Volume 1 of Luke’s Greatest Hits is available now in the store! Featuring two updated classics and a whole lot of music from Luke’s early career.

“Blasted Bill and Moonbeam’s Pod Of Destiny” did their first video PodCast earlier this year. It featured a time plot, a green screen, and a tiny net. Here are links to watch it on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Each part is 10 minutes long, so if you’re pressed for time, just watch Part 3, that’s the most important part).  It ended with a gauntlet thrown in the faces of Luke Ski and Carrie Dahlby to create a video PodCast that would top theirs. So Carrie and I are brought the fight to their turf, and world premiered the first ever video installment of our PodCast “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport” at PenguiCon in Detroit on May 1st, 2010.

Due to how YouTube works, we had to keep the episode to under 10 minutes, so we managed to do an encapsulated version of our PodCast complete with four comedy music tracks, News of The Stupid, and many of the regular segments you tolerate so much. If you enjoy it, please tell your friends about it on line by sharing the YouTube link and/or the link to Bad Rappor t .com, and also please leave comments for us here letting you know what you thought of the show. If there is enough demand, we will do more in the future. Thanks for reading, and we hope you love it!

You can listen, download, and/or subscribe at http://badrapport.com

You can leave us COMMENTS at the web site, http://badrapport.com ,
Or leave a VOICE MESSAGE by dialing (916)-LUKE-SKI ,
Or you can email us at badrapport@gmail.com ,
You can follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/badrapport ,
And we now have a Facebook page ,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Luke-and-Carries-Bad-Rapport/191794823586

We’re recording a new regular episode tonight, so please get those comments in on the video episode, and episode 13 and the MarsCon special! Thanks!

- Luke Ski

• “STOOGEFIGHTER” by Cirque du So What? makes #5 on Dr. Demento’s Top 10!

Please REQUEST for it to be played again at: http://drdemento.com/request
Listen to the show online at: http://drdemento.com/online.html

• LUKE & CARRIE’S BAD RAPPORT VIDEO PODCAST #1 TO WORLD PREMIERE AT PENGUICON!

“Blasted Bill and Moonbeam’s Pod Of Destiny” did their first video PodCast earlier this year. It featured a time plot, a green screen, and a tiny net. (You can view it in 3 parts on YouTube.) It ended with a gauntlet thrown in the faces of Luke Ski and Carrie Dahlby to create a video PodCast that would top theirs. So Carrie and I are bringing the fight to their turf, and world premiering the first ever video installment of our PodCast “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport” at PenguiCon in Detroit this weekend. Carrie Dahlby has a concert in the music room (Niles I/II) on Saturday which starts at 2:00 pm. At approximately 2:30 pm during her concert set, we will show the 10 minute episode, and thoroughly destroy BB&MPOD with our sheer awesomeness. This is not to be missed, people. Be there (and go see Carrie’s concert too)!

• PENGUICON 8.0

http://www.penguicon.org
Troy, MI - Troy Marriott (suburb of Detroit, MI)
April 30th thru May 2nd, 2010

This Linux and general sci-fi/fantasy convention has an excellent music track filled with dementia, nerdcore, and filk, as arranged by Jean “Jayekitty” Prior.

PenguiCon Music Schedule: All concerts are in Niles I/II, except where noted
* = not listed on the official PCon schedule

Friday:
5:00 PM - Soggy Potato Chips
7:00 PM - Max De Groot
8:00 pm - 19 Action News
9:00 pm - Devo Spice
*9:45 pm - Cirque du So What?
10:15 pm - Worm Quartet
11:00 PM - Stone Crazy Pirates - in Ballroom ABCD
Midnight - Open Filk

Saturday:
10:00 am - Merry Miskatonic
Noon - Bill Roper
1:00 pm - Peter Alway
2:00 pm - Carrie Dahlby
*2:30 pm - Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport Video PodCast #1 World Premiere
3:00 pm - Tom Smith - in Ballroom ABCD
4:00 pm - Frank Hayes
5:00 pm - the great Luke Ski
6:00 pm - Toyboat
7:00 pm - FuMP-for-All (featuring every FuMP artist in attendance!)
9:00 pm - Power Salad
10:00 pm - Open Filk

Sunday:
11:00 am - Insane Ian
Noon - Dual Core
1:00 pm - Positive Attitude
2:00 pm - Dementia DIY / FuMP Sideshow
3:00 pm - Closing Jam

Also, there will be a showing of “Mystery Spatula Theatre 11: Mission To Mars” in the Film Room on Saturday at 6:00 pm.

More tour dates include DEMICON, KEYCON, HYPERICON, and NERDAPALOOZA! Go to the Tour Dates page for details.

• Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport: Episode #013 - The Gopher Distraction PodCast

It’s EPISODE 13! So get ready for the longest episode to date, chock full of stuff for all the hard core Luke Ski fans out there! Learn about the depths of his neuroticism as talks about his self-perceived failures as the preeminent Star Wars musical satirist of the late 90’s / early 2000’s! Stand agape as he tells of song ideas from the past that were so bad, that he himself can’t even remember what they were all about! Hear him recite A Capella THREE NEVER BEFORE HEARD PARODY SONGS from his notebook archives! Also in this episode we discuss people who don’t know how magnets work, Carrie tells us about her trip to the Wisconsin Dells and her experiences performing the Opera “La Boheme”, we describe the worst movies we have ever seen, more song origins, and Luke tells us where he’s not performing this summer. All that plus comedy tracks by Ookla The Mok, Cirque du So What, Carla Ulbrich, and more, jam packed into a special edition jumbo-sized 2 1/2 hour long Episode 13! WE DARE YOU TO LISTEN!!! (And we promise to not makes these episodes this long in the future.)

You can listen, download, and/or subscribe at http://badrapport.com

You can leave us COMMENTS at the web site, http://badrapport.com ,
Or leave a VOICE MESSAGE by dialing (916)-LUKE-SKI ,
Or you can email us at badrapport@gmail.com ,
You can follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/badrapport ,
And we now have a Facebook page ,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Luke-and-Carries-Bad-Rapport/191794823586

• LUKE SKI and CdSW album REVIEWS by BARON DAVE ROMM!

Check out this excellent review of my latest album projects. Thanks Dave!
http://suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Mon-041910.index.html

• The MarsCon 2010 Dementia Macros Contest!!!

U can has prizes for yer MarsCon pics wit the funneh kapshins!

Because we refuse to let the fun and magic of MarsCon 2010 come to an end, I hereby announce the MarsCon 2010 Dementia Macros Contest! How do you enter? Here’s your instructions:

(1.) Make a Dementia Macro using a picture from MarsCon 2010. You can use one of your own pictures, or you can use somebody else’s (some people’s posted photo collection links are below).

(2.) Post it at the Dementia Macros LiveJournal Community, http://www.livejournal.com/users/dementia_macros , sometime between now and Tuesday, April 27th at 11:59 pm CST. Enter as often as you want, but you will only be eligible for one of the top 3 places.

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be announced sometime shortly after that on the internet in some way (I’ll decide which way would be best when the time comes). The contest will be judged by the MarsCon 2010 Dementia Radio Listener Guest Of Honor, Snapper!

There are three prizes to choose from: A copy of my latest CD “Too Much Stuff” (http://www.thefump.com/store_release.php?id=61), A full color with body & background Caricature (example: http://lukeski.livejournal.com/585172.html), and a dozen custom made Chibis drawn by Luke Ski (example: http://lukeski.livejournal.com/584831.html). Third place winner gets to choose one of those prizes, second place gets to choose two, first place gets all three. For more examples of caricatures & chibis, visit http://www.artbylukeski.com

U can has entreez? Then go post um! Squee!

Some MarsCon 2010 Picture Links:

Devo Spice:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63721124@N00/sets/72157623468736609/

Davros:
http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m217/Davroz451/2010-03-04%20MarsCon%202010/
[Note from Davros: Look on the left side for all sub-albums. Note that a few days have folders for more than one camera, marked either G10 (my pocket rocket) or 50D (my heavy-hitter SLR)]

Baron Dave Romm:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=153392&id=530260137&l=c3cbe57f9d - Th. & Fri.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=154431&id=530260137&l=8703280654 - Sat.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=154794&id=530260137&l=f87bc464bc - Sun.
[Note from Baron Dave: FB allows unlimited uploads, which is good, but compresses really small, which is bad for things like macros. If anyone wants a higher res image to play with, let me know (and be specific about which pic).]

Poohbear:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2059858&id=1221795033&l=67855e1e85

Kristi:
http://kristisphotosite.shutterfly.com/#:emid=site_other&cid=SHARE3SXXXX

If you have a gallery of MarsCon photos you’re willing to donate to the 2009 Dementia Macros Contest, please let me know and I’ll add them to the list! Kthxbai!

SEE PREVIOUS YEAR’S WINNERS:
2009: http://lukeski.livejournal.com/422170.html
2008: http://lukeski.livejournal.com/277401.html

• Luke & Moonbeam & Carrie & Blasted Bill’s Bad Pod Rapport Of Destiny: Episode 2 – Post-MarsCon 2010 Wrap-up Report!

Well, the title pretty much explains everything you need to know, but I’m too OCD to not type something here, so here goes. It’s Luke & Moonbeam & Carrie & Blasted Bill’s Bad Pod Rapport Of Destiny, Episode 2, our Post-MarsCon 2010 Wrap-up Report! Recorded Sunday night March 7th in Nate Boi’s hotel room after all of MarsCon 2010’s activities had come to an end. We had a room full of friends & artists, including Brendan from Nuclear Bubble Wrap, Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad, and Insane Ian who didn’t say anything during the whole episode. Perhaps he was deep in contemplation on which MarsCon T-shirt he should order from Spreadshirt. In any case, here’s 18 minutes of post-con-nal bliss. Enjoy!

You can listen, download, and/or subscribe at http://badrapport.com

You can leave us COMMENTS at the web site, http://badrapport.com
Or leave a VOICE MESSAGE by dialing (916)-LUKE-SKI ,
Or you can email us at badrapport@gmail.com ,
You can follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/badrapport ,
And we now have a Facebook page ,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Luke-and-Carries-Bad-Rapport/191794823586

• Reminders:

"StoogeFighter"
by Cirque du So What?
Free MP3 download at the FuMP!
http://www.thefump.com

Luke Ski here. When I was a lad, I had a Commodore 128 plus, for which I bought and played many floppy disc video games. One of them was "The Three Stooges", a series of mini games where you raise money to save an orphanage. In one of the mini-games, you could be Moe and slap around Larry and Curly like they do in the classic short films. As the years went on, and game franchises like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, the Marvel vs. Capcom crossovers, and the like grew in popularity and technical refinement, I always felt that there needed to be a current-tech follow up to that old mini-game, taken to it’s logical extremes. So I wrote this sketch with help from Devo, ShoEboX, and Chris in the hopes to kick-start it into its existence. So come on Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony! What are you waiting for? We already have an awesome butt-kickin’, eye-pokin’, face-slappin’ techno theme song for you by Alchav of Soggy Potato Chips, so get to it!

This is a track from the debut album by Cirque du So What?, "Procrastinators Of The Apocalypse", available now at the FuMP store and at the CdSW website! Get yours today, numbskull! *slap!*

And check out the awesome fan-video made by Jered "Mr. Tuesday" Perez!

And now a few words from Carrie Dahlby about her new Safe-For-Work song & video…

My favorite website that I go to for laughs, besides the FuMP of course, is Cake Wrecks dot com, the blog devoted to professional cakes gone horribly, hilariously wrong. The popular site created by Jen Yates recently spawned a hardcover book of the same name which made the New York Times best seller list! Inspired by that site and another cake-related viral internet hit, I have written a parody of the song “Cooking By The Book” from the kid’s show “Lazy Town”, complete with the YouTube Li’l Jon NSFW Remix ending, with rap lyrics written and performed by the great Luke Ski! On the song, we also have appearances by the other 3 members of Cirque du So What?, ShoEboX of “Worm Quartet”, Chris Mezzolesta of “Power Salad”, Devo Spice, as well as Wyngarde from “The Nick Atoms”! And as if that isn’t enough, we’ve also produced a full MUSIC VIDEO to go with it! So feel free to have your cake and eat it too by downloading the MP3, watching the video, telling all your online friends about it, and regularly visiting the Funny Music Project, a.k.a. the FuMP dot com, and Cake Wrecks dot com! Why, it’s so easy, it’s a piece of, well, you know.

Music and mastering by Chris Mezzolesta. Music video directed by Christopher “Pants” Morgan

“ANIME FAN”

by the great Luke Ski, featuring Carrie Dahlby!

Download the MP3 for FREE at the Funny Music Project:

http://www.thefump.com !

Continuing in my career long quest to have a song on every major topic in the many worlds of geeky fandom, I bring you my tribute to the entire genre of Japanese Animation, more commonly known here in the states as “Anime”. This parody of “Candyman” By Christina Aguilera sung by Carrie Dahlby covers everything to the kiddie programs, to the giant robot shows, to the teen melodramas, to the ‘adult’ stuff. With any luck, there will be at least a dozen AMVs posted on YouTube of this song within a month. If you make one, please be sure to tell folks in titles at the end of the video that they can find the song “Anime Fan” at “the FuMP dot com”! Arigatō! ;D

HEY REAL LIFE ANIME FANS! Please help spread the word about this song to anyone you know in the anime fan community, I would to see Anime Music Videos made for this song, and to have people use this song as a part of Masquerade, Costume Contest, and other Cosplay related convention events across the world! So please spread the love and tell all the Anime Fans you know out there online to come download the song for free at the FuMP dot com today!

(After April 1st, the song will move into the FuMP Archive where it will cost 99 cents to download it.)