Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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.