{"id":15364,"date":"2015-03-14T16:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=15364"},"modified":"2015-03-14T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T21:02:34","slug":"from-the-east-village-ten-talk-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/03\/from-the-east-village-ten-talk-new-york.html","title":{"rendered":"From the East Village, &#8216;Ten Talk New York&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Clayton Patterson, &#8220;the great connector,&#8221; I met his friend Simon J. Heath the other day. Simon is an Australian-born filmmaker who&#8217;s in love with New York City. The latest evidence is &#8220;Ten Talk New York,&#8221; a fast-moving flick that features interviews with New Yorkers thinking out loud about sex, love, race, and death. They all tell stories, great stories. But for sheer entertainment &#8230;<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DtjvLKI6zgI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&#8230; if I had to pick a favorite in the truth-telling department, I&#8217;d go with Kim Harris who identifies herself as &#8220;a black Jew from the Upper West Side, or rather a nice black Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.&#8221; Here&#8217;s some of what she had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><div id=\"attachment_15382\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DtjvLKI6zgI\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15382\" data-attachment-id=\"15382\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/03\/from-the-east-village-ten-talk-new-york.html\/kim-harris-ten-talknew-york\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kim-Harris-Ten-TalkNew-York.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"260,131\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kim Harris (&amp;#8216;Ten Talk New York&amp;#8217;)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Kim Harris in &amp;#8216;Ten Talk New York&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kim-Harris-Ten-TalkNew-York.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kim-Harris-Ten-TalkNew-York.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kim-Harris-Ten-TalkNew-York.jpg\" alt title=\"Kim Harris in &#039;Ten Talk New York,&#039; a film directed by Simon J. Heath.\" width=\"260\" height=\"131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15382\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Harris in &#8216;Ten Talk New York&#8217;<\/p><\/div>You know what New York guys seem to think? First of all, they think they can have a baby when they&#8217;re in their seventies. So they&#8217;re trying to fuck till they&#8217;re fifty-five. And even if they can&#8217;t fuck &#8212; and believe me, a lot of them can&#8217;t fuck &#8212; New York guys just sorta think that the world&#8217;s at their fingertips. I mean, so what if they piss me off. They can literally leave, go to the bar, and in a New York minute they can find somebody else who&#8217;s willing to go home, give them a blow job, and let them sleep on their couch because they&#8217;re homeless. I mean, it&#8217;s an actual problem. We&#8217;re all lonely. The reason why I sometimes fill that void with sex is because we&#8217;re out of love and sometimes sex feels close enough to love.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThis dude fucking pulled out a vial of coke. We&#8217;re fucking around, and he pulled out a vial of coke and, y&#8217;know, put a line on his dick. He&#8217;s like, &#8220;There!&#8221; And I was like, &#8220;What the fuck am I supposed to do with that?&#8221; It was like the craziest &#8212; it was actually really kinda funny because I don&#8217;t sniff, I&#8217;m not a big drug user. But it was just like &#8220;What movie did you watch? What New York fantasy did you have that I&#8217;m about to do a line on your fucking dick?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems to me she&#8217;s as sharp as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/Fran_Lebowitz\">Fran Liebowitz<\/a>, no slouch in the truth department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Clayton Patterson, &#8220;the great connector,&#8221; I met his friend Simon J. Heath the other day. Simon is an Australian-born filmmaker who&#8217;s in love with New York City. The latest evidence is &#8220;Ten Talk New York,&#8221; a fast-moving flick that features interviews with New Yorkers thinking out loud about sex, love, race, and death. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-media","8":"category-movies","9":"category-political-culture","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kim-Harris-Ten-TalkNew-York.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3ZO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15393,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions\/15393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}