Enough Said 1994-12-19, Gotham and Diamond

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:
5183
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
Lee Gotham collection
Series:
Lee Gotham collection
Sub Series:
Lee Gotham collection

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:
Enough Said 1994-12-19, Gotham and Diamond
Title Source:
Asset
Title Note:
On ephemera and corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the event headliners.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

Notes:
Rights status in process. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer.

CREATORS

Name:
Diamond, Ann
Dates:
1951–
URL:
https://viaf.org/viaf/29585299
Notes:
Event headliner.
Name:
Gotham, Lee
Dates:
1962-
URL:
https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112
Notes:
Lee Gotham was also the MC and one of the headliners of this event.

CONTRIBUTORS

Name:
Duncan, Drew
Notes:
Videographer.
Name:
Tinguely, Vincent (Vince)
Dates:
1959-
URL:
https://viaf.org/viaf/36425179
Notes:
Open-mic performer. One of the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes.
Name:
Elfassy, Ran
Dates:
1972-
URL:
https://viaf.org/viaf/105951166
Notes:
Open-mic performer. One of the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes.
Name:
Duncan, Scott
Dates:
1970-
URL:
https://viaf.org/viaf/2021159474212827661705
Notes:
Open-mic performer. One of the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes.
Name:
McGrail, Justin
Dates:
1968-
URL:
https://viaf.org/viaf/106255768
Notes:
Performer. One of the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes.
Name:
Olds, Graham
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Harris, Thoth
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Berger, Halina
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Harpy?
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Brian
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Frankel, Jen
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Williamson, Beau
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Unknown_Musician1
Notes:
Played during Gotham's performance.
Name:
Unknown_Musician2
Notes:
Played during Gotham's performance.
Name:
Anna
Notes:
Surprise performer; she translates from Greek to English what Ann Diamond sings; then she sings and Ann Diamond translates. Also speaks briefly in the audience during Diamond's performance.
Name:
Elfassy, Ran
Dates:
1972-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/105951166
Notes:
Open mic performer. One of the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes.
Name:
Vaughan, R.M.
Dates:
1965-2020
URL:
https://viaf.org/en/viaf/7305363
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:
Image
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Video
Material Designation:
VHS
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
120 minutes
Playback Mode:
Mono
Tape Brand:
TDK SHG
Sound Quality:
Good
Other Physical Description:
VHS #1 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events.

DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION

File URL:
https://liveconcordia-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/carlosa_pittella_concordia_ca/EWB7uJ0YVR9PnrxIMZIsLoMB-X2eyJekHlUZTnGv-uwsZQ
Show Content
Duration:
02:31:09
Size:
4.26 GB on disk
Bitrate:
2304Kbps (original); 256Kbps (master)
Encoding:
MPEG-4 movie
Content:
This is file 1 of 1 containing an AV recording of an event in the Enough Said series, organized by Lee Gotham, featuring performances by himself, Ann Diamond, Vince Tinguely, Julie Crysler, Ran Elfassy, Halina Berger, Justin McGrail, and others.
Notes:
Dimensions: 640 × 480.
Content Type:
Video Recording

Dates

Date:
1994-12-19
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Asset

LOCATION

Address:
4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada
Venue:
Bistro 4
Latitude:
45.5169628
Longitude:
-73.5796147
URL:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2428619734
Notes:
Bistro 4 (pronounced Bistro Quatre), no longer in existence.

CONTENT

Contents:
[Bistro 4 stage] 00:00:15 Video Description: Color video of the stage with mic stand at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.” On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.” Lee Gotham 00:00:16 Installment of Enough Said, performative word event series. Um, don't be put off by all the musical acrobatics, we're definitely going to be concentrating on words as always. Um, we're going to start off as always also with a couple open mic participants. I see Brian's up first. Um, well, let me just wish everybody a Merry Christmas in case I forget a little later on, um, remind everyone that the series will run for the foreseeable future in the new year, um, starting back on the 9th, the second Monday in January. Come on out, see the likes of bill bissett, Ian Stephens, number of other word (?). And. Brian, I think if uh, you're in the house and ready to go, I think it's (?) there he is, jumping up in his seat. (?) going to come up and start the evening off for us, so please, make yourselves comfortable, and enjoy the evening. [Brief pause.] Suppose I should mention that the featured performer tonight is Anne Diamond and the second feature performer (?). If anyone is particularly enamored by those individuals, please hang out, they'll be up here before long. | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic, then zooms into medium shot as Gotham adjusts stage equipment for Brian and speaks into the mic again. Gotham wears a grey collared shirt with sleeves rolled to elbows atop a white collared shirt, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder length brown hair. Brian Campbell 00:01:56 [Asks audience if they can hear him. Says he will read "quiet poems" tonight. Introduces and performs piece titled "Andrea's Christmas" by Toronto author Henry [Nimuth?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Campbell bends down to pick up large black folder. Campbell wears a light blue sweater atop a medium blue collared shirt, dark hair, dark inch-long beard, and wire-rimmed glasses. Zooms into medium closeup as Campbell speaks into the mic, and zooms out to medium shot as Brian performs a piece. Brian 00:04:47 [Introduces and performs piece titled "For E. P.", written for Ezra Pound. Explains Pound's "ABCs of Poetry" (note: Campbell misspoke, and book's title is "ABCs of Reading"). Applause. Says something indiscernible into the mic.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Campbell picks up red folder from floor, speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again. Lee Gotham 00:08:19 [Thanks Brian. Invites Beau Williamson to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Beau Williamson 00:08:34 [Introduces the piece, though indiscernible due to low speaking level and high background noise in the audience and on the tape. Performs piece beginning with the line "I had a beautiful hour of naked day that I wish to describe."] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Williamson wears a white "Rocky Horror Picture Show" graphic t-shirt with red lettering and black trim, long light brown hair, and large glasses. Beau Williamson 00:09:25 [Introduces and performs piece titled “Pictures of the Same Person.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms into medium closeup and zooms out again as Williamson performs a piece. Beau Williamson 00:09:52 [Performs piece beginning with the line “Tired hands greet the limp phallus of joy.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson performs a piece. Beau Williamson 00:10:03 [Mentions that Yule is coming and decided to write and perform a poem about the month of May anyways. Introduces and performs poem titled “May.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Williamson performs a piece. Lee Gotham 00:12:17 [Announces that there will be one more open mic performer before the first feature. Invites Jen Frankel to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic and lowers it. Jen Frankel 00:12:41 [Says they have no sense of time and brought a clock. Seems to discuss with Gotham (off-screen) how long they can perform. Introduces and performs a piece titled "Ode to Beauty." Applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down to a medium shot as Frankel speaks into the mic. Frankel wears a loose black button-down shirt and short medium brown hair pulled back with a thick black bandana. Loose closeup as Frankel seems to talk to Gotham off-screen. Camera angles alternate between medium shots and medium closeups as Frankel speaks into the mic again and performs a piece. Jen Frankel 00:16:32 [Introduces and performs two chapters titled “A Clockwork Cat” and “Cathedrals and Crashing in Seas Without Shores” from a longer prose piece titled “Susan by Greyhound.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Frankel speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Lee Gotham 00:23:58 [Announces that the 1995 season will be more structured with time limits for open mic performers. Announces a break.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi 00:24:39 [Cuts to Unknown_Musician1 quietly and sporadically playing snare drum and cymbal with brushes and Sam Shalabi fingerpicking jazz chords on guitar. Audience chatter in the background.] | Video Description: Long shot as Unknown_Musician1 plays small drum kit with brushes and Sam Shalabi finger picks an electric guitar. Unknown_Musician1 wears a blue and white argyle sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, a silver watch, glasses, and short curly dark brown hair. Sam Shalabi wears a red button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large metal-rimmed glasses, and thinning dark brown hair. Zooms into extreme closeup of Sam Shalabi looking around, chewing gum, and talking to individuals off-screen. [Bistro 4 stage] 00:25:07 Video Description: Extreme closeup of mic with no one behind it. Lee Gotham 00:25:24 [Exclaims that the open mic sign-up board is full. Introduces himself as the first feature performer. Says Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi are performing with himself for the first time. Introduces a piece as definitely not poetry. Audience collectively exclaims “aw.”] | Video Description: Out-of-focus extreme closeup focuses and zooms out to closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Zooms out to long shot of Gotham speaking into mic, and Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi behind their instruments not playing. Zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, turns towards 1 and 2 and says something inaudible, and continues speaking into the mic. [SpokenWeb notes] 00:27:08 Gotham performs a long poem without announcing any section breaks. To enhance readability, this transcription will break when Gotham pauses for a significant period, denoted by the phrase “Gotham pauses” or “Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.”] Lee Gotham 00:27:13 [Begins performing a piece either titled or beginning with the line “Attention project proposals, explorations grants competition, Canada Arts Council.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham begins performing a piece. Zooms into extreme closeup as Gotham says the line “one idea is a death of experience.” Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi. Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi 00:27:41 [Strike a discordant cord.] | Video Description: Off-screen. Lee Gotham 00:27:43 [Resumes performing piece. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. Lee Gotham 00:29:00 [Resumes performing piece with the line “No, musicians should play as they see fit.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi 00:29:04 [Quietly playing uncertain chords and sparse drumming as Gotham continues performing.] | Video Description: Off-screen. Lee Gotham 00:29:07 [Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer picks up a hammer.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham picks up hammer from off-screen. In between lines, dramatically hits a wooden block on stand to his right with hammer. Lee Gotham 00:29:46 [Resumes performing piece with the line “There can be no pause for the cause.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera angle alternates between closeups and medium shots of Gotham performing a piece and long shots of Gotham performing a piece, Unknown_Musician1 playing drums, and Sam Shalabi playing guitar. Lee Gotham 00:32:04 [Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer is blurting out opinions to strangers.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium closeups and extreme closeups of Gotham performing a piece. Lee Gotham 00:34:38 [Resumes performing piece with the line “Opinions again: that’s what I call using your head.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Lee Gotham 00:35:35 [Resumes performing piece with the line “It’s a milk and honey mid-September, an [?] Indian coffee and cigarette summer” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder and more complex in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms into medium shot partway through. Lee Gotham 00:37:18 [Resumes performing piece with the line “I went to the doctor for the first time in twelve years.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi softens in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Lee Gotham 00:37:48 [Resumes performing piece with the line “Less about what you think, I still don’t get it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder in background with staccato chords. Asks Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi to play more soothingly. Laughter. Says “or ignore him.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi, who are off-screen. Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi 00:38:17 [Sam Shalabi continues to play complex drum beat, Unknown_Musician1 softens chord attack but plays complex progression.] | Video Description: Off-screen. Lee Gotham 00:38:29 Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham sits down on something unseen and, holding the mic away from him, mouths something unseen to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi. Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi 00:38:31 [Play calmer jazz music.] | Video Description: Camera pans to long shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums with brushes and Sam Shalabi playing guitar. Lee Gotham 00:38:36 [Resumes performing piece with the line “We were still sitting there on the beach listening to the crazy old Indian.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.] | Video Description: Camera pans to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece sitting down. Camera alternates between closeups, medium shots and medium closeups as Gotham performs a piece. Lee Gotham 00:41:25 [Resumes performing piece with the line “Well, there wasn’t a lot of story to it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi resumes in major key. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Gotham stands up. Zooms out to longshot as Gotham picks up hammer on his left and pretends to hit himself on the head with it in between lines. Zooms into medium closeup. Lee Gotham 00:44:38 [Resumes performing piece with the line “That’s good, that’s just fine, now we’ll just relax” delivered in a deeper tone than previously. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi barely audible in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Lee Gotham 00:45:31 [Resumes performing piece with the line “An escaped convict fell into a deep hole someone had dug beside the roadway.” Music reminiscent of middle-Eastern music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi plays in background. Sam Shalabi stops playing guitar part way through. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham leans backwards on something unseen and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as Gotham stands up and continues performing piece. Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi 00:49:17 [Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background.] | Video Description: Zooms out to show Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi playing their instruments beside Gotham. Lee Gotham 00:49:21 [Resumes performing piece with the line “The water’s run out.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes busier in the background.] Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. Sam Shalabi 00:49:38 Video Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing. Unknown_Musician1 00:49:57 Video Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen. Lee Gotham 00:50:05 [Continues performing piece. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham continues performing a piece. Zooms out to medium shot part way through. Gotham expands arms like flying bird while performing. Lee Gotham 00:51:31 [Continues performing piece with the line “Well now, where were we. You wanted to talk about sex today?” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Camera alternates between medium closeups and medium shots throughout . Lee Gotham 00:55:10 [Continues performing piece with the line “I’d like to make it reasonably clear that I’m a frightened man.” Sombre music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Lee Gotham 00:57:29 [Continues performing piece with the line “The performer gradually regains his composure.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham sips water and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through, then zooms out to medium shot. Lee Gotham 01:01:44 [Continues performing piece with the line “Failure to recognize boundaries between self and the world outside.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi ceases in the background. Thanks audience. Applause. Thanks audience and announces break before Ann Diamond’s performance] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Takes cigarette package out of pocket. Zooms out to long shot during applause. Zooms into medium shot when Gotham resumes speaking into mic. Lee Gotham 01:03:36 [Cuts to Gotham inviting Ann Diamond to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham speaking into the microphone. Ann Diamond 01:03:47 [Says she planned to improvise but got nervous as she approached the venue. Introduces and reads from a pamphlet found outside the venue titled "A Free Lecture on Past Life Regression, Reincarnation, and Karma."] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and reads from pink pamphlet. Diamond wears a dark graphic t-shirt with the word "MAUDITE" and an orange devil printed on it atop a reddish-brown cowl neck sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, hanging earrings, and short medium brown hair. Puts down pamphlet. Ann Diamond 01:06:01 [Asks audience “do you believe that?” Laughter. Introduces and asks the audience a series of true or false questions beginning with “We are all survivors. True or false?” Audience shouts out a mixture of “true” and “false” after each.] | Video Description: Closeup as Diamond sips beer. Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond reads from thick spiral notebook. Ann Diamond 01:07:15 [Tells story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Invites Anna, who is in the audience, to ask question.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Diamond tells a story. Anna 01:09:10 Was this a dream? Ann Diamond 01:09:11 I’m not gonna tell you. Audience 01:09:12 Laughter. Ann Diamond 01:09:20 [Resumes telling story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Diamond telling story. Ann Diamond 01:12:03 [Says it was a dream. Explains how under hypnosis people believe that dreams are real memories. Says she was on the national news with the next story that is not a memory or a dream. Tells a story about getting into a car accident during a hurricane on Poxy Island near Prince Edward Island with a short aside about Leonard Cohen. Audience laughter throughout.] | Camera angles vary between medium closeups and long shots as Diamond speaks into the mic and tells a story. Ann Diamond 01:24:55 [Asks the audience a series of true or false questions about her trip to the Caribbean with Mick Jagger among other topics. Audience shouts out a mixture of “true” and “false” after each.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond asks the audience questions and pauses as they respond. Ann Diamond 01:27:42 [Mentions that she wants to launch a project titled “Canada: The Untold Story” about recovering memories.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic. Lee Gotham 01:30:50 [Thanks Ann Diamond. Announces Enough Said will return for a new season on January 9th, 1995 with performances by bill bisset and Sharon Nelson, as well as the second cassette launch of Wired on Words series on the 23rd. Announces the event is over. Thanks audience for attending and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Lee Gotham speaks into the mic. Lee Gotham 01:32:14 [Cuts to Gotham inviting Vince Tinguely to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. Vince Tinguely 01:32:31 [Introduces and performs a piece beginning with the line “[At the height of the?] Cuban Missile Crisis and a bowl of clean water.” Applause.] | Video Description: White t-shirt, large wire-rimmed glasses, and thin white hair. Medium closeup of Tinguely speaking into the mic zooms out to medium shot as Tinguely performs a piece. Lee Gotham 01:34:10 [Thanks Vince. Invites Amanda Blush to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites [inaudible] to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites Graham Olds to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. Graham Olds 01:35:11 [Mentions he is from British Columbia which is very concerned with the environment. Introduces and performs a piece titled "If Elvis Was an Environmentalist." Applause.] | Video Description: Camera angles vary between medium closeups and medium shots as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Olds wears a red graphic t-shirt with black geometric designs and a face printed on the front, chin-length medium brown hair, and a thin moustache. Graham Olds 01:37:14 [Talks about riding bike from Tofino to Port Alberni. Performs a piece beginning with the line “When waves of adrenaline excrete from the renal cortex of your kidneys.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Graham Olds 01:38:40 [Performs untitled piece beginning with the line “I’m a cappuccino cowboy.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Graham Olds 01:39:54 [Praises the Montreal metro system. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Never been the biggest fan of riding the bus.” Invites Julie Crysler to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again. [SpokenWeb edits] 01:41:01 Video Description: Black screen with white text that reads "Two minutes of this video have been removed." Lee Gotham 01:41:07 [Invites Ran Elfassy to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Ran Elfassy 01:41:14 [Says "hi" to the audience. Says his poem is not about fucking Leonard Cohen. Performs a piece beginning with the line "I was a lover last night, last night I was alone with a lover." Breaks midperformance to mention that the second half of the piece is titled "Crisis." Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Elfassy speaks into the mic, performs a piece, speaks into the mic briefly, and resumes performing. Elfassy wears a white t-shirt, beaded necklace with square gold pendant, and dark hair in a small bun at the crown of his head. Lee Gotham 01:48:08 [Thanks Elfassy. Invites Thoth Harris to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Thoth Harris 01:48:25 [Says he will give an autobiographical statement before performing, stating that he is from Vancouver, that he was abused as a child, that his abuser recently died, and his girlfriend recently gave birth. Introduces and performs a piece titled "Breathing Space."] | Video Description: Medium closeup to medium shot as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harris wears a pinkish-grey plaid atop a white shirt, grey and white striped scarf, and a grey toque with ear flaps and strings. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as piece concludes. Thoth Harris 01:53:45 [Introduces and performs a piece titled [“Samson’s Lost Beach”?] [“Sam’s on Glass Beach”?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Harris puts mic back on stand. Medium closeup as Harris performs a piece. Zooms out to medium shot as the piece concludes. Thoth Harris 01:56:40 [Introduces and performs a piece titled “Damage Counter #1.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Lee Gotham 01:58:24 Video Description: Long shot as Gotham walks to microphone. [No signal] 01:58:26 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. Halina Berger 01:58:40 [Cuts to Berger in medias res performing a piece including the line "like being afraid of falling asleep, like going, like being."] Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Berger performs a piece. Berger wears a dusty rose button-down cardigan, thick gold chain, and short medium brown hair. Lee Gotham 2:00:45 [Thanks Berger. Invites R. M. Vaughan to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. R. M. Vaughan 02:02:47 [Asks audience if they are bored by performers mentioning their place of birth. Mentions that he lives in Toronto and is from the east coast. Mentions he runs the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Company. Mentions that all pieces he will read are from a series titled "Seven Sentences from Balzac's ‘A Murky Business' and ‘All of my Life'" and each include a Balzac quote. Performs a piece that, after the quote, begins with the line "Unless he's very large and the laws of perspective have bent for me."] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Vaughan wears a dark red and grey long sleeve button-down plaid, wire-rimmed glasses, and medium brown hair in a buzzcut. Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Vaughan performs a piece. Briefly zooms in on Vaughan's left arm gesticulating as the piece concludes. R. M. Vaughan 02:03:25 [Dedicates next work to [?] Beddington who runs a queer publishing company that does not publish queer work. Performs a piece that begins with the line “You and me and politics.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece. R. M. Vaughan 02:04:33 [Performs piece including the line “remember you and I are not supposed, our bodies little principalities.” Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen. R. M. Vaughan 02:06:29 [Performs piece beginning with the line“Wholesome boy, gift from whatever gods rule that particular patch of cloud.” Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen. R. M. Vaughan 02:07:47 [Introduces and performs a piece titled “[Lined?] Poem, Three Lines Long, About Hate.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece. Lee Gotham 02:10:08 [Thanks Vaughan. Encourages audience to see Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Invites [Harpy?] to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham adjusts the mic and speaks into it. [Harpy?] 02:10:36 [Introduces and performs piece beginning with the line "It's the end of the semester, as you can see." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as [Harpy?] speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harpy wears a grey-striped sweater without a zipper atop a white shirt, single hoop earring, and short curly hair. Scott Duncan 02:13:37 [Asks everyone to think of leaf cutting ants in preparation for Fluffy Pagan Echoes' event at Phoenix Cafe the week after. Performs a piece titled "The Bus Driver's Mona Lisa." Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Duncan speaks into the mic. Duncan wears a white cable knit sweater atop a brown collared shirt, light wash baggy jeans, and dark brown messy hair. Medium closeup as Duncan performs a piece. Justin McGrail 02:17:24 [Performs a piece beginning with the line "It is a sense of defeat that crawls over shoulders." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as McGrail speaks into the mic and performs a piece. McGrail wears a black baggy t-shirt with the English flag printed on the left sleeve, long chain, and a light brown newsboy cap turned backwards with medium brown hair curling out the front. Zooms into closeup partway through. Lee Gotham 02:24:17 [Encourages audience to go to Fluffy Pagan Echoes show. Announces a special surprise.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Anna and Ann Diamond 02:24:28 Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna and Diamond walk on stage. Anna wears a lapelled leather jacket atop a black turtleneck sweater and short dark brown hair. Diamond wears the same outfit as during her feature but also wears an oversized grey jacket and a yellow, red, and black patterned scarf. Anna 02:24:36 [Says this will be an example of how sometimes speech in another language sounds serious when it is not and vice versa.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna lights a cigarette and speaking into the mic. Ann Diamond 02:25:02 I will sing in Greek. Anna 02:25:04 And I will translate. Ann Diamond 02:25:08 [Sings in Greek.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond sings into the microphone and then pushes the mic to Anna Anna 02:25:16 [Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anna speaks into the mic. Ann Diamond 02:25:26 I didn't know it meant that. [Resumes singing.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic, sings into the mic, and then pushes the mic to Anna. Anna 02:25:35 [Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter. Announces she will do the other part. Sings.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna speaks into the mic, then takes off jacket. Zooms into closeup as Anna sings into the mic. Ann Diamond 02:26:45 [Explains that she thinks it means “I love your beautiful eyes and I love your hair and get a job and don’t run after the whores.” Laughter.] | Medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and then pushes the mic to Anna. Anna 02:27:06 [Explains that it means “I don’t want you to give me palaces and castles, I don’t want you to give me riches like all the other sluts that you give them too, just feel sorry for the little parts of my heart, and just tell me that you love me.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anna speaks into the mic. Lee Gotham 02:26:43 [Thanks Anna and Ann Diamond. Thanks the audience. Announces the end of the event.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.] Audience 02:28:03 [Sombre recorded symphonic music in background.] | Video Description: Long shot of audience putting on jackets and chatting. [Bistro 4 stage] 02:28:22 [Sombre recorded symphonic music in background.] Video Description: Cuts to open mic sign-up blackboard with “enough said” written across the top and a list of participants’ names below. [Bistro 4 stage] 02:28:52 Video Description: Cuts to closeup of Christmas tree with multicoloured lights, zooms out to show tree is inside Bistro 4 and camera is outside. Words such as “biere,” “fut,” “cafe,” and “tisane” are visible on the window. Zooms in on sign inside the venue that reads “Bistro 4.” END 02:29:24 [End of recording.]
Notes:
Event recording starts at 00:00:00:00 of VHS #1 asset, which contains multiple events.

NOTES

Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Carlos A. Pittella
Type:
General
Note:
VHS #1 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1994-12-19, Gotham and Diamond; (2) Enough Said 1995-01-23, Wiernik and Anderson; and (3) Enough Said 1995-01-09, Swifty Lazar. Note the recordings in VHS #1 are not in chronological order. The asset was digitized, generating both uncompressed and compressed video files; the compressed files were then split into events to facilitate the transcription work. Metadata entries based on events.

RELATED WORKS

Citation:
Diamond, Ann. Terrorist Letters. Montréal: Signal Editions (Véhicule Press), 1992.
URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636521014

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