Nov 2020 Check-In from Taiwan
Living in Taiwan been here since nov 11th, I quarantined in a hotel for two weeks with a stationary bike, a water boiler a strict fruit diet 4 books, a camera and a speaker.
I’m out now have been for about two weeks getting settled into my studio apartment. Nice living I vowed to not eat or bring any meat into the house so I have a bunch of beans, mushrooms and vegetables and fruits.
I get in creative flows in there blasting my music James brown willie hutch Donny Hathaway Bobby Womack Sam Cooke and the great busta rhymes. I recorded some of my greatest music to date now using my new transcription method of writing.
In terms of hoops once I got out of quarantined and having played all year with the FIRM I had a new appreciation for the game. I was so eager to be back in the court I hurt myself on my 3rd for 4th practice. Pulled my hamstring, missed the first 3 games, stressed myself out started to compulsively eat couldn’t sleep stayed up all night listening to comedy or music or trying to create new music until I couldn’t take anymore and hit a big wall in terms of creation.
You have to find the balance and know when that’s enough for the day, I watched a great bustah rhymes interview he also lost his dad and had an incredible story I needed to hear with van jones. And I dove into his music he was My B.O.B. He was conscious and his style was like no other artist I had ever heard. His creativity and ability to go further and push the boundaries with his artistry caught my attention and I developed a new found appreciation for music.
Undiscovered jay-z verses in his music that just spokes words that I had felt and the same with most of his verses and hooks.
Shooting and feeling much better than I ever had after realizing my entire career I had been wearing the wrong shoe size. I had been squeezing my foot into a 14 for comfort and. Fear of my foot sliding and finally I realized that needed a size 15 with custom insoles sometimes two insoles and two pair of socks to make up for my slim feet I need my toes to be able to be separated and also feel tight in the shoes. Can you imagine had I known this earlier but hey it’s never too late.
Been spending a lot of time just thanking and appreciating people for their role in my
Life and they loved it. Thinking a lot about my life once this stops the first thing on my mind is family and children. Then again my crazy jack of all trades attitude expects that I won’t be home much in pursuit of my vision which I fear I don’t want to not be around so I have to figure that out.
Everything around me is a part of me all of my teammate were mostly a young team inexperienced an I see myself in everybody so guys are afraid some guys just don’t know how to play some guys go against the grain just for the hell of it some guys overthink some guys really don’t care.
There’s not much expectations for this team this year I disagree. I also see the game differently than before you know even the world the whole world is a big entertainment show I keep that in the back of my mind. People wanna see a game but they also wanna feel entertained more so than anything that’s the nature of anything in show biz.
That’s all from today.
