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Last instalment of Enough Said, (?), for the season. We’ll be back in the fall. “Apocalypse whimper.” How many people wondered about that if they saw it even listed. But it’s something of an apology, and it’s directed to, well, immediately after thanks, thanks and more thanks to Danielle and the staff from the Bistro 4 [applause]. Immediately thereafter follows my apology, “Apocalypse whimper.” The whimper is directed toward yourselves. It goes something like this. It’s a little something I wrote myself. | Video Description: Camera zooms in and settles into a medium closeup of Lee Gotham walking to the stage smoking a cigarette and adjusting the mic. Gotham wears a grey open sweater with leaf details over a t-shirt with the words “RACISM / 100% PURE / IGNORANCE,” full beard, and hair tied in a bun. Gotham makes introductory remarks.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:02:22\n[Performs “Apocalypse whimper”: the first part by whimpering, then parts two and three by reciting from memory.] | Video Description: Medium closeup. Lee Gotham performs “Apocalypse whimper” by, first, lifting his arms as in a brief adoration dance, then dropping to the floor, where the camera cannot find him. Gotham then stands up and recites the second and third parts of the piece, looking at the palm of his own right hand as if it were a mirror.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:04:59\nAnd that was my apology and for the end of the season, you know, a lot of real (fond?) events, and I thank you very kindly, one and all, once again for supporting us and everyone surrounding us at this moment. If you have a TV (?), everyone is aware I’m sure that (?) smile from coast to coast this evening [laughter]. Alright, without further ado [applause] I do have—I do have one other tidbit, actually have (about?) six but gotta choose one because we can’t afford it this early in the evening. We’re going to just roll, straight through this evening events, no break, no open mic, I apologize again to any enthusiastic openmikers, but, as we’ve got so much material to get through this evening in such a short period of time, I’d like to forge straight ahead with it. [Briefly leaves the stage] Thank you very much, Danielle, for that very useful technical advice, everyone else bear it in mind as well. (And now I’m?) under the lights, how’s that? We’ll move the wire in a little, in a little while. In any case, to stay tuned to the literary scene, as it really is coming to fruition, you know, it’s really coming together out here, in venues like this, I would really like to encourage everyone to pick up a copy for example of “Index”; it’s a superb creative and informative guide to the literary scene here in town. Don’t buy into the petty politicking that’s been going on around us. It’s a terrific service provided by open-minded individuals of the utmost integrity [audience member shouts “Right on!” Applause]. | Video Description: Medium closeup. Lee Gotham makes more remarks about the event and goes off camera.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:07:10\nNow I have the immense pleasure of introducing someone who, at least to us local fans as well as people that are interested in poetry of import from coast to coast, someone who doesn’t need that introduction, a very important part of our literary scene, Ian Stephens, if I can ask you to come up and give us once again your words, I would be as appreciative as possible [applause and laughter]. | Video Description: Medium closeup. Lee Gotham returns to the stage and introduces the next performer.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:07:43\n[Applause. Thanks Lee Gotham for the introduction and for the season of poetry all enjoyed. More applause. Performs “Christmas Eve, 93” (titled “24/12/93” in Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995).] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup of Ian Stephens at the stage. Stephens wears wears a wine-coloured button-down shirt unbuttoned at the top over a wine-colour t-shirt, short hair, a stud on the left earlobe, and a multicolour bead necklace. Stephens adjusts the mic, which was set too short for him, and performs a poem by heart.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:10:25\n[Performs “Queer in America” (recorded as a song in Wining Dining Drilling, En Guard Records, 1993). 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Stephens adds, “That’s a joke.” Begins performing “They AIDS guy” (published in Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995).] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and medium long shot of Ian Stephens at the stage, performing a poem while consulting a book.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:18:37\n[During the performance of “The AIDS guy,” after reading the word “crossed,” Stephen ad libs, in a whisper, “That’s true,” to which the audience erupts into laughter for 10 seconds.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Ian Stephens at the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:21:05\n[Dramatic pause in the middle of the performance of “The AIDS guy,” lasting 15 seconds. The audience is so silent that one hears part of a phone conversation in the background, between a Bistro 4 employee and a customer who called the bistro’s landline.] | Video Description: Closeup of Ian Stephens at the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:21:20\n[Resumes the performance of “They AIDS guy.” Applause.] | Closeup of Ian Stephens at the stage, performing a poem while consulting a book. At the end of the performance, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot; before leaving the stage and after thanking the audience, Stephens raises his right fist amid applause, then stores his book inside a black messenger bag.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:22:03\n[Lee Gotham thanks Ian Stephens and announces three more performers for the evening. Explaining the next act needs a few minutes to set up, Gotham says they will play some music. The ambient sounds are so loud that the music is not recognizable except for muffled drums.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham, now wearing nothing over his t-shirt. Gotham updates the audience about the evening’s schedule, raising his right arm as a makeshift visor to block the stage light from his eyes. Gotham leaves the stage; the camera stays on the lone mic, registering multiple people passing by.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:25:21\n[Returns to the stage, shouting to get the audience’s attention. Announces the next performer as Lynn Suderman and, after asking if anyone else is hot, opens the sliding window.]  Video Description: Medium closeup. Lee Gotham returns to the stage and makes more remarks with his right arm raised to block stage light. Slides the main window open.\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:26:47\n[Loud noise of a chainsaw. Laughter and applause. Lynn Suderman enters the stage though the window, carrying a running chainsaw, and starts reciting a piece even before switching the engine off: “I was just a kid when I fell in love with horror movies.” The text seems to be part of “Meltdown,” which is the third part of a larger project, as Lee Gotham later explains.] | Video Description: Medium long shot, then camera following the performer’s entrance and trembles, before settling into a medium closeup. Lynn Suderman enters the stage through the window while holding a chainsaw and a construction helmet with attached visor and ear mufflers. Suderman wears black pants and a black unbuttoned rain jacket over a buttoned down plaid blue shirt. Suderman first removes the helmet, revealing short black hair, then removes the rain jacket, revealing a large wristwatch with golden details on the left arm, and finally puts on a baseball cap with the initials “MF,” for the Massey Ferguson machinery company. Suderman frequently interrupts the reading to gift objects to the audience, including patches and paper bags with different kinds of seeds.\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:37:04\n[Performs what seems to be an independent piece, titled “The Boyfriend Piece,” with frequent unscripted interruptions to interact with the audience.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lynn Suderman, performing a poem while consulting a printout, with frequent ad libbing. \n\nLynn Suderman\n00:39:12\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line, “A swather cuts the ripe grain and piles it into windrows”, perhaps still part of Meltdown. As Suderman reads the opening line, there is noise from a coffee-making machine, which the performer acknowledges as “more equipment.” Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium shot then medium closeup of Lynn Suderman performing. After the set, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot; we see Suderman collecting equipment into a large duffel bag and kissing Lee Gotham on the cheek before leaving the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:40:19\n[Ambient sounds, voices. Lee Gotham explains that the piece Lynn Suderman performed, titled “Meltdown,” was the third part of a larger epic project. Gotham then announces two more performers, Ann Diamond and Justin McGrail, coming after a 10-minute happy-hour break, in which beer would be only $2.50.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham, who updates the audience regarding the evening’s program and announces a break. Gotham scratches his left clavicle, fixes his hair behind his right ear, and frequently raises his right arm to block the stage light from his eyes. The video cuts mid-sentence to the lone mic, still in a medium closeup.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:42:32\n[Ambient sounds, loud voices. When Gotham returns to the stage after the break, he introduces the next performer, Ann Diamond, emphasizing Diamond was one of the earliest performers in the series. Gotham explains Diamond will read from the volume Terrorist Letters (Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 1992). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of lone mic. Gotham returns to the stage, again wearing a sweater over his t-shirt. Gotham announces the next performer while holding the Ann Diamond’s book “Terrorist Letters” with his left hand, frequently lifting the left arm and book to block stage light.\n\nAnn Diamond\n00:44:48\n[Applause. Makes a few remarks and reads a series of short pieces from Terrorist Letters (Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 1992): “Recession,” “The Unthinkable,” “How I Became a Terrorist,” “It Was Another Hellish Summer,” “Shoe Salesman,” “Finn De Leone,” “Laboratory,” “A Man Is an Insane Woman,” and “Vanishing Point.” Diamond also ad libs, sometimes mid-poem, causing laughter among the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot while Ann Diamond enters the stage, soon zooming into a closeup and later into a medium shot. Diamond wears a jean jacket over a grey cowl-neck sweater and pixie-cut blond hair with bangs. Diamond holds a book with the left hand and a large and almost full beer mug with the right.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:01:44\n[Thanks Ann Diamond and announces another 10-minute break before Justin McGrail’s performance. Before the break, Gotham advertises an upcoming event: “Of Fire and Sword, a Highlander’s tale, an evening of dance and the spoken word,” a collaboration of Cameron MacMaster’s Duodance Company with Justin McGrail and (Jean?) Alison Hackney.] | Video Description: Zoom in from medium long shot to medium closeup as Lee Gotham enters the stage. Gotham updates the audience regarding the evening’s program and upcoming events, then announces a break. The video cuts mid-sentence to the audience applauding before panning to a medium closeup of the lone mic.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:03:07\n[Applause and ambient sound. An audience member says, “I like your kilt” and Justin McGrail thanks them. Laughter. McGrail performs “The dream day” against a potpourri of background music playing through the boombox; one of the background music pieces is recognizable as “Cravo Canela” performed by The Charlie Rouse Band. 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Farkas wears a leather jacket, short salt-and-pepper hair, fedora.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:01:12\n[Reads “For Those Who Deny the Holocaust”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Endre Farkas reads, glancing down occasionally, then back up to look across the audience.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:02:24\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause. Introduces “The Missing Link” (from Surviving Words).] | Video Description: Endre Farkas addresses audience, introducing the next poem.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:02:48\n[Reads “The Missing Link”.] | Video Description: Endre Farkas reads.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:05:30\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause. Introduces “O Canada.”] | Video Description: Endre Farkas puts an unseen object down, before addressing audience.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:05:59\n[Reads “O Canada”.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to medium closeup on Endre Farkas reading, then zooms into closeup.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:10:48\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause. Dog barks.] | Video Description: Endre Farkas addresses audience and steps away from microphone. Camera zooms out as Farkas walks across the stage, exiting on the right-side of the frame. \n\n[No signal]\n00:10:52\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:10:56\n[Addresses audience. Audience member interacts with Unknown_Reader1 (howls like a dog). Audience laughter. Introduces Unknown Poem 1.] | Video Description: Closeup on Unknown_Reader1 addressing audience. Unknown_Reader1 wears rectangular-shaped glasses, short light hair under toque, moustache, and beard.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:11:12\n[Reads piece beginning with the line \"Yes, our time passes and only dreams save us\").] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 reads. Camera zooms out to medium closeup, revealing Unknown Performer 1 reading from paper in an open binder.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:12:12\n[Thanks audience. Addresses audience, encouraging applause for “the boys” (likely to mean organizers Ian Ferrier and Lee Gotham). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 looks up to audience and addresses them. Applauds along with audience . Camera shakes while zooming out to medium shot. Unknown_Reader1 walks from microphone toward stage right.\n\n[No signal]\n00:12:19\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:12:24\nNow I don't know how many of you have been around Saint Lawrence street over the last several years. Is Chancey here? Chancey? [Audience member responds.] Still in the room? Oh, he just stepped out. Well, there were a couple of readings that have gone on up and down Saint Lawrence street over the several years. Off the Boulevard, Chancey and Peter worked on for a long time. The current incarnation is a wonderful series of readings that occur each Monday night around 9 o'clock at the Bistro 4, that's the corner of Duluth and Saint Lawrence. They're curated, managed, put together by our next reader, Lee Gotham, hailing from Britain, here in Montreal now five years. I'd like you all to welcome Lee. [Audience applause. Ambient sounds (voices). | Video Description: Closeup on event host, Fortner Anderson, looking to audience and addressing them through microphone. Anderson wears dark collared shirt, black browline glasses, and short grey hair. Anderson briefly diverts attention off-stage before resuming addressing audience. Nods at conclusion of introductory marks to Lee Gotham, exiting via the left side of the frame. \n[Building Danse stage]\n00:13:17\nCamera zooms out to a medium long shot on the lone microphone, bathed in the glow of a spotlight hanging on stage right. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:20\nVideo Description: Lee Gotham enters the stage via stage right. Gotham wears a loose shirt, dark trousers, long brown hair tied in bun, and a beard,. Camera zooms into medium closeup as Gotham picks up microphone and unravels cord from around stand, moving the stand away to stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:44\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"The problem is we get wasted in alleyways\").] | Video Description: Camera zooms into medium closeup shot on Lee Gotham pacing slowly across the stage and reading into microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:01\n[Pauses. Addresses audience. Vocalizes. Audience members briefly interact.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham breathes before addressing audience. Camera zoom into closeup as Gotham pauses and closes eyes. Gotham hums into microphone. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:30\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"Those wheels\").] | Video Description: Lee Gotham performs, pacing around the stage. Camera zooms in and out between medium closeup and extreme closeup on Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:57\n[Transitions into addressing audience. Audience laughter. Audience applause. Addresses videographer Drew Duncan. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, causing more audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham laughs and smiles at the applause. Camera zooms into closeup on Lee Gotham, who looks into camera lens and addresses videographer Drew Duncan. Gotham addresses audience, walking toward stage right. \n\nFortner Anderson\n00:15:35\nThat’s a strong conclusion to our first set. [Audience laughter.] But he’ll be back, he’ll be back, he’s promised to come back in the third set. He’s poring over his texts as we speak. [Audience laughter.] Now, I’d like to remind you all that the recession is now officially over, and you can spend your hard-earned money back at the beer fountain, each and every one of you should drink two or three. [Audience laughter, ambient sounds (voices)]. Now I’d like to introduce our musical interlude with the Hieronymus Borscht Nonet, and we’ll be back in about fifteen-twenty minutes for our second set. It’s going to be all groups. [Ambient sounds (tuning instrument). Audience interaction (whistle).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Fortner Anderson addressing audience, pacing across the stage. Camera pans across stage, ceiling, and floor of venue.\n\n[No signal]\n00:17:23\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nHieronymus Borscht Nonet\n00:17:28\n[Performs Unknown Composition. Ambient noise (voices).] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on guitarist, Sam Shalabi, glancing between sheet music and guitar, chewing something. Shalabi wears a yellow shirt, short dark hair, and glasses. Camera zooms out to medium shot of the two musicians, including an unknown pianist next to amps on stools and sitting before two large-paned windows. Unknown_Musician1 wears a  patterned shirt, white pants, short dark hair. Camera zooms into closeup on Unknown_Musician1 who reads sheet music while playing. An audience member briefly passes in front of the camera’s view. Camera continues to pan between Shalabi and Unknown_Musician1, and zoom in and out. \n\n[No signal]\n00:18:48\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:18:52\n[Vocalizes (mic check).] | Video Description: Camera cuts to closeup on the side profile of Lee Gotham, speaking into microphone and facing stage-right. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:18:54\nWelcome back, one and all, to our second set. Please, all hecklers, remember that you had your chance earlier, so just mellow for a moment. Okay, in the second set of our presentation, we have for you some amazing groups. We have Swifty Lazarus, Corey, Colin Frost (Corey Frost and Colin Christie) from ga press, le Groupe de Poésie Moderne, and the Fluffy Pagan Echoes, all in one very nice package. [Audience laughter.] Before we get to all that, I’m making amends for my little false start. And as I have a microphone in front of me, as well as text— [Audience laughter. Lee Gotham laughs.] I’ll go for it. | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. An audience member briefly passes in front of camera view. Gotham briefly glances down at pieces of paper while addressing audience. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:19:53\n[Reads poem beginning with the line \"The problem is we get wasted in alleyways\").] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between extreme closeup and medium closeup on Lee Gotham, who wraps a hand around the microphone and performs poem, occasionally glancing down at pages.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:21:48\n[Pauses. Ambient noise (paper).] | Video Description: Lee Gotham briefly pauses performance to flip a page.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:21:51\n[Resumes reading.] Applause. | Video Description: Lee Gotham resumes performing poem. Camera zooms out between medium long shot and medium shot of Lee Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:24:14\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Swifty Lazarus. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience before putting stack of pages down on the stage. Camera zooms out to medium long shot as Lee Gotham reaches over to grab another piece of paper, and walks back to microphone. Gotham glances down at paper and addresses audience.\n\nSwifty Lazarus (Todd Swift and Tom Walsh)\n00:25:05\nVideo Description: Camera pans away from Lee Gotham to stage right, where synthesizer player Tom Walsh and performer Todd Swift are setting up. Both wear black suit jackets over white button-down shirts, grey dress pants, bowties, glasses, and dark hair. There is a synthesizer, a music stand, and a microphone. A ceiling fan above them is briefly seen, as well as an unknown audience member sitting on the sill of one of the large-paned windows. Lee Gotham briefly passes through the camera’s view, walking off stage right.\n\nSwifty Lazarus (Todd Swift and Tom Walsh)\n00:25:08\n[Applause. Recording of unknown broadcast plays.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium shot on Todd Swift putting on headphones. Camera zooms out, revealing Tom Walsh programming the synthesizers. Todd Swift puts a cigarette in mouth. Camera zooms into a medium shot of Tom Walsh, also putting on headphones. Camera pans between the performers. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:26:57\n[Perform series of unknown compositions.] | Video Description: Tom Walsh presses a key on synthesizer, cueing a new audio clip. Camera zooms into Todd Swift lifting a stack of pages and beginning to perform. Camera zooms in and out and pans between the performers. Occasionally the performers sit or squat on stage to sip from glasses, or employ various objects to enhance the performance, such as a handheld radio or newspaper. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:41:42\n[Finishes compositions. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Todd Swift and Tom Walsh bow and walk away from their equipment. \n\n[No signal]\n00:41:51\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nga press (Colin Christie and Corey Frost)\n00:41:55\n[Ambient noise (footsteps, movement). Performs piece beginning with the line “Well, the sun’s gone down on a Rhine valley town”). Audience laughter throughout.] Video Description: Camera cuts to a medium long shot of Colin Christie and Corey Frost on stage, looking at each other. Christie wears grey t-shirt over long-sleeved shirt and short, brown hair. Frost wears a white t-shirt, light wash jeans, long black hair, and glasses. A physical ‘dialogue’ solely using movement and gestures is acted out by the performers. Colin Christie walks in a circle before arriving at a second microphone set up on stage. Colin Christie pulls out something from back pocket as Corey Frost stands upstage left. Colin Christie takes out a harmonica from a case and plays it. Corey Frost picks up the microphone out of the free stand and begins reciting a poem. Camera zooms into a closeup on Corey Frost. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot and pans to also capture Colin Christie. Corey Frost and Colin Christie pace around the stage and gesture throughout to accentuate the performance.\n\nga press\n00:49:45\n[Audience applause. Corey Frost promotes the upcoming ga press book launch at Enough Said, featuring new work by Sandra Jeppesen and Chris Bell. Audience laughter. Colin Christie addresses audience. Corey Frost resumes promoting ga press catalogue. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Colin Christie and Corey Frost step away from microphones, bow, and then reapproach them. Colin Christie and Corey Frost address audience. They step away from microphones and exit via stage left.\n\n[No signal]\n00:51:06\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n00:51:11\n[Ambient sounds (voices; footsteps; opening and closing door; dog barking.) Unknown_Member2 of GPM addresses Unknown_Member1 and the audience. Ambient sounds (opening and closing door; footsteps).] | Video Description: Camera cuts to a long shot of an open stage area, a black grimy wall as a background and white floor, with a microphone stand downstage centre, a black milk crate upstage centre, and a ladder and building materials pushed to the side. Camera pans toward the right, revealing multiple audience members sitting along the side of the stage, and Unknown_GPMMember1. Unknown_GPMMember1 wears a black turtleneck, black pants, dark hair in two braids, large belt buckle, and lipstick. Unknown_GPMMember1 closes a door behind them and walks onto the stage. Unknown_GPMMember1 lifts a piece of paper to read as they step up on the milk crate. Camera zooms into a medium long shot of Unknown_GPMMember1. Unknown_GPMMember2 enters the frame via stage left, holding a cue card in their left hand. Unknown_GPMMember2 wears a black turtleneck, black pants, and long dark hair pulled into a ponytail. They address Unknown_GPMMember1 and the audience, before taking position facing away from the audience upstage left. Slowly, other members of the group, each wearing the same all-black outfit, enter through the door and taking position across the stage, facing away from the audience.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n00:52:30\n[Perform Unknown Composition 1. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on the member standing on the milk crate beginning the performance, reading from the piece of paper and swivelling to address everyone in the room. Camera zooms in and out throughout and pans to follow other members of the group, who perform a series of dramatic skits. \n\n[Building Danse stage]\n01:02:20\nVideo Description: A dog casually walks across the stage as the group performs, exiting stage left.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n01:07:05\n[Unknown_Member3 thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: The group ends in neutral standing positions, and Unknown_Member3 addresses audience. 5 of the 7 members of GPM walk into a single line downstage centre, while two remain upstage, facing away from the audience. The two upstage members walk downstage and kneel into positions behind the line, facing stage left and stage right, respectively. \n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n01:07:30\n[Ambient sounds (dog barking). Performs Unknown Composition 2. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: The GPM assumes new dramatic positions and perform their second dramatic skit.\n\n[Building Danse stage]\n01:07:51 \nThe previous dog walks across the stage behind the performers, exiting stage left. Camera zooms in and out and pans throughout to follow the performers moving across the stage.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n01:10:47\n[Finish Unknown Composition 2. Audience applause. Ambient sounds (dog barking).] | Video Description: The GPM filters one-by-one off the stage, exiting stage left. Camera pans right, capturing the members leaving through a door. Camera continues panning right across the applauding audience, who fill the room right to the back wall. Camera sharply pans left toward the stage, empty except for the black milk crate and a microphone stand.\n\n[No signal]\n01:11:01\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:11:05\n[Audience applause. Vocalizing (repeating \"toy boat\" at different volumes and tones). Ambient sounds (movement, dog barking). Vocalizing begins to cohere at the same volume and rhythm.] | Video Description: Camera cuts to a long shot of the open stage area, with the black milk crate in the centre of the stage. An unknown audience member walks across the stage. An unknown person moves a microphone stand closer to centre stage. Camera pans toward them as they exit stage right. Two people enter the stage from stage right. Camera pans toward the right, where another set of performers is seen running and walking into the stage area. Members of the Fluffy Pagan Echoes move around the stage, each doing different actions, such as stomping, speaking into different microphones, or examining different parts of the stage. They assemble downstage centre, moving microphones closer to centre stage. Camera zooms into a medium closeup on Victoria Stanton. Stanton wears a black vest over a long-sleeved grey shrt and shoulder-length brown hair. The camera pans right to capture each Fluffy Pagan Echoes member. Ran Elfassy wears a white graphic t-shirt, green shorts over white pants, a necklace, and black toque. Vincent 'Vince' Tinguely wears a white graphic t-shirt, jeans, chin-length white hair, and glasses. Scott Duncan wears a flannel shirt and short curly brown hair. Justin McGrail wears a yellow patterned shirt over graphic t-shirt, short brown hair, and necklaces. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:12:21\n[Address audience (introduces each member: Ran Elfassy, Victoria Stanton, Scott Duncan, Vince Tinguely, and Justin McGrail).] | Video Description: The Fluffy Pagan Echoes address audience. The camera zooms into an extreme closeup on Ran Elfassy, looking toward the other members and counting them in. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:12:42\n[Perform “Resistance is Reasonable”.] | Video Description: Fluffy Pagan Echoes perform “Resistance is Reasonable”. Camera zooms into first a medium closeup, then an extreme closeup, on Victoria Stanton, who performs a solo during the piece into microphone. Camera zooms out into long shot of the entire group. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:16:34\n[Finish “Resistance is Reasonable”. Audience applause. Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Fluffy Pagan Echoes members bow. Ran Elfassy picks up an object from the floor (a hat?). The group exits via stage right. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:16:51\n[Audience laughter. Addresses audience. Announces ten-minute break and upcoming set, including Ian Stephens. Promotes merchandise table.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into extreme closeup on microphone stand on stage left. Lee Gotham leaps into frame and addresses audience into microphone. Lee Gotham reads final set from a piece of paper.]\n\n[No signal]\n01:17:22\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nDee Smith\n01:17:26\n[Introduces poem. Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Camera cuts to closeup on the side profile of Dee Smith addressing the audience. Smith wears a white shirt, patterned vest, necklace, earrings, rings, and short dark curly hair with headband. \n\nDee Smith\n01:17:36\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"Talking 'bout you lovin' me this way\").] | Video Description: Dee Smith reads poem.\n\nDee Smith\n01:18:34\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Dee Smith flips through pages. Camera zooms into extreme closeup as Dee Smith addresses audience.\n\nDee Smith\n01:18:43\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"You see, man and woman have it, some choose to spread it\").] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into closeup on Dee Smith performing, occasionally glancing down to read from pages.\n\nDee Smith\n01:19:35\n[Finishes poem. Unseen audience member interacts. Audience applause. Introduces poem and addresses audience. Audience snaps and stomps to a rhythm.] | Video Description: Dee Smith addresses audience. Dee Smith directs audience to keep rhythm by snapping.\n\nDee Smith\n01:19:58\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"What the hell, what the hell, what a situation.\" Audience snaps and stomps alongside.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to medium closeup on Dee Smith performing, glancing down occasionally at their notebook.\n\nDee Smith\n01:21:20\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Dedicates next poem. Audience laughter. Introduces poem.] | Video Description: Dee Smith flips through notebook and addresses audience.\n\nDee Smith\n01:22:00\n[Performs poem in Jamaican dialect, beginning with the line \"Woman, are you alone\".] | Video Description: Dee Smith performs poem written in notebook.\n\nDee Smith\n01:23:53\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Dee Smith closes notebook and thanks audience. Camera zooms out to medium long shot as Dee Smith tilts microphone stand down and walks off stage via stage left. \n\n[No signal]\n01:23:58\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nIan Ferrier\n01:23:59\nThank you very much, Dee Smith. Dee will also be appearing at part of the Enough Said series on April 3rd, if anybody wants to catch that, so please come out for that. Our next performer has been touring all over the place. He's about to head to Europe, he's been touring North America with a show called The Men's Show. He's a vital part of a group called Rhythmactivism (?), and he's an amazing performer, Mr. Norman Nawrocki. [Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into extreme closeup on Ian Ferrier addressing audience. Ferrier wears a dark collared long-sleeved shirt, black jacket, and drk chin-length hair. Ian Ferrier looks up and tilts microphone down before exiting the frame via the left. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot on the lone microphone on stage.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n01:24:37\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Ian Stephens. Audience applause. Ambient sounds (dog barking). Introduces “Hey, Garçon! Another Hotdog, Right Here!”.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Norman Nawrocki wears a long-sleeved black sweatshirt and short brown hair with fringe. Camera zooms in and out on Norman Nawrocki adjusting microphone and addressing audience. Norman Nawrocki turns toward stage right to address off-screen audience member (Ian Stephens). Camera zooms into extreme closeup on Norman Nawrocki introducing poem.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n01:25:08\n[Performs “Hey, Garçon! Another Hotdog, Right Here!”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Norman Nawrocki performing poem, glancing down to read from paper.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n01:28:11\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki nods and thanks audience. Camera zooms out to long shot as Norman Nawrocki exits via stage left.  Ian Ferrier, with a cigarette and piece of paper in hand, approaches microphone via stage right. An audience member briefly passes through camera view.\n\nIan Ferrier\n01:28:23\n[Addresses Norman Nawrocki. Promotes upcoming poetry events: Enough Said with Endre Farkas (March 27, 1995); Vox Hunt poetry slam (hosted by Todd Swift, Tuesday, April 4, 1995, Maître (?) Renard Blues Bar, 4910 Saint-Laurent Boulevard). Introduces Fortner Anderson. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Ferrier addresses Norman Nawrocki (off-screen). Ian Ferrier addresses audience. Ian Ferrier exits via stage right.\n\nFortner Anderson\n01:29:16\n[Ambient sounds (movement).] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into medium long shot as Fortner Anderson enters via stage left. Fortner Anderson picks up microphone and unravels cord from around stand. Anderson puts hand to chin and steps sideways, facing stage left. Camera zooms into an extreme closeup as Fortner Anderson looks toward audience.\n\nFortner Anderson\n01:29:30\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"I hate these poems. They stink of the Good Book\". Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Fortner Anderson performs Unknown Poem 1, pacing throughout the stage, occasionally making gestures to accentuate performance and add humour.\n\nFortner Anderson \n01:34:25\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Fortner Anderson puts microphone back onto stand and nods to the audience. Camera zooms out as Fortner Anderson exits via stage right.\n\n[No signal]\n01:34:40\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nIan Ferrier\n01:34:46\n[Audience laughter. Addresses audience. Introduces medley recording from Ian Stephens’ newest cassette (from Wired on Words Productions) and Ian Stephens. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Cut to camera zooming into extreme closeup on side profile of Ian Ferrier standing at microphone, addressing audience. Ferrier exits via stage right. Camera zooms out to long shot of the lone microphone on stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:35:31\n[Ambient sounds (voices, coughs, movement, dog barking). Recording of unknown Ian Stephens' medley fades in and plays, beginning with the line \"23-12-91 under the bridge.\" Ian Stephens performs a piece.] | Video Description: Camera tilts before positioning upright again. Ian Stephens walks on via stage right carrying a chair, putting it down centre stage. Ian Stephens wears a brown jacket, darkwash jeans, black hooded sweatshirt, and a backward baseball cap. Ian Stephens places a bottle on the black milk crate behind the chair. Ian Stephens points and nods to an audience member (off-screen). Stephens takes off brown jacket and drops it next to the black milk crate. Ian Stephens walks up to the chair, takes out a book, drops it on the floor in front of him, and searches pockets. Ian Stephens walks back to brown jacket and searches it for a yellow object.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:36:31\n[Ian Stephens continues performing a piece. Towards the end, he repeats the line \"Thinking about cracks.\"] | Video Description: Camera tilts up and zooms into closeup to capture Ian Stephens removing hat, dropping it on the floor, and putting hoodie over his head. Stephens begins wrapping his head in yellow caution tape. Ian Stephens takes out a set of bottom veneers from sweatshirt pocket. Camera zooms into an extreme closeup as Stephens places the veneers in his mouth, attempting to chew and breathe through a small slit between the tape. Camera zooms out to a long shot and pans up and down to capture Ian Stephens' entire figure on stage, with caution tape draping to the floor. Stephens bends and limps, sitting in the chair centre-stage, making himself smaller and smaller. Camera zooms into a closeup of the fingerless gloves on Ian Stephens' hands. Ian Stephens twitches to certain words in the recording. Ian Stephens stands, waving his arms around him, and approaches the microphone stand. Camera zooms into extreme closeup as Ian Stephens holds onto the microphone stand and vocalizes into microphone.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:41:35\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens addresses audience before stepping away from microphone stand. Ian Stephens unravels caution tape from around head and pops out veneer. Ian Stephens adjusts microphone and stares out at audience. \n\nIan Stephens\n01:41:56\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line \"If I can't have you\".] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Ian Stephens performing into the microphone.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:43:21\n[Live instrumentation (guitar (?), bass (?), piano) fades in. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens nods head at an unknown musician (off-screen) as he continues to perform. Ian Stephens lifts microphone from stand and performs pacing across the stage, camera panning and zooming in and out to follow his movements.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:46:28\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens thanks audience and walks toward centre stage. Ian Stephens places microphone in stand and picks book off of floor. Ian Stephens flips through book.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:46:49\n[Addresses audience. Thanks Fortner Anderson and Ian Ferrier. Audience applause. Thanks Endre Farkas for assistance with Diary of a Trademark (The Muses Co., 1995). Introduces “Do You Want a Colour TV?” from Diary of a Trademark. | Video Description: Ian Stephens addresses audience into the microphone. Stephens thanks Fortner Anderson and Ian Ferrier, applauding along with audience. Stephens addresses audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:47:33\n[Reads “Do you Want a Colour TV?”.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens reads from book in his hand into the microphone, glancing up occasionally at the audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:49:02\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens addresses audience and starts to walk off stage. Stephens collects items from floor and unwraps caution tape from around his shoulders. Camera pans to follow Stephens walking off via stage right. Camera pans back to a long shot of the stage. Camera zooms into a closeup as Ian Ferrier enters via stage right, approaching the microphone. \n\nIan Ferrier\n01:49:25\n[Thanks Ian Stephens. Addresses audience. Audience member (Ian Stephens?) interacts (calling out “buy it!”). Audience laughter. Ian Ferrier promotes Ian Stephens’ cassette. Introduces Aidan (?) Evans. Announces end of event, mentioning that the pianist of the Hieronymus Borscht Nonet will keep playing the piano while the bar remains open. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Ferrier addresses audience. Ferrier laughs at unseen audience member’s (Ian Stephens?) remark and resumes addressing audience. Ian Ferrier waves to audience and exits via stage right. Camera quickly pans across applauding audience. \n\nHieronymus Borscht Nonet\n01:49:58\n[The pianist of the Hieronymus Borscht Nonet plays unknown composition on piano.] | Video description: Camera shifts downward and blurs from the speed of its movement. Audience members’ feet and stools.\n\n[No signal]\n01:50:00\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nEND\n01:51:37\n[End of recording.]"],"score":8.328798},{"id":"5167","cataloger_name":["Carlos A.,Pittella"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["Lee Gotham collection"],"source_collection_label":["Lee Gotham collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Spokenweb at Concordia University"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Lee Gotham collection contains the AV recordings regarding the Enough Said series, including readings, performances, open-mic, and spoken-word events that took place at Bistro 4 and other Montreal venues between December 1994 and June 1996."],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Enough Said 1995-01-30, Stanton and Stephens"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying asset, corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the event headliners."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["Lee Gotham collection"],"item_subseries_title":["Enough Said"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights_notes":["Rights status in process. 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Montréal: Psyche Records, 1986.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/title/47991112\",\"citation\":\"Stanton, Victoria, & Vincent Tinguely. Impure. Reinventing the Word: the Theory, Practice, and Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal. Montreal: Conundrum Press, 2001.\"},{\"url\":\"https://doi.org/10.7202/041297ar\",\"citation\":\"Zarov, Stéphane. \\\"Mort d’un dramaturge en devenir : Ian Stephens (1954-1996).\\\" In L'Annuaire théâtral, no. 19-20, pp. 207–208, 1996.\"},{\"url\":\"https://headlightanthology.ca/archive/n02/backyard/\",\"citation\":\"Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy. \\\"Backyard.\\\" In Headlight Anthology, no. 2, 1999, pp. 82-83.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549169897472,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:04\nVideo Description: Colour video, medium closeup of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). A single mic stand. The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles regularly passing by. The windows from across the street (4067 St. Laurent) are also visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.” People frequently pass in front of the camera. When the camera zooms out, a series of decals become visible, with words from the menu such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:05\nCheck check. Bonsoir, tout le monde. Bienvenue encore une fois. Thanks for coming back to yet another evening of Enough Said. Well, we have a lot signed up as always. I guess I can just try and clarify for any who haven't sussed it out: the first half, three quarters of the room has to remain smoke-free this evening. Please cooperate [scattered applause]. Thank you very much. And, if you need a smoke, yeah, right back to the bar or maybe out to the foyer would be just as good in-between acts or something of that nature. Ok, well, it's going to be an eventful evening. I don't need to do any introductions, I'm told, it's wonderful. I could just mention that-at another point in the evening I will tell you all about what's happening come February and March. And, yeah, without further ado, we're gonna forge straight into things. So, enjoy, yeah, for those who haven't overcome the oral phase, bare with us [laughter] until (it?) breaks, ok? | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup as Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Gotham wears a dark sweater with snowflake motifs, rolled-up sleeves, black baseball cap turned back, stubble, and shoulder-length hair. Gotham makes introductory remarks as the camera adjusts the focus tries various degrees of closeups. Gotham then closes the sliding window.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:01:33\n[Calls Victoria Stanton to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Lee Gotham invites the first performer to the stage.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:01:55\n[Victoria Stanton sings the word \"poetry\" into the mic, then decides to go a cappella. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Victoria Stanton approaches the mic and salutes the audience. Stanton wears a long light brown jacket over a black blouse, chin-length dark hair with bangs, and hoop earrings. Briefly talks to Lee Gotham. Opens her mouth wide several times, stretching the jaw, as the camera zooms into a closeup. Removes mic from stand. Opens mouth widely a few more times. Sings into the mic but then decides to go a cappella, returning the mic to the stand. Performs a song.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:07:39\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line, “Though I wish I could draw a map of perspective.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a spoken-word piece.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:12:03\n[Breaks into song again, beginning with the word “classroom.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton sings.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:12:19\n[Resumes spoken piece, with the line, “My teacher, professor, stands in the front to the room and professes.” ] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a spoken-word piece.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:13:17\n[Breaks into song again, beginning with the word “classroom.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton sings.\n\nVictoria Stanton\n00:13:47\n[Resumes spoken piece, with the line, “What you can’t see, can’t hurt you.” Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a spoken-word piece. Camera zooms out during the applause.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:14:36\n[Introduces Ian Stephens.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham talks to Ian Stephens, who is masked and sitting upstage. Zoom into a closeup as Gotham goes to the mic and invites Ian Stephens to the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:15:30\n[Calls for Peter. Reads an epistolary poem to Peter. Invites Peter to the stage.] | Video Description: Zoom into a closeup as Ian Stephens interacts with the audience and reads a poem directed to an audience member. Stephens wears a brown jacket atop a t-shirt with the words \"BAD RELIGION\" partially visible, a black scarf with red and grey stripes, and a buzz haircut.\n\nPeter\n00:17:22\n[Reads \"Science Fiction,\" beginning with the line \"I live in a very old beautiful home.\" Applause. Calls Ian Stephens to the stage.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium closeup as Peter enters the stage. Peter wears a plaid brown shirt with rolled-up sleeves atop a white shirt, black scarf, black beanie hat, and a close-trimmed beard. Peter reads a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:21:01\n[Organizes objects on stage, in front of him. Introduces “Regan's mind #2, or, Regan remembers.” Continues setting up the stage. Puts on a cowboy hat. Sits down. Explains that, in this piece, he is Regan’s mind. Puts on fake eyeballs, one larger than the other.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens sets the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:24:03\n[Performs “Regan's mind #2, or, Reagan remembers.\" The piece is spoken against the background recording of a radio that keeps switching between stations; Stephens frequently comments upon the different pieces of music. Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a piece while sitting down and holding the mic. After the opening the line, the fake eyeballs fall. Stephens readjusts them, but they fall multiple times. Stephens holds props during the performance, including a doll. At the end of the piece, amid applause, Stephens removes the cowboy hat.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:40:30\n[Introduces and reads “The holy city,” crediting the music to Kevin Komoda (Stephen’s collaborator in the Wining Dining Drilling musical group). Performs “The holy city,” against background music by Kevin Komoda. Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a closeup as Ian Stephens introduces and performs a piece. Stephens stands up to perform, holding a notebook and the mic; the camera zooms out and back into a medium closeup, following Stephens.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:48:07\n[Announces he wants to try something different at the end, opening space for questions from the audience. Introduces “a few sweet terror poems,” adding that it is tricky but not impossible to read them (referring to the fact he’s wearing a mask). Before reading, names objects from what he calls “Reagan’s mind’s desk,” including a book titled “Guilt Free.” Adds that Reagan is a lucky man to have Alzheimer’s.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens leafs through a notebook, talks with the audience, then puts on a skeleton mask.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:50:15\n[Reads a poem from the “Let’s be dead” sequence, beginning with the line, “I drew a picture of my coffin.” Explains it was not included in the book (Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995) because it was “too deadly.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:51:13\n[Reads “Let’s be dead,” opening with the line “I know the club where you got the blow-job” (with slight differences from the version published in Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995). Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a poem. Removes the mask mid-performance.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:58:34\n[Introduces “I Started to get sick in New York” mentioning it is also from the book (Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995) and another piece with music by Kevin Komoda. States the piece is dedicated to David Wojnarowicz. Performs piece, with significant differences from the version published in the book. Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot then zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens introduces and performs a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:05:10\n[Asks the audience if they have any questions.] | Video Description: Medium shot then zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens welcomes questions from the audience.\n\nAudienceMember1\n01:05:24\n[Asks, “Did I know you in Lennoxville in 1972?” Laughter.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from the audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:05:30\n[Responds, “A hypothetical question. Yes.” Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:05:48\n…speaking about a journalist, and we had a difference of opinion of your work, and she said, in spite of frequent irony, it wasn’t rescued, that there was something wrong with it [laughter]; and I thought, well, it’s more just sort of brute reality of it that appeals to me, more often than not, above and beyond all the crap and whatnot. What do you say, when someone has this adverse sort of reaction? | Video Description: Medium closeup then zoom out to a medium shot as Ian Stephens listens to a question from Lee Gotham.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:06:21\nI don’t care. [Laughter. Asks if anybody has another question.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Ian Stephens receives the mic back from Lee Gotham then zoom into a closeup as Stephens answers Gotham’s question.\n\nAudienceMember2\n01:06:45\n[Asks if Stephens is happy to be back in Montreal]. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from the audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:06:52\nOh yeah, I love Montreal, my home, I was born here, raised here. Everything I see around here resonates. (Certain little memories?). (?) I lived here Montreal was a province unto itself. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers to the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:07:15\n[Asks about other performers or events that Ian Stephens would like see throughout the town.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from Lee Gotham.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:07:31\nI think things are moving in a half-decent pace. [Lee Gotham interrupts.] I think the spoken word is getting passé. You have to make the leap into performance and you do that by getting out of the text; I’m still going through transition. But once you get beyond the text, it becomes performance poetry, which is a leap a lot of poets can’t do. The academics cannot do it. And I think that’s the litmus test. The academics, they wonder why their books don’t sell, they are unpopular, or whatever. You have to make that leap, I think. If you want to work with an audience, other than a very limited book reader. Ok, no more questions. Thank you very much. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers Gotham’s question. Zoom out to a medium long shot as Stephens puts scarf on and organizes objects amid applause.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:08:40\n[Thanks Ian Stephens. Announces break.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Lee Gotham takes the mic and announces a break.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:09:10\n[Makes remarks and introduces the first open-mic performer.] | Video Description: Cut to a medium closeup of Lee Gotham making remarks and introducing the first open-mic performer.\n\nMatthew Legault\n01:09:46\n[Introduces piece as \"a conversation between two people.\" Reads piece, opening with the line \"No, no, I'm not talking to you.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Legault enters the stage and picks up mic. Legault wears a black turtleneck, short hair, and a goatee. Zoom out to a medium shot as Legault performs a piece.\n\nMatthew Legault\n01:13:34\n[Reads “Wolf Billie,” beginning with the line “And now, ladies and gentleman, a little story about Wolf Billie.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Legault performs a piece.\n\nMatthew Legault\n01:15:55\n[Reads “In the room with yellow walls,” beginning with the line “I’m sitting on a chair; across from me is a sofa; on the sofa, the cat.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Legault searches for a paper and performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:17:15\n[Thanks Legault. Calls the next open-mic performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham entering the stage. Zoom out to a medium shot of Gotham introducing the next performer.\n\nShaughnessy Bishop-Stall\n01:17:44\n[Reads \"Grandfather blues.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall entering the stage. Bishop-Stall wears a black button-down shirt, a thin necklace, ear-length wavy hair, and stubble. Zoom to a closeup as Bishop-Stall reads a poem.\n\nShaughnessy Bishop-Stall\n01:19:55\n[Reads piece beginning with the lines “I don’t know to talk, to walk. I don’t know my feet from a flower.” Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium closeup as Bishop-Stall reads a poem.\n\nShaughnessy Bishop-Stall\n01:21:25\n[Reads “Body politic” (later published as “Backyard” in Headlight Anthology no. 2, 1999). Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot then into a closeup as Bishop-Stall reads a poem.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:23:25\n[Calls the next open-mic performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Lee Gotham introduces the next performer.\n\nThoth Harris\n01:23:39\n[Reads \"Daydreams of an amputator.\" Scattered laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as a Harris enters the stage. Zoom into a closeup as Harris reads a piece. Harris wears a grey sweater with red and blue lozenges over a white-collared shirt over a black t-shirt, short hair, and sideburns. \n\nThoth Harris\n01:27:10\n[Reads “(Don’t wait?).” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Harris reads a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:32:27\n[Thanks Thoth. Announces a series of upcoming events, including: E.J. Brulé (Feb 6); a Benefit for En Marge, a street-kids safety-net organization (Feb 13); Groupe de Poésie Moderne (Feb 20); Sonja Skarstedt (Feb 27); Steve Godin (March 6); and Adeena Karasick (March 13). Calls the next open-mic performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Cut to a medium closeup of Lee Gotham. As Gotham speaks, something bumps into the camera, which shakes.\n\nPhil\n01:34:27\n[Tells a story about the previous week. Reads a piece in German, opening with various repetitions of the first line. Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot as Phil enters stage and adjusts the mic stand while holding a guitar. Phil wears a brown plaid shirt and shaved head except for a top hair tuft. Video cuts briefly into static. Phil tells a story then reads a piece.\n\nPhil\n01:37:35\n[Performs a song including the lines, \"Nowhere is real, man\" and \"And the people are sheep\". Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Phil performs a song.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:42:20\n[Announces upcoming event with Steve Godin and calls him onto the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham calls Steve Godin onto the stage.\n\nSteve Godin\n01:43:06\n[Introduces and reads a piece dialoguing with the Beauty and the Beast, titled \"Beauty (of beings?) and beginning with the line, \"In mythology there is a wish to return as a hero.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Steve Godin walks onto the stage and removes his scarf and messenger bag. Godin wears a black leather jacket atop a black-and-blue t-shirt and neck-length greying hair with long bangs. Zoom into a closeup as Godin introduces and reads a piece.\n\nSteve Godin\n01:47:40\n[Reads untitled poem. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Steve Godin introduces and reads a poem.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:51:00\n[Thanks Steve Godin. Calls on Justin McGrail to the stage to close the event with a “showstopper.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Lee Gotham thanks Steve Godin and invites the last open-mic performer to the stage.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:51:22\n[Reads piece titled \"For the window washers (?).\"] | Video Description: Closeup as Justin McGrail enters the stage. Zoom out to a medium closeup as McGrail introduces and performs a piece. McGrail wears a black t-shirt with a white skeleton torso over a long-sleeved white-shirt, cargo pants, and short black hair,. Zoom out to a medium shot as McGrail performs, playing with and stretching the straps of his suspenders. At the end of the performance, he clips the straps back on.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:55:00\n[Calls a last “surprise” performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham talks with Christine and enters the stage to invite an extra open-mic performer to the stage.\n\nChristine?\n01:55:20\n[Introduces and reads a poem (low mumbled audio). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Christine walks up to the microphone and addresses audience. Christine wears a brown vest atop a black turtleneck shirt, light-wash jeans, and short blond hair. Christine introduces and reads a poem.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:57:20\n[Thanks and reminds audience of the upcoming Benefit event for En Marge, with a “stellar cast of poets.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham at the stage, making final remarks. Zoom out to a medium long shot as Gotham leaves the stage; some empty chairs and audience members applauding.\n\nEND\n01:58:14\n[End of recording.]"],"score":8.328798}]