What have I released so far?

  The idea of TOUSHIMY SIMMONS came to me probably back in 2004-2005. I was about 11-12 years of age...maybe even 13? haha. Although the exact date & age of when the name came to my head is not certain, what is certain is that it started off as nothing more than an inside joke between me and a good friend of mine named, Kenny Tran. Back then I had spent most of my free-time at his house writing music together.
  Now, Kenny is Vietnamese. So nearly everyone in the household, plus extended family, had asian names aside from their American names. Of course, I felt a little left out. So in an effort to fit in more, I randomly yelled out:

"TOE-SHE-MY!!!"

(As if a Vietnamese mother yelled at her young son for sneaking his little hand into the family's cookie jar a little bit before dinner...and he wasn't supposed to.)

  Kenny laughed and so I decided to stick with it. (No one around the house caught on to it, by the way.) 

It wasn't until late 2008 that I starting writing a song. A song for a very special someone. A girl...a girl that started to catch my attention. She not only stole my attention, but my heart. In order to cleverly tell her how I felt, I was inspired to write her a song. I called it, "We Live In Pictures". It was a simple song, just a chorus, a few chords, but no real solid structure just yet. I thought it would be a good idea to release this as my first song for my solo project. Then I remembered my old nick-name & adopted it to be this other side of myself. In a way, my alter ego. The part of me that was confident. Confident enough to expose my feelings towards her, despite any consequence...

  The following story that will proceed as I expose these lyrics to you, will show you everything that happened after that. And at times, I'll take you to days before it as well.
  I tried, in my best ability, to keep track of the releases I made on myspace & youtube in the past.

HERE IS A LIST OF WHAT I'VE KEPT TRACK OF SO FAR:

• 'Not Just Some Way To Get In Yo Pants' ("We Live In Pictures" single) 3.5.09
• "Aboard The Plane Sa Philippinas" (single) 5.17.09
• 'Not Just Some Way To Get In Yo Pants...AGAIN' (ep) 8.1.09
• "The Right Track" (LIVE video-version) 7.8.09
• "Patience, Kim" (video-version) 10.24.09

2011 is just around the corner and now it's time to start picking things back up. This is no way of finding popularity or to build a fan-base for my music. It's my personal life put into an archive of songs, videos, letters, blogs, & pictures. These are the failures & accomplishment of my youth. These are my friendships, relationships, and the promises that were made. I'm doing this for the sake of a story that I've been the main character of since June 4, 1992. It is my deepest hopes that you will respect it and at the same time enjoy it.

Love, sincerity, and confidence,

-Joseph Erain Gonzalez