Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl

by Jeffrey Melnick

12 Ibid., 119.

  13 Ibid., 116.

  14 John Waters, Crackpot, 47.

  15 Dan Dietz, Off Broadway Musicals, 468.

  16 On Cady Noland, see www.dehallen.nl/en/exhibitions/cady-noland-english/.

  17 www.nicolaiwallner.com/texts.php?action=details&id=95.

  18 Michael Langkjaer, “Déjà vu Desperados.”

  19 For Rosenbaum’s elaboration of Kael’s term see www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/acid-western/Content?oid=890861.

  Epilogue

  1 https://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/victims_voyeurs_and_criminals_remembering_sharon_tate_and_the_manson_murders_partner/.

  2 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/charles-manson-inside-the-fight-over-thecult-leaders-remains-253695/.

  3 https://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/victims_voyeurs_and_criminals_remembering_sharon_tate_and_the_manson_murders_partner/.

  4 https://forum.metal-archives.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=72105.

  5 https://singout.org/2015/08/10/death-valley-69-charles-manson-murdered-60s-part-one/4/.

  6 http://atomsmashers.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-therefast-take-it-slow.html.

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