Half the 10-12 times he visited the store Tobin worked he was with someone. But she did not specifically mention that he asked her out while with a friend that particular time.  I tend to doubt it. It’d be too embarrassing for him to be observed by a dude friend asking a girl out and then being turned down.  Mortifying for him for someone to witness that, infact.

No, I don’t think Dylan felt comfortable asking for advice about girls. Maybe with Zack..but even then.  It was uncomfortable stuff to openly talk about.  And then they would want to know who it was he was interested in asking out which would then be a can of worms.  Dylan was a very private person. I doubt any of his friends even knew the girl/s he secretly admired from afar and wrote about in his journal.  On top of that, Dylan also prided himself on self-reliance as a gifted dude. I think asking for advice would be like asking for help.   Dylan may have gone into All Would Up numerous times with a friend and never once told his friend he was glancing at the girl up at the counter or that he had his sights set on her and that he fully intended to work up the nerve to ask her out sometime in the future.  Entirely plausible…

With my previous ask about the limited tapes – I mean, knowing more about them actually seeing their faces up close. Face to face without other people being around them, or something happening to take the camera away from them. I wish this would have happened. They were bright boys who of course had a future. They were talented. I just wish that maybe they had tapes just talking about how they felt – (not including the basement tapes) something just like a video diary. I don’t know.

Making video diaries is more of a common thing now because of how easy it is to do with a smartphone.  Camcorders back in the nineties were on the pricey side and most teenagers didn’t own one the way teens have devices today. As it was, the boys borrowed a camcorder that was their school’s property to film the majority of their footage and they probably way overextended the loan of that camcorder as it was – to the point where CHS probably viewed it as ‘stealing’. I’m sure their thinking was that the two of them combined ranting about things – on what is now known as The Basement Tapes –  served as their video diary. Had they been doing all of this today, it would’ve been called R & V’s Vlog.  And yeah, we would’ve gotten a shitton of their phone footage – probably much more from Eric than Dylan though.  But back then in the day, I’m sure they probably felt they had extensively used video technology to express their thoughts and convey their message. Eric considered his “Book of God” journaling just the icing on the cake companion to their tapes, and Dylan wasn’t writing with the intent for the world to see his private thoughts. 

At any rate, I really like the boys’ handwritten journals and there is almost something much more intensely private, raw and honest about seeing their thoughts written with their own hand rather than just talking away on video which generally turns out to be more contrived.  I think people still tend to ‘play’ to the camera when doing video diaries rather than just being genuinely themselves. Randy Stair was most definitely playing to the camera with each of their long-winded vids to the point of being so commonplace it became boring. It was obviously a performance intended for the world, not so much for a way to unburden private thoughts, and it’s obvious that they laid the drama on thick.  I don’t think that was their true self though. On the Basement Tapes, Eric and Dylan were playing up the drama too; they were being badass characters. Even on that one bit of tape where Eric is alone in his car, he is still ranting for his intended audience’s sake. I think if they’d done a bunch of private vlogs, I tend to doubt that it’d necessarily be an insightful glimpse into who they were personally, as individuals.  

After. He was already sickly with seizures while Eric was living.

Hello there 🙂  Well, the ‘second shot’ is not part of the previous video footage of Dylan playing Soul Blade. The snippet with (yes) Cassie Bernall is not related to the video game footage.  Brooks saying “Creature makeup” and Dylan saying “damn good job” while Cassie is being shown, is taken from the Frankenstein Roast and edited in irresponsibly to almost make it seem like the boys are making fun of Cassie’s face.  So, none of those clips are related to one another or part of the same footage. It’s all just unrelated edits stitched together at the beginning of the Columbine documentary called ‘The Lost Boys’ (search the title on youtube to watch it). 

The short answer is that Eric wasn’t ‘fluent’ in German.  lol Good lordy no.  It was a combination of him learning stilted textbook German in school and reciting Rammstein lyrics in the hallways so other classmates assumed he knew the language well.  Search “German” for other questions like this one.

Thank you for the Birthday wishes. xx  I really appreciate the kind gesture but no need, that’s okay… What you’ve said to me is a gift enough. 🙂  I appreciate your heartfelt appreciation for this blog.  ❤    And, besides – there just might be an opportunity in the future where you and others can do something nice that will help a certain someone that really needs it.  Stay tuned for such details. 😉 

We don’t know exactly as it was never mentioned by Sasha.  Dylan’s parents maintain that Dylan never went on one-on-one dates. He only “herd” dated which was basically groups of girls and guys going out.  If we can rely on this information,  the two probably went to a movie, did midnight bowling or yeah, ate out – as part of a group. 

Aww, why thank you. 🙂   The Kass book is one of my top three favorite books (the other two being Sue Klebold’s book as well as Brooks Brown’s book). The Kass book is well written and is packed with information that is accurate. It includes some finer details like the boys’ parents origins and background.  Please search "true crime story” for my rec/review post.  I highly recommend checking it out. 🙂 

None of the remaining victims that were still alive in the library were conscious and fully cognizant so there were no witnesses to their suicide.  Patrick Ireland may possibly have auditorily heard Dylan coughing/struggling before he died.  However, there is no way to really confirm it conclusively.  Search his name for more details. 

Because he wrote about it in his journal. Search ‘foot fetish’ to learn more.

Thank you so much.  ❤  Happy Holidays and New Year to you. 🙂 

Thank you. ❤

Sure, of course, they interacted occasionally seeing as they were in theater class and would have had to collaborate from time-to-time on the sound production in relation to her performance as in the example here:

But Devon Adams, who was a friend of Rachel and Dylan, was in the sound booth with him when it happened.  She said Dylan rescued Rachel’s performance.  "He was freakin’ out,“ she said.  "He’s going, ‘Stupid tape!’  Rachel kept going, and he tried his best to get it back up.  It was just a bad tape.  He got it to work better than it had been.  He adjusted the levels a little bit and it came out okay.”  Devon said Rachel was “a wreck” after that performance but that she thanked Dylan for fixing the tape.  "That was the only time I ever saw her cry,“ she said. [Source]