[{"id":"5189","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 1995-02-06, Brulé"],"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":["Brulé, E.J.","Gotham, Lee"],"creator_names_search":["Brulé, E.J.","Gotham, Lee"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/317000493\",\"name\":\"Brulé, E.J.\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Headliner.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112\",\"name\":\"Gotham, Lee\",\"dates\":\"1962-\",\"notes\":\"Lee Gotham also MCs and performs at this event.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\",\"Producer\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Duncan, Drew","Unknown_Reader1","Walsh, Tom","Audience_Member1","Audience_Member2","Audience_Member3","Audience_Member4","Hawley, Steve \"Liquid\""],"contributors_names_search":["Duncan, Drew","Unknown_Reader1","Walsh, Tom","Audience_Member1","Audience_Member2","Audience_Member3","Audience_Member4","Hawley, Steve \"Liquid\""],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Drew\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Videographer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Unknown_Reader1\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Walsh, Tom\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Speaks to performers from the audience, not visible. \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Audience_Member1\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Speaks to performers from the audience, not visible.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Audience_Member2\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Speaks to performers from the audience, not visible.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Audience_Member3\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Speaks to performers from the audience, not visible.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Audience_Member4\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Speaks to performers from the audience, not visible.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106300281\",\"name\":\"Hawley, Steve \\\"Liquid\\\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Unknown_Reader1","Hawley, Steve \"Liquid\""],"Recordist_name":["Duncan, Drew"],"Speaker_name":["Walsh, Tom","Audience_Member1","Audience_Member2","Audience_Member3","Audience_Member4"],"Performance_Date":[1995],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"Uploads/3980/Enough_Said-VHS2-19950116_19950130_19950206_19950213.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"\",\"AV_types\":\"Video\",\"tape_brand\":\"TDK EHG\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Mono\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"120 minutes\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"VHS\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"Tape box. Handwritten label on side. Ephemera accompanying asset.\",\"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/EeThGn6x4VhNmOhUqNQ9xiQB5DskoKL8GCpvcsvP59EY2Q\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Enough_Said-19950206-Brulé.mp4\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"1:05:24\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"1.85 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 E.J. Brulé as part of the Enough Said series, organized by Lee Gotham, with performances by Gotham himself and several open-mic participants.\",\"notes\":\"Dimensions: 640 × 480.\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Video Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1995-02-06\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"Asset\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2428619734\",\"venue\":\"Bistro 4\",\"notes\":\"Bistro 4 (pronounced Bistro Quatre), no longer in existence.\",\"address\":\"4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"45.5169628\",\"longitude\":\"-73.5796147\"}]"],"Address":["4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada"],"Venue":["Bistro 4"],"City":["Montreal, Quebec"],"content_notes":["Event recording starts at 03:51:57:01 of VHS #2 asset, which contains multiple events."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Carlos A. 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\"},{\"note\":\"Jade Palmer\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/oclc/938096272\",\"citation\":\"Brulé, E.J. Alternative Scat-Singer [vinyl]. Montréal: Transmission Records, 1986.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/oclc/1006543875\",\"citation\":\"Brulé, E.J. Freedom of Speech [music cassette]. Montréal: E.J. Brulé [self-published], [1989?].\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549188771841,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:03\nVideo Description: Color video of the stage with mic stand at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:00:04\n[Skips to Brulé midperformance, mouth percussing a slow hip hop beat. Says he will introduce new band. Introduces the drummer and mouth percusses a fast drum solo. Vocally mimics an upright bass playing walking jazz bassline and introduces bass player. Introduces the “hardcore guitar” player and vocally mimics a heavily distorted guitar holding a low note.] | Video Description. Medium closeup as Brulé mouth percusses drumbeat with his back turned to camera. Brulé wears a white button-down shirt with thin vertical stripes, a purple scarf with fringe at both ends wrapped once around neck, dark pants with a dark belt, reddish beard and mustache, short reddish hair with one piece curling on forehead, and a headset mic, holding a long scoop shovel with a handle on one end, a wooden shaft, and a black plastic blade.  Zooms out to medium shot then zoom into closeup as Brulé speaks into mic. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé, turned away from camera, mouth percusses drumbeat. Turns back, and vocally mimics an upright bass while pretending to play upright bass with shovel. Vocally mimics a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel, shaking the shaft of the shovel quickly.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:00:57\n[Explains that “the digital” (which seems to be a looping machine) was cold when he was warming up, it has a memory time of eight seconds which slows down when it is cold, but it warms up when everyone is in the room.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience while turning knobs on a large grey machine that is on his right with knobs and switches and ¼ inch and XLR cables plugged into the top. Zooms into medium shot.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:01:40\n[Mouth percusses same slow hip hop beat, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line “The people by (?) tell me who can say.” Vocally mimics a guitar playing a fill in between lines. Recites line “I need a manager” that the looper repeats twice. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a short melody, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a higher melody that harmonizes with the first, records on looper, looper plays back. Changes delivery of piece; lines become closer together with less space in between. Stumbles and recovers. Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé mouth percusses and adjusts knobs on looper. Picks up something behind him. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé pretends to play guitar with shovel. Performs a piece, while playing shovel in between lines. Pretends to play a trumpet. Periodically adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into medium shot and closeup as the lines get closer together, then zooms out to medium long shot as the piece concludes.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:04:54\n[Loud crashing sound.] | Video Description: Black baggy sweater with collar, beige pants, nearly completely shaved head. Holding a video camera, walks behind Brulé and equipment from Brulé’s right to left as if stepping over something. Knocks over something not visible. \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:04:57\n[Addresses Audience_Member1, saying “no problem.” Explains he doesn’t perform at comedy clubs anymore because “they don’t know anything about music.” Suggests that pop music has gotten worse, while he has gotten better. Notes he is influenced by blues, bebop, and jazz.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé talks to audience and gestures. Lee Gotham can be seen in the audience on the bottom left corner of the frame taking his jacket off and adjusting in chair.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:06:09 \nVideo Description: Walks behind Brulé again, this time from Brulé’s left to right, carrying more camera equipment. \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:06:17 \n[Asks Gotham if he wants to plug in another mic to Brulé’s left.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Gotham who is in the audience, gesturing to the mic cable hanging from ceiling. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:06:20\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham gets up from chair, walks across stage, and stands on chair to reach mic cable hanging from ceiling. Gotham wears a black unzipped sweater atop a yellow shirt, black pants, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder-length brown hair.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:06:22\n[Scores Gotham setting up mic by vocally mimicking a guitar and then a trumpet playing a circus-like melody.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Turns to look at Gotham. Pretends to play guitar on shovel. Gestures as if he were playing a trumpet. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:06:54\nVideo Description: Smiles while walking off stage on the right side of the frame.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:06:54\n[Vocally mimics a guitar playing a driving riff that repeats the same note in quick succession.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé pretends to play guitar on shovel, shaking the shaft of shovel gradually more violently. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:07:17\n[Criticizes how people “get the gig” if they can play Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. Encourages people to write their own music.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Adjusts knobs on the looper. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:07:26\n[Vocally mimics guitar playing single notes with reverb. Makes a popping sound that the looper repeats to resemble a steady driving bass drumbeat. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple upbeat hard rock riff in a major key. Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m young, I’m white, and I’m stupid,” vocally mimicking the guitar riff in between lines. Periodically stops the looper, recreates the drumbeat, and resumes performing piece. Repeats the line “How do you do? Tell it to you.” Resumes performing piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé pretends to play guitar with shovel. Puts hand over mouth to make popping sound. Adjusts knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar on shovel. Periodically returns to looper to recreate drumbeat. Momentarily grabs mic and stand on his left and leans it towards an audience member while repeating one line. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:10:02\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham tests mic, talks to someone slightly out of frame, and walks away.\n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:10:02\n[Mentions that he has a selection of beats that can accompany open mic performers’ readings. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a fast punk song into standing mic.] Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé sips water. Grabs paper from off-screen. Gestures with it while talking to audience. Walks over to mic. Tests it. Walks back to looper then back to mic. Zooms into medium shot as Brulé vocally mimics a guitar. Accidentally pulls cord out of mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:11:12\n[Apologizes for technical “quandries.” Thanks venue employees. Says they will “continue this as long as possible.” Announces they will request cash from audience next week to donate to En Marge, a homeless youth shelter below St. Catherine, and that over ten poets, including Raymond Filip and Endre Farkas, will perform. Announces the break. Mentions that the Peter Turret Trio plays every Friday and Saturday night. Mentions a film and video evening that a Concordia group hosts events every second Sunday. Mentions they have no open mic participants and encourages people to sign up. Brulé mouth percusses a jazz beat and vocally mimics a jazz bassline periodically throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham plugs cord back into mic. Tests it. Picks up notebook from off-stage. Adjusts mic. Zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into mic. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:14:53\n[Encourages audience to applaud Gotham. Explains his selection of beats that can accompany open mic performers’ readings. Vocally mimics a bass playing a simple Motown bassline.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience and gestures with a pad of paper. Vocally mimics a bass while pretending to play the upright bass with shovel. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:16:32\nI want to do the slow wuthering gospel. | Video Description: Gotham off-screen. Medium shot as Brulé looks into audience and walks back to looper. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:16:34\n[Says he will prepare the sample. Mouth percusses a galloping rhythm, records it on looper, looper plays back. Slows tempo on looper. Vocally mimics a heavily distorted guitar holding long low notes.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé mouth percusses and vocally mimics guitar while adjusting the knobs on the looper. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:16:56 \n[Says “I see no reason why we shouldn’t embrace chaos” citing the frequency of burning buildings and ambulances.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham speaks into mic while holding a piece of paper while Brulé, on Gotham’s left, adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:17:02\n[Tells Gotham “slower, slower.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé steps towards Gotham, who is on his right, and points at Gotham’s sheet of paper. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:17:05\n[Explains to Brulé that he is doing a preamble, not reading yet.] Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham speaks to Brulé and gestures with his hands. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:17:07\n[Remarks that Gotham’s preamble sounded “deep.” Slows tempo on looper. Resumes vocally mimicking a heavily distorted guitar holding long low notes.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé pulls the papers in Gotham’s hand towards himself, speaks to Gotham, and turns back to looper.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:17:22\n[Says it is a short piece so he will read slowly. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Breaking broken buried remnants hiding from the sky.” Repeats the same collection of lines three times, each with differing deliveries. Thanks audience. Applause. Remarks how easy it is, encourages audience to participate.] | Video Description: Medium long shot gradually zooms into medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham leaves stage. Gotham returns, speaks into the mic, adjusts it, and leaves stage again. \n\nAudience_Member2\n00:19:30\n[Asks for examples of Brulé’s beats.] \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:17:07\n[Agrees, says he wants to “earn the respect of the mentally elite” poets in the room. Mouth percusses a sultry jazz drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a sparse line with reverb. Performs a piece in French. Vocally mimics a bass playing a simple ascending line.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brulé speaks into the mic. Zooms out to medium shot as Brulé mouth percusses and vocally mimics instruments while adjusting knobs on looper. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé vocally mimics a trumpet. Performs piece.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:21:10\n[Says that’s the farthest he has gotten in writing the song. Audience begins applauding, but he says “no, no.” Offers punk film score music, an RnB (bop?), and New York art school jazz as beats to accompany open mic performers’ readings. Prepares to play another song.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience, picks up pad of white paper, sips water, and prepares to play another song. \n\nVarious Audience Members\n[Ask Brulé to play a punk beat.]\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:22:11 \n[Vocally mimics guitar playing a fast punk riff. Explains that these are the kinds of things he would improvise while an open mic performer was performing.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé vocally mimics guitar and speaks with a group in the audience. Returns briefly to looper. Leans slightly out of frame to talk to group in audience again, who seem to be looking at his list of beats.\n\nAudience_Member3\n00:22:39\nBo Diddley. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:22:40\n[Vocally mimics guitar playing a Bo Diddley riff. Asks audience if they remember his mentors, the duo Deja Voodoo. Resumes vocally mimicking guitar playing a Bo Diddley riff, records on looper, looper plays back improperly. Records again. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Out in the swamp near Montreal.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as E.J. Brulé vocally mimics a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Adjusts knobs on looper. Talks to audience. Resumes vocally mimicking a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into medium closeup as Brulé performs a piece. \n\nAudience_Member4\n00:24:00\n[To the tune of “I Want Candy” (The Strangeloves, single, Bang Records, 1965)] I want candy. I want candy.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:24:12\n[Says people think the riff was made up five years ago.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brulé talks to audience, walking around stage and gesturing. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:24:31 \nVideo Description: Hawley rises from seat.\n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:24:40\n[Asks Hawley if they want “a slow slow rap.” Introduces song written for a hairy woman. Says he imagined if Prince produced a song for Leonard Cohen. Mouth percusses a Prince-like drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line “You don’t have to [rip?] your lip” and vocally mimics a standup bass playing a Prince-like bass fill in between stanzas. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a quick motif. Mouth percusses a shaker playing eighth notes. Vocally mimics a bass fill to end song. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé vocally mimics many instruments, speaks to audience, and adjusts knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Zooms into medium shot partway through. \n\nE.J. Brulé  \n00:27:09\n[Says he has been saving his favourite beat. Pauses. Mouth percusses an upbeat 90s hip hop beat.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé sips water, accidentally knocks mic battery pack out of pocket, and resituates it. Mouth percusses a drumbeat while adjusting knobs on looper and pretending to play guitar with shovel. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:27:46\n[Says he wrote poetry before he started singing but no one wanted to hear it.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Hawley walks to stage, shakes Brulé’s hand, and speaks into mic. Hawley wears an oversized black sweater with a hood, no zipper, and white and red logo on the left side of chest that reads “TW SHOW,” dark pants, and a black bandana with white accents tied around head. \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:28:04\n[Says he can play the beat slower or faster. Beat speeds up to comical level. Says “no, a little slower.” Beat slows down to comical level. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Brulé off-screen. Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Hawley smiles and laughs into mic. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:28:30\n[Introduces and performs piece about a bumblebee beginning with the line “Fly, come and fly with me.” Says partway though that it is freestyle. Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Hawley speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:30:53\n[Says people can improvise, but asks that if someone brings a prewritten piece, to let him look. Says that people think one needs to be young, black, and misogynistic to be a rapper. Says he had to think about how to tackle accusations of cultural appropriation. Mouth percusses a faster version of the same 90s hip hop beat that Hawley performed over, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a more complex bassline. Performs a piece titled “How Can You Be So White (And Be So Funky?) (Freedom of Speech, self-released audio cassette, 1989). Vocally mimics guitar playing fills between the verses. Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Mouth percusses drumbeat and vocally mimics bass while adjusting knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel.  \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:34:19\n[Says he can never get the samples right for Led Zeppelin. Vocally mimics the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back. Stops looper and says he needs someone to do Robert Plant’s scream in “Immigrant Song.”] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Vocally mimics instruments while adjusting knobs on looper and pretending to play guitar with shovel. Makes a “come hither” motion with hand towards audience member. Throws up hands exasperatedly. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:32\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham hugs Brulé and stands on his left. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:35:40\n[Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back. Tells Gotham to get close to his headset mic.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Brulé vocally mimics instruments, adjusts knobs on the looper, and talks to Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:00\n[Imitates Robert Plant’s scream in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Audience cheers. Looper replays only small part of Gotham’s scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brulé’s mic, mouth wide open.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:36:13\n[Tells Gotham to not “do it so long this time.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Gotham, who is off-screen, making a “come hither” motion with hand toward Gotham. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:22\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham walks back on stage on Brulé’s left, holding up his shirt with one hand and gyrating hips seductively, seemingly looking at one audience member.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:36:36\n[Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brulé vocally mimics bass and guitar while pretending to play the guitar with shovel. Motions for Gotham to come closer. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:43\n[Imitates Robert Plant’s scream in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Looper replays only small part of Gotham’s scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brulé’s mic, mouth wide open.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:36:36\n[Apologizes to audience, saying Gotham “fucked [him] up with the start of that.”] | Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience and adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:36:52\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham walks away from Brulé and hovers in front of the camera, nodding his head to the beat. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:01\n[Asks Lee to do one more.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé adjusts knobs on looper and gestures for Lee to return to stage. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:37:02\nVideo Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup caused by Gotham walking towards camera, sips drink, hops back towards stage and stretches arms upwards. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:14\n[Tells Gotham to “not get so close to the mic.” Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brulé vocally mimics bass and guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:23\n[Imitates Robert Plant’s scream in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Looper replays only small part of Gotham’s scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brulé’s mic, mouth wide open.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:30\n[Says “that’s a little more like it” and slows down tempo which lowers the pitch of Gotham’s recorded scream. Vocally mimics a bass playing a slow simple bassline, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé adjusts knobs on looper and vocally mimics a bass while pretending to play guitar with shovel.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:37:45\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham walks up to mic. Directs a questioning look at Brulé. Walks away from mic. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:52\n[Speaks to Gotham, indiscernible.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Gotham as Gotham passes. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:04\n[Returns to mic and performs a piece beginning with the line “The dubious occasion I recall I said.”] | Medium long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham returns to mic and performs a piece. Directs a look at Brulé.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:38:27\n[Slows down looper’s playback.] \n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:29\n[Resumes performing a piece. 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Tells audience that making a fool of yourself on stage is “good for the soul.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Gotham performs a piece zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into mic.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:40:49\n[Addressing unheard audience member, says “no more covers.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé addresses unseen audience member and adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nTom Walsh\n00:40:57\nHow about “Land of 1000 Dances”? (Chris Kenner, single, Instant Records, 1962).\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:40:58\n[Pauses to think, says a long drawn-out “oh.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé thinks. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:40:58\nVideo Description: Walks to Brulé. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:41:05 \n[Speaks to Hawley. Vocally mimics bassline from “Land of 1000 Dances,” records on looper, looper plays back. Asks Walsh “something like that?”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Hawley, vocally mimics a bass, and speaks to Walsh.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:41:14\nVideo Description: Dances in front of the camera, smiling widely. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:41:27\n[Mouth percusses a horse galloping, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs piece beginning with the line “Got a new horse.” Vocally mimics a standup bass playing a solo. Asks Audience_Member5 if they have any “barnyard epics.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé mouth percusses and adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into closeup as Brulé pretends to play the upright bass with shovel. Speaks to Audience_Member5. \n\nAudience_Member5\n00:42:03\nNo, I don’t think so. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:42:15\n[Asks Walsh if he wants a Motown beat.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brulé talks to Walsh. \n\nTom Walsh\n00:42:21\nUh, yeah! \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:42:22\n[Laughs, asks Walsh if he has a woman in his life because he also says “yeah” like that when he is confused. Mouth percusses a drumbeat with a strong snare backbeat. Vocally mimics a guitar playing sparse single low notes. Asks Walsh if he wants to perform.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Walsh. Adjusts knobs on looper. Mouth percusses a drumbeat, records on looper. Pretends to play guitar on shovel. Zooms into medium closeup as Brulé speaks to Walsh. \n\nTom Walsh\n00:43:15\nOh no I’m not-\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:43:16\n[Cutting Walsh off, says he can’t request a beat and not perform. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple low riff. Says he won’t improvise unless an open mic participant performs. Talks to audience about how people are worried he will “represent[] them” if he “gets somewhere.” Says musical comedy duo Bowser and Blue are representing anglophone Montrealers on the world stage. Mentions alternative band Doughboys.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to Walsh. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple low riff. Speaks to audience.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:44:10\n[Says “Tom Walsh is a poet.”] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Hawley walks up to mic and speaks into it, smiling.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:44:21\n[Mouth percusses an upbeat hip hop drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a distorted guitar playing a pentatonic riff, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Brulé off-camera. Closeup of Hawley smiling and preparing to perform. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:44:25\n[From the crowd] Tom’s in the house! \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:44:36\n[Says “this is improv.” Asks Brulé to slow down the beat.] | Video Description: Closeup as Hawley addresses audience and then Brulé. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:44:41\n[Slows down looper’s playback.] | Video Description: Brulé off-camera. Closeup of Hawley preparing to perform. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:44:48\n[Improvises a piece beginning with the line “Lonely child, now check it, lonely child.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Hawley improvises a piece while holding a beer and a cigarette. Zooms out to medium shot as Hawley takes mic off stand and continues performing. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:48:30\n[Encourages audience to further applaud Hawley. Explains how he was inspired by Tibetan throat singers. Mouth percusses drum beat with shaker. Vocally mimics distorted guitar playing simple distorted pentatonic riff. Performs a piece titled “St. Thomas’ Mantra” (Freedom of Speech, self-released audio cassette, 1989) with heavy reverb on voice, mouth percussing and vocally mimicking guitar between lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brulé speaks to audience. Adjusts mic that unclipped from lapel. Mouth percusses drum beat and vocally mimics guitar. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Zooms into closeup as piece concludes. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:52:55\n[Thanks audience. Vocally mimics distorted guitar playing a simple rock riff, records on looper, looper plays back. Mouth percusses a drumbeat with emphasis on beat three, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Let me tell you about the cruelest thing that I have ever done,” in which first stanzas are rhythmically tied to the beat, and are later conversationally spoken. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Vocally mimics guitar and adjusts knobs on looper. Mouth percusses a drumbeat and adjusts knobs on looper. Performs piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Partway through, pretends that shovel is a baseball bat. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n01:00:11\n[Speaks to audience member about them performing.] | Medium long shot as Brulé leans down to talk to audience member. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:00:25\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Hawley approaches Brulé and asks a question. Brulé nods affirmatively. \n\n\nE.J. Brulé\n01:00:50\n[Mouth percusses a reggae drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé mouth percusses a drumbeat and adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:01:09\n[Greets audience, asks “is everybody cool?” Heavy Jamaican accent. Performs a piece overtop Brulé’s beat. Applause.] | Video Description: Oversized leather jacket atop a white button-down shirt, a large leather top hat/baseball cap hybrid with red accents, large silver rings with jewels. Holds black mittens in one hand and the mic in the other. Loose closeup as Unknown_Reader1 speaks to audience and performs a piece. Dancing audience member briefly obscures camera. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:04:44\n[Asks audience whether they want a break. 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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\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:00:01\nLee Gotham and Audience_Member2 misspeak. Michael Longley is misnomered as Michael Langley, and Ciaran Carson is misnomered as Ciaran Colours.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:01\n[Thanks audience. Explains that the event is a benefit for En Marge, a street kids shelter. Explains there will be opportunities to buy a raffle ticket for a bundle of three to five collections of poetry. Explains that ticket stubs also serve as a raffle ticket for “small press prizes.” Announces that Michael Langley will perform at Concordia University’s Hall Building on February 16th. Announces Ciaran Colours will perform on March 6th.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding and occasionally reading from a small notebook. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:03:09\nVideo Description: Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 walks in front of camera. Side profile of face takes up whole shot. \n\nAudience_Member2\n00:03:11\n[Corrects Gotham that the aforementioned poet’s name is “Longley” not “Langley.” Repeats date and venue details. Mentions that Longley won the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Mentions that Ciaran Colours won the first T.S. Eliot Prize.] | Video Description: Audience_Member2 off-screen. Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 moves forward and back, making their head periodically obscure the screen again. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:34\n[Says those are some “serious verses.” Mentions that “assistant” in a red bandana will be walking around selling raffle tickets for poetry collection bundles from The Muses’ Company, Véhicule Press, and DC Books, including Steve Luxton and Robert Allen’s works. Introduces Robert Allen as one of his favourite alumni 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.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, reading from a notebook.\n\nRobert Allen\n00:05:48\n[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. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:07:43\n[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. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:10:59\n[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. \n\nRobert Allen \n00:12:31\n[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. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:13:12\n[Mentions he lives in the country with Anne Stone. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Mount Cloud.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Zooms out to long shot as Allen leaves stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:19\n[Thanks Robert. Explains again how buying raffle tickets works. Introduces John, liaison to En Marge, to explain services. Invites John to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks to the audience. \n\nJohn \n00:16:46\n[Thanks everyone. Explains that En Marge works with youth experiencing “family and social rupture” to give unconditional acceptance in difficult times. Explains that many of the kids write poems, and he will read some to shed light on their experience. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Little Candle” by fifteen-year-old Amanda.] | Video Description: Closeup as John adjusts mic, speaks to audience, and performs piece. John wears a light pink t-shirt, black snapback hat with a beige brim worn backwards, full beard one inch long, and slightly curly hair past shoulders. \n\nJohn \n00:20:10\n[Mentions that drugs are a big part of street culture and larger culture, and that it can be a solution with consequences. Introduces and performs a piece written by seventeen-year-old Caroline titled “Junk Sick,” about trying to quit heroin. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience and performs piece. \n\nJohn \n00:21:38\n[Introduces and performs piece written by an Indigenous fourteen year old named Cindy in French. Performs again in English. Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience, performs a piece, and speaks to audience again.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:23:01\n[Thanks John. Introduces Doug Isaac. Mentions Isaac’s poetry collection Past, Present: Tense will be published with Imperial (Note: book actually published with BuschekBooks, 2004.) Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:23:51\n[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. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:25:00\nAt 00:25:51 and 00:26:04, Isaac says a racial slur. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:25:05\n[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. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:35:52\n[Thanks Isaac. Announces the prizes for the raffle. Calls someone from off screen to help on stage. Lists prizes, such as one copy each of Moosehead Anthology issue 13 and the “Forbidden Fiction” issue, one copy of Don Coles’ Little Bird (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1991), and one copy of Erin Mouré’s West South West (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1988? 1989?). Announces winner. Applause] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Reads titles from books. Picks raffle number from person off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:54\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Grant Loewen’s Brick: Looking Up (DC Books, 1992.), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s “Forbidden Fiction” issue, and one copy of Jan Conn’s What Dante Did With Loss (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1994). Announces winner. Applause.] Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot. Raffle assistant now visible. Grey plaid button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large wire-rimmed glasses, and blonde hair pushed back from face. Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number from person now visible on stage. Announces winner.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:57\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Mark Leslie’s Dying with AIDS/living with AIDS: 1991-1992 (The Muses' Company, 1992), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s issue 13, and one copy of Gérard Godin’s Evenings at Loose Ends (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1991). Announces winner.] | Video Description: Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number. Announces winner. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:39:53\n[Announces another draw from the door prize tickets. Announces winner. Announces prizes from Pawn Press and ga press. Notes there will be a total of four door prize raffles. Introduces Anne Stone. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham picks raffle number from a white plastic tub and announces winner. Zooms into closeup as Gotham introduces Anne Stone.\n\nAnne Stone \n00:41:41\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Desire is a Lodger.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. Stone wears a burgundy vest atop a white long-sleeve shirt, an oversized newsboy cap, and no hair showing underneath it.  \n\nAnne Stone \n00:44:14\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Calf’s Head Soup.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nAnne Stone\n00:45:43\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Carrying off the (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:48:41\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham approaches the mic. \n\n[No signal]\n00:48:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nEND \n00:49:16\n[End of recording.] \n\nPART 2\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:14\nVideo Description: Color video of the stage with mic stand at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:15\n[Reads obituary for Manuel Betanzos Santos.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:02:25\n[Apologizes for talking about the raffle so much. Encourages people to buy tickets because there are many prizes. Introduces Raymond Filip. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, takes white card from off-screen, and reads from it.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:04:17\n[Mentions he was just at Manuel’s funeral. Reminisces about choking Devil’s Disciples member Michael French in the sixth grade. Explains childhood in Pointe-St-Charles and Verdun. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Flower Fights in the [?] Freight Yards”  from the collection “Flowers in Magnetic Fields” (Guernica Editions, 1994.)] | Video Description: Varying between medium shots and closeups as Filip speaks into the mic. Medium shot as Filip performs a piece, ending on an extreme closeup. Filip wears a dark plaid sport coat atop a brown button-down shirt, brown shaggy hair, mustache, and chin beard. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n0:09:34\t\nIn the following performance, Raymond Filip uses an outdated term in reference to a cross-dressing man.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:09:34\n[Explains more about growing up in Pointe-St-Charles. Introduces and performs piece called “Transvestite at his Toilette.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Filip speaks into the mic and flips through the copy of “Flowers in Magnetic Fields.”  Medium shot as Filip performs a piece. \n\nRaymond Filip\n00:14:36\n[Explains that Lithuania is a long-suffering country that inspired his self-described “oratorial” about the story of God. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Filip speaks into mic and shows the audience large prints of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania and other places in the country. Zooms into closeup as Filip performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:21:55\n[Thanks Filip. Announces a break. Begins to announce next raffle draw.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:27:37\n[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 (Roulette, single, 1968), 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. Christie wears a light blue long-sleeved plaid shirt open atop a black shirt, a necklace, and light brown hair. Frost wears a plaid vest atop a medium blue plaid shirt, a necklace with a large gold ring, and long curly dark brown hair. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:28:45\n[Announces raffle draw. Thanks audience for coming out. Lists prizes, including one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper (DC Books, 1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks (Guernica, 1989), [?] [Norris?] collection, and rocks between the dead (?). Announces Endre Farkas will perform next. Invites Farkas to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic. Reads titles from books. Zooms into loose closeup as Gotham introduces Endre Farkas. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:31:09\n[Announces a collaborative performance with Suzanne Nuttall on March 27th, 1995 at Enough Said. Mentions that a reporter Juliet Waters of The Montreal Mirror called him a “literary sperm salesman.” Says he will defend himself by reading the letter he wrote to The Montreal Mirror. Reads letter beginning with the line “Not only is Miss Waters ignorant in referring to the Muses [Farkas’ publishing company, The Muses’ Company] as ‘literary sperm salesmen’ but she is also a sexist [Sal?]” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup of Farkas speaking into the mic. Zooms into closeup as Farkas reads letter. Farkas wears a black, long-sleeved collared shirt and a dark moustache, and is balding on top of head. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:37\nCan I read my letter? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:33:45\n[Addressing Nelson] Oh, you wanna do it now? | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks to Nelson. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:47\n[Announces she will deliver her letter to The Montreal Mirror. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson adjusts mic and speaks into it. Nelson wears a dark brown vest a top a floral print collared shirt a top a white shirt, thin silver chain, medium brown hair in a loose ponytail. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:01\n[Addressing Nelson] Why is this happening now? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:03\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] I don’t know, because Endre started it. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:05\n[Addressing Nelson] This isn’t The Mirror’s [evening?] | Video Description: Off-screen\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:08\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] Um, it is in a way. | Video Description: Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:11\nWell, the notice was specifically about this evening. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:34:14\n[Reads letter to The Montreal Mirror beginning with the line “Juliette Waters described participants in the February 13th En Marge benefit at Bistro Quatre as ‘literary sperm salesmen.’” Applause.] | Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:36:23\n[Mentions he will read love poetry. Performs a piece titled “Wandering Gypsy” from his collection “Szerbusz” (DaVinci Press, 1974). Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:38:13\n[Introduces and performs “A Vegetarian Ear Eater” dedicated to professional wrestler Killer Kowalski. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:41:58\n[Introduces and performs prose poem from his collection From Here to Here (The Muses' Company, 1982) beginning with the line “To get there, you take all sorts of roads.” Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic. Zooms into loose closeup as Farkas performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:45:50\n[Introduces and performs piece for his daughter Katherine titled “Why I Didn’t Write You a Poem on Your Birthday.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:47:29\n[Introduces and performs a parody of Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” called “Maple Leaf Rag.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:51:26\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Heirloom” dedicated to A.M. Klein from new collection titled Surviving Words (The Muses' Company, 1994.) Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:54:16\n[Skips to Gotham introducing Steve Luxton.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into mic. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:55:08\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Hermit Crab Song.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. Luxton wears a red button-down shirt, round metal-rimmed glasses, wavy blonde ear-length hair. \n\nSteve Luxton\n00:56:19\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Bedouin Song.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:58:32\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “[Joining?] on de Bullion Street.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:00:11\n[Mentions he went to an American school for writing under the “founding confessionalist poet” W.D. Snodgrass. Performs a piece beginning with the line “The writer is middle age.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:02:22\n[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. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:05:52\n[Announces there will be two more raffle draws and two more door prize draws. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:07:01\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs piece titled “How to Read a Poem” from her collection A Room of One’s Own (unable to find this collection online.) Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:10:15\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Sometimes I Think of You” about Montreal artist Seymour Segal, who designed the covers for Nelson’s collections The Work of Our Hands (The Muses' Company, 1992) and Grasping Men’s Metaphors. Applause.] | Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic, shows the audience two books, and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:18:36\n[Seems to ask Gotham how long she has left to read.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:18:40\n[Says Nelson should do one more.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:18:47\n[Introduces and performs piece inspired by “Last Dance at the Four Penny” by Leonard Cohen titled “Freylekh” from her collection Grasping Men’s Metaphors (The Muses' Company, 1993). Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:26:23\n[Thanks Nelson. Invites Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nIan Ferrier \n01:26:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: 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. Medium shot zooms into closeup as Ferrier adjusts the mic, speaks into the mic, and performs a piece.\n\nIan Ferrier \n01:31:36\n[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. \n\nIan Ferrier\n01:33:03\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Politician.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n01:35:40\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:35:55\n[Announces the last two raffle draws. Lists prizes, including one copy of Gary Geddes’ Light of Burning Towers (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks, one copy of Moosehead Anthology, and one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner a stack of books. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:38:05\n[Lists prizes, including one tape of ga press poetry performances and one copy of issue one and one copy of issue two of Pawn Press’s literary/cultural journal. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding a casette and two thin volumes, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner prizes. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:39:32\n[Introduces Sonja Skarstedt. Mentions that she is the editor of Empyreal Press. Applause throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:05\nCan you introduce Sonja first, please? She has waited so long. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:08\n[Introduces Skarstedt again. Invites her to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:21\nAnd a damn fine poet in her own right. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:22\n[Echoes Unknown_Audience1. Notes that first edition of Empyreal's existence will be read from.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:40:46\n[Introduces and performs ekphrastic piece titled “Blue Teardrop” written about a painting by a seven-year-old girl.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. Skarstedt wears a purple sweater, striped scarf in various shades of purple, light brown shoulder length hair tucked behind ears, and long hanging earrings. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:43:20\n[Introduces and performs titular piece from second manuscript titled Demolition Symphony (Empyreal Press, 1995). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:46:35\n[Introduces and performs “voyeuristic” piece titled “Rue de l’Esplanade: Voyeurs.” | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:48:55\nAm I running out of time? | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:48:57\nDo another! [Applause.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:49:05\n[Introduces and performs a “typical Montreal poem” about the Montreal International Jazz Festival titled “Street Fest in the Key of J.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as s introduces a piece. Zooms into closeup as Skarstedt performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:52:57\n[Thanks Skarstedt. Announces Skarstedt will perform with Lynn Suderman next month. Thanks performers and audience for attending.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham runs left hand through hair and speaks into the mic.\n\n[Audience]\n01:54:02\nVideo Description: Zooms out to show audience putting on jackets and talking to each other. \n\n[No signal]\n01:54:08\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nEND \n01:54:16\n[End of recording.] "],"score":3.6228101}]