tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63228152024-03-14T00:32:36.871-04:00Dumbfound MeA blog devoted to the magic and mystery of that beatific Brooklyn band known as the Caulfield Sisters. A site by fans, for fans.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-8475196383443002482013-11-03T15:06:00.002-05:002013-11-03T15:06:13.010-05:00yeah, it's cold now in the city
Ah, fall! What better time to reclaim our frozen lethargy, reconnect with those depressing 5 p.m. sunsets, track down our parkas and ski leggings
and constantly misplaced woolen hats and even more constantly misplaced gloves, and curl up in a fetal position in inconsolable mourning for the lost promise of summer while awaiting, for what feels like a futile eternity, the return of warmth and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-83392952990915279642013-05-23T02:12:00.001-04:002013-05-23T02:12:11.791-04:00take your ear above the groundSad news for anyone who was hoping to spend Memorial Day weekend in the Mid-Hudson for Hopewell/Clementines/Caulfieldspalooza — apparently the Sisters have had to cancel. (Saturday's show is still on, but The Fasads have taken their place in the lineup, if not in our hearts.)
Whatever the reason for this change, I hope all is well with them.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-31855871102501305072013-04-25T03:59:00.001-04:002013-04-25T09:52:21.723-04:00you killed the loneliness that day
Ah, spring! What better time to leave behind our frozen lethargy, forget those depressing 5 p.m. sunsets, deposit the parkas and ski leggings and constantly misplaced woolen hats in a moldering heap in the mudroom, and take a lazy car ride up the Hudson River -- out past Wappingers Falls and Poughkeepsie, say, crossing the river from Rhinecliff, arriving finally in the former New Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-31140260830309604032012-05-26T09:33:00.000-04:002012-05-26T09:33:55.262-04:00lay me on the ground, i'm feeling lowNow where we? Oh yeah, the Caulfield Sisters are putting on a show tonight at Williamsburg's favorite bar/concert space/dismantled-then-reassembled-Minnesota-bowling-alley-in-a-warehouse, i.e. The Gutter. And speaking as someone who got an "A" for bowling in college (yet, oddly, have never scored above a 170), that sounds like a mighty splendid combination indeed. Plus, ya know, The Sisters are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-54059260925130650692010-06-27T20:56:00.006-04:002010-06-27T21:05:23.066-04:00i do believe you've got something to lanceApril 26 at the Matchless Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Major, Ghana-style props to TheEastVillagerNYC for uploading this.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-4862842509227238862009-10-17T15:54:00.009-04:002009-10-17T17:17:58.842-04:00i swear to god that i don't mean to crySomeday, I hope, someone will fill me in on who this "balloon boy" is that everybody's been going on and on about lately. But meantime, I know why I've floating aloft all this week in my own emotional homemade experimental aircraft -- it's sheer, full-bore ecstasy, inspired by the knowledge that the long drought is over, the aquifers are replenished and the mighty Caulfield Sisters spring tide Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-54973040683189841982009-10-10T17:59:00.001-04:002009-10-10T18:15:33.861-04:00have we got contact, you and me?In the words of a Persian poet:The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars;the owl calls the watches in the towers of Afrasiab.And the Caulfield Sisters? Why, they're heading back on stage where they belong, ready to win the Nobel Prize for rocking your motherfucking ass off.Last time we heard from the Sisters, way back in the yonder days of Ought-Seven, it was still George Bush'sUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-18411771921971563852008-03-16T14:40:00.009-04:002008-03-16T16:04:53.387-04:00she’s gonna be a writer and no one can stop herYou know, I think those remarks by Obama's pastor are getting misconstrued by the media. Clearly, what he meant is: "God damn! America is so totally ready to see and hear more from those Caulfield Sisters!" And who could possibly quarrel with that? (Yes, Senator McCain, I'm looking at you. But is there any truth to the rumors that Hillary's a fan and, if nominated, plans to give an acceptance Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-56721077686755142722008-01-21T15:16:00.000-05:002008-02-03T02:27:40.130-05:00no, she can do it with her eyesI hope everyone is having a good MLK Day. Here's a treat for y'all: Someone has uploaded a second live video of the Sisters onto YouTube, this time showing them performing at Pianos, which I'm guessing was a few years ago.The camera moves around a lot and offers a good look at all three, each seeming very serious but rocking out nonetheless. Is Mary amazing on that bass or what? Kristin's got herUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-48339748413494163262008-01-15T01:29:00.001-05:002008-01-21T16:12:29.854-05:00the flood will take us when we're in our sleepLet's just say, hypothetically, that you drive five hours across the state to see a wonderful band whose debut album has been immeasurably enriching your life during the past couple of months, but then because of some absurdly inaccurate Google Maps driving directions coupled with extreme fatigue and your usual stupidity you arrive just in time to catch the last song and a half of their set, for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-85639985872464008192007-11-11T07:24:00.000-05:002007-11-11T21:53:03.019-05:00from my east side, from my west sideI'm running out the door to go listen to Paul Krugman (who's basically the Mary Catherine Guidera of John Bates Clark Medal-winning Princeton economics professors who write columns for The New York Times) speak at the Miami Book Fair. But when I get back, looks like I got some downloading to do, thanks to our friends at American Laundromat:We promised you we'd be releasing the "Deal Breaker DemosUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-67228812312325552502007-09-21T13:35:00.000-04:002007-09-21T14:32:05.052-04:00now that's a thought i can followI have nothing constructive to add, just thought it worth noting that a cool person named Stacey took some photos at this month's Caulfield Sisters/Hornrims show at Don Hills. Besides the one above, you can see the others in their natural habitat here.Did anyone else know that besides Look It, Cindy and the flute goddess Suzanne Thorpe were in a second band called The Forest For the Trees? Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-38714947270281050172007-09-08T21:04:00.000-04:002007-09-08T21:30:10.698-04:00but when she falls, she's lighter than airI'm guessing that the Sisters have departed the stage by now, that their faithful fans have enjoyed the comeback show at Don Hills, and that the Earth has resumed spinning on its proper axis. I hope it was everything a Caulfield Sisters performance should be -- life-changing, psoriasis-curing, the type of experience that leaves you with your soul cleansed, your hedges trimmed and your cuticles Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-85714744658273126162007-07-11T02:53:00.000-04:002007-07-11T04:03:12.555-04:00i hope it's got a face that i knowYowza yowza yowza. I mean, damn -- when those Sisters pull a comeback they don't fuck around. No, they just go ahead and stage the most glorious resurrection since a certain Nazarene kicked a stone out of his way a couple of millenniums ago. Here are the tidings of joy from American Laundromat:"The Caulfield Sisters will be playing a show on September 8th at Don Hills in NYC.""In the next few Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-65564129666102015462007-07-03T05:30:00.000-04:002007-07-03T07:04:56.288-04:00days grow long as the days go onGreat news: Various folks who know much more than I do say the Caulfield Sisters juggernaut is getting ready to roll, to which all I can respond is a mighty yee haw. See these snippets from the American Laundromat message board plus the comments to my prior blog post for more. Really, I was just expressing my fears out loud so they'd turn out not to be true.Meanwhile, anyone looking to get their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-29120875965371219812007-06-12T22:15:00.000-04:002007-06-13T00:07:10.244-04:00the girl's in the ground nowSo is this the end of the Sisters? Have the Caulfields gone off to that great musical-literary rye field in the sky? Is it possible that a band that hasn't performed in public for almost two years might not technically, you know, exist? Interpret this as you will, but Cindy's gone off and formed yet another band, according to this alert passed on by Caulfield Sisters mega-fan madtempest:From: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-14198119171226835942007-05-19T15:21:00.000-04:002007-05-19T18:48:28.576-04:00it's a sausage grinderA few more thoughts on the no-longer-lost video:Comparing the Pee Shy video with the Caulfield Sisters' concert footage can be both fun and educational. For instance, ponder Cindy's sultry swaying-back-and-forth in "Little Dudes" (perhaps amped-up for purposes of the video) versus her ironclad gravitas when playing the accordion in "Some Candy Talking." In the latter, I was struck especially by Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-23615170255944240562007-05-19T03:45:00.000-04:002007-05-19T15:04:04.841-04:00i told you, so don't lieOh. My. Fucking. God. Part II.After 11-12 years of being locked in some forbidding, Dick Cheney-style netherworld in some record company's vault, the video for Pee Shy's "Little Dudes" single has finally surfaced. So for anyone who ever wondered what the Sisters were like before they were Sisters, back when Jenny was still in the mix, Bil was just being Bil and the Shy's classic configuration wasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-2747683611991515492007-05-15T03:24:00.000-04:002007-05-15T04:16:31.632-04:00trying hard not to be the piece of cloth that it isFor anyone who's interested, looks like those message boards at American Laundromat are finally back. And there's a special corner all set up for discussions of everyone's favorite accordion-, bass- and drum-slinging trio -- even though it's accompanied by some disquieting hints that the Holy Trinity have retreated into their own state of Salinger-like seclusion:What can we say about these ladiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-84250588057528273562007-04-27T08:46:00.000-04:002007-04-28T11:10:46.648-04:00there's a hand from behind and it cups my mouthSo I finally got around to packing and took a cab to the airport and now my Southwest flight has been delayed at least an hour because of bad weather and I figure, hey, I might as well use this free wifi connection they have here, and then I start to think about the YouTube video I posted here a few hours ago and start to wonder if maybe, just maybe some performance of the Sisters has been Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-75235029682589774142007-04-27T05:30:00.000-04:002007-05-19T06:16:52.571-04:00in is the opposite of outBelieve it or not, I've had a lot of things to say here, just haven't been motivated to say them. But I hate doing what I really should be doing right now, which is packing, so here goes:American Laundromat got a new website a while back. Yay! But apparently they're running out of Say It With Fire, so y'all better hurry and stock up.Um, what's the deal with the Sisters' official site?Kristin's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-1165392891996205412006-12-06T02:15:00.000-05:002007-03-03T21:23:00.711-05:00it's too much for a young heart to takeOr even a no-longer-young one. But let me start at the beginning:I knew something was up tonight when I saw my screen door ajar. A bundle of something was propped up inside, gently swaddled by rubber bands and a concealing blanket of magazines and a Cushman's citrus catalog, left on the front porch like an offering to some neglectful god. Its secret lay deep inside, in the exact center of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-1165231458273318322006-12-04T06:23:00.000-05:002007-03-03T21:23:51.368-05:00all the way to china, and i dugWow. Whatever happened to summer?No matter, and don't mind me while I dust some of these cobwebs off. Once again I find myself apologizing for all these months of blog silence, but this time I have an excuse: I had sworn upon the altar of God that I would not post again until A) Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House; B) Thomas Pynchon came out with a new novel (admittedly Salinger would Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-1153710401266669452006-07-27T21:48:00.000-04:002007-03-03T21:24:08.586-05:00nobody looks when eternity's dying"Somebody laughs again,somebody's hurt again,somebody's stranded or just breaking downand you in you're bubble,you're offshore in your bubbleand rolling away"-- Nailbiters, "Someone Else"This has been a week of mourning for Mike O'Neill, the astonishingly gifted songwriter, guitarist and singer who led some of the greatest bands ever to come from Tampa Bay -- Monday Mornings, Nailbiters and The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322815.post-1147636960910341642006-05-14T15:45:00.000-04:002007-03-03T21:24:32.188-05:00maybe i'd sleep at nightBelatedly, some more actual Caulfield Sisters news from Joe, indicating that the Lost Three Wheeler Demos may soon resurface:... you'll be happy to know the Caulfield Sisters are rehearsing again after a long hiatus. No news on new recordings yet but I can assure you I will gently guide them into a recording studio within the next several months.In related news... as you know, before Cindy and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0