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.”

Belong, Belong, Before Bresson

Standing, reading in the reference section 
Manly Hall love songs, ur songs, 
swift raft limericks, anatomy collections.

All the wrong colors for sepia living,
reading nightly on the benches.
Sometimes dodging rain or sustained
canine rants by the library.

Soda machines, streetlights, bottlecaps, 
fountains of glass water picnics, forensics 
and fodder for downtown freelancers 
and other delinquents. 

Rusty emissions near the furnaces 
and tourniquets and fire and a place 
where there’s still pretty good falafel.

Sepia Living

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1. “The Apple That Scarcely Fell (featuring Mckinley Dixon) ” – Ghais Guevara
2. “No Sound” – Young Knives
3. “Así Baila el Sintetizador” – Ale Hop, Titi Bakorta
4. “Every Pearl’s Wish” – Devra Hoff
5. “Cours, Cora, cours” – Lou-Adriane Cassidy
6. “Bok Globule” – Motherhood
7. “Building 650” – Squid
8. “Mockup” – Bisk
9. “Four” – Ditz
10. “Untethered” – Sunrot
11. “Down on the Street (Live)” – Iggy Pop
12. “Cosy Hour” – Waldo’s Gift
13. “Doki Doki Densha” – OSC
14. “Le surcroît II” – François Couturier, Dominique Pifarély
15. “Turned To Dust (Rolling On)” – Bonnie “Prince” Billy
16. “Ride of Perseverance” – Moonbrew, Paolo Apollo Negri

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.