance the story embedded in the text, and a music video for the Beach Boys hit Good Vibrations, with the band running around a firehouse. At one point in the clip Siegel himself makes an appearance, ambling down a hill, wearing a fire helmet, and, in his own estimation, looking like a complete idiot.4 As promotion for the e-book, an excerpt of Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! appeared on Rolling Stones website in early November 2011,5 Siegels first Rolling Stone byline since 1971. When I spoke with Siegel the day after the excerpt appeared, he admitted he was surprised, citing an early 1970s falling out he had with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner. But more on that later. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! is the story Siegel is best known for, but it is just one story in a career that has spanned nearly half a century. From Cavalier to the Saturday Evening Post, and Playboy to the Internet; from New York to California to Mexico; from Kennedy and Nixon to Dylan and Brian Wilson; Jules Siegels trip through the past seventy-plus years has been a unique one, filled with highs and lows. Buckle up.

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL ********** Jules Siegel was born October 21, 1935 on the Island of Manhattan.6 His father was born Elias Segalowitz in 1901 in what is today the north-eastern portion of Belarus7. Eli, along with his mother and his siblings, immigrated to New York in 1906, joining Siegels grandfather who had come ahead of the family. The family name was changed to Siegel when they arrived. The change was the result of a compromise between Siegels grandfather, who wanted something American, and his children, who thought any change at all was cultural treason.8 He was a gangster Siegel told me of his father. 9 Before Siegel was born, his father Eli, who was known among his friends as Jimmy, was involved with The Combination or, Jewish Mafia. He served eight years in Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Dannemora, NY, for armed robbery,10 a fact Siegel used to show up and shut up a contemptuous Bob Dylan many years later.11 In the early 1960s, Siegel worked with Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, at the Magazine Management Company. Mario often said to me, You have to write a novel about your father. If you dont, I will. I urged him to do so, Siegel wrote in Mad Laughter. Siegel provided Puzo with stories and research materials, and while it would be going too far to claim that Don Vito Corleone is Eli Siegel, any resemblance is more than mere coincidence.12 Siegels mother, Evelyn, was born in 1911 and married Eli after leaving her first husband. She took Siegels half-brother, Kenneth, with her. Siegel would later write of his mother saying: I was only a young girl, but I knew that a child has to have a fatherWhen your father came, he was like a knight in shining armor.13 Siegel didnt know that Kenneth was his half-brother until many years later.14

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL When Eli married Evelyn, his days with the Combination came to an end. In the 1940s, Eli worked as a plumbers helper at the Todd Shipyards in Hoboken, New Jersey, though even there he ran gambling and sold his fellow workers coffee he made using government beans and government equipment.15 There was no denying he worked hard though. He woke at four every workday morning, went to bed early at night and paid his income tax for the first time in his life, Siegel would later write.16 After three years, Eli left the shipyard to start making loans on Eighth Avenue.17 While his days with the Combination were long behind him, in 1960, Eli stabbed the son of a partner during a fight after the partner and his sons came to collect money they felt Eli owed them. The son survived and Eli was acquitted. Elis customers spoke on his behalf at the trial. Your father fed plenty of people around here, one of these customers told Siegel. I was proud to go in there and testify for him, the customer continued. We all love Jimmy on Eighth Avenue.18 Growing up in the Bronx, Siegel was artistic and liked painting and drawing, which his parents were less than thrilled about. They wanted him to become a writer. Among my earliest memories are of my mother and father in bed, each one with a nose in a book, he told me. I was not very interested in writing, but they were such huge readers.19 When he was in junior high, Siegel sat down at his rich Uncle Irvings typewriter and wrote a hundred words on another one of his interests, photography. He passed the piece in for an assignment and his teacher liked it so much that it was published in the school newspaper. Siegel was awarded the silver medal for journalism. I was really pissed off about that, he said, because some jerky girl who wrote in this flowery, poetic prose got the first prize. But his parents were thrilled. From then on, nothing was acceptable except that I should become a writer, he said. On the bright side, his parents did buy him a camera as a reward.20

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL After high school, Siegel went to Cornell, but left after one year. He wrote later that he spent his nights drinking and his days reading in the library rather than attending class.21 He did stay long enough to befriend Thomas Pynchon, a relationship Siegel described in Who is Thomas Pynchon and Why is He Taking Off with My Wife, published in Playboy in 1977. After dropping out of Cornell in 1954, he joined the Army,22 and served as a photographer and military intelligence analyst in Korea after the war.23 Some of his short stories, including Dj Vu, which was published in Esquire in 1970 and was anthologized in Best American Short Stories of 1970, feature protagonists who fit this description. After the Army, he returned to college, attending Hunter College and graduating in 1959 with a bachelors degree in English and Philosophy.24 He was going to become a writer. Through all of this, Eli wasnt well. While Siegel was in basic training, Eli attempted suicide. Hed bet a large amount of money on the Yankees and lost. Unable to pay the rent, he had taken enough sleeping pills to kill himself several times over, Siegel wrote.25 Interestingly enough, when Eli woke from his coma, he was more thrilled than ever to be alive. But in 1960, there was another suicide attempt, this one successful. Police found Eli, who had been missing for days, in the trunk of his car. The autopsy showed suicide of acute barbiturate intoxication.26 It was at this point that Siegel learned Kenneth was actually his half-brother. Kenneth was afraid his half-brother would find out some other way and be traumatized, so he decided the best course of action was to tell him himself, right after Eli committed suicide.27 In December 1969, Siegel wrote about all of this. I took the largest dose of amphetamine Id ever taken in my life, he said. He was supposed to be working on a novel, but when he sat down to write, it was Family Secrets that came out. All I remember about it is twelve hours later, or however long it was, there was this

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL pile of paper by the typewriter and the story was finished. Family Secrets was published in The New American Review in 1970. That was the single greatest story of my career, he said.28 After the story came out, Siegel heard from a well-to-do cousin named Helen, who wasnt at all pleased with the airing of family secrets. Surely there was something you could have left out, she said.29 Apparently not. ********** After college, Siegel went into public relations. He worked simultaneously for the Nixon and Kennedy campaigns in 1960, handling advertising for Nixon in Westchester County, and press releases for Kennedy in Nassau County. He voted for Kennedy.30 Next he worked for Koster-Dana Publishing Company under Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, and father of the graphic novel.31 Koster-Dana owned North American Newspaper Alliance, among other media properties that eventually became United Media. While working on the Koster-Dana annual report, he came across a footnote that didnt make sense. I got the contract out, because thats the kind of person I am, and it turns out that North American Newspaper Alliance was essentially a dependent of the CIA and the Defense Department, he said. Or, lets say that two individuals, who were known to have been government intelligence agents, had lent them money, and exercised a great deal of control over the company.32 Soon after, President Kennedy was assassinated and two days later Siegel got a call from his first wife, Phyllis who told him to turn on the television. Theyve killed Oswald, she said. And so that was it, Siegel remembered. Basically, I was disgusted at where I found myself. He soon left, and began his career as a freelance writer.33

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL Siegels first magazine assignment was to profile Sterling Hayden for Cavalier magazine.34 More pieces for Cavalier and then the Village Voice followed. Then, his friend Arthur Kretchmer, who would go on to become editorial director for Playboy, became Cavaliers managing editor. When the editorial director later resigned, he said, there was a 24-hour hiatus before the new editor arrived. Siegel and Kretchmer had been discussing the possibility of publishing an issue on rock and roll, so to make it happen Kretchmer went into the office at night and retyped the magazines schedule to include their ideas. When the new editorial director started, Kretchmer handed him the schedules and said, Heres what were working on. The new editorial director suspected nothing, and the rock and roll issue went ahead.35 It was in this 1965 issue that Siegels article The Big Beat appeared. Siegel described the article as a sociological and psychological explanation of the youth culture in terms of the music that was being played and written.36 The Big Beat traces the history of rock and roll from African slaves to Dixieland jazz to big band to rhythm and blues to country and western to pop to Elvis to the Beatles to Dylan. It was an early examination of rock and roll and an early example of writing that took rock and roll seriously. Without any false humility, I can say that I was one of the people who invented rock journalism, Siegel wrote for The Blacklisted Journalist in 2004. Journalists such as Al Aronowitz, Richard Goldstein and I were among the first to write about rock in mainstream media without being condescending or demeaning.37 Today, Siegel says that invented belongs in quotes, but none the less, he helped set the tone for how to write about rock and roll.38 I read a story by Tom Wolfe in Esquire about the guys who make the signs in Las Vegas, Siegel said. They considered themselves artists and Wolfe accepted them as artists and he treated them with the respect that youd give any artist. Siegel combined this idea with his

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL knowledge that throughout history, the principal artists have almost always been commercial artist, and his style of writing about rock and roll was born. The confluence of these different trends led me to accept the rock performers at their own estimate, at what they thought they were doing, as opposed to what the people that published their music or broadcast their music thought they were doing, he said.39 After The Big Beat, Siegel was sent by the Saturday Evening Post to cover Bob Dylan. The original manuscript of that was much more thoughtful, he said. They edited almost all the thoughtfulness out of it, and turned it into the classic celebrity caricature.40 Dylan did not like the resulting story. I dont know what Dylan disliked about the article I wrote, except, maybe, that I pictured him as a crazy, whining little boy, which is what he looked like to me, Siegel wrote in 1971s Midnight in Babylon.41 Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! followed soon thereafter. Siegel spent two months covering Brian Wilson for the Saturday Evening Post while Wilson tinkered away on Smile. So ever-present was Siegel that Wilson would sometimes turn to him for advice.42 One particular piece of advice Siegel gave Wilson was to release Surfs Up, the beautiful song that would have been the centerpiece of Smile, just as Wilson performed it on Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.43 Wilson made his excuses, claiming his voice wasnt as good as it needed to be during the performance. Well whatever, do it over again, but just concentrate on that and release it as a single and you will be hipper than the Beatles, Siegel told him.44 It was really good advice, but in retrospect they were never going to let him do it, Siegel said. The Beach Boys werent going to let him do it, Capitol wasnt going to let him do it, nobody was going to let him do it. His own manager was going to plead with him to not do it.45

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL As everyone familiar with the legend knows, Smile was eventually scrapped. There were two reasons for this, Siegel says. The first was that Wilson just wasnt mature enough as a musician. Hed exceeded his abilities at the time. The second reason was pretty obvious, Siegel said. No-one around him would let him do it. Mike Loves personal style, his career, his wealth, everything depended on Ba-ba-ba-bar-bar-Barbra-Ann, and he was perfectly content to continue in that way.46 Not only was Smile scrapped, but the Saturday Evening Post rejected Siegels story. His editor said it wasnt objective enough.47 Siegel says the people at the Post couldnt believe the story actually treated Wilson and his music with respect. How could anyone take the Beach Boys seriously?48 Additionally, it turned out the magazines editorial board had never approved the assignment in the first place, and Siegel was out $1,500 in expenses.49 Things werent a complete loss for Siegel though. At one of the recording sessions he met Chrissie Jolly, who would become his second wife and with whom he would have his daughter, Faera. She is one of those perfect blonde girls you find mostly in California, Siegel wrote later. She was a hippie and a flower child before any of that had a name.50 And while the Saturday Evening Post had rejected the story, Siegel was named editor-in-chief of the new magazine, Cheetah, and in October 1967, Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! appeared in its inaugural issue. Soon, the cult of Smile was born. My opinion about it, Siegel said, is that if it werent for me, and if it werent for that story, the most likely event is that all these tracks would have been forgotten.51

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL Theres plenty involved in the myth making, Evan Ratliff, founder and editor of The Atavist said, but he thinks its completely legitimate to believe that Siegels story laid the foundation.52 When Brian Wilson released his solo-version of Smile in 2004, David Leaf wrote in the linear notes that Siegels story just might be the touchstone story in the creation of the Smile fantasia.53 In Smile: The Story of Brian Wilsons Lost Masterpiece, Domenic Priore notes that Siegels original writing about the instrumental Mrs. OLearys Cow whetted the publics appetite for the song before the Wilson solo-version was released in 2004. Unlike so many other tracks from Smile that appeared over the years in various forms, Mrs. OLearys Cow never received an official release until 2004. As such, it was Siegels reporting that let people know about a piece of music so powerful, that Brian Wilson was afraid it was causing actual fires to break out.54 Certainly, everyone who has tried to tell the story of Smile has had to use Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! as the founding text. In his two-part, 1971 article on the Beach Boys for Rolling Stone, Tom Nolan quoted Siegel, quoting Brian Wilson, in an effort to explain the meaning of the song Surfs Up,55 and Nick Kent, in his section on Brian Wilson included in The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music, directly quotes from Siegels story to describe Wilsons paranoid belief that Phil Spector was out to get him.56 So, if youre looking for someone to blame because you spent nearly $150 on The Smile Sessions Box Set, you may have found your man. **********

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THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL As evident by the new e-book release, the story lived on, but Cheetah magazine, and Siegels time as editor-in-chief, did not. Despite the magazine folding, the following years were perhaps the most fruitful of his career. 1970 saw the publication of Dj Vu in Esquire and Family Secrets in the New American Review. I was in demand as a writer. I was really respected as a writer, because the New American Review was classier than the New Yorker, Siegel said. If you published in the New American Review, you were a serious writer. You were important.57 In 1971, Siegel published Midnight in Babylon in Rolling Stone. No-one ever wrote a story like Midnight in Babylon and then actually got it published, he said.58 The story was a profile of James Taylor, though we learn as much about Siegel as we do about the stated subject. Joni Mitchell, James Taylors girlfriend at the time, is quoted in the piece as saying, Jules is an absolute egomaniac. The response comes from Girard Landry, a friend of Siegels. Yes, Landry said, but hes so honest about it.59 Despite this, the story does manage to show just how mysterious and truly odd Sweet Baby James was once upon a time. Siegel even managed to make him sound kind of interesting. The release of Siegels first book, Record, by Rolling Stones Straight Arrow Books, followed in 1972. The book was a collection of Siegels more autobiographical work to date. Family Secrets, Dj Vu, The Big Beat, Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! and Midnight in Babylon, were all included. Also included, between the stories, was the start of Siegels reintroduction to calligraphy, and his first foray into book art. I found myself one day, just kind of at the end of things, and I really didnt know what to do with myself and I went and bought a journal, he explained. At first, he wrote in in the

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THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL journal in his own, usual, handwriting. A few days later, he took acid. He picked up Chrissies watercolors, and his repressed love and skill for art came flooding back. With this in mind he returned to his journal.60 I went out and bought myself some calligraphy pens and I started teaching myself calligraphy again, he said. His first introduction to calligraphy had come as a child when his father gave him a Websters College Dictionary with a list of typefaces in the back. Hed been fascinated by these typefaces, and he soon found that he could approximate the typefaces fairly well with pen and ink.61 As an adult, his calligraphic writing represented a break through. I realized, why dont I just publish this? he said. It was so obvious. Just the appearance of my handwriting itself told more of what I was thinking than the words themselves were portraying or conveying.62 While his calligraphy wasnt the main focus in Record, it was the sole focus in Memoir, his 1975 handwritten novel that was published in a limited run of 350. Since, he has had his book art pieces, including Memoir, displayed in the Artists Book Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.63 There may have been a missed opportunity during this time however. While Siegel and Chrissie were living in a Marin County commune called the Chinese House, he was working on a story for Rolling Stone about dope dealing in Marin County, California. The story was taking longer to write than he originally hoped, and when it was completed, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner didnt like it. He wanted a story about tough dope dealers with guns, Siegel said. Thats not what the story was about and that was the end of their relationship. If I had maintained a better relationship with Jann Wenner, he said, I probably would have been as famous as Hunter Thompson, because he wanted to publish anything that I wrote.64

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THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL His relationship with Playboy, however, flourished during this time. West of Eden, his story about communal living appeared in the magazine in 1970. Who is Thomas Pynchon and Why is He Taking Off with My Wife, appeared in 1977 and finally, Why Things Dont Work was published in 1982. He also began a relationship with Penthouse, where he created the concept for the magazines popular Dreams & Diversions section.65 Our job was to make those nude pictures respectable, he said of himself and others who wrote at that time for Playboy and Penthouse. I was the piano player in the brothel.66 By the end of the 1970s, Siegels marriage to Chrissie was over. Theirs had been a difficult relationship in the final years, punctuated by Chrissies affair with Thomas Pynchon, which Siegel wrote about in his article about Pynchon for Playboy, as well as Siegels infidelities and refusal to maintain an upper-middle-class lifestyle. Near the end of the relationship, Siegel asked Chrissie why she hated him. Because I married a man in a Brooks Brothers suit who was writing for the Saturday Evening Post, she replied, and here I am living in the jungles of Mexico with a worried baby and a crazy hippie artist.67 They had been living in Mexico for a time, but after this comment, Siegel brought Chrissie and Faera back to America. He would soon return south of the border. In 1977, Siegel met Anita Brown, the woman who would become his third wife. He was 41 and she was 2368 and he was incredibly in love. It was during this time that he experienced what he describes as one of the greatest moments of his life. He was walking down the street in Westwood, California with Anita. A man walking past turned to his female companion and said to her, Thats Jules Siegel! I would have paid him $100,000 to say that at that point, Siegel told me.69 He didnt have to pay for itJules Siegel was with the love of his life, and he was famous. In 1981, he

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THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL and Anita were married. That year, Anita gave birth to their first son, Eli, while they were living in Washington. In December 1981, when Eli was six weeks old, they moved to Mexico.70 ********** The Human RobotEssays on the Emotional Effects of Industrialism was the book Siegel had rejected sight unseen in the early 1980s. It had been commissioned by Playboy, which had left the book business before he finished. The contract was sold to Putnam, and soon cancelled after they claimed he hadnt submitted it to them by their deadline. Putnam apparently did this to all the Playboy Press writers.71 From then on, Siegel was, at least professionally speaking, a graphic designer. My graphic design was how we survived,72 he said of the time in Mexico in the early 1980s when he decided to no longer write for publication. Noting that the new hotels that were springing up in Cancun would mean more graphic design work for Siegel, Anita pushed for a move that would prove permanent in 1983.73 It was there in 1984 that Anita gave birth to their second son, Jesse.74 As a graphic designer, Siegel was an early user of the personal computer. When he first connected to the Internet in the late 1990s, he did what most people do when they first go online: he searched for himself. What he found was hed become a sub-set of the Thomas Pynchon industry, because of his 1977 article about his former friend.75 Out of this came the book Lineland, published in 1997 by Intangible Assets Manufacturing. In the book, Siegel writes about his experience on the Internets Thomas Pynchon message boards. In the 21st century, he self-published Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. In any ways, Mad Laughter is Record 2.0, as it follows his life from birth to the present day. He even included Family Secrets, the story that shed so much light on whom he is and where he comes from.

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THE LONG STRANGE TRIP OF JULES SIEGEL ********** Asking a 76-year-old man, Whats next? might seem strange, but that assumes youre not speaking with Jules Siegel. Siegel thinks Cops and Robbers, the story he was working on when his relationship with Jann Wenner went sour, could be perfect as an e-book, and he may pursue it.76 He plans on publishing a book on book art, and should know by the end of 2011 whether or not it has been accepted by a publisher. If it isnt accepted, he will do what he did with Mad Laughter and publish it himself.77 Finally, he plans to produce a limited edition of Mad Laughter, to be bound in Mexican leather and his own jeans. The limited edition will be available for $10,000 and will come with subsidiary rights to the book. Basically, it will be an investment, as much as a collectors item. Get your checkbooks ready.78 Jules Siegels trip has been a long one, and at times it has been an unconventional one. It has had highs and lows and has brought him from the heights of the Saturday Evening Post to the lows of sight unseen rejections. Through it all, a passion for writing has endured. Why I continue to write, I have absolutely no idea, he told me.79 Its an obsession, was the closest he came to a conclusion.80 Thats reason enough.
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Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. Ibid. 3 Ratliff, Evan. Phone interview. 14 Nov. 2011. 4 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 4 Nov. 2011. 5 Siegel, Jules. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God: Brian Wilsons Tortured Effort to Finish Smile. RollingStone.com. 3 Nov. 2011. <http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/goodbye-surfing-hello-god-brianwilsons-tortured-effort-to-finish-smile-20111103>. 6 Who is Jules Siegel? Book@rts. <http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/jsiegel.shtml>. 7 Biely, Ales. Why is the Russia White? Pravapis.org. <http://www.pravapis.org/art_white_russia.asp>. 8 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 13. 9 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011.

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Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 13. Heylin, Clinton. Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Pg. 230. 12 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 214 13 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 18. 14 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 23-25. 15 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 22-23. 16 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 23. 17 Ibid. 18 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 29. 19 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 20 Ibid. 21 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 24. 22 Ibid. 23 Who is Jules Siegel? Book@rts. <http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/jsiegel.shtml>. 24 Ibid. 25 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 27-28. 26 Siegel, Jules. Family Secrets. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 30. 27 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 23. 28 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 29 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 39. 30 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 31 Ibid. 32 Ibid. 33 Ibid. 34 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 88. 35 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 36 Ibid. 37 Siegel, Jules. Brian Wilsons Smile. The Blacklisted Journalist. 1 Apr. 2004. <http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/column104d.html>. 38 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011 39 Ibid. 40 Ibid. 41 Siegel, Jules. Midnight in Babylon. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 211. 42 Siegel, Jules, in conversation with The Atavist. Afterword. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!: Brian Wilsons Epic Struggle to Complete Smile, the lost Beach Boys Classic. The Atavist, Issue No. 8. 2011. 43 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 44 Ibid. 45 Ibid. 46 Ibid. 47 Siegel, Jules. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 91. 48 Siegel, Jules, in conversation with The Atavist. Afterword. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!: Brian Wilsons Epic Struggle to Complete Smile, the lost Beach Boys Classic. The Atavist, Issue No. 8. 2011. 49 Ibid. 50 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 94. 51 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 52 Ratliff, Evan. Phone interview. 14 Nov. 2011. 53 David Leaf. Linear Notes. Brian Wilson Presents: Smile. Nonesuch, 2004. 54 Pirore, Domenic. Smile: The Story of Brian Wilsons Lost Masterpiece. New York: Bobcat Books, 2007. Pg. 83-84.

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Nolan, Tom. The Beach Boys: A California Saga. Part One: Mr. Everything. Rolling Stone. 28 Oct. 1971. Pg. 39. 56 Kent, Nick. The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2002. Pg. 40-41. 57 Ibid. 58 Ibid. 59 Siegel, Jules. Midnight in Babylon. Record. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Pg. 211. Pg. 218. 60 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 61 Ibid. 62 Ibid. 63 Who is Jules Siegel? Book@rts. <http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/jsiegel.shtml>. 64 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 65 Who is Jules Siegel? Book@rts. <http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/jsiegel.shtml>. 66 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 67 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 217. 68 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 237. 69 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 70 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 266. 71 Siegel, Jules and Christine Wexler, et al. Lindland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internets PynchonL@Waste.Org Discussion List. Philadelphia: Intangible Assets Manufacturing, 1997. Pg. XI. 72 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 73 Siegel, Jules. Mad Laughter: Fragments of a Life in Progress. Cancun: The Communications Company, 2010. Pg. 283. 74 Who is Jules Siegel? Book@rts. <http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/jsiegel.shtml>. 75 Siegel, Jules and Christine Wexler, et al. Lindland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internets PynchonL@Waste.Org Discussion List. Philadelphia: Intangible Assets Manufacturing, 1997. Pg. 4. 76 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 4 Nov. 2011. 77 Ibid. 78 Ibid. 79 Siegel, Jules. Phone interview. 28 Oct. 2011. 80 Ibid.

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