I shall not conform.

Hello everybody.

Today is new year's eve. I'm excited, but in the words of my mother

"Why is this day different from all the others?"
- Mommy

That doesn't stop me from celebrating old year's night the only way I know how. with friends, and a good party.

Yesterday I passed my drivers exam. This morning my brother and I went on a little roadtrip around pinelands, went to McD's and drove all around listening to Deadmau5 and Led Zeppelin.




This post does not have any pictures in it because I am close to giving up on trying to describe the beauty of music and sound in pictures.

Do you know who else has a blog?

Hello. It is christmastime. this blog post shall not have a christmas theme because I don't actually like Christmas.

1. I'm getting new skates. yes please.

2. I'm gonna be buying a new DAW studio package. ooohoo!!






(your mom)

So this God.. He's a pretty big guy?

Hello everyone.

I know there aren't very many people who read this blog, but I appreciate the fact that some of you do. I'm sitting in studio, and I'm about to start a two week stint of The Drive, which I'm very excited for.

In these past few weeks, I've been making many changes to be able to say proudly that
I am a Christian. I'm done hiding it. I've decided that everything I do should be for God's glory. Including my music, my radio work, and my social life.



Have a wonderful and blessed Christmas*

L and B. you're legends.

{Mixer order}

Last night I did something daunting. I went online and ordered something! Yay new equipment! Here are some inspirational pictures.

Drop The Bass, Selectah!

I feel all drum 'n bassy an' ting... Feeling in a very irie mood this morning, at Sha-bean again with the regular :) Listening to Wayz Steam Recs June 2009 Drum 'n Bass Mix, it's a.m.a.z.i.n.g.

Enjoy your day everyone, and enjoy the weekend!

Coming up this weekend, Rudimentals at Zula on Saturday (tomorrow) night, Mr Tomnus and others hitting it up, be there!

Hello, thursday

This morning I wore a nice red tie.

Now i've just found out that all my lectures are cancelled till after tea, so I'm now sitting at the sha-bean having a coke and chocolate croissant with L, L, J, K and J. L... these letters to represent people's names get confusing.

Today's going to be a good day. I have a show later at CCFm, and it's The Drive show so I'm pretty amped. Here are pictures for the day :)

weheartit.com is amazing

Good morning, wednesday

It's wednesday morning and I'm sitting deeply absorbed into the big leather couch at the coffee sha-bean in Muizenburg. Nothing better on a wednesday morning.

I've just ordered a freshly toasted croissant with jam and butter, and I'm going to sit here taking very grateful advantage of the free wi-fi while enjoying the smooth sounds of John Mayer. I really couldn't wish for a better wednesday morning.

I have a band practice with the guys from college today, we're covering the music of the american Ska band Five Iron Frenzy. Today is our first practice, and I'm really excited.

Stay tuned to CCFm this week on thursday from 3:30 till 6, I'm going to be standing in for The Drive show, so you all better be listening!

Take this away with you as you get over the middle of the week

StudioPost 23rd October

I've just typed the date on this post and realised how fast this year has gone. IT'S ALREADY THE 23RD OF OCTOBER!

Scary.

This is just a quick post to say hi, although that doesn't really matter.

Joe Niemand - Shadow is on the play. YES!

Have a great weekend everyone :)

StudioPost 23rd October

I've just typed the date on this post and realised how fast this year has gone. IT'S ALREADY THE 23RD OF OCTOBER!

Scary.

This is just a quick post to say hi, although that doesn't really matter.

Joe Niemand - Shadow is on the play. YES!

Have a great weekend everyone :)

This song is a nice one.

Hi everyone :)

Hasn't it been the most fantastic day? Such beautiful saturday weather! Below is a new mixer i'm hoping to add to my equipment arsenal - I'm very excited. I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

I'm in studio at this very moment, listening to Melanie's "Deep". It's got a dubstep beat in the beginning, very awesome. Have a great evening everyone, I'm heading out to the Cannon's Creek Celebration of the Arts evening, where my brother's band, Element of The Reals is playing. Very excited.

Lifecycles is nearly here!

Wednesday Night.

Hello everyone.

today is wednesday and today is also the day that I started studying.

I am currently very grateful to L for the new blog image that she made me :)

That is all.

New Blog Layout

Hope you guys like the new layout, this is just a post to see if it actually works...

Have a great saturday and sunday :)

StudioPost 9th October

Hey everyone,

fantastic show this afternoon - one of my favourite songs of all time on the play at the moment -

Get up - Planetshakers


This is a picture of a tour they did in Indonesia that I didn't go to.

Have a great day everyone, enjoy the amazing weather!

Hello, Summer.

Hello everyone. Today was a beautiful summer's day, and it was a lovely day all in all :) Last night we went to The Brass Bell for Mikey J's Birthday, and a fun time was had by all :)

Hanging out with Jocelyn's two friends from Oz has been awesome, showing them around the area and teaching them why they shouldn't repeat the phrases they heard the fishermen at Kalk Bay screaming. And yes, Mr. Fisherman, you certainly ARE our macdaddy. (A fisherman - however drunk he was, caught a stingray at the harbour. He then proceeded to shout loudly to everyone: "Who's your MACDADDY! I'M your macdaddy!")

I rather fancy Kalky's Calamari.

As previously mentioned, J and her friends J and C and I went down to Kalk Bay for a look around some of the shops and galleries, and we ended up on the end of the jetty/dock/harbour and had lunch. Then a seal gave us a fright.

In other news, It's almost summer! Look at this beautiful picture.

A big shout out to L, who is a big inspiration for this blog - I look up to her blogging skills and hopefully mine will be like hers. Thanks, L :)

Now remember kids, Keep strong in Christ, and look before you cross the road!

StudioPost 2nd October

Hello. I am Mr. Tomnus.

I don't really have anything to say in this blog post, so It's just a brief hello from me :)

The Lekker Local Ayoba Jams are on the play at the moment, and I've got Soweto String Quartet playing our good ol' national anthem. Good times :)

Enjoy your weekends everyone, hope you have fantastic saturday evenings and sundays!

Keep strong in Christ, and remember to look before you cross the road! (Right, L?)

StudioPost 25th September

Hello all. It's an absolutely fantastic day here in Muizenburg, and I'm happy to be alive :) Today was spent going to the airshow, heading to Cafe Sofia in blaauwberg, then back to the Pottery to lie in the sun on a blanket with an umbrella. Awesome day :)

I'm in studio at the moment, Amazing Lord by Proxy on the play, and some awesome jams coming up. What a breakdown this song has!

Lekka Local Ayoba Jams coming up, so I hope you're amped!
Have a good weekend everyone, enjoy it :)

Heading off to Mamma Mia tonight at the artscape, and I'm excited!

"I love my city"
- Tom Shackle

Some interesting things

Hey everyone. I've been blogging a lot recently - particularly because I've been spending more time in studio, and more time to think :) Here are some photographs that caught my eye on Deviantart. Enjoy!

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. - Lewis Carroll"

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. - Crystal Eastman

Some interesting things

StudioPost2 20th September

Hello again. This is me again, down in the studio. Right now I'm sitting through the random Kid's story, waiting to start the show. Time for some more pictures!
This is the college I attend.

Nice hey? It's small. But pretty cool.
This is another picture of the new keyboard that's found a home in my home. It's the Roland Juno-G, and it's fantastic.

Putting pictures in my blog is fun. I'm going to be making use of this feature more often :)

I'm now starting my show, so i'm going to leave this open and keep putting things in when I get the chance.


The new sexy CD players that are in studio. They work so erratically but they're nice nonetheless

They're very confusing to work. The volume control is very strange, especially because it's controlled via the desk. Good times.

It's 16: 20 and I'm still having fun :) If you're listening, hope you're enjoying the show!

StudioPost 20th September

Hello everyone. Today's blog post is going to be fun, because I have 3 hours in studio to kill, so it might turn into one up here in the office, and then another down in studio. Amped much? I'm also going to try and put in more pictures, because I've realised that I basically never put in any pictures.

Here's the first one. This is of a studio. That I like.

So that's how you put pictures in!

This next one is of an icecream. Why? I don't know.

This is fun. I'm now going to publish this, see how it turns out, and then carry on putting pictures in another post later during the show. Yay!

StudioPost 18th September

This blog must be surprisingly boring to read.

WHAT?

Never mind. Irene - Toby Mac on the play at the moment. "Hush little baby don't you cry, the Lord's gonna answer your prayers tonight"

In studio for Scoreboard at the moment, what a jam. Head bobbing music indeed.

These studio posts aren't very long, usually because I write them while I'm in studio. Woop!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Studio Post 11th September

Hey all!

So much energy at the moment - My goodness. Alive (feat. C-Jay) on the play at the moment, by Don't Stop. Fantastic SA Group. they're awesome :)

Pretty amped for tonight, it's my brother's birthday on monday so we're having a braai at our place for a few of his friends. Should be a jam. Liz is coming too :)

I'm gonna go jam to Building 429 - Glory Defined.

Enjoy this beautiful weekend weather!

StudioPost 4th September 2010

Welcome to Spring people. Spring has sprung, and that's not true

I'm on meds. They make me depressed and sick. It's lame. 2 things help. Sleep, Liz and this song.

Never going back to ok - The Afters

Enjoy your day today peeps.

The Drive Studio Post 30th August

Sup peeps, this blog has become mainly about what's going on in studio whenever I'm in. Hope you enjoy :)

Today I'm standing in again for O, she's taking some well deserved leave.

Favourite song for today-

Born Again - Newsboys

What a song, what a song.

Purple Party on friday, pretty stoked!

New Design? I'm Ron Burgundy?

I need a new design for my blog. Here it is.

Studio Post - 28th August 2010

Hey peeps!

I haven't been blogging in a while, because mainly I haven't been feeling myself at all lately. I've been having a bit of a breakdown actually. Anyhow, i'm getting back on track slowly, which includes being back in studio!

Back on scoreboard this week, got a great playlist cue sheet to get through, and I'm keen for the show!

Also, It's my and Liz's two months today, which is awesome :)

Tracklist for today's show is as follows:

Your Grace is Enough- Matt Maher
Pilgrimage - The Arrows

Almighty Silence - Tree63
Pressing on - Relient K
Hosanna - Kirk Franklin
Alive - Rev Thump
All I Want - Heaven's Avenue
Amazing Lord - Proxy
Take it All- Hillsong
Shout to the North - Delirious
Redemption - Switchfoot
Father Spirit, Jesus
Get it Right - Fevertree
Welcome Home - Joe Niemand
God of Wonders - Kutless
O Praise Him - David Crowder Band

Times of Reflection

Step 1. Listen to the song "Amazing Grace" by Jars of Clay.

Step 2. Find yourself a radio studio to sit quietly and reflect in

Step 3. Start being grateful for all the fantastic things in life.

This is what I'm doing. Life is a very complicated thing. I've been going through a bit of a tough time lately, and it's only recently that I'm starting to realise how important the things that I have are. What a fantastic testimony that every Christian has - we have such an amazing blessing to shout about! We have eternal life, and our sins are forgiven. If that doesn't excite you from here till next week, then you need to do what I've just done - Sit and reflect on it.

I'm now jamming to "Get Ready" by the popular Christian acapella group Vocal Union. Man, these guys cheer me up.

I'm in studio at the moment, behind the mic for CCFM Scoreboard. I'm going to be presenting The Drive on CCFM 107.5 on wednesday and thursday, so take a listen if you get a chance!

That's me for now, Cheers and God Bless!

Studio Update

Yo Peeps,

Quick hi from me, Mr. Tomnus. I'm up in studio, standing in for O on The Drive.

Today's show is gonna be dedicated to all the women out there, and it's gonna be fantastic :)

Tune in to 107.5 CCFm on Saturdays from 5 to 6.30 for CCFm Scoreboard with myself Mr. Tomnus!

CCFM Scoreboard July 10th

Hi :)

I'm sitting in studio. It's fun times. This keyboard is rubbish though.

Anyhow.

I'm thinking of making a blog for my show, where people can post the results of their school match results. I'll think about it.

Here's a brief tracklist of the songs on the show today.

Sunday Bloody Sunday - Pillar
City on our Knees - Toby Mac
Clover Leaf Park - Go Fish
Get Up - Planetshakers
Disco Dancing - To our Divine
She walked away - Barlow Girl
Where you are - Dietrick Haddon
Wide Eyed - Nichole Nordeman
Good Enough - Anthony Evans
Only you make me happy - Krystal Meyers
Wonder of it all - Monday morning
All I Have - Joe Niemand
Let it go - Ashton Gardner
I Wait for the Lord - Jeremy Camp
Relearn Love - Scott Stapp

Lekker Local Ayoba Jams

Everything about you - Don't stop
Hooked on you - Musa
Treasure (Live) - Tree63

Now i'm gonna bring all this beautiful music to the masses, followed by dinner at the Sparkle's house. Oh yes. I'm happy.

I'm in a lecture

Hello one follower! At least now I know that one person follows my blog.

I'm sitting in a small groups lecture, taught by Scott Tubman. It's very good. that's why I'm writing this blogpost :)

Adam, a guy in my class, made me coffee. So here I sit, coffee next to me, on a wonderfully rainy day, with a mug of hot coffee, and I'm content in the world. I am so blessed :)

Time to take notes - Cheers..

Regular post becomes The Doc

Good evening.

This is a post. I can't actually think of anything to say. Sometimes when I start blogging things just come to me.

Much like The Doc's sex talk to us the other day. He is the King of Brain Farts. No. Seriously. He has a throne and everything.

He was giving us a sex talk wherein he told us about the purebred dog he used to have that used to climb walls when it was on heat, he told us a story about a man that appreciated the relationship between men and women so much that he, rather embarrassingly, began weeping, and finally he told us the story of how he had heard that all young boys at some stage in their development go through a phase of marked homosexuality. He had not, however, ever been through, or experienced that phase.

At the end of the talk, he explained to us that all of this was unplanned, and that what he was actually trying to say was that they would appreciate it if there were to be no room visiting, i.e. No guys in girl's rooms and no girls in guy's rooms.

Today, Frankie baby came to talk to us. The Doc, by way of introduction told us about Frank's children. "Frank is the father of John* and Michael*, and he is the father of... a girl (we now start to realise that he's forgotten her name), who is in Norway. SHE'S IN NORWAY! and we'd just like to thank frank for coming to speak to us, DEBBIE!" and he sat down.

Some say he has a tattoo of his face, on his face. Some say he is the King of Brain Farts.

All we know is,

He's called The Doc.

Reality Television

Hi there.

I was sitting in L72 in the Grand Arena at Grandwest today watching the adverts for The Reality Channel before the Top Gear Live show. Which was amazing. anyway.

I have concluded something: Reality Television is a sign of the hopeless downfall of humankind. The fact that we have become so bored with our own lives that we need to sit and watch others' lives makes me sad.

The single flaw in this theory is that Reality TV (Some of it, not all of it) is just so awesome. For instance, Wipeout. That's the best show in the world. I watch innocent, unfit, random people getting hurt and it makes me laugh. Another case in point is Survivor SA. This show is the worst show in the world. Yet, Somehow, seeing a woman in a bikini walk down the beach on a distant island with her fellow "castaways" complaining about how her iPod batteries have run down and she can't find her charger in her bag, is severely amusing.

Perhaps this is because it's South African, or perhaps it's just that the failure of what is supposed to be a dramatic and nail-biting show that makes me laugh so hard.

But if we are sitting on our couches at home, watching a famous (often for an unknown reason) couple living their everyday lives, instead of being out in the world living our own lives, we need to rethink what our purpose is.

This is your life, not someone else's. You're here for more than that.

Greetings minions

Hello fellow followers..

Your numbers are few (Perhaps zero) so this post may be another elusive post that is projected in to the void of cyberspace.

Recently, I've been doing a bit of youth work at my church. It's a very daunting experience.. I am not a kids person. I don't ever plan on having kids, and i don't like children at all.

Then they put me smack bang in the middle of a small kids ministry. I see it as a means of grace, and I am slowly beginning to grow fond of these kids. Still, there's a way to go in terms of being a good leader among children.

I tend not to post as often as I would like.. Perhaps it's because the feedback here on Blogspot.com is very minimal. Perhaps, I should make my posts regular and punctual, thus resulting in me becoming completely addicted to blogging. Which is entirely possible.

I'm currently in the process of obtaining a slightly more increased remuneration package for my work.. It annoys me slightly that I do rather a lot work for absolutely no pay. I shall refrain from mentioning the name and reasons for this, but still. I feel the cyberspacial void should know of this.

I shaved my head today. I was home alone, I sat down on a kitchen stool, held a small mirror in front of me, and shaved away. My head now feels absolutely amazing, and we'll have to see the reaction I'm going to get from my friends (And the children at youth) tonight.. Good times indeed.

Okay.. I think that's all I wanted to say.. Stay tuned for more, from Mr Tomnus, here on StingyEmployer FM!

Cloony The Clown by Shel Silverstein

I'll tell you the story of Cloony the Clown

Who worked in a circus that came through town.

His shoes were too big and his hat was too small,
But he just wasn't, just wasn't funny at all.
He had a trombone to play loud silly tunes,
He had a green dog and a thousand balloons.
He was floppy and sloppy and skinny and tall,
But he just wasn't, just wasn't funny at all.
And every time he did a trick,
Everyone felt a little sick.
And every time he told a joke,
Folks sighed as if their hearts were broke.
And every time he lost a shoe,
Everyone looked awfully blue.
And every time he stood on his head,
Everyone screamed, "Go back to bed!"
And every time he made a leap,
Everybody fell asleep.
And every time he ate his tie,
Everyone began to cry.
And Cloony could not make any money
Simply because he was not funny.
One day he said, "I'll tell this town
How it feels to be an unfunny clown."
And he told them all why he looked so sad,
And he told them all why he felt so bad.
He told of Pain and Rain and Cold,
He told of Darkness in his soul,
And after he finished his tale of woe,
Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no,
They laughed until they shook the trees
With "Hah-Hah-Hahs" and "Hee-Hee-Hees."
They laughed with howls and yowls and shrieks,
They laughed all day, they laughed all week,
They laughed until they had a fit,
They laughed until their jackets split.
The laughter spread for miles around
To every city, every town,
Over mountains, 'cross the sea,
From Saint Tropez to Mun San Nee.
And soon the whole world rang with laughter,
Lasting till forever after,
While Cloony stood in the circus tent,
With his head drooped low and his shoulders bent.
And he said,"THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT -
I'M FUNNY JUST BY ACCIDENT."
And while the world laughed outside.
Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.