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Oralpalooza 94 Montreal. ga press, c1994, https://archive.org/details/oralpalooza_1994.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/title/50440932\",\"citation\":\"Salah, Trish. Wanting in Arabic. TSAR, 2002.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174100461\",\"citation\":\"Skarstedt, Sonja A. \\\"Zymergy: From the Neo-Ephemeral to the Odd Imbroglio.\\\" In Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century, edited by Jason Camlot and Todd Swift, 179–93, 404–06. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 2007.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549089157120,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.477Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:01\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. On the windows, the words “enough said.” When the camera zooms out, other decals become visible, with words from the menu such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:11\n(?) Twenty-seventh of February, the last edition of Enough Said for the second month of the year. Nothing auspicious in that, but in the performers being presented this evening I have nothing but unbounded enthusiasm and pleasure in presenting both our lead-off readers, Sonja Skarstedt, the author of Mythographies (Empyreal Press, 1990), a volume of her poetry put out [Gotham hiccups] not only through sheer will and talent and ingenuity on her own small press Empyreal, but this evening reading to us from a collection of short stories in the works—and we will all anticipate that publication in the nearest possible futures. Sonja will lead off, as I say. We have a second feature performer in Lynn Suderman, whom I will describe, I hope, with some articulation, a little bit later. But, as we will have the open-mic segment most likely deferred to the end of the evening, perhaps one segment in-between the two performers if that list grows any longer. Yeah, I’ll just encourage everybody to get themselves comfortable and keep themselves refreshed. A little bit out of every coffee and beer sold goes to keeping this little series running. And… jee!… enjoy the evening’s offerings. Sonja Skarstedt, can you kick us off please? | Video Description: Extreme closeup of Lee Gotham on stage, then zoom out, with the camera alternating between a medium shot and various degrees of closeup. Gotham wears a black turtleneck, stud earrings on the left lobe, hair tied under a black skullcap with a folded visor, and a beard. Gotham makes introductory remarks, often scratching his right eye. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:02:03\n[Tests mic, thanks Gotham, and reads the short story “Heaven and Hell” (later published as part of the play “Saint Francis of Esplanade,” Empyreal Press, 2001).] | Video Description: Medium closeup, then zoom in and out, oscillating between extreme closeup and medium shot. Lee Gotham adjusts the mic as Sonja Skarstedt walks onto the stage. Skarstedt has blond hair with a mullet haircut, dangle earrings, sweater with an eight-point-star pattern. Skarstedt reads from a manuscript.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:18:58\n[Exclaims “Poor Lord!” and the audience laughs.] | Video Description: Medium closeup. Sonja Skarstedt reads. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:19:02\n[Resumes reading of “Heaven and Hell” after audience laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup. Skarstedt continues reading. At the end, walks off stage amid applause as the camera zooms out to a medium long shot.\n\n[No signal]\n00:35:10\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:25\nWhat can we say? One of the first women of spoken-word in Montréal, Lynn Suderman is going to regale us with the part two of an ongoing saga of spoken word… we won’t say madness, well, I guess we said it—spoken word with a vengeance. Please welcome to the microphone Lynn Suderman. [Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup then medium closeup of Lee Gotham introducing the next performer.\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:35:54\nMy friend Mary brought me a Bible for this [Laughter]. [Tells a story about her first tattoo and people asking the same two questions about it: does it hurt, and is it permanent? Then presents these questions as a motto for our times, applicable to government budgets, haircuts, and wakes.] So, this is my wake, for February and for the fact that I quit smoking and February is the worst month to quit smoking and I’m not doing very well. | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham leaves and Lynn Suderman walks onto the stage. Short black hair tucked behind ears and black long-sleeved blouse. Suderman drinks from a glass and holds a Bible and a pack of pages. After setting the glass down, tells a story, brandishes the Bible and settles it down to read.\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:37:35\n[Reads “Wake up,” beginning with the line, “I went on a long drive one summer’s day.” Occasional unscripted interruptions to interact with the audience. Frequent bursts of laughter.] | Video Description: Alternating closeup and medium closeup. Lynn Suderman reads and interacts with the audience. \n\nLynn Suderman\n00:44:50\n[Interrupts the reading to ask her friend Mary to help search for a Bible passage. Starts reciting from memory when Mary finds the passage] | Video Description: Closeup then medium closeup of Lynn Suderman on stage. Suderman interrupts the reading and walks to the audience to ask her friend to search for a Bible passage.]\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:45:26\n[Continues performing “Wake Up.” Friend hands her the bible. Suderman reads from the bible and her pages. Makes one more unscripted interruption, causing a burst of laughter among the audience. Applause] | Video Description: Alternating medium and extreme closeups. Lynn Suderman reads. Zoom out to a medium shot as Suderman leaves the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:46:26\nExcellent. Excellent? (?) Jeez, I almost feel like short shrift, no encores I guess, right? No… Lynn Suderman, readily available on… [Laughter] cassette tape as part of the Wired on Words recording series, radiating from the depths of CKUT [FM radio] and through the joint efforts of many of the participants of this series. Also part of the Oralpalooza (ga press, c1994) chapbook collection of performances this past summer on the Word Up stage during that festival. Wow, what can I say? We’re gonna take just the shortest of breaks once again, and then we’re going to give our nine open-mic participants their hour or so in the sun… in the halogen sunlight of Bistro 4. Please make yourselves comfortable, refresh yourselves, and we’ll be back very shortly. Thanks once again [applause]. | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage, clapping and smoking. Zoom into an extreme closeup then out to a closeup as Gotham makes remarks and announces a break.\n\nSpokenWeb notes\n00:47:36\nThe following performance contains sexual content, descriptions of alcohol abuse, and descriptions of sexual abuse.\n\nUnknown_Reader1 (Ingrid?)\n00:47:40\n[Cut to off-stage voice, probably from a recording, reciting a piece beginning with the line, “My mother was banging pots in the kitchen.” CW: sexual content, alcohol abuse, sexual abuse. Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot of lone mic, with the performer audible but off-camera during the whole piece. Mid-performance, a person passes a few times times in front of the camera.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:55:43\nWow, thank you very much, Ingrid, for overcoming all technical difficulties. This was an exception. I don’t want to encourage anyone else who may merely be faint of heart to bring a new (recording?) but I think that was well worth a listen. Ok, next on the roster, Justin McGrail, can you make your way up, please? Justin, one of the good contingent of Fluffy Pagan People here this evening. Go to it, my friend.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage applauding. Zoom into an extreme closeup. Gotham makes remarks and introduces the next performer.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:56:27\n[Announces a show on Wednesday at Phoenix Café with Lee Gotham as the headliner. Performs “Leave a forwarding address.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham adjusting the mic. Justin McGrail enters the stage. Short black hair, very short goatee and moustache, plaid brown-and-red shirt with rolled-up sleeves, bracelets and wrist watch. Performs a piece from memory, gesticulating.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:01:42\n[Thanks Justin McGrail.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage. Zoom into an extreme closeup then out to a medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:02:03\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Five minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:02:09\n[Introduces the next open-mic performer, Sandra Jeppesen.] | Video Description: Zoom into an extreme closeup as Gotham adjusts the mic and announces the next performer.\n\nSandra Jeppesen \n01:02:28\n[Shares “an insecurity”—her “ugly boots”—explaining that it doesn’t snow in Toronto as it does in Montréal. Reads the short story “Bohunk.” Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Sandra Jeppesen enters the stage. Long blond hair, glasses, black sweater over a white shirt. Medium and extreme closeups as Jeppesen reads.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:07:04\n[Remarks on the time constraints of the open-mic and announces the next performer.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Lee Gotham enters the stage, adjusts the mic, and announces the next performer.\n\nStephen Edgar\n01:07:45\n[Explains he is back from London, Ontario, and displays a magazine he edits (One X?), saying there are enough copies for all to buy, $1 only. Reads “Going going gone.” Scattered laughter at the end.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Stephen Edgar enters the stage. Short light hair, round thin glasses, dangle earring on the right lobe and stud on the left; black pants, long unbuttoned button-down brown shirt atop a white shirt and ochre V-neck sweater. Medium closeup as Edgar holds a magazine for the audience to see. He briefly leaves the stage to set the magazines down then returns to read; the camera zooms out to a medium shot.\n\nStephen Edgar\n01:09:31\n[Reads “Please don’t honk your horn, please.”] | Video Description: Medium shot as Stephen Edgar reads.\n\nStephen Edgar\n01:09:55\n[Reads “Sex Ed, 16/27, 1995,” dedicating it to his little brother. Frequent audience laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Stephen Edgar reads, placing his left hand inside his pants pocket.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:14:10\n[States he can make out only part of the name of the next open-mic performer and announces (Jacob Landesman?), unsure of how to pronounce it.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage holding a cigarette, adjusts the mic and announces the next performer, straining to read their name on the board.\n\nJacob Landesman\n01:14:41\n[Explains this is their first time performing in an open-mic. Reads a piece beginning with the line “Sophia descends the white-cotton corridor,” after dedicating it to “Lisa, my saving grace.” Applause] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Landesman enters the stage and tests the mic. Red bandana and grey long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up. Various degrees of closeup as the performer recites, mostly from memory, with eyes closed.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:22:20\n[Thanks Jacob and announces the next open-mic performer, Mark.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage holding a glass and a cigarette. Adjusts the mic and announces the next performer.\n\nMark\n01:22:37\n[Reads “The flycatcher,” with an epigraph by Robert Frost. Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot as Mark enters the stage. Shoulder-length black wavy hair, white t-shirt with a round grey maze. Various degrees of closeup as Mark reads.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage] and Mitsiko Miller\n01:30:42\n[Ambient sounds, voices, applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the lone mic as Mitsiko Miller crosses the stage.\n\n[No signal]\n01:30:48\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\nLee Gotham\n01:30:50\n[Announces the next open-mic performer, (Juliane?). A voice near the camera, likely the videographer, asks Gotham to reposition the mic cable so it doesn’t stand in the way of the recording.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham at the stage. Fast zoom into an extreme closeup as he announces the next performer. Gotham walks towards the camera to talk to the videographer, then repositions the mic cable and leaves the stage.\n\nUnknown_Reader3 and Unknown_Reader4\n01:31:34\n[Read “Who’s in charge”. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot. Two readers enter the stage holding loose pieces of paper. Unknown_Reader3 has neck-length light hair and black sweater with white details around the collar and a small pendant. Unknown_Reader4 has short light hair, a black long-sleeve blouse, and two pendants. Alternating medium shot and medium closeup as the duo reads.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:36:23\n[Ambient sounds, voices, applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the lone mic as Mitsiko Miller crosses the stage one more time.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:36:36\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Three minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:36:41\n[Gotham announces the last performer of the evening, Mitsiko Miller.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage smoking and clapping. Gotham adjusts the mic and announces the last performer.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:36:56\n[Asks if everybody understands French. Applause. Reads “Christ existe (en?) ciel,” opening with the line “Passé simple, passé composé.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot then extreme closeup as Mitsiko Miller enters the stage. Short blond hair, hoop and stud earrings, leather jacket. Extreme closeup as Miller performs while chewing gum.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:38:23\n[States she is Francophone and that her English is very slangy. Explains she does not call her pieces “poems.” Reads “Why because,” opening with the line “Can you feel it?” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Mitsiko Miller performing, still chewing gum.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:40:24\nWait, let me get rid of this. [Laughter.] | Video Description: Closeup of Mitsiko Miller, interrupting the reading to throw away her bubble gum.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:40:29\n[Resumes the reading of “Why because.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Mitsiko Miller performing.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:41:07\n[Thanks Miller. Displaying (One X?), the magazine Stephen Edgar edits, and Pawn, edited by Gotham. Announces upcoming events featuring Steve Godin and Adeena Karasick.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham. Enters the stage smoking then makes final remarks. 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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\n[Ambient sounds. Mic feedback noise, with Lee Gotham humming to the same pitch.] Good evening one and all and thanks once again for coming out to another evening of Enough Said. Just a short (?) of things underway this evening, a couple of items of interest, in the very near future. I have the grand pleasure of presenting this (one?): Adeena Karasick, this next Monday. Adeena is a performance poet, language-centred writing, tender concerns front and centre, and is a wonderful act; she has toured all over the world, read with everyone from Ginsberg and Creeley to Nichols (?). It’s a wonderful pleasure to present her. The week after, this is another pet project of mine, that I’ve only plugged very discreetly up until now, but it’s called Pawn, and it’s a cultural magazine that it’s growing out of a pretty eclectic literary bag, that we managed to get together as a bunch of undergrad students at Concordia two or three years back. Still literature as an undeniable emphasis, and a real strong lineup, and I’m not gonna talk anything about any of the people (involved?). We will be launching this magazine, and some of those people involved will be here, not next Monday but the Monday after. So, that’s a couple of items in the near future. In the nearest future, I have the equal pleasure in presenting this evening two very interesting acts: the first of them the Phineas Flower Trio. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage then zoom into different degrees of closeup as the camera adjusts frame and focus. Lee Gotham walks to the mic. Gotham wears a long button-down shirt atop a t-shirt and a taqiyah-style skullcap. Gotham signals to someone out of the frame (presumably the sound technician), makes announcements, and introduces the performers of the event.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:01:58\n[Voice interrupts Gotham from out of the frame] Just get on with it, man! | Video Description: Zoom out from Lee Gotham and pan left to the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:02:00\nI believe want you to keep your distance during their act, they want lots of space, so just stay where you are [laughter]. A little later in the evening we will have Steve Godin. Steve Godin is going to do something that will set everyone’s teeth on edge [laughter]. It’s not true; Steve is a wonderfully amenable type and he’s gonna be here with us before very long. And in the meantime please welcome Phineas Flower. Stay where you are. [Applause].  | Medium long shot panning between Lee Gotham, standing, and the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting, one of them smoking. Gotham finishes his remarks and introduces the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:02:39\n[Drummer interrupts the applause] No clapping, we are serious jazz musicians. [Laughter] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham leaving the stage and the Phineas Flower Trio walking to their instruments and places. Before sitting by the drums, the drummer goes to the mic. The drummer wears a long green coat over a black turtleneck and buzz-cut hair. The camera zooms into a closeup of the mic, and the guitar player gets his instrument caught on the mic cable, almost knocking the stand down.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:03:01\n[The band spends an unnecessarily long time tuning and making adjustments, seemingly to irritate the audience.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio: the drummer on right of the screen, further to the back behind the mic stand; the guitar player in the middle putting his lit cigar on his guitar head among the tuning keys; and the bass player on the left smoking. The guitar player wears a grey Henley shirt with sleeves rolled-up to the elbow, short hair, a thin moustache, and a goatee. The bass player wears a black and red coat atop a patterned button-down shirt, long hair, a Van-Dyke beard, and sunglasses.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:04:15\n[Unknown_Audience_Member] Let’s go, eh?! [Two band members, aggressively] Back off! What the fuck was that? Why don’t you shut up?! | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:05:32\n[A vocalist joins the Phineas Flower Trio to plays their first song, a spoken-word piece against a jazzy groove. One one of the first lines is “(Dereliction?) and (pain?), corrupted by ambient (rain?).” At the end of the first piece, the vocalist says, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of vocalist leaving the audience to join the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting on a bar stool, higher than the other band members. The vocalist wears short curly hair, sunglasses, and a grey sweater over a flowery dress. He is smoking and carrying a beverage. The camera zooms in and out, settling on a medium shot of the vocalist, with the drummer partially visible behind, the latter playing while smoking. The vocalist takes a sip, then puts both glass and cigarette down to perform.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:07:40\n[Performs a second spoken-word-jazz fusion piece, beginning with the line “(Motorway?) superhighway, a massive feat of evolution in engineering.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup alternating with a medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:11:00\n[Performs a third spoken-word-jazz piece. One of the first lines is “Richard Carlyle (?) among the wreckage.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup panning among the band members of Phineas Flower Trio, who perform another piece. At the end of the piece, medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; the vocalist smokes between songs.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:12:21\n[The vocalist, shouting] Hey! [Unknown_Audience_Member, half-mockingly] No clapping. [The vocalist] We’re serious fucking jazz musicians up here. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:12:30\n[Unknown_Audience_Member] I didn’t fucking clap. [The vocalist] Good. What’s next, (Zanny?)?] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; then pan left to the bass player.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:12:35\n[The bass player states the title of the next piece, which is incomprehensible, then the band performs it. One of the first lines is “As the last drops of (glucose?) (?) (Cola?) go down his throat.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio, panning left and right among the band members. Zoom into a closeup of the vocalist, who drinks from a glass before the next song; then zoom out to a medium shot as the band performs, ending in a medium closeup.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:15:45\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece beginning, “Somewhere, somewhere higher than the sky.” At the end of the piece, the vocalist repeats what he said at the end of the first song, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup of the vocalist, as the band performs. At the end of the piece, the vocalist drinks from a glass.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:16:10\n[The vocalist, after thanking the audience] That sucked. [Unknown_Audience_Member] What kind of noise is this? [The vocalist] Bad noise! [The drummer] Wait, man, I don’t like this dialogue going on. Can’t anyone straighten this young lady out? [Vocalist] Let’s play the next song. [Guitar player] Ok, who’s the fucking pinhead who said that? [Vocalist] Yo (Zanny?), what’s the next song? [As the bass player starts to answer, the guitarist, aggressively] Pinheads, raise your fucking head. [Drummer] Get ’em, boy! [Vocalist] Alright, let’s play the song. [Guitarist] You’re lucky I’m in a good mood. | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:16:41\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping drum-bass riff. The vocalist burps into the mic before singing the first lines: “(You’re usually?) flapping its wings, a bee flies across the field (and fell?) searching frantically for food, gasping for breath.” Mid-performance, the drummer screams in the background. At the end of the piece, with the instrumentalists still playing, he vocalist repeats, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium shot of the band, with the vocalist unbuttoning and taking off his sweater, so now his flower dress is entirely visible. Then zoom into a closeup of the vocalist as he starts singing while holding a cigarette, sometimes smoking between lines. Mid-performance, the camera zooms out and alternates between a medium shot and medium long shot.\n \nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:20:04\n[The vocalist, after thanking the audience] Next. [Unknown_Audience_Member] Don’t say thank you, we’re a serious fucking audience. [Vocalist] Alright! [Guitar player] You’re a really fucking funny guy, man. [Vocalist] Let’s go, next song! [Scattered laughter and incomprehensible heckling between band and audience] | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:20:42\n[Vocalist] In case you didn’t notice, this is an artistic (event?). [Unknown_Audience_Member] If you didn’t (pack your lip?) it would be better. [Vocalist] Go for it. [Guitarist] Better than what? | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interacting with the band members and the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:20:53\nThe Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping guitar riff, then a sudden pause, when the vocalist says “Hey.”] | Video Description: Zoom into an extreme closeup of the vocalist, smoking, then performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:22:31\n[The band suddenly stops playing, and the drummer says to the guitarist, both out of the frame] Hey man, it’s you. [Guitarist] No, it’s you. [Drummer] You fucked up twice there. [Vocalist, trying to intervene] Let’s take it, let’s just take it… [Guitarist] (?) you have, like, no sense of time (?). [Laughter, while the argument continues, until the vocalist commands] Play! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, drinking from a glass and trying to resume the performance while the band argues.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:22:54\n[The band resumes playing the same piece]. | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, often sipping from a glass, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot, so the drummer and guitarist also become visible.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:23:44\n[Bassist states the name of the next song] Next song is “Disgusting family.” [Vocalist announces] Alright, this is our last piece and then you will be rid of us once and for all. You can clap for that if you want! [Laughter] [Drummer] Disgusting family? [Vocalist] Wow, I don’t know, if Zanny’s standing up for this one, gotta mean something. [Laughter, shouts] [Vocalist] Zanny’s a studio musician, does a lot of uppers and stuff. | Video Description: Medium long shot, panning left and right between the bassist and vocalist, then zoom unto an extreme closeup of the vocalist. The bassist stands up and the camera pans left to show him. As the band starts performing, the camera pans back right and zooms into a medium closeup of the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:27:15\n[Vocalist interrupting the song to address the guitarist] Yo Kevin? Kevin? What the fuck is this? It’s just such fucking shitty noise (which you just made with that?) guitar, man. How much talent does it take to stick a fucking patch cord into a guitar anyway? [Many talk at once and the argument continues until the Vocalist suggests] Or just keep doing what you’re doing. Alright, here we go, it’s your noise! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interrupting the piece to complain about the guitarist. The camera pans to the drummer and the guitarist then back to the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:27:56\n[The band resumes playing the same piece, and the vocalists speaks the last lines while the band is still playing]. Thanks for nothing. We’re the Phineas Flower Bar Mitzvah Quartet. We play weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties. T-shirts and CDs are available at the door. [Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup of the vocalist, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot and pans left and right, so the other band members become visible as they stand up and leave the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:22\nThanks for the (angst?), guys. The Phineas Flower Trio, thanks, in general. Ok, what we’re gonna do with this break between acts is that the first three of open-mic participants, if they’re ready to roll, and we’ll do that in a half a second. [Audio becomes incomprehensible then skips]. | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage as the Phineas Flower Trio leaves. Gotham holds a beverage and announces the next portion of the evening program.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:52\n[Recording resumes mid-sentence]…this evening, Steve Godin. Texts also on the back by Steve Godin, and Ran is gonna read us number one of the series of three. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham making remarks and announcing the next performer, while holding a glass.\n\nRan Elfassy\n00:30:02\n[Mockingly, parodying the Phineas Flower Trio] Hello? Hello? Hi! This is serious poetry. You don’t clap. [Reads text written by Steve Godin, beginning with the sentence, “The human mind and soul can be in conflict with the ideal architecture that (reveals?) the True Self.”] | Video Description: | Medium closeup of Ran Elfassy, who joins the stage wearing a buzz-cut hair and a long-sleeve green Henley shirt over a grey turtle neck. Elfassy reads from a flyer.\n\nRan Elfassy\n00:31:09\n[Announces that they will read two pieces. Asks the audience to clap to the rhythm of cha-cha during the performance of the first piece. Someone in the audience asks “How does it go?” and Ran Elfassy demonstrates. Ran Elfassy performs a piece titled “Indulge me.” The audience keeps the rhythm all the way through.] | Video Description: | Medium closeup then closeup of Ran Elfassy performing.\n\nRan Elfassy\n00:33:45\n[Reads a story beginning with the phrases, “By window and the yellow curtain, by the brass hooks.” Ran Elfassy thanks the audience amid applause.] | Video Description: | Alternating extreme closeup and medium closeup of Ran Elfassy. Elfassy takes the mic from the stand to perform a second piece, then puts it back on the stand amid applause.\n\nEND\n00:38:34\n[End of recording.]\n\n[Part 2/2 of Event]\n\n[Bistro 4]\n00:00:17\nVideo Description: Color video, medium shot 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 are also 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\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:00:17\n[Recording starts mid-performance, with the sentence fragment “(demonic self?), we can draw a relative conclusion of the instinct of demonic and the monic survival.” Applause. Laughter.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot of Unknown_Reader1 reading from a book and a flyer. Unknown_Reader1 wears a pink sweater, long curly, a moustache, and glasses atop their head. Suddenly leaves the frame and quickly returns saying “thank you.” Laughter, as camera zooms into an extreme closeup.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:00:45\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “We are brainless, mindless, totally insane.” Laughter after the final end rhyme, “heavy metal.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup, then zoom out to a closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing. Camera zooms in and out a few times.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:02:00\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “There once was a farmer who commuted from city.” Laughter at some of the rhymes.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing. At the end of the piece, zoom into a closeup.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:02:33\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “There was a time when Jesus and (?) consumed wine.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:03:15\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “Aqua doesn’t matter, we have a swamp anyhow.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:03:30\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “(?) pocks lips of golden temper.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing. Camera zooms out and pans left, tracking the performer leaving the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:54\nThanks, (Larkey?). Alright, OK, third participant, Mitsiko, did you pick up card number 3? There’s a series of three illustrations on everyone’s table pertaining to our second feature performance tonight, Steve Godin’s performance. If you bring that out with you and read it, it would be great. (?) Ok, good, Mitsiko. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage. Lee Gotham walks to the microphone. Gotham wears a long button-down shirt over a t-shirt and hair half-tucked into a Taqiyah-style skullcap. Camera zooms into a closeup. Gotham makes brief remarks and announces the next performer.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:04:30\n[Ambient sounds. Reads one of the three illustrations Gotham referred to, beginning with the line “By use of archetypal shadow.”] | Video Description: Closeup of mic being lowered. Camera zooms out and in a few times, settling into a closeup. Miller enters the stage chewing bubble gum, smoking, and holding a pile of papers. Miller wears a black leather jacket over a black-and-grey patterned button-down dress, pixie-cut blonde hair, a necklace and earrings. Miller throws away the gum as the camera zooms into an extreme closeup.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:05:55\n[Introduces and performs a poem in French beginning with the line “Click Clock.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Mitsiko reads a piece. Applause.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:07:33\n[Reads a bilingual English-French piece titled “Silly putty.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Miller reads.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:08:46\nVideo Description: Pauses the poem mid-performance to puff on a cigarette.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:08:49\n[Resumes the performance of “Silly putty.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Miller continues reading a piece. Applause, during which the camera zooms out to a closeup and we see the performer smoking a cigarette.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:09:15\n[Asks if everyone knows the song “Creep” by Radiohead. Performs “The subway glare.”] | Video Description: Closeup. Miller smokes and makes remarks, then removes the leather jacket. Reads a piece. Camera zooms out to a medium shot then into a medium closeup. Applause, as Miller leaves the stage and camera zooms out to a medium long shot.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:05\nThank you, Mitsiko. Alright then, we’re very near the second half of our feature performance for the evening. The second feature performer of the evening, Steve Godin. I’m just going to do a couple more plugs in a hurry here: Enough Said is going to co-present a couple things outside of the present venue; the nearest is on the 25th of March; it will take place at Building Dance, I believe it's 55 Pine Avenue East, just east of the Main, Pine Avenue; Wired on Words are presenting a new cassette of Ian Stephens’s spoken-word readings; in the month thereafter, the 24th of April, Woodstock, the new and improved Clifford Duffy offering, “Nietzsche’s Daughter is Deceased and The Invention of God” will be presented on that evening. In any case, give me two quick minutes to clear away this conventional microphone setup, and Steve Godin will let you know all about what you’ve been wondering about perhaps from the beginning of the evening, and I hope everyone will enjoy it thoroughly. | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage, then zoom into a closeup. Gotham makes remarks and, at the end, as he adjusts the microphone for the next performer, the camera zooms out to a medium shot and the recording skips.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:14:33\n[Announces an upcoming collective arts exhibit, featuring Nadia Jenefsky, Scott Ellis, among others.] | Video Description: Camera shakes and settles into a medium shot of Steve Godin sitting on a chair on the stage, holding a microphone. Godin wears dark pants, a black leather jacket and shoulder-length grey hair. As he waves to the camera, his papers fall on the floor. The camera then alternates between closeup and medium closeup. Godin makes remarks.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:16:03\n[Reads text beginning with the phrase, “For some time I was pondering theoretically on a compromise revolving around the ritual existence of…” The text refers to Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Gérard de Nerval, among others. One minute into the reading, a distorted slow-moving instrumental music becomes audible in the background and gradually increases in volume.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup of Steve Godin seating, reading while holding the mic.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:23:05\t\nBut where is the guide? [After the question, Godin sighs into the mic, observing a pause of about 20 seconds during which we hear the background music and ambient noises.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:23:30\n[Resumes reading with an increased reverb effect on the voice. The instrumental background music, now louder, approaches the volume of Godin’s voice.] | Video Description: Alternating medium shot and closeup, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:28:18\n[Pauses. The background music also stops for a few seconds, before resuming, developing different looping patterns. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup, medium shot, and closeup, as Godin continues to perform. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot, as Godin stands up to leave the stage, amid applause, and hands the mic to Lee Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:09\n[Thanks Godin and announces a break and reiterates upcoming events.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then medium closeup of Lee Gotham, standing while making announcements. Video skips.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:29\n[Announces the next open-mic performer.] | Video Description: Medium closeup then medium shot of Lee Gotham, announcing the next performer.\n\nUnknown_Reader2 \n00:37:20\n[Reads a series of short pieces or poetic fragments; the first begins with the line “Even on this day I give to you my most eloquent treasure.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Unknown_Reader2 enters the stage. Unknown_Reader2 wears jeans, a beige fisherman sweater, a black necklace, and blond hair in a ponytail. Camera zooms into a closeup and medium closeup as Unknown_Reader2 reads.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:38:48\n[Applause as Unknown_Reader2 starts to introduce the next piece. Reads the one-line piece “Bachelor tourism.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:39:05\n[Introduces and reads a short poem beginning with the line “The back of her head was shaped beautifully.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:39:22\n[Reads a piece beginning with the phrase “Sensation, elation, (incatenation?).”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:39:33\n[Reads a piece beginning with the phrase “(Blighting?) mystery with the light of day.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:40:05\n[Reads “State of junk.” Applause and laughter.] | Video Description: Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:41:36\n[Reads “Kisses (?) truism: (a tone?) with the metaphysical frequency of ontological-biological experience.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:42:04\n[Reads “A Hangover.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading. Zoom out to a medium shot as Unknown_Reader2 leaves the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:42:25\nThanks, (Guy?). (Kibble?), haven’t used that word in ages; used to be one of my personal favourites. Well, you know, this is like a slim night for open mic, I don’t know. [A voice near the camera—and hence louder than Gotham’s—states, “Ooo, bad (?)”; and Lee seems to react to that with his next sentence.] Quality, not quantity. Speaking thereof, Justin, another Fluffy Pagan Echo[es] member, come on up and see us out of the evening, if you will, please. Justin McGrail. | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage, applauding and smoking a cigarette. Gotham makes remarks and introduces the next performer. As Gotham leaves the stage, the camera zooms into an extreme closeup.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:43:00\n[Tells a story about how the thistle became Scotland’s national emblem. Laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup of Justin McGrail’s left hand grabbing the mic; a silver ring on the pinky. Zoom out to a medium shot of McGrail on the stage. McGrail wears blue jeans, black belt, a brown plaid shirt over a long-sleeve black-and-white t-shirt, a greenish Breton cap facing backwards, and short hair. McGrail holds the mic while telling a story. Camera zooms in and alternates between medium and extreme closeups. As McGrail replaces the mic on its stand and leaves the stage, camera zooms out to a medium shot.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:47:49\nThank you, my (?). Well, what a wondrous closure to yet another evening of Enough Said. Jee, you know, I have stuff to wave in your faces, remind you all of things upcoming. I (prod?) along about them earlier; next week, amazing performer, Adeena Karasick, honestly if you have the chance [video ends mid-sentence]. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup as Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot as Gotham makes final remarks and we see a coffee cup and a lighter atop a table before the recording cuts out.\n\nEND\n00:48:15\n[End of recording.]"],"score":3.104972},{"id":"3976","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 1995-04-17, Joseph"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["On tape labels and corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the event headliner."],"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. 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Markdale, ON & Mississauga, ON.: McNabb Connolly, 2009 [Includes performances by Clifton Joseph].\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549157314560,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:04\nVideo description: Colour video. Long-shot of host Lee Gotham on the stage of the venue Bistro 4 (Quatre), addressing audience with opening remarks. Stage is juxtaposed with four large windowpanes that look onto vehicles and passerby on Saint-Laurent Boulevard. Evening. A large orb-shaped light hangs above the stage. Orange curtains are draped at the top of the windows. A number of unknown audience members are visible in the initial camera view. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:05\nEvening, peoples, peoples, peoples. Thank you very much, once again, for coming out, taking in some of the sights and sounds of the Main on a Monday evening in spring. We've got a hot show for you guys tonight. [Laughs] It'll be a lot of fun, gonna be some serious fun as well. To get into things without blabbing about local events, as I'll probably find ample opportunity to do so during various points during the evening, I'd like to just say, well, you know, thanks for coming. Clifton's really going to dig it, I know you're going to dig him and, um, I got a couple special surprises, the first of who I'll introduce right now. It's Norman Nawrocki. Can you welcome Norman, he's going to kick things off for us. [Audience applause]. | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjusting microphone stand. Gotham wears a white collared shirt atop a graphic t-shirt, long brown hair in bun, and a beard. Gotham introduces Norman Nawrocki, and adjusts microphone.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n00:00:57\n[Addresses audience. Introduces \"Soldiers for Jesus, Get Off!\" (later published in Rebel Moon: Anarchist Rants and Poems, AK Press, 1997). Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Narrocki wears a hoodie atop a collared shirt and short blond/brown hair. C. Lee Gotham exits frame.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n00:01:30\n[Performs \"Soldiers for Jesus.\" Audience snapping, stomping, and laughter throughout. Audience applause at the end.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki reads poem from a sheet of paper, snapping fingers to lead audience. After performing, Nawrocki exits via stage left. Lee Gotham passes through camera view. Various unknown audience members pass back and forth through camera view, briefly blocking Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:40\n[Introduces Marcel (?). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham introduces Marcel and exits stage left.\n\nMarcel\n00:04:17\n[Addresses audience. Reads in French and then translates to English a few lines from Victor Hugo's \"La Function du poète,\" beginning with \"Peuples ! Écoutez le poète !\"] | Video Description: Marcel enters from stage right. Marcel wears a white turtleneck, short brown hair, and a grey beard.  Addresses audience through microphone then reads poem from book.\n\nMarcel\n00:05:07\n[Addresses audience and reads \"Poem,\" beginning with the line \"There's a rustling in the silence.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Marcel addresses audience while flipping through publications, then reads poem from held publication.\n\nMarcel\n00:07:20\n[Addresses audience and performs Unnamed Poem 2, in English. Audience applause.] | Marcel briefly addresses audience and reads poem from publication, pacing back and forth on stage, projecting voice without using microphone. \n\nMarcel\n00:09:00\n[Performs Unnamed Poem 3, beginning in French then switching to English mid-poem. Audience applause]. | Video Description: Marcel shuffles through papers and publications then performs Unnamed Poem 3, moving from stage left to stage right throughout. Nods at audience, gathers pages and publications; then nods to Lee Gotham who walks onto stage from stage left. Marcel and Gotham briefly interact and Marcel exits stage right. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:26\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Mark.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience at microphone. Introduces Mark and exits stage left. \n\nMark\n00:14:21\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Inkling Magazine. Introduces \"The Man in the Street\".] | Video Description: Mark enters stage left and addresses audience. Mark wears a black graphic t-shirt and long curly black hair.\n\nMark\n00:15:00\n[Reads \"The Man in the Street.\"] | Video Description: Mark reads short story from a stack of pages.\n\nMark \n00:22:45\n[Interacts with Lee Gotham, saying \"almost.\" Addresses audience. Resumes reading \"The Man in the Street\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham leans into camera view, saying something to Mark. Mark and Gotham briefly interact. Gotham exits frame. Mark addresses audience and finishes reading, before exiting stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:26:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Justin McGrail, from Fluffy Pagan Echoes.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Lee Gotham walks off via stage left. \n\nJustin McGrail\n00:27:36\n[Interacts with an offscreen audience member. Addresses audience. Introduces the dance-poetry show \"Of Fire and Sword\" as context for his first piece.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail walks on stage from stage left. McGrail wears a brown coat or blazer with pins on collar and short brown hair. McGrail briefly interacts with unseen audience member before addressing audience through microphone.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:28:13\n[Begins performing \"Of Fire and Sword\" but immediately laughs and addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes performing \"Of Fire and Sword.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail closes eyes and recites words. Turns face away and mutters before laughing. Then addresses audience into microphone and resumes reciting the poem.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:29:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and performs \"Circle\". Thanks audience. Audience applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Justin McGrail addressing audience. McGrail reads poem from piece of paper. Addresses audience before exiting via stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:02\n[Addresses audience. Promotes next edition of Enough Said. Announces fifteen-minute break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham enters stage via stage right and addresses audience. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Audience members passing in front of camera briefly obscures view.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:31:55\nAmbient sounds, voices. | Video Description: Camera cuts to a close up shot of the lone mic.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:57\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Norman Nawrocki's Human Life International counterprotests. Introduces Clifton Joseph. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks onto stage via stage right and addresses audience at microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:34:16\n[Interacts with Lee Gotham. Addresses audience. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Jospeh enters stage via stage left, drinking from glass. Joseph wears a brown button-up vest atop a light green short-sleeved shirt, black-framed glasses, and short black hair. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone to Clifton Joseph's height. Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:35:57\n[Recites from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.\" Addresses audience throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience and recites poetry, making occasional gestures that emphasize portions of the poem.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:36:30\n[Laughs. Addresses audience, mentioning Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, bill bissett, and The Four Horsemen (sound poetry group), among others. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:41:25\n[Performs poem beginning with singing and the line, \"When I look at the situation\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem, occasionally using pointing, snaps, and other gestures to emphasize the performance.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:42:26\n[Performs a poem with vocalizing a melody and the line \"See, you never know what a man may do\". Audience clapping along to beat.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:43:07\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"Damn, damn, damn, what a scam, what a sham\". Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Sips from glass. Addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:44:11\n[Imitates R&B singing group. Sings from \"Harlem Blues\". Addresses audience. Asks audience for lighter. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Clifton Joseph takes out a pack of cigarettes and lights one with a match from an audience member.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:46:30\n[Resumes addressing audience. Introduces and performs \"I Remember Back Home\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Performs poem. Ashes cigarette and drinks from glass. \n\nClifton Joseph\n00:49:30\n[Performs \"Pimps.\"] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. \n\nClifton Joseph\n00:52:05\n[Initiates call-and-response with audience.] | Video description: Cups hand to ear.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:53:29\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause; audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph smokes cigarette and crushes it under foot. Drinks from glass. Addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:55:35\n[Performs \"Chuckie Prophesy\". Audience applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from water glass. Addresses audience.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:58:10\n[Interacts with Clifton Joseph.] | Video Description: Audience_Member1 interacts with Clifton Joseph.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:58:16\n[Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:59:13\n[Performs \"Slo-Mo\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from glass. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:04:00\n[Begins performing \"A Chant for Monk\". Interacts with unknown audience member off-screen. Laughs. Audience laughter. Resumes performing \"A Chant for Monk\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Camera zooms in as Clifton Joseph interacts briefly with offscreen audience member.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:08:08\n[Initiates audience call-and-response. Resumes performing \"A Chant for Monk\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs, with gestures that accentuate performance. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:09:12\n[Finishes performing \"A Chant for Monk\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph interacts with Lee Gotham. Clifton Joseph bows for audience applause.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:09:51\n[Addresses audience. Promotes upcoming events, including Clifford Duffy’s \"The Invention of God.\"] | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone and addresses audience. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:11:06\n[Introduces Clifton Joseph's second set. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Jump cut. Extreme close-up on Lee Gotham addressing audience. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:12:14\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause and laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph speaking into microphone, addressing audience. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:13:32\n[Introduces and performs \"Lookin' for a Job.\" Audience laughter. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph drinks from a glass in front of the microphone, then continues addressing audience. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing. Joseph improvises various gesticulations for emphasis, such as raising glasses off his face on the word \"sight.\" \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:16:06\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with audience member. Audience laughter throughout. Introduces and performs \"(Metropolitan Blues?).\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing and laughing into microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:24:00\n[Briefly performs from \"Special Request\" before addressing audience.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Briefly gesticulates as he performs lines from a song. Adjusts and speaks into microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:24:45\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"It is dumb, dumb, dumb.\" Concludes with audience call-and-response. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performing into microphone. Clifton Joseph points toward audience to initiate call-and-response.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:26:13\n[Addresses audience, interacting with individual audience members throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Accepts glass from unseen audience member and drinks from it. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:30:27\n[Performs poem beginning with loud vocalizations that turn from singing to screaming. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph removes microphone from stand, places down glass, and holds microphone in hand. Camera pans across stage as Clifton Joseph performs, facing away from audience. Joseph turns toward audience and places microphone in stand. Lee Gotham briefly adjusts microphone as Joseph performs. Joseph moves microphone stand to stage right. Camera follows Joseph as he walks through audience performing. Audience applauds. Joseph wipes face with hand and walks through the crowd, exiting the camera's view. Camera pans back toward the stage. Lee Gotham enters frame and approaches microphone from stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:34:23\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Lee Gotham, who speaks into microphone and claps along with audience. He exits the frame. Camera pans across audience applauding. Joseph reenters frame. Camera pans, following Joseph walking toward the stage. Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham and Joseph embrace, and Joseph dances on stage. Joseph bows.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:35:00\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph speaks into microphone, addressing audience. Drinks from glass before walking off stage via stage left. Lee Gotham walks to stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:35:21\n[Addresses audience and announces break. Laughs.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Brief VCR static.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:36:02\n[Addresses audience. Reads from Unnamed Periodical. Addresses audience member (\"See you later, Bob\") and resumes addressing audience. Announces open mic and its first performer, Steve Hawley.] | Video Description: Close-up on Lee Gotham speaking into microphone and reading from a periodical. Lee Gotham exits frame and returns with a dictionary. Waves to an audience member off-screen before addressing audience again. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:37:38\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Audience_Member2.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham moves out of frame. Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley enters stage from stage left. Hawley wears a black sweatshirt and backward baseball cap on short dark hair. Hawley holds a cigarette. Hawley lifts microphone from stand and holds it close to mouth while addressing audience. Camera zooms out, revealing Hawley holding a glass.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:38:21\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line \"We got (?) children's candy.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley raps into microphone.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:38:46\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with unknown audience member. Introduces and performs piece beginning with the line \"I see people on a mission every day of their lives\". Laughs; audience laughter.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley speaks to audience and briefly dances while making a joke. Places down glass. Camera zooms in to close-up as Hawley introduces and performs next piece. Hawley raps into microphone, briefly laughs, and continues performing.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:41:14\n[Introduces and performers piece beginning with the line \"It's rough, growing up without peers.\" Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley raps into microphone. Camera zooms out as Hawley exits frame. Lee Gotham claps while walking up to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:43:27\n[Addresses audience. Announces Sabrina. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Gotham speaks to audience. Sabrina moves across screen, walking toward stage. Gotham adjusts microphone to Sabrina's height and exits stage left. \n\nSabrina\n01:43:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and performs \"(?) Blues.\" Laughs and addresses audience mid-poem. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as Sabrina addresses audience. Sabrina wears a dark jacket, patterned scarf around neck, and brown, shoulder-length hair with a clip. Reads poem from a piece of paper. Looks toward applauding audience members off-screen. Stops reading and addresses audience, making \"finger-gun\" motions. Laughs and looks behind left shoulder, away from audience, then recites the rest of the poem. Walks out of frame.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:47:35\n[Addresses audience. Announces Andy. Interacts with Andy, before announcing Paco W.] | Video Description: Sabrina moves across camera view as Lee Gotham arrives at microphone. Lee Gotham addresses audience. Gotham exits frame.\n\nPaco W.\n01:48:31\n[Reads a piece beginning with the line \"I will telling of nothing, nothing, I'll tell you.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco walks to microphone and makes brief \"sign of the horns\" gesture. Paco wears a collared shirt, an earring in left ear, and short brown hair. Paco adjusts microphone before reading poem from a stack of pages.\n\nPaco W.\n01:50:26\n[Introduces and reads from \"Fragments of Our (Kin?).\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco steps briefly away from microphone. Passing audience member obscures camera view. Paco looks down toward pages and steps back in front of microphone. Reads into microphone from stack of pages. Walks off-screen. Lee Gotham returns to microphone and adjusts stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:51:51\n[Addresses Andy. Introduces Andy. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Andy (who is off-screen) before walking off-screen.\n\nAndy\n01:52:13\n[Addresses audience. Reads Unnamed Piece. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts upward as Andy walks to microphone. Andy wears a red shirt, black toque, a necklace, and curly chin-length hair. Andy reads from notebook.\n\nAndy\n01:53:35\n[Reads \"Quiet.\" Audience laughter throughout. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Andy closes notebook and turns around to grab a piece of paper before speaking into microphone. Looks down at page while reading. Moves away from microphone and walks out-of-frame via stage left. Lee Gotham moves to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:55:20\n[Addresses and introduces David J.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone addressing David J. (who is off-screen) before exiting stage-left, out of frame. \n\nDavid J.\n01:55:29\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"Who Do?\" Audience laughter, applause.] | Video Description: David J. walks to microphone and addresses audience. J. wears a black sweater atop a grey collared shirt and short black hair. Camera zooms out as David speaks to audience while flipping through a notebook. Reads from notebook.\n\nDavid J.\n01:56:10\n[Introduces \"Cadillac Bomb.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. speaks to audience while flipping through notebook. Reads from notebook. \n\nDavid J.\n01:56:55\nIntroduces and reads \"The Devil's Got the Goods\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. steps away from microphone and flips through notebook. Speaks, inaudibly, to off-screen audience member. Addresses audience. Camera zooms in as David reads from notebook. David steps away from microphone and nods to audience, before walking stage left, off-screen. Lee Gotham approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:58:42\n[Addresses audience. Asks about Jeff, then invites Unknown_Reader1 to the stage.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience. An unnamed audience member briefly passes in front of Lee Gotham. \n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:59:23\n[Introduces and reads (\"Also Badge\"?).] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 approaches microphone with a stack of papers. Unknown_Reader1 wears a pink t-shirt and long straight brown hair. Reads from stack of papers.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:59:55\n[Introduces and reads \"For Salman\" (Salman Rushdie). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n02:00:32\n[Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem. Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers. Addresses audience and walks from microphone, exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:01:41\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with Ed.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience before interacting briefly with Ed off-screen. Ed enters from stage left as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Ed moves toward microphone and Lee Gotham exits stage left.\n\nEd\n02:01:59\n[Introduces and reads \"Open Hand, Empty Hand.\" Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ed addresses audience. Ed wears a dark trench coat atop a collared shirt and brown hair in bowl-cut style. Reads poem. Addresses audience and exits stage left. Lee Gotham enters and moves to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:04:06\n[Addresses audience. Announces Lion Man.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone, addressing audience and Lion Man. Gotham adjusts microphone as Lion Man enters frame from stage right.\n\nLion Man\n02:04:25\n[Makes purring noise into microphone. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Lion Man addresses audience. Lion man wears an emerald green vest, a brown collared shirt, and straight chin-length brown hair. \n\nLion Man\n02:04:30\n[Performs \"Impropaganda.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man recites poem into the microphone.\n\nLion Man\n02:06:28\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem, about \"if water and plant life could speak to us.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man steps away from microphone and smiles. Addresses audience. Flips through notebook before addressing audience. Reads poem from notebook. Closes notebook and steps away from microphone, exiting stage right. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham enters from stage left, clapping, and walks up to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:09:33\n[Thanks Lion Man. Announces Christine. Promotes upcoming event, Clifford Duffy’s \"The Invention of God,\" at the Woodstock Bar.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, speaking into microphone. Christine enters frame from stage left and flips through papers. Gotham adjusts microphone and walks off-camera, exiting stage left.\n\nChristine\n02:10:04\n[Addresses audience. Audience response. Laughs and resumes addressing audience.] | Video Description: Christine stands to the side of microphone, flipping through pages. Christine wears a black collared shirt, light-wash jeans with a large belt buckle, and short blonde hair. Christine walks up to the microphone and addresses audience. Christine laughs at and flips through pages. \n\nChristine\n02:10:43\n[Reads a poem beginning with the line \"Why do I feel so (?) like a little girl.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Christine reading from notebook. Looks down away from audience. Camera zooms out as Christine flips to a new page.\n\nChristine\n02:11:52\n[Reads a poem beginning with the line \"Okay, it's all over now.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Flips through notebook pages before settling on a new page.\n\nChristine\n02:13:30\n[Reads from \"Unfinished Poems.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Walks from microphone and off-screen via stage left. Christine is seen again passing through camera's view. Lee Gotham enters from stage left and walks to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:14:37\n[Addresses audience. Thanks Christine. Announces Steve Godin.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. An unknown audience member passes briefly through camera view. Gotham exits as Steve Godin walks toward the microphone from stage right.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:14:57\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: Steve Godin addresses audience while looking through pages. Godin wears a black leather jacket atop a black t-shirt and long grey straight hair. Reads from a stack of pages. Addresses audience and exits via stage right. Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:18:47\n[Thanks Steve Godin. Announces Simon.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience and exits stage left. \n\nSimon\n02:19:05\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"Pulling Me In.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down as Simon approaches microphone. Simon wears a blue long sleeve t-shirt, round glasses, and collar-length straight brown hair. Camera zooms in as Simon addresses audience. Simon reads into the microphone.\n\nSimon\n02:19:50\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"The Day with the Face.\" Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Simon steps briefly away from microphone before stepping back and addressing audience. Simon raises stack of pages higher, into frame. Reads from stack of pages. Steps away from microphone and looks down. Speaks briefly into microphone before exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage right. Gotham takes cigarette out of mouth.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:23:43\n[Thanks Simon. Interacts with off-screen audience member (Jean-Luc). Introduces Tom. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, laughing throughout. Gotham moves from microphone and exits stage right. \n\nTom\n02:24:31\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter] Introduces and performs \"Call Before You Dig.\"] | Video Description: Tom enters from stage left. Tom wears a navy flannel jacket, black backwards baseball cap, and blond hair. Reads from pages.\n\nTom\n02:26:20\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause. Introduces and reads \"The Conspiracy of the (?) Dentist.\" Laughs. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Tom steps away from microphone and shuffles through pages. Approaches microphone and addresses audience. Reads from pages. Then exits stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone clapping. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:27:56\n[Addresses audience with concluding remarks.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, removes cigarette from mouth, and resumes speaking. An audience member briefly passes through camera view.\n\nEND\n02:28:05\n[End of recording.]"],"score":3.104972},{"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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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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Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Closeup as Tom Chamberlain performs a piece.\n\nTom Chamberlain\n00:18:54\nThis is a poem about how Montreal winters can affect you, (?) drive inside your apartment, inside yourself. You implode and then it’s spring, so. It is spring. Tonight it turns spring while we’re sitting here. (?) This is called “The winter of my discount tent” (sic.). [Performs “The winter of my discount tent.” Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Tom Chamberlain performs a piece.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n00:19:59\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Thirty seconds of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n00:20:05\n[Video resumes mid-sentence] manifestation of their worldly business. So, I’m gonna bring the lights down. I want everybody to sit down and enjoy the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. [Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium long shot of the stage, with Lee Gotham standing by the members of the Fluffy Pagan Echoes (Justin McGrail, Vince Tinguely, Scott Duncan, Victoria Stanton, and Ran Elfassy), plus an audience member helping set up equipment. Gotham wears a dark button-down long-sleeved shirt and shoulder length light brown hair. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes and Ran Elfassy\n00:20:30\n[Ambient noise (audience talking.) Ran Elfassy shouts “OK! I’ve got something to say” and initiates a collective poem, with each member of Fluffy Pagan Echoes repeating the line “The solstice came at nine-fourteen this evening.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a collective piece without mic.\n\nRan Elfassy and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:21:30\n[Salutes the audience, asking several people “How are you.” Breathes into the mic. 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Walks back into the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members standing upstage.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:29:01\n[Ambient sounds, scattered audience laughter.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Justin McGrail takes off his beret and puts on a jacket borrowed from Scott Duncan, while the other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes leave the Bistro 4 through the full-wall window and start making funny faces at the audience.\n\nJustin McGrail and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:29:29\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “In viewing the castles of (Paris?).” Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Justin McGrail performing a piece. McGrail wears a black blazer over a white shirt and dark brown hair. The other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes make funny faces and gestures at the audience, right outside the full-wall window of Bistro 4. The camera zooms into and pans from right to left, showing the performers behind the window. At some point we see Ran Elfassy making faces at a pedestrian passing by. At the end of the piece, McGrail turns to the window and bows to the performers, who bow back from behind the window.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes, Justin McGrail, and Scott Duncan\n00:30:45\n[Ambient sounds, scattered audience laughter.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Justin McGrail returns the blazer to Scott Duncan, while the other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes file back into the Bistro 4 and form a row behind Duncan. Duncan searches for something in the pockets of the blazer and finds a folded piece of paper.\n\nScott Duncan and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:31:04\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I love art, I hate art galleries.” Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Scott Duncan performs a piece. Duncan wears a black blazer atop a plaid button-down shirt and short curly dark brown hair The four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him; at some point, Ran Elfassy sits down on the stage. \n\nScott Duncan and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:31:26\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Dear Scott” and a quote from Barbara Woodhouse: “Never pat a dog on its forehead; such activity will result in the dog developing a superiority complex.” Audience laughter. Following Woodhouse’s quote, Duncan reads what appears to be the piece’s subtitle, “Gaudí’s cathedral postscriptum.” Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom into medium shot as Scott Duncan performs a piece, while some members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes remain visible, standing side by side, behind him. At the end of the piece, the camera zooms out as Duncan folds and returns the piece of paper to his blazer pocket, then rejoins the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members upstage.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:43:53\n[The collective performs a sound-poetry chorus by repeating the words “Toy Boat,” each member initially reciting it in different speeds and tones, then gradually converging. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a sound-poetry collective piece without mic.\n\nVince Tinguely and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:35:38\n[Introduces piece by quoting Ann Diamond, from a May 1992 issue of the Books in Canada magazine: “If ignorance is bliss, then Hell, with a capital H, is consciousness.” Following the quote, the piece begins with the lines, “This made me ask some questions: how conscious is conscience?” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Vince Tinguely performs a piece, while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. Tinguely wears a white plain t-shirt, round glasses, and white short dishevelled hair. Upstage, Justin McGrail passes a glass of water to Scott Duncan, who in turns passes it to Victoria Stanton. The camera zooms into a medium short, alternating it with different degrees of closeup as Tinguely performs. Tinguely uses several paper bags as props, wearing them as hats and gloves, and drawing different symbols on them (e.g., a hammer and sickle, a swastika, a gender female sign) to represent different types of consciousness.  At the end of the piece, Tinguely rejoins the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members upstage as the camera zooms out to a medium long shot.\n\nRan Elfassy and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:39:03\n[The group performs a sound-poetry chorus by repeating the word “seesaw” in different speeds and tones. As a solo against that background chorus, Ran Elfassy then performs a piece, beginning with the line “I swear I saw it with my own eyes.” After Elfassy finishes his piece, the background chorus continues for a few more beats. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium long shot and medium shot as four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a sound-poetry collective piece without mic. In front of the group, Ran Elfassy performs a solo piece against the background chorus. Elfassy wears a black and white striped long-sleeved shirt over a brown high-necked shirt and dark buzzed hair. Both Elfassy and Justin McGrail use hand gestures as if conducting the audience. At the end of the piece, Elfassy tilts his head down, in silence, while the background chorus continues for a few more beats.\n\nVictoria Stanton and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:41:10\n[Ambient sounds (voices.) Victoria Stanton performs a RAP piece beginning with the lines “Smash the windows, take the clothes / don’t deny me the right to my fashion freedom.” The other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes join Stanton in reciting the repetitions of the opening line, as a refrain. At some point, Justin McGrail starts beatboxing in the background. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton sips water and talks to Vince Tinguely. Stanton wears a dark sweater and neck-length dark hair with bangs and a hair clip. Alternating medium long shot and different degrees of closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a piece, while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind her; some of them nod with the beat of the poem. At some point, Justin McGrail starts beatboxing in the background.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:44:15\n[The five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes say each other’s first names, amid applause: Justin, Vincent, Scott, Victoria, and Ran.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and introduce each other by rotating who speaks at the mic: after the first person on the left is introduced by the second, the first walks behind the group to the fifth position, until all are introduced.\n\nJustin McGrail and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:44:50\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “It was a crucifix, (but?) it was made of star.” Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium long shot then different degrees of closeup as Justin McGrail performs a piece. McGrail wears a long button-down white shirt, two rings on the left hand, earring on the left lobe, and short dishevelled dark hair. The four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes and Ran Elfassy\n00:46:24\n[The group performs a collective piece. Each member says the line “It’s all about” and completes the sentence with a different final word; when Ran Elfassy adds, “And letters,” the collective interjects “Eh?” Elfassy then leaves the stage, walks among the audience, and returns to the group asking, “See? Did you get it?” A dialogue ensues, about the possible meanings of the sound “C/See.” The group then plays several games with different parts of the audience, before returning upstage and saying, in unison, “What we have here is a Café. Resistance is reasonable. Thank you for your cooperation.” Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes perform a collective piece. At first, each member says one line, then Ran Elfassy leaves the stage, walks among the audience, and returns to the group, at which point the piece becomes a dialogue between Elfassy and the other four members of the group. The group then moves about the stage, playing several games with different parts of the audience, then returns to a row upstage to thank the audience. The camera zooms out to a medium long shot as the some members of the group drink water amid applause, then the group leaves the stage.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:50:24\n[Asks where Lee (Gotham) is. Someone in the audience says, “What are you waiting for?,” which McGrail repeats into the mic.] | Video Description: Cut to Medium long shot as Justin McGrail speaks into the mic while several Fluffy Pagan Echoes members block the camera’s view while leaving the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:50:32\n[Thanks Fluffy Pagan Echoes, citing their book, “A word circus” (Montreal: Egg Sandwich/Sandwich aux oeufs, 1994). 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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 \n00:00:16\nInstallment of Enough Said, performative word event series. Um, don't be put off by all the musical acrobatics, we're definitely going to be concentrating on words as always. Um, we're going to start off as always also with a couple open mic participants. I see Brian's up first. Um, well, let me just wish everybody a Merry Christmas in case I forget a little later on, um, remind everyone that the series will run for the foreseeable future in the new year, um, starting back on the 9th, the second Monday in January. Come on out, see the likes of bill bissett, Ian Stephens, number of other word (?). And. Brian, I think if uh, you're in the house and ready to go, I think it's (?) there he is, jumping up in his seat. (?) going to come up and start the evening off for us, so please, make yourselves comfortable, and enjoy the evening. [Brief pause.] Suppose I should mention that the featured performer tonight is Anne Diamond and the second feature performer (?). If anyone is particularly enamored by those individuals, please hang out, they'll be up here before long. | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic, then zooms into medium shot as Gotham adjusts stage equipment for Brian and speaks into the mic again. Gotham wears a grey collared shirt with sleeves rolled to elbows atop a white collared shirt, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder length brown hair. \n\nBrian Campbell\n00:01:56\n[Asks audience if they can hear him. Says he will read \"quiet poems\" tonight. Introduces and performs piece titled \"Andrea's Christmas\" by Toronto author Henry [Nimuth?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Campbell bends down to pick up large black folder. Campbell wears a light blue sweater atop a medium blue collared shirt, dark hair, dark inch-long beard, and wire-rimmed glasses. Zooms into medium closeup as Campbell speaks into the mic, and zooms out to medium shot as Brian performs a piece.\n\nBrian\n00:04:47\n[Introduces and performs piece titled \"For E. P.\", written for Ezra Pound. Explains Pound's \"ABCs of Poetry\" (note: Campbell misspoke, and book's title is \"ABCs of Reading\"). Applause. Says something indiscernible into the mic.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Campbell picks up red folder from floor, speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:08:19\n[Thanks Brian. Invites Beau Williamson to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:08:34 \n[Introduces the piece, though indiscernible due to low speaking level and high background noise in the audience and on the tape. Performs piece beginning with the line \"I had a beautiful hour of naked day that I wish to describe.\"] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Williamson wears a white \"Rocky Horror Picture Show\" graphic t-shirt with red lettering and black trim, long light brown hair, and large glasses. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:09:25\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Pictures of the Same Person.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms into medium closeup and zooms out again as Williamson performs a piece. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:09:52\n[Performs piece beginning with the line “Tired hands greet the limp phallus of joy.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson performs a piece. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:10:03\n[Mentions that Yule is coming and decided to write and perform a poem about the month of May anyways. Introduces and performs poem titled “May.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Williamson performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:12:17\n[Announces that there will be one more open mic performer before the first feature. Invites Jen Frankel to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic and lowers it.\n\nJen Frankel\n00:12:41\n[Says they have no sense of time and brought a clock. Seems to discuss with Gotham (off-screen) how long they can perform. Introduces and performs a piece titled \"Ode to Beauty.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down to a medium shot as Frankel speaks into the mic. Frankel wears a loose black button-down shirt and short medium brown hair pulled back with a thick black bandana. Loose closeup as Frankel seems to talk to Gotham off-screen. Camera angles alternate between medium shots and medium closeups as Frankel speaks into the mic again and performs a piece.\n\nJen Frankel\n00:16:32\n[Introduces and performs two chapters titled “A Clockwork Cat” and “Cathedrals and Crashing in Seas Without Shores” from a longer prose piece titled “Susan by Greyhound.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Frankel speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:23:58\n[Announces that the 1995 season will be more structured with time limits for open mic performers. Announces a break.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:24:39\n[Cuts to Unknown_Musician1 quietly and sporadically playing snare drum and cymbal with brushes and Sam Shalabi fingerpicking jazz chords on guitar. Audience chatter in the background.] | Video Description: Long shot as Unknown_Musician1 plays small drum kit with brushes and Sam Shalabi finger picks an electric guitar. Unknown_Musician1 wears a blue and white argyle sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, a silver watch, glasses, and short curly dark brown hair. Sam Shalabi wears a red button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large metal-rimmed glasses, and thinning dark brown hair. Zooms into extreme closeup of Sam Shalabi looking around, chewing gum, and talking to individuals off-screen.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:25:07\nVideo Description: Extreme closeup of mic with no one behind it. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:25:24\n[Exclaims that the open mic sign-up board is full. Introduces himself as the first feature performer. Says Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi are performing with himself for the first time. Introduces a piece as definitely not poetry. Audience collectively exclaims “aw.”] | Video Description: Out-of-focus extreme closeup focuses and zooms out to closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Zooms out to long shot of Gotham speaking into mic, and Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi behind their instruments not playing. Zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, turns towards 1 and 2 and says something inaudible, and continues speaking into the mic. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:27:08 \nGotham performs a long poem without announcing any section breaks. To enhance readability, this transcription will break when Gotham pauses for a significant period, denoted by the phrase “Gotham pauses” or “Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.”] \n\nLee Gotham \n00:27:13\n[Begins performing a piece either titled or beginning with the line “Attention project proposals, explorations grants competition, Canada Arts Council.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham begins performing a piece. Zooms into extreme closeup as Gotham says the line “one idea is a death of experience.” Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:27:41\n[Strike a discordant cord.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:27:43\n[Resumes performing piece. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:00\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “No, musicians should play as they see fit.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. \n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:29:04\n[Quietly playing uncertain chords and sparse drumming as Gotham continues performing.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:07\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer picks up a hammer.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham picks up hammer from off-screen. In between lines, dramatically hits a wooden block on stand to his right with hammer. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:46\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “There can be no pause for the cause.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera angle alternates between closeups and medium shots of Gotham performing a piece and long shots of Gotham performing a piece, Unknown_Musician1 playing drums, and Sam Shalabi playing guitar. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:32:04\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer is blurting out opinions to strangers.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium closeups and extreme closeups of Gotham performing a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:38\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Opinions again: that’s what I call using your head.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:35\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “It’s a milk and honey mid-September, an [?] Indian coffee and cigarette summer” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder and more complex in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms into medium shot partway through.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:18\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “I went to the doctor for the first time in twelve years.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi softens in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:48\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Less about what you think, I still don’t get it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder in background with staccato chords. Asks Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi to play more soothingly. Laughter. Says “or ignore him.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi, who are off-screen.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:38:17\n[Sam Shalabi continues to play complex drum beat, Unknown_Musician1 softens chord attack but plays complex progression.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:29\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham sits down on something unseen and, holding the mic away from him, mouths something unseen to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:38:31\n[Play calmer jazz music.] | Video Description: Camera pans to long shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums with brushes and Sam Shalabi playing guitar.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:36\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “We were still sitting there on the beach listening to the crazy old Indian.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.] | Video Description: Camera pans to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece sitting down. Camera alternates between closeups, medium shots and medium closeups as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:41:25\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Well, there wasn’t a lot of story to it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi resumes in major key. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Gotham stands up. Zooms out to longshot as Gotham picks up hammer on his left and pretends to hit himself on the head with it in between lines. Zooms into medium closeup. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:44:38\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “That’s good, that’s just fine, now we’ll just relax” delivered in a deeper tone than previously. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi barely audible in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:45:31\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “An escaped convict fell into a deep hole someone had dug beside the roadway.” Music reminiscent of middle-Eastern music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi plays in background. Sam Shalabi stops playing guitar part way through. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham leans backwards on something unseen and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as Gotham stands up and continues performing piece.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:49:17\n[Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background.] | Video Description: Zooms out to show Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi playing their instruments beside Gotham. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:49:21\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The water’s run out.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes busier in the background.] Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nSam Shalabi\n00:49:38\nVideo Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing.  \n\nUnknown_Musician1\n00:49:57\nVideo Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:50:05\n[Resumes performing piece. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Zooms out to medium shot part way through. Gotham expands arms like flying bird while performing. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:51:31\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Well now, where were we. You wanted to talk about sex today?” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Camera alternates between medium closeups and medium shots throughout . \n\nLee Gotham\n00:55:10\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “I’d like to make it reasonably clear that I’m a frightened man.” Sombre music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:57:29\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer gradually regains his composure.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham sips water and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through, then zooms out to medium shot. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:01:44\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Failure to recognize boundaries between self and the world outside.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi ceases in the background. Thanks audience. Applause. Thanks audience and announces break before Ann Diamond’s performance] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Takes cigarette package out of pocket. Zooms out to long shot during applause. Zooms into medium shot when Gotham resumes speaking into mic. \n \nLee Gotham\n01:03:36\n[Cuts to Gotham inviting Ann Diamond to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham speaking into the microphone. \n\nAnn Diamond\n01:03:47\n[Says she planned to improvise but got nervous as she approached the venue. Introduces and reads from a pamphlet found outside the venue titled \"A Free Lecture on Past Life Regression, Reincarnation, and Karma.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and reads from pink pamphlet. Diamond wears a dark graphic t-shirt with the word \"MAUDITE\" and an orange devil printed on it atop a reddish-brown cowl neck sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, hanging earrings, and short medium brown hair.  Puts down pamphlet.\n\nAnn Diamond \n01:06:01\n[Asks audience “do you believe that?” Laughter. Introduces and asks the audience a series of true or false questions beginning with “We are all survivors. True or false?” Audience shouts out a mixture of “true” and “false” after each.] | Video Description: Closeup as Diamond sips beer. Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond reads from thick spiral notebook. \n\nAnn Diamond\n01:07:15\n[Tells story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Invites Anna, who is in the audience, to ask question.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Diamond tells a story. \n\nAnna\n01:09:10\nWas this a dream? \n\nAnn Diamond\n01:09:11\nI’m not gonna tell you. \n\nAudience\n01:09:12\nLaughter. \n\nAnn Diamond \n01:09:20\n[Resumes telling story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Diamond telling story. \n\nAnn Diamond \n01:12:03\n[Says it was a dream. Explains how under hypnosis people believe that dreams are real memories. Says she was on the national news with the next story that is not a memory or a dream. Tells a story about getting into a car accident during a hurricane on Poxy Island near Prince Edward Island with a short aside about Leonard Cohen. Audience laughter throughout.] | Camera angles vary between medium closeups and long shots as Diamond speaks into the mic and tells a story. \n\nAnn Diamond \n01:24:55\n[Asks the audience a series of true or false questions about her trip to the Caribbean with Mick Jagger among other topics. Audience shouts out a mixture of “true” and “false” after each.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond asks the audience questions and pauses as they respond.\n\nAnn Diamond\n01:27:42\n[Mentions that she wants to launch a project titled “Canada: The Untold Story” about recovering memories.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:30:50 \n[Thanks Ann Diamond. Announces Enough Said will return for a new season on January 9th, 1995 with performances by bill bisset and Sharon Nelson, as well as the second cassette launch of Wired on Words series on the 23rd. Announces the event is over. Thanks audience for attending and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Lee Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:32:14\n[Cuts to Gotham inviting Vince Tinguely to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nVince Tinguely \n01:32:31\n[Introduces and performs a piece beginning with the line “[At the height of the?] Cuban Missile Crisis and a bowl of clean water.” Applause.] | Video Description: White t-shirt, large wire-rimmed glasses, and thin white hair. Medium closeup of Tinguely speaking into the mic zooms out to medium shot as Tinguely performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:34:10\n[Thanks Vince. Invites Amanda Blush to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites [inaudible] to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites Graham Olds to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nGraham Olds\n01:35:11\n[Mentions he is from British Columbia which is very concerned with the environment. Introduces and performs a piece titled \"If Elvis Was an Environmentalist.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Camera angles vary between medium closeups and medium shots as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Olds wears a red graphic t-shirt with black geometric designs and a face printed on the front, chin-length medium brown hair, and a thin moustache.\n\nGraham Olds \n01:37:14\n[Talks about riding bike from Tofino to Port Alberni. Performs a piece beginning with the line “When waves of adrenaline excrete from the renal cortex of your kidneys.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nGraham Olds \n01:38:40\n[Performs untitled piece beginning with the line “I’m a cappuccino cowboy.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nGraham Olds \n01:39:54\n[Praises the Montreal metro system. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Never been the biggest fan of riding the bus.” Invites Julie Crysler to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:41:01\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Two minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:41:07\n[Invites Ran Elfassy to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nRan Elfassy\n01:41:14\n[Says \"hi\" to the audience. Says his poem is not about fucking Leonard Cohen. Performs a piece beginning with the line \"I was a lover last night, last night I was alone with a lover.\" Breaks midperformance to mention that the second half of the piece is titled \"Crisis.\" Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Elfassy speaks into the mic, performs a piece, speaks into the mic briefly, and resumes performing. Elfassy wears a white t-shirt, beaded necklace with square gold pendant, and dark hair in a small bun at the crown of his head. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:48:08\n[Thanks Elfassy. Invites Thoth Harris to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nThoth Harris\n01:48:25\n[Says he will give an autobiographical statement before performing, stating that he is from Vancouver, that he was abused as a child, that his abuser recently died, and his girlfriend recently gave birth. Introduces and performs a piece titled \"Breathing Space.\"] | Video Description: Medium closeup to medium shot as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harris wears a pinkish-grey plaid atop a white shirt, grey and white striped scarf, and a grey toque with ear flaps and strings. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as piece concludes.\n\nThoth Harris\n01:53:45\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled [“Samson’s Lost Beach”?] [“Sam’s on Glass Beach”?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Harris puts mic back on stand. Medium closeup as Harris performs a piece. Zooms out to medium shot as the piece concludes.\n\nThoth Harris\n01:56:40\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Damage Counter #1.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:58:24\nVideo Description: Long shot as Gotham walks to microphone. \n\n[No signal]\n01:58:26\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nHalina Berger\n01:58:40\n[Cuts to Berger in medias res performing a piece including the line \"like being afraid of falling asleep, like going, like being.\"] Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Berger performs a piece. Berger wears a dusty rose button-down cardigan, thick gold chain, and short medium brown hair. \n\nLee Gotham \n2:00:45\n[Thanks Berger. Invites R. M. Vaughan to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:02:47\n[Asks audience if they are bored by performers mentioning their place of birth. Mentions that he lives in Toronto and is from the east coast. Mentions he runs the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Company. Mentions that all pieces he will read are from a series titled \"Seven Sentences from Balzac's ‘A Murky Business' and ‘All of my Life'\" and each include a Balzac quote. Performs a piece that, after the quote, begins with the line \"Unless he's very large and the laws of perspective have bent for me.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Vaughan wears a dark red and grey long sleeve button-down plaid, wire-rimmed glasses, and medium brown hair in a buzzcut. Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Vaughan performs a piece. Briefly zooms in on Vaughan's left arm gesticulating as the piece concludes.\n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:03:25\n[Dedicates next work to [?] Beddington who runs a queer publishing company that does not publish queer work. Performs a piece that begins with the line “You and me and politics.”]\n| Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece. \n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:04:33\n[Performs piece including the line “remember you and I are not supposed, our bodies little principalities.” Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen. \n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:06:29\n[Performs piece beginning with the line“Wholesome boy, gift from whatever gods rule that particular patch of cloud.” Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen.\n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:07:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “[Lined?] Poem, Three Lines Long, About Hate.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n02:10:08\n[Thanks Vaughan. Encourages audience to see Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Invites [Harpy?] to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham adjusts the mic and speaks into it. \n\n[Harpy?]\n02:10:36\n[Introduces and performs piece beginning with the line \"It's the end of the semester, as you can see.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as [Harpy?] speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harpy wears a grey-striped sweater without a zipper atop a white shirt, single hoop earring, and short curly hair. \n\nScott Duncan \n02:13:37\n[Asks everyone to think of leaf cutting ants in preparation for Fluffy Pagan Echoes' event at Phoenix Cafe the week after. Performs a piece titled \"The Bus Driver's Mona Lisa.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Duncan speaks into the mic. Duncan wears a white cable knit sweater atop a brown collared shirt, light wash baggy jeans, and dark brown messy hair. Medium closeup as Duncan performs a piece.\n\nJustin McGrail\n02:17:24\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line \"It is a sense of defeat that crawls over shoulders.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as McGrail speaks into the mic and performs a piece. McGrail wears a black baggy t-shirt with the English flag printed on the left sleeve, long chain, and a light brown newsboy cap turned backwards with medium brown hair curling out the front. Zooms into closeup partway through.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:24:17\n[Encourages audience to go to Fluffy Pagan Echoes show. Announces a special surprise.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAnna and Ann Diamond \n02:24:28\nVideo Description: Medium closeup as Anna and Diamond walk on stage. Anna wears a lapelled leather jacket atop a black turtleneck sweater and short dark brown hair. Diamond wears the same outfit as during her feature but also wears an oversized grey jacket and a yellow, red, and black patterned scarf. \n\nAnna\n02:24:36\n[Says this will be an example of how sometimes speech in another language sounds serious when it is not and vice versa.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna lights a cigarette and speaking into the mic.\n\nAnn Diamond\n02:25:02\nI will sing in Greek.\n\nAnna\n02:25:04\nAnd I will translate. \n\nAnn Diamond \n02:25:08\n[Sings in Greek.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond sings into the microphone and then pushes the mic to Anna \n\nAnna\n02:25:16\n[Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anna speaks into the mic. \n\nAnn Diamond\n02:25:26\nI didn't know it meant that. [Resumes singing.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic, sings into the mic, and then pushes the mic to Anna. \n\nAnna \n02:25:35\n[Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter. Announces she will do the other part. Sings.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna speaks into the mic, then takes off jacket. Zooms into closeup as Anna sings into the mic. \n\nAnn Diamond \n02:26:45\n[Explains that she thinks it means “I love your beautiful eyes and I love your hair and get a job and don’t run after the whores.” Laughter.] | Medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and then pushes the mic to Anna. \n\nAnna\n02:27:06\n[Explains that it means “I don’t want you to give me palaces and castles, I don’t want you to give me riches like all the other sluts that you give them too, just feel sorry for the little parts of my heart, and just tell me that you love me.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anna speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n02:26:43\n[Thanks Anna and Ann Diamond. Thanks the audience. Announces the end of the event.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.] \n\nAudience\n02:28:03\n[Sombre recorded symphonic music in background.] | Video Description: Long shot of audience putting on jackets and chatting. \n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n02:28:22\n[Sombre recorded symphonic music in background.] Video Description: Cuts to open mic sign-up blackboard with “enough said” written across the top and a list of participants’ names below. \n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n02:28:52\nVideo Description: Cuts to closeup of Christmas tree with multicoloured lights, zooms out to show tree is inside Bistro 4 and camera is outside. Words such as “biere,” “fut,” “cafe,” and “tisane” are visible on the window. 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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":3.104972},{"id":"6368","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 1995-03-13, Karasick"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying assets, corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the event headliner."],"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. 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Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/51837966?oclcNum=51837966\",\"citation\":\"Karasick, Adeena. Archetorture. Vancouver: Wave7Press, 1990.  \"}]"],"_version_":1853670549328232448,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.966Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:00\nVideo Description: Colour video, different degrees of 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 are also visible. People frequently pass in front of the camera. A decal of the word “said,” as a fragment of “enough said,” is visible on the window.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:01\nAnd glad to see the enthusiasm hasn’t waned. As everyone is more or less comfortable and ready and not grumbling and over-ready we’re gonna forge straight right into the evening’s offerings. I have a lot, all of a sudden, of open mic participants, half of which I’m going to insert between the two sets our feature performer will give us this evening, and without [long pause midsentence.] | Video Description: A medium shot of Lee Gotham in front of the microphone, making introductory remarks. Gotham wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt and a matching yellow bandana tied around head. The camera zooms in for an extreme closeup as Gotham pauses.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:00:39\nFurther ado? \n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:40\nWell, I’m just making sure there isn’t any further ado, but uh, I suppose (?) without any further ado, in this corner, hailing from Toronto, Ontario, published doubly with Talonbooks, Mêmewars and The Empress Has No Closure, both of which, among other items, by the way, are available in this corner, and anyway, during the evening, just come on over, acquaint yourselves with Adeena Karasick. Would you all please welcome Adeena. [Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to a medium shot as Gotham introduces Karasick. Gotham adjusts the mic.\n\nAdeena Karasick \n00:01:22\n[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “Once, upon, I came to you when I could not be integrated” Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick performs a piece. Karasick wears a black zippered vest atop a black long-sleeved shirt, gold dangling earrings, and shoulder length black hair that is loose and slightly curled. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:03:24\n[Thanks the audience. Explains that she will be reading pieces from multiple works, and that some relationships are only good for two things; “a poem at the beginning, and a poem at the end.” Laughter. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Incidentally accidental, it was an accident.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick introduces the piece, until maintaining a medium closeup while Karasick performs. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:07:04\n[Explains the Poetry Express project in Toronto, in which poets performed on a bus. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Keep your eyes on the road.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick flips through papers on a blue box atop a trolley cart, which also holds an almost full glass beer bottle. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece.\n\nAdeena Karasick \n00:09:38\n[Introduces and performs an excerpt of a longer work called Archetorture (Wave7Press, 1990) that, Karasick explains, explores memory and her mother’s death. Applause.] | Video Description: Flips through papers on trolley. Sips beer. Flips through papers again. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:15:09\n[Tells story about travelling in Germany. Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line, “And I go in to take the (?) to Meine, to Meine,” which contains both English and German. Karasick interrupts the poem to explain how food vocabulary is often the first words picked up in a new language, and then continues performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Sips beer. Shows audience an illustration in one of her collections (cover unidentifiable.) Performs a piece. The camera maintains a medium closeup. Closes books, sips beer, and it overflows with foam. Exits the stage and the frame. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:21:41\nWell, for any and all of those down on Toronto, there’s one very good reason we might reconsider, at least momentarily, for the evening, the value of our sister city. Okay, we are going to segue into, segue, word for the evening, into a short open mic segment. As we have a number, we’ll dispose of the first four of them. Number of things on the horizon in the spoken word genre here in Montreal in the near future, first of which [pause] for immediate release, Saturday twenty fifth of this month, that’s a little more than a week away, Building Dance just east of St Laurent on Pine Avenue, Wired on Words, the set release of spoken word projects number three, Ian Stephens, Diary of a Trademark on audio cassette, with a number of local support performers. Come on out, Saturday March twenty fifth, Building Dance, just east of des Pins. Building Danse (?) cool presentation, I may add. Okay, let’s do this open mic thing. Please get up, stretch your legs, get to the bar, every drink counts to keep the ball rolling (with?) Enough Said, Vince Tinguely, Vince, my fellow Fluffy (?) friend, come on up to the microphone, please.] | Video Description: Adjusts mic and introduces next segment. Pauses and reaches to his left to grab a folded up piece of white paper. Reads from it. Calls someone to the stage. Medium shots and extreme closeups throughout. \n\nVince Tinguely\n00:23:43\n[Explains a dream he had involving Donald Sutherland who said, “I like to write as if I am reading.” The audience collectively says, “I love you” in response to Tinguely’s balloon prompts (see video description.) Vince says, “thank you.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera varies between medium shots and extreme closeups as Tinguely sets up unblown balloons and addresses the audience. Tinguely wears large wire-rimmed glasses, a black t-shirt, and white hair. Introduces the piece. Tinguely blows up a pink balloon, invites the audience to say the word “I” that is written on the balloon by waving it above his head. Continues with varying colours and sizes of balloons, each with one word printed on them to spell out the phrase, “I love you.” Tinguely leaves the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:25:19\n[Asks an unknown person to move away so the blackboard is visible (off-camera), which assumingly has bears the names of the open mic performers. Invites Kevin, the next open mic performer, to the stage.] | Video description: A medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic briefly, gesturing for something to be moved out of the way, and introducing the next performer.\n\nKevin\n00:25:47\n[Explains that an old love poem to a lamprey eel and a collage of a lamprey eel were discovered while cleaning. Performs a piece titled “Lamprey, d’amour, My Life is Complete.” Finishes the piece and continues to explain the relationship with the lamprey eel. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups and medium shots as Kevin introduces a piece, performs a piece, continues explaining the piece afterwards. Kevin wears a black long-sleeved sweater and short light brown hair. Kevin holds a large sketchbook that features a collage of a lamprey eel. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:30:58\n[Thanks Kevin, invites Sabrina to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and adjusts it.\n\nSabrina\n00:31:20\n[Introduces and begins performing a piece beginning with the line “images hanging in fountains.” Pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Sabrina adjusts the mic and it tilts downwards. Sabrina wears a patterned black and white long-sleeved shirt and long medium brown hair with bangs swept to the side. Sabrina begins to perform, then pauses. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:32\nVideo Description: Lowers the mic.\n\nSabrina \n00:31:33\n[Says to Gotham that she “will just be loud” and that she will likely “flail” and knock the microphone off its stand anyways. Continues to perform the aforementioned piece.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Sabrina speaks with Gotham who is off-camera, then an extreme closeup zooms out to a medium closeup as Sabrina performs piece with her arms crossed, periodically looking at a small piece of paper tucked in her right hand tucked under her left elbow. \n\nSabrina\n00:34:16\n[Introduces and performs a “travelling poem” beginning with the line “I knew you were bound for the USA,” dedicated to a member of the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup to extreme closeup as Sabrina performs a piece. \n\nSabrina\n00:36:06\n[Introduces and performs an “angry woman poem” beginning with the line “I’m a woman agonized by a torturous itch.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Sabrina performs a piece. \n\nSabrina \n00:36:50\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I put my foot on an oil can.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Sabrina performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:40\n[Thanks Sabrina, invites Rondo to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and adjusts it.\n\nRondo\n00:38:09\n[Introduces and performs a piece about Crad Kilodney titled “Crad.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose and extreme closeups as Rondo performs a piece. Rondo wears a black open cardigan overtop a black shirt, short dark hair pulled back with bangs loose, two thin dark necklaces. \n\n[No signal]\n00:42:53\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:43:04\n[Announces upcoming literary events. Reintroduces Adeena Karasick. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:44:42\n[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “When the word is bound (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Asks Gotham for something indiscernible with gesturing. Medium shot and extreme closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:46:27\n[Performs a piece titled “Autobahn Cruise” (Mêmewars, Talonbooks, 1994). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n00:49:22\n[Performs a chanting piece that includes the line “just a little bit harder” from an unknown project called Squalor. Pauses performance. Says, “I’ve lost my page.” Recommences. Laughter throughout. Applause]. | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as Karasick performs a piece. Partway through, looks through folders of papers on the trolley to find another page. Recommences. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:53:25\nVideo Description: Readjusts the microphone that has begun to tilt downwards. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:53:33\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Parasite Maintenance.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and extreme closeups as Karasick reorganizes papers on trolley and performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:58:46\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Aghast” (The Empress Has No Closure, Talonbooks, 1992). Shortly after starting to perform, briefly pauses and laughs. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece, pausing briefly to laugh near the beginning. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n01:00:22\n[Introduces and performs a chanting piece beginning with the line “can’t get enough serotonin.” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. Gathers papers and water glass and leaves the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:03:32\n[Encourages the audience to ask for an encore. Applause.] | Video Description: Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and claps. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n01:04:12\n[Explains that “things are more uptight in Toronto.” Audience laughs at something unknown, Karasick asks, “what?” Performs a chanting piece beginning with the line, “Ululate pullulations, exhorting (Mortimer?) writhed in (bendable?) straddles.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick introduces and performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:06:55\n[Notes that the last piece Karasick performed will be featured in an issue of Pawn. Mentions that Karasick’s books are for sale at the back. Mentions it is his birthday. Audience begins singing “Happy Birthday,” banging on tables, and clapping. Lee invites D. Holmes to the stage.] | Video Description: Extreme closeups and medium shots as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic. Stands back and smiles as the audience sings. Speaks into the mic again. \n\nD. Holmes\n01:09:06\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line, “Large V8, large grapefruit juice, cup of coffee.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and medium closeups as Holmes performs a piece. Holmes wears a red sweater over a grey collared shirt and short light brown hair swept to the left.\n\nD. Holmes\n01:15:57\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line, “What do you find more in, the lake, do you find more in.” Applause.] | Video Description: Seems to ask someone off stage whether he can perform a little longer. Medium shots and extreme closeups as Holmes performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:17:19\n[Thanks Holmes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:17:28\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Four minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:17:34\n[Mentions that the Fluffy Pagan Echoes will perform next week. Invites David Jager to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic.\n\nDavid Jager\n01:18:15\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Words.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. J. wears a light brown striped button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow and dark brown hair falling onto forehead in strands. \n\nDavid Jager\n01:20:00\n[Asks the audience if they want to hear an angry poem. Cheering. Introduces and performs a piece called “Smoke, Eat, Drive.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. Applause and cheering throughout. \n\nDavid Jager\n01:21:24\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Missing.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as David Jager performs a piece.\n\nDavid Jager\n01:22:30\n[Introduces a piece called “Dream Chicken.” Mumbles while looking through papers. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Looks through papers. Loose and regular closeups as David Jager introduces and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:24:39\n[Sudden cut to Gotham mentioning Endre Farkas will perform in the coming weeks. Invites Mitsiko Miller to the stage.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:25:16\n[Mentions that “this is a very good evening.” Mentions song by Anita Franco. Introduces and performs a piece called “Ennui” in French. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Mitsiko addresses audience and chews gum. Miller wears a black blazer over a black-and-white horizontal-striped shirt, black pants, and bleached hair in a shaggy pixie cut. Miller takes off denim jacket and reveals a black cardigan underneath. Medium shots and extreme closeups as Miller introduces and performs a piece. \n\nMitsiko Miller \n01:27:12 \n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Seguir Adelante, But Going Nowhere” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as Miller introduces and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:29:40\n[Reminds audience that the Fluffy Pagan Echoes will perform the next week. Notes that the next performer is part of the group. Invites Justin McGrail to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic, adjusts the microphone, and pushes the trolley out of the way.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:30:36\n[Mentions the Toronto Star trolley “freaks him out.” Introduces and performs an untitled piece beginning with the line “It’s not about who’s around, secret whispers exclusive soundings.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Justin McGrail addressing the audience. Camera pans down to show outfit. McGrail wears white button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow and a small collar, a dark plaid kilt falling just below the knees with a sporran on a chain in front, tight black pants, white hiking socks scrunched up above black lace-up boots, a bracelet on each wrist, a necklace with a pendant, and short dark hair falling onto forehead. Medium shot to extreme closeup and back again as McGrail performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:32:57\n[Thanks Adeena Karasick. Tells audience to buy books. Thanks Danielle “and company” for the venue. Reminds audience of event on des Pins mentioned earlier. Cut off mid-sentence.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic. Video suddenly ends. \n\nEND\n01:34:07\n[End of recording.]"],"score":3.104972}]