on Country Joe McDonald and the song that helped end the Vietnam War, the "Fuck Cheer" from Woodstock, and the "Fixin' to Die Rag." The film is estimated to be 70% complete. Family At 18, Burch married a soldier and the couple raised three children in Great Neck and Greenwich Village. When her husband Brad died in 1967, she and her kids moved full-time to the West Village. Burch's interest in psychiatry bloomed after she adopted a child who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Drug use Burch underwent a traditional four-times-weekly Freudian analysis before switching to marijuana and LSD in the early 1970s. She was a recreational marijuana user throughout her life. Death Burch died at the age of 84. She left behind a vast archive in almost every media--visual art (painting and drawing); writing (a dozen published books and thousands of pages of unpublished manuscripts); music (thousands of hours of reel-to-reel, cassette tapes of her original music and hundreds of songs); and a huge library of both edited and unedited film and video, representing her habit of recording about an hour of reality every day for the past 36 years. This last project creates an archival nightmare, as there is not enough time to view it all. Burch was fond of referring to the Collyer Brothers, a pair of New Yorkers who suffered from a fear of throwing anything away and filled their apartment from top to bottom. She would often mockingly refer to her own archival efforts in the same vein. Bibliography Careers in psychiatry (1968) Stranger in the family: A guide to living with the emotionally disturbed (1972) Notes of a survivor (1977) Solid Gold Illusion (1983) Goodbye my Coney Island baby: A novel (1998) Homeless in the eighties: poetry, photographs, and paintings (1989) Homeless in the nineties: selected poetry (1994) Charles Darwin in Cyberspace: A Novel (1995) How I got out of jail and ran for governor of Indiana: the Jim Moore story as told to Claire Burch (1995) Stranger on the planet: The small book of Laurie (1997) What really killed Rosebud? (2001) Tales of young urban squatters plus How to squat (2003) Filmography Oracle Rising: The Recreation of the Original Haight Ashbury Hippie Psychedelic Underground Newspaper (1994) People's Park of Berkeley : then and now (1995) Timothy Leary's Dead (1996) The Ghost of Haight Ashbury Meets Timothy Leary (1998) The James Baldwin Anthology (2008) References