Red Hot Chili Peppers are a fantastic band, creative and expressive and talented, and offering a lot to the world. They’re mainly known for two things: Flea’s powerful bass and their diverse musical precision. Also, their guitarist John Frusciante has been relatively open with his Spiritual beliefs.

An so, just for a lark… we made a sort-of tribute to them.

The things that feel most creative for me, come out of a light-hearted, playful, care-free attitude. Adam Bradley (resident SpiritSentient Tea-Master/Chai-Connoisseur) and I were chilling a couple weekends ago, and we both found we had a love for Red Hot Chili Peppers — at times extremely oblique and border-line nonsensical — lyrics. I explained how I’d come up with a road-trip-game people could play in the car or on a long trip of some kind, where each person rotates creating a line in a fictitious Red Hot Chili Peppers song.

Then Adam and I went for a winter walk.

On our walk we started playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers Game, and we created the Red Hot Cheesy Peppers, to the tune of Soul To Squeeze. It started with the line "I’ve got a bag of cheese / which I consume with joy and ease."

There were lots more lines but I was laughing so much we didn’t really get them down.

Fast-forward to yesterday.

I had intended to meet a chick for a date. The meeting felt poorly planned to start with, and it quickly devolved into something that felt out-right flaky.

Which was perfect, for it made it clear where the chick was at, helped me take a break from my computer, got me enjoying a beautifully misty december day, and on my way to meet Joy (a brilliant technological mind, and current Director of Mobile Technology at Rycom — interesting side note: Rycom is one of Canada’s 50 best managed companies — very cool.) who I’d not seen in some time. We had a phenomenal meeting and I met some cool waitresses at Jack Astor’s (plus I had time to get that video from yesterday online.)

The best part though, is that I had Torture Me by Red Hot Chili Peppers stuck in my head the whole time I was out and about and waiting for TTC etc. I sang it so much people were giving me looks, and I got bored of the lyrics so I started changing them. I was feeling really, really awesome at the time, so I changed them to match more of what I was feeling.

Feel With Me [Sung to the tune of Torture Me by the Red Hot Chili Peppers] is the result of my day out yesterday.

The below lyrics are best read when familiar with this song: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Torture Me

Anyway, it was just kinda random, for a lark, and I’m glad to share it More goodness coming soon

And there’s more!

Here’s some words regarding SpiritSentient’s Evolved Clothing. It touches on some of the key differences we like to focus on

Biggerized versions here and here.

a momentary break from technology.

it was a bit cool out but i decided not to go back to get warmer clothes, and i wondered if i would get cold on my walk. little did i realize inspiration would strike halfway into it, and i was moved to cut my walk short, go home and write it down.

or perhaps on some level, i did realize that’s what would happen

oh, and if you do read it, i’d very much appreciate any feedback you feel like sharing.

much love.