Buddy Wakefield's Blog, page 108

Superliminal

November 7, 2014

Absolutely. Start to finish. Top of the charts. Uh!

Sweetish

November 5, 2014

“As humans we need to turn everything from our struggle into a resource.”

–Michael Horvath, Orebro, Sweden (Thank you for the warm venue,

a cozy home, pea soup, and cheese tomato toast.)



Thanks also to Maria Bjork’s family, Regina Theatre,

and Uppsala, Sweden. Was somethin special

to be toured around that epic church…







…and the antique autopsy theater

by a local history major

with a light beam built into her glasses.



The guy who invented the categorizations for plant life

is buried under the church.

The first ever Celsius thermometer is across the street in a museum.



Go Uppsala with your inventive shteez

and a lovely color palette for perfectly-painted houses.

It’s rumored that once, when the organ began playing here,

Sonya Renee Taylor filled the largest church in Northern Europe

using only her singing voice.





“Where one is the other must be.”

— Neon Jesus

You party?

November 2, 2014

SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, FLORIDA

I got no problems bending over backwards

for the chance to do shows with y’all again

March 1-10, 2015

but let’s just make it happen real easy.

Email bookingbuddywakefield@gmail.com.

Rest up buttercup

October 30, 2014

Just confirmed an artist-in-residence

at Besienders Huis on the river in Nijmegen, Netherlands

for a three-week writing break over Christmas and the New Year.

Could not be more amped about this opportunity as I enter month 11

of the Riled Up and Wasted On Light World Tour.

Here are the remaining dates for Europe/U.K.

 

The After Party

October 22. 2014

The European leg of the world tour starts tonight.

Leuven, Belgium I sure hope you’re as welcoming and rad a crowd

as you are a delightful and stunning town.

You’ve got a tough act to follow…

 

Anicca

October 20, 2014

Headed out to catch a flight for Belgium

unable to deny the sneaky separation anxiety cropped up

from leaving South Africa, and the Indian Ocean,



and from Tiny and Thabiso and Q,

and from Thuli and Page

who let me make myself at home in their laughter.



The text I wrote for the collaboration with

Durban photographer Mark Lanning says,



“We become mountains

scalloped in the floors of daybreak

buried in the landscape

breathing like an epitaph bearing the words,

‘God is everything happening at once.’”

It seems relevant to how permanent/impermanent I feel

about this incredibly constantly leaving.



I have every reason to be happy,

but I am so sad today.

I’m gonna miss you for a long time, Africa.

Back-up faith

October 18. 2014

While Page and Sphindile took the crowd next level

I practiced squats.

The Sit Still

October 11, 2014

Today the relief of hearing Durban journalist Vivian Attwood ask a man,

“Who are you so almighty you can’t make a cardinal error?”

Today any music video by Perfume Genius.

And write for a while. And rest.

And I found a panoramic of the fellas.

 

Now New Industries

October 8, 2014

Let your head

climb back down through your throat

and into your body

so it can see just how good you look

when you’re not compared to anything.

June 2015

June 22-26, 2015 (ON HOLD) Saratoga Springs, NY