The history of bones : a memoir / John Lurie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lurie, John, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lurie, John, 1952-.

Lurie, John.

Composers--United States--Biography.

Composers.

United States.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

Saxophonists--United States--Biography.

Saxophonists.

East Village (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

East Village (New York, N.Y.).

Lounge Lizards (Musical group).

Social conditions.

New York (State)--New York--East Village.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 435 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2021]

Summary:

"'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his artistic soul over the course of the decade and comes into orbit with all the prominent artists of that time and place, like Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Boris Policeband, and especially Jean-Michel Basquiat, the enigmatic artistic prodigy who spent a year sleeping on Lurie's floor on East 3rd Street. It may feel like Disney World now, but in The History of Bones, the East Village, through Lurie's clear-eyed reminiscence, comes to teeming, gritty life. The book is full of grime and frank humor--Lurie pulls no punches and bars no holds in his descriptions of the frothy whirlpool of the East Village at that time. His story is a journey back to one of the most significant moments in our cultural history, one whose reverberations are still strongly felt today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Boy Boy

2. The First Time They Arrested Me, I Actually Was Drunk

3. Inside God's Brain

4. I Come from Haunts of Coot and Hern, or, I Didn't Kill Yogi Bhajan

5. I Am the Supreme Totality!

6. Dancing Hitler

7. Crushed Bandit

8. Men in Orbit

9. The John Lurie School of Bohemian Living

10. An Erection and an Alarm Clock

11. Paris. Vomiting and then More Vomiting

12. Udder and Horns

13. Mutiny on the Bowery

14. Look Out! The Anteater!

15. Gaijin Sex Monster

16. Hung There Against the Sky and Floated

17. Fifty Million Junkies Can't All Be Wrong

18. I Was instructed to Slouch Down to Eat My Sandwich

19. If The Lounge Lizards Play in the Forest and No One Is There to Hear It

20. Hello, I Am a Dilettante and a Hack

21. Fifty Million Junkies Are Probably Wrong

22. Werner Herzog in Lederhosen

23. All the Girls Want to See My Penis

24. The Stick, to Whom All Praise Is Due

25. Cheese or Hats Are Preferable

26. Socks! Socks! Socks!

27. What Do You Know About Music? You're Not a Lawyer

28. The Handsomest Man in the World

29. When Life Punches You in the Face, You Have to Get Back Up. How Else Can Life Punch You in the Face Again?

30. Splobs

31. I've Run Out of Madeleines

32. Flies Swarm AH Around Me

33. The Last Time I Saw Willie Mays

34. My Friends Cover Their Faces

35. John Lurie: Pathetic and Ignorant

36. Voice of Chunk

37. Rasputin the Eel

38. It Never Hovered Above the Ground

39. Giant Diving Bugs Bombing Our Faces

40. Fifteen Minutes Outside of Nairobi, There Are Giraffes.

Other Format:

Online version: Lurie, John, 1952- History of bones

ISBN:

9780399592973

0399592970

OCLC:

1236896062