October 26th, 2011
We’ve got a new song! You can listen to it and download it here: http://dabblesinbloom.bandcamp.com/
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October 26th, 2011
Check out Dabbles In Bloom live this Saturday night at Sapolil in downtown Walla Walla!! Show will go from 9:00 to midnight. Halloween night! Which means that the show is free of charge if you wear a costume (otherwise it’ll be $3, or $5 for two).
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October 19th, 2011
OCCUPY OCCUPY OCCUPY. Occupy Walla Walla began this past Sunday with a grand gathering of people, music, food, and ideas. We’d love to see more folks at the next general assembly this coming Sunday at 4 in the square/park on Main St. Yippee!
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August 11th, 2011
Just voted for our good friend Brenton (“B-Way”) to Write Game’s newest ‘Pot of Gold’ Verse, check it out.
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August 8th, 2011
How would the Arab Spring affect the “only democracy in the Middle East”, Israel? For three weeks now, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets, first driven by cottage cheese, then by expensive housing, and now by the inequity of markets, and they are living in tents until they see change. Is this any different from Tunisia, or Egypt, Bahrain or others? Of course it’s different: each country’s popular uprisings are motivated by unique goals and unique circumstances. But it’s different for another important reason: Israel’s status as a free democracy, a politically liberal partner of the U.S. in a sea of autocracy. This time it’s a country that systematically should support its middle class, at least in the eyes of a capitalist, yet has failed to do so. They’ve swayed from what once looked more like a European proto-socialist nation to an aspiring free-market proto-America. And now Israelis lash back. The middle class. The “regular folk”. They didn’t reach the level of desperation that many in Egypt had reached. Yet they’ve undertaken one of the biggest uprisings in their country’s albeit short history. What would it take to motivate ordinary Americans to do the same? At what point does the free market cut so deeply into our civil rights that we feel inspired to lash back, and use our civil liberties to push for change? We breathe the air of democracy and live it every day to the point where we’ve been lulled into a feeling of trust for our system to provide for us in the end. That lethargic faith might ultimately prove worse for our condition than the desperation that many in Egypt feel. Israelis are standing up and demanding more equitable distribution of services, and we can do the same.
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August 5th, 2011
Damn, we have cool friends. Read this poem now! http://www.whitman.edu/quarterlife/54_7.html
http://www.whitman.edu/quarterlife/54_7.html
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July 29th, 2011
Check out this session from our good friends Dujie Tahat, Peter QB, B-Way.
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July 28th, 2011
Well, it has been a while since our last post. After our fantastical tour around the Pacific Northwest, we partied it up for a bit in Seattle and then dispersed to our homelands. Rimmy has been back home in Thailand, Jonas and Robby at home in Seattle, and I’ve been in New Jersey and DC.
I’ve been writing a lot of music lately, though not necessarily in structured song form, the way I’m used to. This process of writing in a more free-form style while also reading a lot of fiction (and especially Dostoevsky, who famously introduced a more stream-of-consciousness style to Russian lit) has forced me to confront this reality: writing a song is at its core very much the same as writing a novel. A great novelist doesn’t just tell a story; she/he uses a story and its characters to reveal something about our world. Novels are very particular, with particular people and particular events and particular themes, but the particularness and smallness of these details are exactly what make them universal and make them connect so strongly to the readership. In songwriting, we use the particulars of a song’s subject as reason for pause and reflection. We tell a story (whether linear or nonlinear), but we leave space for parentheticals, in which we explore the underlying truth that the story’s particulars speak to. In East of Eden, one of the most powerful characters is a servant, who doesn’t actually have much impact on the story itself. But the nature of his character as a Chinese servant who is astonishingly intelligent makes way for frequent reflection about the way that relationships and people work. The devil is often in the details, as they say, but I’d assert that humanity is in the details.
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May 26th, 2011
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May 18th, 2011
check out our facebook event for the tour! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215793088440610
We’re going in to the real world and doing a tour!! Come out to any of our shows and we promise to be your best friend.
May 22nd – Sklyark in Seattle (all-ages, $5, 9pm)http://www.skylarkcafe.com/
May 23rd – Mandolin Cafe in Tacoma (all-ages, free, 8pm)http://themandolincafe.com/
May 24th – The Rendezvous/JewelBox Theatre in Seattle (21+, $5, 9pm)http://www.jewelboxtheater.com/
May 25th – Luckey’s in Eugene (all-ages, $3, 10pm)http://luckeysclub.com/
May 26th – The Knife Shop in Portland (21+, $4, 9pm) http://pc-pdx.com/venues/the-knife-shop
May 27th – In Other Words bookstore in Portland (all-ages, free, 7pm)http://inotherwords.org/
May 28th – The Arc in Portland (all-ages, free, noon)
May 29th – The Blue Scorcher in Astoria, OR (all-ages, free, morning)
May 30th – Folk Life Festival in Seattle (all-ages, free)
Toooouuuuurrrrr. It’s going to be superb.
love,
adriel, rimmy, jonas, and robby
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