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Enough Said, Highlights Part 1

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:

6883

Partner Institution:

Concordia University

Source Collection Label:

Lee Gotham collection

Series:

Lee Gotham collection

Sub Series:

Lee Gotham collection

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:

Enough Said, Highlights Part 1

Title Source:

Asset

Title Note:

Ephemera accompanying assets. "Hilights" (sic) on Part 1, but "Highlights" on Part 2.

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:

Gotham, Lee

Dates:

1962-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112

Notes:

Lee Gotham selected and edited these highlights. Gotham is also featured as a performer.

CONTRIBUTORS

Name:

Duncan, Drew

Notes:

Videographer.

Name:

Walsh, Tom

Notes:

One-half of Swifty Lazar.

Name:

Swift, Todd

Dates:

1966-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/41039443/

Notes:

One-half of Swifty Lazar.

Name:

bissett, bill

Dates:

1939-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/96127023

Name:

Stephens, Ian

Dates:

1954-1996

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/48507771

Name:

Anderson, Fortner

Dates:

1955-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/106026246/

Name:

Allen, Robert

Dates:

1946-2006

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/22416596/

Name:

Isaac, Douglas (Doug)

Dates:

1946-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/26783067/

Name:

Christie, Colin

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/44235997

Notes:

One-half of ga press.

Name:

Frost, Corey

Dates:

1972-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/76001655

Notes:

One-half of ga press.

Name:

Ferrier, Ian

Dates:

1954-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/91437046

Name:

Luxton, Steve

Dates:

1946-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/45701800

Name:

Filip, Raymond

Dates:

1950-

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/11150531/

Name:

Nelson, Sharon H.

Dates:

1948-2016

URL:

https://viaf.org/viaf/108207169

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:

Recording Type:

Analogue

AV Type:

Video

Material Designation:

VHS

Physical Composition:

Magnetic Tape

Storage Capacity:

120 minutes

Playback Mode:

Mono

Tape Brand:

FUJI SUPER HG T-120 (NFL branded)

Sound Quality:

Good

Other Physical Description:

VHS #Highlights_1 asset.

DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION

File URL:

https://liveconcordia-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/carlosa_pittella_concordia_ca/EZqRGcc6dflKkkGyuItbFQUBqh_jgswUaeBvFt1T6YkLnQ

Show Content

Duration:

04:56:03

Size:

8.36 GB on disk

Bitrate:

2304Kbps (original); 256Kbps (master)

Encoding:

MPEG-4 movie

Content:

This is file 1 of 1 containing highlights from the Enough Said series, selected by Lee Gotham.

Notes:

Dimensions: 640 × 480.

Content Type:

Video Recording

Dates

Date:

1996

Type:

Production 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:

The tape includes excerpts from six different events: (1) Enough Said 1994-12-19, Gotham and Diamond; (2) Enough Said 1995-01-09, Swifty Lazar; (3) Enough Said 1995-01-16, bissett and Nelson; (4) Enough Said 1995-01-23, Wiernik and Anderson; (5) Enough Said 1995-01-30, Stanton and Stephens; and (6) Enough Said 1995-02-13, Benefit. [No signal] 00:00:18 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with white text that reads "VCR / Record SP / ENOUGH SAID!" [No signal] 00:00:19 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with white text that reads "ENOUGH SAID!" Lee Gotham 00:00:24 [Says Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi are performing with himself for the first time.] | Video Description: Out-of-focus extreme closeup focuses and zooms out to closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic standing beside Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi. 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. 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. [Cataloguer note: 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 00:00:46 [Begins performing a piece 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 00:01:14 [Strike a discordant cord.] | Video Description: Off-screen. Lee Gotham 00:01:15 [Resumes performing piece. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. Lee Gotham 00:02:33 [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 00:02:34 [Quietly playing uncertain chords and sparse drumming as Gotham continues performing.] | Video Description: Off-screen. Lee Gotham 00:02:40 [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 00:03:19 [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 00:05:38 [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 00:08:11 [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 00:09:08 [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 00:10:51 [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 00:11:22 [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 00:11:50 [Sam Shalabi continues to play complex drum beat, Unknown_Musician1 softens chord attack but plays complex progression.] | Video Description: Off-screen. Lee Gotham 00:11:57 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 00:12:03 [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 00:12:04 [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 00:14:58 [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 00:18:11 [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 00:19:04 [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 00:22:47 [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 00:22:54 [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 00:23:15 Video Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing. Unknown_Musician1 00:23:31 Video Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen. Lee Gotham 00:23:38 [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 00:25:04 [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 00:28:43 [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 00:31:09 [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 00:35:18 [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. [No signal] 00:37:00 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. Lee Gotham 00:37:11 [Introduces Swifty Lazar.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black zippered sweater with unknown white graphics on the back, a small white logo on the front left side, and sleeves rolled up to the elbows; black rimmed cap; and hair in a ponytail through the hole in the back. Swifty Lazar 00:37:55 [Recording of cinematic music with harp and horns plays. Todd Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “After the end of the world, there is much work to be done.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Swift performs a piece. Todd Swift wears a black suit jacket atop a white button-down shirt with a black bowtie, black rectangular glasses, and dark hair close cropped on the sides and parted just off-centre. Tom Walsh wears a leather vest with decorative zippers atop a black long-sleeved shirt and short dark hair. Swifty Lazar 00:39:32 [Recording of uneasy and discordant string instrument music plays. Shifts to cacophonous horn and percussion sounds and screeching. Swift performs a piece titled “(?) Barbershop.” Brief applause and laughing. Video Description: Swift stands perpendicular to the mic. Walsh stands up. Swift approaches the mic and performs a piece. Loose closeup throughout. Swifty Lazar 00:41:28 [Recording of cinematic string and horn music plays. In a radio-esque transatlantic accent, a recorded voice delivers monologue that includes the line “the hearts of men, a shadow now.”] | Video Description: Swift holds up a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Looks at watch. Takes tape player away from mic. Loose closeup throughout. Swifty Lazar 00:42:25 [Recording of spare xylophone music plays. In a muted, mid-twentieth-century-radio tone, Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “The theory of tunnel (work?) is a powerful distinction between a (ledger?) and employment.” Music gradually adds both cinematic and discordant strings reminiscent of earlier musical sections.] | Video Description: Loose closeup to closeup as Smith performs a piece with a trumpet mute up to their lips. Swifty Lazar 00:45:38 [Recording of discordant string music and vocalization plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The shadowy man (has guilt inside?) (? and sighs?). Moscow.”.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Swift turns away from the mic. Closeup as Swift turns back and performs a piece, reading off a newspaper. Swifty Lazar 00:47:38 [Recording of up-beat jazz music with xylophone and horns plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “History is dead and the full weight of the present (?)” Laughter periodically throughout. The music and Swift’s delivery gets faster and more chaotic partway through. Music suddenly cuts seemingly on purpose and Swift continues reading. Music recommences. Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 00:51:04 [Recording of a single unknown string or horn instrument playing seemingly random notes plays. A recording of two voices conversing plays.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Swift holds a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Nods and smiles along with the audio. Swifty Lazar 00:52:35 [Recording of simple snare and bass drum beat plays, in which short guitar or horn melodies quip periodically. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “So much rain in one hat band.”] | Video Description: Medium shots and loose closeups as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 00:55:17 [Old recording of a two-voice conversation plays. Swift softly delivers a piece. Uneasy vintage horror movie music begins partway through.] | Video Description: Walsh stands and lights a cigarette. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 00:56:53 [Old recording of a two-voice phone conversation plays. The first verse of a child choir singing “Oh Canada” plays. A recording of steady gong or cymbal hits plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “One softness (?) going, the sea turns like glass.” Recording of staccato pulses of unknown instruments begin partway through.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 00:59:48 [Old recording of a newscast beginning with the line “The Nazi war criminal died” plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “But when the Berlin Wall fell five years ago, it was a signal.” A recording of raucous percussion plays after the first line, evolves into quiet sirens.] | Video Description: Closeup of the microphone while Swift smokes a cigarette off-camera. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 01:01:45 [Recording of hopeful and content piano and drum music plays. Swift strongly performs a piece beginning with the line “There’s one thing I remember right from childhood. From the beginning. And it is the smell of roses.” Music slowly shifts to high-pitched and discordant electric organ chords with periodic driving percussion. Applause] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 01:11:58 [Long pause.] | Video Description: Medium shot and closeup as Swift faces away from the mic checking watch and adjusting headphones, sometimes out of frame. Swifty Lazar 01:13:06 [Recording of ominous stringed instrument music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “What happened to you when you were murdered?”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece, ending with an extreme closeup. Swifty Lazar 01:16:21 [Recording of unknown screeching instrument plays. Recording of one person pleading “no” and “stop” and another person talking sinisterly plays. Recording of a two-voice conversation plays.] Video Description: Extreme closeup as Swift holds up a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Swift’s face reacts to the dialogue in the recordings. Swifty Lazar 01:18:15 [Recording of intense large wind instrument and large drums plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The architect of the future.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 01:20:40 [Recording of ominous ambient music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “I’ve seen a man stagger with a thousand arrows in his back.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 01:24:55 [Swift announces, “this is the last one.” Recording of happy horn and drum music plays, cuts suddenly, and recommences. Swift performs a piece that may be titled “Ten Rose Songs.” Music cuts and recommences in different styles rapidly and repeatedly throughout performance. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Walsh stands up, leans over to Swift, sits back down. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. Swifty Lazar 01:28:58 [Walsh introduces Swift and themselves. Explains that the name of their group is inspired by “Hollywood’s greatest entrepreneur,” Irving Paul "Swifty" Lazar. | Video Description: Medium shot as Swift and Walsh stand side by side. Closeup as Walsh speaks into the mic. Lee Gotham 01:29:46 [Hopes everyone “soaked that up.” Encourages people to stay after the show. Mentions that bill bisset is next week’s performer. Mentions further future events. Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup to extreme closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. [Bistro 4] 01:31:04 Video Description: Camera zooms out from closeup to long shot of the lone mic on stage. [Unknown] 01:31:15 [Static.] | Video Description: Black screen and static. bill bissett 01:31:18 [Performs Unknown Composition 1.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett, vocalizing and singing into the microphone and keeping rhythm with a maraca. Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bissett and his maraca. bissett wears thick-framed glasses, chin-length hair, and a graphic t-shirt. Lee Gotham briefly passes through camera view. He wears a green collared shirt and long brown hair. bill bissett 01:37:37 [Finishes Unknown Composition 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett stops the rhythm and brings the maraca to his lips. Camera zooms out into a long shot as bissett puts maraca in his back pocket and picks up a binder with multiple documents inside. Audience members applaud. bissett addresses audience. bill bissett 01:37:58 [Reads “n e c k s” (from Th last photo uv th human soul, Talonbooks, 1993). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between long shot, medium long shot, and closeup on bill bissett reading poem from lifted binder. bill bissett 01:42:06 [Finishes reading “n e c k s”. Audience applause. bill bissett introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience laughter and applause.] Video Description: bill bissett closes binder and rubs hand across forehead. Camera pans across the room, capturing a full venue of applauding audience members. Camera zooms into closeup on bissett addressing audience. bill bissett begins walking off stage via stage left. Nelson stands up from audience and places hand on bissett’s shoulder before moving by him. [Bistro 4] 01:42:48 [Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson speaks to an audience member out-of-frame (bissett?) before walking to the microphone stand on stage. Sharon H. Nelson 01:42:59 [Addresses audience. Interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, introducing Unknown Poem 1 as a response to bissett’s “(ken and heath made for life?).” Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson speaks into the microphone, which is set significantly higher on the stand than their height. Nelson wears green and orange patterned dress, long dark hair, and a necklace. Nelson addresses bill bissett (off-screen). Nelson addresses audience. An unseen audience member adjusts microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson spits out gum and looks for place to put chewed wad. An unseen audience member stretches out palm in front of Nelson. Nelson addresses audience before glancing down at the pages they hold. Sharon H. Nelson 01:44:28 [Reads Unknown Poem 1. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Sharon H. Nelson reading from pages. Nelson breaks from reading to address audience before returning to reading. Sharon H. Nelson 01:48:09 [Finishes Unknown Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down sheets of paper on the floor and walks off via stage left. Camera zooms out to long shot, capturing applauding audience members. bill bissett walks up to microphone stand via stage left. bissett addresses audience and adjusts microphone stand height. Camera pans right. Nelson addresses bissett. Audience members laugh. Lee Gotham is at one of the large window panes, adjusting a fixture. Camera pans left, back toward bissett on stage. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. bissett adjusts glasses, opens binder, and flips through pages. bill bissett 01:49:00 [Reads Unknown Poem 1 (“vapours / don’t blame it on the dog / are you barking?…”). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera shakes, panning from stage and over various audience members, before panning back and zooming in and out on bissett. bill bissett 01:51:50 [Finishes Unknown Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett flips page and addresses audience. bill bissett 01:52:03 [Reads “unmatching phenomena” (from Inkorrect Thots, Talonbooks, 1992). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: billl bissett reads from binder. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. bill bissett 01:54:05 [Finishes “unmatching phenomena”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Audience laughter. Begins poem before breaking off to address audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and glances down, flipping through it. bill bissett lifts binder again and addresses audience. bissett smiles at audience laughter and addresses audience, lifting hand. bill bissett 01:54:32 [Resumes reading “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett resumes reading from binder. bill bissett 01:56:10 [Finishes “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through its pages. bissett addresses audience. bill bissett 01:56:22 [Begins reading Unknown Poem 2 (“who wrote the script though? / don’t you always wonder that…”) before breaking off to addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2 before addressing audience and interacting with Unknown Audience Member 1. Audience laughter. bill bissett interacts with Unknown Audience Member 2. Audience laughter. Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett begins reading from binder before addressing audience, raising hand. bissett resumes reading before addressing audience again. An unseen audience member addresses bissett and they interact. bissett interacts with another unseen audience member. bissett resumes reading from binder. bill bissett 01:58:44 [Finishes Unknown Poem 2. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Unknown Audience Member 3 and bissett interact.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through pages. Camera pans across audience members applauding. bill bissett addresses audience. bissett interacts with an unseen audience member. bill bissett 01:59:06 [Reads “reflex blu” (from What We Have, Talonbooks, 1988).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bill bissett reading from binder. bill bissett 02:01:40 [Finishes “reflex blu”. Audience applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and adjusts glasses, looking out at audience. bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett walks toward Sharon H. Nelson stage-left and they shake hands and exchange a kiss. Nelson walks toward microphone stand. bissett takes seat adjacent to stage left.] Sharon H. Nelson 02:02:14 [Addresses audience. Addresses Unknown Audience Member 4. Addresses audience. Introduces “Form and Structure” (from Grasping Men’s Metaphors, Muses’ Co., 1993) mentioning Dorothy Parker. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson tilting microphone downward and addressing audience. An unknown audience member walks into the frame, kneeling to adjust microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson addresses unknown audience member. Sharon H. Nelson 02:03:20 [Reads “Form and Structure”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads to the audience, with gestures to accentuate the poem’s humour. Sharon H. Nelson 02:04:02 [Finishes “Form and Structure”. Audience applause. Introduces “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles at the audience as camera zooms out into a medium long shot. Nelson flips through the book in their hands. Nelson addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson 02:04:38 [Reads “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson reading from book. Sharon H. Nelson 02:05:18 [Audience laughter. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson introduces Unknown Poem 2, in the style of nursery rhymes, and mentioning playing show-and-tell in school. Sharon H. Nelson begins to read Unknown Poem 2, breaking off to address audience. Audience members respond.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson nods. Addresses audience. Looks down to read, before glancing up and address audience. Sharon H. Nelson 02:05:48 [Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout. Addresses audience member resuming reading Unknown Poem 2.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson glances down and reads from book. Glances up to address audience before resuming reading. Sharon H. Nelson 02:07:17 [Pauses. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles, raises a finger, and addresses audience (inaudible). Sharon H. Nelson 02:07:25 [Resumes Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson resumes reading Unknown Poem 2. Sharon H. Nelson 02:08:01 [Finishes Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down book and smiles at audience. Gestures toward and addresses offscreen audience member (bill bissett?). Camera zooms out into medium long shot as Nelson exits via stage left. Backs of audience members’ heads. Nelson and bissett interact off-screen. bissett approaches microphone via stage left. bill bissett 02:08:27 [Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. bissett flips and sorts through pages, putting one briefly in his mouth. An unknown audience member briefly passes through camera view. bissett selects a page, places something down, and turns back toward the microphone. bill bissett 02:09:26 [Performs “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and in between extreme closeup and medium long shot on bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone. bissett holds up and references pages throughout the performance, occasionally flipping. bill bissett 02:16:11 [Finishes “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd”. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Addresses audience, talking about quinine, TV detectives, and murder mysteries. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett goes silent and slowly lowers outstretched arms. Camera zooms out to long shot of applauding audience members in front of the stage, with one unknown audience member in an orange sweater moving through the crowd. Lee Gotham approaches the stage via stage left and interacts with bissett before returning to his seat. bissett picks up binder and flips through pages. Camera zooms in as bissett addresses audience. bissett drinks from a glass, puts it on the floor, and flips through binder. bill bissett 02:17:30 [Reads Unknown Poem 3 (“Mr. and Mrs. Ridge of Venus Land…”). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. bill bissett 02:18:44 [Laughs. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett laugh before looking back down at binder. bill bissett 02:18:50 [Resumes reading Unknown Poem 3. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett reading from binder. bill bissett 02:20:22 [Finishes Unknown Poem 3. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers and closes binder. Gestures to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson). bissett addresses audience and applauds along with them. bissett begins exiting via stage left. bissett and Nelson embrace and address one another as Nelson walks toward microphone stand. Sharon H. Nelson 02:20:40 [Addresses audience. Addresses bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience and looks over to bill bissett to address him. An unknown audience member briefly obscures camera view. Sharon H. Nelson 02:20:43 [Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Sharon H. Nelson flips through pages, and an unknown audience member adjusts the microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson addresses audience member adjusting microphone stand and thanks them. Camera zooms into a closeup on Nelson. Sharon H. Nelson 02:21:21 [Addresses audience, discussing bissett’s artwork. Audience laughter. Introduces “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991).”] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson 02:23:14 [Reads “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads from pages. Sharon H. Nelson 02:27:31 [Finishes “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Introduces “The Best Minds of My Generation” (from This Flesh These Words, Ekstasis Editions, 2002), mentioning the piece is dedicated to bill bissett and to George (Predelli?), a former Catholic priest. Audience laughter. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into long shot as Sharon H. Nelson gathers pages and nods toward audience. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Nelson addresses audience and flips through pages. Sharon H. Nelson 02:28:45 [Coughs. Reads “The Best Minds of My Generation”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson coughs into fist. An audience member briefly obscures view of stage. Nelson reads from pages. Sharon H. Nelson 02:33:18 [Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson picks pages up from floor and exits stage via stage left. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Sharon H. Nelson sits in audience as bill bissett returns to the microphone stand on stage. bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. bill bissett 02:33:29 [Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett raises glass to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson?) and sips from it. bill bissett 02:34:04 [Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into medium long shot as bill bissett adjusts glasses and flips through pages. Lee Gotham passes through camera view, glancing right into the lens. bill bissett 02:34:22 [Reads “why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown” (from Th Influenza uv Logik, Talonbooks, 1995).] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera zooms in and out between closeup on bissett and long shot of bissett on stage, panning across the audience members listening to the reading and smoking. bill bissett 02:39:11 [Finishes “why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown”. Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett briefly closes binder before opening it again. Camera begins to zoom out to a long shot revealing applauding audience members. bissett turns to an unknown audience member upstage left and interacts with them. The unknown audience member holds bissett’s binder as bissett searches for a page inside it. Camera pans across audience members sitting adjacent to stage left. [Bistro 4] 02:08:26 [Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Camera pans back toward stage. bill bissett drinks from a glass before setting it down on the floor. bill bissett 02:39:33 [Performs Unknown Poem 4 (“Jennifer Rawlins”?).] | Video Description: bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone, holding sheet of paper. bill bissett 02:42:34 [Finishes Unknown Poem 4. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Thanks Sharon H. Nelson. Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera pans over applauding audience members throughout the room. bill bissett addresses audience. Lee Gotham moves through crowd and approaches stage. bissett is given his binder by the unknown audience member holding it. Gotham and bissett hug. bissett addresses audience before exiting stage left as Gotham approaches the microphone stand. Lee Gotham 02:43:15 Wow, I think we need—Woo! Just a little time to cool down now after that. Geez, you know, I can’t, I can’t say how happy I am to, you know, be a part of something that involves not only a generous helping of spectacle but, you know, a whole lotta love, and just generally rejuvenating experience. I think what I’d like to do is, like I said, take a little break. Any of the open-mikers who’ve hung out and are still up for it are more than welcome to have their day in the rain in a moment or two. I can’t encourage people enough, as well, to come over to the corner at some point if you’re going hang out for a bit. We’ve got loads of books, both Sharon’s, bill’s, and some small press offerings of various natures. You know, when I first bill, I was doing my degree at Concordia. I went down to the stacks in what was at that time the Norris Library. Do you know there are 41 titles of bill’s in that library? Several of Sharon’s as well. But 41—you’re not going to find a lot of them in the bookstores anymore, but bill is part of a very, very vital scene, going back a good twenty odd years. [Sharon H. Nelson interacts (“Pushing thirty!”)] Pushing thirty! And they’re all still in the stacks, you know? You go down to what’s now the Webster Library, or over to the Redpath, or any other incredible institution of those varieties, you can check the stuff out because I tell you, a whole lot of innovation went into the years between then and now. Okay, so—enjoy, hang out. | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjust microphone stand height. Gotham addresses audience and at one point addresses Sharon H. Nelson (off-screen) before returning his focus to the audience. [No signal] 02:45:13 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. Ian Stephens 02:45:16 [Introduces and performs a piece titled “(Reegan’s?) Mind”. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Stephens wears a black parka atop a black sweater, a red, black, and white scarf, a white cloth face mask tied around his head, red nail polish on some fingernails, and close-cropped light-brown hair. Loose closeup as Stephens takes off parka and puts up hood of sweater. Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Stephens places two fake eyes over his eyelids and squints to keep them in place. Varying degrees of closeup as Stephens performs a piece. Gestures close to face throughout. Takes off hood partway through. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as Stephens extends arms upwards, finishes the piece, and puts on parka. Lee Gotham 02:51:58 [Thanks Ian and the audience for attending. Introduces Fortner Anderson as the “other half of ‘Broken Spoken.’” Promotes cassettes and publications for sale. Invites Anderson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Fortner Anderson 02:53:00 [Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m a man. I’m a good man.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anderson takes mic off stand, turns away from the camera briefly, and turns back to perform the piece. Fortner wears a dark grey suit jacket atop a black button-down shirt, black leather belt, black and gold glasses, and dark brown hair that sweeps across forehead and waves away from face. Zooms into medium shot as Anderson casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes. Fortner Anderson 02:58:24 [Performs a piece beginning with the line “Every day, I don’t care, and I will never care.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between long shots and medium shots as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Walks out of frame for a moment partway through. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes. Fortner Anderson 03:01:41 [Performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I think I’m a young boy staring into a distant, sepia-toned future.” Alternates between full voice, whispering, and shouting. Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and loose closeups as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes. Fortner Anderson 03:10:48 [Performs a piece beginning with the line “I got hurt so bad today.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Fortner Anderson 03:15:08 [Thanks Ian, Neil, Joelle, and the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Directs audience to table to buy “souvenirs.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Anderson speaks into the mic. Places mic on stool. Lee Gotham 03:15:39 [Thanks Anderson for “the climax of the evening’s offerings.” Announces brief pause and that the open mic will continue afterwards.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham puts mic back on stand and speaks into it while smoking a cigarette. [No signal] 03:16:09 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. Lee Gotham 03:16:16 [Introduces Ian Stephens.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham talks to Ian Stephens, who is masked and sitting upstage. Gotham wears a dark sweater with snowflake motifs, rolled-up sleeves, black baseball cap turned back, stubble, long hair. Zoom into a closeup as Gotham goes to the mic and invites Ian Stephens to the stage. Ian Stephens 03:16:50 [Calls for Peter. Reads an epistolary poem to Peter. Invites Peter to the stage.] | Video Description: Zoom into a closeup as Ian Stephens interacts with the audience and reads a poem directed to an audience member. Stephens wears a brown jacket atop a t-shirt with the words “BAD RELIGION” partially visible, a black scarf with red and grey stripes, buzz haircut. Peter 03:18:44 [Reads “Science Fiction,” beginning with the line “I live in a very old beautiful home.” Applause. Calls Ian Stephens to the stage.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium closeup as Peter enters the stage. Peter wears a plaid brown shirt with rolled-up sleeves atop a white shirt, black scarf, black beanie hat, close-trimmed beard. Peter reads a piece. Ian Stephens 03:22:20 [Organizes objects on stage, in front of him. Introduces “Regan's mind #2, or, Reagan remembers.” Continues setting up the stage. Puts on a cowboy hat. Sits down. Explains that, in this piece, he is Reagan’s mind. Puts on fake eyeballs, one larger than the other.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens sets the stage. Ian Stephens 03:25:22 [Performs “Regan's mind #2, or, Regan remembers.” The piece is spoken against the background recording of a radio that keeps switching between stations; Stephens frequently comments upon the different pieces of music. Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a piece while sitting down and holding the mic. After the opening the line, the fake eyeballs fall. Stephens readjusts them, but they fall multiple times. Stephens holds props during the performance, including a doll. At the end of the piece, amid applause, Stephens removes the cowboy hat. Ian Stephens 03:41:43 [Introduces and reads “The holy city,” crediting the music to Kevin Komoda (Stephen’s collaborator in the Wining Dining Drilling musical group). Performs “The holy city,” against background music by Kevin Komoda. Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a closeup as Ian Stephens introduces and performs a piece. Stephens stands up to perform, holding a notebook and the mic; the camera zooms out and back into a medium closeup, following Stephens. Ian Stephens 03:49:37 [Announces he wants to try something different at the end, opening space for questions from the audience. Introduces “a few sweet terror poems,” adding that it is tricky but not impossible to read them (referring to the fact he’s wearing a mask). Before reading, names objects from what he calls “Reagan’s mind’s desk,” including a book titled “Guilt Free.” Adds that Reagan is a lucky man to have Alzheimer’s.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens leafs through a notebook, talks with the audience, then puts on a skeleton mask. Ian Stephens 03:51:37 [Reads a poem from the “Let’s be dead” sequence, beginning with the line, “I drew a picture of my coffin.” Explains it was not included in the book (Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995) because it was “too deadly.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a piece. Ian Stephens 03:52:30 [Reads “Let’s be dead,” opening with the line “I know the club where you got the blow-job” (with slight differences from the version published in Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995). Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a poem. Removes the mask mid-performance. Ian Stephens 04:00:11 [Introduces “I Started to get sick in New York” mentioning it is also from the book (Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995) and another piece with music by Kevin Komoda. States the piece is dedicated to David Wojnarowicz. Performs piece, with significant differences from the version published in the book. Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot then zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens introduces and performs a piece. Ian Stephens 04:06:35 [Asks the audience if they have any questions.] | Video Description: Medium shot then zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens welcomes questions from the audience. Audience_Member1 04:06:42 [Asks, “Did I know you in Lennoxville in 1972?” Laughter.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from the audience. Ian Stephens 04:06:48 [Responds, “A hypothetical question. Yes.” Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers the question. Lee Gotham 04:07:03 …speaking about a journalist, and we had a difference of opinion of your work, and she said, in spite of frequent irony, it wasn’t rescued, that there was something wrong with it [laughter]; and I thought, well, it’s more just sort of brute reality of it that appeals to me, more often than not, above and beyond all the crap and whatnot. What do you say, when someone has this adverse sort of reaction? | Video Description: Medium closeup then zoom out to a medium shot as Ian Stephens listens to a question from Lee Gotham. Ian Stephens 04:07:41 I don’t care. [Laughter. Asks if anybody has another question.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Ian Stephens receives the mic back from Lee Gotham then zoom into a closeup as Stephens answers Gotham’s question. Audience_Member2 04:08:03 [Asks if Stephens is happy to be back in Montreal]. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from the audience. Ian Stephens 04:08:10 Oh yeah, I love Montreal, my home, I was born here, raised here. Everything I see around here resonates. (Certain little memories?). (?) Montreal was a province unto itself. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers to the question. Lee Gotham 04:08:33 [Asks about other performers or events that Ian Stephens would like see throughout the town.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from Lee Gotham. Ian Stephens 04:08:48 I think things are moving in a half-decent pace. [Lee Gotham interrupts.] I think the spoken word is getting passé. You have to make the leap into performance and you do that by getting out of the text; I’m still going through transition. But once you get beyond the text, it becomes performance poetry, which is a leap a lot of poets can’t do. The academics cannot do it. And I think that’s the litmus test. The academics, they wonder why their books don’t sell, they are unpopular, or whatever. You have to make that leap, I think. If you want to work with an audience, other than a very limited book reader. Ok, no more questions. Thank you very much. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers Gotham’s question. Zoom out to a medium long shot as Stephens puts scarf on and organizes objects amid applause. Lee Gotham 04:10:00 [Thanks Ian Stephens. Announces break.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Lee Gotham takes the mic and announces a break. [No signal] 04:10:15 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. Lee Gotham 04:10:20 [Introduces Robert Allen as one of his favourite profs from Concordia. Invites Allen to the stage to read from novels, poetry collections, and Moosehead Anthologies he has been a part of. Mentions Allen is a new editor at Matrix Magazine. Gotham wears a black and white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair down. Robert Allen 04:11:30 [Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Wedding Poem.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Allen wears a grey long-sleeve plaid shirt with black buttons and a black hood, and slightly curly light brown chin-length hair. Robert Allen 04:13:17 [Explains that the next piece is about the plane crash of a French rugby team in the Andes mountains and it involves cannibalism. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Rugby Players Stranded in the Andes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Robert Allen 04:16:34 [Explains that the next piece is about the mail order pornography business. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Late Romantics.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Robert Allen 04:18:03 [Explains that the next piece encapsulates nineteenth-century Russian literature in five lines. Introduces and performs a piece titled “A Sadder Scene Than You Know at Tolstoy(’s?) Station.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Robert Allen 04:18:48 [Mentions he lives in the country with Anne Stone. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Mount Cloud.” Applause. Hard cut.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Zooms out to long shot as Allen leaves stage. Hard cut. Lee Gotham 04:21:00 Introduces Doug Isaac. Mentions Isaac’s poetry collection Past, Present: Tense will be published with Imperial (Note: book actually published with BuschekBooks.) Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Douglas (Doug) Isaac 04:21:30 [Introduces piece titled “Centres of Treatment” that is in part a homeless man’s verbatim dialogue, while the other half is dialogue written by Isaac. Says he will use different voices for each character.] | Video Description: Closeup as Isaac lowers the mic and speaks to the audience. Isaac wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a white shirt that has an indiscernible pattern, and medium brown hair pushed back from face. SpokenWeb notes 04:22:39 At 04:23:30 and 00:23:43, Isaac says a racial slur. Douglas (Doug) Isaac 04:22:44 [Performs "Centres of Treatment." Applause.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium shot as Isaac performs a piece, alternating between performing into the mic and stepping slightly away from it. Lee Gotham 04:33:33 [Thanks Douglas (Doug) Isaac.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. [No signal] 04:33:43 Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. Colin Christie and Corey Frost 04:33:53 [Colin Christie and Corey Frost in media res performing a piece about suicide. Alternate between singing songs such as “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James & The Shondells, vocally imitating vehicles, and performing the piece. Play the children’s clapping game “Miss Mary Mack.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot of Christie and Frost performing a piece without mics, singing, walking around the stage area, gesturing, and becoming different characters for an embodied and theatrical performance. Lee Gotham 04:39:01 [Thanks Colin Christie and Corey Frost.] Video Description: Long shot of Bistro 4 and Gotham speaking into the mic.] [No signal] 04:40:03 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video description: Black screen with white text that reads "-0:00:32." Lee Gotham 04:40:07 [Invites Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Ian Ferrier 04:41:09 [Introduces and performs a piece titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Ferrier adjusts the mic, speaks into the mic, and performs a piece. Ferrier wears an unzipped black winter jacket atop a black graphic t-shirt with a white logo, dark brown hair with a strip shaved out of it from above left eye to crown of head. Ian Ferrier 04:44:57 [Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Theatre of Three AM.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Ian Ferrier 04:46:24 [Introduces and performs a piece titled “Politician.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. [Bistro 4] 04:49:00 [Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. [No signal] 04:49:11 [Static.] | Video description: Black screen and static. Steve Luxton 04:49:15 [Introduces and performs a piece titled “Sweeney Todd.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into loose closeup as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Luxton wears a red button-down shirt, round metal-rimmed glasses, wavy blonde ear-length hair. [Bistro 4] 04:52:38 [Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. [No signal] 04:52:45 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. Raymond Filip 04:52:50 [Filip reads “Transvestite at his Toilette.” Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot as Filip performs a piece. Filip wears a dark plaid sport coat atop a brown button-down shirt, brown shaggy hair, mustache, and chin beard. No signal 04:54:56 [Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. END 04:56:03 [End of recording.]

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