From Mexico City, Mexico (2) ?-- October 11th

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:28:37 -0800
Subject: Divine's pussy
From: "Michael Balzary"
To: members@redhotchilipeppers.net

Mexico was great. Yesterday on our day off we went to the home of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. I was excited about seeing the home I had seen so many pictures of but was surprised to see that there were several paintings by both Frida and Diego there. I am personally drawn to the Frida ones, she just blows my mind by whole heartedly embracing everything, the darkest of tragedy, and the most childlike innocence. She also is so gorgeous that I am just in awe of her and the fact that such radical thinking could go hand in hand with such stunning physical beauty. ...Mexico City must have been such an exciting place in the 30's and 40's.............. such an epicenter of art and idealism. This is very romantic to me. When there exists a core of something so intense that is shared by a few people in a certain area, that becomes so influential to the energy of the universe, this is very romantic and exciting to me. the surrealists, the punk rockers, the early greek philosophers, the hard boppers, the doo woppers, these movements just change everything.

we are going home tomorrow, we played tonight and the crowd was really fucking warm and kind.

love flea