MORRISON, TOBY ALAN

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[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] TOBY ALAN MORRISON, "DREAM WITHOUT FEAR, LOVE WITHOUT REGRET" TWENTY-ONE | LOVE LIKE A ROCKET | BASSIST | ANDY SNYDER "SO TELL ME, WHO ARE YOU AGAIN?" "You don't know who I am? Man. I'm not as famous as I thought. That's alright, honestly, I'd rather live in anonymity. I am Toby Alan Morrison. I'm named after Toby Keith, Alan Jackson and I bet you didn't know that John Wayne's real last name was Morrison? Nope? Well, there you go. I'm from Nashville, and my parents are really, really into Country music. You know I'm just joking right? Toby Keith wasn't around when I was born. Fuck. Shit! Am I not supposed to cuss? My mom always gets on me for using terrible language. Seriously, I can't censor myself. But I guess that's why I'm an artist and not an accountant. I play bass guitar for Love Like Rockets. If I wasn't in a band, I'd be some poor photographer... or a poet. Who makes money as a poet these days? Poe would be homeless. " "RIGHT RIGHT, SORRY. SO TELL ME A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF." "Don't be sorry, I'll take it as a compliment. I like to think I'm your typical twenty-one year old guy. I think about sex a lot. I try to have sex a lot. I mean, It's a fun passtime, when you aren't busy, to just sneak some in there. I smoke weed, I play sports, I like hiking and being in nature. I like art, and expression, and telling stories, or even hearing stories. I like partying...getting drunk as fuck and doing whatever you feel. I love my friends. I love Chef Boyardee Spaghetti because there's always two meatballs that are mashed together and they look like testicals. It amuses me. I'm easy to please, really. I like tattoos, piercings and slutty girls. I'm enjoying what little fame I have, at the moment, and just going with it, and I try to be as open and honest about who I am or the things that I feel. A rock doesn't ask to be a rock, and it doesn't try to be a mountain. It just is. " "INTERESTING! WHERE WAS IT THAT YOU SAID YOU COME FROM?" "I am from Hendersonville, which is a city right outside of Nashville. I'm sort of the country bumkin of the band. I was born in a shed, and the house I grew up in didn't have a heater, just a fireplace. No hot water. It was pretty rural, but it's because my parents were stoner hippies in the 70's and they decided that living off the grid and not using power was the way to go. They pretty much stuck with that until I was fifteen, when my mom and dad split up. Apparently, open marriages are not built to last jealousy. Soooo... I went to live with my dad, in Nashville, in a normal condo with power and everything. I think my dad felt so bad about what happened with him and mom that he felt like he had to make up for it, so he was always buying me all these things. Like my first electric bass guitar. At that point in time, my best friend, who is the lead singer of our band, was trying to pull a band together to try to win some battle of the bands at our high school. So I picked up a bass and tried to learn a pretty easy song... I think it was a Nirvana song. We lost that year, horribly. But we had energy, and there was something about being up on a stage, even if I was sucking, and everyone was terrible, there was an electric rush. I was hooked. Right then and there. Haven't looked back since. " "WOW. SO WHAT IS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOU LIKE?" "Usually my days involve hangovers. Nursing the hangover from the night before, kicking ass through practice or a show or whatever we have going on, and then getting wasted again, and maybe finding a drunk enough girl to go to bed with so I can kick her out in the morning. And then there are days where I get stoned and don't do anything but sit in a room and think about life. Or I go out and take pictures of things that are beautiful to me. And sometimes, I make everyone go on a hike, or go skiing. But these days, it's been a lot of partying and hangovers and sex. Since you asked. " "NICE. LAST QUESTION... WHY ARE YOU WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW AND WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE FOR YOU?" "I think that's my one major flaw. I don't think ahead. I don't plan. I don't give a shit. I just sort of go along with everything. I don't have any motivation -- unless there's no beer. Then I can be motivated to go get some. God, that makes me sound like some jackass alcoholic, doesn't it? Maybe that's what I am. It's certainly not what I want to be, but life is how it is. Who am I to change mother nature. What? I don't know. Next question. " "ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO ADD?" "It's been lovely chatting with you. Really. You just caught me at a bad time." hey there, the name's tessa. i live in the mountain time zone and this is my second character.