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Saturday, April 17, 1999  – 16 years ago at the Columbine senior Prom at the Denver Design Center​….

Cigarettes. A white stretch limo. A girl in a royal-blue prom dress and soft blonde curls. She’s holding his hand.

This was one of Dylan Klebold’s last nights.

Prom night for Columbine. Hardly the outsider, he was one of a dozen dressed-up kids who piled into a limo and dined at a ritzy LoDo restaurant. Then it was off to the dance at the Design Center on South Broadway in Denver.

Dylan wore a black tuxedo, a pink rosebud tucked into his lapel. His long wavy hair slicked back into an uncooperative ponytail.

His date was Robyn Anderson, now a valedictorian contender with her straight-A average. She asked him to the prom — just as friends.

In recent months, Robyn and Dylan’s relationship had been wobbling along that murky territory between friendship and romance.

Robyn later told a friend that Dylan behaved gentlemanly on prom night, complimenting her on her dress.

“They were holding hands and stuff,” said Jessica Hughes, one of the limo crowd.

Jessica sat next to Robyn and Dylan during dinner at Bella Ristorante. There was a lot of silly joking between them, playing with knives and matches.

“They were pretending to light themselves on fire,” Jessica said.

Dylan ate a big salad, followed by a seafood dish with shells, mussels she thinks, then dessert. “I was like, my Lord,” Jessica said.

Jessica and Dylan chatted about a party both planned to attend in a couple weeks, a reunion for kids who’d been in the gifted program in elementary school.

“He was all excited to see everyone,” Jessica said.

Dylan even agreed to bring pizza because he worked at Blackjack.

Back in the limo, no one was drinking anything stronger than Pepsi, Jessica recalled.

The car’s TV was off. The radio was turned to a hard-rock station and on so low the kids drowned out the music. They were being, well, normal goofy teens enjoying themselves. Cameras flashing. Lipstick smiles. Whisking through the night in a mirrored-ceiling car.

“We were flipping people off because the windows were so dark. We were making fun of people,” Jessica said.

Dylan even talked of everyone staying in touch after he left for college in three months.

“He was in a really great mood that night,” another friend in the limo, Monica Schuster, said.

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You had a part of Sue’s book in your answer to the last Robyn ask where she mentioned that “herd dating” was common. I looked it up on the internet, but I surprisingly wasn’t able to find out what it is. I was wondering if you knew. Also, how do you think Dylan participated in this “herd dating”.

It’s the same thing as casual group dating. Group dating is a modern pattern for dating where a group of single men and a group of single women, often friends, organise a night out, with the potentiality of forming romantic partnerships if one or more pairings click.

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“I love you [……] that’s all I think about anymore …

I know that this humanity is almost over, that we will be free.

We have proven to Fate that we are the everything of purity & halcyon, & that we deserve, need, love, can’t exist without each other. It’s hard, I think that I might not be enough, my mind sometimes gets stuck on its own things,

I think about human things. All I try to do is imagine the happiness between us. That is something we cannot even conceive in this toilet earth. The everything, the halcyon, the happiness is ours. There will be no notes from me. Let the humans suffer without my knowledge of the everything. I am trying not to think about the happiness, somehow thinking that fate will destroy it if i conceive/relish in it when I’m a human. But I love her. We are soulmates.”

–Dylan Klebold

Do you think that there was a slight possibility that Dylan had feelings for Robyn, but as in more than a friend? Btw, I love your blog!!! 💗

No, I honestly don’t feel Dylan thought of Robyn romantically. He liked Robyn, and he felt she was a nice person and a fun friend to hang out with but he just wasn’t attracted to her in that way.   I think Robyn was more open to the possibility that Dylan might eventually return interest but she never pushed it with him. I’m honestly revisiting this again.. Seems like I’m continually writing the same answer to the same question every couple of months. The only reason I’m ‘going there’ yet again is in light of the fact that tomorrow is the 19 year anniversary of their prom night out.

Excerpts from Sue’s book regarding Dylan about Robyn:

“Robyn arrived in good time, looking lovely in a deep blue-purple dress. Tom taped Dylan presenting her with her corsage, and smiling down at her as she struggled to pin a rose to his lapel. I made paparazzi jokes and asked them to move so I could get a picture without parked cars in the background. Since Dylan had assured us he and Robyn were just friends, I was a little surprised—and frankly tickled—to see him put his arm around her.
In the last few frames on the tape Tom shot, the two of them smile into the camera. Then, self-consciously but sweetly, they both begin to laugh.”

“Dylan didn’t have a girlfriend in high school, but he and his other friends did hang out with girls; “herd dating” was common among their age group. He met his prom date, Robyn, in class; they studied calculus together. When Dylan first started spending time with Robyn, I peppered him with questions about her and her family, as I did about all of his friends. He laughed: “Believe me, Mom: you have nothing to worry about with Robyn. She’s exactly the kind of person you’d want me to be with, an A student.” When I asked what she was like, Dylan shrugged and told me, “She’s just a nice person.” I met her a few days later, and realized Dylan had been right: Robyn was lovely. I was impressed by how comfortable she seemed around Tom and me.”

and thanks ❤

Here is what Hitmen For Hire would’ve originally been like with the boys’ Hitmen’s ‘theme song’ edited in.

Eric obviously liked Rammstein’s Wilder Wein as he mentions it in the Basement Tapes and I believe he also had a t-shirt of it. I find it rather interesting that Eric chose a slow-paced, lamenting sort of song rather than some pounding industrial techno for the walk scenes. Says a lot about him in regards to the sort of moody piece he chose for his government economics class project. You can kind of hear a smidge of Wilder Wein in these two segments. As their dialog starts, the music fades out.. I would imagine that the authorities masked it out as they did not want Rammstein’s copyrighted music on the infamous shooters vids. I tried to get it as close to the timing of their queue of the song to their scenes but decided to leave in the smidge of where their music bit overlaps with my edit.  It’s likely that they filmed two different versions of their walking scene but only picked one of the two for their final video production. On the other hand, they might have used both and Wilder Wein was just the theme song for the Hitmen.  Enjoy. 🙂   

Lyrics to Wilder Wein