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.”
So Much Depends Upon
the shoes full of blood
sitting at the curb.
Life sometimes
is eating a plate of live crabs.
Do I dare to eat an Otter Pop?
O Holy Comma and
Your Coltrane Tongue,
like my great uncle
who had his appendix
taken out on a submarine.
Every time we played Battleship
and a boat got hit
he would slap me,
but we’d play on
to the end.
He got drunk
and tried to play the cello
standing up,
a saxofoam
raw as a dog’s throat.
O Holy Comma
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- “Washout Revenge” – The Slime
- “Flood” – Little Simz, Obongjayar, Moonchild Sanelly
- “Sparrow Sparrow” – Deerhoof
- “It Doesn’t Matter” – XIXA, Modern English
- “Unspeakable Swamp Creature” – Necronomicon Ex Mortis
- “Sunday Afternoon in the Park” – Van Halen
- “Soul Annihilation” – Bloodfeast Ritual
- “Thank God I’m Not Good” – Geoffrey O’Connor
- “Time to Bloom” – Edith Frost
- “Niceties Carafe Acking” – Crank Sturgeon
- “The bison sleeps tonight (but with whom, though?)” – cave bat
- “Atmosfere” – Paolo Zavallone
- “Vanta” – Rafiq Bhatia, Chris Pattishall
- “Across the Land of Sorrow” – Osculum Serpentis
- “Var” – Hekla
- “Ko’jua (Partridge Dance)” – Sons of Membertou
- “Paris-Brazzaville” – Léonie Pernet
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.
The Drunken Odyssey 
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