Date: Thurs, April 20
Subject:
From: "Michael Balzary"
To: members@redhotchilipeppers.com

hi
we just played in paris tonight
i love to see people smile
i stayed in my room all day because i needed to rest
i know it is lazy, but it was time for abject laziness
and last night i watched flight plan with jodi foster
it was kind of interesting and a little predictable
but i just love jodie foster
i always have
when i first met my wife we watched 'little man tate'
the summer before last anthony and i and some friends went hiking in
yosemite national park
that is a great place
the mountains are high and the rivers are clear and deep and the
bears will eat your food or even you if you don't watch out
and the trees are so plentiful except when you get above the
timberline but that's ok cause then you have a view of the pristine
majesty that goes for ever and ever
i have had some of the greatest moments of my life hiking up there
when i have become so small that i got smaller and smaller til i
disappeared into the beauty of it all and i didn't even exist in this
dimension
i hope i have grandkids and great grandkids and that we all party
together
and read books and tell jokes in front of the firelace
that sounds so fun
and if all goes well i will wear nice old suits and have a long
silver beard and read proust and have lots of love in my heart and
not be bitter
just be forgiving and full of joy and love
and still swim in the ocean
isn't it nice when you meet an old person like that?
i just got out of the bath tub
i was already in bed but thought i might stay awake for a while so i
got in the tub
i played brickbreaker in the tub on my blackberry
i could have been contemplating the composing of the best music i
ever wrote but instead i played brickbreaker on my blackberry
i like the french names for girls like
claudette
collette
odette
babette
babette was a she male who man ray took pictures of
and who jean cocteau put in his film black orpheus
she/he looked great but she must have also been cool as hell to to
end up working with both those guys
collette is a writer who i like
odette is a lady who works at the spa here in the hotel
i suggested an 'ette' name for my baby girl before she was born but
my wife wasn't having it
that's great cause then we got the name sunny!
and she is a little sunny for sure
well i'm going back to bed