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Memory is like magnetic tape; imperfect, unreliable, always degrading. Everything goes away away and the more you squeeze it close the more you crush it. This song lives somewhere between Radiohead’s “Videotape” and The XX’s “VCR,” but stands on the shoulders of a Halifax monument: Universal Soul’s “Video Cam.”

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Memories and reminiscing, ever missing yesterday,
Settled in a retrospective haze.
Never even said I needed evidence to take away,
I just gotta make it stay the same.
“Remember that shit? I know you don’t remember jack!”

Hot seasons, seeking out breezes and the shade. Between grades on beaches. Freezing lemonade.
Before we measured heat in degrees of centigrade, we lived in an age of reason; then it changed. When it rained, it poured, and when it snowed, it stayed. I met a kid and played and didn't need to know his name. Rode a bike to school, ball games and drum lessons.
First communion, confirmation, confession.
Undressing for a bath in the tub, fat and unpleasant, acting tough but lacking guts. Laughing it up in class, but had to duck out the back in a rush, 'cause kids were mad and destructive – that sucked.
Had enough battered trust to know not to try no more, just draw Ghostbusters, robots and dinosaurs. Hide indoors. Why endure quiet riots and silent wars? I tried to horde a private source of life support that I could store as memories.

Not breathing, asleep without dreams and yet awake, I see vague, uneasy shapes that jet away.
Before we measured feet in centimetres in the day, I feel it all receding. Who needs it anyway?
I clutch at vapours, take a stand, unsteady though. Like a “Paper Snake,” I can't let it go. Blank tapes ready, ain't they pretty? Hey, kids, I'm really gonna take it with me.
“My video cam is gonna shoot you,” so you can live forever in the future.
I practise permanent taxidermy and that way, I know I'll never lose you.

There's a hole in my head where rain gets in, and sets in the vague impressions, sloshes about and then washes out and leaves me plagued with questions.
Spatial relations, textures, tastes and objects I got, but I can't place a face out of context. I must confess, I just guess and cross fingers. Lost in thought, wishing lost thoughts lingered.
Hot winters, late summers in strange beds. Uncomfortably numb, functionally brain dead. Frayed threads bind my various cells; I'm losing my mind and it's scary as hell.
Maybe it's just as well I can't tell when my grip starts to slip on things my hands held.
Some would just lie down, not me; I will nail everything to the ground that I see.

“I got cha, I got the video camera! I gotcha, I got the video cam!”

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from Humble & Brilliant, released March 10, 2011
beat and rap by Jesse Dangerously

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rap legend Jesse Dangerously Ottawa, Ontario

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member of Backburner crew
half of Danger Grove w Lizard Grove
half of The Library Steps w Ambeez & Illgil
one-third of Imaginary Friends w Thesis Sahib & MC Frank Deluxe
one-third of The Sentinels w ginzuintriplicate & Naked J

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