were byron or kevin not at school at the same time as them?

Byron attended Regis Jesuit High School in the suburbs of Aurora, but then his Senior year attended Columbine in fall of ‘96 graduating in May Class of 1997. Dylan was a sophomore at this time.  Kevin graduated his Senior year at Columbine class of ‘95-96 while Eric was a Freshman. Both Byron and Kevin are the same age however, Kevin’s birthday is May 14, 1978 and Byron’s is October 23, 1978.  So, to answer your question, no, they did not cross paths at as Seniors at Columbine. 

“They were our friends, too. They were just kids. But someone had to make monsters out of them.”

MOURN FOR THE KILLERS, TOO, BY DEVON ADAMS ON 8/22/99 AT 8:00 PM                                     [Text version below the cut]

This year, I went back to school early. My junior year at Columbine High School officially begins this week. But last Friday, I was back in the building to show incoming freshmen around. The idea was basically to have fun—and we did. The serious part of the program was to let the freshmen know that there are people they can turn to when they have questions, or if they’re in some kind of trouble. We finished last year at another school, but I’ve been inside Columbine several times since April, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed a teacher, 12 kids and themselves. The library, where the worst bloodshed occurred, has been sealed off by a wall of lockers and replaced by a temporary library. By now, I’ve walked past the lockers so many times that I almost forget what’s behind them. It looks so normal, and I think that’s healthy. If the new kids see us treating the area as normal, then they won’t be spooked by it.

Columbine has been the biggest part of my life since I was an incoming freshman. I’m glad I have two more years here—in a way, I never want to leave. And I never want to forget the people who died, including Eric and Dylan. I think we should mourn all of them. Dylan was my friend, and I still don’t understand why he did it. At first, I blamed myself; I could have been a better friend. But then I began to see that all of society was to blame. Eric and Dylan were constantly ridiculed by many kids. And it was too easy for them to obtain guns.

Not long after the shooting, I joined a new, bipartisan organization called SAFE Colorado; the acronym stands for Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic. Our goal is to obtain reasonable gun legislation. We need to find compromises. Some people say background checks on gun purchasers should be completed within 24 hours. Others say five days. I think there’s a happy medium: three days. Finding out if someone is dangerous takes more than 24 hours but less than five days.

Littleton is not the Wild West. It’s more like a typical American suburb. I know that some of my friends’ parents have handguns in the house, though I have never seen them because they are locked up. I don’t want to outlaw all guns. I can even see someone having a handgun in the home for protection. But we need restrictions on automatic guns with a dozen or more bullets in their clips. The only purpose for that kind of gun is to kill lots of people quickly. I also think guns should be licensed, just like cars. And the minimum age for gun purchasers should be raised from 18 to 21—the drinking age. If you’re not responsible enough to drink alcohol, you’re not responsible enough to buy a gun.

Last July, a group of us from SAFE went to Washington, D.C., to lobby for gun legislation, including an end to unregulated sales at gun shows. We talked to the president and the vice president, but half of Colorado’s congressional delegation turned a deaf ear to us. My lobbying experience has left me disappointed in politicians. They just don’t get it—that 13 young people die every day in this country from gun violence. And they don’t seem to care that 70 to 80 percent of Americans support reasonable gun legislation.

I’m also saddened by a lot of the news coverage of Columbine. Some reporters respected our grief, but many were insulting. As one TV reporter primped for the camera, he was heard to say: “Do I look devastated enough?” And even people who hated Dylan and Eric were appalled by the magazine cover that called them “The Monsters Next Door.” They were our friends, too. They were just kids. But someone had to make monsters out of them.

After the shootings, it was reported that Eric and Dylan wanted to kill nonwhite students and athletes, but many of their victims didn’t fall into either category. One of them was a dear friend of mine, Rachel Scott. She was no athlete, she was a theater person. Rachel was beautiful, inside and out. She was a hard worker with a great sense of humor. After I got out of the school on the day of the shooting, I watched the news coverage on TV, trying to find out who had been shot. I saw videotape of students running past a body on the ground. All you could see clearly was the victim’s hair, but that was enough. I had helped to cut Rachel’s hair, so I knew she was the one lying there. The sad thing is that Rachel would have been a perfect friend for Eric and Dylan, if only they had known her well, because she would have accepted them. I still can’t believe they meant to kill her.

And now the shooting in Los Angeles. It was horrible enough that, at the age of 17, I had to run for my life from my own high school. It is even more hideous when guns are turned against preschoolers. This must stop, and it must stop now.

where can I see the video of dylan beside Brooks. and dylan’s waving to the camera with his glasses 😎

You mean this one?   There is no audio for this clip that I’ve ever seen but I captured this crystal clear version from the Good Morning American program as they were talking about the release of the book From From the Tree  in November 2012.  Mm, also, I don’t think we really know if it was Brooks filming Dylan behind Blackjack. I kind of question the validity of it being Brooks because he didn’t work at Blackjack.  I mean, I suppose there’s a chance Brooks visited while they’re were at work on break or during lunchtime but it just seems more likely it would’ve been one of Dylan’s friends or someone from Columbine like Veik that had the CHS video camecorder. No cell phone cameras back then. lol   I tend to think too if Dylan was hanging out behind Blackjack, Eric would’ve been there as well and so Brooks, well, wouldn’t really have wanted to be there knowing he’d potentially cross paths with his arch enemy?   

Is there any proof or evidence out there that Dylan & Eric shared a class with Rachel Scott?

Did she share a class with both boys?   No, there is no proof of this.  We also don’t have Rachel’s class schedule or attendance roster to verify it but we do have some of Eric and Dylan’s and she is not listed in their classes.    Darrell Scott mentions in his book  ‘The Untold Stories of Columbine’ that Rachel conversed with the two boys at one point over why they focused on making violent video productions. So, the assumption there is that she was in their video production class.  However, that’s the Scott family for you – they make these claims when there is no evidence to back it up.  It just makes a good story, another one along side the Tall Tale they still tell to this day (when they should know better by now) about Rachel being yanked up by her hair and taunted by Eric if she believed in God before he shot her.  These claims help to support their agenda to help paint Rachel as their christian warrior daughter who challenging the boys over their obsession with violent creativity in video class rather than constructive.  But alas, I highly doubt that  Rachel was some spunky Buffy The School Shooter Slayer and so did not take  D & E to task about their evil video production content. 

The only class that Rachel shared was with Dylan and that was part of the theater class.  Dylan was the stage crew sound technician and Rachel, a drama actress. 

rainflesh:

This is so random but I uhhh just needed to get it out of my system lol. This has to be one of my favorite Tarantino films besides both volumes of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. I watched it again last night because a friend hadn’t seen it and as a result these doodles were born. People can say whatever they want about Eric and Dylan but there’s no denying they had some fucking quality tastes in movies

Fucking priceless. 👏🏻 😎👍🏻


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rebdomine-rebismine:

some Dylan`s giggle with pleasure from R.C. video

Dyl’s wicked little snickers and laughs are 😏 ❤️

Hey, I hope you’re okay and are having a good day :) I have a question (if you don’t mind answering it!) – despite the basement tapes being ‘destroyed’, do you think Sue will talk about them in her book? Is she allowed to? my partner and I were talking about it earlier, I thought she might be okay to talk about what was in the unreleased ones but I wasn’t sure, and thought if anyone would know you would as you’re so familiar with it all :)

Fairly good, thanks and you too^^  🙂  No problem answering this at all whatsoever. It’s a legit question you’ve voiced, one burning question of which we’re all kind of wondering ourselves.  I think yes, Sue will delve upon the Basement Tapes a bit – she’ll have to because it’s part of the very ugly that happened to her with Columbine and her boy.   However she wouldn’t be spending a great deal of depth going into them. And, yes, it’s true that she might not be allowed to go into certain specifics because of the fact that the tapes were denied release from the public. We shouldn’t forget too, that Sue and Tom didn’t want those tapes released either.  So,given all of that, maybe not any specific dialog between the two boys that had burned embedded into her brain but just the general gist of key points she remembers as really standing out as devastating. Certain interactions that made her reflect on their past dynamics as a family together and his behavior in general that she felt she overlooked or minimized; things that might have clicked and made sense in retrospect.  She’d be covering the general impressions that she had of her son’s behavior as well as how her son and Eric were relating to one another as she and Tom watched those tapes. I think most of all she’ll convey how it shattered her and that she spent many years wondering who this boy was that she never knew existed in all the years she raised him.  It be her walking us through this conversation she had with herself countless times over the years trying to grapple with the Dylan she thought she knew to be a wonderful young man that she was proud of with this turn-coat, full-on angry, remorseless, hate-filled, arrogant flippant side that he let rip on the Basement Tapes, that Jekyll turned Hyde that he managed to conceal and keep under wraps while at home.   So, I tend to think yes, she’ll cover the Basement Tapes as the major rock bottom down side to this hellish event in her life but it will be covered in general. We’ll all just have to wait and see, won’t we?  🙂 

I don’t see why Dylan would have a foot fetish, I mean…his nose was big, wouldn’t they smell worse to him? This creeps me out even writing it but like…? It’s gross?

Dude, his nose size has not a thing to do with sense of smell, you realize that don’t you?   Dylan didn’t know why he had a foot fetish either,he just did. Couldn’t exactly help it and probably felt really ambivalent about it.  It’s one of those things where some people just tend to gravitate towards certain body parts that make them feel real good…you know, kind of like how some here have a thing for big noses. 😉 

Do you have any information about Dylan’s red Chem Bros shirt with a rainbow? Devon mentioned, and in a couple videos Dylan is wearing a red shirt with what looks like a rainbow so I assume it’s the shirt she was referring to. Can’t find it online.

“Dressed in jeans, and a red Chemical Brothers T-shirt with a rainbow, he gave Devon her presents before the (Devon’s 16th birthday party) started because a couple girls he didn’t like were going to be there.”
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The red rainbow shirt Dylan is wearing is an out-of-print Chemical Brothers promo t-shirt from the Dig Your Own Hole LP Setting Sun tour 1997.  Essentially, what that means is, this particular shirt was made for this Setting Sun Tour and after that tour had ended in ‘97, the t-shirt was never produced again (nor duplicated by any t-shirt printing company since). So, it’s super rare and veeery hard to find.  Much more difficult than locating a NIN Downward Spiral 90s version tee but perhaps not as hard as the KMFDM Symbols American Tour shirt or the DJ Spooky Tee Dyl is wearing on 4/9 at King Soopers (another one-of-a-kind promo concert t-shirt he acquired from attending that particular concert). 

It’s interesting that the shirt is very bright red and basically goes to show that the nineties video camera they used (plus all the duplication of the tapes over the years) is very pixelated and low quality so it doesn’t translate the actual colors of the boys clothing in their video productions. Dylan’s shirt in the video, at times, looks like a dull burgundy red and the image of the rainbow, a muted hint of one with no discerning nuance of colors.  In actuality, it’s a very bright and cheery, pretty even, t-shirt. And it’s got that Dyl hippy vibe going on. Gotta wonder what ol’ Rebby thought of his best friend wearing it with a tough-guy trench. 

Just goes to show that yesss, real (Hit) Men aren’t afraid to wear bright red with multi-colored rainbow t-shirts to school. 😉 

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Back of shirt..

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Here’s the best photos I could find that really translates the color and image well enough. Note, that just like the actual shirt above that the Chemical Brothers Setting Sun logo is faintly visible  in yellow Dust Mites font and directly underneath the rainbow on Dylan’s shirt. 🙂

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Good luck locating this shirt, it was super hard but was well worth it to put this obscure Dylan t-shirt mystery to rest. 😉

Video of the scary rainbow Hitman  lol