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[Includes “I burnt the ridges of my fingerprints smooth,” published as “Kathy,” p. 17; “A Morphine Headache,” pp. 48–49; “Painting with Noël,” p. 79]\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/329858982\",\"citation\":\"Cabico, Regie, and Todd Swift, eds. Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1998. [Includes Dembowski’s “Life on Venus,” p. 222]\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/632638889\",\"citation\":\"Dembowski, Nancy. Only the Ghost Has Lasted: Poems. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2000. [Includes “Living with Shirley in Georgetown,” pp. 11–12; “Sweets,” p. 19; “Life on Venus Avenue,” p. 77; “Ghosts,” pp. 25–26]\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33332234\",\"citation\":\"Battson, Jill, and Ken Norris, eds. Word Up: Spoken Word Poetry in Print. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1995. 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It’s almost like a last instalment of Enough Said, I suppose, although it’s really something distinct. It’s an independent production, it’s a special presentation, it’s my way of returning the favour that our Toronto cousins, Jill Battson and company, did us a week and a half ago, by hosting a number of us Montréal washed, unwashed, bright poets. This evening we’re presenting “It Came from the 401,” or at least (what is?) the 401, somewhere in the midst of it. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Gotham making introductory remarks on stage. Gotham wears a grey t-shirt, stud earring (perhaps two earrings) on the left lobe, sunglasses used as a headband, and long hair. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:01:15\nJill Battson, Nancy Dembowski, Stan Rogal, and Mike O’Connor will be joining us. A number of canine, feline friends are probably dropping from time to time as well. [Laughter]. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham continuing with introductory remarks. The ears of a dog or cat become visible over Gotham’s right shoulder, through the window, causing audience laughter until Gotham turns back to acknowledge the animal’s presence.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:01:28\nAnd we are all going to have a hell of a time here, so please just sit back, order your drinks as you see fit, you know, poets are not the highly sensitive types they are made out to be. It means the vending is doing better, the series is going longer, anything like it, well, I think they’ll understand the clinking of glasses, requisite in wetting your whistles. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham continuing with introductory remarks.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:01:53\nIn any case, without too much further ado, I’d like to introduce you to a woman who for many of you won’t require introduction, but I’ll give it to you in any case. Jill Battson is the program coordinator for The Poets’ Refuge reading series and has produced the Word Up video series for MuchMusic, (bravo?), and co-produced the CD for Virgin Records (Virgin/EMI Music Canada, 1995). Jill’s poetry is published in Playing in the Asphalt Garden, Insomniac Press (1994). She has produced The Poetry Express, a poet’s and playwright’s reading series at Fringe Festival of Toronto, Wordapalooza, the spoken-word stage for the Toronto portion of the North American Lolapalooza tour, and the first festival of the spoken word. Jill’s now working on going from high priestess to poetry goddess status in 1995. Please welcome the first one reading this evening, Jill Battson. [Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham introducing the first reader.\n\nJill Battson\n00:03:00\n(?) when I become goddess, I’m gonna be Madonna of poetry, that’s what I’ll be aiming for; a legend in my own mind. Reads “The tartness prickling my tongue” (published as “Nicked” in Playing in the Asphalt Garden, edited by Mike O’Connor, Insomniac Press, 1994). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson making brief introductory remarks, then reading while holding a pack of printed pages. Battson wears a leaf-patterned black-and-white vest over a white t-shirt and pixie-cut red hair with bangs. Camera zooms out and in a few times.\n\nJill Battson\n00:05:00\n[Explains that the next poem was written during an Action Poetry three-week retreat with thirty poets, at the Banff Centre for the Arts, in 1994. Reads (“Bivouac”?), beginning with the line “I watched the progression.” Four-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a medium closeup of Jill Battson introducing and reading a poem.\n\nJill Battson\n00:07:09\n[Contextualizes the series of poems called “The Apology Letters” and reads one of them, beginning “I don’t know you very well.” Laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Zoom from medium shot into a medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.\n\nJill Battson\n00:09:33\n[Introduces the next poem, written in Jamaica, about British playwright Noël Coward. Reads poem beginning with the line “We are up” (published as “Painting with Noël” in Hard Candy, Insomniac Press, 1997). Shout from audience member, then applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.\n\nJill Battson\n00:11:16\n[Reads “I burnt the ridges of my fingerprints smooth” (published as “Kathy” in Word Up, edited by Jill Battson and Ken Norris, Key Porter Books, 1995; and later in Hard Candy, Insomniac Press, 1997). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.\n\nJill Battson\n00:12:29\n[Dedicates the poem to a friend who died from AIDS-related causes. Reads “Morphine Headache” (partially published as “A Morphine Headache” in An Invisible Accordion, edited by Jennifer Footman, Broken Jaw Press, 1996; and, later, in complete form, in Hard Candy, Insomniac Press, 1997). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.\n\nJill Battson\n00:14:01\n[Reads “S&M” (published in Playing in the Asphalt Garden, edited by Mike O’Connor, Insomniac Press, 1994). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and in, settling into a medium shot of Jill Battson, who contextualizes and reads a poem.\n\nJill Battson\n00:15:12\n[Reads “Sea Grapes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Jill Battson reading a poem.\n\nAudience\n00:16:52\n[Applause.] | Video Description: As Jill Battson leaves the stage amid applause, the camera zooms out while panning to the right, then pans to the left, taking in the dozens of seated audience members at Bistro 4. Full house.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:17:06\n[Thanks Jill Battson and introduces Nancy Dembowski. Highlights that Dembowski was included in the aforementioned Word Up CD co-produced by Jill Battson (Virgin/EMI Music Canada, 1995) . Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup of Lee Gotham, who introduces the next performer, Nancy Dembowski. Zoom out to track Dembowski walking towards the stage.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:18:00\n[Performs poem beginning with the line “Turbaned guy keeping guard outside that Indian dive” (published as “Living with Shirley in Georgetown” in  Word Up, edited by Jill Battson and Ken Norris, Key Porter Books, 1995; and later in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Applause.] | Video Description: Camera tracks Nancy Dembowski walking towards the stage and carrying a glass and some papers. Dembowski wears a black-and-white patterned dress, shoulder-length dark hair, and a necklace. Camera zooms into a closeup, as Dembowski smiles to the audience and immediately starts performing a poem from memory. Mid-performance, the camera zooms out to a medium shot. Dembowski frequently adjusts her hair back, away from her face.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:21:11\n[Performs from memory a poem beginning with the line “The waiter cracks an egg” (published as “Sweets” in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). The Bistro landline rings mid-performance. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup then medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski performing a poem.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:22:40\n[Explains that the next piece is a found poem, from the first paragraph of “The Sea-Hare” fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Performs from memory a poem beginning with the line “It was once upon a time a princess.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Nancy Dembowski performing a poem. During the applause, the camera zooms out to a medium shot of Dembowski drinking from a glass.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:25:00\n[Reads poem beginning with the line “Ran out of gas” (published as “Life on Venus” in Poetry Nation, edited by Cabico and Swift, Véhicule Press, 1998; and, with some variations, as “Life on Venus Avenue” in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:26:20\n[Reads “Never” (published, with small variations, in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Zoom into closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:27:30\n[Reads (“Bastille”?). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:28:57\n[Reads “Ghosts” (published, with small variations, in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem. During the applause, Dembowski drinks from a glass.\n\nNancy Dembowski\n00:32:00\n[Reads “Borders.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.\n\nAudience\n00:34:14\n[Applause.] | Video Description: As Nancy Dembowski leaves the stage amid applause, the camera zooms out while panning to the left, tracking Dembowski, then pans to the right before zooming in back into the stage. We see dozens of seated audience members, one of them smoking while clapping, and two other people leaving the venue through the full-wall window.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:25\n[Lee Gotham announces a break and starts announcing upcoming events, when the recording skips ahead]. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup of Lee Gotham at the stage, making announcements. Cut to long shot of the audience, then pan to the left and to the right before cutting again.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:33\n[Lee Gotham introduces Mike O’Connor]. | Video Description: Medium closeup. Lee Gotham at the stage, introducing the next performer.\n\nMike O’Connor\n00:35:55\n[Introduces the first piece as a “Toronto poem” inspired by a Victorian house. Reads the piece, beginning with the line “Cool, clean, coloured walls.” Applause.]. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham leaving the stage and Mike O’Connor entering the frame. Zoom into a closeup. O’Connor wears a greyish open button-down shirt atop a black t-shirt with a partially visible white illustration and short black hair. O’Connor reads a piece.\n\nMike O’Connor\n00:39:22\n[Introduces and reads “Not Irish.” Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup. Mike O’Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.\n\nMike O’Connor\n00:41:58\n[Introduces and reads “Holding Hands.” Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out into a medium shot. Mike O’Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.\n\nMike O’Connor\n00:43:42\n[Introduces and reads “Home.” Applause, as well as approval shouting and whistling from the audience. | Video Description: Medium shot. Mike O’Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.\n\nMike O’Connor\n00:45:35\n[Introduces and reads “Magnetic Poetry Kit.” Applause. | Video Description: Medium closeup. Mike O’Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.\n\nMike O’Connor\n00:48:06\n[Introduces and reads “Dream Poem.” Audience laughs multiple times throughout the reading. Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot. Mike O’Connor reads a poem, then smiles and waves at the audience, leaving the stage amid applause.\n\nAudience\n00:50:46\n[Applause.] | Video Description: After Mike O’Connor leaves the stage amid applause, the camera zooms out while panning slightly to the left, then to the right before zooming in back into the stage. We see dozens of seated audience members.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:51:01\n[Thanks Mike O’Connor. Announces the upcoming Vox Hunt poetry slam, featuring Fortner Anderson, Carol Davison, and Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Distributes a pack of printed poems by Joe Blades, printed by Rob McLennan. Introduces Stan Rogal]. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup of Lee Gotham at the stage, making remarks, distributing printed poems, and introducing the next performer. As Gotham leaves the stage, the camera zooms out into a medium long shot.\n\nStan Rogal\n00:54:29\n[Interacts with the audience. Introduces and reads “Postcard from Home” (published in The Imaginary Museum, ECW Press, 1993). Frequently interrupts the reading with ad lib comments, provoking laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom into closeup as Stan Rogal enters the stage and adjusts the mic. Rogal wears shorts, a black open short-sleeved shirt atop a black graphic t-shirt with two faces in white and the words “BALD EGO,” trimmed beard, and temple hair. Rogal reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.\n\nStan Rogal\n00:58:22\n[Introduces and reads “Hourglass” (published in The Imaginary Museum, ECW Press, 1993). Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a medium closeup. Stan Rogal reads a poem.\n\nStan Rogal\n01:01:35\n[Introduces “Personations: 7” as a piece close to a “language poem,” from a book titled Personations (later published by Exile Editions, 1997). Reads “Personations: 7.” Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot then into a medium closeup. Stan Rogal reads a poem.\n\nStan Rogal\n01:03:17\n[Introduces and reads “Personations: 24” as a poem written for Café Naked, a play (directed by Lisa Ryder, Bald Ego Productions, 1994; the poem was later published in Personations, Exile Editions, 1997). Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot. Stan Rogal reads a poem.\n\nStan Rogal\n01:05:25\n[Introduces and recites from memory “Bone Lady.” Twice Rogal forgets his lines mid-performance, so he checks a piece of paper; laughter. Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out then immediately into a closeup. Stan Rogal performs a poem.\n\nStan Rogal\n01:07:00\n[Introduces and recites from memory “Classical Joint Coffee, (Jazz in the Rocks?).” Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot. Stan Rogal performs a poem.\n\nStan Rogal\n01:09:18\n[Introduces and reads “It Was Suddenly As If” twice: first as Rogal wrote it, then as magazine editors published it, altering the meaning of the poem. Laughter. Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a medium closeup. Stan Rogal reads a poem twice, then walks off stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:11:50\nThanks performers and makes announcements, mentioning the the Enough Said would resume in October. | Video Description: Long shot of audience clapping and Lee Gotham entering the stage. Zoom into a closeup of Gotham, who thanks the performers and makes announcements. 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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. 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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. 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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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Several big spheric lamps hanging over the stage and draped orange curtains almost entirely raised, covering little of the windows. Against the windows, a vertical rectangular banner with the name “ga press / MONTREAL,” as well as a series of smaller separate posters with numbers on them: 86, 99, 116, and 235.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:16\nGood evening, one and all. Thank you so much for coming back out to yet another instalment of EnoughSaid. We have a wonderfully eclectic offering for everyone here this evening, ga press’ first anniversary, [singing] Happy birthday ga press, happy [interrupts himself] no. (?) their first anniversary and, among other things, we are launching their first (boatload?) novel, Chris Bell’s work will be available, is in fact available, along with many other ga press authors at the table location outside the door, when everyone has a moment, stop by, please leaf through this stuff, it is a lot of fun. Ok [video skips ahead] …forge straight into things, just remind everyone that here and in the same time slot, this time next week, Clifton Joseph, radical, political, rap-rhyme writer, taking part with a lot of poets’ performances at the Rialto next week, so, yes, (?), next week, Clifton Joseph, don’t miss him, he is something special, in your face but in such a sweet way, you’ll love him. I have (?) the week after that we’ll move down the street to Woodstock (Caf?), the bar, for Clifford Duffy’s Invention of God. Come back here the week after, on the first to wrap it all up, for the last of the regular weekly series of events, Monday nights here at Bistro 4. We’ll be doing things, independent things, once a month of so, throughout the summer, but as for this wonderful (experiences?) near and dear to my heart, it will come to a finish on the first of May. In any case, without a whole lot more blather, EnoughSaid is pleased to present to you the progenitors of ga press, ga’s (little?) ones, Colin Christie and Corey Frost, may we have you [applause] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham on stage. Gotham wears a dark open jacket, a t-shirt with different shades of brown, a full beard, and hair tied in a bun. Camera zooms in and out several times.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:02:31\nHi, I just wanted to say before I started that I am really honoured to be reading for ga press’ birthday, they’ve impressed me (?) over and over again, (with?) both the material they’ve chosen and their layouts, and I’m really glad (?) (upcoming?) writers (?). And the piece I’m gonna be doing is called “Blue toenails” (?). [Reads “Blue toenails.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Golda Fried walking to the stage. Fried wears jeans, a blouse, an open long jacket, and loose long hair. Camera zooms in and out several times while Fried reads, remaining most of the time in a closeup.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:05:33\n[Background music stops. Ambient sound, with Colin Christie and Corey Frost repeating “Gah” at odd intervals. TV audio, mostly inaudible, introducing the next performer, Golda Fried. Laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Colin Christie and Corey Frost hold their TVs back up, playing different videoclips in which their recorded selves appear. The camera zooms in and out of each TV set, panning in between them. Christie and Frost put their TVs down. Applause.\n\nGolda Fried\n00:09:00\nHi, I just wanted to say before I started that I am really honoured to be reading for ga press’ birthday, they’ve impressed me (?) over and over again, (with?) both the material they’ve chosen and their layouts, and I’m really glad (?) (upcoming?) writers (?). And the piece I’m gonna be doing is called “Blue toenails” (?). [Reads “Blue toenails.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot. Golda Fried walks to the stage, wearing loose long hair, jeans, a blouse, and an open long jacket. Camera zooms in and out several times while Fried reads, remaining most of the time in a closeup.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:20:05\n[Ambient sound. TV plays a recording of “Blister in the Sun” by Violent Femmes. Song fades into background, and the TV audio, mostly inaudible, introduces the next performer, Sandra Jeppesen. Applause.] | Video Description: Colin Christie and Corey Frost come back to the stage to set up AV equipment. They each hold up a TV set in front of their faces, playing a different videoclip: Christie wearing the same striped shirt and dancing, Frost talking in front of a brick wall.\n\nSandra Jeppesen\n00:22:10\nHey, this is fun, is everyone having fun? Ok, I’m gonna read two pieces; the first one is a bit longer than the second one, and the second one is the piece that the ga guys have made into a chapbook, and I think they’ve done a really good job, and I think they’re great. So, I’m glad that they wanted to publish my chapbook. [noises from adjusting the mic] (?) make allowances for short people. Ok, my first piece is about how (art?) is sometimes difficult to write, it’s called “Go to hell, Margaret Atwood.” [Laughter. Reads “Go to hell, Margaret Atwood” and “Mister and his son, or how to go insane in 10 easy steps.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Sandra Jeppesen walking to the stage. Jeppesen wears black pants and blouse, round glasses, several types of earrings (including a nose piercing and dangle-cross earrings), three different necklaces (one with a yin yang pendant), and an asymmetrical haircut with temple shave. Camera zooms in and out several times, remaining most of the time in a closeup. Jeppesen adjusts the mic and reads; while reading, Jeppesen removes the glasses. After reading the first piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot and registers applause, as well as Jeppesen drinking water by the edge of the frame.\n\nSandra Jeppesen\n00:34:10\n[Reads “Mister and his son, or how to go insane in 10 easy steps,” mentioning ga press published it as a chapbook (Blister in the Sun, ga press, 1995).] | Video Description: Medium long shot. While Jeppesen reads, Colin Christie and Corey Frost hold up a TV set each, displaying video with the numbers corresponding to each part of the poem. Jeppesen leaves the stage amid applause.\n\n\nSandra Jeppesen\n00:40:39 \nI always like to run away (?) readings. Colin and Corey are now going to do a performance of something by Julie Bruck, who I know is another ga press publishee. Here they are. | Video Description: Jeppesen returns to the stage to introduce the next act, while Colin Christie and Corey Frost tweak with the AV equipment. Frost removed his sweater and now wears only a polo shirt.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:41:00\n“Perceived threat” by Julie Bruck; layout by ga. [Read “Perceived threat,” by Julie Bruck (later published in The End of Travel, Brick Books, 1999). First, Frost reads the poem leaving out the final words from each line; then, Christie reads just those final words; then together, interweaving their parts, they read the full poem. Telephone rings mid-performance and Frost ad libs an extra line to the piece, “Every dreaded phone call.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot, then closeup. Colin Christie and Corey Frost pass back and forth a miniature book while reading the piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:43:01\nAll right, well that is half of ga’s first birthday party, and please stick around for the second half, which will follow almost directly. We’re gonna take a very short break, allow everyone to get up, stretch their legs, have another drink, every drink has 25 cents towards the (aid?) of the series, what else do you need to know? Yeah, come on up, same time, same place next week, radical, political, rap-rhyme writer Clifton Joseph, gonna (flow?) and give us some lyrical phrases. Ok, so, I’ve noticed there has been twice as many people on the left-hand side of the open mic board and half as many on the right-hand side before we got underway here; now the half that has disappeared from the left is a result of people leaning against the board; well, these things happen, if you remember existing at one point in history on the left-hand side of this board, you might want to put yourself back in there. Unfortunately, there are at least half again as many people as we need on the right-hand side of the board [video skips ahead] | Video Description: Medium long shot. Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Camera zooms in to a closeup. Gotham speaks while scratching the right temple.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:44:16\nWelcome back, my friends. (?) Thanks for hanging out, hope everyone is refreshed, we are just about ready to forge into the second half of ga’s offerings. Corey and Colin are ready to reveal to you yet more wondrous mysteries of the workings of ga press. They will kick off the second half of the act themselves. Please come back out next weekend (to hear?) this fellow Clifton Joseph, he’s really a kick-ass performer, and I would hate to bring him in from Toronto without a crowd to welcome him. In any case, I’m sympathetic to the students doing good student things, (hanging?) in and studies, so if that’s the case, well, hang. Lots of luck with it. Without further ado, Corey and Colin and, later, Chris Bell. | Video Description: Closeup. Lee Gotham adjusts mic. Camera zooms out to a medium shot, then in to closeup.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost \n00:45:21\n[Ambient sound. Colin Christie and Corey Frost alternate reading dozens of short passages from different ga press publications, with long silences in between.] | Video Description: Medium long shot. Colin Christie and Corey Frost return to the stage and stand in silence; through gestures alone, one asks what the other is holding, which turns out to be various ga press’ publications. They agree on one of the books to begin with and then alternate reading dozens of short passages, each from a different ga press publication. Camera zooms in and out a few times, remaining most of the time in a medium shot.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:54:53\n[Ambient sound. Lee Gotham asks what were Colin Christie and Corey Frost reading from in the previous act. Christie answers they were volumes published by ga press and advertises the books for sale at the entrance of the venue. Laughter. Christie explains they cannot play the video they recorded to introduce Chris Bell, so he introduces Bell himself, describing the video the audience would have seen, and stating that “Tales of the Lost Cheebah-ha” is Bell’s first published novel and ga’s first novel published. Laughter. The video eventually works, playing the recorded introduction to Chris Bell. Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to medium long shot. Colin Christie adjust AV equipment and walks over to the mic to have a conversation with Lee Gotham (who is off-screen). Camera zooms in to a medium closeup. Christie introduces the next reader, Chris Bell. Camera zooms out to medium long shot and we see Corey Frost adjusting the AV. Christie and Frost lift each a TV set playing a video-introduction to Chris Bell. Camera zooms in to video-recording playing a demonstration of Christie putting a band and a sleeve on Bell’s book.\n\nChris Bell\n01:01:17\n[Chris Bell’s introductory remarks are mostly inaudible until Lee Gotham asks him to adjust the mic. Bell reads from “Tales of the Lost Cheebah-ha” (ga press, 1995). Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in to a medium closeup. Bell wears glasses, a black suit, a black dress shirt with a layer of glimmering dots (perhaps a separate half-vest), and a dress-shirt stud with a silvery bull head. Bell reads while holding a copy of “Tales of the Lost Cheebah-ha” with his left hand. Applause. Camera zooms out to medium long shot; we see Bell exit and Lee Gotham join the stage applauding.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost \n01:22:56\n[Corey Frost thanks Chris Bell for reading and explains that Bell’s novel comprises five chapbooks, each telling parts of the story in different ways, with different styles. Frost adds the book is selling for $5. Colin Christie thanks a series of people.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in to a medium closeup. Colin Christie and Corey Frost alternate using the mic to do final remarks and acknowledgments. Applause. 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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. 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. 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The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:01\n[Ambient sounds. Mic feedback noise, with Lee Gotham humming to the same pitch.] Good evening one and all and thanks once again for coming out to another evening of Enough Said. Just a short (?) of things underway this evening, a couple of items of interest, in the very near future. I have the grand pleasure of presenting this (one?): Adeena Karasick, this next Monday. Adeena is a performance poet, language-centred writing, tender concerns front and centre, and is a wonderful act; she has toured all over the world, read with everyone from Ginsberg and Creeley to Nichols (?). It’s a wonderful pleasure to present her. The week after, this is another pet project of mine, that I’ve only plugged very discreetly up until now, but it’s called Pawn, and it’s a cultural magazine that it’s growing out of a pretty eclectic literary bag, that we managed to get together as a bunch of undergrad students at Concordia two or three years back. Still literature as an undeniable emphasis, and a real strong lineup, and I’m not gonna talk anything about any of the people (involved?). We will be launching this magazine, and some of those people involved will be here, not next Monday but the Monday after. So, that’s a couple of items in the near future. In the nearest future, I have the equal pleasure in presenting this evening two very interesting acts: the first of them the Phineas Flower Trio. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage then zoom into different degrees of closeup as the camera adjusts frame and focus. Lee Gotham walks to the mic. Gotham wears a long button-down shirt atop a t-shirt and a taqiyah-style skullcap. Gotham signals to someone out of the frame (presumably the sound technician), makes announcements, and introduces the performers of the event.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:01:58\n[Voice interrupts Gotham from out of the frame] Just get on with it, man! | Video Description: Zoom out from Lee Gotham and pan left to the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:02:00\nI believe want you to keep your distance during their act, they want lots of space, so just stay where you are [laughter]. A little later in the evening we will have Steve Godin. Steve Godin is going to do something that will set everyone’s teeth on edge [laughter]. It’s not true; Steve is a wonderfully amenable type and he’s gonna be here with us before very long. And in the meantime please welcome Phineas Flower. Stay where you are. [Applause].  | Medium long shot panning between Lee Gotham, standing, and the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting, one of them smoking. Gotham finishes his remarks and introduces the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:02:39\n[Drummer interrupts the applause] No clapping, we are serious jazz musicians. [Laughter] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham leaving the stage and the Phineas Flower Trio walking to their instruments and places. Before sitting by the drums, the drummer goes to the mic. The drummer wears a long green coat over a black turtleneck and buzz-cut hair. The camera zooms into a closeup of the mic, and the guitar player gets his instrument caught on the mic cable, almost knocking the stand down.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:03:01\n[The band spends an unnecessarily long time tuning and making adjustments, seemingly to irritate the audience.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio: the drummer on right of the screen, further to the back behind the mic stand; the guitar player in the middle putting his lit cigar on his guitar head among the tuning keys; and the bass player on the left smoking. The guitar player wears a grey Henley shirt with sleeves rolled-up to the elbow, short hair, a thin moustache, and a goatee. The bass player wears a black and red coat atop a patterned button-down shirt, long hair, a Van-Dyke beard, and sunglasses.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:04:15\n[Unknown_Audience_Member] Let’s go, eh?! [Two band members, aggressively] Back off! What the fuck was that? Why don’t you shut up?! | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:05:32\n[A vocalist joins the Phineas Flower Trio to plays their first song, a spoken-word piece against a jazzy groove. One one of the first lines is “(Dereliction?) and (pain?), corrupted by ambient (rain?).” At the end of the first piece, the vocalist says, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of vocalist leaving the audience to join the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting on a bar stool, higher than the other band members. The vocalist wears short curly hair, sunglasses, and a grey sweater over a flowery dress. He is smoking and carrying a beverage. The camera zooms in and out, settling on a medium shot of the vocalist, with the drummer partially visible behind, the latter playing while smoking. The vocalist takes a sip, then puts both glass and cigarette down to perform.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:07:40\n[Performs a second spoken-word-jazz fusion piece, beginning with the line “(Motorway?) superhighway, a massive feat of evolution in engineering.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup alternating with a medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:11:00\n[Performs a third spoken-word-jazz piece. One of the first lines is “Richard Carlyle (?) among the wreckage.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup panning among the band members of Phineas Flower Trio, who perform another piece. At the end of the piece, medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; the vocalist smokes between songs.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:12:21\n[The vocalist, shouting] Hey! [Unknown_Audience_Member, half-mockingly] No clapping. [The vocalist] We’re serious fucking jazz musicians up here. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:12:30\n[Unknown_Audience_Member] I didn’t fucking clap. [The vocalist] Good. What’s next, (Zanny?)?] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; then pan left to the bass player.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:12:35\n[The bass player states the title of the next piece, which is incomprehensible, then the band performs it. One of the first lines is “As the last drops of (glucose?) (?) (Cola?) go down his throat.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio, panning left and right among the band members. Zoom into a closeup of the vocalist, who drinks from a glass before the next song; then zoom out to a medium shot as the band performs, ending in a medium closeup.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:15:45\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece beginning, “Somewhere, somewhere higher than the sky.” At the end of the piece, the vocalist repeats what he said at the end of the first song, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup of the vocalist, as the band performs. At the end of the piece, the vocalist drinks from a glass.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:16:10\n[The vocalist, after thanking the audience] That sucked. [Unknown_Audience_Member] What kind of noise is this? [The vocalist] Bad noise! [The drummer] Wait, man, I don’t like this dialogue going on. Can’t anyone straighten this young lady out? [Vocalist] Let’s play the next song. [Guitar player] Ok, who’s the fucking pinhead who said that? [Vocalist] Yo (Zanny?), what’s the next song? [As the bass player starts to answer, the guitarist, aggressively] Pinheads, raise your fucking head. [Drummer] Get ’em, boy! [Vocalist] Alright, let’s play the song. [Guitarist] You’re lucky I’m in a good mood. | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:16:41\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping drum-bass riff. The vocalist burps into the mic before singing the first lines: “(You’re usually?) flapping its wings, a bee flies across the field (and fell?) searching frantically for food, gasping for breath.” Mid-performance, the drummer screams in the background. At the end of the piece, with the instrumentalists still playing, he vocalist repeats, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium shot of the band, with the vocalist unbuttoning and taking off his sweater, so now his flower dress is entirely visible. Then zoom into a closeup of the vocalist as he starts singing while holding a cigarette, sometimes smoking between lines. Mid-performance, the camera zooms out and alternates between a medium shot and medium long shot.\n \nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:20:04\n[The vocalist, after thanking the audience] Next. [Unknown_Audience_Member] Don’t say thank you, we’re a serious fucking audience. [Vocalist] Alright! [Guitar player] You’re a really fucking funny guy, man. [Vocalist] Let’s go, next song! [Scattered laughter and incomprehensible heckling between band and audience] | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Unknown_Audience_Member\n00:20:42\n[Vocalist] In case you didn’t notice, this is an artistic (event?). [Unknown_Audience_Member] If you didn’t (pack your lip?) it would be better. [Vocalist] Go for it. [Guitarist] Better than what? | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interacting with the band members and the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:20:53\nThe Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping guitar riff, then a sudden pause, when the vocalist says “Hey.”] | Video Description: Zoom into an extreme closeup of the vocalist, smoking, then performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:22:31\n[The band suddenly stops playing, and the drummer says to the guitarist, both out of the frame] Hey man, it’s you. [Guitarist] No, it’s you. [Drummer] You fucked up twice there. [Vocalist, trying to intervene] Let’s take it, let’s just take it… [Guitarist] (?) you have, like, no sense of time (?). [Laughter, while the argument continues, until the vocalist commands] Play! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, drinking from a glass and trying to resume the performance while the band argues.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:22:54\n[The band resumes playing the same piece]. | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, often sipping from a glass, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot, so the drummer and guitarist also become visible.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:23:44\n[Bassist states the name of the next song] Next song is “Disgusting family.” [Vocalist announces] Alright, this is our last piece and then you will be rid of us once and for all. You can clap for that if you want! [Laughter] [Drummer] Disgusting family? [Vocalist] Wow, I don’t know, if Zanny’s standing up for this one, gotta mean something. [Laughter, shouts] [Vocalist] Zanny’s a studio musician, does a lot of uppers and stuff. | Video Description: Medium long shot, panning left and right between the bassist and vocalist, then zoom unto an extreme closeup of the vocalist. The bassist stands up and the camera pans left to show him. As the band starts performing, the camera pans back right and zooms into a medium closeup of the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:27:15\n[Vocalist interrupting the song to address the guitarist] Yo Kevin? Kevin? What the fuck is this? It’s just such fucking shitty noise (which you just made with that?) guitar, man. How much talent does it take to stick a fucking patch cord into a guitar anyway? [Many talk at once and the argument continues until the Vocalist suggests] Or just keep doing what you’re doing. Alright, here we go, it’s your noise! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interrupting the piece to complain about the guitarist. The camera pans to the drummer and the guitarist then back to the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:27:56\n[The band resumes playing the same piece, and the vocalists speaks the last lines while the band is still playing]. Thanks for nothing. We’re the Phineas Flower Bar Mitzvah Quartet. We play weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties. T-shirts and CDs are available at the door. [Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup of the vocalist, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot and pans left and right, so the other band members become visible as they stand up and leave the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:22\nThanks for the (angst?), guys. The Phineas Flower Trio, thanks, in general. Ok, what we’re gonna do with this break between acts is that the first three of open-mic participants, if they’re ready to roll, and we’ll do that in a half a second. [Audio becomes incomprehensible then skips]. | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage as the Phineas Flower Trio leaves. Gotham holds a beverage and announces the next portion of the evening program.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:52\n[Recording resumes mid-sentence]…this evening, Steve Godin. Texts also on the back by Steve Godin, and Ran is gonna read us number one of the series of three. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham making remarks and announcing the next performer, while holding a glass.\n\nRan Elfassy\n00:30:02\n[Mockingly, parodying the Phineas Flower Trio] Hello? Hello? Hi! This is serious poetry. You don’t clap. [Reads text written by Steve Godin, beginning with the sentence, “The human mind and soul can be in conflict with the ideal architecture that (reveals?) the True Self.”] | Video Description: | Medium closeup of Ran Elfassy, who joins the stage wearing a buzz-cut hair and a long-sleeve green Henley shirt over a grey turtle neck. Elfassy reads from a flyer.\n\nRan Elfassy\n00:31:09\n[Announces that they will read two pieces. Asks the audience to clap to the rhythm of cha-cha during the performance of the first piece. Someone in the audience asks “How does it go?” and Ran Elfassy demonstrates. Ran Elfassy performs a piece titled “Indulge me.” The audience keeps the rhythm all the way through.] | Video Description: | Medium closeup then closeup of Ran Elfassy performing.\n\nRan Elfassy\n00:33:45\n[Reads a story beginning with the phrases, “By window and the yellow curtain, by the brass hooks.” Ran Elfassy thanks the audience amid applause.] | Video Description: | Alternating extreme closeup and medium closeup of Ran Elfassy. Elfassy takes the mic from the stand to perform a second piece, then puts it back on the stand amid applause.\n\nEND\n00:38:34\n[End of recording.]\n\n[Part 2/2 of Event]\n\n[Bistro 4]\n00:00:17\nVideo Description: Color video, medium shot of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). A single mic stand. The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles regularly passing by. The windows from across the street are also visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:00:17\n[Recording starts mid-performance, with the sentence fragment “(demonic self?), we can draw a relative conclusion of the instinct of demonic and the monic survival.” Applause. Laughter.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot of Unknown_Reader1 reading from a book and a flyer. Unknown_Reader1 wears a pink sweater, long curly, a moustache, and glasses atop their head. Suddenly leaves the frame and quickly returns saying “thank you.” Laughter, as camera zooms into an extreme closeup.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:00:45\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “We are brainless, mindless, totally insane.” Laughter after the final end rhyme, “heavy metal.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup, then zoom out to a closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing. Camera zooms in and out a few times.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:02:00\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “There once was a farmer who commuted from city.” Laughter at some of the rhymes.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing. At the end of the piece, zoom into a closeup.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:02:33\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “There was a time when Jesus and (?) consumed wine.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:03:15\n[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “Aqua doesn’t matter, we have a swamp anyhow.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:03:30\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “(?) pocks lips of golden temper.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing. Camera zooms out and pans left, tracking the performer leaving the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:54\nThanks, (Larkey?). Alright, OK, third participant, Mitsiko, did you pick up card number 3? There’s a series of three illustrations on everyone’s table pertaining to our second feature performance tonight, Steve Godin’s performance. If you bring that out with you and read it, it would be great. (?) Ok, good, Mitsiko. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage. Lee Gotham walks to the microphone. Gotham wears a long button-down shirt over a t-shirt and hair half-tucked into a Taqiyah-style skullcap. Camera zooms into a closeup. Gotham makes brief remarks and announces the next performer.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:04:30\n[Ambient sounds. Reads one of the three illustrations Gotham referred to, beginning with the line “By use of archetypal shadow.”] | Video Description: Closeup of mic being lowered. Camera zooms out and in a few times, settling into a closeup. Miller enters the stage chewing bubble gum, smoking, and holding a pile of papers. Miller wears a black leather jacket over a black-and-grey patterned button-down dress, pixie-cut blonde hair, a necklace and earrings. Miller throws away the gum as the camera zooms into an extreme closeup.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:05:55\n[Introduces and performs a poem in French beginning with the line “Click Clock.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Mitsiko reads a piece. Applause.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:07:33\n[Reads a bilingual English-French piece titled “Silly putty.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Miller reads.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:08:46\nVideo Description: Pauses the poem mid-performance to puff on a cigarette.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:08:49\n[Resumes the performance of “Silly putty.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Miller continues reading a piece. Applause, during which the camera zooms out to a closeup and we see the performer smoking a cigarette.\n\nMitsiko Miller\n00:09:15\n[Asks if everyone knows the song “Creep” by Radiohead. Performs “The subway glare.”] | Video Description: Closeup. Miller smokes and makes remarks, then removes the leather jacket. Reads a piece. Camera zooms out to a medium shot then into a medium closeup. Applause, as Miller leaves the stage and camera zooms out to a medium long shot.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:05\nThank you, Mitsiko. Alright then, we’re very near the second half of our feature performance for the evening. The second feature performer of the evening, Steve Godin. I’m just going to do a couple more plugs in a hurry here: Enough Said is going to co-present a couple things outside of the present venue; the nearest is on the 25th of March; it will take place at Building Dance, I believe it's 55 Pine Avenue East, just east of the Main, Pine Avenue; Wired on Words are presenting a new cassette of Ian Stephens’s spoken-word readings; in the month thereafter, the 24th of April, Woodstock, the new and improved Clifford Duffy offering, “Nietzsche’s Daughter is Deceased and The Invention of God” will be presented on that evening. In any case, give me two quick minutes to clear away this conventional microphone setup, and Steve Godin will let you know all about what you’ve been wondering about perhaps from the beginning of the evening, and I hope everyone will enjoy it thoroughly. | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage, then zoom into a closeup. Gotham makes remarks and, at the end, as he adjusts the microphone for the next performer, the camera zooms out to a medium shot and the recording skips.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:14:33\n[Announces an upcoming collective arts exhibit, featuring Nadia Jenefsky, Scott Ellis, among others.] | Video Description: Camera shakes and settles into a medium shot of Steve Godin sitting on a chair on the stage, holding a microphone. Godin wears dark pants, a black leather jacket and shoulder-length grey hair. As he waves to the camera, his papers fall on the floor. The camera then alternates between closeup and medium closeup. Godin makes remarks.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:16:03\n[Reads text beginning with the phrase, “For some time I was pondering theoretically on a compromise revolving around the ritual existence of…” The text refers to Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Gérard de Nerval, among others. One minute into the reading, a distorted slow-moving instrumental music becomes audible in the background and gradually increases in volume.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup of Steve Godin seating, reading while holding the mic.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:23:05\t\nBut where is the guide? [After the question, Godin sighs into the mic, observing a pause of about 20 seconds during which we hear the background music and ambient noises.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:23:30\n[Resumes reading with an increased reverb effect on the voice. The instrumental background music, now louder, approaches the volume of Godin’s voice.] | Video Description: Alternating medium shot and closeup, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n00:28:18\n[Pauses. The background music also stops for a few seconds, before resuming, developing different looping patterns. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup, medium shot, and closeup, as Godin continues to perform. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot, as Godin stands up to leave the stage, amid applause, and hands the mic to Lee Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:09\n[Thanks Godin and announces a break and reiterates upcoming events.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then medium closeup of Lee Gotham, standing while making announcements. Video skips.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:29\n[Announces the next open-mic performer.] | Video Description: Medium closeup then medium shot of Lee Gotham, announcing the next performer.\n\nUnknown_Reader2 \n00:37:20\n[Reads a series of short pieces or poetic fragments; the first begins with the line “Even on this day I give to you my most eloquent treasure.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Unknown_Reader2 enters the stage. Unknown_Reader2 wears jeans, a beige fisherman sweater, a black necklace, and blond hair in a ponytail. Camera zooms into a closeup and medium closeup as Unknown_Reader2 reads.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:38:48\n[Applause as Unknown_Reader2 starts to introduce the next piece. Reads the one-line piece “Bachelor tourism.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:39:05\n[Introduces and reads a short poem beginning with the line “The back of her head was shaped beautifully.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:39:22\n[Reads a piece beginning with the phrase “Sensation, elation, (incatenation?).”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:39:33\n[Reads a piece beginning with the phrase “(Blighting?) mystery with the light of day.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:40:05\n[Reads “State of junk.” Applause and laughter.] | Video Description: Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:41:36\n[Reads “Kisses (?) truism: (a tone?) with the metaphysical frequency of ontological-biological experience.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n00:42:04\n[Reads “A Hangover.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading. Zoom out to a medium shot as Unknown_Reader2 leaves the stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:42:25\nThanks, (Guy?). (Kibble?), haven’t used that word in ages; used to be one of my personal favourites. Well, you know, this is like a slim night for open mic, I don’t know. [A voice near the camera—and hence louder than Gotham’s—states, “Ooo, bad (?)”; and Lee seems to react to that with his next sentence.] Quality, not quantity. Speaking thereof, Justin, another Fluffy Pagan Echo[es] member, come on up and see us out of the evening, if you will, please. Justin McGrail. | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage, applauding and smoking a cigarette. Gotham makes remarks and introduces the next performer. As Gotham leaves the stage, the camera zooms into an extreme closeup.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:43:00\n[Tells a story about how the thistle became Scotland’s national emblem. Laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup of Justin McGrail’s left hand grabbing the mic; a silver ring on the pinky. Zoom out to a medium shot of McGrail on the stage. McGrail wears blue jeans, black belt, a brown plaid shirt over a long-sleeve black-and-white t-shirt, a greenish Breton cap facing backwards, and short hair. McGrail holds the mic while telling a story. Camera zooms in and alternates between medium and extreme closeups. As McGrail replaces the mic on its stand and leaves the stage, camera zooms out to a medium shot.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:47:49\nThank you, my (?). Well, what a wondrous closure to yet another evening of Enough Said. Jee, you know, I have stuff to wave in your faces, remind you all of things upcoming. I (prod?) along about them earlier; next week, amazing performer, Adeena Karasick, honestly if you have the chance [video ends mid-sentence]. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup as Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. 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To get into things without blabbing about local events, as I'll probably find ample opportunity to do so during various points during the evening, I'd like to just say, well, you know, thanks for coming. Clifton's really going to dig it, I know you're going to dig him and, um, I got a couple special surprises, the first of who I'll introduce right now. It's Norman Nawrocki. Can you welcome Norman, he's going to kick things off for us. [Audience applause]. | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjusting microphone stand. Gotham wears a white collared shirt atop a graphic t-shirt, long brown hair in bun, and a beard. Gotham introduces Norman Nawrocki, and adjusts microphone.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n00:00:57\n[Addresses audience. Introduces \"Soldiers for Jesus, Get Off!\" (later published in Rebel Moon: Anarchist Rants and Poems, AK Press, 1997). Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Narrocki wears a hoodie atop a collared shirt and short blond/brown hair. C. Lee Gotham exits frame.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n00:01:30\n[Performs \"Soldiers for Jesus.\" Audience snapping, stomping, and laughter throughout. Audience applause at the end.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki reads poem from a sheet of paper, snapping fingers to lead audience. After performing, Nawrocki exits via stage left. Lee Gotham passes through camera view. Various unknown audience members pass back and forth through camera view, briefly blocking Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:40\n[Introduces Marcel (?). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham introduces Marcel and exits stage left.\n\nMarcel\n00:04:17\n[Addresses audience. Reads in French and then translates to English a few lines from Victor Hugo's \"La Function du poète,\" beginning with \"Peuples ! Écoutez le poète !\"] | Video Description: Marcel enters from stage right. Marcel wears a white turtleneck, short brown hair, and a grey beard.  Addresses audience through microphone then reads poem from book.\n\nMarcel\n00:05:07\n[Addresses audience and reads \"Poem,\" beginning with the line \"There's a rustling in the silence.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Marcel addresses audience while flipping through publications, then reads poem from held publication.\n\nMarcel\n00:07:20\n[Addresses audience and performs Unnamed Poem 2, in English. Audience applause.] | Marcel briefly addresses audience and reads poem from publication, pacing back and forth on stage, projecting voice without using microphone. \n\nMarcel\n00:09:00\n[Performs Unnamed Poem 3, beginning in French then switching to English mid-poem. Audience applause]. | Video Description: Marcel shuffles through papers and publications then performs Unnamed Poem 3, moving from stage left to stage right throughout. Nods at audience, gathers pages and publications; then nods to Lee Gotham who walks onto stage from stage left. Marcel and Gotham briefly interact and Marcel exits stage right. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:26\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Mark.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience at microphone. Introduces Mark and exits stage left. \n\nMark\n00:14:21\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Inkling Magazine. Introduces \"The Man in the Street\".] | Video Description: Mark enters stage left and addresses audience. Mark wears a black graphic t-shirt and long curly black hair.\n\nMark\n00:15:00\n[Reads \"The Man in the Street.\"] | Video Description: Mark reads short story from a stack of pages.\n\nMark \n00:22:45\n[Interacts with Lee Gotham, saying \"almost.\" Addresses audience. Resumes reading \"The Man in the Street\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham leans into camera view, saying something to Mark. Mark and Gotham briefly interact. Gotham exits frame. Mark addresses audience and finishes reading, before exiting stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:26:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Justin McGrail, from Fluffy Pagan Echoes.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Lee Gotham walks off via stage left. \n\nJustin McGrail\n00:27:36\n[Interacts with an offscreen audience member. Addresses audience. Introduces the dance-poetry show \"Of Fire and Sword\" as context for his first piece.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail walks on stage from stage left. McGrail wears a brown coat or blazer with pins on collar and short brown hair. McGrail briefly interacts with unseen audience member before addressing audience through microphone.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:28:13\n[Begins performing \"Of Fire and Sword\" but immediately laughs and addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes performing \"Of Fire and Sword.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail closes eyes and recites words. Turns face away and mutters before laughing. Then addresses audience into microphone and resumes reciting the poem.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:29:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and performs \"Circle\". Thanks audience. Audience applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Justin McGrail addressing audience. McGrail reads poem from piece of paper. Addresses audience before exiting via stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:02\n[Addresses audience. Promotes next edition of Enough Said. Announces fifteen-minute break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham enters stage via stage right and addresses audience. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Audience members passing in front of camera briefly obscures view.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:31:55\nAmbient sounds, voices. | Video Description: Camera cuts to a close up shot of the lone mic.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:57\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Norman Nawrocki's Human Life International counterprotests. Introduces Clifton Joseph. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks onto stage via stage right and addresses audience at microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:34:16\n[Interacts with Lee Gotham. Addresses audience. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Jospeh enters stage via stage left, drinking from glass. Joseph wears a brown button-up vest atop a light green short-sleeved shirt, black-framed glasses, and short black hair. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone to Clifton Joseph's height. Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:35:57\n[Recites from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.\" Addresses audience throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience and recites poetry, making occasional gestures that emphasize portions of the poem.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:36:30\n[Laughs. Addresses audience, mentioning Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, bill bissett, and The Four Horsemen (sound poetry group), among others. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:41:25\n[Performs poem beginning with singing and the line, \"When I look at the situation\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem, occasionally using pointing, snaps, and other gestures to emphasize the performance.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:42:26\n[Performs a poem with vocalizing a melody and the line \"See, you never know what a man may do\". Audience clapping along to beat.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:43:07\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"Damn, damn, damn, what a scam, what a sham\". Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Sips from glass. Addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:44:11\n[Imitates R&B singing group. Sings from \"Harlem Blues\". Addresses audience. Asks audience for lighter. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Clifton Joseph takes out a pack of cigarettes and lights one with a match from an audience member.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:46:30\n[Resumes addressing audience. Introduces and performs \"I Remember Back Home\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Performs poem. Ashes cigarette and drinks from glass. \n\nClifton Joseph\n00:49:30\n[Performs \"Pimps.\"] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. \n\nClifton Joseph\n00:52:05\n[Initiates call-and-response with audience.] | Video description: Cups hand to ear.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:53:29\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause; audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph smokes cigarette and crushes it under foot. Drinks from glass. Addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:55:35\n[Performs \"Chuckie Prophesy\". Audience applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from water glass. Addresses audience.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:58:10\n[Interacts with Clifton Joseph.] | Video Description: Audience_Member1 interacts with Clifton Joseph.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:58:16\n[Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience.\n\nClifton Joseph\n00:59:13\n[Performs \"Slo-Mo\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from glass. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:04:00\n[Begins performing \"A Chant for Monk\". Interacts with unknown audience member off-screen. Laughs. Audience laughter. Resumes performing \"A Chant for Monk\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Camera zooms in as Clifton Joseph interacts briefly with offscreen audience member.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:08:08\n[Initiates audience call-and-response. Resumes performing \"A Chant for Monk\".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs, with gestures that accentuate performance. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:09:12\n[Finishes performing \"A Chant for Monk\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph interacts with Lee Gotham. Clifton Joseph bows for audience applause.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:09:51\n[Addresses audience. Promotes upcoming events, including Clifford Duffy’s \"The Invention of God.\"] | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone and addresses audience. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:11:06\n[Introduces Clifton Joseph's second set. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Jump cut. Extreme close-up on Lee Gotham addressing audience. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:12:14\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause and laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph speaking into microphone, addressing audience. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:13:32\n[Introduces and performs \"Lookin' for a Job.\" Audience laughter. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph drinks from a glass in front of the microphone, then continues addressing audience. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing. Joseph improvises various gesticulations for emphasis, such as raising glasses off his face on the word \"sight.\" \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:16:06\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with audience member. Audience laughter throughout. Introduces and performs \"(Metropolitan Blues?).\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing and laughing into microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:24:00\n[Briefly performs from \"Special Request\" before addressing audience.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Briefly gesticulates as he performs lines from a song. Adjusts and speaks into microphone.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:24:45\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"It is dumb, dumb, dumb.\" Concludes with audience call-and-response. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performing into microphone. Clifton Joseph points toward audience to initiate call-and-response.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:26:13\n[Addresses audience, interacting with individual audience members throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Accepts glass from unseen audience member and drinks from it. \n\nClifton Joseph\n01:30:27\n[Performs poem beginning with loud vocalizations that turn from singing to screaming. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph removes microphone from stand, places down glass, and holds microphone in hand. Camera pans across stage as Clifton Joseph performs, facing away from audience. Joseph turns toward audience and places microphone in stand. Lee Gotham briefly adjusts microphone as Joseph performs. Joseph moves microphone stand to stage right. Camera follows Joseph as he walks through audience performing. Audience applauds. Joseph wipes face with hand and walks through the crowd, exiting the camera's view. Camera pans back toward the stage. Lee Gotham enters frame and approaches microphone from stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:34:23\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Lee Gotham, who speaks into microphone and claps along with audience. He exits the frame. Camera pans across audience applauding. Joseph reenters frame. Camera pans, following Joseph walking toward the stage. Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham and Joseph embrace, and Joseph dances on stage. Joseph bows.\n\nClifton Joseph\n01:35:00\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph speaks into microphone, addressing audience. Drinks from glass before walking off stage via stage left. Lee Gotham walks to stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:35:21\n[Addresses audience and announces break. Laughs.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Brief VCR static.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:36:02\n[Addresses audience. Reads from Unnamed Periodical. Addresses audience member (\"See you later, Bob\") and resumes addressing audience. Announces open mic and its first performer, Steve Hawley.] | Video Description: Close-up on Lee Gotham speaking into microphone and reading from a periodical. Lee Gotham exits frame and returns with a dictionary. Waves to an audience member off-screen before addressing audience again. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:37:38\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Audience_Member2.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham moves out of frame. Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley enters stage from stage left. Hawley wears a black sweatshirt and backward baseball cap on short dark hair. Hawley holds a cigarette. Hawley lifts microphone from stand and holds it close to mouth while addressing audience. Camera zooms out, revealing Hawley holding a glass.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:38:21\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line \"We got (?) children's candy.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley raps into microphone.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:38:46\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with unknown audience member. Introduces and performs piece beginning with the line \"I see people on a mission every day of their lives\". Laughs; audience laughter.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley speaks to audience and briefly dances while making a joke. Places down glass. Camera zooms in to close-up as Hawley introduces and performs next piece. Hawley raps into microphone, briefly laughs, and continues performing.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:41:14\n[Introduces and performers piece beginning with the line \"It's rough, growing up without peers.\" Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Steve \"Liquid\" Hawley raps into microphone. Camera zooms out as Hawley exits frame. Lee Gotham claps while walking up to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:43:27\n[Addresses audience. Announces Sabrina. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Gotham speaks to audience. Sabrina moves across screen, walking toward stage. Gotham adjusts microphone to Sabrina's height and exits stage left. \n\nSabrina\n01:43:45\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and performs \"(?) Blues.\" Laughs and addresses audience mid-poem. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as Sabrina addresses audience. Sabrina wears a dark jacket, patterned scarf around neck, and brown, shoulder-length hair with a clip. Reads poem from a piece of paper. Looks toward applauding audience members off-screen. Stops reading and addresses audience, making \"finger-gun\" motions. Laughs and looks behind left shoulder, away from audience, then recites the rest of the poem. Walks out of frame.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:47:35\n[Addresses audience. Announces Andy. Interacts with Andy, before announcing Paco W.] | Video Description: Sabrina moves across camera view as Lee Gotham arrives at microphone. Lee Gotham addresses audience. Gotham exits frame.\n\nPaco W.\n01:48:31\n[Reads a piece beginning with the line \"I will telling of nothing, nothing, I'll tell you.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco walks to microphone and makes brief \"sign of the horns\" gesture. Paco wears a collared shirt, an earring in left ear, and short brown hair. Paco adjusts microphone before reading poem from a stack of pages.\n\nPaco W.\n01:50:26\n[Introduces and reads from \"Fragments of Our (Kin?).\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco steps briefly away from microphone. Passing audience member obscures camera view. Paco looks down toward pages and steps back in front of microphone. Reads into microphone from stack of pages. Walks off-screen. Lee Gotham returns to microphone and adjusts stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:51:51\n[Addresses Andy. Introduces Andy. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Andy (who is off-screen) before walking off-screen.\n\nAndy\n01:52:13\n[Addresses audience. Reads Unnamed Piece. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts upward as Andy walks to microphone. Andy wears a red shirt, black toque, a necklace, and curly chin-length hair. Andy reads from notebook.\n\nAndy\n01:53:35\n[Reads \"Quiet.\" Audience laughter throughout. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Andy closes notebook and turns around to grab a piece of paper before speaking into microphone. Looks down at page while reading. Moves away from microphone and walks out-of-frame via stage left. Lee Gotham moves to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:55:20\n[Addresses and introduces David J.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone addressing David J. (who is off-screen) before exiting stage-left, out of frame. \n\nDavid J.\n01:55:29\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"Who Do?\" Audience laughter, applause.] | Video Description: David J. walks to microphone and addresses audience. J. wears a black sweater atop a grey collared shirt and short black hair. Camera zooms out as David speaks to audience while flipping through a notebook. Reads from notebook.\n\nDavid J.\n01:56:10\n[Introduces \"Cadillac Bomb.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. speaks to audience while flipping through notebook. Reads from notebook. \n\nDavid J.\n01:56:55\nIntroduces and reads \"The Devil's Got the Goods\". Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. steps away from microphone and flips through notebook. Speaks, inaudibly, to off-screen audience member. Addresses audience. Camera zooms in as David reads from notebook. David steps away from microphone and nods to audience, before walking stage left, off-screen. Lee Gotham approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:58:42\n[Addresses audience. Asks about Jeff, then invites Unknown_Reader1 to the stage.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience. An unnamed audience member briefly passes in front of Lee Gotham. \n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:59:23\n[Introduces and reads (\"Also Badge\"?).] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 approaches microphone with a stack of papers. Unknown_Reader1 wears a pink t-shirt and long straight brown hair. Reads from stack of papers.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:59:55\n[Introduces and reads \"For Salman\" (Salman Rushdie). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n02:00:32\n[Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem. Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers. Addresses audience and walks from microphone, exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:01:41\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with Ed.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience before interacting briefly with Ed off-screen. Ed enters from stage left as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Ed moves toward microphone and Lee Gotham exits stage left.\n\nEd\n02:01:59\n[Introduces and reads \"Open Hand, Empty Hand.\" Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ed addresses audience. Ed wears a dark trench coat atop a collared shirt and brown hair in bowl-cut style. Reads poem. Addresses audience and exits stage left. Lee Gotham enters and moves to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:04:06\n[Addresses audience. Announces Lion Man.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone, addressing audience and Lion Man. Gotham adjusts microphone as Lion Man enters frame from stage right.\n\nLion Man\n02:04:25\n[Makes purring noise into microphone. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Lion Man addresses audience. Lion man wears an emerald green vest, a brown collared shirt, and straight chin-length brown hair. \n\nLion Man\n02:04:30\n[Performs \"Impropaganda.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man recites poem into the microphone.\n\nLion Man\n02:06:28\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem, about \"if water and plant life could speak to us.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man steps away from microphone and smiles. Addresses audience. Flips through notebook before addressing audience. Reads poem from notebook. Closes notebook and steps away from microphone, exiting stage right. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham enters from stage left, clapping, and walks up to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:09:33\n[Thanks Lion Man. Announces Christine. Promotes upcoming event, Clifford Duffy’s \"The Invention of God,\" at the Woodstock Bar.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, speaking into microphone. Christine enters frame from stage left and flips through papers. Gotham adjusts microphone and walks off-camera, exiting stage left.\n\nChristine\n02:10:04\n[Addresses audience. Audience response. Laughs and resumes addressing audience.] | Video Description: Christine stands to the side of microphone, flipping through pages. Christine wears a black collared shirt, light-wash jeans with a large belt buckle, and short blonde hair. Christine walks up to the microphone and addresses audience. Christine laughs at and flips through pages. \n\nChristine\n02:10:43\n[Reads a poem beginning with the line \"Why do I feel so (?) like a little girl.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Christine reading from notebook. Looks down away from audience. Camera zooms out as Christine flips to a new page.\n\nChristine\n02:11:52\n[Reads a poem beginning with the line \"Okay, it's all over now.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Flips through notebook pages before settling on a new page.\n\nChristine\n02:13:30\n[Reads from \"Unfinished Poems.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Walks from microphone and off-screen via stage left. Christine is seen again passing through camera's view. Lee Gotham enters from stage left and walks to microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:14:37\n[Addresses audience. Thanks Christine. Announces Steve Godin.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. An unknown audience member passes briefly through camera view. Gotham exits as Steve Godin walks toward the microphone from stage right.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:14:57\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: Steve Godin addresses audience while looking through pages. Godin wears a black leather jacket atop a black t-shirt and long grey straight hair. Reads from a stack of pages. Addresses audience and exits via stage right. Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:18:47\n[Thanks Steve Godin. Announces Simon.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience and exits stage left. \n\nSimon\n02:19:05\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"Pulling Me In.\" Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down as Simon approaches microphone. Simon wears a blue long sleeve t-shirt, round glasses, and collar-length straight brown hair. Camera zooms in as Simon addresses audience. Simon reads into the microphone.\n\nSimon\n02:19:50\n[Addresses audience. Introduces and reads \"The Day with the Face.\" Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Simon steps briefly away from microphone before stepping back and addressing audience. Simon raises stack of pages higher, into frame. Reads from stack of pages. Steps away from microphone and looks down. Speaks briefly into microphone before exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage right. Gotham takes cigarette out of mouth.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:23:43\n[Thanks Simon. Interacts with off-screen audience member (Jean-Luc). Introduces Tom. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, laughing throughout. Gotham moves from microphone and exits stage right. \n\nTom\n02:24:31\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter] Introduces and performs \"Call Before You Dig.\"] | Video Description: Tom enters from stage left. Tom wears a navy flannel jacket, black backwards baseball cap, and blond hair. Reads from pages.\n\nTom\n02:26:20\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause. Introduces and reads \"The Conspiracy of the (?) Dentist.\" Laughs. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Tom steps away from microphone and shuffles through pages. Approaches microphone and addresses audience. Reads from pages. Then exits stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone clapping. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:27:56\n[Addresses audience with concluding remarks.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, removes cigarette from mouth, and resumes speaking. An audience member briefly passes through camera view.\n\nEND\n02:28:05\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.886211},{"id":"3980","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 1995-01-16, bissett and Nelson"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying asset, corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the two 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. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer."],"creator_names":["Gotham, Lee","bissett, bill","Nelson, Sharon H."],"creator_names_search":["Gotham, Lee","bissett, bill","Nelson, Sharon H."],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112\",\"name\":\"Gotham, Lee\",\"dates\":\"1962-\",\"notes\":\"Lee Gotham was also the MC of this event.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\",\"Producer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/96127023\",\"name\":\"bissett, bill\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"Headliner.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/108207169\",\"name\":\"Nelson, Sharon H.\",\"dates\":\"1948-2016\",\"notes\":\"Headliner.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Duncan, Drew","Phil","Duncan, Scott","Berger, Halina","McGrail, Justin","Paul","Unknown_Reader1","Bro","Unknown_Reader2","Unknown_Reader3"],"contributors_names_search":["Duncan, Drew","Phil","Duncan, Scott","Berger, Halina","McGrail, Justin","Paul","Unknown_Reader1","Bro","Unknown_Reader2","Unknown_Reader3"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Drew\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Videographer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Phil\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/135986318\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Scott\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Berger, Halina\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106255768\",\"name\":\"McGrail, Justin\",\"dates\":\"1968-\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Paul\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Unknown_Reader1\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Open-mic performer. 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Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1993.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/en/title/18641644\",\"citation\":\"bissett, bill. What We Have. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1988.\"},{\"url\":\" https://worldcat.org/en/title/49305136\",\"citation\":\"Nelson, Sharon H. This Flesh, These Words. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2002.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/title/27851248\",\"citation\":\"Nelson, Sharon H. Grasping men's metaphors. Dorion, QC: Muses' Co. = Compagnie des Muses, 1993.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549161508864,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:16\n[Ambient sounds (movement, conversation).] | Video Description: Colour video. Camera view at first rocks, unstable, as it repositions. Long shot of the Bistro 4 (Quatre) stage, with audience members before it sitting at tables and chairs also in view. The stage is slightly below street level, with numerous large window panes that face Saint-Laurent Boulevard. Vague shapes of cars, streetlights, and passerby are visible through the window. Yellow curtains frame the windows, and a large light hangs from the ceiling above the audience. A painting or illustration is on the wall adjacent to stage right. Event organizer and host Lee Gotham is in the camera foreground, speaking to an unknown audience member and pointing at something out-of-frame. Gotham wears a green shirt and light brown shoulder-length hair. Behind Lee Gotham, bill bissett stands facing audience on the stage. bissett wears a graphic t-shirt, thick-framed glasses, and chin-length hair. \n\nbill bissett \n00:00:19\n[Performs Unnamed Poem 1 with chant-like vocalizations and maraca including the line \"I got a feeling we're going to make (?) strong.\"] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett performing a piece and keeping rhythm with a maraca. bissett wears a black and white patterned vest over a blue tie-dye shirt with a white graphic on the front, large square plastic-framed glasses, and shoulder-length light brown hair with a receding hairline. Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bissett and his maraca. Lee Gotham briefly passes through camera view.\n\nbill bissett \n00:06:39\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett stops the rhythm and brings the maraca to his lips. Camera zooms out into a long shot as bissett puts maraca in his back pocket and picks up a binder with multiple documents inside. Audience members applaud. bissett addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett \n00:06:58\n[Reads “n e c k s” (from Th last photo uv th human soul, Talonbooks, 1993). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between long shot, medium long shot, and closeup on bill bissett reading poem from lifted binder. \n\nbill bissett\n00:11:07\n[Finishes reading “n e c k s”. Audience applause. bill bissett introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience laughter and applause.] Video Description: bill bissett closes binder and rubs hand across forehead. Camera pans across the room, capturing a full venue of applauding audience members. Camera zooms into closeup on bissett addressing audience. bill bissett begins walking off stage via stage left. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:11:48\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Nelson stands up from audience and places hand on bissett’s shoulder before moving by him. Nelson speaks to an audience member out-of-frame (bissett?) before walking to the microphone stand on stage.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:11:59\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, introducing Unnamed Poem 1 as a response to bissett's \"(ken and heath made for life?).\" Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson speaks into the microphone, which is set significantly higher on the stand than their height. Nelson wears a green and orange patterned dress, long dark hair, and a necklace. Nelson addresses bill bissett (off-screen). Nelson addresses audience. An unseen audience member adjusts microphone stand to Nelson's height. Nelson spits out gum and looks for place to put chewed wad. An unseen audience member stretches out palm in front of Nelson. Nelson addresses audience before glancing down at the pages they hold.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:13:28\n[Reads poem beginning with the line \"I hear the geese before I see them.\" Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Sharon H. Nelson reading from pages. Nelson breaks from reading to address audience before returning to reading.\n\nSharon H. Nelson and bill bissett\n00:17:09\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down sheets of paper on the floor and walks off via stage left. Camera zooms out to long shot, capturing applauding audience members. bill bissett walks up to microphone stand via stage left. bissett addresses audience and adjusts microphone stand height. Camera pans right. Nelson addresses bissett. Audience members laugh. Lee Gotham is at one of the large window panes, adjusting a fixture. Camera pans left, back toward bissett on stage. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. bissett adjusts glasses, opens binder, and flips through pages.\n\nbill bissett\n00:18:00\n[Reads Unnamed Poem 2 beginning with the line \"Vapours, don't blame it on the dog.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot of bissett reading a poem from a lifted binder\n\nbill bissett\n00:20:51 \n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 2. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett flips page and addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett\n00:21:01\n[Reads “unmatching phenomena” (from Inkorrect Thots, Talonbooks, 1992). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: billl bissett reads from binder. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. \n\nbill bissett\n00:23:06\n[Finishes “unmatching phenomena”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Audience laughter. Begins poem before breaking off to address audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and glances down, flipping through it. bill bissett lifts binder again and addresses audience. bissett smiles at audience laughter and addresses audience, lifting hand.\n\nbill bissett\n00:23:21\n[Resumes reading “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett resumes reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett\n00:25:09\n[Finishes “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through its pages. bissett addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett\n00:25:22\n[Begins reading Unnamed Poem 3 beginning with the line \"Who wrote the script though? Don't you always wonder that?\" before breaking off to addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes reading poem before addressing audience and interacting with Unknown_Audience_Member. Audience laughter. bill bissett interacts with another Unknown_Audience_Member. Audience laughter. Resumes reading poem. Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett begins reading from binder before addressing audience, raising hand. bissett resumes reading before addressing audience again. An unseen audience member addresses bissett and they interact. bissett interacts with another unseen audience member. bissett resumes reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett\n00:27:44\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Unknown_Audience_Member and bissett interact.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through pages. Camera pans across audience members applauding. bill bissett addresses audience. bissett interacts with an unseen audience member.\n\nbill bissett\n00:28:06\n[Reads “reflex blu” (from What We Have, Talonbooks, 1988, https://worldcat.org/en/title/18641644).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bill bissett reading from binder. \n\nbill bissett\n00:30:38\n[Finishes “reflex blu”. Audience applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and adjusts glasses, looking out at audience. bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett walks toward Sharon H. Nelson stage-left and they shake hands and exchange a kiss. Nelson walks toward microphone stand. bissett takes seat adjacent to stage left.]\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:31:16 \n[Addresses audience. Addresses Unknown_Audience_Member. Addresses audience. Introduces \"Form and Structure\" (from Grasping Men's Metaphors, Muses' Co., 1993) mentioning Dorothy Parker. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson tilting microphone downward and addressing audience. An unknown audience member walks into the frame, kneeling to adjust microphone stand to Nelson's height. Nelson addresses unknown audience member.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:32:29\n[Reads “Form and Structure”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads to the audience, with gestures to accentuate the poem’s humour.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:33:04\n[Finishes “Form and Structure”. Audience applause. Introduces “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”. Audience laughter.]  | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles at the audience as camera zooms out into a medium long shot. Nelson flips through the book in their hands. Nelson addresses audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:33:39\n[Reads “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson reading from book.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:17\n[Audience laughter. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson introduces Unnamed Poem 2 in the style of nursery rhymes, and mentioning playing show-and-tell in school. Sharon H. Nelson begins to read Unnamed Poem 2 beginning with the line \"When we were little children and playing show-and-tell,\" breaking off to address audience. Audience members respond.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson nods.  Addresses audience. Looks down to read, before glancing up and address audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:49\n[Resumes reading Unnamed Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout. Addresses audience member resuming reading poem.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson glances down and reads from book. Glances up to address audience before resuming reading.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:36:17\n[Pauses. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles, raises a finger, and addresses audience (inaudible). \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:36:25\n[Resumes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson resumes reading poem.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:37:01\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down book and smiles at audience. Gestures toward and addresses offscreen audience member (bill bissett?). Camera zooms out into medium long shot as Nelson exits via stage left. Backs of audience members' heads. Nelson and bissett interact off-screen. bissett approaches microphone via stage left.\n\nbill bissett\n00:37:28\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. bissett flips and sorts through pages, putting one briefly in his mouth. An unknown audience member briefly passes through camera view. bissett selects a page, places something down, and turns back toward the microphone.\n\nbill bissett \n00:38:27\n[Performs “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and in between extreme closeup and medium long shot on bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone. bissett holds up and references pages throughout the performance, occasionally flipping. \n\nbill bissett \n00:45:11\n[Finishes “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd”. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Addresses audience, talking about quinine, TV detectives, and murder mysteries. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett goes silent and slowly lowers outstretched arms. Camera zooms out to long shot of applauding audience members in front of the stage, with one unknown audience member in an orange sweater moving through the crowd. Lee Gotham approaches the stage via stage left and interacts with bissett before returning to his seat. bissett picks up binder and flips through pages. Camera zooms in as bissett addresses audience. bissett drinks from a glass, puts it on the floor, and flips through binder.\n\nbill bissett \n00:46:32\n[Reads Unnamed Poem 4 beginning with the line \"Mr. and Mrs. Ridge of Venus Land\". Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder.\n\nbill bissett \n00:47:45\n[Laughs. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett laugh before looking back down at binder.\n\nbill bissett \n00:47:51\n[Resumes reading Unnamed Poem 4. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett \n00:49:23\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 4. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers and closes binder. Gestures to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson). bissett addresses audience and applauds along with them. bissett begins exiting via stage left. bissett and Nelson embrace and address one another as Nelson walks toward microphone stand.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:49:44\n[Addresses audience. Addresses bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience and looks over to bill bissett to address him. An unknown audience member briefly obscures camera view. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:46:49\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Sharon H. Nelson flips through pages, and an unknown audience member adjusts the microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson addresses audience member adjusting microphone stand and thanks them. Camera zooms into a closeup on Nelson.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:50:29\n[Addresses audience, discussing bissett’s artwork. Audience laughter. Introduces “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991).”] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:52:15\n[Reads “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads from pages.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:56:32\n[Finishes “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Introduces “The Best Minds of My Generation” (from This Flesh These Words, Ekstasis Editions, 2002), mentioning the piece is dedicated to bill bissett and to George (Predelli?), a former Catholic priest. Audience laughter. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into long shot as Sharon H. Nelson gathers pages and nods toward audience. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Nelson addresses audience and flips through pages.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:57:49\n[Coughs. Introduces and reads “The Best Minds of My Generation”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson coughs into fist. An audience member briefly obscures view of stage. Nelson reads from pages. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:02:18\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson picks pages up from floor and exits stage via stage left. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Sharon H. Nelson sits in audience as bill bissett returns to the microphone stand on stage. bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. \n\nbill bissett \n01:02:50\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett raises glass to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson?) and sips from it. \n\nbill bissett\n01:03:04\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into medium long shot as bill bissett adjusts glasses and flips through pages. Lee Gotham passes through camera view, glancing right into the lens. \n\nbill bissett \n01:03:24\n[Reads “why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown” (from Th Influenza uv Logik, Talonbooks, 1995).] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera zooms in and out between closeup on bissett and long shot of bissett on stage, panning across the audience members listening to the reading and smoking. \n\nbill bissett\n01:08:11\n[Finishes \"why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown.\" Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett briefly closes binder before opening it again. \n\nAudience\n01:08:23\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Camera begins to zoom out to a long shot revealing applauding audience members. bissett turns to an unknown audience member upstage left and interacts with them. The unknown audience member holds bissett's binder as bissett searches for a page inside it. Camera pans across audience members sitting adjacent to stage left.\n\nbill bissett\n01:08:34\n[Performs Unnamed Poem 5 beginning with the line \"Jennifer Rawlins.\"] | Video Description: bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone, holding sheet of paper.\n\nbill bissett\n01:11:34\n[Finishes Unnamed Poem 5. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Thanks Sharon H. Nelson. Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera pans over applauding audience members throughout the room. bill bissett addresses audience. Lee Gotham moves through crowd and approaches stage. bissett is given his binder by the unknown audience member holding it. Gotham and bissett hug. bissett addresses audience before exiting stage left as Gotham approaches the microphone stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:12:16\nWow, I think we need—Woo! Just a little time to cool down now after that. Geez, you know, I can’t, I can’t say how happy I am to, you know, be a part of something that involves not only a generous helping of spectacle but, you know, a whole lotta love, and just generally rejuvenating experience. I think what I’d like to do is, like I said, take a little break. Any of the open-mikers who’ve hung out and are still up for it are more than welcome to have their day in the rain in a moment or two. I can’t encourage people enough, as well, to come over to the corner at some point if you’re going hang out for a bit. We’ve got loads of books, both Sharon’s, bill’s, and some small press offerings of various natures. You know, when I first bill, I was doing my degree at Concordia. I went down to the stacks in what was at that time the Norris Library. Do you know there are 41 titles of bill’s in that library? Several of Sharon’s as well. But 41—you’re not going to find a lot of them in the bookstores anymore, but bill is part of a very, very vital scene, going back a good twenty odd years. [Sharon H. Nelson interacts (“Pushing thirty!”)] Pushing thirty! And they’re all still in the stacks, you know? You go down to what’s now the Webster Library, or over to the Redpath, or any other incredible institution of those varieties, you can check the stuff out because I tell you, a whole lot of innovation went into the years between then and now. Okay, so—enjoy, hang out. I should mention the coming weeks. Second in the series, Wired Words—spoken word documents prepared by Corey Frost, Colin Christie, and ga Press, that’s featuring Fortner Anderson and Neil Wiernik next week, same time, same place. I’d like to send a thought out to my future performer for the week after, Ian Stephens, is not very well and I think with all the love in the air here this evening maybe we can all share a thought with Ian. And yeah, hang out, please, as long as you’d like, and we’ll get right to a little impromptu reading in a moment. Thanks. [Audience applause].  | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjust microphone stand height. Gotham addresses audience and at one point addresses Sharon H. Nelson (off-screen) before returning his focus to the audience. Gotham begins walking off off via stage right.\n\nAudience\n01:15:11\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Camera cuts to unknown audience members flipping through copies of bill bissett’s books. Camera pans downward to a table full of glasses and a stack of books. In the foreground, an unknown audience member (face out of frame) holds a stack of pages with poems on them. Camera zooms into the stack of books that reads “bill bissett” and “Talonbooks” on the spine. Camera pans up and zooms into audience members holding bissett’s book open in their hands as they read. Camera pans across tables full of audience members sitting, smoking, drinking, and chatting at tables.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:16:10 \n[Addresses audience.].| Video Description: Camera zooms into audience members sitting at table, in chairs, and at the bar, some of who turn toward the stage (off-screen) at the sound of Lee Gotham’s voice.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:16:29\n[Cut to Unknown_Reader 1 reading a poem including the line \"Warms my heart, always one step below.\"] | Video Description: Sudden cut. Camera quickly zooms in from long shot to close up on Unknown_Reader1 reading from pages. Unknown_Reader1 wears a maroon sweater and curly chin-length brown hair. An audience member briefly passes through camera view.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:17:22\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Introduces \"Token Golden Showpiece\".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 lowers pages to flip through them. An audience member partially obstructs camera view when sitting down. Unknown_Reader1 addresses audience.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:17:33\n[Reads “Token Golden Showpiece”.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 reads from pages. \n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:19:14\n[Finishes “Token Golden Showpiece”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 glances up and begins walking away from microphone. Unknown_Reader1 smiles at the audience applause. They exit via stage left. \n\nUnknown_Reader2\n01:19:19\n[Thanks audience. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces \"The Prisoner's Song\".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 fishes pieces of paper out of the front pocket of their shirt. Unknown_Reader2 wears a black and grey flannel shirt atop a graphic t-shirt, and a brown ponytail. Unknown_Reader2 addresses audience.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n01:19:52\n[Reads “The Prisoner’s Song”.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 reads from piece of paper.\n\nUnknown_Reader2\n01:23:10\n[Finishes “The Prisoner’s Song”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 exits via stage right. Camera zooms out to reveal Lee Gotham, clapping and rising from his seat to go to microphone. Lee Gotham addresses audience. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:23:22\n[Addresses audience member (Scott Duncan). Introduces Scott Duncan. Audience applause. Promotes \"Pawn to Infinity\" (magazine). Introduces Scott Duncan. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone and addresses audience member. Camera zooms out and pans to the left, toward the back of the venue. Audience members clap and walk through the back of the venue. Camera pans slowly right, toward the stage. Audience members listen and chat at their tables.\n\nScott Duncan\n01:24:16\n[Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Scott Duncan (short dark hair, black t-shirt with white graphic, black flatcap) approaches microphone via stage left. Scott Duncan addresses audience.\n\nScott Duncan \n01:24:29\n[Begins performing piece, repeatedly spelling out \"P-O-M.\" Audience laughter. Unknown audience member interacts with Duncan. Resumes performing piece. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on Scott Duncan as he recites poem from memory. Scott Duncan pauses briefly and looks over toward off-screen audience member who interacts with him. Duncan resumes performing. Then Duncan lifts shirt to reveal and rub his abdomen marked with the same letters that he spells out in the poem, \"P O M\". Duncan resumes performing. Lee Gotham passes briefly through camera view. Duncan lifts shirt again, which he does throughout the performance.\n\nScott Duncan\n01:27:26\n[Finishes piece. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Scott Duncan smiles at audience and exits stage via stage left. Lee Gotham rises from seat and approaches microphone. Camera pans toward the left, following Scott Duncan moving to his seat and sitting down.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:27:35\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Scott Duncan. Scott Duncan interacts with Lee Gotham. Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes performance series. Introduces Phil. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera pans back toward stage where Lee Gotham speaks into the microphone. Gotham addresses Scott Duncan before addressing audience. Camera pans toward the left and zooms into Phil, the next open mic performer, rising from their seat.\n\nPhil\n01:28:10\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).]  | Video Description: Phil takes guitar out of case at the back of the venue as tables of audience members chat and drink. Phil moves to the stage and sets down a sheet of paper on a music stand. Phil puts guitar strap over shoulder and adjusts microphone stand.\n\nPhil\n01:28:55\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Unknown audience member addresses Phil, and they interact. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Phil addresses audience. Phil wears  a white long-sleeved shirt and a shaved head. Phil interacts with an audience member (offscreen). Phil rests slightly back on a ledge on stage and looks down at the piece of paper.\n\nPhil\n01:29:40\n[Performs composition beginning with the line \"And all the while.\" Audience laughter throughout. Bistro 4 landline rings.] | Video Description: Phil performs a composition, picking guitar strings with one hand while glancing occasionally at a piece of paper in the other hand. Passersby look into the venue through the large-paned windows.\n\nPhil\n01:32:25\n[Finishes composition. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Phil stands and takes guitar strap off of shoulder. Phil leaves the stage via stage right. Camera pans to follow Phil walking toward the back of the venue to return to seat. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:32:38\n[Announces Halina Berger. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham calls out for Halina Berger via the microphone. Berger confirms attendance (offscreen) and Lee Gotham announces their set. Lee Gotham addresses an audience member (offscreen) who sits adjacent to stage left, before sitting. Berger (short brown hair, red blouse) enters the stage via stage right.\n\nHalina Berger\n01:32:55\n[Addresses audience. Reads poem beginning with the line \"If I could be at peace with everybody.\"] | Video Description: Halina Berger addresses audience. Berger wears a red blouse and short brown hair. An audience member briefly obstructs camera view. Berger reads from a piece of paper in hand.\n\nHalina Berger\n01:34:30\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Halina Berger looks up from piece of paper and nods at audience. Berger exits stage via stage right. Lee Gotham, clapping, rises from seat and approaches microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:34:39\n[Thanks Halina Berger. Addresses Justin McGrail. Announces Justin McGrail. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Halina Berger. Lee Gotham steps toward stage right, looking for someone toward the back of the venue. Gotham addresses Justin McGrail and then addresses audience. Gotham returns to seat. McGrail (short brown hair, button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves, suspenders, grey trousers, ear piercing) enters stage via stage right. McGrail cups hands over mouth before turning toward microphone.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:34:59\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"The trick is, was, used to be seem to be seen as structurally strict\".] | Video Description: Justin McGrail performs poem from memory, with gestures to accentuate language. McGrail wears a white button-down shirt with sleeves rolled-up to elbows, green pants with suspenders, and short dark brown hair.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:36:44\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail walks off via stage right. Lee Gotham enters frame, clapping, and stands in front of microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:36:57\n[Addresses audience. Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n01:37:03\nVideo Description: Sudden cut. The tilted camera captures the yellow curtains lining the windows behind the stage.\n\nUnknown_Reader3\n01:37:06\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"X-Factor (?) and sub-atomic fumes.\"] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and resets its angle to capture the stage. Camera zooms in from long shot to closeup on Unknown_Reader3 reading from a piece of paper. Unknown_Reader3 wears a white long-sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled-up to elbows and short brown hair.\n\nUnknown_Reader3\n01:39:04\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader3 lowers piece of paper and exits via stage right. Lee Gotham enters frame applauding and adjusts microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:39:12\n[Addresses audience. Announces Paul. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Camera tilts upward toward windows.\n\nPaul\n01:39:23\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Unknown audience member interacts with Paul. Audience laughter. Paul thanks unknown audience member.] | Video Description: Camera resets angle back toward stage. Paul addresses audience. Paul wears a grey sweater, fleece vest, buzzed dark hair, and a goatee. Paul laughs at unknown audience member's (offscreen) comment. Paul looks down at pages and then addresses unknown audience member.\n\nPaul\n01:39:44\n[Reads “Tell Us”. Briefly interjects to announce title, before resuming reading.] | Video Description: Paul reads poem pieces of paper. Paul briefly addresses audience before resuming reading, occasionally turning pages.\n\nPaul\n01:41:35\n[Finishes “Tell Us”. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces “Egg”. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Paul addresses audience and smiles.\n\nPaul\n01:41:52\n[Reads “Egg”.] | Video Description: Paul reads poem from pages, occasionally flipping pages.\n\nPaul\n01:43:40\n[Ambient sounds (movement, voices).] | Video Description: Paul trails off and blinks at pages. Paul rocks back and forth, trying to hold onto microphone stand, and stumbles out of frame. Camera pans slightly to the right. Lee Gotham’s shoulder is seen, as well as the slight view his head turning to look toward the stage. Gotham rushes toward stage. Camera zooms out, revealing Gotham and multiple unknown audience members assisting Paul stand up. Paul blinks and touches chest.\n\nPaul\n01:43:59\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Paul addresses audience. Unknown audience members assisting tend to Paul as Paul picks up spilled pages from the floor. Paul is handed a glass and they drink. Paul speaks into the microphone and holds up pages. Gotham pats Paul on the back as assisting audience members return to their seats. Gotham claps as he returns to his seat. Paul is handed additional pages.\n\nPaul\n01:44:28\n[Resumes reading “Egg”.] | Video Description: Paul reads from pages.\n\nPaul\n01:45:00\n[Finishes “Egg”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paul exits via stage left and returns to their seat. Lee Gotham takes to the microphone. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:45:13\n[Addresses Paul. Audience laughter. Thanks Paul. Calls next performer.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Paul. Gotham calls out for and addresses next performer. The next performer moves through tables toward the stage. Gotham pats them on the back as they pass each other. \n\n“Bro”\n01:45:51\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Promotes gig at Bar L'Exterieur. Introduces themself as Bro. Introduces \"The Way of Zen\" (?).] | Video Description: Bro addresses audience and flips through pages in hand. Bro wears a black t-shirt, glasses, dark shoulder-length hair with male pattern baldness, and a dark thick beard beginning to go white.  \n“Bro”\n01:46:33\n[Reads “The Way of Zen” (?). Audience laughter.] | Video Description: “Bro” reads poem from pages.\n\n“Bro”\n01:47:38\n[Finishes “The Way of Zen” (?). Audience laughter and applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces Unnamed Poem 1 (“The story of my life can be summed up very briefly…”).] | Video Description: “Bro” sheafs through pages and tilts microphone. Armstrong addresses audience. \n\n“Bro”\n01:47:55\n[Reads poem beginning with the line \"The story of my life can be summed up very briefly.\"] | Video Description: Bro reads from pages.\n\n“Bro”\n01:49:03\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Addresses audience. Introduces another unnamed poet’s work, “For Henry”. ] | Video Description: “Bro” lowers pages to sheaf through them, placing toothpick (?) in their mouth. Armstrong addresses audience. \n\n“Bro”\n01:49:37\n[Reads another unnamed poet’s work, “For Henry”.] | Video Description: “Bro” reads from pages.\n\n“Bro”\n01:51:49\n[Finishes “For Henry”. Audience applause.] | Video Description: “Bro” lowers pages and exits via stage left. Lee Gotham rises from seat and approaches microphone stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:51:55\n[Thanks, Bro. Addresses audience. Announces end of event. Promotes following week’s event (Fortner Anderson and Neil Wiernik, and Wired on Word cassette launch) and the upcoming Pawn’s magazine launch. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Camera pans toward the left across venue, with audience members applauding, rising from their seats, drinking, and putting on coats.\n\nEND\n01:53:04\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.886211},{"id":"3981","cataloger_name":["Carlos A.,Pittella"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["Lee Gotham collection"],"source_collection_label":["Lee Gotham collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Spokenweb at Concordia University"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Lee Gotham collection contains the AV recordings regarding the Enough Said series, including readings, performances, open-mic, and spoken-word events that took place at Bistro 4 and other Montreal venues between December 1994 and June 1996."],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Enough Said 1995-03-25, Performance Poetry Party"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["On tape labels, corroborated by Lee Gotham, who refers to the event as such."],"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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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":4.886211},{"id":"4569","cataloger_name":["Carlos A.,Pittella"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["Lee Gotham collection"],"source_collection_label":["Lee Gotham collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Spokenweb at Concordia University"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Lee Gotham collection contains the AV recordings regarding the Enough Said series, including readings, performances, open-mic, and spoken-word events that took place at Bistro 4 and other Montreal venues between December 1994 and June 1996."],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Enough Said 1995-03-20, Fluffy Pagan Echoes"],"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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Walks back into the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members standing upstage.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:29:01\n[Ambient sounds, scattered audience laughter.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Justin McGrail takes off his beret and puts on a jacket borrowed from Scott Duncan, while the other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes leave the Bistro 4 through the full-wall window and start making funny faces at the audience.\n\nJustin McGrail and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:29:29\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “In viewing the castles of (Paris?).” Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Justin McGrail performing a piece. McGrail wears a black blazer over a white shirt and dark brown hair. The other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes make funny faces and gestures at the audience, right outside the full-wall window of Bistro 4. The camera zooms into and pans from right to left, showing the performers behind the window. At some point we see Ran Elfassy making faces at a pedestrian passing by. At the end of the piece, McGrail turns to the window and bows to the performers, who bow back from behind the window.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes, Justin McGrail, and Scott Duncan\n00:30:45\n[Ambient sounds, scattered audience laughter.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Justin McGrail returns the blazer to Scott Duncan, while the other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes file back into the Bistro 4 and form a row behind Duncan. Duncan searches for something in the pockets of the blazer and finds a folded piece of paper.\n\nScott Duncan and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:31:04\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I love art, I hate art galleries.” Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Scott Duncan performs a piece. Duncan wears a black blazer atop a plaid button-down shirt and short curly dark brown hair The four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him; at some point, Ran Elfassy sits down on the stage. \n\nScott Duncan and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:31:26\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Dear Scott” and a quote from Barbara Woodhouse: “Never pat a dog on its forehead; such activity will result in the dog developing a superiority complex.” Audience laughter. Following Woodhouse’s quote, Duncan reads what appears to be the piece’s subtitle, “Gaudí’s cathedral postscriptum.” Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom into medium shot as Scott Duncan performs a piece, while some members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes remain visible, standing side by side, behind him. At the end of the piece, the camera zooms out as Duncan folds and returns the piece of paper to his blazer pocket, then rejoins the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members upstage.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:43:53\n[The collective performs a sound-poetry chorus by repeating the words “Toy Boat,” each member initially reciting it in different speeds and tones, then gradually converging. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a sound-poetry collective piece without mic.\n\nVince Tinguely and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:35:38\n[Introduces piece by quoting Ann Diamond, from a May 1992 issue of the Books in Canada magazine: “If ignorance is bliss, then Hell, with a capital H, is consciousness.” Following the quote, the piece begins with the lines, “This made me ask some questions: how conscious is conscience?” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Vince Tinguely performs a piece, while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. Tinguely wears a white plain t-shirt, round glasses, and white short dishevelled hair. Upstage, Justin McGrail passes a glass of water to Scott Duncan, who in turns passes it to Victoria Stanton. The camera zooms into a medium short, alternating it with different degrees of closeup as Tinguely performs. Tinguely uses several paper bags as props, wearing them as hats and gloves, and drawing different symbols on them (e.g., a hammer and sickle, a swastika, a gender female sign) to represent different types of consciousness.  At the end of the piece, Tinguely rejoins the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members upstage as the camera zooms out to a medium long shot.\n\nRan Elfassy and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:39:03\n[The group performs a sound-poetry chorus by repeating the word “seesaw” in different speeds and tones. As a solo against that background chorus, Ran Elfassy then performs a piece, beginning with the line “I swear I saw it with my own eyes.” After Elfassy finishes his piece, the background chorus continues for a few more beats. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium long shot and medium shot as four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a sound-poetry collective piece without mic. In front of the group, Ran Elfassy performs a solo piece against the background chorus. Elfassy wears a black and white striped long-sleeved shirt over a brown high-necked shirt and dark buzzed hair. Both Elfassy and Justin McGrail use hand gestures as if conducting the audience. At the end of the piece, Elfassy tilts his head down, in silence, while the background chorus continues for a few more beats.\n\nVictoria Stanton and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:41:10\n[Ambient sounds (voices.) Victoria Stanton performs a RAP piece beginning with the lines “Smash the windows, take the clothes / don’t deny me the right to my fashion freedom.” The other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes join Stanton in reciting the repetitions of the opening line, as a refrain. At some point, Justin McGrail starts beatboxing in the background. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton sips water and talks to Vince Tinguely. Stanton wears a dark sweater and neck-length dark hair with bangs and a hair clip. Alternating medium long shot and different degrees of closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a piece, while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind her; some of them nod with the beat of the poem. At some point, Justin McGrail starts beatboxing in the background.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:44:15\n[The five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes say each other’s first names, amid applause: Justin, Vincent, Scott, Victoria, and Ran.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and introduce each other by rotating who speaks at the mic: after the first person on the left is introduced by the second, the first walks behind the group to the fifth position, until all are introduced.\n\nJustin McGrail and Fluffy Pagan Echoes\n00:44:50\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “It was a crucifix, (but?) it was made of star.” Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium long shot then different degrees of closeup as Justin McGrail performs a piece. McGrail wears a long button-down white shirt, two rings on the left hand, earring on the left lobe, and short dishevelled dark hair. The four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes and Ran Elfassy\n00:46:24\n[The group performs a collective piece. Each member says the line “It’s all about” and completes the sentence with a different final word; when Ran Elfassy adds, “And letters,” the collective interjects “Eh?” Elfassy then leaves the stage, walks among the audience, and returns to the group asking, “See? Did you get it?” A dialogue ensues, about the possible meanings of the sound “C/See.” The group then plays several games with different parts of the audience, before returning upstage and saying, in unison, “What we have here is a Café. Resistance is reasonable. Thank you for your cooperation.” Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes perform a collective piece. At first, each member says one line, then Ran Elfassy leaves the stage, walks among the audience, and returns to the group, at which point the piece becomes a dialogue between Elfassy and the other four members of the group. The group then moves about the stage, playing several games with different parts of the audience, then returns to a row upstage to thank the audience. The camera zooms out to a medium long shot as the some members of the group drink water amid applause, then the group leaves the stage.\n\nJustin McGrail\n00:50:24\n[Asks where Lee (Gotham) is. Someone in the audience says, “What are you waiting for?,” which McGrail repeats into the mic.] | Video Description: Cut to Medium long shot as Justin McGrail speaks into the mic while several Fluffy Pagan Echoes members block the camera’s view while leaving the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:50:32\n[Thanks Fluffy Pagan Echoes, citing their book, “A word circus” (Montreal: Egg Sandwich/Sandwich aux oeufs, 1994). 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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. 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The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:16\nInstallment of Enough Said, performative word event series. Um, don't be put off by all the musical acrobatics, we're definitely going to be concentrating on words as always. Um, we're going to start off as always also with a couple open mic participants. I see Brian's up first. Um, well, let me just wish everybody a Merry Christmas in case I forget a little later on, um, remind everyone that the series will run for the foreseeable future in the new year, um, starting back on the 9th, the second Monday in January. Come on out, see the likes of bill bissett, Ian Stephens, number of other word (?). And. Brian, I think if uh, you're in the house and ready to go, I think it's (?) there he is, jumping up in his seat. (?) going to come up and start the evening off for us, so please, make yourselves comfortable, and enjoy the evening. [Brief pause.] Suppose I should mention that the featured performer tonight is Anne Diamond and the second feature performer (?). If anyone is particularly enamored by those individuals, please hang out, they'll be up here before long. | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic, then zooms into medium shot as Gotham adjusts stage equipment for Brian and speaks into the mic again. Gotham wears a grey collared shirt with sleeves rolled to elbows atop a white collared shirt, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder length brown hair. \n\nBrian Campbell\n00:01:56\n[Asks audience if they can hear him. Says he will read \"quiet poems\" tonight. Introduces and performs piece titled \"Andrea's Christmas\" by Toronto author Henry [Nimuth?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Campbell bends down to pick up large black folder. Campbell wears a light blue sweater atop a medium blue collared shirt, dark hair, dark inch-long beard, and wire-rimmed glasses. Zooms into medium closeup as Campbell speaks into the mic, and zooms out to medium shot as Brian performs a piece.\n\nBrian\n00:04:47\n[Introduces and performs piece titled \"For E. P.\", written for Ezra Pound. Explains Pound's \"ABCs of Poetry\" (note: Campbell misspoke, and book's title is \"ABCs of Reading\"). Applause. Says something indiscernible into the mic.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Campbell picks up red folder from floor, speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:08:19\n[Thanks Brian. Invites Beau Williamson to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:08:34 \n[Introduces the piece, though indiscernible due to low speaking level and high background noise in the audience and on the tape. Performs piece beginning with the line \"I had a beautiful hour of naked day that I wish to describe.\"] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Williamson wears a white \"Rocky Horror Picture Show\" graphic t-shirt with red lettering and black trim, long light brown hair, and large glasses. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:09:25\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Pictures of the Same Person.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms into medium closeup and zooms out again as Williamson performs a piece. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:09:52\n[Performs piece beginning with the line “Tired hands greet the limp phallus of joy.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson performs a piece. \n\nBeau Williamson\n00:10:03\n[Mentions that Yule is coming and decided to write and perform a poem about the month of May anyways. Introduces and performs poem titled “May.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Williamson performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:12:17\n[Announces that there will be one more open mic performer before the first feature. Invites Jen Frankel to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic and lowers it.\n\nJen Frankel\n00:12:41\n[Says they have no sense of time and brought a clock. Seems to discuss with Gotham (off-screen) how long they can perform. Introduces and performs a piece titled \"Ode to Beauty.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down to a medium shot as Frankel speaks into the mic. Frankel wears a loose black button-down shirt and short medium brown hair pulled back with a thick black bandana. Loose closeup as Frankel seems to talk to Gotham off-screen. Camera angles alternate between medium shots and medium closeups as Frankel speaks into the mic again and performs a piece.\n\nJen Frankel\n00:16:32\n[Introduces and performs two chapters titled “A Clockwork Cat” and “Cathedrals and Crashing in Seas Without Shores” from a longer prose piece titled “Susan by Greyhound.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Frankel speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:23:58\n[Announces that the 1995 season will be more structured with time limits for open mic performers. Announces a break.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:24:39\n[Cuts to Unknown_Musician1 quietly and sporadically playing snare drum and cymbal with brushes and Sam Shalabi fingerpicking jazz chords on guitar. Audience chatter in the background.] | Video Description: Long shot as Unknown_Musician1 plays small drum kit with brushes and Sam Shalabi finger picks an electric guitar. Unknown_Musician1 wears a blue and white argyle sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, a silver watch, glasses, and short curly dark brown hair. Sam Shalabi wears a red button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large metal-rimmed glasses, and thinning dark brown hair. Zooms into extreme closeup of Sam Shalabi looking around, chewing gum, and talking to individuals off-screen.\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:25:07\nVideo Description: Extreme closeup of mic with no one behind it. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:25:24\n[Exclaims that the open mic sign-up board is full. Introduces himself as the first feature performer. Says Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi are performing with himself for the first time. Introduces a piece as definitely not poetry. Audience collectively exclaims “aw.”] | Video Description: Out-of-focus extreme closeup focuses and zooms out to closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Zooms out to long shot of Gotham speaking into mic, and Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi behind their instruments not playing. Zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, turns towards 1 and 2 and says something inaudible, and continues speaking into the mic. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:27:08 \nGotham performs a long poem without announcing any section breaks. To enhance readability, this transcription will break when Gotham pauses for a significant period, denoted by the phrase “Gotham pauses” or “Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.”] \n\nLee Gotham \n00:27:13\n[Begins performing a piece either titled or beginning with the line “Attention project proposals, explorations grants competition, Canada Arts Council.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham begins performing a piece. Zooms into extreme closeup as Gotham says the line “one idea is a death of experience.” Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:27:41\n[Strike a discordant cord.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:27:43\n[Resumes performing piece. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:00\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “No, musicians should play as they see fit.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. \n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:29:04\n[Quietly playing uncertain chords and sparse drumming as Gotham continues performing.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:07\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer picks up a hammer.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham picks up hammer from off-screen. In between lines, dramatically hits a wooden block on stand to his right with hammer. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:29:46\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “There can be no pause for the cause.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera angle alternates between closeups and medium shots of Gotham performing a piece and long shots of Gotham performing a piece, Unknown_Musician1 playing drums, and Sam Shalabi playing guitar. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:32:04\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer is blurting out opinions to strangers.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium closeups and extreme closeups of Gotham performing a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:38\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Opinions again: that’s what I call using your head.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:35\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “It’s a milk and honey mid-September, an [?] Indian coffee and cigarette summer” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder and more complex in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms into medium shot partway through.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:18\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “I went to the doctor for the first time in twelve years.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi softens in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:48\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Less about what you think, I still don’t get it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder in background with staccato chords. Asks Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi to play more soothingly. Laughter. Says “or ignore him.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi, who are off-screen.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:38:17\n[Sam Shalabi continues to play complex drum beat, Unknown_Musician1 softens chord attack but plays complex progression.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:29\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham sits down on something unseen and, holding the mic away from him, mouths something unseen to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:38:31\n[Play calmer jazz music.] | Video Description: Camera pans to long shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums with brushes and Sam Shalabi playing guitar.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:36\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “We were still sitting there on the beach listening to the crazy old Indian.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.] | Video Description: Camera pans to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece sitting down. Camera alternates between closeups, medium shots and medium closeups as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:41:25\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Well, there wasn’t a lot of story to it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi resumes in major key. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Gotham stands up. Zooms out to longshot as Gotham picks up hammer on his left and pretends to hit himself on the head with it in between lines. Zooms into medium closeup. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:44:38\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “That’s good, that’s just fine, now we’ll just relax” delivered in a deeper tone than previously. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi barely audible in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:45:31\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “An escaped convict fell into a deep hole someone had dug beside the roadway.” Music reminiscent of middle-Eastern music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi plays in background. Sam Shalabi stops playing guitar part way through. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham leans backwards on something unseen and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as Gotham stands up and continues performing piece.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:49:17\n[Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background.] | Video Description: Zooms out to show Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi playing their instruments beside Gotham. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:49:21\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The water’s run out.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes busier in the background.] Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nSam Shalabi\n00:49:38\nVideo Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing.  \n\nUnknown_Musician1\n00:49:57\nVideo Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:50:05\n[Resumes performing piece. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Zooms out to medium shot part way through. Gotham expands arms like flying bird while performing. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:51:31\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Well now, where were we. You wanted to talk about sex today?” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Camera alternates between medium closeups and medium shots throughout . \n\nLee Gotham\n00:55:10\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “I’d like to make it reasonably clear that I’m a frightened man.” Sombre music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:57:29\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer gradually regains his composure.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham sips water and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through, then zooms out to medium shot. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:01:44\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Failure to recognize boundaries between self and the world outside.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi ceases in the background. Thanks audience. Applause. Thanks audience and announces break before Ann Diamond’s performance] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Takes cigarette package out of pocket. Zooms out to long shot during applause. Zooms into medium shot when Gotham resumes speaking into mic. \n \nLee Gotham\n01:03:36\n[Cuts to Gotham inviting Ann Diamond to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham speaking into the microphone. \n\nAnn Diamond\n01:03:47\n[Says she planned to improvise but got nervous as she approached the venue. Introduces and reads from a pamphlet found outside the venue titled \"A Free Lecture on Past Life Regression, Reincarnation, and Karma.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and reads from pink pamphlet. Diamond wears a dark graphic t-shirt with the word \"MAUDITE\" and an orange devil printed on it atop a reddish-brown cowl neck sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, hanging earrings, and short medium brown hair.  Puts down pamphlet.\n\nAnn Diamond \n01:06:01\n[Asks audience “do you believe that?” Laughter. Introduces and asks the audience a series of true or false questions beginning with “We are all survivors. True or false?” Audience shouts out a mixture of “true” and “false” after each.] | Video Description: Closeup as Diamond sips beer. Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond reads from thick spiral notebook. \n\nAnn Diamond\n01:07:15\n[Tells story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Invites Anna, who is in the audience, to ask question.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Diamond tells a story. \n\nAnna\n01:09:10\nWas this a dream? \n\nAnn Diamond\n01:09:11\nI’m not gonna tell you. \n\nAudience\n01:09:12\nLaughter. \n\nAnn Diamond \n01:09:20\n[Resumes telling story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Diamond telling story. \n\nAnn Diamond \n01:12:03\n[Says it was a dream. Explains how under hypnosis people believe that dreams are real memories. Says she was on the national news with the next story that is not a memory or a dream. Tells a story about getting into a car accident during a hurricane on Poxy Island near Prince Edward Island with a short aside about Leonard Cohen. Audience laughter throughout.] | Camera angles vary between medium closeups and long shots as Diamond speaks into the mic and tells a story. \n\nAnn Diamond \n01:24:55\n[Asks the audience a series of true or false questions about her trip to the Caribbean with Mick Jagger among other topics. Audience shouts out a mixture of “true” and “false” after each.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond asks the audience questions and pauses as they respond.\n\nAnn Diamond\n01:27:42\n[Mentions that she wants to launch a project titled “Canada: The Untold Story” about recovering memories.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:30:50 \n[Thanks Ann Diamond. Announces Enough Said will return for a new season on January 9th, 1995 with performances by bill bisset and Sharon Nelson, as well as the second cassette launch of Wired on Words series on the 23rd. Announces the event is over. Thanks audience for attending and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Lee Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:32:14\n[Cuts to Gotham inviting Vince Tinguely to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nVince Tinguely \n01:32:31\n[Introduces and performs a piece beginning with the line “[At the height of the?] Cuban Missile Crisis and a bowl of clean water.” Applause.] | Video Description: White t-shirt, large wire-rimmed glasses, and thin white hair. Medium closeup of Tinguely speaking into the mic zooms out to medium shot as Tinguely performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:34:10\n[Thanks Vince. Invites Amanda Blush to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites [inaudible] to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites Graham Olds to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nGraham Olds\n01:35:11\n[Mentions he is from British Columbia which is very concerned with the environment. Introduces and performs a piece titled \"If Elvis Was an Environmentalist.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Camera angles vary between medium closeups and medium shots as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Olds wears a red graphic t-shirt with black geometric designs and a face printed on the front, chin-length medium brown hair, and a thin moustache.\n\nGraham Olds \n01:37:14\n[Talks about riding bike from Tofino to Port Alberni. Performs a piece beginning with the line “When waves of adrenaline excrete from the renal cortex of your kidneys.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nGraham Olds \n01:38:40\n[Performs untitled piece beginning with the line “I’m a cappuccino cowboy.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nGraham Olds \n01:39:54\n[Praises the Montreal metro system. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Never been the biggest fan of riding the bus.” Invites Julie Crysler to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:41:01\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Two minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:41:07\n[Invites Ran Elfassy to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nRan Elfassy\n01:41:14\n[Says \"hi\" to the audience. Says his poem is not about fucking Leonard Cohen. Performs a piece beginning with the line \"I was a lover last night, last night I was alone with a lover.\" Breaks midperformance to mention that the second half of the piece is titled \"Crisis.\" Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Elfassy speaks into the mic, performs a piece, speaks into the mic briefly, and resumes performing. Elfassy wears a white t-shirt, beaded necklace with square gold pendant, and dark hair in a small bun at the crown of his head. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:48:08\n[Thanks Elfassy. Invites Thoth Harris to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nThoth Harris\n01:48:25\n[Says he will give an autobiographical statement before performing, stating that he is from Vancouver, that he was abused as a child, that his abuser recently died, and his girlfriend recently gave birth. Introduces and performs a piece titled \"Breathing Space.\"] | Video Description: Medium closeup to medium shot as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harris wears a pinkish-grey plaid atop a white shirt, grey and white striped scarf, and a grey toque with ear flaps and strings. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as piece concludes.\n\nThoth Harris\n01:53:45\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled [“Samson’s Lost Beach”?] [“Sam’s on Glass Beach”?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Harris puts mic back on stand. Medium closeup as Harris performs a piece. Zooms out to medium shot as the piece concludes.\n\nThoth Harris\n01:56:40\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Damage Counter #1.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:58:24\nVideo Description: Long shot as Gotham walks to microphone. \n\n[No signal]\n01:58:26\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nHalina Berger\n01:58:40\n[Cuts to Berger in medias res performing a piece including the line \"like being afraid of falling asleep, like going, like being.\"] Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Berger performs a piece. Berger wears a dusty rose button-down cardigan, thick gold chain, and short medium brown hair. \n\nLee Gotham \n2:00:45\n[Thanks Berger. Invites R. M. Vaughan to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:02:47\n[Asks audience if they are bored by performers mentioning their place of birth. Mentions that he lives in Toronto and is from the east coast. Mentions he runs the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Company. Mentions that all pieces he will read are from a series titled \"Seven Sentences from Balzac's ‘A Murky Business' and ‘All of my Life'\" and each include a Balzac quote. Performs a piece that, after the quote, begins with the line \"Unless he's very large and the laws of perspective have bent for me.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Vaughan wears a dark red and grey long sleeve button-down plaid, wire-rimmed glasses, and medium brown hair in a buzzcut. Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Vaughan performs a piece. Briefly zooms in on Vaughan's left arm gesticulating as the piece concludes.\n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:03:25\n[Dedicates next work to [?] Beddington who runs a queer publishing company that does not publish queer work. Performs a piece that begins with the line “You and me and politics.”]\n| Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece. \n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:04:33\n[Performs piece including the line “remember you and I are not supposed, our bodies little principalities.” Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen. \n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:06:29\n[Performs piece beginning with the line“Wholesome boy, gift from whatever gods rule that particular patch of cloud.” Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen.\n\nR. M. Vaughan \n02:07:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “[Lined?] Poem, Three Lines Long, About Hate.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n02:10:08\n[Thanks Vaughan. Encourages audience to see Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Invites [Harpy?] to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham adjusts the mic and speaks into it. \n\n[Harpy?]\n02:10:36\n[Introduces and performs piece beginning with the line \"It's the end of the semester, as you can see.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as [Harpy?] speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harpy wears a grey-striped sweater without a zipper atop a white shirt, single hoop earring, and short curly hair. \n\nScott Duncan \n02:13:37\n[Asks everyone to think of leaf cutting ants in preparation for Fluffy Pagan Echoes' event at Phoenix Cafe the week after. Performs a piece titled \"The Bus Driver's Mona Lisa.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Duncan speaks into the mic. Duncan wears a white cable knit sweater atop a brown collared shirt, light wash baggy jeans, and dark brown messy hair. Medium closeup as Duncan performs a piece.\n\nJustin McGrail\n02:17:24\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line \"It is a sense of defeat that crawls over shoulders.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as McGrail speaks into the mic and performs a piece. McGrail wears a black baggy t-shirt with the English flag printed on the left sleeve, long chain, and a light brown newsboy cap turned backwards with medium brown hair curling out the front. Zooms into closeup partway through.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:24:17\n[Encourages audience to go to Fluffy Pagan Echoes show. Announces a special surprise.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAnna and Ann Diamond \n02:24:28\nVideo Description: Medium closeup as Anna and Diamond walk on stage. Anna wears a lapelled leather jacket atop a black turtleneck sweater and short dark brown hair. Diamond wears the same outfit as during her feature but also wears an oversized grey jacket and a yellow, red, and black patterned scarf. \n\nAnna\n02:24:36\n[Says this will be an example of how sometimes speech in another language sounds serious when it is not and vice versa.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna lights a cigarette and speaking into the mic.\n\nAnn Diamond\n02:25:02\nI will sing in Greek.\n\nAnna\n02:25:04\nAnd I will translate. \n\nAnn Diamond \n02:25:08\n[Sings in Greek.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond sings into the microphone and then pushes the mic to Anna \n\nAnna\n02:25:16\n[Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anna speaks into the mic. \n\nAnn Diamond\n02:25:26\nI didn't know it meant that. [Resumes singing.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic, sings into the mic, and then pushes the mic to Anna. \n\nAnna \n02:25:35\n[Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter. Announces she will do the other part. Sings.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna speaks into the mic, then takes off jacket. Zooms into closeup as Anna sings into the mic. \n\nAnn Diamond \n02:26:45\n[Explains that she thinks it means “I love your beautiful eyes and I love your hair and get a job and don’t run after the whores.” Laughter.] | Medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and then pushes the mic to Anna. \n\nAnna\n02:27:06\n[Explains that it means “I don’t want you to give me palaces and castles, I don’t want you to give me riches like all the other sluts that you give them too, just feel sorry for the little parts of my heart, and just tell me that you love me.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anna speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n02:26:43\n[Thanks Anna and Ann Diamond. Thanks the audience. Announces the end of the event.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.] \n\nAudience\n02:28:03\n[Sombre recorded symphonic music in background.] | Video Description: Long shot of audience putting on jackets and chatting. \n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n02:28:22\n[Sombre recorded symphonic music in background.] Video Description: Cuts to open mic sign-up blackboard with “enough said” written across the top and a list of participants’ names below. \n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n02:28:52\nVideo Description: Cuts to closeup of Christmas tree with multicoloured lights, zooms out to show tree is inside Bistro 4 and camera is outside. Words such as “biere,” “fut,” “cafe,” and “tisane” are visible on the window. 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Zoom in on microphone. Todd Swift, wearing headphones, tests mic inaudibly. Another sudden cut in video. Todd Swift wears a black suit jacket over a white button-down shirt with a black bowtie, black rectangular glasses, and dark hair close cropped on the sides and parted just off-centre. Tom Walsh wears a leather vest with decorative zippers over a black long-sleeved shirt and short dark hair.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:17:15\n[Introduces Swifty Lazarus.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nSwifty Lazarus \n00:17:55\n[Recording of cinematic music with harp and horns plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “After the end of the world, there is much work to be done.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:19:38\n[Recording of uneasy and discordant string instrument music plays. Shifts to cacophonous horn and percussion sounds and screeching. Swift performs a piece titled “(?) 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In a muted, mid-twentieth-century-radio tone, Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “The theory of tunnel (work?) is a powerful distinction between a (ledger?) and employment.” Music gradually adds both cinematic and discordant strings reminiscent of earlier musical sections.] | Video Description: Loose closeup to closeup as Smith performs a piece with a trumpet mute up to their lips.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:25:37\n[Recording of discordant string music and vocalization plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The shadowy man (has guilt inside?) (? and sighs?). Moscow.”.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Swift turns away from the mic. Closeup as Swift turns back and performs a piece, reading off a newspaper. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:27:30\n[Recording of up-beat jazz music with xylophone and horns plays. “History is dead and the full weight of the present (?)” Laughter periodically throughout. 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Uneasy vintage horror movie music begins partway through.] | Video Description: Walsh stands and lights a cigarette. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:36:55\n[Old recording of a two-voice phone conversation plays. The first verse of a child choir singing “Oh Canada” plays. A recording of steady gong or cymbal hits plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “One softness (?) going, the sea turns like glass.” Recording of staccato pulses of unknown instruments begin partway through.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:39:55\n[Old recording of a newscast beginning with the line, “The Nazi war criminal died” plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “But when the Berlin Wall fell five years ago, it was a signal.” A recording of raucous percussion plays after the first line, evolves into quiet sirens.] | Video Description: Closeup of the microphone while Swift smokes a cigarette off-camera. Closeup as Swift performs a piece.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:41:49\n[Recording of hopeful and content piano and drum music plays. Swift strongly performs a piece beginning with the line, “There’s one thing I remember right from childhood. From the beginning. And it is the smell of roses.” Music slowly shifts to high-pitched and discordant electric organ chords with periodic driving percussion. Applause] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:52:11\n[Long pause.] | Video Description: Medium shot and closeup as Swift faces away from the mic checking watch and adjusting headphones, sometimes out of frame. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:53:12\n[Recording of ominous stringed instrument music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “What happened to you when you were murdered?”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece, ending with an extreme closeup. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:56:09\n[Recording of unknown screeching instrument plays. Recording of one person pleading “no” and “stop” and another person talking sinisterly plays. Recording of a two-voice conversation plays.] Video Description: Extreme closeup as Swift holds up a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Swift’s face reacts to the dialogue in the recordings. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:58:01\n[Recording of intense large wind instrument and large drums plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The architect of the future.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:01:36\n[Recording of ominous ambient music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “I’ve seen a man stagger with a thousand arrows in his back.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:04:53 \n[Swift announces, “this is the last one.” Recording of happy horn and drum music plays, cuts suddenly, and recommences. 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The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:01\nThank you so much for coming out. Well, welcome to, I’m losing count, but the next and last, most recent, not last, most recent evening of Enough Said spoken word event series. Gee, you know, we’re in for a miracle, I’ve got a mouthful just introducing it all, maybe I’ll gloss it over a bit. We’re launching a cassette among other things, Broken Spoken features Neil Wiernik and Fortner Anderson, both of whom you’ll see up here before long. Before them, we have a couple of other treats, and I hope everyone is more or less comfortable, and if they’re not, that they take the initiative, wander up to the bar, pick what you’d like. Because of the crowds, of course, you won’t see a waiter with any regularity. And yeah so it’s a wonderful crowd, it’s nice to see everybody here, and let’s just kind of segue into the evening. There will be a brief pause, but don’t despair, everything will happen before very long. | Video Description: Camera varies between loose closeups and medium shots as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black sweater, sunglasses with clear frames and black lenses on head, with shoulder-length hair loose. \n\nJoelle Ciona and Monique\n00:01:39\n[Ciona performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I just can’t stand the city. There’s too many people.” No microphone, so volume is low. Partway through, Ciona and Monique alternate who is delivering the piece. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video description: Medium shot as Ciona pours steaming hot liquid from brown pitcher into a cup and begins performing a piece. Monique enters and sits on a chair on the stage while Ciona wanders through the audience, passing out white bowls and filling them from the pitcher. Ciona wears a black long-sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, black gloves, grey denim jeans, a black belt with a large silver buckle, silver and black glasses, and short blonde hair. Monique wears a white t-shirt with thin black stripes, black pants, and medium brown hair with bangs. Ciona stops at the stage to clean Monique’s hand with a white washcloth and trim their nails while delivering the piece. Closeup as Ciona begins biting Monique’s nails, periodically spitting out the pieces. Monique takes over delivering the piece. Ciona puts down Monique’s hand and resumes delivering the piece. The two performers go back and forth delivering the piece, with Ciona chewing Monique’s nails and sucking or licking Monique’s fingers when they are not speaking. Long shot to show (Johnathon Ascensio?) and (Angela Dora?) in fairy wings holding glowing lanterns approach the window outside, bite their nails, and attempt to fog up the window with breath. Closeup on the figures outside as the piece ends.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:07:50\n[Says he hopes the audience in the back “wasn’t completely disappointed,” assuming they were unable to hear. Mentions Ciona is a performance artist. Apologizes for not knowing the second performer’s name. Monique shouts from the audience, “Monique!” Laughter. Sees Ciona approaching the stage from the audience to collect props from the stage and asks if they want to explain the piece.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nJoelle Ciona\n00:08:34\n[Explains that their nail-biting habit inspired the work. Credits (Johnathon Ascensio?) and (Angela Dora?) as the “angels” outside. Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms out to medium shot as Ciona speaks into the mic that Gotham holds.  \n\nLee Gotham\n00:09:04\n[Invites “resident favourite” and Fluffy Pagan Echoes member, Victoria Stanton, to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes (Victoria Stanton, Scott Duncan, and Vince Tinguely)\n00:09:29 \n[Stanton explains they will perform with two other Fluffy Pagan Echoes members, Scott Duncan and Vince Tinguely. Tinguely begins reading what seems to be a scientific journal article titled “Compatible Quirks: How Yeast (?) Cold Virus Replication.” Stanton and Duncan interrupt with a dialogue about sickness. All three performers repeat “too much vomiting.” Stanton and Duncan repeat “mucous and puke” quietly as Tinguely resumes reading the journal article. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Stanton speaks into the mic zooms out to medium shot as Tinguely reads from a white paper. Duncan, on Tinguely’s right, and Stanton, on Tinguely’s left, alternate delivering a dialogue piece with no microphone. Stanton wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a black shirt, black pants, and a dark bob with bangs parted in the middle. Duncan wears a plaid button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, grey trousers, and short dark brown hair. Tinguely wears a white t-shirt, dark pants, and white wispy hair. Tinguely gradually steps back from the mic. Stanton holds up a white sign that reads, “TOO MUCH VOMITING.” Tinguely resumes reading from the paper as Stanton and Duncan recede into the background.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:13:10\n[Cuts to Gotham mid-speech] wider applications of what we’re saying of spoken work performance, but some of its roots as well, I think I can safely say. So as first the widest applications of (poetry?) then the root, it feels I could take the opportunity to expound upon what I think happens here. Enough Said implies that the words that we’ve all been taking in perhaps aren’t enough, that they require some delivery, some engaging accompaniment or just the expression involved, so they’re accompanied with images. Now, that image is perhaps evocative at best, but like words, not the ideal vehicle or a good true representation. An image can represent a human being, inaccurately at best, and well, like a government can represent a people, inaccurately at best. Representations have been a problem it seems, so why can’t we just present ourselves more often? I suppose that there perhaps aren’t enough born anarchists and we’re too fond of our image, anyways, the representation. We aren’t looking at ourselves, we like looking at representations of ourselves. This is great, and a great problem simultaneously, I think. So it’s really nice when here, I find a whole lot of wonderful words accompanied by often just as many thought-provoking and engaging images, and yet there’s still space, although it may be hard to grasp the concept with the number of us all here in one room, but space between those images and those words nonetheless, and in that space I think there’s room for that presentation, there’s a community of sorts and that’s what I’m finding most magical about Enough Said. [Introduces Neil Wiernick as a performance and radio artist.] | Video Description: Skips to long shot zooming into varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Neil Wiernick sets up a stereo in the background. Zooms into stereo and a medium shot of Wiernick momentarily \n\nNeil Wiernick\n00:16:13\n[Ambient noise. Music plays from stereo. Tests handheld mic that seems to be connected to stereo. Speaks into mic and stereo squeals and distorts voice.] | Video Description: Medium and long shots as Wiernick sets up microphone in front of stereo and tests the microphone. Wiernick wears a grey long-sleeved button-down shirt over a grey t-shirt, glasses, and dark brown thinning hair with long sideburns.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:20:16\n[Introduces and performs a piece including the line, “are you listening to me?” with the stereo squealing throughout. Audio becomes suddenly clear at the line “This is language, language you can understand.” Distortion resumes for the remainder of the piece. Intentionally plays static from the stereo. Resumes performing. Intentionally plays static again.] | Video Description: Closeup and medium shot as Wiernick introduces and performs a piece. Periodically activates and deactivates static sound using controls on back of stereo.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:22:59\n[Explains that the next two pieces are dedicated to a philosopher and artist whose name is indiscernible in the video. Performs piece beginning with stuttering fragments of the word “spectacular,” beginning with “s” and adding a letter or syllable periodically, until full word is said.] | Video Description: Medium shot to closeup to medium shot as Wiernick performs a piece.\n\nNeil Wiernick   \n00:24:28\n[Stereo squeals. Static. Plays recording of a voice repeating an indiscernible word, gradually increasing in volume, until ceasing. Plays recording of a conversation very quietly along with alarm-like sounds. Static. Volume of all parts gradually decreases.] | Video Description: Long and medium shots as Wiernick adjusts something on the back of the stereo, then sits on a chair on the left side of the stereo.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:26:44\n[Stereo plays recording of a voice repeating the same few indiscernible words overlayed with static and distortion. Volume gradually decreases. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Wiernick rises from chair and picks up stereo. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as the camera follows Wiernick carrying stereo through the crowd towards the back of the venue. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:27:39\n[Skips to audience applause. Announces that Ian Stephens will perform before Fortner Anderson. Invites Ian to the stage.] | Video Description: Skips to medium shot as Wiernick leaves the stage, Gotham adjusts the mic, and speaks into it. \n\nIan Stephens\n00:29:13 \n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “(Reegan’s?) Mind”. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup of Stephens on stage. Stephens wears a black parka over a black sweater; a red, black, and yellow scarf; a white cloth face mask tied around his head; red nail polish on some fingernails; and close-cropped light-brown hair. Medium shot of Stephens taking off parka and putting up hood of sweater. Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Stephens places two fake eyes over his eyelids and squints to keep them in place. Varying degrees of closeup as Stephens performs a piece. Gestures close to face throughout. Takes off hood partway through. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as Stephens extends arms upwards, finishes the piece, and puts on parka.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:58\n[Introduces Fortner Anderson as the “other half of ‘Broken Spoken.’” Promotes cassettes and publications for sale. Invites Anderson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nFortner Anderson\n00:37:11\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m a man. I’m a good man.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anderson takes mic off stand, turns away from the camera briefly, and turns back to perform the piece. Anderson wears a dark grey suit jacket atop a black button-down shirt, black leather belt, black and gold glasses, and dark brown hair that sweeps across forehead and waves away from face. Zooms into medium shot as Anderson casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson \n00:42:35\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Every day, I don’t care, and I will never care.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between long shots and medium shots as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Walks out of frame for a moment partway through. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson \n00:45:52\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I think I’m a young boy staring into a distant, sepia-toned future.” Alternates between full voice, whispering, and shouting. Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and loose closeups as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:54:59\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I got hurt so bad today.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:59:18\n[Thanks Ian, Neil, Joelle, and the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Directs audience to table to buy “souvenirs.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Anderson speaks into the mic. Places mic on stool. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:59:45\n[Thanks Anderson for “the climax of the evening’s offerings.” Announces brief pause and that the open mic will continue afterwards.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham puts mic back on stand and speaks into it while smoking a cigarette. \n\nUnknown_Reader1 \n01:00:20\n[Skips to Unknown_Reader1 performing a piece ending with the line “fantasies, hot fucking, same difference.” Applause.] | Video Description: Skips to medium closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing a piece. Unknown_Reader1 wears a black outerwear jacket with pink lining and a light brown hood atop a black shirt, rectangular wire-rimmed glasses, and short dark hair.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:00:30\n[Mentions they are used to the audience laughing more. Performs a piece beginning with the line “When the thick sticky glob of ovulation is there for me to remove with my fingers, I like to hold it.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 performs a piece. Zooms out to longshot as Unknown_Reader1 turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:02:51\n[Says they will get serious because the audience is. Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m not kidding, I’m not kidding, I’m not kidding anyone anymore.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 performs a piece and turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nUnknown_Reader1 \n01:04:41\n[Thanks audience. Introduces and performs a piece titled “One Twenty Two Ninety Five.” Applause. Thanks audience again.] | Video Description. Medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:07:02\n[Says he “hope[s] that’s only a debut.” Invites Ian and Mike to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nIan\n01:07:19\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Remembrance Day.”] Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and closeups as Ian introduces a piece, sits down far from mic, and performs a piece. Ian wears a grey and black long-sleeved plaid shirt atop a black and white graphic t-shirt, and a short afro. Gotham adjusts the mic from Ian’s left partway through.\n\nIan \n01:08:01\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Town Square” about west Indian culture. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian introduces and performs a piece. Gotham adjusts the mic from Ian’s left partway through.\n\nMike\n01:08:46 \n[Mike walks on stage. Gotham quickly adjusts mic from Mike’s left. Mike begins speaking and promptly clears throat. While introducing piece titled “Crazy,” glass smashes off-screen. Laughter. Says “good job, opener,” or “job opening.” Performs piece. Stutters and mentions that they’re “nervous” and “shaking.” Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Mike pulls papers from inner pocket of coat, speaks into mic, and performs a piece. Mike wears an oversized black coat over a black sweater with a rolled collar and a grey flat cap backwards with brown hair only slightly visible on the sides. \n\nMike\n01:10:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Christmas Fears.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Mike performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:11:52\n[Thanks Mike and Ian. Asks (Julian?) (Jillian?) and Bill to read next open mic performer’s name on list. Next performer not present. Invites Sophie to stage.] Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nSophie\n01:12:21\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I dream of you a day after you leave for Florida.” Unknown metallic rattling sound in background during first two lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Sophie adjusts the mic and performs a piece. Sophie wears a brown striped sweater over a white shirt, a hoop earring with a gem in left ear, and a very short buzz cut. \n\nSophie\n01:13:25\n[Mentions that all poems are untitled. Begins performing piece. Stumbles. Resumes performing piece beginning with the line “The (speech?) twenty minutes southwest of Tel Aviv is nondescript enough to remain unnamed.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Sophie speaks into the mic, begins performing a piece, sticks out tongue momentarily, and resumes performing. \n\nSophie \n01:14:24\n[Mentions next poem is part of a series exploring “how shitty everything is in winter.” Performs a piece beginning with the line “This far North is cold, (raw?), and slushy this far into December.” Applause. | Video Description: Closeup as Sophie performs a piece.  \n\nLee Gotham \n01:15:34\n[Thanks Sophie. Invites Natasha, the open mic performer who was previously called but not present, to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nNatasha \n01:16:03\n[Mentions first poem is about a roommate who “split recently.” Performs a piece titled \"Jay.” Pauses intentionally throughout for a jerky effect. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Natasha wears a white button-down shirt, rings, bronze nail polish, a necklace with large dark beads, small hoop earrings, and long dark brown hair parted in the middle. \n\nNatasha \n01:16:58\n[Performs a piece titled “Madonna.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha performs a piece. \n\nNatasha \n01:17:34\n[Dedicates last poem to their dad. Performs a piece titled “Union Solidarity.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:19:13\n[Announces that featured reader on February 6th’s event wants to collaborate with poets interested in rap who want their readings accompanied with “beats.” Encourages those interested to come out. Invites Phil to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Rubs outer corner of right eye with thumb of right hand throughout. \n\nPhil\n01:20:26\n[Mentions he hasn’t decided what he wants to read. Pauses at length. Mutters. Performs a piece that begins with the line “Riding backwards, flying skywards.” Silence. Delayed applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms into closeup as Phil peaks into the mic, adjusts mic, pauses, and flips through papers off-screen. Phil wears a dark plaid button-down shirt with a hood over a white t-shirt and a very short buzzcut with a receding hairline. Performs a piece. Turns away from camera, going off-screen.\n\nSpokenWeb notes\n01:22:40\nThe following performance contains suggestions and descriptions of sexual violence.\n\nPhil\n01:22:44\n[Mentions that they write about things that are “too real” because “the more I deny it the more real it becomes.” Performs a piece beginning with the line “Destroy it, destroy, big boy.” CW: sexual violence. Laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil performs a piece.\n\nAudience_Member1 \n01:24:49\nFuck me! [Yelling loudly.]\n\nAudience\n01:24:51\nLaughter.\n\nPhil \n01:24:55\n[Addresses Audience_Member1] Not you.\n\nAudience_Member1\n01:24:58\nPlease! [Yelling loudly.]\n\nPhil\n01:24:59\n[Resumes performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil performs a piece. Pauses. Smiles. Speaks into the microphone. Resumes performing. Turns away from camera, going off-screen. \n\nPhil \n01:26:03\n[Mentions that the last poem was “not supposed to be funny.” Laughter. Long pause. Performs a piece beginning with the line “A man is there for (fucking?), or so the story goes.” Audio cuts midperformance.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil speaks into the mic, turns away from camera, licks lips, claps six times, and performs a piece. Video cuts midperformance.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n1:27:55\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Six minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham \n01:28:02\n[Invites Justin McGrail to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Holds left forearm to forehead to shield eyes from light. \n\nJustin McGrail \n01:28:10\n[Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes event at Café Phoenix. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Out eastern, flowing, dapples sowing, tread gashes, behind heel, head, cloistered lashes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as McGrail speaks into mic, wipes face, and performs a piece, gesturing with both hands. McGrail wears a white hooded jacket with two large pockets, no zipper, and sleeves rolled up to elbows, black suspenders, a watch, gold bracelet, grey newsboy cap with decorative pins on the front, brown hair poking out from edges.\n\nLee Gotham \n01:30:31\n[Thanks Justin. Invites Tom to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Holds left forearm to forehead to shield eyes from light. \n\nTom \n01:30:54\n[Makes a joke about musical group The Eagles. Laughter. Introduces and performs piece titled “Call Before You Dig,” about “taking too many art history classes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Tom speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Tom wears a dark brown cable-knit sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, backwards dark brown newsboy cap, light brown hair poking out the sides. \n\nTom\n01:32:50\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Sun Always Rises on One Side of my Head.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Tom speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[No signal]\n01:33:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nTom\n01:33:55\n[Skips to Tom in medias res performing a piece including the line “I am their link to the joys and the harrows of an experiential world.”] | Video Description: Camera zooms in from medium closeup to extreme closeup and back again as Tom performs a piece.\n\nEND \n01:35:14\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.886211},{"id":"5189","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 1995-02-06, Brulé"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying asset, corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the two 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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Pittella\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"VHS #2 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1995-01-16, bissett and Nelson; (2) Enough Said 1995-01-30, Stanton and Stephens; (3) Enough Said 1995-02-06, Brulé; and (4) Enough Said 1995-02-13, Benefit Part 1. 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\":\"Jade Palmer\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/oclc/938096272\",\"citation\":\"Brulé, E.J. Alternative Scat-Singer [vinyl]. Montréal: Transmission Records, 1986.\"},{\"url\":\"https://worldcat.org/oclc/1006543875\",\"citation\":\"Brulé, E.J. Freedom of Speech [music cassette]. Montréal: E.J. Brulé [self-published], [1989?].\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549188771841,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:03\nVideo Description: Color video of the stage with mic stand at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:00:04\n[Skips to Brulé midperformance, mouth percussing a slow hip hop beat. Says he will introduce new band. Introduces the drummer and mouth percusses a fast drum solo. Vocally mimics an upright bass playing walking jazz bassline and introduces bass player. Introduces the “hardcore guitar” player and vocally mimics a heavily distorted guitar holding a low note.] | Video Description. Medium closeup as Brulé mouth percusses drumbeat with his back turned to camera. Brulé wears a white button-down shirt with thin vertical stripes, a purple scarf with fringe at both ends wrapped once around neck, dark pants with a dark belt, reddish beard and mustache, short reddish hair with one piece curling on forehead, and a headset mic, holding a long scoop shovel with a handle on one end, a wooden shaft, and a black plastic blade.  Zooms out to medium shot then zoom into closeup as Brulé speaks into mic. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé, turned away from camera, mouth percusses drumbeat. Turns back, and vocally mimics an upright bass while pretending to play upright bass with shovel. Vocally mimics a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel, shaking the shaft of the shovel quickly.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:00:57\n[Explains that “the digital” (which seems to be a looping machine) was cold when he was warming up, it has a memory time of eight seconds which slows down when it is cold, but it warms up when everyone is in the room.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience while turning knobs on a large grey machine that is on his right with knobs and switches and ¼ inch and XLR cables plugged into the top. Zooms into medium shot.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:01:40\n[Mouth percusses same slow hip hop beat, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line “The people by (?) tell me who can say.” Vocally mimics a guitar playing a fill in between lines. Recites line “I need a manager” that the looper repeats twice. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a short melody, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a higher melody that harmonizes with the first, records on looper, looper plays back. Changes delivery of piece; lines become closer together with less space in between. Stumbles and recovers. Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé mouth percusses and adjusts knobs on looper. Picks up something behind him. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé pretends to play guitar with shovel. Performs a piece, while playing shovel in between lines. Pretends to play a trumpet. Periodically adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into medium shot and closeup as the lines get closer together, then zooms out to medium long shot as the piece concludes.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:04:54\n[Loud crashing sound.] | Video Description: Black baggy sweater with collar, beige pants, nearly completely shaved head. Holding a video camera, walks behind Brulé and equipment from Brulé’s right to left as if stepping over something. Knocks over something not visible. \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:04:57\n[Addresses Audience_Member1, saying “no problem.” Explains he doesn’t perform at comedy clubs anymore because “they don’t know anything about music.” Suggests that pop music has gotten worse, while he has gotten better. Notes he is influenced by blues, bebop, and jazz.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé talks to audience and gestures. Lee Gotham can be seen in the audience on the bottom left corner of the frame taking his jacket off and adjusting in chair.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:06:09 \nVideo Description: Walks behind Brulé again, this time from Brulé’s left to right, carrying more camera equipment. \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:06:17 \n[Asks Gotham if he wants to plug in another mic to Brulé’s left.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Gotham who is in the audience, gesturing to the mic cable hanging from ceiling. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:06:20\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham gets up from chair, walks across stage, and stands on chair to reach mic cable hanging from ceiling. Gotham wears a black unzipped sweater atop a yellow shirt, black pants, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder-length brown hair.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:06:22\n[Scores Gotham setting up mic by vocally mimicking a guitar and then a trumpet playing a circus-like melody.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Turns to look at Gotham. Pretends to play guitar on shovel. Gestures as if he were playing a trumpet. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:06:54\nVideo Description: Smiles while walking off stage on the right side of the frame.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:06:54\n[Vocally mimics a guitar playing a driving riff that repeats the same note in quick succession.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé pretends to play guitar on shovel, shaking the shaft of shovel gradually more violently. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:07:17\n[Criticizes how people “get the gig” if they can play Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. Encourages people to write their own music.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Adjusts knobs on the looper. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:07:26\n[Vocally mimics guitar playing single notes with reverb. Makes a popping sound that the looper repeats to resemble a steady driving bass drumbeat. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple upbeat hard rock riff in a major key. Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m young, I’m white, and I’m stupid,” vocally mimicking the guitar riff in between lines. Periodically stops the looper, recreates the drumbeat, and resumes performing piece. Repeats the line “How do you do? Tell it to you.” Resumes performing piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé pretends to play guitar with shovel. Puts hand over mouth to make popping sound. Adjusts knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar on shovel. Periodically returns to looper to recreate drumbeat. Momentarily grabs mic and stand on his left and leans it towards an audience member while repeating one line. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:10:02\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham tests mic, talks to someone slightly out of frame, and walks away.\n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:10:02\n[Mentions that he has a selection of beats that can accompany open mic performers’ readings. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a fast punk song into standing mic.] Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé sips water. Grabs paper from off-screen. Gestures with it while talking to audience. Walks over to mic. Tests it. Walks back to looper then back to mic. Zooms into medium shot as Brulé vocally mimics a guitar. Accidentally pulls cord out of mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:11:12\n[Apologizes for technical “quandries.” Thanks venue employees. Says they will “continue this as long as possible.” Announces they will request cash from audience next week to donate to En Marge, a homeless youth shelter below St. Catherine, and that over ten poets, including Raymond Filip and Endre Farkas, will perform. Announces the break. Mentions that the Peter Turret Trio plays every Friday and Saturday night. Mentions a film and video evening that a Concordia group hosts events every second Sunday. Mentions they have no open mic participants and encourages people to sign up. Brulé mouth percusses a jazz beat and vocally mimics a jazz bassline periodically throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham plugs cord back into mic. Tests it. Picks up notebook from off-stage. Adjusts mic. Zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into mic. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:14:53\n[Encourages audience to applaud Gotham. Explains his selection of beats that can accompany open mic performers’ readings. Vocally mimics a bass playing a simple Motown bassline.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience and gestures with a pad of paper. Vocally mimics a bass while pretending to play the upright bass with shovel. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:16:32\nI want to do the slow wuthering gospel. | Video Description: Gotham off-screen. Medium shot as Brulé looks into audience and walks back to looper. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:16:34\n[Says he will prepare the sample. Mouth percusses a galloping rhythm, records it on looper, looper plays back. Slows tempo on looper. Vocally mimics a heavily distorted guitar holding long low notes.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé mouth percusses and vocally mimics guitar while adjusting the knobs on the looper. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:16:56 \n[Says “I see no reason why we shouldn’t embrace chaos” citing the frequency of burning buildings and ambulances.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham speaks into mic while holding a piece of paper while Brulé, on Gotham’s left, adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:17:02\n[Tells Gotham “slower, slower.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé steps towards Gotham, who is on his right, and points at Gotham’s sheet of paper. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:17:05\n[Explains to Brulé that he is doing a preamble, not reading yet.] Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham speaks to Brulé and gestures with his hands. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:17:07\n[Remarks that Gotham’s preamble sounded “deep.” Slows tempo on looper. Resumes vocally mimicking a heavily distorted guitar holding long low notes.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé pulls the papers in Gotham’s hand towards himself, speaks to Gotham, and turns back to looper.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:17:22\n[Says it is a short piece so he will read slowly. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Breaking broken buried remnants hiding from the sky.” Repeats the same collection of lines three times, each with differing deliveries. Thanks audience. Applause. Remarks how easy it is, encourages audience to participate.] | Video Description: Medium long shot gradually zooms into medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham leaves stage. Gotham returns, speaks into the mic, adjusts it, and leaves stage again. \n\nAudience_Member2\n00:19:30\n[Asks for examples of Brulé’s beats.] \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:17:07\n[Agrees, says he wants to “earn the respect of the mentally elite” poets in the room. Mouth percusses a sultry jazz drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a sparse line with reverb. Performs a piece in French. Vocally mimics a bass playing a simple ascending line.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brulé speaks into the mic. Zooms out to medium shot as Brulé mouth percusses and vocally mimics instruments while adjusting knobs on looper. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé vocally mimics a trumpet. Performs piece.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:21:10\n[Says that’s the farthest he has gotten in writing the song. Audience begins applauding, but he says “no, no.” Offers punk film score music, an RnB (bop?), and New York art school jazz as beats to accompany open mic performers’ readings. Prepares to play another song.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience, picks up pad of white paper, sips water, and prepares to play another song. \n\nVarious Audience Members\n[Ask Brulé to play a punk beat.]\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:22:11 \n[Vocally mimics guitar playing a fast punk riff. Explains that these are the kinds of things he would improvise while an open mic performer was performing.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé vocally mimics guitar and speaks with a group in the audience. Returns briefly to looper. Leans slightly out of frame to talk to group in audience again, who seem to be looking at his list of beats.\n\nAudience_Member3\n00:22:39\nBo Diddley. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:22:40\n[Vocally mimics guitar playing a Bo Diddley riff. Asks audience if they remember his mentors, the duo Deja Voodoo. Resumes vocally mimicking guitar playing a Bo Diddley riff, records on looper, looper plays back improperly. Records again. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Out in the swamp near Montreal.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as E.J. Brulé vocally mimics a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Adjusts knobs on looper. Talks to audience. Resumes vocally mimicking a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into medium closeup as Brulé performs a piece. \n\nAudience_Member4\n00:24:00\n[To the tune of “I Want Candy” (The Strangeloves, single, Bang Records, 1965)] I want candy. I want candy.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:24:12\n[Says people think the riff was made up five years ago.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brulé talks to audience, walking around stage and gesturing. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:24:31 \nVideo Description: Hawley rises from seat.\n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:24:40\n[Asks Hawley if they want “a slow slow rap.” Introduces song written for a hairy woman. Says he imagined if Prince produced a song for Leonard Cohen. Mouth percusses a Prince-like drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line “You don’t have to [rip?] your lip” and vocally mimics a standup bass playing a Prince-like bass fill in between stanzas. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a quick motif. Mouth percusses a shaker playing eighth notes. Vocally mimics a bass fill to end song. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé vocally mimics many instruments, speaks to audience, and adjusts knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Zooms into medium shot partway through. \n\nE.J. Brulé  \n00:27:09\n[Says he has been saving his favourite beat. Pauses. Mouth percusses an upbeat 90s hip hop beat.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé sips water, accidentally knocks mic battery pack out of pocket, and resituates it. Mouth percusses a drumbeat while adjusting knobs on looper and pretending to play guitar with shovel. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:27:46\n[Says he wrote poetry before he started singing but no one wanted to hear it.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Hawley walks to stage, shakes Brulé’s hand, and speaks into mic. Hawley wears an oversized black sweater with a hood, no zipper, and white and red logo on the left side of chest that reads “TW SHOW,” dark pants, and a black bandana with white accents tied around head. \n\nE.J. Brulé \n00:28:04\n[Says he can play the beat slower or faster. Beat speeds up to comical level. Says “no, a little slower.” Beat slows down to comical level. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Brulé off-screen. Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Hawley smiles and laughs into mic. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:28:30\n[Introduces and performs piece about a bumblebee beginning with the line “Fly, come and fly with me.” Says partway though that it is freestyle. Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Hawley speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:30:53\n[Says people can improvise, but asks that if someone brings a prewritten piece, to let him look. Says that people think one needs to be young, black, and misogynistic to be a rapper. Says he had to think about how to tackle accusations of cultural appropriation. Mouth percusses a faster version of the same 90s hip hop beat that Hawley performed over, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a more complex bassline. Performs a piece titled “How Can You Be So White (And Be So Funky?) (Freedom of Speech, self-released audio cassette, 1989). Vocally mimics guitar playing fills between the verses. Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Mouth percusses drumbeat and vocally mimics bass while adjusting knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel.  \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:34:19\n[Says he can never get the samples right for Led Zeppelin. Vocally mimics the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back. Stops looper and says he needs someone to do Robert Plant’s scream in “Immigrant Song.”] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Vocally mimics instruments while adjusting knobs on looper and pretending to play guitar with shovel. Makes a “come hither” motion with hand towards audience member. Throws up hands exasperatedly. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:32\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham hugs Brulé and stands on his left. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:35:40\n[Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back. Tells Gotham to get close to his headset mic.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Brulé vocally mimics instruments, adjusts knobs on the looper, and talks to Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:00\n[Imitates Robert Plant’s scream in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Audience cheers. Looper replays only small part of Gotham’s scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brulé’s mic, mouth wide open.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:36:13\n[Tells Gotham to not “do it so long this time.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Gotham, who is off-screen, making a “come hither” motion with hand toward Gotham. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:22\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham walks back on stage on Brulé’s left, holding up his shirt with one hand and gyrating hips seductively, seemingly looking at one audience member.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:36:36\n[Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brulé vocally mimics bass and guitar while pretending to play the guitar with shovel. Motions for Gotham to come closer. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:36:43\n[Imitates Robert Plant’s scream in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Looper replays only small part of Gotham’s scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brulé’s mic, mouth wide open.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:36:36\n[Apologizes to audience, saying Gotham “fucked [him] up with the start of that.”] | Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to audience and adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:36:52\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham walks away from Brulé and hovers in front of the camera, nodding his head to the beat. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:01\n[Asks Lee to do one more.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé adjusts knobs on looper and gestures for Lee to return to stage. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:37:02\nVideo Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup caused by Gotham walking towards camera, sips drink, hops back towards stage and stretches arms upwards. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:14\n[Tells Gotham to “not get so close to the mic.” Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brulé vocally mimics bass and guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:23\n[Imitates Robert Plant’s scream in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Looper replays only small part of Gotham’s scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brulé’s mic, mouth wide open.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:30\n[Says “that’s a little more like it” and slows down tempo which lowers the pitch of Gotham’s recorded scream. Vocally mimics a bass playing a slow simple bassline, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé adjusts knobs on looper and vocally mimics a bass while pretending to play guitar with shovel.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:37:45\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham walks up to mic. Directs a questioning look at Brulé. Walks away from mic. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:37:52\n[Speaks to Gotham, indiscernible.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Gotham as Gotham passes. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:04\n[Returns to mic and performs a piece beginning with the line “The dubious occasion I recall I said.”] | Medium long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham returns to mic and performs a piece. Directs a look at Brulé.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:38:27\n[Slows down looper’s playback.] \n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:29\n[Resumes performing a piece. Gradually delivers piece more rhythmically and song-like on Brulé’s beat.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Directs a look at Brulé. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:38:27\n[Speeds up looper’s playback.] \n\nLee Gotham \n00:38:56\n[Resumes performing a piece.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:39:14\n[Mouth percusses a 90s hip hop drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back overtop previous beat. Repeating one of Gotham’s last lines, says “rhythmic demise, that’s what that sounds like.”] | Video Description: Brulé off-screen. Loose closeup as Gotham smiles and nods. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:39:20\n[Asks Brulé to “do it one more time.” Performs same piece again, with a very rhythmic, rap-like delivery to Brulé’s beat. Applause. Tells audience that making a fool of yourself on stage is “good for the soul.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Gotham performs a piece zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into mic.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:40:49\n[Addressing unheard audience member, says “no more covers.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé addresses unseen audience member and adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nTom Walsh\n00:40:57\nHow about “Land of 1000 Dances”? (Chris Kenner, single, Instant Records, 1962).\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:40:58\n[Pauses to think, says a long drawn-out “oh.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé thinks. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:40:58\nVideo Description: Walks to Brulé. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:41:05 \n[Speaks to Hawley. Vocally mimics bassline from “Land of 1000 Dances,” records on looper, looper plays back. Asks Walsh “something like that?”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Hawley, vocally mimics a bass, and speaks to Walsh.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:41:14\nVideo Description: Dances in front of the camera, smiling widely. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:41:27\n[Mouth percusses a horse galloping, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs piece beginning with the line “Got a new horse.” Vocally mimics a standup bass playing a solo. Asks Audience_Member5 if they have any “barnyard epics.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brulé mouth percusses and adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into closeup as Brulé pretends to play the upright bass with shovel. Speaks to Audience_Member5. \n\nAudience_Member5\n00:42:03\nNo, I don’t think so. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:42:15\n[Asks Walsh if he wants a Motown beat.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brulé talks to Walsh. \n\nTom Walsh\n00:42:21\nUh, yeah! \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:42:22\n[Laughs, asks Walsh if he has a woman in his life because he also says “yeah” like that when he is confused. Mouth percusses a drumbeat with a strong snare backbeat. Vocally mimics a guitar playing sparse single low notes. Asks Walsh if he wants to perform.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium long shot as Brulé speaks to Walsh. Adjusts knobs on looper. Mouth percusses a drumbeat, records on looper. Pretends to play guitar on shovel. Zooms into medium closeup as Brulé speaks to Walsh. \n\nTom Walsh\n00:43:15\nOh no I’m not-\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:43:16\n[Cutting Walsh off, says he can’t request a beat and not perform. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple low riff. Says he won’t improvise unless an open mic participant performs. Talks to audience about how people are worried he will “represent[] them” if he “gets somewhere.” Says musical comedy duo Bowser and Blue are representing anglophone Montrealers on the world stage. Mentions alternative band Doughboys.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to Walsh. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple low riff. Speaks to audience.\n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:44:10\n[Says “Tom Walsh is a poet.”] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Hawley walks up to mic and speaks into it, smiling.\n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:44:21\n[Mouth percusses an upbeat hip hop drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a distorted guitar playing a pentatonic riff, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Brulé off-camera. Closeup of Hawley smiling and preparing to perform. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:44:25\n[From the crowd] Tom’s in the house! \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:44:36\n[Says “this is improv.” Asks Brulé to slow down the beat.] | Video Description: Closeup as Hawley addresses audience and then Brulé. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:44:41\n[Slows down looper’s playback.] | Video Description: Brulé off-camera. Closeup of Hawley preparing to perform. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n00:44:48\n[Improvises a piece beginning with the line “Lonely child, now check it, lonely child.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Hawley improvises a piece while holding a beer and a cigarette. Zooms out to medium shot as Hawley takes mic off stand and continues performing. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:48:30\n[Encourages audience to further applaud Hawley. Explains how he was inspired by Tibetan throat singers. Mouth percusses drum beat with shaker. Vocally mimics distorted guitar playing simple distorted pentatonic riff. Performs a piece titled “St. Thomas’ Mantra” (Freedom of Speech, self-released audio cassette, 1989) with heavy reverb on voice, mouth percussing and vocally mimicking guitar between lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brulé speaks to audience. Adjusts mic that unclipped from lapel. Mouth percusses drum beat and vocally mimics guitar. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Zooms into closeup as piece concludes. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n00:52:55\n[Thanks audience. Vocally mimics distorted guitar playing a simple rock riff, records on looper, looper plays back. Mouth percusses a drumbeat with emphasis on beat three, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Let me tell you about the cruelest thing that I have ever done,” in which first stanzas are rhythmically tied to the beat, and are later conversationally spoken. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé speaks to audience. Vocally mimics guitar and adjusts knobs on looper. Mouth percusses a drumbeat and adjusts knobs on looper. Performs piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Partway through, pretends that shovel is a baseball bat. \n\nE.J. Brulé\n01:00:11\n[Speaks to audience member about them performing.] | Medium long shot as Brulé leans down to talk to audience member. \n\nSteve \"Liquid\" Hawley\n01:00:25\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Hawley approaches Brulé and asks a question. Brulé nods affirmatively. \n\n\nE.J. Brulé\n01:00:50\n[Mouth percusses a reggae drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brulé mouth percusses a drumbeat and adjusts knobs on looper. \n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:01:09\n[Greets audience, asks “is everybody cool?” Heavy Jamaican accent. Performs a piece overtop Brulé’s beat. Applause.] | Video Description: Oversized leather jacket atop a white button-down shirt, a large leather top hat/baseball cap hybrid with red accents, large silver rings with jewels. Holds black mittens in one hand and the mic in the other. Loose closeup as Unknown_Reader1 speaks to audience and performs a piece. Dancing audience member briefly obscures camera. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:04:44\n[Asks audience whether they want a break. 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Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1998.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549195063296,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:00\nVideo Description: Colour video, medium shot of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). A single mic stand. The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles regularly passing by. The windows from across the street are also visible, including an outdoor “JETHRO” sign. People frequently pass in front of the camera. On the café windows, some decals are partially visible, with words from the menu such as “DÉJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:00:00\nThe event was copied to the VHS tape not in chronological order, and the digitized file preserves such sequence: act 2 (event headliner); act 1 (opening acts); act 3 (open-mic).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:03\nOk. I have to apologize, I don’t think I’ve ever had so much trouble with the cassette deck (?). Wasn’t much on the way of a half-time entertainment. But, with a second-act like I have this evening for us, I’ll cut the apology short because I know the wait is gonna be worth the while. And, I’d just like to introduce anyone in the room unfamiliar with Dee Smith to herself and her work, a wonderful emerging of dub poetry and the versifying of her own make (sic). Please join me in welcoming Dee Smith to the microphone. [Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham walking on stage and adjusting the mic. Gotham wears an open sweater with abstract details over a v-neck t-shirt, full beard, and long hair tied in a bun. Different degrees of zoom as Gotham introduces Dee Smith as the second act of the evening. Note the event was copied to the VHS tape not in chronological order, and the digitized file preserves such sequence: act 2 (event headliner); act 1 (opening acts); act 3 (open-mic).\n\nDee Smith\n00:01:03\n[Thanks the audience for waiting. Says she’ll read a couple of pieces, some of them in “Jamaican Dialect” (Jamaican Patois), others in standard English. Asks the audience if they’d like her to start with something nice and sweet or some real radical stuff. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Dee Smith enters stage and Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Smith wears a green short-sleeved shirt over a black long-sleeved turtleneck, black Breton cap, pendant necklace, flower earrings, stud nose ring, plus several finger rings.\n\nDee Smith\n00:02:15\n[Invites the audience to snap their fingers or tap their toes, then demonstrates the rhythm they should keep while she performs. Performs a piece opening with the line, “What da hell, what da hell, what a situation.” Applause. Smith explains the title is “Shituation Critical” (sic).] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Dee Smith snapping fingers to demonstrate to the audience the rhythm they should keep while she performs. Performs a piece. At the end of the piece, zoom into a closeup as Smith makes remarks.\n\nDee Smith\n00:04:30\n[Introduces the next piece as dedicated to “some sisters” Dee Smith used to work with and some of which “didn’t have a strong sense of self, of who they were.” Performs piece titled “As Nubian as.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:06:00\nSo, this one is a little riddle. At the end of it, you tell me what you think it’s all about, and that’s the title of it. [Performs riddle piece. Applause. Remarks on the piece.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Dee Smith introducing a piece, then medium closeup as Smith performs it. At the end, closeup as Smith comments on the piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:07:27\n[Introduces and performs “a funny little piece” about hair. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup then extreme closeup as Dee Smith introduces and performs a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:08:45\n[Introduces and performs a political piece about, in Smith’s words, “some of the things I’ve seen some of my Black sisters going through.” Smith alternates between Jamaican Patois and standard English. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:11:27\n[Introduces a piece saying “some people might think this is about smoking, but there’s a hidden message in it somewhere.” Performs piece titled “Herbs: Ganja, Marijuana, (Cannabis?).” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:13:22\nThe next piece is a two-part piece; and it was written after the last craziness that took place at Carifiesta, you know, the holiday when Black people get in the streets and get all crazy. Well, I was rather upset the last time something like this happened. [Performs “Carifiesta daytime” (Part 1) and then “Carifiesta nighttime” (Part 2).] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:15:20\n[Introduces and performs “Declare war,” primarily in Jamaican Patois. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:17:45\n[Introduces and performs “Reality.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:19:18\n[Introduces and performs “Cool but deadly.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:20:57\n[Introduces and performs “Some kind of love thing” as a love piece. Minute-long silence between introduction and performance, as Smith looks for the piece among papers. Applause.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:25:10\n[Introduces and performs another love piece opening with the line “Come away with me, beautiful lover.” Applause.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:27:35\n[Introduces and performs a piece beginning with the line “Brother to brother” repeated several times. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:29:26\n[Introduces and performs a piece about procrastination. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.\n\nDee Smith\n00:30:50\n[Introduces and performs a piece “for all the women in the house tonight,” opening with, “If I said I didn’t like the politics.” Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup of Dee Smith performing a last piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:33:08\n[Thanks Dee Smith and announces a break. Sudden cut.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup as Lee Gotham walks to stage and makes remarks. Video suddenly cuts.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n00:33:57\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Fourteen minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:04\nVideo Description: Medium shot of Gotham adjusting mic stand for Joe De Paul.\n\nJoe De Paul\n00:34:09\n[Tells a story with surreal turns about his father being fired from his job, before directing his children to create a vegetable garden with ulterior motives. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Joe De Paul enters the stage. Joe De Paul wears a purple sweater, buzz cut with receding high hairline, stubble goatee and mustache, and a small hoop earring on right lobe. Various degrees of closeup as Joe De Paul tells a story.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:47:00\n[Cut to Lee Gotham announcing the open-mic portion of the evening, then inviting Bill to the stage.] Video Description: Cut to a closeup of Lee Gotham making remarks and inviting an open-mic participant to the stage, while smoking a cigarrete. \n\nBill\n00:47:32\n[Introduces and performs a piece opening with the line, “Among the mountains, we start the day like every day.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Bill entering the stage while smoking a cigarette. Bill wears a suit jacket over a button-down shirt and long curly hair. Various degrees of closeup as Bill introduces and performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:48:38\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “The gratitude of savages.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:49:51\n[Performs “Why.” Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:50:43\n[Introduces and performs “Seams.” Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:51:18\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “Come on frolic in my playground.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:52:12\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “Glazed stare, disemboweled display.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:53:11\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “The forgiving sun again visits.” Late thinning applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:53:46\nThis was written on a Christmas night, at a therapy house. [Laughter. Performs a piece opening with the line, “Living still among the crystal night.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:55:09\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “And if I gaze into the future.” Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:55:56\n[Performs a piece opening with the line, “If for this day, for this moment, me.” Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:56:38\n[Performs a piece, opening with the line, “And, in the middle of my misery, my sanctity diminished.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.\n\nBill\n00:57:35\n[Introduces and performs “Conformity.” Thanks the audience. 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Battson wears partially visible outfit with thin straps, stud earrings, choker necklace, and short tousled hair. After reading, Battson thanks the audience.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:01:10\n[Cut to Lee Gotham advertising the anthology “Playing in the Asphalt Garden” (edited by O’Connor, Insomniac Press, 1994). Gotham explains Jill Battson is part of that anthology and that there are books for sale. Gotham then advertises “Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza 94” (edited by Torrez et al., Manic D Press, 1995.)]. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham displaying books for sale. 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Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham picks up hammer from off-screen. In between lines, dramatically hits a wooden block on stand to his right with hammer. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:19     \n[Resumes performing piece with the line “There can be no pause for the cause.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera angle alternates between closeups and medium shots of Gotham performing a piece and long shots of Gotham performing a piece, Unknown_Musician1 playing drums, and Sam Shalabi playing guitar. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:05:38       \n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer is blurting out opinions to strangers.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. 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Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi, who are off-screen.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:11:50\n[Sam Shalabi continues to play complex drum beat, Unknown_Musician1 softens chord attack but plays complex progression.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:11:57\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham sits down on something unseen and, holding the mic away from him, mouths something unseen to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:12:03\n[Play calmer jazz music.] | Video Description: Camera pans to long shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums with brushes and Sam Shalabi playing guitar.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:12:04\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “We were still sitting there on the beach listening to the crazy old Indian.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.] | Video Description: Camera pans to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece sitting down. Camera alternates between closeups, medium shots and medium closeups as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:14:58\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Well, there wasn’t a lot of story to it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi resumes in major key. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Gotham stands up. Zooms out to longshot as Gotham picks up hammer on his left and pretends to hit himself on the head with it in between lines. Zooms into medium closeup. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:18:11\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “That’s good, that’s just fine, now we’ll just relax” delivered in a deeper tone than previously. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi barely audible in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:19:04\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “An escaped convict fell into a deep hole someone had dug beside the roadway.” Music reminiscent of middle-Eastern music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi plays in background. Sam Shalabi stops playing guitar part way through. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham leans backwards on something unseen and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as Gotham stands up and continues performing piece.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:22:47\n[Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background.] | Video Description: Zooms out to show Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi playing their instruments beside Gotham. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:22:54\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The water’s run out.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes busier in the background.] Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nSam Shalabi\n00:23:15\nVideo Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing.  \n\nUnknown_Musician1\n00:23:31\nVideo Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:23:38\n[Continues performing piece. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham continues performing a piece. Zooms out to medium shot part way through. Gotham expands arms like flying bird while performing. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:25:04\n[Continues performing piece with the line “Well now, where were we. You wanted to talk about sex today?” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Camera alternates between medium closeups and medium shots throughout . \n\nLee Gotham\n00:28:43\n[Continues performing piece with the line “I’d like to make it reasonably clear that I’m a frightened man.” Sombre music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:09\n[Continues performing piece with the line “The performer gradually regains his composure.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham sips water and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through, then zooms out to medium shot. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:18\n[Continues performing piece with the line “Failure to recognize boundaries between self and the world outside.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi ceases in the background. Thanks audience. Applause. Thanks audience and announces break before Ann Diamond’s performance] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Takes cigarette package out of pocket. Zooms out to long shot during applause. Zooms into medium shot when Gotham resumes speaking into mic. \n \n[No signal] \n00:37:00\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:11\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Swifty Lazarus.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black zippered sweater with unknown white graphics on the back, a small white logo on the front left side, and sleeves rolled up to the elbows; black rimmed cap; and hair in a ponytail through the hole in the back.\n\nSwifty Lazarus \n00:37:55\n[Recording of cinematic music with harp and horns plays. Todd Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “After the end of the world, there is much work to be done.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Swift performs a piece. Todd Swift wears a black suit jacket atop a white button-down shirt with a black bowtie, black rectangular glasses, and dark hair close cropped on the sides and parted just off-centre. Tom Walsh wears a leather vest with decorative zippers atop a black long-sleeved shirt and short dark hair.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:39:32\n[Recording of uneasy and discordant string instrument music plays. Shifts to cacophonous horn and percussion sounds and screeching. Swift performs a piece titled “(?) Barbershop.” Brief applause and laughing. Video Description: Swift stands perpendicular to the mic. Walsh stands up. Swift approaches the mic and performs a piece. Loose closeup throughout. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:41:28\n[Recording of cinematic string and horn music plays. In a radio-esque transatlantic accent, a recorded voice delivers monologue that includes the line “the hearts of men, a shadow now.”] | Video Description: Swift holds up a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Looks at watch. Takes tape player away from mic. Loose closeup throughout.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:42:25\n[Recording of spare xylophone music plays. In a muted, mid-twentieth-century-radio tone, Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “The theory of tunnel (work?) is a powerful distinction between a (ledger?) and employment.” Music gradually adds both cinematic and discordant strings reminiscent of earlier musical sections.] | Video Description: Loose closeup to closeup as Smith performs a piece with a trumpet mute up to their lips.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:45:38\n[Recording of discordant string music and vocalization plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The shadowy man (has guilt inside?) (? and sighs?). Moscow.”.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Swift turns away from the mic. Closeup as Swift turns back and performs a piece, reading off a newspaper. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:47:38\n[Recording of up-beat jazz music with xylophone and horns plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “History is dead and the full weight of the present (?)” Laughter periodically throughout. The music and Swift’s delivery gets faster and more chaotic partway through. Music suddenly cuts seemingly on purpose and Swift continues reading. Music recommences. Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:51:04\n[Recording of a single unknown string or horn instrument playing seemingly random notes plays. A recording of two voices conversing plays.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Swift holds a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Nods and smiles along with the audio. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:52:35\n[Recording of simple snare and bass drum beat plays, in which short guitar or horn melodies quip periodically. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “So much rain in one hat band.”] | Video Description: Medium shots and loose closeups as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:55:17\n[Old recording of a two-voice conversation plays. Swift softly delivers a piece. Uneasy vintage horror movie music begins partway through.] | Video Description: Walsh stands and lights a cigarette. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:56:53\n[Old recording of a two-voice phone conversation plays. The first verse of a child choir singing “Oh Canada” plays. A recording of steady gong or cymbal hits plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “One softness (?) going, the sea turns like glass.” Recording of staccato pulses of unknown instruments begin partway through.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:59:48\n[Old recording of a newscast beginning with the line “The Nazi war criminal died” plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “But when the Berlin Wall fell five years ago, it was a signal.” A recording of raucous percussion plays after the first line, evolves into quiet sirens.] | Video Description: Closeup of the microphone while Swift smokes a cigarette off-camera. Closeup as Swift performs a piece.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:01:45\n[Recording of hopeful and content piano and drum music plays. Swift strongly performs a piece beginning with the line “There’s one thing I remember right from childhood. From the beginning. And it is the smell of roses.” Music slowly shifts to high-pitched and discordant electric organ chords with periodic driving percussion. Applause] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:11:58\n[Long pause.] | Video Description: Medium shot and closeup as Swift faces away from the mic checking watch and adjusting headphones, sometimes out of frame. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:13:06\n[Recording of ominous stringed instrument music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “What happened to you when you were murdered?”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece, ending with an extreme closeup. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:16:21\n[Recording of unknown screeching instrument plays. Recording of one person pleading “no” and “stop” and another person talking sinisterly plays. Recording of a two-voice conversation plays.] Video Description: Extreme closeup as Swift holds up a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Swift’s face reacts to the dialogue in the recordings. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:18:15\n[Recording of intense large wind instrument and large drums plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The architect of the future.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:20:40\n[Recording of ominous ambient music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “I’ve seen a man stagger with a thousand arrows in his back.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:24:55\n[Swift announces, “this is the last one.” Recording of happy horn and drum music plays, cuts suddenly, and recommences. Swift performs a piece that may be titled “Ten Rose Songs.” Music cuts and recommences in different styles rapidly and repeatedly throughout performance. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Walsh stands up, leans over to Swift, sits back down. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:28:58\n[Walsh introduces Swift and themselves. Explains that the name of their group is inspired by “Hollywood’s greatest entrepreneur,” Irving Paul \"Swifty\" Lazar. | Video Description: Medium shot as Swift and Walsh stand side by side. Closeup as Walsh speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:29:46\n[Hopes everyone “soaked that up.” Encourages people to stay after the show. Mentions that bill bisset is next week’s performer. Mentions further future events. Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup to extreme closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\n[Bistro 4]\n01:31:04\nVideo Description: Camera zooms out from closeup to long shot of the lone mic on stage. \n\n[No signal] \n01:31:15\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nbill bissett\n01:31:18\n[Cuts to bissett performing Unknown Composition 1.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett, vocalizing and singing into the microphone and keeping rhythm with a maraca. Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bissett and his maraca. bissett wears thick-framed glasses, chin-length hair, and a graphic t-shirt. Lee Gotham briefly passes through camera view. He wears a green collared shirt and long brown hair.\n\nbill bissett \n01:37:37\n[Finishes Unknown Composition 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett stops the rhythm and brings the maraca to his lips. Camera zooms out into a long shot as bissett puts maraca in his back pocket and picks up a binder with multiple documents inside. Audience members applaud. bissett addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett \n01:37:58\n[Reads “n e c k s” (from Th last photo uv th human soul, Talonbooks, 1993). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between long shot, medium long shot, and closeup on bill bissett reading poem from lifted binder. \n\nbill bissett\n01:42:06\n[Finishes reading “n e c k s”. Audience applause. bill bissett introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience laughter and applause.] Video Description: bill bissett closes binder and rubs hand across forehead. Camera pans across the room, capturing a full venue of applauding audience members. Camera zooms into closeup on bissett addressing audience. bill bissett begins walking off stage via stage left. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:42:48\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Nelson stands up from audience and places hand on bissett’s shoulder before moving by him. Nelson speaks to an audience member out-of-frame (bissett?) before walking to the microphone stand on stage.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:42:59\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, introducing Unknown Poem 1 as a response to bissett’s “(ken and heath made for life?).” Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson speaks into the microphone, which is set significantly higher on the stand than their height. Nelson wears green and orange patterned dress, long dark hair, and a necklace. Nelson addresses bill bissett (off-screen). Nelson addresses audience. An unseen audience member adjusts microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson spits out gum and looks for place to put chewed wad. An unseen audience member stretches out palm in front of Nelson. Nelson addresses audience before glancing down at the pages they hold.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:44:28\n[Reads Unknown Poem 1. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Sharon H. Nelson reading from pages. Nelson breaks from reading to address audience before returning to reading.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:48:09\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down sheets of paper on the floor and walks off via stage left. Camera zooms out to long shot, capturing applauding audience members. bill bissett walks up to microphone stand via stage left. bissett addresses audience and adjusts microphone stand height. Camera pans right. Nelson addresses bissett. Audience members laugh. Lee Gotham is at one of the large window panes, adjusting a fixture. Camera pans left, back toward bissett on stage. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. bissett adjusts glasses, opens binder, and flips through pages.\n\nbill bissett\n01:49:00\n[Reads Unknown Poem 1 (“vapours / don’t blame it on the dog / are you barking?…”). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera shakes, panning from stage and over various audience members, before panning back and zooming in and out on bissett. \n\nbill bissett\n01:51:50\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett flips page and addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett\n01:52:03\n[Reads “unmatching phenomena” (from Inkorrect Thots, Talonbooks, 1992). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: billl bissett reads from binder. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. \n\nbill bissett\n01:54:05\n[Finishes “unmatching phenomena”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Audience laughter. Begins poem before breaking off to address audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and glances down, flipping through it. bill bissett lifts binder again and addresses audience. bissett smiles at audience laughter and addresses audience, lifting hand.\n\nbill bissett\n01:54:32\n[Resumes reading “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett resumes reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett\n01:56:10\n[Finishes “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through its pages. bissett addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett\n01:56:22\n[Begins reading Unknown Poem 2 (“who wrote the script though? / don’t you always wonder that…”) before breaking off to addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2 before addressing audience and interacting with Unknown Audience Member 1. Audience laughter. bill bissett interacts with Unknown Audience Member 2. Audience laughter. Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett begins reading from binder before addressing audience, raising hand. bissett resumes reading before addressing audience again. An unseen audience member addresses bissett and they interact. bissett interacts with another unseen audience member. bissett resumes reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett\n01:58:44\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 2. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Unknown Audience Member 3 and bissett interact.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through pages. Camera pans across audience members applauding. bill bissett addresses audience. bissett interacts with an unseen audience member.\n\nbill bissett\n01:59:06\n[Reads “reflex blu” (from What We Have, Talonbooks, 1988).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bill bissett reading from binder. \n\nbill bissett\n02:01:40\n[Finishes “reflex blu”. Audience applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and adjusts glasses, looking out at audience. bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett walks toward Sharon H. Nelson stage-left and they shake hands and exchange a kiss. Nelson walks toward microphone stand. bissett takes seat adjacent to stage left.]\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:02:14\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Unknown Audience Member 4. Addresses audience. Introduces “Form and Structure” (from Grasping Men’s Metaphors, Muses’ Co., 1993) mentioning Dorothy Parker. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson tilting microphone downward and addressing audience. An unknown audience member walks into the frame, kneeling to adjust microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson addresses unknown audience member.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:03:20\n[Reads “Form and Structure”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads to the audience, with gestures to accentuate the poem’s humour.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:04:02\n[Finishes “Form and Structure”. Audience applause. Introduces “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”. Audience laughter.]  | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles at the audience as camera zooms out into a medium long shot. Nelson flips through the book in their hands. Nelson addresses audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:04:38\n[Reads “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson reading from book.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:05:18\n[Audience laughter. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson introduces Unknown Poem 2, in the style of nursery rhymes, and mentioning playing show-and-tell in school. Sharon H. Nelson begins to read Unknown Poem 2, breaking off to address audience. Audience members respond.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson nods.  Addresses audience. Looks down to read, before glancing up and address audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:05:48\n[Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout. Addresses audience member resuming reading Unknown Poem 2.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson glances down and reads from book. Glances up to address audience before resuming reading.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:07:17\n[Pauses. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles, raises a finger, and addresses audience (inaudible). \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:07:25\n[Resumes Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson resumes reading Unknown Poem 2.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:08:01\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down book and smiles at audience. Gestures toward and addresses offscreen audience member (bill bissett?). Camera zooms out into medium long shot as Nelson exits via stage left. Backs of audience members’ heads. Nelson and bissett interact off-screen. bissett approaches microphone via stage left.\n\nbill bissett\n02:08:27\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. bissett flips and sorts through pages, putting one briefly in his mouth. An unknown audience member briefly passes through camera view. bissett selects a page, places something down, and turns back toward the microphone.\n\nbill bissett \n02:09:26\n[Performs “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and in between extreme closeup and medium long shot on bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone. bissett holds up and references pages throughout the performance, occasionally flipping. \n\nbill bissett \n02:16:11\n[Finishes “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd”. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Addresses audience, talking about quinine, TV detectives, and murder mysteries. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett goes silent and slowly lowers outstretched arms. Camera zooms out to long shot of applauding audience members in front of the stage, with one unknown audience member in an orange sweater moving through the crowd. Lee Gotham approaches the stage via stage left and interacts with bissett before returning to his seat. bissett picks up binder and flips through pages. Camera zooms in as bissett addresses audience. bissett drinks from a glass, puts it on the floor, and flips through binder.\n\nbill bissett \n02:17:30\n[Reads Unknown Poem 3 (“Mr. and Mrs. Ridge of Venus Land…”). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. \n\nbill bissett \n02:18:44\n[Laughs. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett laugh before looking back down at binder.\n\nbill bissett \n02:18:50\n[Resumes reading Unknown Poem 3. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett \n02:20:22\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 3. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers and closes binder. Gestures to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson). bissett addresses audience and applauds along with them. bissett begins exiting via stage left. bissett and Nelson embrace and address one another as Nelson walks toward microphone stand.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:20:40\n[Addresses audience. Addresses bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience and looks over to bill bissett to address him. An unknown audience member briefly obscures camera view. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:20:43\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Sharon H. Nelson flips through pages, and an unknown audience member adjusts the microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson addresses audience member adjusting microphone stand and thanks them. Camera zooms into a closeup on Nelson.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:21:21\n[Addresses audience, discussing bissett’s artwork. Audience laughter. Introduces “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991).”] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:23:14\n[Reads “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads from pages.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:27:31\n[Finishes “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Introduces “The Best Minds of My Generation” (from This Flesh These Words, Ekstasis Editions, 2002), mentioning the piece is dedicated to bill bissett and to George (Predelli?), a former Catholic priest. Audience laughter. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into long shot as Sharon H. Nelson gathers pages and nods toward audience. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Nelson addresses audience and flips through pages.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:28:45\n[Coughs. Reads “The Best Minds of My Generation”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson coughs into fist. An audience member briefly obscures view of stage. Nelson reads from pages. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:33:18\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson picks pages up from floor and exits stage via stage left. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Sharon H. Nelson sits in audience as bill bissett returns to the microphone stand on stage. bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. \n\nbill bissett \n02:33:29\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett raises glass to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson?) and sips from it. \n\nbill bissett\n02:34:04\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into medium long shot as bill bissett adjusts glasses and flips through pages. Lee Gotham passes through camera view, glancing right into the lens. \n\nbill bissett \n02:34:22\n[Reads “why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown” (from Th Influenza uv Logik, Talonbooks, 1995).] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera zooms in and out between closeup on bissett and long shot of bissett on stage, panning across the audience members listening to the reading and smoking. \n\nbill bissett\n02:39:11\n[Finishes \"why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown.\" Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett briefly closes binder before opening it again. \n\nAudience\n02:08:23\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Camera begins to zoom out to a long shot revealing applauding audience members. bissett turns to an unknown audience member upstage left and interacts with them. The unknown audience member holds bissett's binder as bissett searches for a page inside it. Camera pans across audience members sitting adjacent to stage left.\n\nbill bissett\n02:39:33\n[Performs Unknown Poem 4 (“Jennifer Rawlins”?).] | Video Description: bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone, holding sheet of paper. \n\nbill bissett\n02:42:34\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 4. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Thanks Sharon H. Nelson. Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera pans over applauding audience members throughout the room. bill bissett addresses audience. Lee Gotham moves through crowd and approaches stage. bissett is given his binder by the unknown audience member holding it. Gotham and bissett hug. bissett addresses audience before exiting stage left as Gotham approaches the microphone stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:43:15\nWow, I think we need—Woo! Just a little time to cool down now after that. Geez, you know, I can’t, I can’t say how happy I am to, you know, be a part of something that involves not only a generous helping of spectacle but, you know, a whole lotta love, and just generally rejuvenating experience. I think what I’d like to do is, like I said, take a little break. Any of the open-mikers who’ve hung out and are still up for it are more than welcome to have their day in the rain in a moment or two. I can’t encourage people enough, as well, to come over to the corner at some point if you’re going hang out for a bit. We’ve got loads of books, both Sharon’s, bill’s, and some small press offerings of various natures. You know, when I first bill, I was doing my degree at Concordia. I went down to the stacks in what was at that time the Norris Library. Do you know there are 41 titles of bill’s in that library? Several of Sharon’s as well. But 41—you’re not going to find a lot of them in the bookstores anymore, but bill is part of a very, very vital scene, going back a good twenty odd years. [Sharon H. Nelson interacts (“Pushing thirty!”)] Pushing thirty! And they’re all still in the stacks, you know? You go down to what’s now the Webster Library, or over to the Redpath, or any other incredible institution of those varieties, you can check the stuff out because I tell you, a whole lot of innovation went into the years between then and now. Okay, so—enjoy, hang out. | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjust microphone stand height. Gotham addresses audience and at one point addresses Sharon H. Nelson (off-screen) before returning his focus to the audience. \n\n[No signal] \n02:45:13\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nIan Stephens\n02:45:16\n[Cuts to Stephens introducing and performing a piece titled “(Reegan’s?) Mind”. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Stephens wears a black parka atop a black sweater, a red, black, and white scarf, a white cloth face mask tied around his head, red nail polish on some fingernails, and close-cropped light-brown hair. Loose closeup as Stephens takes off parka and puts up hood of sweater. Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Stephens places two fake eyes over his eyelids and squints to keep them in place. Varying degrees of closeup as Stephens performs a piece. Gestures close to face throughout. Takes off hood partway through. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as Stephens extends arms upwards, finishes the piece, and puts on parka.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:51:58\n[Thanks Ian and the audience for attending. Introduces Fortner Anderson as the “other half of ‘Broken Spoken.’” Promotes cassettes and publications for sale. Invites Anderson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nFortner Anderson\n02:53:00\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m a man. I’m a good man.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anderson takes mic off stand, turns away from the camera briefly, and turns back to perform the piece. Fortner wears a dark grey suit jacket atop a black button-down shirt, black leather belt, black and gold glasses, and dark brown hair that sweeps across forehead and waves away from face. Zooms into medium shot as Anderson casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes. \n\nFortner Anderson \n02:58:24\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Every day, I don’t care, and I will never care.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between long shots and medium shots as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Walks out of frame for a moment partway through. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson \n03:01:41\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I think I’m a young boy staring into a distant, sepia-toned future.” Alternates between full voice, whispering, and shouting. Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and loose closeups as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson\n03:10:48\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I got hurt so bad today.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage.\n\nFortner Anderson\n03:15:08\n[Thanks Ian, Neil, Joelle, and the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Directs audience to table to buy “souvenirs.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Anderson speaks into the mic. Places mic on stool. \n\nLee Gotham\n03:15:39\n[Thanks Anderson for “the climax of the evening’s offerings.” Announces brief pause and that the open mic will continue afterwards.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham puts mic back on stand and speaks into it while smoking a cigarette. \n\n[No signal]\n03:16:09\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n03:16:16\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Ian Stephens.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham talks to Ian Stephens, who is masked and sitting upstage. Gotham wears a dark sweater with snowflake motifs, rolled-up sleeves, black baseball cap turned back, stubble, long hair. Zoom into a closeup as Gotham goes to the mic and invites Ian Stephens to the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:16:50\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, buzz haircut.\n\nPeter\n03:18:44\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, close-trimmed beard. Peter reads a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:22:20\n[Organizes objects on stage, in front of him. Introduces “Regan's mind #2, or, Reagan remembers.” Continues setting up the stage. Puts on a cowboy hat. Sits down. Explains that, in this piece, he is Reagan’s mind. Puts on fake eyeballs, one larger than the other.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens sets the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:25:22\n[Performs “Regan's mind #2, or, Regan 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\n03:41:43\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\n03:49:37\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\n03:51:37\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\n03:52:30\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\n04:00:11\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\n04:06:35\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\nAudience_Member1\n04:06:42\nDid 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\n04:06:48\nA hypothetical question. Yes. [Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n04:07:03\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\n04:07:41\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\nAudience_Member2\n04:08:03\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\n04:08:10\nOh yeah, I love Montreal, my home, I was born here, raised here. Everything I see around here resonates. (Certain little memories?). (?) Montreal was a province unto itself. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers to the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n04:08:33\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\n04:08:48\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\n04:10:00\n[Thanks Ian Stephens. Announces break.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Lee Gotham takes the mic and announces a break.\n\n[No signal]\n04:10:15\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n04:10:20\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Robert Allen as one of his favourite profs from Concordia. Invites Allen to the stage to read from novels, poetry collections, and Moosehead Anthologies he has been a part of. Mentions Allen is a new editor at Matrix Magazine. Gotham wears a black and white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair down.\n\nRobert Allen\n04:11:30\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Wedding Poem.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Allen wears a grey long-sleeve plaid shirt with black buttons and a black hood, and slightly curly light brown chin-length hair.\n\nRobert Allen\n04:13:17\n[Explains that the next piece is about the plane crash of a French rugby team in the Andes mountains and it involves cannibalism. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Rugby Players Stranded in the Andes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n04:16:34\n[Explains that the next piece is about the mail order pornography business. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Late Romantics.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen \n04:18:03\n[Explains that the next piece encapsulates nineteenth-century Russian literature in five lines. Introduces and performs a piece titled “A Sadder Scene Than You Know at Tolstoy(’s?) Station.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n04:18:48\n[Mentions he lives in the country with Anne Stone. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Mount Cloud.” Applause. Hard cut.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Zooms out to long shot as Allen leaves stage. Hard cut. \n\nLee Gotham\n04:21:00\nIntroduces Doug Isaac. Mentions Isaac’s poetry collection Past, Present: Tense will be published with Imperial (Note: book actually published with BuschekBooks.) Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n04:21:30\n[Introduces piece titled “Centres of Treatment” that is in part a homeless man’s verbatim dialogue, while the other half is dialogue written by Isaac. Says he will use different voices for each character.] | Video Description: Closeup as Isaac lowers the mic and speaks to the audience. Isaac wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a white shirt that has an indiscernible pattern, and medium brown hair pushed back from face. \n\nSpokenWeb notes \n04:22:39\nAt 04:23:30 and 00:23:43, Isaac says a racial slur. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n04:22:44\n[Performs \"Centres of Treatment.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium shot as Isaac performs a piece, alternating between performing into the mic and stepping slightly away from it. \n\nLee Gotham\n04:33:33\n[Thanks Douglas (Doug) Isaac.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham speaking into the mic.\n\n[No signal]\n04:33:43\nAmbient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n04:33:53\n[Cuts to Colin Christie and Corey Frost performing a piece about suicide. Alternate between singing songs such as “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James & The Shondells (Roulette, single, 1968), vocally imitating vehicles, and performing the piece. Play the children’s clapping game “Miss Mary Mack.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot of Christie and Frost performing a piece without mics, singing, walking around the stage area, gesturing, and becoming different characters for an embodied and theatrical performance. Christie wears a light blue long-sleeved plaid shirt open atop a black shirt, a necklace, and light brown hair. Frost wears a plaid vest atop a medium blue plaid shirt, a necklace with a large gold ring, and long curly dark brown hair.\n\nLee Gotham \n04:39:01\n[Thanks Colin Christie and Corey Frost.] Video Description: Long shot of Bistro 4 and Gotham speaking into the mic.]\n\n[No signal]\n04:40:03\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video description: Black screen with white text that reads \"-0:00:32.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n04:40:07\n[Cuts to Gotham inviting Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nIan Ferrier \n04:41:09\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Ferrier adjusts the mic, speaks into the mic, and performs a piece. Ferrier wears an unzipped black winter jacket atop a black graphic t-shirt with a white logo, dark brown hair with a strip shaved out of it from above left eye to crown of head.\n\nIan Ferrier \n04:44:57\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Theatre of Three AM.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nIan Ferrier\n04:46:24\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Politician.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[Bistro 4]\n04:49:00\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. \n\n[No signal] \n04:49:11\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nSteve Luxton\n04:49:15\n[Cuts to Luxton introducing and performing a piece titled “Sweeney Todd.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into loose closeup as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Luxton wears a red button-down shirt, round metal-rimmed glasses, wavy blonde ear-length hair.\n\n[Bistro 4]\n04:52:38\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage.\n\n[No signal]\n04:52:45\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nSpokenWeb notes\n04:52:50\nIn the following performance, Raymond Filip uses an outdated term in reference to a cross-dressing man.\n\nRaymond Filip\n04:52:50\n[Cuts to Filip reading “Transvestite at his Toilette.” Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot as Filip performs a piece. 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The windows from across the street are also visible, including an outdoor “JETHRO” sign. People frequently pass in front of the camera. On the café windows, some decals are partially visible, with words from the menu such as “DÉJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nTrevor Ferrier\n00:00:15\n[Cuts to Ferrier playing drums while telling a story in English, opening with the line “Some have seen it and wish they hadn’t.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Trevor Ferrier entering the stage and picking up his percussion instrument from the floor. Ferrier wears a red Henley shirt with the sleeves rolled up, shaved head, and thin moustache. Different degrees of closeup as Ferrier tells a story while playing percussion.\n\nTrevor Ferrier\n00:16:03\n[Plays the sanza while telling another story in English, opening with the line “Once on the far side of yesterday there lived a little girl who wanted to know the future.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Trevor Ferrier picking up the sanza.  Different degrees of closeup as Ferrier tells a story while playing the sanza. At some point the camera zooms into an extreme closeup of his hands playing. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:10\n[Thanks Trevor Ferrier and announces a break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks to stage and makes remarks. Gotham wears a grey button-down shirt with sleeves a bit rolled up and tucked into jeans, black leather belt, full beard, and long hair tied in a ponytail. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:29\n[Cut to Lee Gotham introducing Njacko Backo.] | Video Description: Medium long shot from the other side of the stage, now capturing the performers slightly from a diagonal left. \n\nNjacko Backo\n00:35:40\n[Salutes the audience in French and tells a story titled “Macaco.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Njacko Backo entering the stage. Backo wears a dark sweater, neck-length braided hair, and a large beaded necklace. As Backo tells a story, the camera alternates among different degrees of closeup and pans from side to side to accompany Backo on stage. At some point, Backo balances a percussion instrument (the same one Ferrier drummed) on his head, acting out part of the story. Backo incorporates call-and-responses and a choruses with the audience into the storytelling.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:48:36\n[Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom to a medium closeup as Lee Gotham walks on stage, clapping and smoking. \n\n[No signal]\n00:48:42\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne\n00:48:46\n[Cuts to the Groupe performing a spoken-word piece, alternating solos with choruses. Audience laughter as a group member repeats the line “Ce soir.” Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. All wear black shirts and pants. Six members of the group stand in a circular formation, all facing the stage, with the centre apparently empty. As the group performs, the camera zooms in and out of various degrees of closeup. At some point, a seventh performer emerges from the centre of the group formation, going up and down several times. Later on, the group briefly breaks the formation, acting out an argument.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne\n00:55:20\n[The Groupe performs a second spoken-word piece, opening with the line “Bonsoir, nous sommes le Groupe de Poésie Moderne!” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. The seven group members now stand in a loose row, all facing the stage. Save by one performer, who reads, all members perform from memory. Zoom in and out of various degrees of closeup.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne\n01:01:18\n[The Groupe performs a third piece, opening with the line “Bonjour, ma très belle, je suis inquiet pour toi.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne performing. The piece opens with only two members dialoguing and facing the audience, while the others stand on either side of the duo, with their backs to the camera. A third member turns to the audience and stands in front of the duo, addressing the audience. At the end, all other members turn to salute the audience, amid applause. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:03:38\n[Thanks the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. Announces the open mic, as well as upcoming events.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then closeup as Lee Gotham thanks the performers and makes announcements.\n\n[No signal]\n01:03:50\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:03:58\n[Cuts to Skarstedt reading 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. Skarstedt wears a sweater with an eight-point-star pattern, dangle earrings, and a blonde mullet. Lee Gotham adjusts the mic as Sonja Skarstedt walks onto the stage. Gotham wears a black turtleneck, stud earrings on the left lobe, hair tied under a black Taqiyah-style skullcap with a folded visor, and a beard. 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]\n01:36:57\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham \n01:37:05\n[Cuts to ambient sounds, voices.] | Video description: Medium shot of Gotham adjusting the mic and standing in front of the camera.\n\nLynn Suderman\n01:37:15 \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. Suderman wears a black long-sleeved blouse and short black hair tucked behind ears. 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\n01:38:43\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\n01:46:04\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\n01:46:25\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\n[No signal]\n01:47:29\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:47:37\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing the Phineas Flower Trio.] | Video Description: Closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. Gotham wears a Taqiyah-style skullcap, and long button-down shirt over a t-shirt. \n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:47:44\n[Voice interrupts Gotham from out of the frame] Just get on with it, man! | Video Description: Zoom out from Lee Gotham and pan left to the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\n\nLee Gotham\n01:47:45\nI believe want you to keep your distance during their act, they want lots of space, so just stay where you are [laughter]. A little later in the evening we will have Steve Godin. Steve Godin is going to do something that will set everyone’s teeth on edge [laughter]. It’s not true; Steve is a wonderfully amenable type and he’s gonna be here with us before very long. And in the meantime please welcome Phineas Flower. Stay where you are. [Applause].  | Medium long shot panning between Lee Gotham, standing, and the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting, one of them smoking. Gotham finishes his remarks and introduces the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:48:25\n[Drummer interrupts the applause] No clapping, we are serious jazz musicians. [Laughter] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham leaving the stage and the Phineas Flower Trio walking to their instruments and places. Before sitting by the drums, the drummer goes to the mic. The drummer wears a long green coat over a black turtleneck and buzz-cut hair. The camera zooms into a closeup of the mic, and the guitar player gets his instrument caught on the mic cable, almost knocking the stand down.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:48:51\n[The band spends an unnecessarily long time tuning and making adjustments, seemingly to irritate the audience.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio: the drummer on right of the screen, further to the back, behind the mic stand; the guitar player in the middle, putting his lit cigar on his guitar head, among the tuning keys; and the bass player on the left, smoking. The guitar player wears a grey Henley shirt with sleeves rolled-up to the elbow, short hair, a thin moustache, and a goatee. The bass player wears a black and red coat atop a patterned button-down shirt, long hair, a Van-Dyke beard, and sunglasses.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n01:50:01\n[A voice from the audience says, “Let’s go, eh?!”; two band members reply aggressively, “Back off!” “What the fuck was that? Why don’t you shut up?!”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:51:17\n[A vocalist joins the Phineas Flower Trio to plays their first song, a spoken-word piece against a jazzy groove. One one of the first lines is “(Dereliction?) and (pain?), corrupted by ambient (rain?).” At the end of the first piece, the vocalist says, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of vocalist leaving the audience to join the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting on a bar stool, higher than the other band members. The vocalist wears short curly hair, sunglasses, and a grey sweater over a flowery dress. He is smoking and carrying a beverage. The camera zooms in and out, settling on a medium shot of the vocalist, with the drummer partially visible behind, the latter playing while smoking. The vocalist takes a sip, then puts both glass and cigarette down to perform.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:53:37\n[Performs a second spoken-word-jazz fusion piece, beginning with the line “(Motorway?) superhighway, a massive feat of evolution in engineering.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup alternating with a medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:57:05\n[Performs a third spoken-word-jazz piece. One of the first lines is “Richard Carlyle (?) among the wreckage.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup panning among the band members of Phineas Flower Trio, who perform another piece. At the end of the piece, medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; the vocalist smokes between songs.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n01:58:06\n[The vocalist shouts] Hey! [Someone from the audience responds, half-mockingly] No clapping. [The vocalist adds] We’re serious fucking jazz musicians up here. [Someone else from the audience protests] I didn’t fucking clap. [The vocalist responds and asks a question to the bass player] Good. What’s next, (Zanny?)?] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; then pan left to the bass player.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:58:22\n[The bass player states the title of the next piece, which is incomprehensible, then the band performs it. One of the first lines is “As the last drops of (glucose?) (?) (Cola?) go down his throat.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio, panning left and right among the band members. Zoom into a closeup of the vocalist, who drinks from a glass before the next song; then zoom out to a medium shot as the band performs, ending in a medium closeup.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:15:45\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece beginning, “Somewhere, somewhere higher than the sky.” At the end of the piece, the vocalist repeats what he said at the end of the first song, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup of the vocalist, as the band performs. At the end of the piece, the vocalist drinks from a glass.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n02:01:57\n[Right after thanking the audience, the vocalist adds, looking at the band] That sucked. [Someone from the audience asks] What kind of noise is this? [The vocalist responds] Bad noise! [The drummer interjects] Wait, man, I don’t like this dialogue going on. Can’t anyone straighten this young lady out? [Vocalist states] Let’s play the next song. [Guitar player asks] Ok, who’s the fucking pinhead who said that? [Vocalist asks the bass player] Yo (Zanny?), what’s the next song? [As the bass player starts to answer, the guitarist commands, aggressively] Pinheads, raise your fucking head. [Drummer, out of the frame] Get ’em, boy! [Vocalist] Alright, let’s play the song. [Guitarist] You’re lucky I’m in a good mood. | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:02:26\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping drum-bass riff. The vocalist burps into the mic before singing the first lines: “(You’re usually?) flapping its wings, a bee flies across the field (and fell?) searching frantically for food, gasping for breath.” Mid-performance, the drummer screams in the background. At the end of the piece, with the instrumentalists still playing, he vocalist repeats, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium shot of the band, with the vocalist unbuttoning and taking off his sweater, so now his flower dress is entirely visible. Then zoom into a closeup of the vocalist as he starts singing while holding a cigarette, sometimes smoking between lines. Mid-performance, the camera zooms out and alternates between a medium shot and medium long shot.\n \nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n02:05:50\n[Right after thanking the audience, the vocalist adds, looking at the band] Next. [Someone from the audience interjects] Don’t say thank you, we’re a serious fucking audience. [Vocalist] Alright! [Guitar player adds, pointing at the audience] You’re a really fucking funny guy, man. [Vocalist] Let’s go, next song! [Scattered laughter and incomprehensible heckling between band and audience] | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n02:06:26\n[Vocalist, with the guitarist interrupting the last word with a loud chord] In case you didn’t notice, this is an artistic (event?). [An audience member] If you didn’t (pack your lip?) it would be better. [Vocalist] Go for it. [Guitarist, out of the frame] Better than what? | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interacting with the band members and the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:06:39\nThe Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping guitar riff, then a sudden pause, when the vocalist says “Hey.”] | Video Description: Zoom into an extreme closeup of the vocalist, smoking, then performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:08:17\n[The band suddenly stops playing, and the drummer says to the guitarist, both out of the frame] Hey man, it’s you. [Guitarist] No, it’s you. [Drummer] You fucked up twice there. [Vocalist, trying to intervene] Let’s take it, let’s just take it… [Guitarist] (?) you have, like, no sense of time (?). [Laughter, while the argument continues, until the vocalist commands] Play! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, drinking from a glass and trying to resume the performance while the band argues.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:08:43\n[The band resumes playing the same piece]. | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, often sipping from a glass, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot, so the drummer and guitarist also become visible.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:09:30\n[Bassist states the name of the next song] Next song is “Disgusting family.” [Vocalist announces] Alright, this is our last piece and then you will be rid of us once and for all. You can clap for that if you want! [Laughter] [Drummer] Disgusting family? [Vocalist] Wow, I don’t know, if Zanny’s standing up for this one, gotta mean something. [Laughter, shouts] [Vocalist] Zanny’s a studio musician, does a lot of uppers and stuff. | Video Description: Medium long shot, panning left and right between the bassist and vocalist, then zoom unto an extreme closeup of the vocalist. The bassist stands up and the camera pans left to show him. As the band starts performing, the camera pans back right and zooms into a medium closeup of the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:13:00\n[Vocalist interrupting the song to address the guitarist] Yo Kevin? Kevin? What the fuck is this? It’s just such fucking shitty noise (which you just made with that?) guitar, man. How much talent does it take to stick a fucking patch cord into a guitar anyway? [Many talk at once and the argument continues until the Vocalist suggests] Or just keep doing what you’re doing. Alright, here we go, it’s your noise! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interrupting the piece to complain about the guitarist. The camera pans to the drummer and the guitarist then back to the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:47:41\n[The band resumes playing the same piece, and the vocalists speaks the last lines while the band is still playing]. Thanks for nothing. We’re the Phineas Flower Bar Mitzvah Quartet. We play weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties. T-shirts and CDs are available at the door. [Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup of the vocalist, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot and pans left and right, so the other band members become visible as they stand up and leave the stage.\n\n[No signal]\n02:15:08\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:15:16\n[Cut to Godin reading piece beginning with the phrase, “For some time I was pondering theoretically on a compromise revolving around the ritual existence of…” The text refers to Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Gérard de Nerval, among others. One minute into the reading, a distorted slow-moving instrumental music becomes audible in the background and gradually increases in volume.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup of Steve Godin seating, reading while holding the mic. Godin wears a black leather jacket and shoulder-length grey hair.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:22:22\t\nBut where is the guide? [After the question, Godin sighs into the mic, observing a pause of about 20 seconds during which we hear the background music and ambient noises.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:22:45\n[Resumes reading with an increased reverb effect on the voice. The instrumental background music, now louder, approaches the volume of Godin’s voice.] | Video Description: Alternating medium shot and closeup, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:27:30\n[Pauses. The background music also stops for a few seconds, before resuming, developing different looping patterns. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup, medium shot, and closeup, as Godin continues to perform. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot, as Godin stands up to leave the stage, amid applause, and hands the mic to Lee Gotham.\n\n[No signal]\n02:34:14\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:34:15\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Adeena Karasick. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. Gotham wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt and a matching yellow bandana tied around head. Gotham adjusts the mic.\n\nAdeena Karasick \n02:34:34\n[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “Once, upon, I came to you when I could not be integrated” Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick performs a piece. Karasick wears a black zippered vest over a black long-sleeved shirt, gold dangling earrings, and shoulder length black hair that is loose and slightly curled. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:26:30\n[Thanks the audience. Explains that she will be reading pieces from multiple works, and that some relationships are only good for two things; “a poem at the beginning, and a poem at the end.” Laughter. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Incidentally accidental, it was an accident.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick introduces the piece, until maintaining a medium closeup while Karasick performs. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:40:24\n[Explains the Poetry Express project in Toronto, in which poets performed on a bus. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Keep your eyes on the road.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick flips through papers on a blue box atop a trolley cart, which also holds an almost full glass beer bottle. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece.\n\nAdeena Karasick \n02:43:00\n[Introduces and performs an excerpt of a longer work called Archetorture (Wave7Press, 1990) that, Karasick explains, explores memory and her mother’s death. Applause.] | Video Description: Flips through papers on trolley. Sips beer. Flips through papers again. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:48:30\n[Tells story about travelling in Germany. Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line, “And I go in to take the (?) to Meine, to Meine,” which contains both English and German. Karasick interrupts the poem to explain how food vocabulary is often the first words picked up in a new language, and then continues performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Sips beer. Shows audience an illustration in one of her collections (cover unidentifiable.) Performs a piece. The camera maintains a medium closeup. Closes books, sips beer, and it overflows with foam. Exits the stage and the frame. \n\n[No signal]\n02:54:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nAdeena Karasick and Lee Gotham\n02:54:50\n[Cuts to ambient sounds, voices.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick and Gotham have an inaudible conversation.\n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:55:19\n[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “When the word is bound (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Asks Gotham for something indiscernible with gesturing. Medium shot and extreme closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:56:36\n[Performs a piece titled “Autobahn Cruise” (Mêmewars, Talonbooks, 1994). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n02:59:20\n[Performs a chanting piece that includes the line “just a little bit harder” from an unknown project called Squalor. Pauses performance. Says, “I’ve lost my page.” Recommences. Laughter throughout. Applause]. | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as Karasick performs a piece. Partway through, looks through folders of papers on the trolley to find another page. Recommences. \n\nLee Gotham \n03:03:30\nVideo Description: Readjusts the microphone that has begun to tilt downwards. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n03:03:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Parasite Maintenance.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and extreme closeups as Karasick reorganizes papers on trolley and performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n03:08:53\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Aghast” (The Empress Has No Closure, Talonbooks, 1992). Shortly after starting to perform, briefly pauses and laughs. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece, pausing briefly to laugh near the beginning. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n03:08:52\n[Introduces and performs a chanting piece beginning with the line “can’t get enough serotonin.” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. Gathers papers and water glass and leaves the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:03:32\n[Encourages the audience to ask for an encore. Applause.] | Video Description: Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and claps. \n\n[No signal]\n03:13:38\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nAdeena Karasick\n03:13:44\n[Cuts to Karasick explaining that “things are more uptight in Toronto.” Audience laughs at something unknown, Karasick asks, “what?” Performs a chanting piece beginning with the line, “Ululate pullulations, exhorting (Mortimer?) writhed in (bendable?) straddles.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick introduces and performs a piece.\n\n[No signal]\n03:16:29\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n03:16:35\n[Cuts to ambient noise and applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham leaving the stage.\n\nDavid Jager \n03:16:36\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Words.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. David Jager wears a light brown striped button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow, dark brown hair falling onto forehead in strands. \n\nDavid Jager\n03:18:25\n[Asks the audience if they want to hear an angry poem. Cheering. Introduces and performs a piece called “Smoke Eat Drive.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. Applause and cheering throughout. \n\nDavid Jager\n03:19:48\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Missing.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as David Jager performs a piece.\n\nDavid Jager\n03:26:45\n[Looks through papers. Mumbles. Introduces and performs a piece called “Dream Chicken.” Applause.] | Video Description: Looks through papers. Loose and regular closeups as David Jager introduces and performs a piece. \n\n[No signal]\n03:23:02\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nClifton Joseph \n03:23:12\n[Cuts to Joseph performing an unknown piece. Audience clapping along with Joseph.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Joseph performing a piece, gesturing and stomping his foot in rhythm. Joseph wears a brown button-up vest atop a light green short-sleeved shirt, black-framed glasses, and short black hair. \n\nAnne Diamond\n03:23:42\n[Cuts to Anne Diamond performing a piece titled \"Shoe Salesman.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot of Anne Diamond performing a piece. Diamond wears a jean jacket over a grey cowl-neck sweater and pixie-cut blond hair with bangs. \n\nClifton Joseph \n03:23:45\n[Cuts to Joseph performing the same unknown piece. Audience clapping along with Joseph.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Joseph performing a piece, gesturing and stomping his foot in rhythm. \n\n[No signal]\n03:24:01\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nEND \n03:24:24\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.886211},{"id":"6885","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, SpokenWord Sampler"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying asset."],"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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The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:00:01\nLee Gotham and Audience_Member2 misspeak. Michael Longley is misnomered as Michael Langley, and Ciaran Carson is misnomered as Ciaran Colours.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:01\n[Thanks audience. Explains that the event is a benefit for En Marge, a street kids shelter. Explains there will be opportunities to buy a raffle ticket for a bundle of three to five collections of poetry. Explains that ticket stubs also serve as a raffle ticket for “small press prizes.” Announces that Michael Langley will perform at Concordia University’s Hall Building on February 16th. Announces Ciaran Colours will perform on March 6th.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding and occasionally reading from a small notebook. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:03:09\nVideo Description: Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 walks in front of camera. Side profile of face takes up whole shot. \n\nAudience_Member2\n00:03:11\n[Corrects Gotham that the aforementioned poet’s name is “Longley” not “Langley.” Repeats date and venue details. Mentions that Longley won the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Mentions that Ciaran Colours won the first T.S. Eliot Prize.] | Video Description: Audience_Member2 off-screen. Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 moves forward and back, making their head periodically obscure the screen again. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:34\n[Says those are some “serious verses.” Mentions that “assistant” in a red bandana will be walking around selling raffle tickets for poetry collection bundles from The Muses’ Company, Véhicule Press, and DC Books, including Steve Luxton and Robert Allen’s works. Introduces Robert Allen as one of his favourite alumni from Concordia. Invites Allen to the stage to read from novels, poetry collections, and Moosehead Anthologies he has been a part of. Mentions Allen is a new editor at Matrix Magazine.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, reading from a notebook.\n\nRobert Allen\n00:05:48\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Wedding Poem.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Allen wears a grey long-sleeve plaid shirt with black buttons and a black hood, and slightly curly light brown chin-length hair. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:07:43\n[Explains that the next piece is about the plane crash of a French rugby team in the Andes mountains and it involves cannibalism. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Rugby Players Stranded in the Andes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:10:59\n[Explains that the next piece is about the mail order pornography business. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Late Romantics.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen \n00:12:31\n[Explains that the next piece encapsulates nineteenth-century Russian literature in five lines. Introduces and performs a piece titled “A Sadder Scene Than You Know at Tolstoy(’s?) Station.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:13:12\n[Mentions he lives in the country with Anne Stone. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Mount Cloud.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Zooms out to long shot as Allen leaves stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:19\n[Thanks Robert. Explains again how buying raffle tickets works. Introduces John, liaison to En Marge, to explain services. Invites John to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks to the audience. \n\nJohn \n00:16:46\n[Thanks everyone. Explains that En Marge works with youth experiencing “family and social rupture” to give unconditional acceptance in difficult times. Explains that many of the kids write poems, and he will read some to shed light on their experience. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Little Candle” by fifteen-year-old Amanda.] | Video Description: Closeup as John adjusts mic, speaks to audience, and performs piece. John wears a light pink t-shirt, black snapback hat with a beige brim worn backwards, full beard one inch long, and slightly curly hair past shoulders. \n\nJohn \n00:20:10\n[Mentions that drugs are a big part of street culture and larger culture, and that it can be a solution with consequences. Introduces and performs a piece written by seventeen-year-old Caroline titled “Junk Sick,” about trying to quit heroin. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience and performs piece. \n\nJohn \n00:21:38\n[Introduces and performs piece written by an Indigenous fourteen year old named Cindy in French. Performs again in English. Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience, performs a piece, and speaks to audience again.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:23:01\n[Thanks John. Introduces Doug Isaac. Mentions Isaac’s poetry collection Past, Present: Tense will be published with Imperial (Note: book actually published with BuschekBooks, 2004.) Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:23:51\n[Introduces piece titled “Centres of Treatment” that is in part a homeless man’s verbatim dialogue, while the other half is dialogue written by Isaac. Says he will use different voices for each character.] | Video Description: Closeup as Isaac lowers the mic and speaks to the audience. Isaac wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a white shirt that has an indiscernible pattern, and medium brown hair pushed back from face. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:25:00\nAt 00:25:51 and 00:26:04, Isaac says a racial slur. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:25:05\n[Performs \"Centres of Treatment.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium shot as Isaac performs a piece, alternating between performing into the mic and stepping slightly away from it. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:35:52\n[Thanks Isaac. Announces the prizes for the raffle. Calls someone from off screen to help on stage. Lists prizes, such as one copy each of Moosehead Anthology issue 13 and the “Forbidden Fiction” issue, one copy of Don Coles’ Little Bird (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1991), and one copy of Erin Mouré’s West South West (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1988? 1989?). Announces winner. Applause] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Reads titles from books. Picks raffle number from person off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:54\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Grant Loewen’s Brick: Looking Up (DC Books, 1992.), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s “Forbidden Fiction” issue, and one copy of Jan Conn’s What Dante Did With Loss (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1994). Announces winner. Applause.] Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot. Raffle assistant now visible. Grey plaid button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large wire-rimmed glasses, and blonde hair pushed back from face. Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number from person now visible on stage. Announces winner.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:57\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Mark Leslie’s Dying with AIDS/living with AIDS: 1991-1992 (The Muses' Company, 1992), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s issue 13, and one copy of Gérard Godin’s Evenings at Loose Ends (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1991). Announces winner.] | Video Description: Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number. Announces winner. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:39:53\n[Announces another draw from the door prize tickets. Announces winner. Announces prizes from Pawn Press and ga press. Notes there will be a total of four door prize raffles. Introduces Anne Stone. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham picks raffle number from a white plastic tub and announces winner. Zooms into closeup as Gotham introduces Anne Stone.\n\nAnne Stone \n00:41:41\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Desire is a Lodger.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. Stone wears a burgundy vest atop a white long-sleeve shirt, an oversized newsboy cap, and no hair showing underneath it.  \n\nAnne Stone \n00:44:14\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Calf’s Head Soup.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nAnne Stone\n00:45:43\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Carrying off the (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:48:41\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham approaches the mic. \n\n[No signal]\n00:48:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nEND \n00:49:16\n[End of recording.] \n\nPART 2\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:14\nVideo Description: Color video of the stage with mic stand at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:15\n[Reads obituary for Manuel Betanzos Santos.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:02:25\n[Apologizes for talking about the raffle so much. Encourages people to buy tickets because there are many prizes. Introduces Raymond Filip. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, takes white card from off-screen, and reads from it.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:04:17\n[Mentions he was just at Manuel’s funeral. Reminisces about choking Devil’s Disciples member Michael French in the sixth grade. Explains childhood in Pointe-St-Charles and Verdun. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Flower Fights in the [?] Freight Yards”  from the collection “Flowers in Magnetic Fields” (Guernica Editions, 1994.)] | Video Description: Varying between medium shots and closeups as Filip speaks into the mic. Medium shot as Filip performs a piece, ending on an extreme closeup. Filip wears a dark plaid sport coat atop a brown button-down shirt, brown shaggy hair, mustache, and chin beard. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n0:09:34\t\nIn the following performance, Raymond Filip uses an outdated term in reference to a cross-dressing man.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:09:34\n[Explains more about growing up in Pointe-St-Charles. Introduces and performs piece called “Transvestite at his Toilette.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Filip speaks into the mic and flips through the copy of “Flowers in Magnetic Fields.”  Medium shot as Filip performs a piece. \n\nRaymond Filip\n00:14:36\n[Explains that Lithuania is a long-suffering country that inspired his self-described “oratorial” about the story of God. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Filip speaks into mic and shows the audience large prints of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania and other places in the country. Zooms into closeup as Filip performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:21:55\n[Thanks Filip. Announces a break. Begins to announce next raffle draw.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:27:37\n[Colin Christie and Corey Frost in media res performing a piece about suicide. Alternate between singing songs such as “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James & The Shondells (Roulette, single, 1968), vocally imitating vehicles, and performing the piece. Play the children’s clapping game “Miss Mary Mack.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot of Christie and Frost performing a piece without mics, singing, walking around the stage area, gesturing, and becoming different characters for an embodied and theatrical performance. Christie wears a light blue long-sleeved plaid shirt open atop a black shirt, a necklace, and light brown hair. Frost wears a plaid vest atop a medium blue plaid shirt, a necklace with a large gold ring, and long curly dark brown hair. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:28:45\n[Announces raffle draw. Thanks audience for coming out. Lists prizes, including one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper (DC Books, 1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks (Guernica, 1989), [?] [Norris?] collection, and rocks between the dead (?). Announces Endre Farkas will perform next. Invites Farkas to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic. Reads titles from books. Zooms into loose closeup as Gotham introduces Endre Farkas. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:31:09\n[Announces a collaborative performance with Suzanne Nuttall on March 27th, 1995 at Enough Said. Mentions that a reporter Juliet Waters of The Montreal Mirror called him a “literary sperm salesman.” Says he will defend himself by reading the letter he wrote to The Montreal Mirror. Reads letter beginning with the line “Not only is Miss Waters ignorant in referring to the Muses [Farkas’ publishing company, The Muses’ Company] as ‘literary sperm salesmen’ but she is also a sexist [Sal?]” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup of Farkas speaking into the mic. Zooms into closeup as Farkas reads letter. Farkas wears a black, long-sleeved collared shirt and a dark moustache, and is balding on top of head. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:37\nCan I read my letter? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:33:45\n[Addressing Nelson] Oh, you wanna do it now? | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks to Nelson. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:47\n[Announces she will deliver her letter to The Montreal Mirror. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson adjusts mic and speaks into it. Nelson wears a dark brown vest a top a floral print collared shirt a top a white shirt, thin silver chain, medium brown hair in a loose ponytail. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:01\n[Addressing Nelson] Why is this happening now? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:03\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] I don’t know, because Endre started it. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:05\n[Addressing Nelson] This isn’t The Mirror’s [evening?] | Video Description: Off-screen\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:08\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] Um, it is in a way. | Video Description: Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:11\nWell, the notice was specifically about this evening. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:34:14\n[Reads letter to The Montreal Mirror beginning with the line “Juliette Waters described participants in the February 13th En Marge benefit at Bistro Quatre as ‘literary sperm salesmen.’” Applause.] | Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:36:23\n[Mentions he will read love poetry. Performs a piece titled “Wandering Gypsy” from his collection “Szerbusz” (DaVinci Press, 1974). Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:38:13\n[Introduces and performs “A Vegetarian Ear Eater” dedicated to professional wrestler Killer Kowalski. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:41:58\n[Introduces and performs prose poem from his collection From Here to Here (The Muses' Company, 1982) beginning with the line “To get there, you take all sorts of roads.” Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic. Zooms into loose closeup as Farkas performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:45:50\n[Introduces and performs piece for his daughter Katherine titled “Why I Didn’t Write You a Poem on Your Birthday.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:47:29\n[Introduces and performs a parody of Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” called “Maple Leaf Rag.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:51:26\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Heirloom” dedicated to A.M. Klein from new collection titled Surviving Words (The Muses' Company, 1994.) Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:54:16\n[Skips to Gotham introducing Steve Luxton.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into mic. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:55:08\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Hermit Crab Song.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. Luxton wears a red button-down shirt, round metal-rimmed glasses, wavy blonde ear-length hair. \n\nSteve Luxton\n00:56:19\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Bedouin Song.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:58:32\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “[Joining?] on de Bullion Street.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:00:11\n[Mentions he went to an American school for writing under the “founding confessionalist poet” W.D. Snodgrass. Performs a piece beginning with the line “The writer is middle age.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:02:22\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Sweeney Todd.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into loose closeup as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:05:52\n[Announces there will be two more raffle draws and two more door prize draws. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:07:01\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs piece titled “How to Read a Poem” from her collection A Room of One’s Own (unable to find this collection online.) Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:10:15\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Sometimes I Think of You” about Montreal artist Seymour Segal, who designed the covers for Nelson’s collections The Work of Our Hands (The Muses' Company, 1992) and Grasping Men’s Metaphors. Applause.] | Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic, shows the audience two books, and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:18:36\n[Seems to ask Gotham how long she has left to read.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:18:40\n[Says Nelson should do one more.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:18:47\n[Introduces and performs piece inspired by “Last Dance at the Four Penny” by Leonard Cohen titled “Freylekh” from her collection Grasping Men’s Metaphors (The Muses' Company, 1993). Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:26:23\n[Thanks Nelson. Invites Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nIan Ferrier \n01:26:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Unzipped black winter jacket atop a black graphic t-shirt with a white logo, dark brown hair with a strip shaved out of it from above left eye to crown of head. Medium shot zooms into closeup as Ferrier adjusts the mic, speaks into the mic, and performs a piece.\n\nIan Ferrier \n01:31:36\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Theatre of Three AM.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nIan Ferrier\n01:33:03\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Politician.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n01:35:40\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:35:55\n[Announces the last two raffle draws. Lists prizes, including one copy of Gary Geddes’ Light of Burning Towers (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks, one copy of Moosehead Anthology, and one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner a stack of books. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:38:05\n[Lists prizes, including one tape of ga press poetry performances and one copy of issue one and one copy of issue two of Pawn Press’s literary/cultural journal. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding a casette and two thin volumes, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner prizes. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:39:32\n[Introduces Sonja Skarstedt. Mentions that she is the editor of Empyreal Press. Applause throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:05\nCan you introduce Sonja first, please? She has waited so long. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:08\n[Introduces Skarstedt again. Invites her to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:21\nAnd a damn fine poet in her own right. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:22\n[Echoes Unknown_Audience1. Notes that first edition of Empyreal's existence will be read from.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:40:46\n[Introduces and performs ekphrastic piece titled “Blue Teardrop” written about a painting by a seven-year-old girl.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. Skarstedt wears a purple sweater, striped scarf in various shades of purple, light brown shoulder length hair tucked behind ears, and long hanging earrings. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:43:20\n[Introduces and performs titular piece from second manuscript titled Demolition Symphony (Empyreal Press, 1995). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:46:35\n[Introduces and performs “voyeuristic” piece titled “Rue de l’Esplanade: Voyeurs.” | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:48:55\nAm I running out of time? | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:48:57\nDo another! [Applause.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:49:05\n[Introduces and performs a “typical Montreal poem” about the Montreal International Jazz Festival titled “Street Fest in the Key of J.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as s introduces a piece. Zooms into closeup as Skarstedt performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:52:57\n[Thanks Skarstedt. Announces Skarstedt will perform with Lynn Suderman next month. 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On vous présente ce soir toutes sortes de lectures. Enfin, c’est l’essai de comprendre l’histoire, peut-être, de “le mot dit,” de l’origine. On commence avec deux raconteurs traditionnels. We’ve got a couple of traditional storytellers and, in the second half of the evening, we have the Groupe de Poésie Moderne to do something amazing with language and, I think it’s safe to say, something representative of more or less the contemporary and… And I’d suggest… (?) did you ever think of the “Groupe de Poésie Post-Moderne”? Anyway, (all the way from?) the traditional (brand?) and, two varieties, two different languages represented: Njacko Backo, who’ll be up presently, is a storyteller and musician who comes from Cameroon, un conteur traditionnel camerounais; and Trevor Ferrier, who will open the night’s entertainments… he uses African percussion. And I think we’ll all appreciate perhaps the contrast between a tradition of storytelling wherein the performer is basically the only vehicle for that tradition and, the other end of the spectrum, the Groupe de Poésie Moderne, a little later on. So, without a whole lot more chatter, I’m going to introduce Trevor Ferrier to you. Bon, faites comme vous voulez, c’est chez toi, chez vous, ce soir. I should mention that every coffee and beer sold goes a little way to helping the series continue, and I’ll leave it at that. Trevor, if we may, please. Trevor Ferrier. [Applause]. | Video Description: Cut to a medium closeup of Lee Gotham making introductory remarks at the mic. Gotham wears a grey button-down shirt with sleeves a bit rolled up and tucked into jeans, black leather belt; full beard, long hair tied in a ponytail. 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As everyone is more or less comfortable and ready and not grumbling and over-ready we’re gonna forge straight right into the evening’s offerings. I have a lot, all of a sudden, of open mic participants, half of which I’m going to insert between the two sets our feature performer will give us this evening, and without [long pause midsentence.] | Video Description: A medium shot of Lee Gotham in front of the microphone, making introductory remarks. Gotham wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt and a matching yellow bandana tied around head. 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Performs a piece beginning with the line “Keep your eyes on the road.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick flips through papers on a blue box atop a trolley cart, which also holds an almost full glass beer bottle. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece.\n\nAdeena Karasick \n00:09:38\n[Introduces and performs an excerpt of a longer work called Archetorture (Wave7Press, 1990) that, Karasick explains, explores memory and her mother’s death. Applause.] | Video Description: Flips through papers on trolley. Sips beer. Flips through papers again. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:15:09\n[Tells story about travelling in Germany. Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line, “And I go in to take the (?) to Meine, to Meine,” which contains both English and German. Karasick interrupts the poem to explain how food vocabulary is often the first words picked up in a new language, and then continues performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Sips beer. Shows audience an illustration in one of her collections (cover unidentifiable.) Performs a piece. The camera maintains a medium closeup. Closes books, sips beer, and it overflows with foam. Exits the stage and the frame. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:21:41\nWell, for any and all of those down on Toronto, there’s one very good reason we might reconsider, at least momentarily, for the evening, the value of our sister city. Okay, we are going to segue into, segue, word for the evening, into a short open mic segment. As we have a number, we’ll dispose of the first four of them. Number of things on the horizon in the spoken word genre here in Montreal in the near future, first of which [pause] for immediate release, Saturday twenty fifth of this month, that’s a little more than a week away, Building Dance just east of St Laurent on Pine Avenue, Wired on Words, the set release of spoken word projects number three, Ian Stephens, Diary of a Trademark on audio cassette, with a number of local support performers. Come on out, Saturday March twenty fifth, Building Dance, just east of des Pins. Building Danse (?) cool presentation, I may add. Okay, let’s do this open mic thing. Please get up, stretch your legs, get to the bar, every drink counts to keep the ball rolling (with?) Enough Said, Vince Tinguely, Vince, my fellow Fluffy (?) friend, come on up to the microphone, please.] | Video Description: Adjusts mic and introduces next segment. Pauses and reaches to his left to grab a folded up piece of white paper. Reads from it. Calls someone to the stage. Medium shots and extreme closeups throughout. \n\nVince Tinguely\n00:23:43\n[Explains a dream he had involving Donald Sutherland who said, “I like to write as if I am reading.” The audience collectively says, “I love you” in response to Tinguely’s balloon prompts (see video description.) Vince says, “thank you.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera varies between medium shots and extreme closeups as Tinguely sets up unblown balloons and addresses the audience. Tinguely wears large wire-rimmed glasses, a black t-shirt, and white hair. Introduces the piece. Tinguely blows up a pink balloon, invites the audience to say the word “I” that is written on the balloon by waving it above his head. Continues with varying colours and sizes of balloons, each with one word printed on them to spell out the phrase, “I love you.” Tinguely leaves the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:25:19\n[Asks an unknown person to move away so the blackboard is visible (off-camera), which assumingly has bears the names of the open mic performers. Invites Kevin, the next open mic performer, to the stage.] | Video description: A medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic briefly, gesturing for something to be moved out of the way, and introducing the next performer.\n\nKevin\n00:25:47\n[Explains that an old love poem to a lamprey eel and a collage of a lamprey eel were discovered while cleaning. Performs a piece titled “Lamprey, d’amour, My Life is Complete.” Finishes the piece and continues to explain the relationship with the lamprey eel. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups and medium shots as Kevin introduces a piece, performs a piece, continues explaining the piece afterwards. Kevin wears a black long-sleeved sweater and short light brown hair. Kevin holds a large sketchbook that features a collage of a lamprey eel. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:30:58\n[Thanks Kevin, invites Sabrina to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and adjusts it.\n\nSabrina\n00:31:20\n[Introduces and begins performing a piece beginning with the line “images hanging in fountains.” Pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Sabrina adjusts the mic and it tilts downwards. Sabrina wears a patterned black and white long-sleeved shirt and long medium brown hair with bangs swept to the side. Sabrina begins to perform, then pauses. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:32\nVideo Description: Lowers the mic.\n\nSabrina \n00:31:33\n[Says to Gotham that she “will just be loud” and that she will likely “flail” and knock the microphone off its stand anyways. Continues to perform the aforementioned piece.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Sabrina speaks with Gotham who is off-camera, then an extreme closeup zooms out to a medium closeup as Sabrina performs piece with her arms crossed, periodically looking at a small piece of paper tucked in her right hand tucked under her left elbow. \n\nSabrina\n00:34:16\n[Introduces and performs a “travelling poem” beginning with the line “I knew you were bound for the USA,” dedicated to a member of the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup to extreme closeup as Sabrina performs a piece. \n\nSabrina\n00:36:06\n[Introduces and performs an “angry woman poem” beginning with the line “I’m a woman agonized by a torturous itch.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Sabrina performs a piece. \n\nSabrina \n00:36:50\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I put my foot on an oil can.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Sabrina performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:40\n[Thanks Sabrina, invites Rondo to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and adjusts it.\n\nRondo\n00:38:09\n[Introduces and performs a piece about Crad Kilodney titled “Crad.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose and extreme closeups as Rondo performs a piece. Rondo wears a black open cardigan overtop a black shirt, short dark hair pulled back with bangs loose, two thin dark necklaces. \n\n[No signal]\n00:42:53\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:43:04\n[Announces upcoming literary events. Reintroduces Adeena Karasick. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:44:42\n[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “When the word is bound (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Asks Gotham for something indiscernible with gesturing. Medium shot and extreme closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:46:27\n[Performs a piece titled “Autobahn Cruise” (Mêmewars, Talonbooks, 1994). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n00:49:22\n[Performs a chanting piece that includes the line “just a little bit harder” from an unknown project called Squalor. Pauses performance. Says, “I’ve lost my page.” Recommences. Laughter throughout. Applause]. | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as Karasick performs a piece. Partway through, looks through folders of papers on the trolley to find another page. Recommences. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:53:25\nVideo Description: Readjusts the microphone that has begun to tilt downwards. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:53:33\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Parasite Maintenance.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and extreme closeups as Karasick reorganizes papers on trolley and performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:58:46\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Aghast” (The Empress Has No Closure, Talonbooks, 1992). Shortly after starting to perform, briefly pauses and laughs. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece, pausing briefly to laugh near the beginning. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n01:00:22\n[Introduces and performs a chanting piece beginning with the line “can’t get enough serotonin.” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. Gathers papers and water glass and leaves the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:03:32\n[Encourages the audience to ask for an encore. Applause.] | Video Description: Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and claps. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n01:04:12\n[Explains that “things are more uptight in Toronto.” Audience laughs at something unknown, Karasick asks, “what?” Performs a chanting piece beginning with the line, “Ululate pullulations, exhorting (Mortimer?) writhed in (bendable?) straddles.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick introduces and performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:06:55\n[Notes that the last piece Karasick performed will be featured in an issue of Pawn. Mentions that Karasick’s books are for sale at the back. Mentions it is his birthday. Audience begins singing “Happy Birthday,” banging on tables, and clapping. Lee invites D. Holmes to the stage.] | Video Description: Extreme closeups and medium shots as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic. Stands back and smiles as the audience sings. Speaks into the mic again. \n\nD. Holmes\n01:09:06\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line, “Large V8, large grapefruit juice, cup of coffee.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and medium closeups as Holmes performs a piece. Holmes wears a red sweater over a grey collared shirt and short light brown hair swept to the left.\n\nD. Holmes\n01:15:57\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line, “What do you find more in, the lake, do you find more in.” Applause.] | Video Description: Seems to ask someone off stage whether he can perform a little longer. Medium shots and extreme closeups as Holmes performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:17:19\n[Thanks Holmes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n01:17:28\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Four minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n01:17:34\n[Mentions that the Fluffy Pagan Echoes will perform next week. Invites David Jager to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic.\n\nDavid Jager\n01:18:15\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Words.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. J. wears a light brown striped button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow and dark brown hair falling onto forehead in strands. \n\nDavid Jager\n01:20:00\n[Asks the audience if they want to hear an angry poem. Cheering. Introduces and performs a piece called “Smoke, Eat, Drive.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. Applause and cheering throughout. \n\nDavid Jager\n01:21:24\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Missing.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as David Jager performs a piece.\n\nDavid Jager\n01:22:30\n[Introduces a piece called “Dream Chicken.” Mumbles while looking through papers. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Looks through papers. Loose and regular closeups as David Jager introduces and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:24:39\n[Sudden cut to Gotham mentioning Endre Farkas will perform in the coming weeks. Invites Mitsiko Miller to the stage.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nMitsiko Miller\n01:25:16\n[Mentions that “this is a very good evening.” Mentions song by Anita Franco. Introduces and performs a piece called “Ennui” in French. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Mitsiko addresses audience and chews gum. Miller wears a black blazer over a black-and-white horizontal-striped shirt, black pants, and bleached hair in a shaggy pixie cut. Miller takes off denim jacket and reveals a black cardigan underneath. Medium shots and extreme closeups as Miller introduces and performs a piece. \n\nMitsiko Miller \n01:27:12 \n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Seguir Adelante, But Going Nowhere” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as Miller introduces and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:29:40\n[Reminds audience that the Fluffy Pagan Echoes will perform the next week. Notes that the next performer is part of the group. Invites Justin McGrail to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic, adjusts the microphone, and pushes the trolley out of the way.\n\nJustin McGrail\n01:30:36\n[Mentions the Toronto Star trolley “freaks him out.” Introduces and performs an untitled piece beginning with the line “It’s not about who’s around, secret whispers exclusive soundings.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Justin McGrail addressing the audience. Camera pans down to show outfit. McGrail wears white button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow and a small collar, a dark plaid kilt falling just below the knees with a sporran on a chain in front, tight black pants, white hiking socks scrunched up above black lace-up boots, a bracelet on each wrist, a necklace with a pendant, and short dark hair falling onto forehead. Medium shot to extreme closeup and back again as McGrail performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:32:57\n[Thanks Adeena Karasick. Tells audience to buy books. Thanks Danielle “and company” for the venue. Reminds audience of event on des Pins mentioned earlier. Cut off mid-sentence.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic. 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When the camera zooms out, the words “enough said” become visible, as decals on the window.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:06\nBonsoir, mes chers amis, and welcome back to yet another segment of Enough Said. Nice to see everyone out (?). In nearly spring, I have the immense pleasure this evening presenting two fine artists of various disciplinary persuasions. I would like to know that everyone is comfortable, as we have a real treat (?). We have, this evening, a cabaret of poetry. And the participants---and your performers---are Endre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall. Endre Farkas started creating sound-text-movement poetry-performance pieces in the late 70s, before the spoken word was a glint in anyone's imagination. Endre worked with collaborators from different disciplines across Canada. He's also published seven books of poetry. His most recent book is Surviving Words (The Muses' Company, 1994) and is available along with the Bare Bones cassette (En Guard Records, 1994), pertaining to Suzanne Nuttall, who is one half of Bare Bones. They've just returned from a successful tour out West and in the Yukon. They've two cassettes and a CD to their credit. I think I see both CDs and cassettes, is that right (?), in your corner. Just on your way out, or on your way in, you can have a look at this stuff, because they're beautiful offerings. So, Bare's most recent CD-cassette is called Elusive and is available here this evening. So, both Surviving Words and Elusive---anytime, during the evening, you might wanna choose the intermission, but anytime, (on your left just before the?) door. And now, welcome to the cabaret! [Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium closeup as Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Gotham wears a red button-down shirt atop a black t-shirt; full beard, long hair tied in a bun. Gotham makes introductory remarks. Camera zooms out to a medium shot at the end.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:02:13\n[Thanks the audience. Introduces and performs \"as the breath is the journey i move and it is imperceptible as is the breath just breathed in and out.\" The piece begins with sounds of breathing into the mic, followed by vocalizations of each word that forms the title. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into a closeup as Endre Farkas approaches the mic and thanks the audience. Farkas wears a light striped button-down shirt, red suspenders, thick eyebrows, and short grey hair with hairline receding. Performs the piece.\n\nEndre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall\n00:05:37\n[Suzanne Nuttall says the “naked” off-camera, which Endre Farkas repeats as Nuttall walks to join him on stage. Each repeats the word many more times, sometimes in unison, then Farkas begins reciting a piece opening with the line, “Against the world and without time to be innocent,” which proceeds as a dialogue between the performers. Applause at the end.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot as Endre Farkas stands at the mic and Suzanne Nuttall walks to join him on stage. Nuttall wears dark pants, a long-sleeved white button-down shirt with black details on both sides of the buttons, short dark hair combed up, and one dangle earring on the right lobe. They perform a piece while standing side by side, with the mic stand between them. At some point they dramatize searching for something and switch sides on stage, then briefly hold hands. Zoom out to a medium long shot as Farkas drinks water and Nuttall leaves the stage.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:12:00\n[Introduces and performs “Au Canada.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then zoom into different degrees of closeup as Endre Farkas introduces and performs a piece.\n\nSuzanne Nuttall and Endre Farkas\n00:18:10\n[They perform a piece opening with the line “I love you, as a way to (start?) the bone.” Mid-performance, Nuttall starts singing. Then, Nuttall and Farkas resume the spoken-word dialogue.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Suzanne Nuttall walks onto the stage to perform a piece with Endre Farkas, both standing, the mic  between them. Mid-piece, Nuttall starts singing while Farkas stands looking at her. They then resume the dialogue piece.\n\nSuzanne Nuttall\n00:20:45\n[Performs a  solo passage opening with the line “It is what we cannot have that is erotic.” At some point, a prolonged silence suggests Nuttall forgot a line. Audience laughter, followed by Farkas saying “Your turn!”] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot as Suzanne Nuttall walks to each side of the stage, addressing the audience, while Endre Farkas stands to the side. The camera zooms into a medium closeup and pans, accompanying Nuttall from side to side. Mid-performance, Nuttall forgets a line and signals to Farkas, smiling and asking for help.\n\nEndre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall\n00:22:15\n[They perform a piece opening with Farkas breathing loudly into the mic. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Zoom Endre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall stand side by side, near the mic, performing a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:24:08\n[Speaks amid applause.] We will take a five-minute break and we’ll be back with “Murders.” Thank you. | Video Description: Medium long shot as Farkas makes remarks.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:24:22\n[Makes announcements of upcoming Enough Said events, including Clifford Duffy’s “The Invention of God,” at a different venue, and Dee Smith at Bistro 4. Introduces the second half of the poetic cabaret. Background music and ambient sounds.] | Video Description: Cut to a medium long shot then zoom into a closeup as Lee Gotham makes remarks while holding a cup, introducing the second part of the show. The camera zooms out to Gotham and Farkas making final preparations for the second act.\n\nEndre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall\n00:27:02\n[Background music and ambient sounds as Farkas and Nuttall make final preparations for “Murders.”] | Video Description: Cut to a medium long shot of the stage, now with Endre Farkas sitting alone at a table upstage, while Suzanne Nuttall, now wearing a suit coat, walks towards the camera then past it. Farkas stands up and also walks towards the camera, then back to his table on stage, drinks from a cup, then stands and walks towards the camera one more time.\n\nEndre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall\n00:28:00\n[Background music, ambient sounds. As the music ends, Endre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall perform a one-act play titled “Murders.” At the end, Farkas thanks the audience amid applause and states, “If you have any mysteries, we’d be glad to solve them.”] | Video Description: Cut again to a medium long shot of the stage. Endre Farkas sits alone at a table holding a cup. The camera slowly zooms in to and out of him, settling into a medium long shot during most of the performance. Suzanne Nuttall walks into view and stands by a flipchart to announce “Chapter one”; Nuttall then describes the setting of the “Welcome Café,” where the drama takes place. Farkas stands up and puts on a detective trench coat and hat. Farkas and Nuttall perform a one-act play. Mid-performance, Farkas walks amid the audience. At the end, Farkas undoes his trench coat while thanking the audience.\n\nEND\n00:44:00\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.886211}]