Alex Cameron

Alex Cameron Oxy Music 

Out March 11, 2022 on Secretly Canadian 

By Nico Walker

Oxy Music began in the spring of 2020. Alex Cameron was in New York City.

  "The only people you saw when you went out were the junkies," he says. 

I've called him up on the Zoom, from Mississippi. He's in Croatia. It's October, 2021. 

The world, as we used to know it, has ended.

Cameron is in Croatia to make a video. It has been two years since the first lockdown in Wuhan, China, and the tourist town where Cameron is, in Croatia, is effectively closed down all these months on. Nothing doing.

  He saw a sign for a "snake show" the other day.

  "A snake show?"

  "Yeah," he says. "There's a snake man who does a snake show."

  "Well, that's something."

  "Yeah, but I was told the snake man went away."

  "The snake man left town?"

  "Yeah."

  "That's bad when even the snake man is afraid to put on a show. . . . You're there making a video, right?"

  "Umm, no."

  "Sorry. I thought you were making a video."

  "No. Not really. My girl, she's filming a TV show here."

   "Right."

"Can you hold on a second? I have to...," Cameron disappears from the screen, returns with a pack of squares.

  "My fault," I say. 

  "Oh, no. You're good. I've been trying to quit."

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