I learned about the mirror years ago. I don’t know the timeline of the public sharing of the story, but regardless, I had no idea about the rest of this story. Thank you
I think a lot of us saw the mirror when the video was released on the Guns n’ Roses music video DVD. We got it in 480p and it was a lot cleaner than recordings from MTV. Much higher bitrate, too. DVD is “only” 480p but the bitrate was pretty high. DVDs still look decent. There was also YouTube and the 1080p upload, but I’m not sure when that was.
Before people started noticing the mirror, we were guessing she shot herself because she walks by a gun store, but she walks by it at night, and some say we see Axl, not her. (I still don’t know who we saw there. But I think it’s more a reference to Tracy Guns than anything else.) But, now we know what actually happened. She did shoot herself, but we don’t know where the gun came from. She almost certainly did not buy it right after the wedding. I’m guessing it was his. The video also leaves out 99% of the short story. The short story didn’t have the wedding or the funeral. Neither did the other videos. The short story was the piece the three videos were missing. The band (and writer) intended for you to get all the pieces together. That didn’t happen, and when the short story collection went out of print, they just gave up. They didn’t release the story online, they didn’t explain themselves, they just said “fuck it” and moved on. Only a few people who really cared, dug into it, and most of them threw money at the problem. Guys like me had to wait for the story to leak. Or the reprinting, but I’m confident the reprinting only happened because the story leaked. They weren’t reprinting it before then. The leak happened like 15-20 years after the book went out of print.
Oh, here’s the book on Amazon. $8.99 USD for a mass market paperback. No tracking on this link (at least not from me): https://www.amazon.com/Language-Fear-Stories-Del-James/dp/0440217121 So yeah, now anyone can get it for the price of just about any other book. Cheaper than others. I’m not trying to sell it, I’m just saying, it’s available now and it’s super cheap, it’s not the hundreds of dollars people were paying for it on eBay 20-30 years ago.
I learned about the mirror years ago. I don’t know the timeline of the public sharing of the story, but regardless, I had no idea about the rest of this story. Thank you
I think a lot of us saw the mirror when the video was released on the Guns n’ Roses music video DVD. We got it in 480p and it was a lot cleaner than recordings from MTV. Much higher bitrate, too. DVD is “only” 480p but the bitrate was pretty high. DVDs still look decent. There was also YouTube and the 1080p upload, but I’m not sure when that was.
Before people started noticing the mirror, we were guessing she shot herself because she walks by a gun store, but she walks by it at night, and some say we see Axl, not her. (I still don’t know who we saw there. But I think it’s more a reference to Tracy Guns than anything else.) But, now we know what actually happened. She did shoot herself, but we don’t know where the gun came from. She almost certainly did not buy it right after the wedding. I’m guessing it was his. The video also leaves out 99% of the short story. The short story didn’t have the wedding or the funeral. Neither did the other videos. The short story was the piece the three videos were missing. The band (and writer) intended for you to get all the pieces together. That didn’t happen, and when the short story collection went out of print, they just gave up. They didn’t release the story online, they didn’t explain themselves, they just said “fuck it” and moved on. Only a few people who really cared, dug into it, and most of them threw money at the problem. Guys like me had to wait for the story to leak. Or the reprinting, but I’m confident the reprinting only happened because the story leaked. They weren’t reprinting it before then. The leak happened like 15-20 years after the book went out of print.
Oh, here’s the book on Amazon. $8.99 USD for a mass market paperback. No tracking on this link (at least not from me): https://www.amazon.com/Language-Fear-Stories-Del-James/dp/0440217121 So yeah, now anyone can get it for the price of just about any other book. Cheaper than others. I’m not trying to sell it, I’m just saying, it’s available now and it’s super cheap, it’s not the hundreds of dollars people were paying for it on eBay 20-30 years ago.