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Oralpalooza 94 Montreal. ga press, c1994, https://archive.org/details/oralpalooza_1994.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/title/50440932\",\"citation\":\"Salah, Trish. Wanting in Arabic. TSAR, 2002.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174100461\",\"citation\":\"Skarstedt, Sonja A. \\\"Zymergy: From the Neo-Ephemeral to the Odd Imbroglio.\\\" In Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century, edited by Jason Camlot and Todd Swift, 179–93, 404–06. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 2007.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549089157120,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.477Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:01\nVideo Description: Colour video, medium closeup of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). A single mic stand. The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles regularly passing by. On the windows, the words “enough said.” When the camera zooms out, other decals become visible, with words from the menu such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:11\n(?) Twenty-seventh of February, the last edition of Enough Said for the second month of the year. Nothing auspicious in that, but in the performers being presented this evening I have nothing but unbounded enthusiasm and pleasure in presenting both our lead-off readers, Sonja Skarstedt, the author of Mythographies (Empyreal Press, 1990), a volume of her poetry put out [Gotham hiccups] not only through sheer will and talent and ingenuity on her own small press Empyreal, but this evening reading to us from a collection of short stories in the works—and we will all anticipate that publication in the nearest possible futures. Sonja will lead off, as I say. We have a second feature performer in Lynn Suderman, whom I will describe, I hope, with some articulation, a little bit later. But, as we will have the open-mic segment most likely deferred to the end of the evening, perhaps one segment in-between the two performers if that list grows any longer. Yeah, I’ll just encourage everybody to get themselves comfortable and keep themselves refreshed. A little bit out of every coffee and beer sold goes to keeping this little series running. And… jee!… enjoy the evening’s offerings. Sonja Skarstedt, can you kick us off please? | Video Description: Extreme closeup of Lee Gotham on stage, then zoom out, with the camera alternating between a medium shot and various degrees of closeup. Gotham wears a black turtleneck, stud earrings on the left lobe, hair tied under a black skullcap with a folded visor, and a beard. Gotham makes introductory remarks, often scratching his right eye. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:02:03\n[Tests mic, thanks Gotham, and reads the short story “Heaven and Hell” (later published as part of the play “Saint Francis of Esplanade,” Empyreal Press, 2001).] | Video Description: Medium closeup, then zoom in and out, oscillating between extreme closeup and medium shot. Lee Gotham adjusts the mic as Sonja Skarstedt walks onto the stage. Skarstedt has blond hair with a mullet haircut, dangle earrings, sweater with an eight-point-star pattern. Skarstedt reads from a manuscript.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:18:58\n[Exclaims “Poor Lord!” and the audience laughs.] | Video Description: Medium closeup. Sonja Skarstedt reads. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:19:02\n[Resumes reading of “Heaven and Hell” after audience laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup. Skarstedt continues reading. At the end, walks off stage amid applause as the camera zooms out to a medium long shot.\n\n[No signal]\n00:35:10\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:25\nWhat can we say? One of the first women of spoken-word in Montréal, Lynn Suderman is going to regale us with the part two of an ongoing saga of spoken word… we won’t say madness, well, I guess we said it—spoken word with a vengeance. Please welcome to the microphone Lynn Suderman. [Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup then medium closeup of Lee Gotham introducing the next performer.\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:35:54\nMy friend Mary brought me a Bible for this [Laughter]. [Tells a story about her first tattoo and people asking the same two questions about it: does it hurt, and is it permanent? Then presents these questions as a motto for our times, applicable to government budgets, haircuts, and wakes.] So, this is my wake, for February and for the fact that I quit smoking and February is the worst month to quit smoking and I’m not doing very well. | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham leaves and Lynn Suderman walks onto the stage. Short black hair tucked behind ears and black long-sleeved blouse. Suderman drinks from a glass and holds a Bible and a pack of pages. After setting the glass down, tells a story, brandishes the Bible and settles it down to read.\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:37:35\n[Reads “Wake up,” beginning with the line, “I went on a long drive one summer’s day.” Occasional unscripted interruptions to interact with the audience. Frequent bursts of laughter.] | Video Description: Alternating closeup and medium closeup. Lynn Suderman reads and interacts with the audience. \n\nLynn Suderman\n00:44:50\n[Interrupts the reading to ask her friend Mary to help search for a Bible passage. Starts reciting from memory when Mary finds the passage] | Video Description: Closeup then medium closeup of Lynn Suderman on stage. Suderman interrupts the reading and walks to the audience to ask her friend to search for a Bible passage.]\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:45:26\n[Continues performing “Wake Up.” Friend hands her the bible. Suderman reads from the bible and her pages. Makes one more unscripted interruption, causing a burst of laughter among the audience. Applause] | Video Description: Alternating medium and extreme closeups. Lynn Suderman reads. Zoom out to a medium shot as Suderman leaves the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:46:26\nExcellent. Excellent? (?) Jeez, I almost feel like short shrift, no encores I guess, right? No… Lynn Suderman, readily available on… [Laughter] cassette tape as part of the Wired on Words recording series, radiating from the depths of CKUT [FM radio] and through the joint efforts of many of the participants of this series. Also part of the Oralpalooza (ga press, c1994) chapbook collection of performances this past summer on the Word Up stage during that festival. Wow, what can I say? We’re gonna take just the shortest of breaks once again, and then we’re going to give our nine open-mic participants their hour or so in the sun… in the halogen sunlight of Bistro 4. Please make yourselves comfortable, refresh yourselves, and we’ll be back very shortly. Thanks once again [applause]. | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage, clapping and smoking. Zoom into an extreme closeup then out to a closeup as Gotham makes remarks and announces a break.\n\nSpokenWeb notes\n00:47:36\nThe following performance contains sexual content, descriptions of alcohol abuse, and descriptions of sexual abuse.\n\nUnknown_Reader1 (Ingrid?)\n00:47:40\n[Cut to off-stage voice, probably from a recording, reciting a piece beginning with the line, “My mother was banging pots in the kitchen.” CW: sexual content, alcohol abuse, sexual abuse. Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot of lone mic, with the performer audible but off-camera during the whole piece. Mid-performance, a person passes a few times times in front of the camera.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:55:43\nWow, thank you very much, Ingrid, for overcoming all technical difficulties. This was an exception. I don’t want to encourage anyone else who may merely be faint of heart to bring a new (recording?) but I think that was well worth a listen. Ok, next on the roster, Justin McGrail, can you make your way up, please? Justin, one of the good contingent of Fluffy Pagan People here this evening. Go to it, my friend.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage applauding. Zoom into an extreme closeup. Gotham makes remarks and introduces the next performer.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:56:27\n[Announces a show on Wednesday at Phoenix Café with Lee Gotham as the headliner. Performs “Leave a forwarding address.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham adjusting the mic. Justin McGrail enters the stage. Short black hair, very short goatee and moustache, plaid brown-and-red shirt with rolled-up sleeves, bracelets and wrist watch. Performs a piece from memory, gesticulating.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:01:42\n[Thanks Justin McGrail.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage. Zoom into an extreme closeup then out to a medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:02:03\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Five minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:02:09\n[Introduces the next open-mic performer, Sandra Jeppesen.] | Video Description: Zoom into an extreme closeup as Gotham adjusts the mic and announces the next performer.\n\nSandra Jeppesen \n01:02:28\n[Shares “an insecurity”—her “ugly boots”—explaining that it doesn’t snow in Toronto as it does in Montréal. Reads the short story “Bohunk.” Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Sandra Jeppesen enters the stage. Long blond hair, glasses, black sweater over a white shirt. Medium and extreme closeups as Jeppesen reads.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:07:04\n[Remarks on the time constraints of the open-mic and announces the next performer.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Lee Gotham enters the stage, adjusts the mic, and announces the next performer.\n\nStephen Edgar\n01:07:45\n[Explains he is back from London, Ontario, and displays a magazine he edits (One X?), saying there are enough copies for all to buy, $1 only. Reads “Going going gone.” Scattered laughter at the end.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Stephen Edgar enters the stage. Short light hair, round thin glasses, dangle earring on the right lobe and stud on the left; black pants, long unbuttoned button-down brown shirt atop a white shirt and ochre V-neck sweater. Medium closeup as Edgar holds a magazine for the audience to see. He briefly leaves the stage to set the magazines down then returns to read; the camera zooms out to a medium shot.\n\nStephen Edgar\n01:09:31\n[Reads “Please don’t honk your horn, please.”] | Video Description: Medium shot as Stephen Edgar reads.\n\nStephen Edgar\n01:09:55\n[Reads “Sex Ed, 16/27, 1995,” dedicating it to his little brother. Frequent audience laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Stephen Edgar reads, placing his left hand inside his pants pocket.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:14:10\n[States he can make out only part of the name of the next open-mic performer and announces (Jacob Landesman?), unsure of how to pronounce it.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage holding a cigarette, adjusts the mic and announces the next performer, straining to read their name on the board.\n\nJacob Landesman\n01:14:41\n[Explains this is their first time performing in an open-mic. Reads a piece beginning with the line “Sophia descends the white-cotton corridor,” after dedicating it to “Lisa, my saving grace.” Applause] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Landesman enters the stage and tests the mic. Red bandana and grey long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up. Various degrees of closeup as the performer recites, mostly from memory, with eyes closed.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:22:20\n[Thanks Jacob and announces the next open-mic performer, Mark.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage holding a glass and a cigarette. Adjusts the mic and announces the next performer.\n\nMark\n01:22:37\n[Reads “The flycatcher,” with an epigraph by Robert Frost. Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot as Mark enters the stage. Shoulder-length black wavy hair, white t-shirt with a round grey maze. Various degrees of closeup as Mark reads.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage] and Mitsiko Miller\n01:30:42\n[Ambient sounds, voices, applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the lone mic as Mitsiko Miller crosses the stage.\n\n[No signal]\n01:30:48\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\nLee Gotham\n01:30:50\n[Announces the next open-mic performer, (Juliane?). A voice near the camera, likely the videographer, asks Gotham to reposition the mic cable so it doesn’t stand in the way of the recording.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham at the stage. Fast zoom into an extreme closeup as he announces the next performer. Gotham walks towards the camera to talk to the videographer, then repositions the mic cable and leaves the stage.\n\nUnknown_Reader3 and Unknown_Reader4\n01:31:34\n[Read “Who’s in charge”. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot. Two readers enter the stage holding loose pieces of paper. Unknown_Reader3 has neck-length light hair and black sweater with white details around the collar and a small pendant. Unknown_Reader4 has short light hair, a black long-sleeve blouse, and two pendants. Alternating medium shot and medium closeup as the duo reads.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:36:23\n[Ambient sounds, voices, applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the lone mic as Mitsiko Miller crosses the stage one more time.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:36:36\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Three minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:36:41\n[Gotham announces the last performer of the evening, Mitsiko Miller.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham entering the stage smoking and clapping. Gotham adjusts the mic and announces the last performer.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:36:56\n[Asks if everybody understands French. Applause. Reads “Christ existe (en?) ciel,” opening with the line “Passé simple, passé composé.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot then extreme closeup as Mitsiko Miller enters the stage. Short blond hair, hoop and stud earrings, leather jacket. Extreme closeup as Miller performs while chewing gum.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:38:23\n[States she is Francophone and that her English is very slangy. Explains she does not call her pieces “poems.” Reads “Why because,” opening with the line “Can you feel it?” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Mitsiko Miller performing, still chewing gum.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:40:24\nWait, let me get rid of this. [Laughter.] | Video Description: Closeup of Mitsiko Miller, interrupting the reading to throw away her bubble gum.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:40:29\n[Resumes the reading of “Why because.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Mitsiko Miller performing.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:41:07\n[Thanks Miller. 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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\":\"Carlos A. Pittella\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/diary-of-a-trademark/oclc/1137025178\",\"citation\":\"Stephens, Ian. Diary of a Trademark. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC: The Muses’ Co., 1995.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78176690\",\"citation\":\"Stephens, Ian. Wining Dining Drilling [album]. Montréal: En Guard Records, 1993.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/937539986\",\"citation\":\"Disappointed a Few People. Dead in Love [album]. Montréal: Psyche Records, 1986.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636521014\",\"citation\":\"Diamond, Ann. Terrorist Letters. Montréal: Signal Editions (Véhicule Press), 1992.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549154168832,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:00\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. We see the windows slide open and close a few times. The windows from across the street (4067 St. Laurent) are also visible, including a sign that reads, “ESPACE / À LOUER / 845 0136.” People frequently pass in front of the camera.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:26\nBienvenue mes amis, bonsoir, thanks so much for coming back out. 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). The performance frequently verges on to melody.] | Video Description: Medium closeup then medium shot of Ian Stephens at the stage, performing a poem by heart, verging into song.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:13:15\n[Performs “The Hustler’s Song, or I Am a Busboy” (recorded as “Ecstasy” in two LPs: Dead in Love, by Disappointed a Few People, Psyche Records, 1986; and Wining Dining Drilling, En Guard Records, 1993)] | Video Description: Alternating medium shot and medium closeup of Ian Stephens at the stage, performing a poem by heart. \n\nIan Stephens\n00:15:39\n[Performs a peace opening with the line “Oklahoma, where the (men?) are marching now,” which Stephen sings, then adds: “Something very xenophobic about this whole thing.” Stephens uses a heavy mocking accent as a commentary on xenophobia, which causes bursts of laughter among the audience.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Ian Stephens at the stage, performing a poem by heart.\n\nIan Stephens\n00:16:40\n[Having recited the previous pieces by heart, Stephens consults a book to perform “They AIDS guy” and states, “Eventually, I’ll get this down by heart.” Someone in the audience exclaims, “You better,” to which Stephens responds, “Yeah, for my memorial.” Uncomfortable laughter. 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. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Justin McGrail placing the strap of a boombox around his neck, then zoom into a medium shot. McGrail wears a kilt, grey-and-white striped button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up, wrist watch on his left arm, two shiny pendants, and short black hair. McGrail performs while swaying to the sound of background music playing through the boombox; McGrail frequently gesticulates, nods, and massages his temples.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:14:19\n[Thanks Drew Duncan, the videographer of Enough Said and host of the Ear of the Beholder music program at CKUT radio. Announces plans to make a video compilation of Enough Said. An audience member thanks Lee, prompting general applause. Gotham also announces a Vox Hunt poetry slam event on May 9 and a cabaret event on May 11, 1995. Lastly, Gotham thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham at the stage, making final remarks while holding a single piece of paper. As Gotham leaves the stage, the camera zooms out, showing the audience applauding.\n\nEND\n01:17:31\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.9778776}]