The history of bones : a memoir / John Lurie.

"'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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lurie, John, 1952- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Lurie, John, > 1952-
Lounge Lizards (Musical group)
Composers > United States > Biography.
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
Saxophonists > United States > Biography.
East Village (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
Composers.
Jazz musicians.
Saxophonists.
Social conditions.
New York (State) > New York > East Village.
United States.
1900-1999
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Physical Description:vii, 435 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Boy Boy
  • The First Time They Arrested Me, I Actually Was Drunk
  • Inside God's Brain
  • I Come From Haunts Of Coot And Hern, Or, I Didn't Kill Yogi Bhajan
  • I am the Supreme Totality!
  • Dancing Hitler
  • Crushed Bandit
  • Men in Orbit
  • The John Lurie School Of Bohemian Living
  • An Erection and an Alarm Clock
  • Paris. Vomiting and Then More Vomiting
  • Udder and Horns
  • Mutiny On The Bowery
  • Look Out! The Anteater!
  • Gaijin Sex Monster
  • Hung There Against the Sky and Floated
  • Fifty Million Junkies Can't All Be Wrong
  • I Was Instructed to Slouch Down to Eat my Sandwich
  • If the Lounge Lizards Play In The Forest And No One Is There To Hear It...
  • Hello, I Am a Dilettante and a Hack
  • Fifty Million Junkies Are Probably Wrong
  • Werner Herzog in Lederhosen
  • All The Girls Want To See My Penis
  • The Stick, To Whom All Praise Is Due
  • Cheese or Hats are Preferable
  • Socks! Socks! Socks!
  • What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer
  • The Handsomest Man In The World
  • When Life Punches You In The Face, You have to get back up. How Else Can Life Punch You in the Face Again?
  • Splobs
  • I've Run Out of Madeleines
  • Flies Swarm All Around Me
  • The Last Time I Saw Willie Mays
  • My Friends Cover Their Faces
  • John Lurie : Pathetic and Ignorant
  • Voice of Chunk
  • Rasputin The Eel
  • It Never Hovered Above the Ground
  • Giant Diving Bugs Bombing Our Faces
  • Fifteen Minutes Outside of Nairobi, There Are Giraffes.