From: Michael Balzary

To: members@redhotchilipeppers.com

Sent: Tue Jun 26 06:31:20 2007

Subject:

here in amsterdamn

last week i spent in the mountains

the beautiful mountains that embrace you like a babe in a milky bosom

of love

where you can be dashed like yesterday's ragdoll onto an unmmoveable

razorsharp family of rocks

or fall like a ray of sun of a friendly cliff into a genius swimming

hole in a cascading hippie river

and eat fresh baked bread

and carry your baby girl in a backpack woodsy hike

fuck i'm lucky

now i am in amsterdamn for a few days

so far on this leg we played bilbao it was fun and rocked

and some town i cant pronounce in holland and it was fun and rocked too

i played a lot of chess with josh last night

he beats me mostly but i get him once in a while

i've got instruments in my room and i play them and try to come up

with good musical ideas

it is a lot of fun when i strike upon something i like

listening to wayne shorter

reading saul bellow