Date: Thurs, April 13 10:55amEST
Subject:
From: "Michael Balzary"
To: members@redhotchilipeppers.com

to the people the people the people everywhere

a new day in london
got up with sunny kicking me in the head
with her soft little feet
it is certainly the best way anyone could ever be kicked in the head

had tea
a little excercise
some eggs

now gonna go do press
then the jonathon ross television show

i am sure the press will go better today than yesterday
well the only one that went bad yesterday was the one where i lost my temper at what felt like incessant needling trying to dig up dirt that wasn't there

and i gotta let y'all know
especially those of you who live in england
that when i blew my top
and i yelled at the journalist
i yelled something about english journalism
and about how they were always trying to play a negative story angle

and i do believe that it is true (not always of course)
but this paparazzi type sensationalist journalism is something that i
am not used to
and i have only ever really been a part of it here in england as far
as i know
because i cant read dutch or japanese or brazilian for that matter
but my point is that in my heat of yelling
and i was accusing him of
being part of a negative act
it was this type of journalism that i freaking out at
never england itself
i love this country
and i love walking it's streets
and listening to it's music which is sacred
and feeling it's history
and my favorite family member
my 98 year old grandmother my nana
muriel cheesewright is english as they come
and i love england it made her
and that would would be a sad misconception
if people thought i was as boneheaded as to hate this beautiful place
that has given me so much

chad smith is a great drummer
noone can hit as hard
noone