🌟 Alright y’all theres a mighty fun show comin up on Wednesday May 6th @purgatory.bk 🌟 May the music mend your broken heart ❤️🩹 Flyer by the great @grayson_bear 🐻 Ticket link in bio! 🎫
LLOYD CENTER OUT NOW!! Our first single and music video! in honor of our beloved local mall/3rd Space/Ice Rink/Art hub ~ we hope it lives for ever 💚
You can find the track and video in the link in our bio 🎧
Huge shout out to @dim___wit for making this incredible video with us! ✨
For more info on preventing Lloyd Center’s demolition check out @save_lloyd
And thanks to @the_masses for mastering!
One more Wit Lore Wednesday! Back with another shoutout this time to my oldest and closest friend @ssalomeyaa We go back somethin like 20 years now?! We met in home room in high school. We sat alone across the room from each other and didn’t talk to each other for maybe a year until we finally did over the internet on last.fm. Soon enough, we found out we match (and build off!) each others freak and this is just one of the many examples. You wrote in my yearbook “WE ARE 4EVA” and I remember being annoyed at the time thinking thats all you’re gonna write?! But that truly is all there is to it. “WE ARE 4EVA” Come see us get our freak on tonight at Mississippi studios
ONE WEEK TIL SHOWTIME! 🤘😎🤘
Wit Lore Wednesday continues with an artist S/O @briannanus has been one of my go to artists for show flyers. W/O any sort of notes i knew they would always be bangers. We met years ago when she put on a show that Dim had the pleasure of playing. Been a big fan ever since. It’s been so cool to see her work on bigger and bigger projects throughout the years. So so proud but also not surprised at all. Here are most of the flyers she has made for dim shows throughout the years! Thanks for all the eye candy @briannanus 🤘🤩🤘
Wit Lore Wednesday on a Tuesday?! That’s right! Without @general_qu I might not have ever lived in Portland! I might not even be alive today if it wasn’t for her but thats another story i don’t really wanna go into. 🙊 We met when @moonbyyou was touring down California maybe 13 or 14 years ago? I ended up hopping on their bus on a whim up to SF and the rest is history as they say. Sometime after, i moved to portland for 6 months. I was deeply depressed and didn’t have my shit together and moved back home. Qu really encouraged me to move back to Portland and saved a room at thee ole moon base for me. I gave portland a second chance and here i am over 11 years later! I think we’ve lived together for at least half my time here. Qu’s been like a stand-in mother to me here and now she’s a real mother (and a great one at that!) If you’re friends with Qu, you know how fiercely supportive of a friend she is. Also, it’s her birthday today! I’m honored that her & @crystalquartez (and dylan) are debuting their project @digitalwarthog in a week on 1/14 @mississippistudios See yall there!
Back with more Wit Lore Wednesdays! This is a throwback to one of my lockdown projects. The other being recording the Self-Titled album in my room. Since I knew I was gonna be holed up in my house indefinitely, I got a green screen setup to make silly videos. Back home in San Diego my parents also had a green screen (basically a big green blanket). I asked my pops to choreograph/dance to one my songs and while my mom filmed it. His moves conjured up all these different images. I had to dig around YouTube for hours to find videos that matched what I saw in my head. Luckily I had all the time in the world back then but it certainly took quite some time. It also took quite some time to keyframe all the objects I put in his hands. To this day, this is one of the projects that I'm most proud of making. S/O to Mom and Pop Wit for being so supportive of my silly little endeavors. Farewell show @mississippistudios in 3 weeks! Ticket link in bio!
For this late Wit Lore Wednesday I unearthed a special treat! As far as i know, this is the earliest video recording of Dim Wit dated 6/13/15! This maybe even be a "Tyler & the Verigins" show. As you can see it's pre labcoat and my wig has already fallen off. Many of my first shows were played in this basement (The Dacha) and now I live a block away from it. Funny story about this song in particular. It's called "Hoes n' Bros". In the song, i take on the voice of a "hoe" who is misjudged/misunderstood and a "bro" who recognizes the errors of his ways/bro culture. I tried to explain this to an anarchist space who turned us down from playing a show because the name of the song. 🙃 Only 5 more weeks til the farewell show! Ticket sales are very low 😬 but I trust that y'all have it saved in your calendar at least! January 14th!
Welcome back to Wit Lore Wednesday! Just a mere 6 more weeks til the farewell show! (Ticket link in bio!) Today we will cover the origins of the name Dim Wit. I was asked recently where it came from and i more or less said this. When i first moved to Portland, i wanted to get into stand up comedy. I signed up for open mic nights around town but ended up never going up. When i told an old friend of mine that i was trying to get into comedy, he said i wasn’t smart enough. Hearing that certainly left a scar. Especially since one of my biggest insecurities is being perceived as stupid. I never really got great grades and compared myself with my older brother who did. So when coming up with a band name, i wanted to take this insecurity and turn it into something else, something positive. By putting a simple little space in the word dimwit, the name shifts in meaning entirely. Lyrically, i often write about the darker/bleaker (dim) things in life but with a playful/clever (wit) tone with wordplay. Thus the name Dim Wit. Now when i hear the name i feel empowered.
Back in the day you could say i was a bit of a drummer slut and you wouldn’t be wrong. One night, i had a different drummer for every song. So like maybe 8 in total? I felt like that was one of those shows where pretty much everyone in the audience was in one of the bands. It was fun to let them drum however they wanted and i would play to their particular styles. I think ive played with over a dozen drummers? A handful of dim drum alumni have been captured on @corbincorbin cam. S/O to all drummers of dim wit past! These days ive gone sober from both alcohol and drummers. I’ve even turned into a drummer myself in a band named Dinner Plans. You can catch us play a couple songs at the farewell show in 7 WEEKS on January 14th! Ticky link in bio.
