Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a welcome for joyous noise, for those navigating what Beckett called “this bitch of an earth.”

A humbug stud,
a crepescule mule bitten 
by the lust bug,
inhaling Milk Duds
 and other forms
of self-numbing love.

Concupiscent songs 
met with shrugs
and replaced earbuds.

What could 
reflood our shrubs?

Back rubs? Beer mugs?
Bare hugs atop exotic rugs?

Who Put the Dipsy in My Doodle?

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1. “Dipsy Doodle” – Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
2. “A Land So Strange” – Timeshare’94
3. “Charlie Brown Blues” – Jontavious Willis
4. “How Can I Lose” – The Harlem Gospel Travelers
5. “The Dipsy Doodle” – Beverly Kenney
6. “Jeans On” – David Dundas
7. “Divine Revelation” – Andrew Hill
8. “Dipsy Doodle” – The Mulcays, Ernest Tavares
9. “Bananza (Belly Dancer)” – Akon
10. “Code” – Melt-Banana
11. “Searching For My Love” – Booby Moore and The Rhythm Aces
12. “Post-Post-(Live)” – The Psychotic Monks
13. “The Opinion of the Lamb, Pt. 1” – Smote
14. “Dipsy Doodle” – Dennis Van Rooyen

Stephen McClurg (Episode 473) composes and improvises in Serenity Dagger, The Abdomen, and other projects. Along with session work for mid-Alabama singer/songwriters, he frequently collaborates with musicians across the state adding bass, guitar, and synths to friends’ recordings. He currently writes reviews for Horror DNA and is the substitute low end wrangler for Mobile-based punk rock band Future Hate. You can find out more about his work here.