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.”

Every Cat a Fandango

We strut this half hell,
heebie jeebies given freely,wholly tired, holy tiered.

The cold transferred lower,
a chill to the hips.

The barn, 
its red paint peeling, 
slumped like a gambler

leering over a hand of faded 
for-sale signs 
spread across the lawn.

Every Cat a Fandango
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1. “Mary Mack” – Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, Joella Mosley
2. “Site Unseen” – Courtney Barnett, Waxahatchee
3. “Consider the Balance” – Jasper Høiby, Xavi Torres, Naíma Acuña
4. “if you wanna party, come over to my house” – Fcukers
5. “Flowers” – Harriet Tubman
6. “Low Tech No. 2 for Percussion and Tape (1988)” – Badawi
7. “Existential Graveyard” – Future Hate
8. “Low Tech No. 4 for Percussion, Tape and Drum Machine (1988)” – Badawia
9. “WAGWAN” – Central Cee
10. “Goodbye, Henry” – RAYE, Al Green
11. “Doowutchyalike” – Digital Underground
12. “Walking Dead” – rum.gold
13. “Death and the cold cold ground” – Colin Stetson
14. “Hunderprest” – Hellripper
15. “Clenched Fist” – Dry Socket
16. “Emanations of Corporeal Pyosis” – Cryptworm
17. “The Curse of Frankenstein Suite 1” – James Bernard
18. “Traveler” – FAMEYE

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.