"'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...

A New Yorker named Phil Campbell discovers a rural town in Alabama that shares his name, he invites Phil Campbell's' from all over the world to join him there. The town starts preparing for the Phil Campbell's, but then a tornado strikes the town; an unimaginably horrible tornado, killing 27 people. And in a town of barely 1,000, everybody knew the victims. From all over the world, twenty Phil Campbell's journey to the tiny town of Phil Campbell,...