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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":6.742406},{"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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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":6.742406}]