[{"id":"3976","cataloger_name":["Carlos A.,Pittella"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["Lee Gotham collection"],"source_collection_label":["Lee Gotham collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Spokenweb at Concordia University"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Lee Gotham collection contains the AV recordings regarding the Enough Said series, including readings, performances, open-mic, and spoken-word events that took place at Bistro 4 and other Montreal venues between December 1994 and June 1996."],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Enough Said 1995-04-17, Joseph"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["On tape labels and corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the event headliner."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["Lee Gotham collection"],"item_subseries_title":["Enough Said"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights_notes":["Rights status in process. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer."],"creator_names":["Gotham, Lee","Joseph, Clifton"],"creator_names_search":["Gotham, Lee","Joseph, Clifton"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112\",\"name\":\"Gotham, Lee\",\"dates\":\"1962-\",\"notes\":\"Lee Gotham was also the MC of this event.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\",\"Producer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/104182171\",\"name\":\"Joseph, Clifton\",\"dates\":\"1957-\",\"notes\":\"Headliner.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Duncan, Drew","Marcel (?)","Nawrocki, Norman","McGrail, Justin","Hawley, Steve (Liquid)","Sabrina","Paco W.","Andy","Unknown Performer","Ed","Lion Man","Christine","Godin, Steve","Simon","Tom","David J.","Mark"],"contributors_names_search":["Duncan, Drew","Marcel (?)","Nawrocki, Norman","McGrail, Justin","Hawley, Steve (Liquid)","Sabrina","Paco W.","Andy","Unknown Performer","Ed","Lion Man","Christine","Godin, Steve","Simon","Tom","David J.","Mark"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Drew\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Videographer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Marcel (?)\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/34063513\",\"name\":\"Nawrocki, Norman\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106255768\",\"name\":\"McGrail, Justin\",\"dates\":\"1968-\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106300281\",\"name\":\"Hawley, Steve (Liquid)\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Sabrina\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Paco W.\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Andy\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Unknown Performer\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Ed\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Lion Man\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Christine\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/105712077\",\"name\":\"Godin, Steve\",\"dates\":\"1956-\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Simon\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Tom\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"David J.\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer. 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Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1995-04-10, ga press; (2) Enough Said 1995-04-17, Joseph; and (3) Enough Said 1995-05-01, Stephens, Suderman, Diamond and McGrail. The asset was digitized, generating both uncompressed and compressed video files; the compressed files were then split into events to facilitate the transcription work. Metadata entries based on events.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Faith Paré\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"Carlos A. Pittella\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/757290350\",\"citation\":\"Nawrocki, Norman. Rebel Moon: @narchist Rants & Poems. Edinburgh: AK Press, 1997.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/15946845\",\"citation\":\"Joseph, Clifton. Metropolitan blues. Toronto: Domestic Bliss, c1983.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/755015866\",\"citation\":\"Zetlin, Liz, & Myke Dyer (directors). Words Aloud : the spoken word festival, 2007 [DVD]. Markdale, ON & Mississauga, ON.: McNabb Connolly, 2009 [Includes performances by Clifton Joseph].\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549157314560,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:04\nVideo description: Colour video. Long-shot of host Lee Gotham on the stage of the venue Bistro 4 (Quatre), addressing audience with opening remarks. Stage is juxtaposed with four large windowpanes that look onto vehicles and passerby on Saint-Laurent Boulevard. Evening. A large orb-shaped light hangs above the stage. Orange curtains are draped at the top of the windows. A number of unknown audience members are visible in the initial camera view. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:05\nEvening, peoples, peoples, peoples. Thank you very much, once again, for coming out, taking in some of the sights and sounds of the Main on a Monday evening in spring. We've got a hot show for you guys tonight. [Laughs] It'll be a lot of fun, gonna be some serious fun as well. To get into things without blabbing about local events, as I'll probably find ample opportunity to do so during various points during the evening, I'd like to just say, well, you know, thanks for coming. Clifton's really going to dig it, I know you're going to dig him and, um, I got a couple special surprises, the first of who I'll introduce right now. It's Norman Nawrocki. Can you welcome Norman, he's going to kick things off for us. [Audience applause]. | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjusting microphone stand. Gotham wears a white collared shirt atop a graphic t-shirt, long brown hair in bun, and a beard. Gotham introduces Norman Nawrocki, and adjusts microphone.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n00:00:57\n[Addresses audience. Introduces \"Soldiers for Jesus, Get Off!\" (later published in Rebel Moon: Anarchist Rants and Poems, AK Press, 1997). Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Narrocki wears a hoodie atop a collared shirt and short blond/brown hair. C. Lee Gotham exits frame.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n00:01:30\n[Performs \"Soldiers for Jesus.\" Audience snapping, stomping, and laughter throughout. Audience applause at the end.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki reads poem from a sheet of paper, snapping fingers to lead audience. After performing, Nawrocki exits via stage left. Lee Gotham passes through camera view. Various unknown audience members pass back and forth through camera view, briefly blocking Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:40\n[Introduces Marcel (?). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham introduces Marcel and exits stage left.\n\nMarcel\n00:04:17\n[Addresses audience. Reads in French and then translates to English a few lines from Victor Hugo's \"La Function du poète,\" beginning with \"Peuples ! Écoutez le poète !\"] | Video Description: Marcel enters from stage right. Marcel wears a white turtleneck, short brown hair, and a grey beard.  Addresses audience through microphone then reads poem from book.\n\nMarcel\n00:05:07\n[Addresses audience and reads \"Poem,\" beginning with the line \"There's a rustling in the silence.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Marcel addresses audience while flipping through publications, then reads poem from held publication.\n\nMarcel\n00:07:20\n[Addresses audience and performs Unnamed Poem 2, in English. Audience applause.] | Marcel briefly addresses audience and reads poem from publication, pacing back and forth on stage, projecting voice without using microphone. \n\nMarcel\n00:09:00\n[Performs Unnamed Poem 3, beginning in French then switching to English mid-poem. Audience applause]. | Video Description: Marcel shuffles through papers and publications then performs Unnamed Poem 3, moving from stage left to stage right throughout. Nods at audience, gathers pages and publications; then nods to Lee Gotham who walks onto stage from stage left. Marcel and Gotham briefly interact and Marcel exits stage right. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:26\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Mark.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience at microphone. Introduces Mark and exits stage left. \n\nMark\n00:14:21\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Inkling Magazine. Introduces \"The Man in the Street\".] | Video Description: Mark enters stage left and addresses audience. Mark wears a black graphic t-shirt and long curly black hair.\n\nMark\n00:15:00\n[Reads \"The Man in the Street.\"] | Video Description: Mark reads short story from a stack of pages.\n\nMark \n00:22:45\n[Interacts with Lee Gotham, saying \"almost.\" Addresses audience. Resumes reading \"The Man in the Street\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham leans into camera view, saying something to Mark. Mark and Gotham briefly interact. Gotham exits frame. Mark addresses audience and finishes reading, before exiting stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:26:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Justin McGrail, from Fluffy Pagan Echoes.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Lee Gotham walks off via stage left. \n\nJustin McGrail\n00:27:36\n[Interacts with an offscreen audience member. Addresses audience. Introduces the dance-poetry show \"Of Fire and Sword\" as context for his first piece.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail walks on stage from stage left. McGrail wears a brown coat or blazer with pins on collar and short brown hair. McGrail briefly interacts with unseen audience member before addressing audience through microphone.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:28:13\n[Begins performing \"Of Fire and Sword\" but immediately laughs and addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes performing \"Of Fire and Sword.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail closes eyes and recites words. Turns face away and mutters before laughing. Then addresses audience into microphone and resumes reciting the poem.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:29:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and performs \"Circle\". Thanks audience. Audience applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Justin McGrail addressing audience. McGrail reads poem from piece of paper. Addresses audience before exiting via stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:02\n[Addresses audience. Promotes next edition of Enough Said. Announces fifteen-minute break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham enters stage via stage right and addresses audience. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Audience members passing in front of camera briefly obscures view.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:31:55\nAmbient sounds, voices. | Video Description: Camera cuts to a close up shot of the lone mic.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:57\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Norman Nawrocki's Human Life International counterprotests. Introduces Clifton Joseph. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks onto stage via stage right and addresses audience at microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:34:16\n[Interacts with Lee Gotham. Addresses audience. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Jospeh enters stage via stage left, drinking from glass. Joseph wears a brown button-up vest atop a light green short-sleeved shirt, black-framed glasses, and short black hair. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone to Clifton Joseph's height. Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:35:57\n[Recites from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.\" Addresses audience throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience and recites poetry, making occasional gestures that emphasize portions of the poem.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:36:30\n[Laughs. Addresses audience, mentioning Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, bill bissett, and The Four Horsemen (sound poetry group), among others. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:41:25\n[Performs poem beginning with singing and the line, \"When I look at the situation\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem, occasionally using pointing, snaps, and other gestures to emphasize the performance.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:42:26\n[Performs a poem with vocalizing a melody and the line \"See, you never know what a man may do\". Audience clapping along to beat.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:43:07\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"Damn, damn, damn, what a scam, what a sham\". Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Sips from glass. Addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:44:11\n[Imitates R&B singing group. Sings from \"Harlem Blues\". Addresses audience. Asks audience for lighter. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Clifton Joseph takes out a pack of cigarettes and lights one with a match from an audience member.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:46:30\n[Resumes addressing audience. Introduces and performs \"I Remember Back Home\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Performs poem. Ashes cigarette and drinks from glass. \n\nClifton Joseph\n00:49:30\n[Performs \"Pimps.\"] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. \n\nClifton Joseph\n00:52:05\n[Initiates call-and-response with audience.] | Video description: Cups hand to ear.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:53:29\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause; audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph smokes cigarette and crushes it under foot. Drinks from glass. Addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:55:35\n[Performs \"Chuckie Prophesy\". Audience applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from water glass. Addresses audience.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:58:10\n[Interacts with Clifton Joseph.] | Video Description: Audience_Member1 interacts with Clifton Joseph.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:58:16\n[Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:59:13\n[Performs \"Slo-Mo\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from glass. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:04:00\n[Begins performing \"A Chant for Monk\". Interacts with unknown audience member off-screen. Laughs. Audience laughter. Resumes performing \"A Chant for Monk\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Camera zooms in as Clifton Joseph interacts briefly with offscreen audience member.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:08:08\n[Initiates audience call-and-response. Resumes performing \"A Chant for Monk\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs, with gestures that accentuate performance. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:09:12\n[Finishes performing \"A Chant for Monk\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph interacts with Lee Gotham. Clifton Joseph bows for audience applause.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:09:51\n[Addresses audience. Promotes upcoming events, including Clifford Duffy’s \"The Invention of God.\"] | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone and addresses audience. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:11:06\n[Introduces Clifton Joseph's second set. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Jump cut. Extreme close-up on Lee Gotham addressing audience. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:12:14\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause and laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph speaking into microphone, addressing audience. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:13:32\n[Introduces and performs \"Lookin' for a Job.\" Audience laughter. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph drinks from a glass in front of the microphone, then continues addressing audience. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing. Joseph improvises various gesticulations for emphasis, such as raising glasses off his face on the word \"sight.\" \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:16:06\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with audience member. Audience laughter throughout. Introduces and performs \"(Metropolitan Blues?).\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing and laughing into microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:24:00\n[Briefly performs from \"Special Request\" before addressing audience.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Briefly gesticulates as he performs lines from a song. Adjusts and speaks into microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:24:45\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"It is dumb, dumb, dumb.\" Concludes with audience call-and-response. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performing into microphone. Clifton Joseph points toward audience to initiate call-and-response.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:26:13\n[Addresses audience, interacting with individual audience members throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Accepts glass from unseen audience member and drinks from it. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:30:27\n[Performs poem beginning with loud vocalizations that turn from singing to screaming. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph removes microphone from stand, places down glass, and holds microphone in hand. Camera pans across stage as Clifton Joseph performs, facing away from audience. Joseph turns toward audience and places microphone in stand. Lee Gotham briefly adjusts microphone as Joseph performs. Joseph moves microphone stand to stage right. Camera follows Joseph as he walks through audience performing. Audience applauds. Joseph wipes face with hand and walks through the crowd, exiting the camera's view. Camera pans back toward the stage. Lee Gotham enters frame and approaches microphone from stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:34:23\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Lee Gotham, who speaks into microphone and claps along with audience. He exits the frame. Camera pans across audience applauding. Joseph reenters frame. Camera pans, following Joseph walking toward the stage. Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham and Joseph embrace, and Joseph dances on stage. Joseph bows.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:35:00\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph speaks into microphone, addressing audience. Drinks from glass before walking off stage via stage left. Lee Gotham walks to stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:35:21\n[Addresses audience and announces break. Laughs.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Brief VCR static.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:36:02\n[Addresses audience. Reads from Unnamed Periodical. Addresses audience member (\"See you later, Bob\") and resumes addressing audience. Announces open mic and its first performer, Steve Hawley.] | Video Description: Close-up on Lee Gotham speaking into microphone and reading from a periodical. Lee Gotham exits frame and returns with a dictionary. Waves to an audience member off-screen before addressing audience again. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:37:38\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Audience_Member2.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham moves out of frame. Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley enters stage from stage left. Hawley wears a black sweatshirt and backward baseball cap on short dark hair. Hawley holds a cigarette. Hawley lifts microphone from stand and holds it close to mouth while addressing audience. Camera zooms out, revealing Hawley holding a glass.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:38:21\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line \"We got (?) children's candy.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley raps into microphone.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:38:46\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with unknown audience member. Introduces and performs piece beginning with the line \"I see people on a mission every day of their lives\". Laughs; audience laughter.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley speaks to audience and briefly dances while making a joke. Places down glass. Camera zooms in to close-up as Hawley introduces and performs next piece. Hawley raps into microphone, briefly laughs, and continues performing.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:41:14\n[Introduces and performers piece beginning with the line \"It's rough, growing up without peers.\" Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley raps into microphone. Camera zooms out as Hawley exits frame. Lee Gotham claps while walking up to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:43:27\n[Addresses audience. Announces Sabrina. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Gotham speaks to audience. Sabrina moves across screen, walking toward stage. Gotham adjusts microphone to Sabrina's height and exits stage left. \n\nSabrina\n01:43:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and performs \"(?) Blues.\" Laughs and addresses audience mid-poem. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as Sabrina addresses audience. Sabrina wears a dark jacket, patterned scarf around neck, and brown, shoulder-length hair with a clip. Reads poem from a piece of paper. Looks toward applauding audience members off-screen. Stops reading and addresses audience, making \"finger-gun\" motions. Laughs and looks behind left shoulder, away from audience, then recites the rest of the poem. Walks out of frame.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:47:35\n[Addresses audience. Announces Andy. Interacts with Andy, before announcing Paco W.] | Video Description: Sabrina moves across camera view as Lee Gotham arrives at microphone. Lee Gotham addresses audience. Gotham exits frame.\n\nPaco W.\n01:48:31\n[Reads a piece beginning with the line \"I will telling of nothing, nothing, I'll tell you.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco walks to microphone and makes brief \"sign of the horns\" gesture. Paco wears a collared shirt, an earring in left ear, and short brown hair. Paco adjusts microphone before reading poem from a stack of pages.\n\nPaco W.\n01:50:26\n[Introduces and reads from \"Fragments of Our (Kin?).\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco steps briefly away from microphone. Passing audience member obscures camera view. Paco looks down toward pages and steps back in front of microphone. Reads into microphone from stack of pages. Walks off-screen. Lee Gotham returns to microphone and adjusts stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:51:51\n[Addresses Andy. Introduces Andy. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Andy (who is off-screen) before walking off-screen.\n\nAndy\n01:52:13\n[Addresses audience. Reads Unnamed Piece. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts upward as Andy walks to microphone. Andy wears a red shirt, black toque, a necklace, and curly chin-length hair. Andy reads from notebook.\n\nAndy\n01:53:35\n[Reads \"Quiet.\" Audience laughter throughout. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Andy closes notebook and turns around to grab a piece of paper before speaking into microphone. Looks down at page while reading. Moves away from microphone and walks out-of-frame via stage left. Lee Gotham moves to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:55:20\n[Addresses and introduces David J.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone addressing David J. (who is off-screen) before exiting stage-left, out of frame. \n\nDavid J.\n01:55:29\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"Who Do?\" Audience laughter, applause.] | Video Description: David J. walks to microphone and addresses audience. J. wears a black sweater atop a grey collared shirt and short black hair. Camera zooms out as David speaks to audience while flipping through a notebook. Reads from notebook.\n\nDavid J.\n01:56:10\n[Introduces \"Cadillac Bomb.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. speaks to audience while flipping through notebook. Reads from notebook. \n\nDavid J.\n01:56:55\nIntroduces and reads \"The Devil's Got the Goods\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. steps away from microphone and flips through notebook. Speaks, inaudibly, to off-screen audience member. Addresses audience. Camera zooms in as David reads from notebook. David steps away from microphone and nods to audience, before walking stage left, off-screen. Lee Gotham approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:58:42\n[Addresses audience. Asks about Jeff, then invites Unknown_Reader1 to the stage.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience. An unnamed audience member briefly passes in front of Lee Gotham. \n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:59:23\n[Introduces and reads (\"Also Badge\"?).] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 approaches microphone with a stack of papers. Unknown_Reader1 wears a pink t-shirt and long straight brown hair. Reads from stack of papers.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:59:55\n[Introduces and reads \"For Salman\" (Salman Rushdie). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n02:00:32\n[Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem. Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers. Addresses audience and walks from microphone, exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:01:41\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with Ed.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience before interacting briefly with Ed off-screen. Ed enters from stage left as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Ed moves toward microphone and Lee Gotham exits stage left.\n\nEd\n02:01:59\n[Introduces and reads \"Open Hand, Empty Hand.\" Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ed addresses audience. Ed wears a dark trench coat atop a collared shirt and brown hair in bowl-cut style. Reads poem. Addresses audience and exits stage left. Lee Gotham enters and moves to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:04:06\n[Addresses audience. Announces Lion Man.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone, addressing audience and Lion Man. Gotham adjusts microphone as Lion Man enters frame from stage right.\n\nLion Man\n02:04:25\n[Makes purring noise into microphone. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Lion Man addresses audience. Lion man wears an emerald green vest, a brown collared shirt, and straight chin-length brown hair. \n\nLion Man\n02:04:30\n[Performs \"Impropaganda.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man recites poem into the microphone.\n\nLion Man\n02:06:28\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem, about \"if water and plant life could speak to us.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man steps away from microphone and smiles. Addresses audience. Flips through notebook before addressing audience. Reads poem from notebook. Closes notebook and steps away from microphone, exiting stage right. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham enters from stage left, clapping, and walks up to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:09:33\n[Thanks Lion Man. Announces Christine. Promotes upcoming event, Clifford Duffy’s \"The Invention of God,\" at the Woodstock Bar.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, speaking into microphone. Christine enters frame from stage left and flips through papers. Gotham adjusts microphone and walks off-camera, exiting stage left.\n\nChristine\n02:10:04\n[Addresses audience. Audience response. Laughs and resumes addressing audience.] | Video Description: Christine stands to the side of microphone, flipping through pages. Christine wears a black collared shirt, light-wash jeans with a large belt buckle, and short blonde hair. Christine walks up to the microphone and addresses audience. Christine laughs at and flips through pages. \n\nChristine\n02:10:43\n[Reads a poem beginning with the line \"Why do I feel so (?) like a little girl.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Christine reading from notebook. Looks down away from audience. Camera zooms out as Christine flips to a new page.\n\nChristine\n02:11:52\n[Reads a poem beginning with the line \"Okay, it's all over now.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Flips through notebook pages before settling on a new page.\n\nChristine\n02:13:30\n[Reads from \"Unfinished Poems.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Walks from microphone and off-screen via stage left. Christine is seen again passing through camera's view. Lee Gotham enters from stage left and walks to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:14:37\n[Addresses audience. Thanks Christine. Announces Steve Godin.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. An unknown audience member passes briefly through camera view. Gotham exits as Steve Godin walks toward the microphone from stage right.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:14:57\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: Steve Godin addresses audience while looking through pages. Godin wears a black leather jacket atop a black t-shirt and long grey straight hair. Reads from a stack of pages. Addresses audience and exits via stage right. Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:18:47\n[Thanks Steve Godin. Announces Simon.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience and exits stage left. \n\nSimon\n02:19:05\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"Pulling Me In.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down as Simon approaches microphone. Simon wears a blue long sleeve t-shirt, round glasses, and collar-length straight brown hair. Camera zooms in as Simon addresses audience. Simon reads into the microphone.\n\nSimon\n02:19:50\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"The Day with the Face.\" Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Simon steps briefly away from microphone before stepping back and addressing audience. Simon raises stack of pages higher, into frame. Reads from stack of pages. Steps away from microphone and looks down. Speaks briefly into microphone before exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage right. Gotham takes cigarette out of mouth.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:23:43\n[Thanks Simon. Interacts with off-screen audience member (Jean-Luc). Introduces Tom. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, laughing throughout. Gotham moves from microphone and exits stage right. \n\nTom\n02:24:31\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter] Introduces and performs \"Call Before You Dig.\"] | Video Description: Tom enters from stage left. Tom wears a navy flannel jacket, black backwards baseball cap, and blond hair. Reads from pages.\n\nTom\n02:26:20\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause. Introduces and reads \"The Conspiracy of the (?) Dentist.\" Laughs. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Tom steps away from microphone and shuffles through pages. Approaches microphone and addresses audience. Reads from pages. Then exits stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone clapping. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:27:56\n[Addresses audience with concluding remarks.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, removes cigarette from mouth, and resumes speaking. 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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":7.181414}]