bulletproof funk

I met Sam when I was a sophomore undergrad at BU.  Every once in awhile he’d say something, but usually he’d just be quiet and mysterious.  I still find that largely to be true except that now, there’s an aura of celebrity that lines the mystery…in my mind at least..and I think for everybody else in Bulletproof Funk.  Whenever we’d do shows and performances, he would be nowhere to be seen and would usually skip tech times, ignore phone calls, and then show up seconds before we went on stage dressed in the incorrect stuff but would then kill the performance.  Right after we step off stage, he would put earbuds in his ears and would leave the building muttering something about having something else to do.  He is the rockstar.  He does what he wants.  Ladies love him and guys want to be him and if they don’t it’s because they hatin.  In my mind’s eye, Sam Shin is a twelve-thousand year old 10 foot tall completely-unamused rock god.  He’s also quite adorable when you talk to him.  Sam is fluent in four languages–Japanese, Korean, English, and bad South Park impressions.

Figure 1. Sam Shin master of the unlikely.

Anyways! Interview!

Dave:

sam, tell me about how you started with dancing?

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