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.”

All Them Little Otters 

was tied up 
where the ball? 
where the stick?
no more christmas otters 

fields of red mice 
scaring the farmers’ wives 
and the beavers too full 
floating lodges go by 

like a chill in the air
like the grey in smoke
like high insect whine vesper
leave you shivering on the bank 

or in a small
open place 
horizoned out

Little Otters

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1. “Prison Oval Dub” – Barrington Levy, Roots Radics
2. “Sunshine of Your Love” – Spanky Wilson
3. “Bitter Aloe” – John Surman
4. “The Day Ends Before It Begins” – B.SONNIER
5. “Knuckles to Nostrils” – Geologist, D.S.
6. “Datna Éclat” – General Magic
7. “Light Beam Part 1” – Sam Cohen, Cochemea, Photay
8. “Dewclaw, Pt. 2” – Portal iii
9. “The Ballad of James Larkin (feat. The Pine Hill Haints)” – Wayne Brereton
10. “Desert Bloom – Carnegiea gigantea” – Botanic Vendor
11. “Papaya Fruit” – Rob Mazurek
12. “I Follow Rivers” – Tiësto, Oaks

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.