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Alsterlund wears a long-sleeved white turtleneck-style blouse with a cutout between neck and bust, neck-length light brown hair, and round dangle earrings.\n\nTom Chamberlain\n00:16:17\n[Noise of a bench being dragged. Introduces himself and announces he will read some poems, the first one about someone reading a poem at a café, titled “No poems about sex, please.” It has end rhymes. Applause.]  | Video Description: Closeup as Tom Chamberlain drags a bench to the mic, sits on it, then performs a poem. Chamberlain wears a red-and-blue plaid shirt over a white t-shirt, and short blond hair. \n\nTom Chamberlain\n00:17:14\nThis is a deconstructionist poem, so feel free to take it apart [laughter]. It’s called, “This poem contains content” [laughter]. It’s like those sex ads at night, where the woman comes on TV and says, “Are you lonely? We are” [laughter]. [Performs “This poem contains content.” Laughter throughout. Applause. 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. Sets up his piece as if in a play, saying “Now, a young man enters, stands, takes his space.” Performs the first part of a piece inspired by television, beginning with the line, “The television surveys the audience.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy as he picks up some papers and walks to the mic to salute the audience. Elfassy wears a long-sleeved striped shirt atop a darker t-shirt and buzz cut hair. Walks away and then back to the mic, as an actor entering the stage in a play. Performs a piece while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. Elfassy gesticulates as if pressing a remote control towards the audience.\n\nRan Elfassy and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:25:35\n[Performs the second part of his piece, beginning with the dedication, “This is for all of those of you who bleed.” Scattered laughter after some lines.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy performing the second part of his piece. Elfassy often gesticulates, acting out lines of the piece.\n\nRan Elfassy and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:25:53\n[Performs the third part of his piece, beginning with the line, “If you don’t believe in abortions, you shouldn’t have one.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy performing the third part of his piece.\n\nRan Elfassy and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:27:34\n[Performs the fourth and last part of his piece, beginning with the dedication, “Slogans passing out.” Scattered laughter after some lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy performing the fourth and last part of his piece. 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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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":5.6736155},{"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":5.6736155}]