Fleamail October 18, 2006

Date: Wednesday October 18, 2006
Subject:
From: "Michael Balzary"
To: members@redhotchilipeppers.com


hi
we just played our first show of the new leg at meadowlands in
rutherford new jersey
have you noticed that i dont like punctuation
and i am a sloppy typer
it really is kind of a shame
because
though i chalk it up to style
it is actually a bastardization of the english language
and when i read books from hundreds of years ago
the language is so beautiful and expressive
and even the common man spoke with and eloquence and poetry that is
absent from our language now
which has turned into slang and people saying the fewest possible
words that they use to unimaginatively get their idea across
and because of this the quality of the ideas also suffer
the depth of language definitely contributes to the depth of the idea
yet i continue to use no punctuation
and i dont speak that well either
i say fuck and shit all the time

show was pretty fun tonight
everyone had little penlights that they lit up and it was pretty it
looked like a van gogh starry sky
fuck i love van gogh
i wish i could have cheered him up a little
did you ever see that kurosawa movie 'dreams' where they go inside a
van gogh painting?
its cool