Buddy Wakefield's Blog, page 107

How the last night of a tour feels (in two parts)

December 23, 2014

Photos by Ian Rees

The Honor System

December 20, 2014

This is a nonfiction account of a relay race to the light.

I don’t claim to be properly cross-referenced beyond the self-indulgence or noble aspirations but I have a good feeling I’m on the right track.

I am still very much unfolding from a memory of ransacked truths.

Openly human.

Stunt water.

I can fit any word into my mouth and speak it clearly.

At some point I have eaten most of them.

Maybe Désirée

December 19, 2014

Last night I moved into my new Holland home for three weeks.

It’s from the 1400’s.

There’s a river and a Christmas tree.

It’s five+ stories to myself.

I haven’t explored the fifth floor because I didn’t find it until 4am and, well….

I did find this new little friend in a nest with tiny eggs in its hand

behind a wee door downstairs.



I’m waiting for a 7-year-old friend in Michigan to name it.

Jon (Danielle Plunkett), what we gonna name it?

Igford? Grizzly? Burrito? Tank?

Update: Fifth floor…



Attic….

Disappear from a room

December 15, 2014

Month twelve of the 16-month Riled Up and Wasted On Light World Tour

is nearly sweet history.

Two more shows left on the U.K. stretch

before a three-week writing residency in The Netherlands.

If I could only pick a friend or two from each leg of the tour

to stay there with me for the holidays.



We could cook up cocoa and bake stuff,



build blanket forts and play hide-and-seek in the dark



and make a pillow slide on the stairs.



Man that would be so great.

I know y’all prolly can’t.

I’ll catch up on writing instead,



thanks to Dennis Gaens and Besiendershuis.

I’m gonna miss the safety of being with you, Leigh and Sarah.



Solid.

Tumblehome,

Bud

man snaps in slim gym

December 11, 2014

In Hinckley, England for the day. Last time I was here I sat in a dry sauna in the men’s locker room at a friend’s gym. There was a small window that allowed me to see the whole empty locker room. Two beefed-out bros on roids (zit backs, accessible veins, abducted necks, etc.) blasted into the locker room and aggressively paced around without aim, carrying on in a congratulatory manner about how awesomely they had just gotten their pump on. It was like watching two 9-year-old boys get amped about how they had destroyed the imaginary enemy in a war they invented. Somewhere toward the end of all the muscly affirmations, the one raging bull shouts to the other with conviction, “This is what it takes to be a god!”

Any reaction I had been building toward was stunned out of my body. I felt like I had just witnessed a murder and that if they discovered me sitting in the sauna hearing the private zealous bonding I would surely be consumed for gains. I am thankful I have lived to tell the tale so that future generations might read this and know what it truly takes to rule (basically, get super thick).

Regarding Everything

December 10, 2014

Heads up

December 9, 2014

From Every Angle

December 7, 2014

With warm friends on a rare day off

preparing Sunday dinner to enjoy ’round the table

in front of a seriously cozy fire drying out our clean clothes.

Leigh Adams and Sarah J Coleman, y’all are the real goods

and ongoing proof that I’m a lucky man.

Privileged indeed.

Despite the heaps of blessings surrounding me

here on tour in England,

I am following the unrest at home in the U.S.

with equal parts joy and sadness,

encouraging a complete and honest leveling of the proverbial playing field.

Do those come in steamed?

November 24, 2014

Quick heads up:

When ordering at any restaurant in Brussels

there’s a string chance it will only be funny to you every time asking,

“Do you serve the sprouts of your motherland?”

Treats & Snoozin

November 10, 2014

Did a necessary server switch for www.buddywakefield.com.

The merchandise page works smoothly and properly again.

Check it out.

All emails are also channeling to me correctly once more, no worries.

Feel comfortable emailing buddy@buddywakefield.com

if you’ve contacted that address for important matters recently

and not gotten a prompt response,

or if your message bounced.

Nov. 12-23 I’ll be at Vipassana in Belgium

so will likely not be able to respond until then

but rest assured emails are consistently and safely arriving now.



From Copenhagen to Brussels today

enjoyin’ the views in month 11 of this world tour.