INTERNET

It's really something special with internet. 20 yrs ago when I started to get some interest for music I was directed to one single magazine for information. I read the OKEJ magazine like a bible, insideout. I memorized every word. As I understood and read English better I started to read Hit Parader, Metal Edge and Circus. Then the German Bravo. I was constantly spending a fortune on magazines, no matter that the news were old as I got them - I got the news as soon as I could!

My mailbox (that's the thing outside the frontdoor) was filled with letters (snailmail for you youngsters) from penpals around the world. What wasn't spent on magazines and vinyls were spent on stamps, envelopes and paper!

Leo in Malta was one of the penplas I wrote the most to. We exchanged long letters, solving our problems and sharing musical thoughts. Until he'd found a girlfriend who was jealous... That was way before cybersex!.. and the letters came to an end. I found Leo on internet, some 10 yrs later. He's still in a band and he's promised to write me a snailmail with updates :-)

Miia is the penpal that became a real life friend - we used to support the Swedish & Finnish post services alone with our many frequent letters - usually 1 or 2 every week! Now we've went on to e-mail, thank god, stamps are really expensive in Sweden these days!

Internet brought us closer. We know stuff when it happens, as it happens. People that used to be too far away, too famous, too distant... we're all close, we're all available - thanx to internet.

The boundaries has gone.
The filters has gone.
For better & worse.