EMERSON, DANE M.

[DANE MICHAEL EMERSON]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/2nqfdd2.jpg); border: solid 5px #d6d6d6; width: 250px; -webkit-border-radius: 50px 4px 50px 4px; -moz-border-radius: 50px 4px 50px 4px; line-height:85%; margin-top: 5px] DANE MICHAEL EMERSON, "the day i get out is the day i'll be made." TWENTY-ONE | BROOKLYN FIRE | GUITARIST | BLAKE HARNAGE "SO TELL ME, WHO ARE YOU AGAIN?" "me? right... i am the only one here, aren't i? uh, sorry. i'm dane, dane emerson. i just turned twenty-one last week and i play guitar in brooklyn fire. i'm not exactly jimmi hendrix good, but i'm good. getting better every day! i don't know why i'm telling you all of this because you just asked me who i was, not to personally rate myself on a scale of bad to jimmi hendrix. right, shutting up now." "RIGHT RIGHT, SORRY. SO TELL ME A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF." "you know, i'm not very good at this. modest? no, i'm not modest, i've just always been bad at personality summaries. i mean, i suppose i'm a good enough guy. my parents did raise me with morals. i'm the kind of guy who enjoys the more simple things in life. i'd rather go see a movie or go walk around a park than drop money i don't have on trying to impress someone. i'm a simple kind of guy, i guess. it doesn't take a lot to make me happy and even less to make me smile. i'm a listener, the kind that will sit down and truly listen, not interject and offer my opinion, until you ask me for it. i think, most times, people just need someone to hear them out, to be able to talk until the burdens on their chests are finally gone. i think that sometimes, i spend too much time thinking about people and what they need as opposed to what i might need. my sister always told me that i was a selfless idiot, but i always feel like there can never be too much kindness in the world. i really like to have a good time, but not in the way most people do. i don't really need a ton of booze or drugs to party, though i'm not saying i won't indulge in a beer every now and again. i suppose, being raised around the water and all, that my idea of fun would be going to the beach as the sun's setting and having a bonfire with friends. sure, almost everyone ends up completely wasted, but i don't know. i guess that's just not my style. i can be funny sometimes; i have to be. i'm the guy who keeps up morale when things aren't going so well or when there's a clash of the wills whenever we're on tour. it's so much easier to diffuse a situation with a lame joke or some terrible wit than it is to let it escalate. tensions can run high when you're around the same group of people for an extended period of time, so it's vital to remember that everyone deals with their own crap. we all do what we do because it makes us happy; there should be no room left for animosity. " "INTERESTING! WHERE WAS IT THAT YOU SAID YOU COME FROM?" "well, i was born and raised in tampa, florida, until i was eight. my parents were both well known legal representatives in the city, but on opposing sides, funnily enough. my dad was the tampa district attorney and my mother worked for a firm located on the north side of the city. they were both so invested in their careers that they put off having kids until they realized that their biological clocks were ticking and they were running out of time. so they gave it a shot and ended up with two times what they wanted. i've got a twin sister who is, essentially, the female version of me. a lot of twins have that weird cosmic balance; what one is, the other isn't, kind of thing, but not us. we're two peas from the same pod. where most siblings fight and feud and cannot manage to get along, we're cohesive. we tend to work through things instead of against each other, which is rare. we might butt heads, sure, but it never lasts long. when we were eight, our parents started fighting more and more. i don't really know what it was that came between then, and i think we were both too afraid to ask, but it completely ripped them apart. it was difficult on us, by the time the divorce finalized when we were twelve, because we were given the choice of where it was we wanted to go. being that my dad was the person who taught us everything, including all he knew about music (which was his original aspiration before becoming district attorney), i couldn't help but gravitate toward him. sure, my mom wasn't the happiest, but i think she knew us well enough that we were making the choice that would make us happiest. we spent plenty of time with her on weekends, until my dad moved to bradenton. she became invested in her work and barely had time to see us anymore, because we weren't so close anymore. as much as she hated it, i still owe my dad everything for putting us where he did. after all, i wouldn't have brooklyn fire if it wasn't for that decision. maybe he knew what he was doing, or maybe he was doing it because it was what he thought was best for us. regardless, i'm eternally grateful. " "WOW. SO WHAT IS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOU LIKE?" "i guess it depends. if i'm at home, i like to stay up late and sleep in. i usually busy myself with netflix instant watch until the incredibly odd hours of the morning, which is a terrible idea, but it's better than nothing. i'll usually wake up around one or so, noon sometimes and try to make plans to get out of the house, which usually lands me at the beach (like it does most of the time). if we're on tour, it's a different story entirely. i really like to drive, and i like night drives the most, so i'm usually the one who conquers them while everyone else gets some sleep. there's something about being on the road under the stars that can be pretty enticing. in those cases, i usually switch with someone around nine or ten, and sleep a couple of hours before we have to load in. tour time means not much sleep, and i'm pretty okay with that. the only reason i sleep so much when i'm at home is because it's an excuse to feel lazy. it's like going from one extreme to another. " "NICE. LAST QUESTION... WHY ARE YOU WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW AND WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE FOR YOU?" "i'm where i am now because i was brought up right, given a good head to rest on these shoulders. my dad taught me almost everything he knows and because of that, i've grown into the man i am today. if it weren't for him, i wouldn't even know how to start to play a guitar, or how to listen to my instincts, and more so than that, my heart. i've learned to align myself alongside the right people and it's landed me here and the way i see it, this isn't a bad place to be. i get to do what i love with some of my best friends and i couldn't honestly be any happier. i don't really like to map things out, as far as the future goes, because taking it one day at a time is a task as it is, but i guess that no matter where i go, what i do, or who i meet, i just want to be happy before anything else. " "ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO ADD?" "i probably eat the most out of everyone in the band. i'm like a bottomless pit. i was once nicknamed the garbage disposal. oops." hey there, the name's kait. i live in the eastern time zone and this is my second character.