Buddy Wakefield's Blog, page 115

“Might as well…”

October 22, 2013

Tonight(!) at Hinge Bar, 48 Main Street, Northampton, MA, 8:30pm

This is not the upcoming show with Ani DiFranco in Northampton on November 10th.

Flying solo,

Budderfield

Dart Mouth

October 20, 2013

Dancin’ my way to Hanover, NH tonight.



Katie, Angelo and Grant… Wow for yesterday in Scranton, PA, and thank you.

I can’t pretend it was any more 100% than what happened in New York with Flavorpill, or Velvet Lounge,

or the dream I had last night about a city that was cleaned right down to its shine

and as alive as I feel about this tour so far,

but it was a show I will absolutely not forget.

Sure looking forward to tonight and keepin’ it goin’.

This one was booked relatively last minute, so do help get the word out,

especially if ya know anyone super white, loaded and smarty pants (they all know each other or are related):

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Workshop at 3:30pm in an unknown location (cryptic right?);

performance at Collis Common Ground, Collis Student Center, 8:30pm

A Performance with the Gentleweight Champion of the World

Anis Mojgani and me, TODAY!!

October 16, 2013 at CCBC Essex, ADMN 137

7201 Rossville Blvd., Baltimore, MD, 2:30pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, so get it together. Drive. We’re ready.

East Bound and Up

October 15, 2013

Leaving now to catch the ferry to fly out to D.C.

to start a 5-week tour in Baltimore tomorrow.

Updated tour route details on buddywakefield.com/tour-info



Amped,

Boomer

You Wanna Go? Oh We Can Go.

October 14, 2013

After cleaning out my office and finding this photo from 2008

I feel aggressive enough to threaten

that anyone who misses this show will be spirit jumped

in the parking lot of missed opportunity:

October 19, 2013 with Breaking Ground Poets at TwentyFiveEight Studios,

703 North Washington Avenue REAR,

Scranton, PA, 2pm

TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR.

Purchase via buddywakefield.com/tour-info/

Bring it,

Butch

PS Hi Ross!

Word Stock Footage

October 8, 2013

The big Wordstock convention in Portland, Oregon was last weekend.

Steve and I drove down for fun to promote HENHOUSE.



Highlights include Steve, Derrick and I protesting Anis Mojgani’s reading

for no good reason other than maybe

once in a while

someone should challenge the gentleweight champion of the world.



No one was harmed

and the silent protest was successfully disregarded by nearly everyone.

To my surprise Derrick thought it would be helpful to leave note cards

on some of my books at the exhibition booth

encouraging folks to buy them.

I’m not entirely sure how long the note cards were there before I discovered them

but I do recall existing

in a heavy span of time

wherein folks stared at me stranger than normal.



On the way from the hotel to the exhibition hall

Steve was kind enough to document interesting observations on the train

from the perspective of a junior high school boy who laughs to much during quiet time.



Meanwhile, Derrick thought it necessary to try and make Beth Lisick laugh

during her panel discussion with a Pulitzer Prize winner.

So we took off our shirts, held hands and agreed that bringing an ever-so-subtle

two-man gay pride parade, where we were surprisingly convincing in acting interested

while strolling across the back of the room,

would be just what the doctor [of tight pants] ordered.

Beth, to our shagrin, held it together until after the panel discussion ended.



Any concerns I had about the other festival participants

looking down on us for our ill-advised behaviors

were quickly remedied by this couple who had yarn bombed themselves

and took to hugging anything that moved.



Our time in Portland last weekend was a great success

mostly because of the laughter

and this moment

where I got to enjoy the sweet gift of sitting in the same booth

with three of my closest friends

at the same time.

If you’re wondering what Derrick is telling the others

you need look no further than the words on his shirt.



Tomorrow

Steve and I are heading to Montana to further promote HENHOUSE.

I’ll also be performing.

Once I’ve done my job well, North Dakota and Mississippi

will then be the only two states in which I’ve not performed.

As a random informative aside to our attendance at Festival of the Book in Missoula

I’ll be conducting a brief survey:

Tracking Down the Start

October 7, 2013

Oh, Hello Design Guru,

I’d sure be grateful for you to create the t-shirt/press poster/promo card image

that will represent my upcoming world tour.

Maybe you already have…

Here’s some guidelines:

- The official tour title=

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

- It can be new or existing artwork, and you own all the rights to it.

- If your work is the match for this tour you’ll get due credit, linked on buddywakefield.com and anything else you care to negotiate.

- Send all images/links to your images to buddy@buddywakefield.com, not FB. Thanks for doing that.

- Here’s some context for the title of the tour =

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

and the starving

off of the words

that are stuck to our throats.

Intimate Breathing For Heavy People

NEW YORK CITY!!

On October 18, 2013 come over… a close encounter with bendy people presented by Flavorpill, featuring Kyo Sakurai and a very special guest at Vira Yoga, 580 Broadway, 2nd floor, New York City, NY, 8:30pm ($10; capacity = 100; ticket link soon; until then… enjoy this photo by Inti St. Clair/imaging by Bill Jonas of how I feel about driving and parking in NYC [which is still not as impending as the feeling I get when driving and parking in D.C. or Boston] while being slightly overdressed and uncomfortable).

Well Beneath the Clay

October 2, 2013

What’s In This?

September 28, 2013

Guys, the party….



When we woke up the next morning

campers were cleaning the outdoors and left no trace.



You magical woodland creatures. Come back.

Any time.



What a treat.

You were hands down the most fun and funniest guests we’ve had the pleasure to host.

Until next time,