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#93

From: "paul williamson" <pauliewilliamson@...>
Date: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:34 am
Subject: RE: A story

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Yes,
Sometimes I forget too, that what we actually did actually meant quiet a lot
at times to a significant minority.
I'm Paul by the way- I founded the orginal thing (wrapped in long nights of
passion, panic, and the occasional liquer) along with Dimitra and Rachel.
I have never written to this board before, but wrote quite often (QUITE
often in the early days ;-)) in Friends of the Heroes.
You know, other people have asked me what's happened to FOTH. I tell them
it's been buried alive, which sounds quite gruesome but, in a perverse kind
of way, it's not actually dead and buried. Some heart and a morsel of muscle
still beats; through this group, through the people that remember, through
the people that told me they cried at Tom's stories, guffawed at my
shenanigans, fell off their chair at Ian's inventions, felt affinity with
Dimitra's musings, and wanted a nice cup of tea with Rachel and Belle.
There's many, many more people to thank (and I never have) for keeping the
thing going when, for some people, everything else was falling apart.
Time for a cuppa I think...


>From: "Dimitra Daisy" <DimitraDaisy@...>
>Reply-To: friendsoftheheroes@...
>To: friendsoftheheroes@...
>Subject: [friendsoftheheroes] A story
>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:38:58 +0100
>
>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.
>
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimitradaisy/
>  http://www.sprinkledpepper.net/diaries/
>  http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk/

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#92

From: "angelia52a1s" <mailsme003@...>
Date: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:03 pm
Subject: TOP 300 Freeware Software!

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#91

From: "jusferply" <jusferply@...>
Date: Tue Jul 3, 2007 8:21 am
Subject: Are you single?

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#90

From: "Dimitra Daisy" <DimitraDaisy@...>
Date: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:38 pm
Subject: A story

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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.

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimitradaisy/
  http://www.sprinkledpepper.net/diaries/
  http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk/

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#89

From: "daniel.rudd7@..." <daniel.rudd7@...>
Date: Mon Apr 2, 2007 9:24 am
Subject: Re: happy spring and things!

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Hi Rachel,

Glad you are well.

I'm moving to New York in a few weeks, was thinking of writing about my experiences if thats of any interest?

Daniel

----Original Message----
From: rachelaqueen@...
Date: 28/03/2007 21:44
To: <friendsoftheheroes@...>
Subj: [friendsoftheheroes] happy spring and things!

Hiya,

How is everyone one? Spring is here which is great! there are flowers and stuff all round and about and easter will be here soon which is even better since it will mean I'm holiday!

Anyway I've just been making a new cover for foth and though I would find out if anyone was still here who wanted to write a story or review or anything to go up soon? As there are no more deadlines anytime you send it it will go straight up on the site.

Well I hope you are well,

Lots of Love
Rachel

PS I'm listening to "the blood in my body" by http://www.myspace.com/jfrobitaille and I like it quite a bit!

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#88

From: Brittany <soccergirl4ever@...>
Date: Mon Apr 2, 2007 1:48 am
Subject: Re: happy spring and things!

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I have a story if you'd like!

I saw a beautiful sight yesterday...on a gray rainy day, in a geometrically beautiful place...
I sat myself down upon that concrete bench exactly opposite from it's twin bench on the opposite wall...in a faintly sunlit corridor with two heavy doors...both a few feet from either bench, also on opposite walls. I sat in a world of alligned opposites...with my thermos-ed coffee and swirled frozen yogurt...my hot caffeine, my cool sugar--individual vices and a newfound delicious mix--my lovely, oddly craved opposites. The girl on the opposite bench across from me had a cigarette in her hand...her vice I assumed.

As I put my petite white yogurt cup down on the bench arm beside me--like a perfect miniature table, keeping my black warm thermos in my hand--I sank comfortably into my crossed legs and looked out to my left...At the open, mishapen, irregular, hilly outside...beginning just a few feet away, evenly lined with the end of the ledge above my head, evenly marked with the widening, cloudy-sun-blared concrete pouring into a grassy lawn.
Confused and scattered, as I gulped my blackened coffee and licked my smooth yogurt slowly by the delicate spoonful, my head turned to my right...deeper into the more interesting area under the ledge, the area with two opposite doors along the plane of our opposite benches, the nearly 3-yard walkway gapingly, invitingly, pleasantly leading to a single staircase down. In this direction the sky seemed darker...only a shade of muddy, wet, grey peeking from the walkway opening, as if a great mouth was slowly widening in preparation to tilt and gulp the entire entity of the ledged corridor...me, my wind-swept cheeks, the smoker, her hoodie, and all.

Gazing wistfully into this direction, my eyes lost focus, my head instanty cleared and my thoughts lost their tangles in the fog and grew with each preceding rain of hope...my mind stretched and expanded and freed itself into a beautiful oblivion with a calamitous, yet gentle wave, a sonic discarding of negativity. It was...like the very geometry of the place, the very exactness, left my mind free from responsive thought and my eyes liberated from actually seeing much of anything. I felt purified...and a very moment later after a warm, gritty sip, I actually pulled my head, my drinking mouth, up and above from my hot coffee in just the right second...I saw approaching from that singular staircase a set of two.

It was a set of opposites. The girl was slightly sturdier and bigger, maybe even taller than the man. Those silhouettes, they were just opposite enough to make me glance a little harder a second time after the...the typical, casual, polite, look-away any normal person does after surveying a sudden new movement of bodies.... With their opposite effect and before my second look, just at first glance, my mind categorized such a two as almost a little brother-sister...or a girl toting along a little guy friend. When I noticed they were holding hands, and their coloring appeared, and they became distinct from the gray..well...I saw they were beautiful in their unity. And...something about them eminated, through the welcoming space between me and them, through even a matter of seconds (and in striking harmony with their proceed from the gray) a peacefulness. She could have been a dove and he her unexpected nightingale mate. He could have been a mockingbird and she his lark.

And in those matter of delicious coffee-alerted seconds, in that geometrically defined box of a space...the two were approaching. And once they reached the line of the doors, well their hands drew tighter together as their shoulders drew a cross as their torsos drew a semi-circle as their faces drew an eclipse and their bodies drew a curtain before my eyes...covering that patch of gray sky. From those clasped hands and two shoulders, it was just a side half of their bodies that was visible to me, as their legs stayed rather separated and their arms on my side stayed open and apart. But their faces, they were in in a parallel. They were a human-heart.

As their mouths embraced for a momentary second, and their eyes met in allignment--their airy souls their peace and contentment joined. It was just a second; but a fully tangible second at that.
And they drew apart, piece by piece and so gradually, so naturally it seemed (though it was only a regular departing of two who had quickly kissed) and pulled their opposite ways. Hands locked, their arms outstretched away from their previous center like blossoming petals of a flower bud to the sun in growth...and in a millisecond all that was left to divide me and that patch of sky was their arms...their arms meeting like the thin angled tip in that faint trace of their previous heart.

And they gazed just for an apprehensive, perfectly, beautifully stage-worthy fraction of a second. But their moment was so heavy, thick, that it lasted and transcended fleeting time with it's weight. The two gazed into each others faces...their eyes wedlocked in a line. They were beautiful, those opposites...
--and his body went to my right, turning to his left, towards the door with the bold, black arrow above it on the ledge reading: Physics.
--and her body went to my left, turning to her right, towards the door with the bold, black arrow above it on the ledge reading: Physics Astronomy.

And the heart was convulated and skewed as their arms turned with their torsos, until those outstretched limbs finally left their center clasp at the last possible stretch. And they took their last few steps in my sight alone, into either door, directly across from one another...and simultaneously they
went their opposite ways.

Rachel Queen wrote:

Hiya,

How is everyone one? Spring is here which is great! there are flowers and stuff all round and about and easter will be here soon which is even better since it will mean I'm holiday!

Anyway I've just been making a new cover for foth and though I would find out if anyone was still here who wanted to write a story or review or anything to go up soon? As there are no more deadlines anytime you send it it will go straight up on the site.

Well I hope you are well,

Lots of Love
Rachel

PS I'm listening to "the blood in my body" by http://www.myspace.com/jfrobitaille and I like it quite a bit!

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