That laugh had the hint of Eric’s little accent it had to be him

How can a laugh have an accent in it? lol    I’m not even sure what you mean? I have friends from various parts of the country with different accents and can’t distinguish an accent from their laugh. Everyone’s got just their own personal style of laugh and there’s is no accent infused within it.  I think this is probably just going to end up being a case of us having to agree to disagree. What you are maintaining just doesn’t convince me..:) 

so it said dylan had an addicting laugh and when he laughed others laughed with him. can you pls give us an audio clip of dylan laughing???

Personally, I strongly believe that this is Dylan laughing and not Eric…  Others here have (and probably will continue to) dispute it but I maintain that it’s him..  The laugh has a deep tonal quality to the voice plus that undeniable, powerful projection of it (and we know Dylan had the talent for yelling real good). The sound of the voice is loud which goes along with his ‘AHHH GAWWD!” audio clip of his reaction to missing the bike when he drops down on it.  it’s most definitely Dyl all the way. Quite an irresistible, mirthful and hearty no-holding-back kind of laugh and it’s rather infection. Makes me smile at how jovial he is in the moment.. 🙂   

Thanks. I was just stating that I really feel I understand his way of thinking, and was hoping to see where it said exactly in his journal that it was his favorite song. Also, in his journal where he writes about love, and he says “i hope she likes techno”,what sort of techno would he be talking about? Apologize for all questions about what songs he liked to listen to, I just really feel I’d understand him more by listening to music he loved, as I doubt much more new info will arise about him :(

I can appreciate this, yes. 🙂   I’ve explored a lot of Dylan’s music in order to resonate and tune-in to his vibe. I give a little explanation below about his liking ‘Techno’, and what that means in reference to how he uses that expression “I hope she likes Techno”  as well as a list of some of the groups Dyl enjoyed so you can explore them as well.

When Dylan refers to ‘Techno’ and hoping that the girl he is crushing on will like it because he does, he’s using the term rather loosely since ‘Techno’ encompasses a broad variety of electronic ‘machine made’ style music.  In the eighties and nineties, people often used ‘techno’, ‘industrial’ or ‘electronica’ interchangeably as an umbrella for non-acoustic music.  For example, NIN, Ministry or Skinny Puppy could be loosely referred to as ‘Industrial’ music even though there are vast differences between the two in musical flavor.  The Chemical Brothers and Orbital are both considered electronic house music but their sounds are a bit different yet you could still include them both as ‘Techno/Electronic’ music.  So, basically, Dylan used ‘Techno’ to engender the machine based style music he loved. 

Chillin’ Dylan liked some high energy electronic dance as well as intelligent, introspective, ambient music associated with the ‘Electronica and Techno’ genre as well as sub genres within it that have their own nuanced distinctions.
What surprises me so much about Dyl is how much he loved funk music heavily embedded into his techno along with the heavy beats. Sometimes I just laugh and shake my head because, well, da white boy has some color in him. 😉  This is really apparent in The Chemical Brothers.  The goa trance style music as with Ceiba and The Orb really reveal that layer of bohemian hippy vibe about him drifting off into hypnotic psybient bliss.

Here’s a list of the music he mentions or has on his ‘wish list’ to purchase. I’ve added a ( and ***) for friends that also share a commonality with Dylan in liking that band too. 

The Chemical Brothers – Techno genre: Big Beat, Electronica, Trip Hop, Techno, House

NIN  (and Zack, Nate) – Industrial rockalternative rockindustrial metaldark ambient

Orbital (and Eric) – 

Electronica, trip hop, house, acid house, breakbeat, trance, ambient techno

FSOL (and Zack) –  (Future Sound of London) – 

Electronic, ambient, IDM (Intelligent Dance Music (artsy and ambient techno/electronica), acid techno,acid house, neo-psychedelia, trip hop,drum and bass

The Orb (and Eric)  – Ambient house, house, dub,reggae, ambient, trip hop, IDM

Autechre – 

IDM, electronic, experimental techno,ambient techno, experimental,ambient, glitch, plunderphonics

DJ Spooky – 

Electronica, nu jazz, dub,reggae, illbient (ambient that uses beats and loops), trip hop

Renegade Soundwave  – electronic 

KMFDM (and Eric) – 

industrial rock, industrial metal,electro-industrial, house, techno,electropunk

Prodigy (and Eric) – Big beat,break beat hardcore electronica rave

Atari Teenage Riot – Digital hardcore, hardcore techno,hardcore punk, drum and bass,industrial metal, noise, experimental

Ceiba –  Pantheon of Industrial Goa Trance,  Psytrance, Psybreak and Ambient-Downtempo

Prana – pioneer of Goa Trance music

What books do you think dylan would like

True Crime genre books seem likely given that he’d read Helter Skelter for his Charles Manson essay. I doubt he only read it just for the assignment but because he was genuinely curious about Manson and his family.  Other books along the lines of ‘Of Mice and Men” or ‘The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.  Just imagine if Dylan had Tumblr back in the day, he’d probably be in our TCC (ahem..True Crime Community).  😉 Also, fact and fictional mafioso books, action books with dudes in charge wielding guns (don’t know specific titles but I’m sure there’s plenty out there), hacking secrets books, the Doom series. I get the feeling he read a lot of different sorts of things, speed reading and consuming them in between his video game playing. Just a lot of constant mental stimulation needed due to his giftedness.  Can just see a couple of books scattered near by his bed, being read all at the same time, at various bookmarked places, and then discarded.  Interestingly, the police never mention any book titles they retrieved from his bedroom so maybe he read a lot of library loans since his paycheck couldn’t really afford various and sundry books.  I think he probably enjoyed reading some of the school required reading when it came to history or political stuff. Even if he didn’t especially like the title assigned, he’d breeze through it fast and already have the full concept. He probably formed his own opinions and anti-stances on about the controversial political titles and was likely in agreement or sometimes disagreement with Brooks.. Both probably formed out-of-the-box opinions going against the grain of what the teachers was hoping to instill in their students.   Animal Farm was one of those political controversial type books that Brooks wasn’t on board with. I’m sure Eric and Dylan both had opinions on that one. 

I’m interested to know, if anything, what the Klebolds said about what they thought/felt about Eric? As he went round their house and they must have known who he was! Your blog is great by the way, and I love your answers – so well thought out and written! :)

Here’s some of the things the Klebold’s have said regarding their perceptions of Eric.  If I find anything else they’ve said, I’ll add it as an update to this post reply. (Pretty sure there is too).  Glad you enjoy my answers –  thank you! 🙂

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On Saturday, the Klebolds filed a notice of intent to sue the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for its “reckless” failure to act on a March 1998 report about Eric Harris’ violent tendencies. [Source]

He hung out with friends, slept late when he could, spent time in his room, talked on the phone, and played video games on a computer he built. In his junior year, he stunned us by hacking into the school’s computer system with a friend (a violation for which he was expelled), but the low point of that year was his arrest. After the arrest, we kept him away from Eric for several weeks, and as time passed he seemed to distance himself from Eric of his own accord. I took this as a good sign. [Source]

….And that he’d spent much of the past few days with Eric Harris—who hadn’t been to our house for months but who’d suddenly stayed over one night that weekend. If Eric was missing now, too, then I couldn’t deny that the two of them might be involved in something bad together. More than a year earlier, they had broken into a van parked on a country road near our house. They’d been arrested and had completed a juvenile diversion program that involved counseling, community service, and classes. Their theft had shown that under each other’s influence they could be impulsive and unscrupulous. Could they also—no matter how unbelievable it seemed—be violent?

Sue sees a terrible confluence of circumstances including depression, a school environment that caused rage, and an influential friend who had severe problems. “Dylan felt a little afraid of Eric, a little protective of him, and a little controlled by him,” she said. “He was caught in something I don’t understand that made him do this horrible thing. But I don’t, can’t, believe that that is who he was. Yes, he made a conscious choice and did this horrible thing, but what had happened to his consciousness that he would make such a choice? Something in him got broken. The same pathology that killed and hurt all the others also killed my son.”

“I imagined Eric telling him, ‘If you don’t do this, I will come and kill your parents,’” Tom later said. “But Dylan’s willingness to participate is inescapable.” Sue believes that Dylan would have been able to foil pressure from Eric if that had been the pivotal factor. She has wondered whether he might have endured some precipitating trauma, even if he’d been raped by someone, but has never found any evidence to that effect. In writings that go back to his sophomore year, she said, “He talks like a thoughtful, introspective, depressed kid, mostly about how he has a crush on somebody, and she doesn’t know he’s alive. Three months before the tragedy he’s talking about how he wants to die, and he says, ‘I might do an NBK with Eric.’” She learned that NBK stood for Natural Born Killers. “So as late as January, Dylan hadn’t really decided that he was going to do this. He just wanted to die. But why blow up the school? I get in my car on a Monday morning, and I start thinking about Dylan, and I just cry all the way to work. I talk to him, or I sing songs. You have to be in touch with that sorrow.”

Sue asked the people in the diversion program whether Dylan needed counseling, and they administered standardized psychological tests and found no indication that he was suicidal, homicidal, or depressed. “If I could say something to a roomful of parents right now, I would say, ‘Never trust what you see,’” Sue said. “Was he nice? Was he thoughtful? 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. He and Eric worked together at the pizza parlor. A couple of weeks before Columbine, Eric’s beloved dog was sick, and it looked like he wasn’t going to make it, and so Dylan worked Eric’s shift as well as his own so that Eric could have the time with his dog.”
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How come Dylan had his keyboard taken away from him again? I forgot..

Devon thought Tom Klebold was “very fair-minded.”
“Like one time, Dylan came in two hours past curfew and Dylan had promised to be in on curfew – it may have been midnight – and his dad got really angry at him and I think he took away Dylan’s keyboard for two days, to his computer, and Dylan loved that computer. Just made it totally not possible to use the computer for two days, but it was fair punishment. I can’t remember his parents ever grounding him. They just said you have to be in an hour early or something like that cause I think his parents knew how important Dylan’s friends were to him.”

Oh, and, he also got his keyboard taken away for mouthing off to mom and dad. 


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Nate and Dylan arriving at Columbine in the Dykeman Morning Ride video

Nate: “Thar she blows..Columbine High School.”

Dyl: “Ready the torpedos Mr..uuh, Nate.” *both laugh*

Nate: “Welcome to the prison that I spent the last 4 years at.
We’re talking something about parole here in early May..
I’m not sure if I believe it yet..”

Dyl : “(I) ‘know I don’t..” (he mutters 😏)