going goth again!?!
if i had any free time at all these days (which i don't seem to - between finishing the h bird record, planning to shoot 'the oxford dons' and school), i would record the aug's gone goth!?! album. much to my dismay i have no notes, not even the list of titles, on my laptop and a google search shows, quite unbelievably, that i've never posted them on here unless locked. telling kate about it yesterday in the studio, she said "you have to do this". and i think i someday should.

a brief history - in feb 2000, rockets burst from the streetlamps drove to northampton, ma to play a gig. i had a 102 fever, downed a brooklyn lager and lay down in the dressing room. soon i was up and giddy with this new idea of mine. since everyone, esp. annie, always accused me of being a "closet goth", i would start "aug's gone goth!?!" (the question mark denoting surprise but also the fact that they'd all probably just be pop songs knowing the way i write). so i started scribbling down song titles. the album was to be called "pornaugraphy". if there was a second album, it would be "andraugyny". the songs:

savings bondage
does it hurt when i do this?
all dressed up & no place to die
wolf gang
valhalla fame
cruel tea (one lump or two?)
i, shadow
our days are negative numbered
german art school girl
hiss & hearse
witch way to hell?
dark ness monster (a c-side)
o feel ya

there were more. hopefully i still have that list somewhere. i think i should record this. and only release it as a limited edition to be given away at my funeral. perhaps there should be an aug's gone goth!?! cover band at the wake. i remember the band was going to be all my friends who had easily transformable names - sean t. darkwater, rick web, seth was going to be The Baron Field...

it's a shame, like lots of my ideas, none of these were ever recorded. though i did do an acoustic version of 'german art school girl' on the rock stone sweden tour in 2003.