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Redwreck
Social climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Dirt, I'm going to miss you. I don't think we've ever interacted here -- I'm mostly a lurker -- but to me you're one of the people who makes this site worth reading. You're smart and funny passionate and give good rant, and I appreciate that. So take care, man, and keep afflicting the comfortable as long as you're able.
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RRK
Trad climber
Talladega, Al
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way I read that post Ol' Dirt's gonna make sure that my gear falls out every time I start up from now on (SO??). Hmmm - and to think that I'd almost given up hope of ever appearing in ANAM. Maybe I could cash in as a climber-exorcist:(e.g.)
"Terrified Climber: "Dude - I don't know what happened up there. It's like we're haunted or something. All the gear fell out --bolts too!!
RRK: Dude you ARE haunted. It's the ghost of Dirtineye. Apparently you have pissed off the evil spirit. Tell you what - for a couple of those SNPA's and that shiny new red Camalot I can have a word with him for you???"
CHA CHING. Dirt you gotta work with me on this one.
RRK
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Richard
climber
Bend, OR.
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I never interacted with ya Dirt.
But you remind me of a habaneo pepper in salsa. At first it stings and burns....but then you get the flavor and want more!!
keep your chin up!!!
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Hey Dirt,
My dad always used to say to me "You have got to be straight with me." That was his definition of a good person, someone who was "straight", was honest with themselves and others, who saw the world clearly the was it is, not the way they wanted it to be. So that's how I was raised and I've tried to be that, with mixed succcess. Dirt, you are a "straight" guy in all senses of the word. I've always appreciated that about you. It's rare and I thank you for it.
But if you think you are off the frickin" hook for coming out here and doing some FAs with us!, think again buddy. We are still waiting and the lack of Healje's hammer ain't going to cut it as an excuse. I'm sorting the rack now.
Zander
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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the greatest living clasical guitar maker, and the best ever in the usa and probably the world for me adn a lot of others too, is John Gilbert, followed by his son Bill, who is making even better guitars.
But john pioneered methods that revolutionized the craft, not to mention that almost everyone who's anyone in Classical world has owned one or still does, sometimes more than one.
those who part with them usually wish they had not, LOL.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
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Thx. Curt, next time I take a classical guitar lesson, I'll drop their names and score big points with Sulai! The other guitar maker who Sulai liked was the now deceased Miguel Rodriguiz of Cordoba, Spain. Here's a link to some other audio/video clips from Sulai's website if you get bored enough...check out "Sunburst" and "Encore".
http://guitarbloomington.com/sulaiman%20zai%20video.htm
Frank
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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RRK (or Dirt) - where exactly is Dirt?
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Plant what works Sis, just so Curt can smell the Vanilla! Though, I think he is more of a 'Rocky Road' kinda guy...
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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you could plant a bhoddi tree, for me. We could All be part of it...
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Dick,
Dirt curt is currently in birmingham alabama.
but soon to be, well, EVERYWHERE!!! ROTFLMAO!
Lois, byall means, plant the tulip poplars. plant several though and give em ROOM, the can get really big really fast, and eventually then can be many feet in daim, although not in your remaining lifetime.
there is one that is 300 years old in one ofthe national forests here.
they change so much once the get to be 3 or mroe feet in diam, yo ualmost don't recognize tehm, cause teh bark charactdr really changes
at about 10 to twelve years old, they start blooming, and for most of thier life nad an incredible shape. they remind me of the trees theelves live in in tolein's books.
grey smoothish bark with a little wrinkle to it, long slender drooping branches with a very nice curavture, adn never so big they would harm your hose if one fell on it, unlike some trees such as the chdsthun oak, where a branch can be as big as a tree and do a ton of damage when it falls.
plant the coreopsis too, but I prefer snowberry coriopsis to the others, it is the most striking and I thin you woudl reaoly enjoy it. plus it us damned cheap for such a nice looking perenial flower.
Now about these demands that I come west and climb, well ,OK, just do your part.. HAHA, that means, find a cure or a miracle for me, and I'll be on teh next plane out, absolutely.
I'd love to put off the haunting stuff as long as possible, I need time to study it so I can do a good job and all that. THe rethuglivcans cna waint, hell they won;t change one bit, so any time will be a good time to start f*#king with them.
Lois I can work on in this plane when I'm feeling the need for endless frustration ROTFLMAO!!!!!
I havea feeling if she read baycevich's book and a few chapters of thomas franks the wereacking crew, she just might wake up, as would many in fact.
the main problem with the retugs, is, they foold the 'good ' republicans and are keeping the wool pulled over the eyes of what are bsically good but ingnorant people. a large part of the problem is, NOBODY woudl ever expect their public servants to be so dedicated to evil, and make no mistake, the hadr right REthugs ARE evil.. Just ask Fatty.
How he can stand it I ahve no idea.
he can't be as bad as teh scum he defends, it must be that he to is wquite ignorant of their actual goals, asn any reasonable thiniing person KNOWS we needa viable middle class to havea decent country, hell it's plain and simple that is. but htat is NOT what hte hard right wingnut rethugs want, OH NO.
just ask yorsekf if this makes any sense at akll, especially in light f the compltete adn utter failure for the last 8 years of mostly unrestrained rethuglican nonsese:
1. busness will do no wron, needs no reguoation, in fact, all regulation is bad. Like we need MORE salmanella in the peanut butter, LOL. yeah.
2. GOvernment is bad. Well it is is you purposly MKE it ineffectuao ns stupid, which is a started goal of the rethugs, and it plays right into their spel: creatd inept pitiful crap departments by gutting thier resources, appointing certain losers or industry insides (from the industry that department is supposed to oversee) and then when it totally screws up, you say, see, government does not work! we shoudl get rid of this epartment adn let good old business handle itself. HAHAHAHA fooled you again!
3 a tax on business is a mortal sin. this one is self expanatory, but incredibly stupid. businesses have aleayws paid taxes, they just don;t want to., hell they want to put every penny in theior pokcet nad have all the money, likea monopoly game. well see, did you ever PLAY monopoly? in the end, ONE person ahs evertything ,and everone else is bueste. it's a fun gaem, but no way to run a counrty, I promise, LOL. but htat's how business think it should be, weht a serf labor class to serve them,hehehe.
Oh well gota go.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dirt, do you still have an A to laugh off? In any case, i'm with you laughing off whatever it is that we share, to laugh off.
Lois, as your tenacious little bro, you know I'm not going anywhere new, now. Transcontinental travel plans can be problematic. When the time is right I will be there and we ( you, me and your guy) will plant something for another generation to enjoy. Pennsylvania is a kinda hardwood place, ain't it? What about some sort of Maple, maybe an Oak?
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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lots of places carary tulip poplars, try for some from tennesee, not florida.
I have to say you are making a good choice, and ad for that next gen thing, well, not true for Tulip poplars at all, unless you jsut want a 100 foot giant of 3 or 4 feet diam to call it a tree,
In 10 years you'll be getting fowlers and thatis if you start from one foot tall stuff, or bscially almost seedlings . spend for a 5 or 7 year tree and well, you gethte idea. thayt are not expensive. hell you could go dig some up along any new road cut, they are a soft hardwood, that tends to be the first wave or nature reclaimging disturbed ground. they come up like weeds around the south anytime anyone clear a lot or builds a road. they also seem to be fairly drought resisatnt-- we have never lost one to drought, nd hte same cant be said for the hardwoods like oak of any sort and any number of other native tree on the mountain. w just ha a three year drought in alabama and no tulip poplar seemed to eve n suffer. Lost a few of everything else though, and we live in the woods. Oaks are a LOT more finicky than tulip poplars.
Again, if yo ustart with a 5 - 7 year old tree it really won't cost much and you'll get that flowers in a few years wiht any luck at all, and they rock. at 20 years they will be about 40 to 50 feet tall, unless you do soemthing really bad for em. they are very fast and hardy. I don;t know why people do not use em moreas they are very beautiful, hard to knock down (never seen one tipped by storm or hurricane leftovers, oreven tornado, and cna't say that about oaks or any other tre in fact. actually, oaks and chestnut oaks in particluar seem to do VERY badly in big strms or tornados
glad you liked the snowberry coreopsis. they are chaep enogh, jsut get a few plants and let them seed for you. they make a ton of seeds. one plant will ahve a buttload of flowers on it. you can buy em for about 5 bucks a good sized plant at lowes in spring, LOL. seeds woudl be cheper of course, but you'd have to wait a little while.
THey sure do look good. not sure if snowberry is a developed on or a wild one, but htey look so nice, who cares? and they are easy. hell you could have a field of em, what a sight that would be. it would knock your socks off.
My sugge4stion on planting the TPs woudl be, not a grove, but spread around. they have such grace and charm you kind of want them to be a little free standing and uncrowded, if yo uget my drift. TP is aa very elegant looking tree. if yo udid plant enough, the wood is fantastic to work with for any sort of milling as it has no real grain problens or knots, and will take paint very nicely. IT is strong and light. it used to be the wood of preference for finsh work , moldings and window frames and mullions, for the reasons I jsut mentioned. you might evne try making some moeny growing it for mill work. you could check out your area and see if htere is a demand. from seedlings we are talking 20 years to harvest a LOT of wood that is as I said very good for any mill work or finish carpentry.
If I ahd to grow one kind of three, the tp would be it. a property covered with them would be very attractive. I've seen forsets in NE georgia nda tenneseee wher the TP was teh common wood, and it jsut looks realy nice. as I said the TP isa very elegant stately tree.
Enough already LOL.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Since we are on this subject, a close friend of mine went to a meditation retreat shortly after her 16 year old beloved dog died.
She had a way of asking the Spirit for “a sign.” She said that she had only used it a couple of times in her life, out of respect and not to abuse this need.
So it’s dead calm and she is sitting under a tree. She asks the Spirit for a sign that her sweet pooch is “Ok.”
Immediately there is a single, sudden gust of wind and a leaf blows off the tree and falls down directly in her hand.
Peace
Karl
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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yeah Karl, I used to have stuff like that happen, looking for 'mountain spirits or whatever, out climbing, LOL.
It would be nice if it were real. Sometimes I almost beleive it.
but not really.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
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Hey Curt,
Got any classical guitar links or downloads to listen too today? If not of yourself, how 'bout some of your favs. Just curious who you got on your hit list. Thx.
Frank
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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well dick, frankly, I'm on my hit list. here, try this. Pbucket screws up the sound somehow about half the time, but I think this one works.
I'll have another cd or two out in a week or two, maybe y9 0ucan get a copy, and there are three tacks one per year on the fretted Instrument cherismas CD, if yo ucna find those, LOL. they are supposed to be fre for the asking, but nvitation only to the playrers, so mostly they are good. OF course, my track is alwasy the best LOL.
If I ahve the endery I'll be going commercial very soon, but three years uf uniterrupted misery had made it hard to getthings done, but I'll see if I can get you the 22 min thing if yo ulike. send me a mailing address. OR ask Blanchard for a copy, it;s all done in his guitar anyway. Hope to have one with the gilbert and one with the doolin too soon. we'll see.
Gotta make an hour long "realaxing masages theraly cd for my hospicd voluteer massage guy, maybe that will be good too, we'll see.
anyway, let's see how this works. I wrote this a few yearsa go on the gilbert, it came partly rom something I did for a friend who was dying from cancer but her idiot family NEVER played it for her. I'm still madabout htat GRRRR.
http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/Climbingoldguy/video/?action=view¤t=100_1557.flv
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Wow Curt. That is truly beautiful.
I can play some pretty things, but nothing at your skill level.
Mine is all a bit rougher (sloppy?)
I play 5.8-5.9 guitar and you're pulling down the 5.12.
Good job brother.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
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Wow Curt! Sounded great on my end...that's a beautiful song. Has a nice classical/retro sound to it. I'm a fledgling player, but like the oldies but goodies, F. Sans, Bach, etc.
What name did you give this song, BTW?
Enjoy your massage, hope it brings you some relief. Have a good day. (edit: misread your post...you are making a CD for your massgage therapist, got it.)
Keep posting songs if you'd like, I'll keep listening.
Edit#2: I'll email you sometime today!
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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That one is called, like a thousand others haha, Fantasy.
Yeha I'm retro as hell, no modern crap for me.
Actually I am not a 5.12 player, I am (so I've been told) world class. Not my term, that's what people say. I jsut backed into it by accident. But Ideed I am real, I finally had to face that. actually it was a shock. YOU don;t expect these things to happe. somethiems they do though. gotta keep at what y9ou do and have faith in yourself I guess, you never know what could happen. ANd how did I do it? Well I ahve talent, but that and a warm bucket of spit are wirth the same. I PREACTICE and PRACTICE and PRACTICAS and then I PRACTICE some MORE, cause That's how things happe. YOU make yourself better than you are, by wiorking at it every damend day of yoru life and not giving up.
Anyone who tells you different is either tragically gifted or an idiot, but I'll tell yo ua gifted person who does NOT put in the effort will still not have what they should have.
According to GIlbert I owe it to the world to get this stuff out, LOL, whinc stikes meas a bit funny that the greatest living clasical gultar maker, considerad a god by many players and luthiners around the world, like my stuff. he has opened many doors for me with one phone call.
Too bad I'm sick or life would be excellent. Oh well.
If I ahd 5 more yearse I'd be able to write probaly 3-500 mpore tunes. not gonna hjappen now, so i'm stuck with about 200.
I'll see what else I can dig up later. I just don;t ahve much energy for such things right now
Oh goddammait I'm doing it again. I am NOT a role model, I'm not a philosopher, I hate such crap, I SUCK!! don't listen to me, go think for yourselves! YOu have to do that. I bet most good climbers know that anyway. haha.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Re: Your video...
UN...believable.
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