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    If last Friday night was the first time you have ever come face to face with The Dexateens or you are a long time Dexateens fan they want you to know that they want you to be a part of their new music video. Spots are filling up and they don't want you the hometown fans to miss out on this sweet, sweet action.

   Here Is how to be a part of it - straight from John Smith of The Dexateens:

We're doing a video for a song called "Caption," which asks the musical question

"If there was a caption on the picture of your life
would it tell the story that you tell yourself inside?"

That's the gist of it right there, with some elaboration about hopes, fears, present, past.  Deep songwriterly things, understand?

So the video idea is to feature pictures of people with--wait for it--CAPTIONS.  This is where you come in.

We'd like to feature our friends' pictures along with whatever text you'd choose as the caption (On the picture.  Of your life.).

It can be serious, zany, sad, a caption for today, or a summary of your life to this point--whatever you want barring a few exceptions outlined below in 4.

 If you're interested here's what to do:

1.  Send a picture of yourself to

mycaption@gmail.com

Preliminary questions and tech support requests can be sent to that address as well.

The picture will need to be between 72 and 120 dpi and at least 720 x 480.  For the layman: high enough resolution for the web and not tiny.

2.  Include your caption text in the body of the email.  Keep em under 150 characters.  It's like haiku or twitter!

3.  If we want to use your picture (which we probably will) we'll need to get Official Permission from you to do so.  We can send a separate email covering that once we've picked the photos, or you can paste the following into the body of the email:

"I certify that you have the right to use and distribute this photo in the Dexateens' 'Caption' video."

4.  So we can use the picture, keep it clean: no logos; no dodgy behavior; no nakedness.  For example, a picture of you doing bong rips while having Mickey Mouse and the Nike logo tattooed on your butt cheeks will be summarily dismissed.

All right. Awesome.  Let's make a Rock Video!