everlasting-contrast:

rainflesh:

“A day does not pass that I do not feel a sense of overwhelming guilt–both for the myriad of ways I failed Dylan and for the destruction that he left in his wake… I think often of watching [fourth-grade] Dylan do origami… I loved to make a cup of tea and sit quietly beside him, watching his hands moving as quickly as hummingbirds, delighted to see Dylan turn a square of paper into a frog or a bear or a lobster. I’d always marvel at how something as straightforward as a piece of paper can be completely transformed with only a few creases, to become suddenly replete with new significance. Then I’d marvel at the finished form, the complex folds hidden and unknowable to me. In many ways, that experience mirrors the one I would have after Columbine. I would have to turn what I thought I knew about myself, my son, and my family inside out and around, watching as a boy became a monster, and then a boy again.”

– Sue Klebold, A Mother’s Reckoning

Aww..Thanks for fulfilling my request @rainflesh  Wow, you did that super fast and I’d only asked you just yesterday evening. haha  It’s so perfect and lovely. ❤ Makes me teary eyed. So grateful you’re here on the tag to help bring these memories and anecdotes to life for all of us!   

I feel like somehow this needs to be sent to Sue…………  ❤

Seems so apropos that this delicate beautiful rendering of a memory recently posted on her website would be, sent along with all of our names in a show of support for her courageous move to open up to the public about her boy that became a monster and then a boy again…  

rainflesh:

“A day does not pass that I do not feel a sense of overwhelming guilt–both for the myriad of ways I failed Dylan and for the destruction that he left in his wake… I think often of watching [fourth-grade] Dylan do origami… I loved to make a cup of tea and sit quietly beside him, watching his hands moving as quickly as hummingbirds, delighted to see Dylan turn a square of paper into a frog or a bear or a lobster. I’d always marvel at how something as straightforward as a piece of paper can be completely transformed with only a few creases, to become suddenly replete with new significance. Then I’d marvel at the finished form, the complex folds hidden and unknowable to me. In many ways, that experience mirrors the one I would have after Columbine. I would have to turn what I thought I knew about myself, my son, and my family inside out and around, watching as a boy became a monster, and then a boy again.”

– Sue Klebold, A Mother’s Reckoning

Aww..Thanks for fulfilling my request @rainflesh  Wow, you did that super fast and I’d only asked you just yesterday evening. haha  It’s so perfect and lovely. ❤ Makes me teary eyed. So grateful you’re here on the tag to help bring these memories and anecdotes to life for all of us!   


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rebdomine-rebismine:

everlasting-contrast:

fromrussiawithlotoflove:

Dylan: “Get the fuck out!”

From the very rare footage taped by Brooks, of Dylan age 16, playing video games on playstation (mostly tekken 3) and watching rammstein music video at his home with Zack and Brooks.

We can hear a girl(?) laughing, maybe it’s Devon Adams or Robyn.

Dyl (or perhaps someone else?) doing The Donald Duck.

Mm..no. Get ready for this: that’s Dyl laughing like a girl and someone else is doing The Donald Duck “Get the fuck out!” voice. Yep.

@everlasting-contrast oh my dear, are you sure?)) hm

I certainly hope I’m sure cos that’s just too damn cute. 😉

Like Mother, Like Son

“I was taking a walk not long before he died, and I’d asked him, ‘Come and pick me up if it rains.’ And he did. He was there for you, and he was the best listener I ever met. I realize now that that was because he didn’t want to talk, and he was hiding. “  – Sue Klebold, Far From the Tree

Hey my dear fav blog) I`d like to ask what do you know about Byron`s life after Columbine. His wife and his son(s) and another thing: Did Klebold`s family remove from Сougar road? Thank you) Have a nice day

Hey there one of my Columbine art blog favs.:)  Byron still works at the same auto dealership in Littleton that he started entry level at seventeen years ago when he was asked to leave home. He is now a seasoned Foreman/Assistant Service Manager.  Byron is married to his wife Julie and has two kids, Aidan and Everly Charlotte about four years a part in age; they live in the surrounding area about a 20 mile commute from his place of work in Littleton.

what concerts did E&D go to?

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 Dylan and Eric went to Rammstein’s Sehnsucht Tour

December 8, 1997,

featuring  KMFDM as their opening act at the Ogden Theatre in Denver. 

Setlists from the December 8, 1997 concert

KMFDM (opening Symbols Tour)   Rammstein

Setlist from the May 1, 1998 concert

Ogden Theatre  [x] [x]   Photos from the day of the tour [x]

I’ll make a Spotify playlist of these setlists in a future post. 🙂 

Dylan likely attended The Chemical Brother’s Dig Your Own / Hole Setting Sun Tour concert on April 29, 1997 at the Ogden Theatre in Denver. He probably went with Zack. The reason I believe he attended this concert is because the t-shirt is a special promo type that was made specifically for this concert. That was the first time the Chemical Brothers had ever played in Colorado and the next time they would tour in the area was July 17, 1999 at the Rave on the Rocks, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, USA  with With Fatboy Slim. This was the date that Dylan made plans to see the concert with Devon.- sadly, that one concert in ‘97 was his first and only Chem Bros concert. :-/

It’s possible that they went to a Prodigy or Orbital concert but there is no record of this or of them talking about it.  Dylan only mentions just that one concert and for that reason,  I tend to think that the KMFDM/Rammstein concert was the only concert the two ever attended together.*

UPDATES:
There was also a Rammstein concert on October 6, 1998 at the 

McNichols Arena in Denver about 1.5 hours away from Littleton.  Since Dylan uses the plural for concertS in his yearbook reference to Eric, there is a possibility that they went to three Rammstein concerts: the one December 8, 1997 with KMFDM as their opening act and also the one May 1, 1998 and very possibly the one held October 6, 1998 at the McNichols Arena in Denver. KMFDM apparently only toured for their Symbols album in ‘97 with Rammstein on December 8th and didn’t tour again until 2000. There was no tour for Adios which debuted April 20, 1999.  Now, take a good guess why that is. 😉

 Rammstein was on tour in Brazil  on April 17, 1999 (the date of the Columbine Senior prom) and then moved on to Guadalajara, Mexico on April 21. 1999, the day after the massacre and did yet another concert in Mexico City on April 24. They took a three month break (probably laying low having been associated as a musical fav of the ‘Columbine Killers’). They returned back to the states in June of ‘99 and interestingly enough, toured yet again in Denver, CO (!)  at the Fillmore Auditorium on July 14, 1999 just a few months after Columbine. A very bold move on their part. 

I find it rather interesting how many times Rammstein visited Denver for concerts: for their Sehnsucht tour,  they visited Denver, CO in Dec ‘97 and then five months later, they revisited the city yet again in May ‘98, then Oct ‘98 and lastly, June of ‘99. They did not do this with any other US city.  Have to wonder if the group has a particular reason as to why they repeated the same tour in this city a total of four times.  Perhaps they have some connections in Denver or maybe just liked the vibe of Denver?   The Sehnsucht Tour ended in 2001. and June ‘99 was there last time in Denver for that particular tour.