Llangef's Comments

I agree those two murderers were not the victims.

However.

They were making pipe bombs and "body armor" in the garage of one of their parents' houses. The parent's did nothing about that. If I made a mess in the garage at that age my dad made damn sure I accounted for it.

The "crowd" they were in had nothing to do with it either. I grew up on the north side of Denver; Littleton is on the south side. But one thing that all suburban kids of that era in in that city who wanted to have an image of a "goth" a "skater" a "punk" or whatever when they rejected the preppy or "top 40" look was a long black trenchcoat. Denver gets cold, and trenchcoats are warm and, well, anti-stylish. I still have mine hanging in the closet.

I was in college at the University of Colorado when it happened. My housemate had gone to Littleton High, the archrival of Columbine in sports, but still part of the community. He also had a long black trenchcoat. After the murders, and the way the media blamed an imagined subculture of mass murders who all wore black trenchcoats and listened to music like Marilyn Manson that MADE THEM do it, we were regarded with suspicion. It wasn't a good time.

But I've since learned that the media MUST have an image to sell. Sell it to make money, sell it to create fear and hate, or sell it to build power, it's all about image. Just like highschoolers must have an image to define themselves. It's a pity that the ethics, morals, and persona of the American media has regressed to that of an insecure teenager.

my fave from the Jungle Book was the snake song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QrPWQF1414

I noticed right away that the person tagged as Oliver Hardy is actually "Fatty" Arbuckle, another screen comedian of the same era. It makes me wonder how many others are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle

It's the theme from Exodus (by Ferrante & Teicher) with a beat and samples mixed over it.