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Part Two of ONOUROWN. Joe and Tony resolve to quit taking their extensive medication regimen, not foreseeing the unpleasant side effects of withdrawal. Features Saul Levine as a social worker who makes the mistake of drinking Joe's last Coca-Cola, and Tony Conrad as their video psychiatrist paying a house call.

"It's spring, it's spring, and I feel I'm giving birth myself, to something monstrous, something ugly." Gibbons enters the woods to begin his destructive campaign against spring, snapping the buds off trees while babbling maniacally. Sabotaging Spring is an impressionistic peek at Gibbons's paranoid fancy; he explains to his dog, Woody the facts of life, evolution, and whistling.

A university professor learns from his golfing partner/hematologist that he has a fatal blood disease. He resolves to live out his remaining weeks doing everything he ever dreamed out. He goes to Paris to rob banks and take up with a bohemian Parisienne named Coco. The only problem is that he can't bring himself to break the law, although Coco is a natural at it. When she discovers he's been faking the robberies their relationship sours. He's got to muster up the fortitude to do the job. Meanwhile his doctor friend has been looking for him - it seems there's been a terrible mix-up.

In Final Exit, an aged one is confronted with his options in blunt terms. Does he want to drag out his existence, increasingly infirm and a burden to his caretakers, or go quietly before resentment overwhelms sentiment? Does he wish to go on living, the quality of his life increasingly diminishing, or be euthanized? Would he prefer cremation or burial? This tape confronts the issues of mortality and advancing decrepitude that faces even the friskiest.

As recent state cut-backs force many mental patients out into the real world, Tony Oursler and Joe Gibbons team up to address psychiatric deinstitutionalization from a comic angle. After years of being cared for, Tony, Joe and their dog Woody leave the cuckoo's nest and reluctantly face the prospect of finding jobs and cooking their own meals. Their darkly comic adventures include a comatose Tony tuning in to daytime TV, and Joe fantasizing about death while strolling in the park.

An earlier version of FUGITIVE IN PARIS. A beleaguered scofflaw flees to Paris to become someone else. He meets a model named Coco (Corinne Mallet), and they drink champagne and make love. While he robs banks, she models, until she decides to rob banks too. Eventually they go to Normandy to chill out, but something peculiar happens. No longer sustained by the criminal act, he becomes unmoored and loses his personality altogether, merging with Coco's. Then, with the police on the trail, they are forced to split up. He ends up in a seedy hotel room in Mexico, dying of selflessness. Coco ends up in London with two personalities, but no happier.

It's the first day of autumn and Gibbons can already smell death in the air. Leading us and his dog Woody on a walk through a cemetery, Gibbons voices his obsessive thoughts of death and destruction saying, "I want to be a leaf; I want to fall from a great height and crush whatever I land on." Waxing weirdly philosophical, Gibbons satirically tries to impress the concept of mortality on his dog.