birth name talan eugene morr nickname tal, T, Eugene date of birth October 5, 1990 hometown Hawthorne, WA current residence Hawthorne, WA occupation Bartender education NYU graduate, majored in Psych status single

first middle and last name
Talan Eugene Morr, such a terrible name when I put it all out there.

birthdate and age
October 5, 1990, twenty-four going on twenty-five.

occupation
This is a little bit of a touchy subject for me right now. Up until a few weeks ago, I was in graduate school in New York but after some time to think and a slightly terrifying incident, I decided life is too short to waste away sitting in a classroom and I came back home. I managed to snag a job as a bartender but I'm still looking for something I can feel more secure in. I know there's no shame in my recent decisions, but as someone who used to have it all figured out I'm trying to find my place all over again. It's not as much fun as movies and tv make it look.

who does your family consist of? how many siblings do you have?
If you do the math there...are too many of us. My parents count as two but I have five siblings, myself makes six and so many cousins that thinking about it gives me a headache. It's great that I have such a big family because my short comings can kind of just slip between the cracks sometimes and there is always someone else who may have done something worse or will do something worse in a week or two. I'm not as close to all of them as I would like, but I love my family in the way you're supposed to and I really look up to every single one of them. It's hard to figure yourself out in such a huge group but I think they've all done really well or are doing really well for themselves, I'm pretty honored to share a last name with all of them.

what kind of pets do you have?
I don't have any pets right now I can't really take care of myself. When I was living in New York though, I took in this stray cat from the neighborhood. He was cute, I named him Chip because it was the only name that came to mind. I took care of him as much as I could but eventually he got away and I never saw him again. I like to think he found a forever home to take care of him. I am however, thinking about getting a cactus. I hear they're fun.

which hawthorn neighborhood do you live in?

I live in Wentworth Village. It's not too bad, I'm liking it. I just moved in a few months ago so it is still taking me a little bit of getting used to.

do you live alone?

I do not. I have a roommate who I barely see so sometimes I feel like I live alone. I am thinking about getting a hamster so I can hear some noise at night.

what is your idea of perfect happiness?
I used to be able to answer this without taking a second to stop and think, I used to have every single moment of my life figured out. Perfect happiness, graduating from NYU with a degree in Psychology, maybe go into teaching, or if that didn't work out I was thinking about being an EMT or just finding something to do in ways of helping others. I was always so focused on finding a career, marrying the woman I loved (at the time), and settling down with the cushy life. Now when I think about what perfect happiness is...well that picture I had framed in my mind it's gone. Now the frame is there but it's just the stock photo of some other guy living his own life and has nothing to do with me, i'm not even in it. My idea of perfect happiness, I guess I need to find that again. I'm still young though, most people don't have everything figured out before they're thirty so I'm not going to panic, I just need some time to find something that will make me happy, something I will happily follow through with. Perfect happiness to me right now is just the ending of a disney movie.

what is your relationship like with your parents? if you don't have one, explain.
It's average. They understand that I've been through a lot and they support me in every way. A few months back I was living in an apartment in New York and there was a fire. After surviving that I just sort of felt like I opened my eyes and realized that I was very unhappy in the life I had. I called my parents, expressed my concerns to them and confessed that I wanted to come home. I could tell they weren't happy, especially since I was in graduate school and they had spent so much money to get me there, but they understood and they did support my decision. I feel bad that they basically wasted so much money but I know that my happiness is important to them and once I really figure myself out and find out who I am and what I want to do, they'll be even happier. It's rough when you don't really know who you are but my parents love me and they are really happy that I even asked them for help, I don't think they were expecting that.

what does your ideal weekend or day off look like?

It pretty much just looks like any other day of the week for me, sitting around on the couch, watching tv or job hunting. I spend a lot of my free time trying really find something that will move me and make me actually want to get off my butt and spend my life doing. I search the web a lot, I try new things every week, I know I'm still young but right now I just really want to find my calling in life and I don't know how certain I am that I ever have or ever will find it. It's really important that I figure that out before I'm thirty.

what do you regret most about your time in high school?

I don't regret anything about high school. I had good friends, I got good grades, I had fun. I went to parties, I went on dates, I went to games and concerts, I don't know. I guess you're supposed to have one major regret but I really don't.

what word or words do you overuse the most?

I don't know...I think right now that is actually my answer. I overuse the phrase "I don't know" because I'm stuck in limbo, I'm in that point that I really just do not know what I am doing, where I am going, and what to say.

what fictional character do you most relate to and why?

Leonard Shelby from Memento. I don't have short term memory loss like him and I'm not hunting down the man who killed my wife and ruined my memory, but I understand what he was doing. He had everything (or so he thought) and in one moment, one incident it was all gone. His life was totally taken from him the day his wife died and he just lost himself. He went through the motions of living but he needed a purpose so every day he woke up with this idea that he had to find the man who killed his wife, every day he pieces together the notes he left himself yesterday and he solves the puzzle. Eventually he finds the man, he kills him...and then he burns all the clues and starts all over again. He does this because he just knows..if he stops...he's never going to have a purpose to get up tomorrow, so what's the point? That's who I relate to because every morning I wake up and hope today I can find a purpose to get out of bed.

how would you like to die?
In a heroic manner, if I have to go out I would like to go out knowing my last moment was saving someone or something. I want to be remembered for greatness, at least my final moment can be that.

family all here)

THE EVENT THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING On the outside, Talan may appear the perfect person. Out going, friendly, college graduate with a degree in psychology, takes care of his body, family man. On the inside, however he lately has begun to feel like a slightly different person. During his first year of graduate school there was a fire in his apartment building in New York. Terrified for his life and the life of his roommate (his fiance at the time) he broke down the door, helped her and his neighbor to safety, and everything changed. Suddenly he was faced with his own mortality, unsure of who he was but certain of one thing and that is that life is precious and short and not a moment should be taken for advantage. Knowing now that he no longer cared for his education but just for the act of living, he dropped out of college and moved back home to surround himself with his family who he knew would support him during the most difficult time in his life. If he were to be asked, Talan would confess that this very day was the day his entire life changed, he stopped thinking about the future and only the moment, the here and the now. With his new outlook on life taking over he sold his car, bought a motorcycle, stopped sleeping, his eating habits changed from healthy to all the junk food he could get his hands on, he began attending any concert and live show that came to town, sleep became a distant memory for him...and only his family are aware of his new attitude. Despite his new view of life and just how short he is, there is not a moment that goes by where he does not have a smile on his face, a laugh on his lips, and the attitude of "life life for the now don't worry about the future."

blurb It's easy to get lost in the shuffle when you are one of six children, especially when you're usually the very quiet one of the bunch with the Morr family though, well Talan never had much trouble with his family. He always wanted to be close with his siblings but constantly found himself looking outside of Hawthrone for his future, he was always a dreamer, a boy who wanted his life to expand beyond the stars. In this dream was also the desire to help people understand the demons within their own minds thus sending him to study psychology at NYU and later, graduate school. Due to a traumatic event in his life, he dropped out of graduate school in his first semester and returned home to pave a new path. After being faced with his own mortality he felt a sudden need to test his limits and see how far he can go without harming himself. Motorcycles, weed, drinking, jumping in the middle of bar fights, attending concerts that will certainly have mosh pits he can throw himself in the middle of, his new behavior may come as a shock to his close friends and family, but something he felt a need to face. Following his decision to return home and drop out of school, his fiance of two years decided she was not ready to marry a man who didn't seem to be on the same path as him and broke his heart. This new development only gave Talan another excuse to test his limits, find something to make his blood pump and feel as if he was walking down the right path. While his return home also left him financially unstable, he recently picked up a bartender job and is in the process of hunting for a second, perhaps a third job to keep a roof over his own head. While life may throw a fire in his path from time to time, Talan is confident that he will be able to find himself again, at this moment he is just going through a little phase of rediscovering himself.
facts soon
played by: luke hemmings. contact. credit.