{"id":16529,"date":"2015-06-29T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=16529"},"modified":"2015-06-29T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:54:36","slug":"beat-scene-magazine-eyeballs-american-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/06\/beat-scene-magazine-eyeballs-american-porn.html","title":{"rendered":"<em>Beat Scene<\/em> Magazine Eyeballs  &#8216;American Porn&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My staff of thousands tells me that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/05\/american-porn-soon-to-be-released-on-vinyl-lp-with-cd.html\">&#8220;American Porn&#8221;<\/a> was reviewed in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatscene.net\/index.asp\">Beat Scene<\/a><\/em>, a British magazine edited by Kevin Ring. That was news to me. Here&#8217;s the review:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/06\/beat-scene-magazine-eyeballs-american-porn.html\/americanpornreview640\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,937\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Brother DCP-1510 series&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=\"Review of &amp;#8216;AmericanPorn&amp;#8217; by Michael Kearns in Beat Scene (winter issue, 2015)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640-205x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640.jpg\" alt title=\"Review of &#039;AmericanPorn&#039; by Michael Kearns in Beat Scene (winter issue, 2015)\" width=\"640\" height=\"937\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe staff wanted to know what I thought of the review. I said I liked what the reviewer said about the poet: &#8220;Heathcote Williams is a troublemaker and has been for a very long time.&#8221; It also pleased me that the reviewer took this quote from the liner notes: &#8220;His poetry is as radical in its polemics as Shelley&#8217;s, whose visionary anarchism he considers indispensible.&#8221; And of course there&#8217;s no beating what Harold Pinter said, also from the liner notes: &#8220;All his work is deeply political. I think it&#8217;s informed not only by violent contempt for the way people are manipulated, for the status quo, but also &#8212; certainly more and more evident in his later work &#8212; by compassion for the weak.&#8221;*<br \/>\n<font size=1>*Quoted from a documentary.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My staff of thousands tells me that &#8220;American Porn&#8221; was reviewed in Beat Scene, a British magazine edited by Kevin Ring. That was news to me. Here&#8217;s the review: The staff wanted to know what I thought of the review. I said I liked what the reviewer said about the poet: &#8220;Heathcote Williams is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16540,"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":[18,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-media","9":"category-political-culture","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmericanPornReview640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-4iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529","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=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16550,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions\/16550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}