mix done, mastering close to done, new (old) song posted

Hey every­one–

Just wanted to let you know that the mix is done on the wor­ship cd…or should I say cdS…yes, you read it here first…not one, but two cds com­ing in one package…we had too much good­ness to be con­tained on one lit­tle sil­ver disc…that’s what color cds are, in case some of you forgot…

Any­way, Alan Douches (like couches) is mas­ter­ing this thing and he’s doing a fan­tas­tic job. He’s done the last cou­ple of Suf­jan Stevens records as well as records by Mid­lake, !!!, Galaxy 500, My Bright­est Dia­mond, Cheyenne, Ben Folds, etc, etc, etc…he’s really great and has brought the mixes to life…can’t wait for you to hear them not on myspace…myspace really does sound so bad…I don’t think I’m just being a snob…anyway…the mas­ter­ing should be done in the next week or so…

Now, I’m wait­ing on the illus­tra­tion and lay­out to be done for the pack­ag­ing and then it’s off to Crys­tal Clear in Dal­las for dupli­ca­tion and into your sweet hands…I’m hop­ing to have these things ready by June sometime…we’ll see…I thought I’d be done by Jan­u­ary! ha!

Also, I just posted up an old Builder song that we sang at Jacob’s Well last week for the Psalm series…you should go lis­ten to Tim’s mes­sage on Psalm 88, it’s a great one…The song is called The Stan­dard and that’s Mrs. Lori Chaf­fer singing the sweet back­ground parts…yep, from so long ago…I wrote this one when we had first moved up to Kansas City, and I was com­pletely disoriented…where was God? and why did he have me in this place? did he see me? I was hav­ing a lack of faith and lack of friends and just needed to see some other peo­ple liv­ing faith­fully, pur­su­ing God…luckily, those peo­ple came around…

also, another new song we sang this past week was called Lord I’m All Alone and was writ­ten by my good friend David (aka Emo, aka Du-pree) Bennett…go check it out on his myspace…and while you’re there, tell Emo I said “hey”…if you’re lucky, he’ll do some sweet hard­core dance moves for you…Showbread anyone?

luv ya,
mc