Anyway,
The plan is to work towards existing in a reality where I'm excited about what I have to wake up and do everyday of my life for a living, a place where I'm happy doing what I do and still afford life as we know it..you pay for everything including taking a shit coz that toilet paper isn't free.
I've discovered that my sense of rhythm is more in rap than it is in dance as the African I izzz. Also, I'm artistically inspired by the idea documenting stuff as I go along, heavily influenced by Sophie Callie.. there's no other artist that I gravitate to more.
early this year I decided to start writing this book that I named 'the performance of existing', the idea around it was to document breathing everyday as I go, simple journal but one unique for its focus on what goes on in your mind throughout the day. sommer like sticking a camcorder inside your brain and watching the thoughts whizz about all day everyday. lol, but I have since stopped. Studying got crazy hectic and I forgot about the book until now. Also, that desire to document things as they take place re-surfaced again with the video journal(blog) that I started 2 weeks ago and only made it to the 3rd episode because of ups and downs and all that. 'guess I'm just trying to draw up a fine picture in my mind of my documentational interests and where they come from.
In the pursuit of contentment with my life, I need to tread in the road where I find my satisfaction most. and that place is writing, writing, writing, writing and writing some more. People love breaking writing up into boxes and whatnot but really I see it as one great vortex of possibilities.
I know my grandmother would ask me "well how do you plan to generate an income out of that ngwana'ka you know mos writers are poor people don't you"
and this is how I'd respond
" well Mama, see we just need to think outside of the box and not depend on the conventional ways of doing and seeing things, I'm an artist, a story teller... I failed english back at school once coz I wasn't comfortable with somebody teaching it to me, I wanted to do my own thang and put all the commas and full stops where I felt like it and not where I was told to. I just have a strong desire to create.... not to be taught into somebody elses ideas of the world and whatnot. I want to develop my own. If we recontextualise this whole artist scenario... artists are the richest people on earth if you stop looking at their value n worth through the shortsighted lense of the economy."
Ok now I really wouldn't say all'a that to my grandmother in real life, she's be on some "ok smarty pants, sit down" translated in sotho "Ho lokile kleva ke wena, be botle hle" lol...
moving right along, writing anchors Thembi as you know her.
it is just how I'm able to document all of my life in the different periods and phases that I go through in my existence.
with writing I get to breathe stories in my poetry.
with writing I get to express my music through rap, my flow is my built-in music, ... with that I get to document myself spiritually each time and rediscover myself in my greatest potential at that point in life.
with writing I can put together a publication of amazing work each month and from that I can afford to eat, sleep and shit in this world, .....all from my hardwork and yours, coz reading it is gonna be YOUR work hehe.
other sources of income that I can survive on, I'm going to launch 'Zombie' accessories, design and make all sorts of accessories and sell them. I'd share some of my other ideas with the zombie brand but I don't want to give off too much incase some troll is planning on stealing any of the ideaz. too many copy cats out here, u can never be too safe.
and as far as everybody else around me, I get to give them my interpretation of what I believe dope rap music is. I give you me, I give you my sound and I come with a built-in code of madness just be warned.
so yeah, story of my life basically, you can join me in the many episodes of the story of my life and be a part of the creation. the more we are the greater the magic really... belie'it or not.
The most beautiful thing about doing what I do,is that.... there is a secret magic and power about the abillity to create something that a collective of strangers can connect to, it saiz a lot about the invisible unity that we exist within. but yeah... I aim to create material that has the abillty to make you 'feel'!!
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