the-everything-frame-of-mind:

What a coincidence, Dylan. I hate stupid people too. It’s a sign! 😀

Hate = Liars, punk fags, bitches who hang w. them,   lawyers, psychicnets commercials, faggots at werk [redacted], people who hang in
gangs & think their kool (um, TCM Dyl?), NBC, The fpg WB, R movie checkers, Jocks
grammar, Alts. mus, Age limits, taxes, Pussy Rap,
martial artists, Laid Back people, prices of stereo shit, People
who, Rich people, Annoying people, speed limits, salesman,
charity commericals, wanna be experts of stuff, fag teachers,
Star wars fags, Stupid people (<3), fags making fun of retards (Adam Kyler, Dyl?), popular lame ass sitcoms,
Assorted people (haha), NPR, Paparozzis, enquirer mags,
Ricki Lake people, WWF fans, cops, curfew laws, celebrity benefits,
fuckers that say they kick ass cause only their strong (hmm..), welfare, moochers,
laez talkers(? that’s pretty lazY), HANSON, JTT (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), that’s all (Tommy Hilfiger)

Dylan and I were very close, and I’m upset with the way that the media has portrayed him. We spent a lot of time together. Dylan always had few friends, he was an easy child, a normal teenager. Sue and I were always there for him. We were not absentee parents. I believed that my son had a personality that was very similar to mine. We did a lot of things together and talked a lot. We played sports, we also worked on Dylan’s car together and built speakers for the car. He also built his own computer and we played chess.

Tom Klebold (via columbinearchive)

Columbine 101: Transcript of Dylan’s Explanation of the Van Break- in

acolumbineblog:

Eric & I were driving home (him driving his car), & we stopped at the parking lot thingy at Deer Creek Rd & Wadsworth. We got out & he set off a few fireworks, & then we were going around smashing bottles. Then almost at the same time, we both got the idea of breaking into this white van…

Columbine 101: Transcript of Dylan’s Explanation of the Van Break- in

Columbine 101: Excerpt from the Basement Tapes

acolumbineblog:

Dylan gets dressed, pulling on a black trenchcoat. “I’m fat on this side,“ he says and starts talking about how he looks “fat with all the stuff on”. He tries to toss the TEC-9 into his hand from where it’s hanging on the sling but his coat prevents the move.

KLEBOLD: I’ll have to take the coat…

Does this outfit make me look fat?

Columbine 101: Excerpt from the Basement Tapes

thedragonrampant:

“Klebold followed Harris wherever Harris went,” as witnesses stated.
But when journalists saw the Basement Tapes, that vision changed. According to some, it was Dylan who seemed to be the dominant figure (the ‘psycho’ of the two) on those. He talked more often, seemed more determined, appeared to be the biggest hater. “Contrary to popular opinion,“ writes the Denver Post, “it is Harris who comes across as the most sympathetic of the two. He was seen in the first few days as angry and weird, but here he is apologetic and somewhat remorseful. (..) Klebold is monstrous on those tapes, raging on about his lifelong hidden anger and all the slights he suffered at the hands of his fellow students, teachers, and family. (..) He shows no contrition, just deadly aggression.”
Years later, in 2006 when the journals of the two were released, that monstrosity took on a different meaning. Then it became clear what Dylan was really like, when nobody else was around: pathetic, down, interested in nothing but his misery and his reunion in death with an imaginary soulmate — not even the shooting mattered to him. It is this side that he kept hidden from Eric. His monstrosity was an act — it was showing off, begging for acceptance, the price he had to pay for his ticket to the halcyon. He misled Eric.
But he misled everyone. (..) On the Diversion list with thirty problems, of which Eric noted fourteen as being relevant to himself, Dylan only ticked two: money and jobs, exactly the two things that said nothing about himself. The Diversion-people swallowed the story; in the three-quarter year he had to deal with them, Dylan knew how to keep the kookiness of his journal hidden from them completely. Just like he hid it from his parents, his friends, the entire school. And from Eric.

– Excerpt from We Are But We Are Not Psycho, by Tim Krabbé.

Krabbe has an interesting take but I don’t agree on this point.  It’s not quite fair to allot a disproportionate amount of blame, essentially vilifying Dylan over Eric.   If Dylan misled Eric then Eric misled Dylan by suddenly revealing hesitation and remorse after he’d spent a year vocalizing how much he hated the world and that everyone needed to die and NBK was the solution.  I think since Dylan sat on his negative feelings more so than Eric, he was using the Basement Tapes as a way to spew all his pent up resentment and with someone he knew would appreciate and rejoin in it. 

What hit me in the basement tapes was the fact that Eric is running is gun, called Arlene, over a pile of pipe bombs, back and forth, and he’s talking casually, and Dylan said, I believe he said, ‘My uncle is going to be very upset.’ And he’s talking about a Jewish holiday. And Eric says to him, ‘You’re Jewish?’ And Dylan says, ‘Yeah.’ and I think he starts saying ‘half’ or ‘fourth’ and I think for a second there he thinks ‘Eric’s going to turn on me.’ It’s just a very strange thing. And Eric goes something like ‘Wow that’s too bad.’

Judy Brown on the basement tapes. (via pumpkin-fairy)

Poor Dyl. Can’t seem to fit in anywhere.