CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
1565
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
Lee Gotham collection
Series:
Lee Gotham collection
Sub Series:
Lee Gotham collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Enough Said 1995-03-06, Phineas Flower Trio and Godin
Title Source:
Asset
Title Note:
Ephemera accompanying asset, corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the two event headliners.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Performance: Spoken Word Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Notes:
Rights status in process. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer.
CREATORS
Name:
Gotham, Lee
Dates:
1962-
Role:
"Series organizer",
"Producer"
Notes:
Lee Gotham was also the MC of this event.
Name:
Phineas Flower Trio
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Headliner.
Name:
Godin, S. (Steve)
Dates:
1956-
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Headliner.
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Duncan, Drew
Role:
"Recordist"
Notes:
Videographer.
Name:
Miller, Mitsiko
Dates:
1971-
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.
Name:
Elfassy, Ran
Dates:
1972-
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer. One of the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes.
Name:
Larkey?
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer. Identified as Unknown_Reader1 in the transcription.
Name:
Guy?
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer. Identified as Unknown_Reader2 in the transcription.
Name:
McGrail, Justin
Dates:
1968-
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer. One of the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes.
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Video
Material Designation:
VHS
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
120 minutes
Playback Mode:
Mono
Tape Brand:
TDK EHG
Sound Quality:
Good
Other Physical Description:
VHS #3 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events.
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Video
Material Designation:
VHS
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
120 minutes
Playback Mode:
Mono
Tape Brand:
TDK EHG
Sound Quality:
Good
Other Physical Description:
VHS #4 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events.
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
00:48:16
Size:
1.36 GB on disk
Bitrate:
2304Kbps (original); 256Kbps (master)
Encoding:
MPEG-4 movie
Content:
This is file 2 of 2 containing an AV recording of the event featuring the Phineas Flower Trio and Steve Godin as part of the Enough Said series, organized by Lee Gotham, with extra open-mic performances by Justin McGrail, Mitsiko Miller, and others.
Notes:
Dimensions: 640 × 480.
Content Type:
Video Recording
Duration:
00:39:29
Size:
1.11 GB on disk
Bitrate:
2304Kbps (original); 256Kbps (master)
Encoding:
MPEG-4 movie
Content:
This is file 1 of 2 containing an AV recording of the event featuring the Phineas Flower Trio and Steve Godin as part of the Enough Said series, organized by Lee Gotham, with extra open-mic performances by Justin McGrail, Mitsiko Miller, and others.
Notes:
Dimensions: 640 × 480.
Content Type:
Video Recording
Dates
Date:
1995-03-06
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Asset
LOCATION
Address:
4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada
Venue:
Bistro 4
Latitude:
45.5169628
Longitude:
-73.5796147
Notes:
Bistro 4 (pronounced Bistro Quatre), no longer in existence.
CONTENT
Contents:
[Part 1/2 of Event]
[Bistro 4]
00:00:00
Video Description: Color video, medium shot of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). Diagonal perspective of the stage with a mic stand, capturing a corner of the café as well as some of the audience members. 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.”
Lee Gotham
00:00:01
[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, wearing hair half-tucked into a Taqiyah-style skullcap, and long button-down shirt on top of a t-shirt. Gotham signals to someone out of the frame (presumably the sound technician), makes announcements, and introduces the performers of the event.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:01:58
[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.
Lee Gotham
00:02:00
I 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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:02:39
[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, wearing a buzz-cut hair and a long green open coat over a black turtle neck. 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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:03:01
[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 short hair, thin moustache and goatee, and a grey Henley shirt with rolled-up sleeves; the bass player wears long hair, Van-Dyke beard, sunglasses, a black and red coat over a patterned button-down shirt.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
00:04:15
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:05:32
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:07:40
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:11:00
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
00:12:21
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:12:35
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:15:45
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
00:16:10
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:16:41
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
00:20:04
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
00:20:42
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:20:53
The 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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:22:31
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:22:54
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:23:44
[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 (operas?) 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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:27:15
[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.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:27:56
[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.
Lee Gotham
00:29:22
Thanks 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.
Lee Gotham
00:29:52
[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.
Ran Elfassy
00:30:02
[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.
Ran Elfassy
00:31:09
[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.
Ran Elfassy
00:33:45
[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.
END
00:38:34
[Cut out]
[Part 2/2 of Event]
[Bistro 4]
00:00:17
Video 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.”
Unknown_Reader1 (Larkey?)
00:00:17
[Recording starts mid-reading, 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: [example] Zoom out to a medium shot. Recording starts mid-sentence, displaying, from a diagonal perspective, Unknown_Reader1 on the stage; long curly hair and a moustache, pink sweater; holds with the left hand what seems to be a book and a flyer, from which Unknown_Reader1 reads. As a pair of glasses starts sliding down their forehead, Unknown_Reader1 picks it up with the right hand. Suddenly leaves the frame and quickly returns saying “thank you.” Laughter, as camera zooms into an extreme closeup.
Unknown_Reader1
00:00:45
[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.
Unknown_Reader1
00:02:00
[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.
Unknown_Reader1
00:02:33
[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with the line “There was a time when Jesus and (?) consumed wine.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing.
Unknown_Reader1
00:03:15
[Performs a rhymed piece beginning with “Aqua doesn’t matter, we have a swamp anyhow.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing.
Unknown_Reader1
00:03:30
[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.
Lee Gotham
00:03:54
Thanks, (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, wearing hair half-tucked into a Taqiyah-style skullcap, and long button-down shirt on top of a t-shirt. Camera zooms into a closeup. Gotham makes brief remarks and announces the next performer.
Mitsiko Miller
00:04:30
[Ambient sounds. Reads one of the three illustrations Gotham was referring to, beginning with the line “By use of archetypal shadow.”] | Video Description: Closeup of mic being lowered. Then 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. Pixie-cut blond hair, black leather jacket over a black-and-grey patterned button-down dress, necklace and earrings. Miller throws away the gum as the camera zooms into an extreme closeup.
Mitsiko Miller
00:05:55
[Introduces and performs a poem in French beginning with the line “Click Clock.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Mitsiko reads a piece. Applause.
Mitsiko Miller
00:07:33
[Reads a bilingual English-French piece titled “Silly pudding.”] | Video Description: Extreme closeup. Miller reads.
Mitsiko Miller
00:08:46
Video Description: Pauses the poem mid-performance to puff on a cigarette.
Mitsiko Miller
00:08:49
[Resumes the performance of “Silly pudding.”] | 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.
Mitsiko Miller
00:09:15
[Asks if everyone knows the sound “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.
Lee Gotham
00:13:05
Thank 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.
Steve Godin
00:14:33
[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 wears shoulder-length grey hair and a black leather jacket. Godin makes remarks.
Steve Godin
00:16:03
[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.
Steve Godin
00:23:05
But 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.
Steve Godin
00:23:30
[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.
Steve Godin
00:28:18
[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.
Lee Gotham
00:35:09
[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.
Lee Gotham
00:36:29
[Announces the next open-mic performer.] | Video Description: Medium closeup then medium shot of Lee Gotham, announcing the next performer.
Unknown_Reader2 (Guy?)
00:37:20
[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, wearing 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.
Unknown_Reader2
00:38:48
[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.
Unknown_Reader2
00:39:05
[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.
Unknown_Reader2
00:39:22
[Reads a piece beginning with the phrase “Sensation, elation, (incatenation?).”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.
Unknown_Reader2
00:39:33
[Reads a piece beginning with the phrase “(Blighting?) mystery with the light of day.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.
Unknown_Reader2
00:40:05
[Reads “State of junk.” Applause and laughter.] | Video Description: Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.
Unknown_Reader2
00:41:36
[Reads “Kisses (?) truism: (a tone?) with the metaphysical frequency of ontological-biological experience.”] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading.
Unknown_Reader2
00:42:04
[Reads “A Hangover.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Unknown_Reader2 reading. Zoom out to a medium shot as Unknown_Reader2 leaves the stage.
Lee Gotham
00:42:25
Thanks, (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.
Justin McGrail
00:43:00
[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 has short hair and wears blue jeans, black belt, a brown plaid shirt atop a long-sleeve black-and-white t-shirt, and a greenish Breton cap facing backwards. 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.
Lee Gotham
00:47:49
Thank 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. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot as Gotham makes final remarks and we see a coffee cup and a lighter atop a table before the recording cuts out.
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00:48:15
[Cut out]
Notes:
Part 1 of event recording starts at 04:54:40:25 of VHS #3 asset. Part 2 starts at 00:00:00:00 of VHS #4 asset. Both assets contain multiple events.
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VHS #3 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1995-02-13, Benefit Part 2; (2) Enough Said 1995-02-20, Backo and Groupe de Poésie Moderne; (3) Enough Said 1995-02-27, Skarstedt and Suderman; and (4) Enough Said 1995-03-06, Phineas Flower Trio and Godin 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.
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Carlos A. Pittella
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VHS #4 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1995-03-06, Phineas Flower Trio and Godin Part 2; (2) Enough Said 1995-03-13, Karasick; (3) Enough Said 1995-03-20, Fluffy Pagan Echoes; and (4) Enough Said 1995-03-27, Farkas and Nuttall; and (5) Enough Said 1995-04-03, Smith. 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.
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