You’re very welcome. ☺️ Gratifying that you’re coming to E-C for some Dylan Klebold 101 education. 👍

I really don’t think I ought to give you the answer. You should do a little research on your own and the answer will easily come on it’s own, you know?

But, whatever you do, don’t go with “I’m full of hate and I love it” and “I’m full of love and nobody wants it.” 😏

Sleeping at Last – Sun – which apparently has turned out to be untrue, a false rumor started on Wikipedia.

What’s too much for one person is not enough for another? It’s a matter of what each person feels comfortable expressing themselves with in relation to Columbine. Some will make/wear jewelry and have the option to take it off at the end of the day. Others prefer tattooing since it’s a permanent form of expression that serves as a touchstone reminder, especially for those who are undergoing life struggles or have made it through some difficult ones. When they see the image on a daily basis as part of their own being, the image’s significance serves to remind them personally why they’ve chosen to wear it forever.

Shitty gun selections and loaded question, nice pun. 😉 Ultimately, Dylan and Eric’s pièce de résistance,was The Bombs. They spent time testing pipe bombs and the like and even spent far too much time (and risk) testing Napalm and yet the one most important ingredient, the kick off to start NBK – those propane bombs – and they skipped over the testing of them. Now, I’m sure the thought had crossed their minds (one would hope?) to test them. And they probably considered heading up to the mountains and testing one there but that it might’ve attracted attention with the loud boom and devastation or maybe the flames would’ve started a brush fire and before you know it, you might have a major forest fire on your hands – yipes! Or the ranger might’ve been scouting the area and caught them, etc. etc. Anything could’ve happened – who knows? But the options was either to risk testing one of them to be absolutely sure they had them rigged correctly or go on faith and overblown confidence that they simply would just..go off on sheer faith that they would. They chose the latter and that was their big overly confident mistake – to believe that they would just go off simply as they anticipated them to.

The official reason the bombs didn’t go off was supposedly due to faulty wiring. The other problem is, a propane tank needs to heat up a fair amount of time first before it’ll reach a critical point and explode ( see BLEVE). According to the boys’ planned morning schedule, they didn’t even appear to factor in very much time to allow for the bombs to go through this type of heating process. The boys were also a bit complacent and sloppy on finishing touches for NBK as it drew closer. Eric didn’t even get his remaining ammo until the evening before, April 19th, which was supposed to be the original date of the attack. He had reminded Mark Manes a number of times to purchase the ammo and luckily the dude followed through. That’s just far too late to be gathering needed components for the attack.

The morning of 4/20, the boys spent a lot of time scrambling with final preparations like going to gas stations to buy more propane tanks. Why would you wait until the very morning of of to do that? They also found themselves visiting their old places probably stalling and saying their goodbyes in a way: they were seen driving up to Blackjack by a coworker and then leave suddenly and also witnessed by a couple of people standing outside the Bowling Alley where their morning bowling class met. They spent a lot time driving back and forth between Eric’s house, gas stations for the propane and back to the school where they were seen at various points early on, chilling and walking around. By the time they were up to their launch schedule, Dylan was racing into the parking lot rather recklessly (yet one more time and his very last) and he nearly collided with Chad Laughlin driving out of CHS.

After the boys realized the bombs weren’t going to do what they were supposed to, it all rapidly devolved into nothing more than your simple run-of-the-mill school shooting. The two claimed they weren’t going to be like all those pussy school shooters that came before them and yet, they were. The only difference was there were two instead of one shooter. Worst part about Impromptu Plan B – aka “oh shit!, bombs didn’t blow! weeell, we can’t back out now, can we? sooo, yeah, let’s make it up as we go along!” is that unlike bombs blowing up everything arbitrarily, these boys could have decided and chosen exactly who they wanted to exact revenge on. At least, at first? At the start of the shooting while they still had the element of surprise on their side? And after that, they could’ve then gone after anything else that was in the way. They could’ve had a semblance of being methodical and headed off to the gym and started their attack on the jocks. If this was their “Judgment Day” then shouldn’t their Plan B have allowed for them to sweeten their revenge in some sort of satisfying way by taking it on those they hated most of all? Instead, they just attacked whatever was nearby and then attracted attention and so everyone ran off and by then, the authorities were alerted. Throughout most of the attack, their minds were still half on those god damn bombs. Why the hell didn’t they blow? The two bombs symbolised the both of them as made of FAIL. Yes, apart from those shitty weapons they selected (and could’ve gotten way better ones for the same amount of money..), the boys basically blew it with those bombs…and not the way they wanted to blow it.😏

Only this bit has been revealed from the Nixon Tape Eric recorded on micro cassette the evening before:

“In less than nine hours now, people will die because of me, it willl be a day that will be remembered forever.”

Jeffco seems to claim there wasn’t a whole lot more worth releasing to the public which to me means there probably was and we’ll just never be privy to it. I know the tape was one of those micro cassettes that was probably recorded over one too many times. I seem to recall that it had someone with an asian accent talking on it at one point. I’m going to speculate here and say that it probably also contained snippets of Eric’s personal ambivalent meanderings: waffling between boastful and apprehensive about what he’d been planning forever and now here it was, just the very next morning, mere hours away. I think his recording on this micro cassette was not premeditated. It was like, just Eric a part from the bravado of Reb n’ VoDkA on the Basement Tapes which they planned and amped up the ‘boys behaving badly’ for public consumption. I think this tiny tape was meant for himself and his family; it was sort of a suicide note. Jeffco probably preferred to skip releasing anything beyond his boasting of being long remembered because that would muddy things for the public, casting him in a more human light. In the end though, I doubt we’ll ever know what was on it especially in light of Jeffco announcing this past January of having destroyed the Basement Tapes and other Columbine related evidence.

I can tell you this much: not soon enough. 😏

It’s a one of a kind that a friend custom made for me. You might want to search around on sites like eBay or Etsy.

Sehnsucht (Longing)  As doodled a few times in Dyl’s day planner.              Of course, we can’t be certain if it’s the actual song itself that he liked since it’s also the title of their second album released in ‘97 but I tend to think he liked this track if for the lyrics and also especially the jams at 2:56

Eifersucht (Jealousy) – I really get the sense Dyl would like this one too. It has a sort of James Bond guitar rift to it. It just seems so Dyl.. Not to mention that jealousy was a very relatable emotion for him for not being conventionally attractive nor having an ignorantly happy life as a jock that got women. The song relishes destroying what you lack and so hate.

Weißes Fleisch (White Flesh) – I think this was a shared favorite between Dylan and Eric. Dylan references a line from it in his yearbook quotes to Eric. “My black blood and yer white flesh”

Other than the scant few Rammstein references Dylan makes, I’m going to throw out my opinion here and hazard a guess that he’d like these too.

Du Hast (You Hate) A shared fav between he and Eric but also, oh yes, a personal fav for the pounding percussion and, well, it’s simply a classic. 

Heirate Mich (Marry Me) 
..with it’s gothic poetically, devotional lyrics   Seems, idk, somehow fitting? 

😫

Dylan: Marlboro Menthol   

  Eric: Kamel Red

Well, basically, I’m a tall (5’11 ½) redhead with blue/green eyes. 😏

Glad you enjoy E-C. Thank you so much! ☺️