Buddy Wakefield's Blog, page 114

JANUARY 2015

January 1-31, 2015 NOW BOOKING EASTERN UNITED STATES (contact Danny Oliver bookingbuddywakefield at gmail dcom for booking information on anything South and East of Ohio)

off the gridish

December 6, 2013

No need to get worked up and worried

because I ain’t scared

but I have decided to route the tour

through two places few have journeyed.

One’s called Wyoming.

The other, South Dakota.

Specifically Laramie, Cheyenne and Sioux Falls.

Holler with Danny Oliver (bookingbuddywakefield@gmail.com)

if you’ve already mapped some of this territory

and can directly connect us to the path

[of rad venues]…



All artwork for Riled Up and Wasted On Light –

Buddy Wakefield’s 2014-15 World Tour (Skipping Chechnya)

courtesy of Javier Piñón.

Places bigfoot might go

December 4, 2013

Guys, It’s not that far (as far as treks go).

Strap into them snowshoes and trek on over to the show this Sunday

December 8th at The Broadway Theatre, 715 Broadway Avenue,

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 8:30pm TICKETS

Riled Up and Wasted On Light – Buddy Wakefield’s 2014-15 World Tour (Skipping Chechnya)

goes full swing in 2014. For booking information

(U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe/U.K., Anywhere, except Chechnya)

contact Danny Oliver: bookingbuddywakefield@gmail.com



All artwork for Riled Up and Wasted On Light

courtesy of Javier Piñón.

Admissions Office

November 26, 2013

For 39 years,

until a few weeks ago,

I’ve used the word poignant instead of succinct.

I’m still somewhat disturbed by the sheer volume of “poignant” moments

I may have caused for anyone who ever took time to look that word up.

Matt Mason, who sees the bright side a lot,

said it’s a good thing I didn’t mistake the word “succinct”

for “bullshit” or something.



All artwork for the upcoming world tour

Riled Up and Wasted On Light

courtesy of Javier Piñón.

Matt Mason just booked the Riled Up and Wasted On Light World Tour in Lincoln, NE for Wednesday March 19th.

Oh Womb

November 24, 2013

DEAR LOUISIANA, I know I was born in you,

but I seem to have kept the fewest connections to venues/colleges/gumbo there.

In order for the following to work:

Wednesday February 5th in Shreveport

Thursday February 6th in New Orleans

Friday February 7th in Lafayette

you gotta send me a Cajun booking angel/venue/organizer/host willing to make a show happen.

Tell’em to holler for Danny Oliver at bookingbuddywakefield@gmail.com.



Javier Piñón is the creator of all the artwork representing the 2014/15 World Tour,

Riled Up and Wasted On Light.

Riled Up and Wasted On Light

November 3, 2013

You remember that time

we sat on top of the whole world

and told each other jokes about the ocean

until everybody crumbled

into tattoos

of bakeries?

Smelled good.

Felt right.

Laughed

so much.

That night

was always lookin’ for a 4-leaf clover.

Nothing to do with luck.

Any revelation.

Any size.

If we thought it would help

we would tell it to you

like a drunk octopus

riled up and wasted on light

like this

like,

“Energy

can neither be created

nor destroyed.

That means we are all

exactly the same age

happening at exactly the same time.”

Well well welcome

to a room full of self-declared

“old souls”

in juvenile clothes.

Let’s blow the cake off our candles, y’all,

and the starving

off of the words

that are stuck to our throats.

Fresh home from touring with Ani DiFranco, Melissa Ferrick and Gregory Alan Isakov.

What a sweet sweet ride. To say the least.

Full steam ahead into making good things happen for

Riled Up and Wasted On Light – Buddy Wakefield’s 2014/15 World Tour (Skippng Chechnya).



All artwork for the tour by Javier Piñón.

If interested in throwing a show, pricing, availability, or have other questions

contact Danny Oliver at bookingbuddywakefield@gmail.com.

Rest when you’re tired.

Warm regards from coldy pants Kingston, WA,

Buddy

Can I Get That In Writing?

November 4, 2013

Oh, hey guys, it’s no big deal really,

just got these new scroll pens

with poems inside of them.

I pretty much wrote the poems.



Here’s the same pens cascading down a small mound of rocks

that I collected

from the tables at Todd Sickafoose’s wedding:



I used to just have one pen with “Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars.”

Now there are pens available for “We Were Emergencies” and “In Landscape.”

If you want to buy them to help pay for the new government I’m saving up to purchase

go to the merch page on this site.

The tour with Ani DiFranco starts in Washington D.C. tomorrow night at 930 Club.

I’m gonna go workout now to tame some of the excitement,

and to build neck mass, which is a huge goal of mine.

Yes it is.

I even keep pictures of necks with swollen veins [/Bruce Springsteen] on my vision board.

I want veins the size of pens with poems in them.

Copy that. Go for Mojo. Over.

November 3, 2013

Tonight at The Fridge thanks to the Beltway Poetry Slam

with Twain Dooley and Patrick Washington, 516 8th Street SE (rear alley),

Washington D.C., 7pm TICKETS HERE

This will be my last solo show

before getting on the tour bus with Ani DiFranco through November 16th.



Then, oh then it’s time to gear up for

Riled Up and Wasted On Light – Buddy Wakefield’s 2014/15 World Tour (Skipping Chechnya)



All artwork for the world tour by Javier Piñón

Pens – Three Poem Pens

- In Landscape

- We Were Emergencies (front); Let It Go (back)

- Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars

$13 for all three if in U.S./Canada

$18 outside U.S./Canada

Select one (includes shipping) :Inside US/Canada - $13Outside US/Canada - $18

Oh, You Mean THESE Moves?

October 30, 2013

Guys, when one has three days off in a row on the road

what else is he supposed to do?



See y’all in Pennsylvania(!) on November 1st at Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University,

Lewisburg, PA, 8pm (private workshop from 5-6pm).