Hello everyone.

I think I have never, ever posted to this list before. I didn't even
remember it was on yahoogroups. In fact I first typed out
"all@..." without realising... But, anyway. The
story.

On Saturday, I went to see ballboy, as some of you know. Yesterday, I
posted on the Bowlie message board on a thread about that gig. So
what, I hear you say. Well, someone noticed that I had "a friend of
the heroes" under my name, which is funny, because I had considered
changing it (I entered it three years ago, when I first joined Bowlie,
though I never really posted or read it much) but decided against it,
mostly because I couldn't think of anything as cool. Said person sent
me a comment saying that "I read one of your zines ages ago and it was
the best thing I'd ever read!"

Of course I messaged him back, and he told me this:

"Gosh, was it really three years ago? I used to keep the first page of
that zine, the ink polaroid story, sellotaped to my door in Ireland
when I lived there to remind me of there being beautiful things in the
world.

It was the first time I'd heard of the Aislers Set too, and I bought
an LP after reading thta zine, and then they became one of my very
favourite bands, and kept me coming back to Bowlie to learn more about
them, which then changed my life in rather a lot of ways, (not to
mention the way I sing and write!). I wrote a wee story, tangentially
based on the writing in that zine, for the Bowlie Slow Graffiti zine
that came out last year, too.

I guess sometimes things you do have effects well beyond what you think.."

I have to say I am speechless. I just thought you'd be interested to
hear this too. I keep forgetting -- no, wait, I find it hard to
believe -- that there were people out there who cared about what we
did, even though we never got to hear about it. But I do so like to be
reminded.

I hope everyone is fine, by the way.

Dimitra


--
Because "happiness will be our revenge" is the only thing I've ever
seen written on a wall that I whole-heartedly agree with.

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