{"id":12721,"date":"2014-05-01T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2015-05-05T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T14:17:26","slug":"american-porn-soon-to-be-released-on-vinyl-lp-with-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/05\/american-porn-soon-to-be-released-on-vinyl-lp-with-cd.html","title":{"rendered":"‘American Porn’ on Vinyl LP, with CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heathcote Williams has recorded his poems \u201cMr. President,\u201d \u201cThe United States of Porn,\u201d \u201cForbidden Fruit, or The Cybernetic Apple Core,\u201d and \u201cSnuff Films at the White House.\u201d<\/a> “In their uncompromising nakedness they are CT scans of history.” [from JH liner notes]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAll his work is deeply political. I think it\u2019s informed not only by violent contempt for the way people are manipulated, for the status quo, the complacency of the status quo, but also \u2014 certainly more and more evident in his later work \u2014 by compassion for the weak.\u201d
— Harold Pinter, on Heathcote Williams<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Postscript:<\/strong> May 24 — Here’s a look at the full set: vinyl LP, LP sleeve, CD, and CD wrapper:<\/p>\n

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PPS:<\/strong> July 31 — And now for the flyer just posted at International Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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