What year did you think this was with the video of Dylan, Brooks and Zack playing Soul Blade?? Do you think this Is in 10th grade

Given the longer length of Dyl’s hair, It would have been months after his RNN interview in Jan ‘98 since his hair was pretty short then. So, possibly Sophomore year/10th grade around May with a good possibility of even hanging out during summer vacation or even Fall of ‘98 in Junior year.  

http://open.spotify.com/user/1260198570/playlist/7yH1rPLyKcgTs3eKUsWDVf?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio

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Chillin’ with Dylan

Enjoy a little Ceiba on Dyl. 😉 This is a compilation album Language of Light Part 1 circa 1996 from Ceiba Records of SF and includes Ceiba as well as other artists of the electronic Goa Dance/Psy Trance techno genre. It’s one of the few I’ve been chillin’ to lately. My favs are Movement Within the 4th Dimension, The Pharm and Alien Prophecy

A bit about Ceiba


The Language of Light Part 1

TRACKS

  • Movement Within the 4th Dimension – Cyclics
  • The Pharm  – UV 
  • Firestarter (Ceiba Remix) –  Kode IV
  • Po Tolo (B Sirius Mix) – The Nommos
  • Alien Prophecy – State of Trance
  • Electric Moss – The Whirling Merkabas
  • Ananda Enchanted – Bassnectar  
  • Falling off a Lily – Bufo
  • Kiranga  – Ceiba
  • Boval  – UV13
  • Batiphonehome – Rip Van Hippy

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Do you think if he had a girlfriend, he would have removed this poster of the woman in underwear ?

You mean the poster of the woman in the leopard bikini?  

Incidentally, that was most probably of Julie Strain, a 6 ft. porn star, from the horribly bad, laughably cheesy, B movie style soft core flick that Dylan and Eric watched called Enemy Gold. It was for their “home entertainment” as Dyl put it in Eric’s yearbook  May do a post on this later. 😉

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Yeah, he might have removed it out of embarrassment with a potential girlfriend in his room.  Robyn saw the poster but she was just a friend.

How was Dylan playing Soul Caliber? It was released Dec 99

Initially, people thought the video showed Dylan and friends playing Mortal Kombat.  Later on, others chimed in and corrected that no, it looked to be SoulCalibur that they were playing.  

The problem, as you suggest, is that according to the wiki:

The game was originally released in the Japanese arcades on July 30, 1998.The Dreamcast port of Soulcalibur was released in Japan on August 5, 1999; and in North America as a launch title, on September 9, 1999.   [x]   

This basically suggests that the actual title SoulCalibur was released in Japan first, prior to it’s 1999 US launch via Dreamcast which was months after Columbine.

However, the previous incarnation of the game was called Soul Edge which released in 1996. The PlayStation version was renamed Soul Blade in Europe, North America and Australia to avoid potential complications due to EDGE Games’ earlier “EDGE” trademark. The game was a commercial and critical success and acts as the first installment in the Soul series, and was followed up with Soulcalibur in 1998.   If you look at the the actual video of Soul Blade it pretty much looks to be the earlier equivalent of SoulCalibur.  

So, technically, the game Dylan and friends are playing is part of the “Soul Series” but it’s not SoulCalibur but instead it’s earlier predecessor of pretty much a very similar game called Soul Blade

In which colors has dylan painted / decorated his room?

When Byron moved into an apartment in 1998, Dylan inherited his bedroom. He repainted the room, two black facing walls and two white facing walls with red shutters on the windows  

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Another account stated: Dylan wanted to paint his whole room black but Sue vetoed the idea, so he had to settle for one black area near a window.

Both accounts are slightly conflicting but essentially state that he had a black area or wall and I would imagine the other wall was white.  It would make sense and reflect his personal everlasting contrast philosophy.

Hopefully, Sue will describe in her book the reality of what Dyl’s bedroom actually ended up looking like after he inherited it from Byron.

What was dylan’s favorite pizza?

Dyl was kind of a foodie with a ‘legendary appetite’ so I don’t think he was all that fussy about the kind of pizza he liked, certainly not as mono focused as Eric’s green pepper and pepperoni fav. I think Dyl appreciated a lot of different combo pizzas: plain ole classic pepperoni, meat lovers, supreme with both meat and sausagecombined – but I don’t know why.. I just kinda see him especially digging ham and pineapple pizza, going for a bit of sweet flavor on his pie. That’s just my take, of course..

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Do you know if Dylan liked grunge music?

rebsgoddess:

everlasting-contrast:

Alice in Chains is the only one he officially mentions on his Webpage layout and design. Dylan mentions “I Stay Away” as a song to be played for the <i>“Other Kool Mus’</i> section.  But I tend to think he’d listen to some Pearl Jam and maybe Goo Goo Dolls. Smashing Pumpkins had some grunge-ish elements to their music. I can also see him liking Red Hot Chili Peppers for the funk element, though technically grunge.. 

That is so funny that you say he would possibly like the Goo Goo Dolls, because I think of him everytime I hear “Iris” 

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and that’s the exact reason I mentioned them. lol Too funny.  Had an interesting experience of Iris coming through my ghost equipment once.. 

Do you know if Dylan liked grunge music?

Alice in Chains is the only one he officially mentions on his Webpage layout and design. Dylan mentions “I Stay Away” as a song to be played for the “Other Kool Mus’ section.  But I tend to think he’d listen to some Pearl Jam and maybe Goo Goo Dolls. Smashing Pumpkins had some grunge-ish elements to their music. I can also see him liking Red Hot Chili Peppers for the funk element, though technically not grunge.. 

I’m sorry I feel like this is some kind of general knowledge lol, but I don’t really know much about the shooting. Why didn’t the police enter the school? There were only two of them they could have easily taken them down if not even disarm and catch them

The police were following the procedure for what was at that time considered to be current, effective protocol for school Crisis Response but, in fact, ended up being vastly out-dated, time and life wasting.  Police never had to deal much with this type of situation before but in the nineties, school shootings had just started to become a new trend. Then, suddenly, two teenage shooters surprised everyone with a substantial pre-planned arsenal of bombs and incendiaries which could literally have been anywhere in the school and turned out to even be rigged in the shooters own cars.  It was well planned and thought out and basically, Eric and Dylan caught law enforcement with their pants down.  On the day, the police force was given orders to stick to the present procedure in place and so they sat outside like idiots waited things out which allowed the shooters more time to roam around and up their kill count.   Columbine was a ‘major wake-up’ call that entirely revamped how law enforcement dealt with ‘Active Shooter’ situations. The essential change is that police and SWAT absolutely do not wait out the situation to gauge potential hostage situations and such but instead enter the school as soon as possible to seek out the shooter (to the risk of their own lives) and put the perpetrator/s out of commission as quickly as possible so as to prevent potentially even more casualties within the building.  

 

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