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.”

Inlapping 

Flicking tongues in time
against their slantern rhyme, 
a fable in hen’s teeth.

I turn the pen on myself,
a turd in the pistachios, 
a giggle on the labia 
of the world.

He said we are all poets 
because we all dream 
with our face on the ass
of midnight.

We’re all dogs’ nails 
click whimpering 
in the night.

These abortions 
I have shored 
against my ruins.

She keeps talking about
the blisters in her mouth,
bildungsroman swamps,
borodin dances.

Does the corn still glow
with the jellyfish gene? 

Some fishes cause rashes, 
a foam of infantry fatigue. 
Maybe that will be something
that looks good on him.

Inlapping

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1. “Moon Talk” – Tommy Roe
2. “Revenant du Nord” – Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
3. “Lonely Woman” – Patty Waters
4. “Sulette” – Souleance
5. “PARASITIC REALM” – Hedonist
6. “Tukaria” – Cochemea
7. “Mahal” – Glass Beams
8. “In Vivo Receptor” – Bitterviper
9. “Surf Finger” – Jack Nitzsche
10. “Mutations 3” – Basil Kurchin, Jack Nathan
11. “Sunset Burial” – Spotlights
12. “Mutations 2” – Basil Kurchin, Jack Nathan
13. “Kyrie: Orbis Fact/ Or; A Very Odd Do” – Kenneth Gaburo

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.