The History of Bones: A Memoir By: John Lurie [Audiobook]

Author: John Lurie
Narrated by: John Lurie

The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie.

“Ferocious and wise, funny and tragic, raging and forgiving, and I loved every page.” (Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City)

In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother, Evan, in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. Now Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he developed his artistic soul over the course of the decade and came into orbit with all the prominent artists of that time and place, including Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Boris Policeband, and, especially, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the enigmatic prodigy who spent a year sleeping on the floor of Lurie’s East Third Street apartment. 

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 holds nothing back in this journey to one of the most significant moments in our cultural history, one whose reverberations are still strongly felt today. 

History may repeat itself, but the way downtown New York happened in the 1980s will never happen again. Luckily, through this beautiful memoir, we all have a front-row seat.

340K	001-The History of Bones - A Memoir.mp3
16M	002-Chapter 1 - Boy Boy.mp3
12M	003-Chapter 2 - The First Time They Arrested Me, I Actually Was Drunk.mp3
9.4M	004-Chapter 3 - Inside God's Brain.mp3
12M	005-Chapter 4 - I Come from Haunts of Coot and Hern, or, I Didn't Kill Yogi Bhajan.mp3
15M	006-Chapter 5 - I Am the Supreme Totality!.mp3
6.6M	007-Chapter 6 - Dancing Hitler.mp3
5.2M	008-Chapter 7 - Crushed Bandit.mp3
17M	009-Chapter 8 - Men in Orbit.mp3
15M	010-Chapter 9 - The John Lurie School of Bohemian Living.mp3
7.0M	011-Chapter 10 - An Erection and an Alarm Clock.mp3
12M	012-Chapter 11 - Paris. Vomiting and Then More Vomiting.mp3
9.8M	013-Chapter 12 - Udder and Horns.mp3
17M	014-Chapter 13 - Mutiny on the Bowery.mp3
17M	015-Chapter 14 - Look Out! The Anteater!.mp3
8.4M	016-Chapter 15 - Gaijin Sex Monster.mp3
6.2M	017-Chapter 16 - Hung There against the Sky and Floated.mp3
12M	018-Chapter 17 - Fifty Million Junkies Can't All Be Wrong.mp3
3.0M	019-Chapter 18 - I Was Instructed to Slouch Down to Eat My Sandwich.mp3
4.0M	020-Chapter 19 - If the Lounge Lizards Play in the Forest and No One Is There to Hear It.mp3
9.3M	021-Chapter 20 - Hello, I Am a Dilettante and a Hack.mp3
2.7M	022-Chapter 21 - Fifty Million Junkies Are Probably Wrong.mp3
7.9M	023-Chapter 22 - Werner Herzog in Lederhosen.mp3
5.9M	024-Chapter 23 - All the Girls Want to See My Penis.mp3
9.0M	025-Chapter 24 - The Stick, to Whom All Praise Is Due.mp3
13M	026-Chapter 25 - Cheese or Hats Are Preferable.mp3
13M	027-Chapter 26 - Socks! Socks! Socks!.mp3
21M	028-Chapter 27 - What Do You Know about Music You're Not a Lawyer.mp3
12M	029-Chapter 28 - The Handsomest Man in the World.mp3
28M	030-Chapter 29 - When Life Punches You in the Face, You Have to Get Back Up. How Else Can Life Punch You in the Face Again.mp3
8.2M	031-Chapter 30 - Splobs.mp3
4.6M	032-Chapter 31 - I've Run Out of Madeleines.mp3
12M	033-Chapter 32 - Flies Swarm All around Me.mp3
9.3M	034-Chapter 33 - The Last Time I Saw Willie Mays.mp3
7.2M	035-Chapter 34 - My Friends Cover Their Faces.mp3
8.4M	036-Chapter 35 - John Lurie - Pathetic and Ignorant.mp3
13M	037-Chapter 36 - Voice of Chunk.mp3
5.6M	038-Chapter 37 - Rasputin the Eel.mp3
16M	039-Chapter 38 - It Never Hovered above the Ground.mp3
11M	040-Chapter 39 - Giant Diving Bugs Bombing Our Faces.mp3
9.5M	041-Chapter 40 - Fifteen Minutes outside of Nairobi, There Are Giraffes.mp3
496K	042-Credits.mp3
240K	cover.jpg
424M	total