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.”

And the Moon

full of moon legends,
not one remembered the sun. 

Of citrus jitters, silted with salt seas sewn
around tender fins, edible bellies
larded and tinned. Wit pickles.

The shelf was clean. The film 
flapped, ankles itched.

When was last chances 
and finicky wizards,

learned beyond burnt toasts?

The now was bullets
to the elder goads,
cindercism punched.

I jarred my possessed jams 
and drank my whine tinglers.

And the Moon

Listen on Tidal. Listen on Spotify.

1. “Only Real Ones Survive” – Terrace Martin, Kenyon Dixon
2. “Three Queens” – Catu Diosis 
3. “More and More” – Matthew Herbert, Momoko Gill, Herbert
4. “Cellular” – Austí Fernández, Marco Colonna, Zlatko Kaučic
5. “Mojo Bone” – Josh & Gary Forney
6. “From Empowered” – John Edwards, Eddie Prévost, N.O. Moore, Alan Wilkinson
7. “Zombi 2 (Sequence 8)” – Fabio Frizzi
8. “Demon Slayer” – Nytt Land
9. “Bathwater” – Frederikke Hoffmeier, Puce Mary
10. “BASURA CATOLICA” – Cristobal Tapia de Veer
11. “Lipwash” – Jasper Høiby, Alex Hitchcock
12. “Differential Spider” – Camila Nebbia, Kit Downes, Andrew Lisle
13. “Just Wanna Know” – Nikki Nair, Uffie
14. “Ranjani (Live)” – Vari
15. “Aurora” – Lathe of Heaven

Stephen McClurg (Episode 473 & 666) 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.