[{"id":"3980","cataloger_name":["Carlos A.,Pittella"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["Lee Gotham collection"],"source_collection_label":["Lee Gotham collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Spokenweb at Concordia University"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Lee Gotham collection contains the AV recordings regarding the Enough Said series, including readings, performances, open-mic, and spoken-word events that took place at Bistro 4 and other Montreal venues between December 1994 and June 1996."],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Enough Said 1995-01-16, bissett and Nelson"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying asset, corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the two event headliners."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["Lee Gotham collection"],"item_subseries_title":["Enough Said"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights_notes":["Rights status in process. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer."],"creator_names":["Gotham, Lee","bissett, bill","Nelson, Sharon H."],"creator_names_search":["Gotham, Lee","bissett, bill","Nelson, Sharon H."],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112\",\"name\":\"Gotham, Lee\",\"dates\":\"1962-\",\"notes\":\"Lee Gotham was also the MC of this event.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\",\"Producer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/96127023\",\"name\":\"bissett, bill\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"Headliner.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/108207169\",\"name\":\"Nelson, Sharon H.\",\"dates\":\"1948-2016\",\"notes\":\"Headliner.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Duncan, Drew","Phil","Duncan, Scott","Berger, Halina","McGrail, Justin","Paul","Unknown_Reader1","Bro","Unknown_Reader2","Unknown_Reader3"],"contributors_names_search":["Duncan, Drew","Phil","Duncan, Scott","Berger, Halina","McGrail, Justin","Paul","Unknown_Reader1","Bro","Unknown_Reader2","Unknown_Reader3"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Drew\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Videographer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Phil\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/135986318\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Scott\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Berger, Halina\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106255768\",\"name\":\"McGrail, Justin\",\"dates\":\"1968-\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Paul\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Unknown_Reader1\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer. 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Ephemera accompanying asset (note and poster).\",\"other_physical_description\":\"VHS #2 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events.\"}]"],"material_designations":["VHS"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Video"],"playback_mode":["Mono"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"https://liveconcordia-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/carlosa_pittella_concordia_ca/EYDa-ZjscPRJkywPZjj5wM8BVyNzPPBs9_bD6fgGcIKVKQ?e=DUoweY\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Enough_Said-19950116-bissett_Nelson.mp4\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"01:53:22\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"3.2 GB on disk\",\"bitrate\":\"2304Kbps (original); 256Kbps (master)\",\"encoding\":\"MPEG-4 movie\",\"contents\":\"This is file 1 of 1 containing an AV recording of the event featuring bill bissett and Sharon H. 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Pittella\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"VHS #2 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1995-01-16, bissett and Nelson; (2) Enough Said 1995-01-30, Stanton and Stephens; (3) Enough Said 1995-02-06, Brulé; and (4) Enough Said 1995-02-13, Benefit Part 1. 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.\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/en/title/30817502\",\"citation\":\"bissett, bill. Inkorrect Thots. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1992.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/en/title/35317870\",\"citation\":\"bissett, bill. Th Influenza uv Logik. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1995.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/en/title/1035975435\",\"citation\":\"bissett, bill. Th last photo uv th human soul. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1993.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/en/title/18641644\",\"citation\":\"bissett, bill. What We Have. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1988.\"},{\"url\":\" https://worldcat.org/en/title/49305136\",\"citation\":\"Nelson, Sharon H. This Flesh, These Words. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2002.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/title/27851248\",\"citation\":\"Nelson, Sharon H. Grasping men's metaphors. Dorion, QC: Muses' Co. = Compagnie des Muses, 1993.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549161508864,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:16\n[Ambient sounds (movement, conversation).] | Video Description: Colour video. Camera view at first rocks, unstable, as it repositions. Long shot of the Bistro 4 (Quatre) stage, with audience members before it sitting at tables and chairs also in view. The stage is slightly below street level, with numerous large window panes that face Saint-Laurent Boulevard. Vague shapes of cars, streetlights, and passerby are visible through the window. Yellow curtains frame the windows, and a large light hangs from the ceiling above the audience. A painting or illustration is on the wall adjacent to stage right. Event organizer and host Lee Gotham is in the camera foreground, speaking to an unknown audience member and pointing at something out-of-frame. Gotham wears a green shirt and light brown shoulder-length hair. Behind Lee Gotham, bill bissett stands facing audience on the stage. bissett wears a graphic t-shirt, thick-framed glasses, and chin-length hair. \n\nbill bissett \n00:00:19\n[Performs Unnamed Poem 1 with chant-like vocalizations and maraca including the line \"I got a feeling we're going to make (?) strong.\"] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett performing a piece and keeping rhythm with a maraca. bissett wears a black and white patterned vest over a blue tie-dye shirt with a white graphic on the front, large square plastic-framed glasses, and shoulder-length light brown hair with a receding hairline. Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bissett and his maraca. Lee Gotham briefly passes through camera view.\n\nbill bissett \n00:06:39\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 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.\n\nbill bissett \n00:06:58\n[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. \n\nbill bissett\n00:11:07\n[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. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:11:48\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Nelson stands up from audience and places hand on bissett’s shoulder before moving by him. Nelson speaks to an audience member out-of-frame (bissett?) before walking to the microphone stand on stage.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:11:59\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, introducing Unnamed 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 a 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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:13:28\n[Reads poem beginning with the line \"I hear the geese before I see them.\" 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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson and bill bissett\n00:17:09\n[Finishes Unnamed 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.\n\nbill bissett\n00:18:00\n[Reads Unnamed Poem 2 beginning with the line \"Vapours, don't blame it on the dog.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot of bissett reading a poem from a lifted binder\n\nbill bissett\n00:20:51 \n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 2. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett flips page and addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett\n00:21:01\n[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. \n\nbill bissett\n00:23:06\n[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.\n\nbill bissett\n00:23:21\n[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.\n\nbill bissett\n00:25:09\n[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.\n\nbill bissett\n00:25:22\n[Begins reading Unnamed Poem 3 beginning with the line \"Who wrote the script though? Don't you always wonder that?\" before breaking off to addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes reading poem before addressing audience and interacting with Unknown_Audience_Member. Audience laughter. bill bissett interacts with another Unknown_Audience_Member. Audience laughter. Resumes reading poem. 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.\n\nbill bissett\n00:27:44\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Unknown_Audience_Member 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.\n\nbill bissett\n00:28:06\n[Reads “reflex blu” (from What We Have, Talonbooks, 1988, https://worldcat.org/en/title/18641644).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bill bissett reading from binder. \n\nbill bissett\n00:30:38\n[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.]\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:31:16 \n[Addresses audience. Addresses Unknown_Audience_Member. 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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:32:29\n[Reads “Form and Structure”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads to the audience, with gestures to accentuate the poem’s humour.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:33:04\n[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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:33:39\n[Reads “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson reading from book.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:17\n[Audience laughter. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson introduces Unnamed Poem 2 in the style of nursery rhymes, and mentioning playing show-and-tell in school. Sharon H. Nelson begins to read Unnamed Poem 2 beginning with the line \"When we were little children and playing show-and-tell,\" 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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:49\n[Resumes reading Unnamed Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout. Addresses audience member resuming reading poem.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson glances down and reads from book. Glances up to address audience before resuming reading.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:36:17\n[Pauses. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles, raises a finger, and addresses audience (inaudible). \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:36:25\n[Resumes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson resumes reading poem.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:37:01\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 3. 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.\n\nbill bissett\n00:37:28\n[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.\n\nbill bissett \n00:38:27\n[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. \n\nbill bissett \n00:45:11\n[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.\n\nbill bissett \n00:46:32\n[Reads Unnamed Poem 4 beginning with the line \"Mr. and Mrs. Ridge of Venus Land\". Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder.\n\nbill bissett \n00:47:45\n[Laughs. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett laugh before looking back down at binder.\n\nbill bissett \n00:47:51\n[Resumes reading Unnamed Poem 4. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett \n00:49:23\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 4. 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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:49:44\n[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. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:46:49\n[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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:50:29\n[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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:52:15\n[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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:56:32\n[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.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:57:49\n[Coughs. Introduces and 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. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:02:18\n[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. \n\nbill bissett \n01:02:50\n[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. \n\nbill bissett\n01:03:04\n[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. \n\nbill bissett \n01:03:24\n[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. \n\nbill bissett\n01:08:11\n[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. \n\nAudience\n01:08:23\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: 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.\n\nbill bissett\n01:08:34\n[Performs Unnamed Poem 5 beginning with the line \"Jennifer Rawlins.\"] | Video Description: bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone, holding sheet of paper.\n\nbill bissett\n01:11:34\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 5. 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.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:12:16\nWow, 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. I should mention the coming weeks. Second in the series, Wired Words—spoken word documents prepared by Corey Frost, Colin Christie, and ga Press, that’s featuring Fortner Anderson and Neil Wiernik next week, same time, same place. I’d like to send a thought out to my future performer for the week after, Ian Stephens, is not very well and I think with all the love in the air here this evening maybe we can all share a thought with Ian. And yeah, hang out, please, as long as you’d like, and we’ll get right to a little impromptu reading in a moment. Thanks. [Audience applause].  | 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. Gotham begins walking off off via stage right.\n\nAudience\n01:15:11\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Camera cuts to unknown audience members flipping through copies of bill bissett’s books. Camera pans downward to a table full of glasses and a stack of books. In the foreground, an unknown audience member (face out of frame) holds a stack of pages with poems on them. Camera zooms into the stack of books that reads “bill bissett” and “Talonbooks” on the spine. Camera pans up and zooms into audience members holding bissett’s book open in their hands as they read. Camera pans across tables full of audience members sitting, smoking, drinking, and chatting at tables.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:16:10 \n[Addresses audience.].| Video Description: Camera zooms into audience members sitting at table, in chairs, and at the bar, some of who turn toward the stage (off-screen) at the sound of Lee Gotham’s voice.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:16:29\n[Cut to Unknown_Reader 1 reading a poem including the line \"Warms my heart, always one step below.\"] | Video Description: Sudden cut. Camera quickly zooms in from long shot to close up on Unknown_Reader1 reading from pages. Unknown_Reader1 wears a maroon sweater and curly chin-length brown hair. An audience member briefly passes through camera view.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:17:22\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Introduces \"Token Golden Showpiece\".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 lowers pages to flip through them. An audience member partially obstructs camera view when sitting down. Unknown_Reader1 addresses audience.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:17:33\n[Reads “Token Golden Showpiece”.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 reads from pages. \n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:19:14\n[Finishes “Token Golden Showpiece”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 glances up and begins walking away from microphone. Unknown_Reader1 smiles at the audience applause. They exit via stage left. \n\nUnknown_Reader2\n01:19:19\n[Thanks audience. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces \"The Prisoner's Song\".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 fishes pieces of paper out of the front pocket of their shirt. Unknown_Reader2 wears a black and grey flannel shirt atop a graphic t-shirt, and a brown ponytail. Unknown_Reader2 addresses audience.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n01:19:52\n[Reads “The Prisoner’s Song”.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 reads from piece of paper.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n01:23:10\n[Finishes “The Prisoner’s Song”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 exits via stage right. Camera zooms out to reveal Lee Gotham, clapping and rising from his seat to go to microphone. Lee Gotham addresses audience. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:23:22\n[Addresses audience member (Scott Duncan). Introduces Scott Duncan. Audience applause. Promotes \"Pawn to Infinity\" (magazine). Introduces Scott Duncan. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone and addresses audience member. Camera zooms out and pans to the left, toward the back of the venue. Audience members clap and walk through the back of the venue. Camera pans slowly right, toward the stage. Audience members listen and chat at their tables.\n\nScott Duncan\n01:24:16\n[Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Scott Duncan (short dark hair, black t-shirt with white graphic, black flatcap) approaches microphone via stage left. Scott Duncan addresses audience.\n\nScott Duncan \n01:24:29\n[Begins performing piece, repeatedly spelling out \"P-O-M.\" Audience laughter. Unknown audience member interacts with Duncan. Resumes performing piece. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on Scott Duncan as he recites poem from memory. Scott Duncan pauses briefly and looks over toward off-screen audience member who interacts with him. Duncan resumes performing. Then Duncan lifts shirt to reveal and rub his abdomen marked with the same letters that he spells out in the poem, \"P O M\". Duncan resumes performing. Lee Gotham passes briefly through camera view. Duncan lifts shirt again, which he does throughout the performance.\n\nScott Duncan\n01:27:26\n[Finishes piece. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Scott Duncan smiles at audience and exits stage via stage left. Lee Gotham rises from seat and approaches microphone. Camera pans toward the left, following Scott Duncan moving to his seat and sitting down.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:27:35\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Scott Duncan. Scott Duncan interacts with Lee Gotham. Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes performance series. Introduces Phil. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera pans back toward stage where Lee Gotham speaks into the microphone. Gotham addresses Scott Duncan before addressing audience. Camera pans toward the left and zooms into Phil, the next open mic performer, rising from their seat.\n\nPhil\n01:28:10\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).]  | Video Description: Phil takes guitar out of case at the back of the venue as tables of audience members chat and drink. Phil moves to the stage and sets down a sheet of paper on a music stand. Phil puts guitar strap over shoulder and adjusts microphone stand.\n\nPhil\n01:28:55\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Unknown audience member addresses Phil, and they interact. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Phil addresses audience. Phil wears  a white long-sleeved shirt and a shaved head. Phil interacts with an audience member (offscreen). Phil rests slightly back on a ledge on stage and looks down at the piece of paper.\n\nPhil\n01:29:40\n[Performs composition beginning with the line \"And all the while.\" Audience laughter throughout. Bistro 4 landline rings.] | Video Description: Phil performs a composition, picking guitar strings with one hand while glancing occasionally at a piece of paper in the other hand. Passersby look into the venue through the large-paned windows.\n\nPhil\n01:32:25\n[Finishes composition. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Phil stands and takes guitar strap off of shoulder. Phil leaves the stage via stage right. Camera pans to follow Phil walking toward the back of the venue to return to seat. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:32:38\n[Announces Halina Berger. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham calls out for Halina Berger via the microphone. Berger confirms attendance (offscreen) and Lee Gotham announces their set. Lee Gotham addresses an audience member (offscreen) who sits adjacent to stage left, before sitting. Berger (short brown hair, red blouse) enters the stage via stage right.\n\nHalina Berger\n01:32:55\n[Addresses audience. Reads poem beginning with the line \"If I could be at peace with everybody.\"] | Video Description: Halina Berger addresses audience. Berger wears a red blouse and short brown hair. An audience member briefly obstructs camera view. Berger reads from a piece of paper in hand.\n\nHalina Berger\n01:34:30\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Halina Berger looks up from piece of paper and nods at audience. Berger exits stage via stage right. Lee Gotham, clapping, rises from seat and approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:34:39\n[Thanks Halina Berger. Addresses Justin McGrail. Announces Justin McGrail. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Halina Berger. Lee Gotham steps toward stage right, looking for someone toward the back of the venue. Gotham addresses Justin McGrail and then addresses audience. Gotham returns to seat. McGrail (short brown hair, button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves, suspenders, grey trousers, ear piercing) enters stage via stage right. McGrail cups hands over mouth before turning toward microphone.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:34:59\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"The trick is, was, used to be seem to be seen as structurally strict\".] | Video Description: Justin McGrail performs poem from memory, with gestures to accentuate language. McGrail wears a white button-down shirt with sleeves rolled-up to elbows, green pants with suspenders, and short dark brown hair.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:36:44\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail walks off via stage right. Lee Gotham enters frame, clapping, and stands in front of microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:36:57\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n01:37:03\nVideo Description: Sudden cut. The tilted camera captures the yellow curtains lining the windows behind the stage.\n\nUnknown_Reader3\n01:37:06\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"X-Factor (?) and sub-atomic fumes.\"] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and resets its angle to capture the stage. Camera zooms in from long shot to closeup on Unknown_Reader3 reading from a piece of paper. Unknown_Reader3 wears a white long-sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled-up to elbows and short brown hair.\n\nUnknown_Reader3\n01:39:04\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader3 lowers piece of paper and exits via stage right. Lee Gotham enters frame applauding and adjusts microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:39:12\n[Addresses audience. Announces Paul. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Camera tilts upward toward windows.\n\nPaul\n01:39:23\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Unknown audience member interacts with Paul. Audience laughter. Paul thanks unknown audience member.] | Video Description: Camera resets angle back toward stage. Paul addresses audience. Paul wears a grey sweater, fleece vest, buzzed dark hair, and a goatee. Paul laughs at unknown audience member's (offscreen) comment. Paul looks down at pages and then addresses unknown audience member.\n\nPaul\n01:39:44\n[Reads “Tell Us”. Briefly interjects to announce title, before resuming reading.] | Video Description: Paul reads poem pieces of paper. Paul briefly addresses audience before resuming reading, occasionally turning pages.\n\nPaul\n01:41:35\n[Finishes “Tell Us”. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces “Egg”. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Paul addresses audience and smiles.\n\nPaul\n01:41:52\n[Reads “Egg”.] | Video Description: Paul reads poem from pages, occasionally flipping pages.\n\nPaul\n01:43:40\n[Ambient sounds (movement, voices).] | Video Description: Paul trails off and blinks at pages. Paul rocks back and forth, trying to hold onto microphone stand, and stumbles out of frame. Camera pans slightly to the right. Lee Gotham’s shoulder is seen, as well as the slight view his head turning to look toward the stage. Gotham rushes toward stage. Camera zooms out, revealing Gotham and multiple unknown audience members assisting Paul stand up. Paul blinks and touches chest.\n\nPaul\n01:43:59\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Paul addresses audience. Unknown audience members assisting tend to Paul as Paul picks up spilled pages from the floor. Paul is handed a glass and they drink. Paul speaks into the microphone and holds up pages. Gotham pats Paul on the back as assisting audience members return to their seats. Gotham claps as he returns to his seat. Paul is handed additional pages.\n\nPaul\n01:44:28\n[Resumes reading “Egg”.] | Video Description: Paul reads from pages.\n\nPaul\n01:45:00\n[Finishes “Egg”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paul exits via stage left and returns to their seat. Lee Gotham takes to the microphone. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:45:13\n[Addresses Paul. Audience laughter. Thanks Paul. Calls next performer.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Paul. Gotham calls out for and addresses next performer. The next performer moves through tables toward the stage. Gotham pats them on the back as they pass each other. \n\n“Bro”\n01:45:51\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Promotes gig at Bar L'Exterieur. Introduces themself as Bro. Introduces \"The Way of Zen\" (?).] | Video Description: Bro addresses audience and flips through pages in hand. Bro wears a black t-shirt, glasses, dark shoulder-length hair with male pattern baldness, and a dark thick beard beginning to go white.  \n“Bro”\n01:46:33\n[Reads “The Way of Zen” (?). Audience laughter.] | Video Description: “Bro” reads poem from pages.\n\n“Bro”\n01:47:38\n[Finishes “The Way of Zen” (?). Audience laughter and applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces Unnamed Poem 1 (“The story of my life can be summed up very briefly…”).] | Video Description: “Bro” sheafs through pages and tilts microphone. Armstrong addresses audience. \n\n“Bro”\n01:47:55\n[Reads poem beginning with the line \"The story of my life can be summed up very briefly.\"] | Video Description: Bro reads from pages.\n\n“Bro”\n01:49:03\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Addresses audience. Introduces another unnamed poet’s work, “For Henry”. ] | Video Description: “Bro” lowers pages to sheaf through them, placing toothpick (?) in their mouth. Armstrong addresses audience. \n\n“Bro”\n01:49:37\n[Reads another unnamed poet’s work, “For Henry”.] | Video Description: “Bro” reads from pages.\n\n“Bro”\n01:51:49\n[Finishes “For Henry”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: “Bro” lowers pages and exits via stage left. Lee Gotham rises from seat and approaches microphone stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:51:55\n[Thanks, Bro. Addresses audience. Announces end of event. Promotes following week’s event (Fortner Anderson and Neil Wiernik, and Wired on Word cassette launch) and the upcoming Pawn’s magazine launch. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. 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Montréal: Psyche Records, 1986.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/title/47991112\",\"citation\":\"Stanton, Victoria, & Vincent Tinguely. Impure. Reinventing the Word: the Theory, Practice, and Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal. Montreal: Conundrum Press, 2001.\"},{\"url\":\"https://doi.org/10.7202/041297ar\",\"citation\":\"Zarov, Stéphane. \\\"Mort d’un dramaturge en devenir : Ian Stephens (1954-1996).\\\" In L'Annuaire théâtral, no. 19-20, pp. 207–208, 1996.\"},{\"url\":\"https://headlightanthology.ca/archive/n02/backyard/\",\"citation\":\"Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy. \\\"Backyard.\\\" In Headlight Anthology, no. 2, 1999, pp. 82-83.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549169897472,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:04\nVideo Description: Colour video, medium closeup of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). A single mic stand. 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 regularly passing by. The windows from across the street (4067 St. Laurent) are also visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.” People frequently pass in front of the camera. When the camera zooms out, a series of decals become visible, with words from the menu such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:05\nCheck check. Bonsoir, tout le monde. Bienvenue encore une fois. Thanks for coming back to yet another evening of Enough Said. Well, we have a lot signed up as always. I guess I can just try and clarify for any who haven't sussed it out: the first half, three quarters of the room has to remain smoke-free this evening. Please cooperate [scattered applause]. Thank you very much. And, if you need a smoke, yeah, right back to the bar or maybe out to the foyer would be just as good in-between acts or something of that nature. Ok, well, it's going to be an eventful evening. I don't need to do any introductions, I'm told, it's wonderful. I could just mention that-at another point in the evening I will tell you all about what's happening come February and March. And, yeah, without further ado, we're gonna forge straight into things. So, enjoy, yeah, for those who haven't overcome the oral phase, bare with us [laughter] until (it?) breaks, ok? | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup as Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Gotham wears a dark sweater with snowflake motifs, rolled-up sleeves, black baseball cap turned back, stubble, and shoulder-length hair. Gotham makes introductory remarks as the camera adjusts the focus tries various degrees of closeups. Gotham then closes the sliding window.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:01:33\n[Calls Victoria Stanton to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Lee Gotham invites the first performer to the stage.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:01:55\n[Victoria Stanton sings the word \"poetry\" into the mic, then decides to go a cappella. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Victoria Stanton approaches the mic and salutes the audience. Stanton wears a long light brown jacket over a black blouse, chin-length dark hair with bangs, and hoop earrings. Briefly talks to Lee Gotham. Opens her mouth wide several times, stretching the jaw, as the camera zooms into a closeup. Removes mic from stand. Opens mouth widely a few more times. Sings into the mic but then decides to go a cappella, returning the mic to the stand. Performs a song.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:07:39\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line, “Though I wish I could draw a map of perspective.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a spoken-word piece.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:12:03\n[Breaks into song again, beginning with the word “classroom.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton sings.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:12:19\n[Resumes spoken piece, with the line, “My teacher, professor, stands in the front to the room and professes.” ] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a spoken-word piece.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:13:17\n[Breaks into song again, beginning with the word “classroom.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton sings.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:13:47\n[Resumes spoken piece, with the line, “What you can’t see, can’t hurt you.” Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a spoken-word piece. Camera zooms out during the applause.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:14:36\n[Introduces Ian Stephens.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham talks to Ian Stephens, who is masked and sitting upstage. Zoom into a closeup as Gotham goes to the mic and invites Ian Stephens to the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:15:30\n[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, and a buzz haircut.\n\nPeter\n00:17:22\n[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, and a close-trimmed beard. Peter reads a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:21:01\n[Organizes objects on stage, in front of him. Introduces “Regan's mind #2, or, Regan remembers.” Continues setting up the stage. Puts on a cowboy hat. Sits down. Explains that, in this piece, he is Regan’s mind. Puts on fake eyeballs, one larger than the other.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens sets the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:24:03\n[Performs “Regan's mind #2, or, Reagan 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.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:40:30\n[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.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:48:07\n[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.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:50:15\n[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.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:51:13\n[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.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:58:34\n[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.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:05:10\n[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.\n\nAudienceMember1\n01:05:24\n[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.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:05:30\n[Responds, “A hypothetical question. Yes.” Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:05:48\n…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.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:06:21\nI 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.\n\nAudienceMember2\n01:06:45\n[Asks if Stephens is happy to be back in Montreal]. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from the audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:06:52\nOh yeah, I love Montreal, my home, I was born here, raised here. Everything I see around here resonates. (Certain little memories?). (?) I lived here Montreal was a province unto itself. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers to the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:07:15\n[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.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:07:31\nI 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.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:08:40\n[Thanks Ian Stephens. Announces break.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Lee Gotham takes the mic and announces a break.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:09:10\n[Makes remarks and introduces the first open-mic performer.] | Video Description: Cut to a medium closeup of Lee Gotham making remarks and introducing the first open-mic performer.\n\nMatthew Legault\n01:09:46\n[Introduces piece as \"a conversation between two people.\" Reads piece, opening with the line \"No, no, I'm not talking to you.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Legault enters the stage and picks up mic. Legault wears a black turtleneck, short hair, and a goatee. Zoom out to a medium shot as Legault performs a piece.\n\nMatthew Legault\n01:13:34\n[Reads “Wolf Billie,” beginning with the line “And now, ladies and gentleman, a little story about Wolf Billie.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Legault performs a piece.\n\nMatthew Legault\n01:15:55\n[Reads “In the room with yellow walls,” beginning with the line “I’m sitting on a chair; across from me is a sofa; on the sofa, the cat.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Legault searches for a paper and performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:17:15\n[Thanks Legault. Calls the next open-mic performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham entering the stage. Zoom out to a medium shot of Gotham introducing the next performer.\n\nShaughnessy Bishop-Stall\n01:17:44\n[Reads \"Grandfather blues.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall entering the stage. Bishop-Stall wears a black button-down shirt, a thin necklace, ear-length wavy hair, and stubble. Zoom to a closeup as Bishop-Stall reads a poem.\n\nShaughnessy Bishop-Stall\n01:19:55\n[Reads piece beginning with the lines “I don’t know to talk, to walk. I don’t know my feet from a flower.” Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium closeup as Bishop-Stall reads a poem.\n\nShaughnessy Bishop-Stall\n01:21:25\n[Reads “Body politic” (later published as “Backyard” in Headlight Anthology no. 2, 1999). Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot then into a closeup as Bishop-Stall reads a poem.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:23:25\n[Calls the next open-mic performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Lee Gotham introduces the next performer.\n\nThoth Harris\n01:23:39\n[Reads \"Daydreams of an amputator.\" Scattered laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as a Harris enters the stage. Zoom into a closeup as Harris reads a piece. Harris wears a grey sweater with red and blue lozenges over a white-collared shirt over a black t-shirt, short hair, and sideburns. \n\nThoth Harris\n01:27:10\n[Reads “(Don’t wait?).” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Harris reads a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:32:27\n[Thanks Thoth. Announces a series of upcoming events, including: E.J. Brulé (Feb 6); a Benefit for En Marge, a street-kids safety-net organization (Feb 13); Groupe de Poésie Moderne (Feb 20); Sonja Skarstedt (Feb 27); Steve Godin (March 6); and Adeena Karasick (March 13). Calls the next open-mic performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Cut to a medium closeup of Lee Gotham. As Gotham speaks, something bumps into the camera, which shakes.\n\nPhil\n01:34:27\n[Tells a story about the previous week. Reads a piece in German, opening with various repetitions of the first line. Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot as Phil enters stage and adjusts the mic stand while holding a guitar. Phil wears a brown plaid shirt and shaved head except for a top hair tuft. Video cuts briefly into static. Phil tells a story then reads a piece.\n\nPhil\n01:37:35\n[Performs a song including the lines, \"Nowhere is real, man\" and \"And the people are sheep\". Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Phil performs a song.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:42:20\n[Announces upcoming event with Steve Godin and calls him onto the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham calls Steve Godin onto the stage.\n\nSteve Godin\n01:43:06\n[Introduces and reads a piece dialoguing with the Beauty and the Beast, titled \"Beauty (of beings?) and beginning with the line, \"In mythology there is a wish to return as a hero.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Steve Godin walks onto the stage and removes his scarf and messenger bag. Godin wears a black leather jacket atop a black-and-blue t-shirt and neck-length greying hair with long bangs. Zoom into a closeup as Godin introduces and reads a piece.\n\nSteve Godin\n01:47:40\n[Reads untitled poem. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Steve Godin introduces and reads a poem.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:51:00\n[Thanks Steve Godin. Calls on Justin McGrail to the stage to close the event with a “showstopper.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Lee Gotham thanks Steve Godin and invites the last open-mic performer to the stage.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:51:22\n[Reads piece titled \"For the window washers (?).\"] | Video Description: Closeup as Justin McGrail enters the stage. Zoom out to a medium closeup as McGrail introduces and performs a piece. McGrail wears a black t-shirt with a white skeleton torso over a long-sleeved white-shirt, cargo pants, and short black hair,. Zoom out to a medium shot as McGrail performs, playing with and stretching the straps of his suspenders. At the end of the performance, he clips the straps back on.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:55:00\n[Calls a last “surprise” performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham talks with Christine and enters the stage to invite an extra open-mic performer to the stage.\n\nChristine?\n01:55:20\n[Introduces and reads a poem (low mumbled audio). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Christine walks up to the microphone and addresses audience. Christine wears a brown vest atop a black turtleneck shirt, light-wash jeans, and short blond hair. Christine introduces and reads a poem.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:57:20\n[Thanks and reminds audience of the upcoming Benefit event for En Marge, with a “stellar cast of poets.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham at the stage, making final remarks. 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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.”\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:01\nThank you so much for coming out. Well, welcome to, I’m losing count, but the next and last, most recent, not last, most recent evening of Enough Said spoken word event series. Gee, you know, we’re in for a miracle, I’ve got a mouthful just introducing it all, maybe I’ll gloss it over a bit. We’re launching a cassette among other things, Broken Spoken features Neil Wiernik and Fortner Anderson, both of whom you’ll see up here before long. Before them, we have a couple of other treats, and I hope everyone is more or less comfortable, and if they’re not, that they take the initiative, wander up to the bar, pick what you’d like. Because of the crowds, of course, you won’t see a waiter with any regularity. And yeah so it’s a wonderful crowd, it’s nice to see everybody here, and let’s just kind of segue into the evening. There will be a brief pause, but don’t despair, everything will happen before very long. | Video Description: Camera varies between loose closeups and medium shots as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black sweater, sunglasses with clear frames and black lenses on head, with shoulder-length hair loose. \n\nJoelle Ciona and Monique\n00:01:39\n[Ciona performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I just can’t stand the city. There’s too many people.” No microphone, so volume is low. Partway through, Ciona and Monique alternate who is delivering the piece. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video description: Medium shot as Ciona pours steaming hot liquid from brown pitcher into a cup and begins performing a piece. Monique enters and sits on a chair on the stage while Ciona wanders through the audience, passing out white bowls and filling them from the pitcher. Ciona wears a black long-sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, black gloves, grey denim jeans, a black belt with a large silver buckle, silver and black glasses, and short blonde hair. Monique wears a white t-shirt with thin black stripes, black pants, and medium brown hair with bangs. Ciona stops at the stage to clean Monique’s hand with a white washcloth and trim their nails while delivering the piece. Closeup as Ciona begins biting Monique’s nails, periodically spitting out the pieces. Monique takes over delivering the piece. Ciona puts down Monique’s hand and resumes delivering the piece. The two performers go back and forth delivering the piece, with Ciona chewing Monique’s nails and sucking or licking Monique’s fingers when they are not speaking. Long shot to show (Johnathon Ascensio?) and (Angela Dora?) in fairy wings holding glowing lanterns approach the window outside, bite their nails, and attempt to fog up the window with breath. Closeup on the figures outside as the piece ends.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:07:50\n[Says he hopes the audience in the back “wasn’t completely disappointed,” assuming they were unable to hear. Mentions Ciona is a performance artist. Apologizes for not knowing the second performer’s name. Monique shouts from the audience, “Monique!” Laughter. Sees Ciona approaching the stage from the audience to collect props from the stage and asks if they want to explain the piece.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nJoelle Ciona\n00:08:34\n[Explains that their nail-biting habit inspired the work. Credits (Johnathon Ascensio?) and (Angela Dora?) as the “angels” outside. Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms out to medium shot as Ciona speaks into the mic that Gotham holds.  \n\nLee Gotham\n00:09:04\n[Invites “resident favourite” and Fluffy Pagan Echoes member, Victoria Stanton, to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes (Victoria Stanton, Scott Duncan, and Vince Tinguely)\n00:09:29 \n[Stanton explains they will perform with two other Fluffy Pagan Echoes members, Scott Duncan and Vince Tinguely. Tinguely begins reading what seems to be a scientific journal article titled “Compatible Quirks: How Yeast (?) Cold Virus Replication.” Stanton and Duncan interrupt with a dialogue about sickness. All three performers repeat “too much vomiting.” Stanton and Duncan repeat “mucous and puke” quietly as Tinguely resumes reading the journal article. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Stanton speaks into the mic zooms out to medium shot as Tinguely reads from a white paper. Duncan, on Tinguely’s right, and Stanton, on Tinguely’s left, alternate delivering a dialogue piece with no microphone. Stanton wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a black shirt, black pants, and a dark bob with bangs parted in the middle. Duncan wears a plaid button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, grey trousers, and short dark brown hair. Tinguely wears a white t-shirt, dark pants, and white wispy hair. Tinguely gradually steps back from the mic. Stanton holds up a white sign that reads, “TOO MUCH VOMITING.” Tinguely resumes reading from the paper as Stanton and Duncan recede into the background.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:13:10\n[Cuts to Gotham mid-speech] wider applications of what we’re saying of spoken work performance, but some of its roots as well, I think I can safely say. So as first the widest applications of (poetry?) then the root, it feels I could take the opportunity to expound upon what I think happens here. Enough Said implies that the words that we’ve all been taking in perhaps aren’t enough, that they require some delivery, some engaging accompaniment or just the expression involved, so they’re accompanied with images. Now, that image is perhaps evocative at best, but like words, not the ideal vehicle or a good true representation. An image can represent a human being, inaccurately at best, and well, like a government can represent a people, inaccurately at best. Representations have been a problem it seems, so why can’t we just present ourselves more often? I suppose that there perhaps aren’t enough born anarchists and we’re too fond of our image, anyways, the representation. We aren’t looking at ourselves, we like looking at representations of ourselves. This is great, and a great problem simultaneously, I think. So it’s really nice when here, I find a whole lot of wonderful words accompanied by often just as many thought-provoking and engaging images, and yet there’s still space, although it may be hard to grasp the concept with the number of us all here in one room, but space between those images and those words nonetheless, and in that space I think there’s room for that presentation, there’s a community of sorts and that’s what I’m finding most magical about Enough Said. [Introduces Neil Wiernick as a performance and radio artist.] | Video Description: Skips to long shot zooming into varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Neil Wiernick sets up a stereo in the background. Zooms into stereo and a medium shot of Wiernick momentarily \n\nNeil Wiernick\n00:16:13\n[Ambient noise. Music plays from stereo. Tests handheld mic that seems to be connected to stereo. Speaks into mic and stereo squeals and distorts voice.] | Video Description: Medium and long shots as Wiernick sets up microphone in front of stereo and tests the microphone. Wiernick wears a grey long-sleeved button-down shirt over a grey t-shirt, glasses, and dark brown thinning hair with long sideburns.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:20:16\n[Introduces and performs a piece including the line, “are you listening to me?” with the stereo squealing throughout. Audio becomes suddenly clear at the line “This is language, language you can understand.” Distortion resumes for the remainder of the piece. Intentionally plays static from the stereo. Resumes performing. Intentionally plays static again.] | Video Description: Closeup and medium shot as Wiernick introduces and performs a piece. Periodically activates and deactivates static sound using controls on back of stereo.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:22:59\n[Explains that the next two pieces are dedicated to a philosopher and artist whose name is indiscernible in the video. Performs piece beginning with stuttering fragments of the word “spectacular,” beginning with “s” and adding a letter or syllable periodically, until full word is said.] | Video Description: Medium shot to closeup to medium shot as Wiernick performs a piece.\n\nNeil Wiernick   \n00:24:28\n[Stereo squeals. Static. Plays recording of a voice repeating an indiscernible word, gradually increasing in volume, until ceasing. Plays recording of a conversation very quietly along with alarm-like sounds. Static. Volume of all parts gradually decreases.] | Video Description: Long and medium shots as Wiernick adjusts something on the back of the stereo, then sits on a chair on the left side of the stereo.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:26:44\n[Stereo plays recording of a voice repeating the same few indiscernible words overlayed with static and distortion. Volume gradually decreases. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Wiernick rises from chair and picks up stereo. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as the camera follows Wiernick carrying stereo through the crowd towards the back of the venue. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:27:39\n[Skips to audience applause. Announces that Ian Stephens will perform before Fortner Anderson. Invites Ian to the stage.] | Video Description: Skips to medium shot as Wiernick leaves the stage, Gotham adjusts the mic, and speaks into it. \n\nIan Stephens\n00:29:13 \n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “(Reegan’s?) Mind”. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup of Stephens on stage. Stephens wears a black parka over a black sweater; a red, black, and yellow scarf; a white cloth face mask tied around his head; red nail polish on some fingernails; and close-cropped light-brown hair. Medium shot of Stephens taking off parka and putting 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.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:58\n[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. \n\nFortner Anderson\n00:37:11\n[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. Anderson 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.\n\nFortner Anderson \n00:42:35\n[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.\n\nFortner Anderson \n00:45:52\n[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.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:54:59\n[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.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:59:18\n[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. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:59:45\n[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. \n\nUnknown_Reader1 \n01:00:20\n[Skips to Unknown_Reader1 performing a piece ending with the line “fantasies, hot fucking, same difference.” Applause.] | Video Description: Skips to medium closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing a piece. Unknown_Reader1 wears a black outerwear jacket with pink lining and a light brown hood atop a black shirt, rectangular wire-rimmed glasses, and short dark hair.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:00:30\n[Mentions they are used to the audience laughing more. Performs a piece beginning with the line “When the thick sticky glob of ovulation is there for me to remove with my fingers, I like to hold it.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 performs a piece. Zooms out to longshot as Unknown_Reader1 turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:02:51\n[Says they will get serious because the audience is. Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m not kidding, I’m not kidding, I’m not kidding anyone anymore.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 performs a piece and turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nUnknown_Reader1 \n01:04:41\n[Thanks audience. Introduces and performs a piece titled “One Twenty Two Ninety Five.” Applause. Thanks audience again.] | Video Description. Medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:07:02\n[Says he “hope[s] that’s only a debut.” Invites Ian and Mike to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nIan\n01:07:19\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Remembrance Day.”] Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and closeups as Ian introduces a piece, sits down far from mic, and performs a piece. Ian wears a grey and black long-sleeved plaid shirt atop a black and white graphic t-shirt, and a short afro. Gotham adjusts the mic from Ian’s left partway through.\n\nIan \n01:08:01\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Town Square” about west Indian culture. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian introduces and performs a piece. Gotham adjusts the mic from Ian’s left partway through.\n\nMike\n01:08:46 \n[Mike walks on stage. Gotham quickly adjusts mic from Mike’s left. Mike begins speaking and promptly clears throat. While introducing piece titled “Crazy,” glass smashes off-screen. Laughter. Says “good job, opener,” or “job opening.” Performs piece. Stutters and mentions that they’re “nervous” and “shaking.” Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Mike pulls papers from inner pocket of coat, speaks into mic, and performs a piece. Mike wears an oversized black coat over a black sweater with a rolled collar and a grey flat cap backwards with brown hair only slightly visible on the sides. \n\nMike\n01:10:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Christmas Fears.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Mike performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:11:52\n[Thanks Mike and Ian. Asks (Julian?) (Jillian?) and Bill to read next open mic performer’s name on list. Next performer not present. Invites Sophie to stage.] Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nSophie\n01:12:21\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I dream of you a day after you leave for Florida.” Unknown metallic rattling sound in background during first two lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Sophie adjusts the mic and performs a piece. Sophie wears a brown striped sweater over a white shirt, a hoop earring with a gem in left ear, and a very short buzz cut. \n\nSophie\n01:13:25\n[Mentions that all poems are untitled. Begins performing piece. Stumbles. Resumes performing piece beginning with the line “The (speech?) twenty minutes southwest of Tel Aviv is nondescript enough to remain unnamed.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Sophie speaks into the mic, begins performing a piece, sticks out tongue momentarily, and resumes performing. \n\nSophie \n01:14:24\n[Mentions next poem is part of a series exploring “how shitty everything is in winter.” Performs a piece beginning with the line “This far North is cold, (raw?), and slushy this far into December.” Applause. | Video Description: Closeup as Sophie performs a piece.  \n\nLee Gotham \n01:15:34\n[Thanks Sophie. Invites Natasha, the open mic performer who was previously called but not present, to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nNatasha \n01:16:03\n[Mentions first poem is about a roommate who “split recently.” Performs a piece titled \"Jay.” Pauses intentionally throughout for a jerky effect. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Natasha wears a white button-down shirt, rings, bronze nail polish, a necklace with large dark beads, small hoop earrings, and long dark brown hair parted in the middle. \n\nNatasha \n01:16:58\n[Performs a piece titled “Madonna.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha performs a piece. \n\nNatasha \n01:17:34\n[Dedicates last poem to their dad. Performs a piece titled “Union Solidarity.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:19:13\n[Announces that featured reader on February 6th’s event wants to collaborate with poets interested in rap who want their readings accompanied with “beats.” Encourages those interested to come out. Invites Phil to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Rubs outer corner of right eye with thumb of right hand throughout. \n\nPhil\n01:20:26\n[Mentions he hasn’t decided what he wants to read. Pauses at length. Mutters. Performs a piece that begins with the line “Riding backwards, flying skywards.” Silence. Delayed applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms into closeup as Phil peaks into the mic, adjusts mic, pauses, and flips through papers off-screen. Phil wears a dark plaid button-down shirt with a hood over a white t-shirt and a very short buzzcut with a receding hairline. Performs a piece. Turns away from camera, going off-screen.\n\nSpokenWeb notes\n01:22:40\nThe following performance contains suggestions and descriptions of sexual violence.\n\nPhil\n01:22:44\n[Mentions that they write about things that are “too real” because “the more I deny it the more real it becomes.” Performs a piece beginning with the line “Destroy it, destroy, big boy.” CW: sexual violence. Laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil performs a piece.\n\nAudience_Member1 \n01:24:49\nFuck me! [Yelling loudly.]\n\nAudience\n01:24:51\nLaughter.\n\nPhil \n01:24:55\n[Addresses Audience_Member1] Not you.\n\nAudience_Member1\n01:24:58\nPlease! [Yelling loudly.]\n\nPhil\n01:24:59\n[Resumes performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil performs a piece. Pauses. Smiles. Speaks into the microphone. Resumes performing. Turns away from camera, going off-screen. \n\nPhil \n01:26:03\n[Mentions that the last poem was “not supposed to be funny.” Laughter. Long pause. Performs a piece beginning with the line “A man is there for (fucking?), or so the story goes.” Audio cuts midperformance.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil speaks into the mic, turns away from camera, licks lips, claps six times, and performs a piece. Video cuts midperformance.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n1:27:55\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Six minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham \n01:28:02\n[Invites Justin McGrail to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Holds left forearm to forehead to shield eyes from light. \n\nJustin McGrail \n01:28:10\n[Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes event at Café Phoenix. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Out eastern, flowing, dapples sowing, tread gashes, behind heel, head, cloistered lashes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as McGrail speaks into mic, wipes face, and performs a piece, gesturing with both hands. McGrail wears a white hooded jacket with two large pockets, no zipper, and sleeves rolled up to elbows, black suspenders, a watch, gold bracelet, grey newsboy cap with decorative pins on the front, brown hair poking out from edges.\n\nLee Gotham \n01:30:31\n[Thanks Justin. Invites Tom to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Holds left forearm to forehead to shield eyes from light. \n\nTom \n01:30:54\n[Makes a joke about musical group The Eagles. Laughter. Introduces and performs piece titled “Call Before You Dig,” about “taking too many art history classes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Tom speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Tom wears a dark brown cable-knit sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, backwards dark brown newsboy cap, light brown hair poking out the sides. \n\nTom\n01:32:50\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Sun Always Rises on One Side of my Head.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Tom speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[No signal]\n01:33:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nTom\n01:33:55\n[Skips to Tom in medias res performing a piece including the line “I am their link to the joys and the harrows of an experiential world.”] | Video Description: Camera zooms in from medium closeup to extreme closeup and back again as Tom performs a piece.\n\nEND \n01:35:14\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.9529133}]