If you ever want to feel what being a baby seal being clubbed on the head by a Newfie feels like - read Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by D. Hofstadter. OW!
Anyways, about Castaneda, so its fake and he made it up - so what? Im not reading it to learn how to cast spells and justify my peyote habit, but to better understand the minds of 70's climbers and writers.
Mt. Cook IS cool. What route did you do?
This one?
i did 25% of the grand traverse, bailed due to sunstroke, and then the linda! so all in all about 60% of the full traverse round trip from mt cook village
If ya want to read some goodshit from the 1970's read some CARLOS CASTANEDA start with "Teachings of Don Juan" and go from there.
Look what it did for Ron Kauk!
best boulder problem - unnamed "P6" (like V2) in Queen Creek. pocket dynos!
best alpine route (easy rock) - still holding in at W butt of Old Settler S peak OR Brewer Buttress on castle
best alpine route (hard rock) - Proof is in the Pudding on Ibex. super clean and sustained for the SWBC alpine.
best cragging type rock route - Rainbow Buttress red rox or Drag the Magic puffin, Chek Canyon
best snow and ice alpine route - Mt Cook New Zealand or Paymaster
best waterfall ice route - Gibraltar Wall
i think thats it. no aid routes, they all suck.
My opinions are not fixed and may change tomorrow or next week. On some of these the quality ofthe climb may have been enhanced by other factors another party might not encounter
ZAMM is total crap. Outdated philosophy "I can resolve the Classical and Romantic traditions" BS, intermixed with TOTALLY BOGUS motorcycle maintenance tips. You can wreck your bike following his directions!
somebody hacked our work email server in New Yawk City and stole the list of our email addys.... since then I have got about 2 dozen Nigerian Banking and other scams.... "Block Sender!"
9"
ANAM 2004:
ROCKFALL, INADEQUATE PROTECTION, SPRAY OVERDOSE, TOO MUCH HORSECOCK, SNAFFLEHOUND ATTACK, WENT TOO LIGHT AND TOO SLOW, IMPROPER BIVI GEAR (Rasta), FORGOT HAMMER AND PINS, LEFT CELL PHONE AT HOME, BELIEVED INTERNET BETA, what else?
Reminds me of my "Last Exit Live in Tokyo", except with the addition of Peter Brotzmann. It's pretty much the same thing.
I don't find Brotzmann grating... just a master free jazz sax player.... saw him with the Tentet at jazzfest a few years back...that was LOUD!!
This Azonic Halo is serious harsh. The only other Laswell stuff that comes close is the stuff with Praxis 2 with Buckethead and, unsurprising, Andy Hawkin and the rest of Bling Idiot God, plus John Zorn....
You gotta listen to annoying, grating, atonal music played fast and loud to stay awake.
Azonic Halo is one hour of Bill Laswell and Andy Hawkins playing NOTHING BUT SUPER LOUD GUITAR AND BASS GRATING FEEDBACK It is guaranteed you can't fall asleep to it.