twofold releases 'touch without feeling'

ok, so as far as possible i always like to try and keep different parts of my life separate. like my varsity life is seperate from my music and my music blog is separate from my personal blog. for those who don't know, i'm in a band called 'twofold' and our blog is at www.twofoldmusic.com.

but this week was a special one, and it has caused my music excitement to spill over into more personal affairs. i am afterall one person with one heart and so there's bound to be spillage.

so this wednesday kerri, chris and i locked ourselves in a room at our church and decided to work on 5 tracks for a demo EP... it was hard work and rather frustrating, but i was actually surpried at how nicely it came together on the day. by 2pm we had done numerous takes for 3 songs that still was going to need much editing and cutting and pasting, but we were making progress at least- and so when our heads were pounding little too much to bear anymore, we took a walk to mc donalds and had a breather and got some fresh air... you know- as i'm bloggin this i realise that it's actually quite boring if you weren't there. so i'm not going to make it interesting. so let me tell you the highlight for me:
at about 5:20pm chris had to leave and i was still really keen to record 'rain' cos that is the most asked for recording... so just before packing up, kerri and i did a 'straight take'... that is we recorded vocals and guitar at the same time from start to finish. the track you hear on twofold's facebook page has had no post-production. and to me, it's beautifully vulnerable because of it.

check it out...

being ok alone

So I'm not sure about this one at all, and I think that by me writing this post, I will ultimately contradict myself, but I'm going to blog what's on my mind anyhow...

I'm at the Mugg and Bean in Greenstone. I was going to meet a friend here but then he couldn't so i took my mac out and bought some wi-fi megabytes on my kulula card, to pass time. After checking facebook and the twofold page to see if anyone has said anything I looked up the super 14 fixtures to see how many games i would be able to fit in this weekend. and then I ran out of things to do. It seems that the to-do list shrinks considerably during the holidays!

at about this time- after finishing my first cup of coffee i started to become slightly smug at the fact that i was sitting all on my own and was ok with it-- you see, i have always subscribed to the fact that everyone needs to be okay with spending time on their own. ie. they have to be comfortable with their own company. In my mind, i take it as far as if people can't be alone for very long then they got issues.

so i was getting smug... very proud at how well i was being alone. until i realised just how many distractions are around me... let me list them:
- the TV showing me live rugby (waratahs v cheetahs)
- the coffee in front of me
- the table's conversation next to me that is abundantly interesting
- facebook (which is like being surrounded by 20 people anyway)
- my moblie (from which i have sent 2 text messages already)
- my waitress (her name is Janet and everytime she comes over i keep her chatting for as long as possible)

hm. this alone time is actually just one big distraction that i love. it's the joy of company without the effort of communicating. whoa.

which brings me to an interesting conclusion. my only REAL alone time is with Jesus. when i'm putting my mind on His things. when i'm creating space for him rather than filling up space for me.