FEAR AND LOATHING IN SEATTLE

Friday Dec 9th started like any other day as I was driving home to
get ready for the big show. But about 2 miles away from home my car
died at a busy intersection. People jumped out to help and I saw a
police car pull up behind me. They helped me park the car in a safe
spot and offered “Do you need a ride?” I pulled up to my house riding
in the back of a Seattle Police car. Thanks to the Seattle Police I
made it to sound check on time for a Bushwick Book club show inspired
by the book Fear and Loathing Las Vegas. It was fascinating to go from
one extreme to another as we got ready to rock at Town Hall. The show
was an awesome success and I had the pleasure of hearing some of
seattle’s top singer-songwiters such as Led to Sea, Galen Green,
Hannah Williams (Youth Rescue Mission), Emily Westman, The Thoughts,
Bucket of Honey, Mike Votava (We Wrote the Book on Connectors, Andrew
Nunez and Jason Dodson (The Maldives).
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Watch the Fear and Loathing Show!

Watch the videos:
Last Laugh :

http://youtu.be/LGuAb41JCC4
American Dream:

http://youtu.be/A5aFj85V4VU

The inspiration behind American Dream:

When I was 19 I had a dream I was in a Vegas Casino. I was watching
an old woman pumping quarters into a slot. Her face was a scene of
utter desperation. But Suddenly the bells and whistles went off and
her face changed as gold coins began overflowing her slot. She turned
to shout her face heavy with joy but as her back was turned another
man with a hunger for what what was hers came and stole her coins and
her face once again was a scene of desperation._

Many have said that Greed and attachment is the source of our
suffering. And I believe that Greed and attachment is the source of
the American dream.

Hunter S Thompson went to look for the American dream in Las Vegas.
And what he found there was that the American dream had killed the
movement of the 60’s a generation that sought to change and work
together was destroyed when we all choose we would rather be saved and
therefore deceived by the American Dream.

Thanks for reading and take care.
-Tai Shan