Cthulhu Fthagn (new 2009 studio version)
by Tom Smith, featuring the great Luke Ski
Download it now for free at the FuMP dot com!
http://www.thefump.com

Tom Smith’s description of the song:
"It may SAY Tom Smith up there, but in reality it’s Tom Smith AND The Great Luke Ski! Here’s the skinny: Tom wrote this parody back in 2002, and he and Luke have sung it a lot. We figured that, in the best Disney marketing tradition, it was time for a Special Platinum Commemorative 7-1/3rd Anniversary Limited Remastered High-Definition Audiophile Edition With Ice Cream And Sprinkles On Top. But, since we haven’t been able to successfully digitize ice cream and sprinkles, this is all we got. First thing was to ACTUALLY PLAY IT IN THE CORRECT KEY WITH THE CORRECT CHORDS. Radical, we know, but, hey, we stop at nothing to make you nice folks happy. We also threw in a few new jokes, including Luke’s marvelous shtick at the end — everything after the last chord hit is all his idea. The end result is a classic of something or other, we’re sure. And it allows Luke to keep his streak alive — he’s had a FuMP song every single month The FuMP has existed!"

Thanks, Tom! So go listen, download, and please LEAVE COMMENTS there!

And don’t forget:

* "TOO MUCH STUFF" IS DR. DEMENTO’S MOST REQUESTED SONG OF 2009 THUS FAR!
Please REQUEST "TOO MUCH STUFF" for "the Dr. Demento Show"!
http://drdemento.com/request

* CONvergence 2009 - 4th of July weekend, Twin Cities - Luke Ski, Possible Oscar, and more!
http://www.convergence-con.org

* NERDAPALOOZA! - July 10, 11, & 12, Orlando, FL - Luke Ski, Devo Spice, MC Lars, mc chris, and much more!
http://www.nerdapaloozafest.com

Devo and I were guests on the premiere episode of The Geeks Come Out At Night, a new weekly show happening over at NRRRadio.com. You may notice that the title of the show is the same as the song Devo released last year on The FuMP. That’s because the host, Syrinx, is a fan of Devo’s and mine and asked him if he could use the song as his theme. And why the hell would Devo say no to that? It’s also why Devo and I were the show’s first guests. You can download the song to listen to here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rsgo8k , And more info on the show is here: http://www.nrrradio.com

Hey all, Luke Ski here. First and foremost, much hugs, love, and congratulations go out to Carrie Dahbly and Josh Rasey who are getting married in Chicago this Saturday! May you have decades of happiness to come. Now, onto the Update. First the bullet points:

Please REQUEST “TOO MUCH STUFF” for “the Dr. Demento Show”!
http://drdemento.com/request

Luke Ski interviewed on “In The Stream” with Mischke!
http://media.citypages.com/mischke-thursday-may-14th-2009.3384363.0.mp3

CONvergence 2009 - 4th of July weekend, Twin Cities - Luke Ski, Possible Oscar, and more!
http://www.convergence-con.org

NERDAPALOOZA! - July 11 & 12, Orlando, FL - Luke Ski, Devo Spice, mc chris, and much more!
http://www.nerdapaloozafest.com

• Please REQUEST “TOO MUCH STUFF” for “the Dr. Demento Show”! - http://drdemento.com/request

“Too Much Stuff” was #2 on Dr. Demento’s Top Ten for April 2009, making it tied with another song for Most Requested Song of 2009 Thus Far! Thanks for all of you Luke Ski, Dr. Demento, and compulsive hoarding fans who have pushed it to the top! If you’d like to see it remain the top song of 2009 clear through to December, then please REQUEST for “the Dr. Demento Show” to play “TOO MUCH STUFF” by the great Luke Ski again at the official request page, http://drdemento.com/request!!!

Did you know that now you can make your demented voice heard, literally?! That’s right, as a feature of “The Dr. Demento Show”, you now have the ability when requesting a song at his website to attach an audio file (wav or mp3) of yourself making your request, which could be used on the show itself! Yes! YOUR VOICE REQUEST COULD BE HEARD ON “THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW!” Find out all about it at the aforementioned request page: http://drdemento.com/request You will also receive a free online listen to the show if your request is chosen for broadcast! You can find out all about “The Dr. Demento Show” at his website, http://www.drdemento.com , where you can listen to the show for just $2.00 an episode! And of course, you can still download the song at the Website of the Funny Music Project, aka ‘the FuMP dot com’: http://www.thefump.com .

• Luke Ski interviewed on “In The Stream” with Mischke!

On Thursday, May 14th, Luke Ski was a live in-studio guest on “In The Stream” with T.D. Mischke. Tommy Mischke is a Twin Cities talk radio legend who now has a live streaming weekdaily webcast for City Pages dot com, which is also avaialable as a downloadable PodCast after the show. They talked about Luke’s career, the Dr. Demento Show, the FuMP dot com, the state of funny music today, geek culture and more, and played a handful of tracks by FuMP artists. You can hear the interview here: http://media.citypages.com/mischke-thursday-may-14th-2009.3384363.0.mp3 The home page for “In The Stream” with Mischke is here: http://www.citypages.com/mischke

TOUR DATES:

• CONVERGENCE 2009
  http://www.convergence-con.org
  Bloomington, MN - SheratoN Bloomington Hotel (suburb of Minneapolis, MN)
  July 2, 3, 4, & 5th, 2009

As well as having the folks from Cinematic Titanic (MST3K) as Guests of Honor, here’s when some of your favorite funny music acts will be performing in the Harmonic Convergence room over the weekend:

Friday:
7:00 pm - The Feng Shui Ninjas
8:30 pm - Beth Kinderman and the Player Characters
10:00 pm - Possible Oscar

Sunday:
1:30 pm - the great Luke Ski

And on Saturday afternoon, I’ll be drawing at Artist’s Alley from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm!

• NERDAPALOOZA 2009!
  http://www.nerdapaloozafest.com
  Orlando, FL - Holiday Inn Orlando International Drive Resort
  July 11 & 12th, 2009

Yes! At long last, Luke Ski will be playing the stellar nercore rap & music festival, Nerdapalooza! Also on the line-up this year is Luke’s main compadre in rap dementia, Devo Spice; post-punk laptop rap star and all around nice guy, MC Lars; helium-voiced legendary nerdcore bad-ass, mc chris; the well renowned MC Frontalot, as well as Schaefer the Darklord, Dual Core, Odd Austin, Marc with a C, and many many more!

• GENCON INDY 2009 - Indianapolis, IN - Convention Center - August 13-16th, 2009
  

• FENCON VI - Addison, TX - Crowne Plaza Hotel North Dallas/Addison (Dallas/Fort Worth area) - September 18-20th, 2009
• ARCHON 33 - Collinsville, IL - Holiday Inn Collinsville/St.Louis & Gateway Center (suburb of St. Louis, MO) - October 2-4th, 2009
• CON ON THE COB 2009 - Hudson, OH - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center (between Cleveland and Akron) - October 15-18th, 2009

POTENTIAL UPCOMING 2009 TOUR DATES: I am looking into performing at WindyCon. If you are interested in booking me to perform at your convention, please CONTACT ME. Thank you.

If you like ALCOHOL and/or TOM LEHRER, then you’ll love…

“JELLO SHOTS” by the great Luke Ski!
http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1173

Tom Lehrer: Satirist, Mathematician, Inventor? Top Chef? Barkeep? Perhaps all are correct. This song is a celebration of Mr. Lehrer, and all he’s contributed to our lives. Piano courtesy of the 12 talented fingers of Bob Emmett of Project Sisyphus. Download it for free right now at the FuMP dot com, and please LEAVE COMMENTS THERE for me!

Also, in the tradition of Tom Lehrer’s early works, there are 2 versions available of this song, the studio version on the main page of the FuMP, and the live version on the FuMP Sideshow. Recorded at the FuMP concert at PenguiCon 7.0 by Tom Smith. Thank you Tom! Kungaloosh! http://www.thefump.com/side.php?id=479

Thanks everyone, happy Cinco de Mayo, and as always, “be prepared”. ~ Luke Ski, 5/5/2009

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Please REQUEST “TOO MUCH STUFF” for “the Dr. Demento Show”!
http://drdemento.com/request

“Too Much Stuff” was #2 on Dr. Demento’s Top Ten for April 2009, making it tied with another song for Most Requested Song of 2009 Thus Far! Thanks for all of you Luke Ski, Dr. Demento, and compulsive hoarding fans who have pushed it to the top! If you’d like to see it remain the top song of 2009 clear through to December, then please REQUEST for “the Dr. Demento Show” to play “TOO MUCH STUFF” by the great Luke Ski again at the official request page, http://drdemento.com/request!!

• LUKE SKI ON TWITTER:

Follow me… straight into HELL!!! MUA HA HA HAAA!
http://twitter.com/thegreatlukeski

• LUKE SKI ON FACEBOOK:

Here’s the new fan page for “the great Luke Ski” on facebook, become a fan today!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-great-Luke-Ski/82217349663

• The winners of the MARSCON 2009 DEMENTIA MACROS CONTEST!!!

Sinstress picked our winners, so you can see them, and a selection of some of my personal favorites, at the following page:
http://community.livejournal.com/dementia_macros/37193.html

• A review of “Target: Audience”!

Hey everybody, check out this awesome review of “Target: Audience” by Baron Dave Romm:
http://suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Mon-042009.index.html

• “The Dada Slide” hits #1 on the Mad Music Dementia Top 20!

Well, the recently upgraded Mad Music Dementia Top 20 has been showing a lot of love to Luke Ski lately, in particular on last week’s countdown, with “The Dada Slide” hitting #1, “Too Much Stuff” at #3, and “Spock Star” at #11, not to mention tracks I was involved with in various ways at #2, #5, and #7! Thanks to all my fans who voted! I hope you’ll keep voting for it in the weeks to come.

DJ Particle hosts the Mad Music Dementia Top 20, which is a weekly countdown of the current funny music hits as voted on by the folks signed up at the website The Mad Music Archive, a great resource for comedy music & it’s fandom online. The number of people voting has dipped recently, so DJ Particle is asking for more comedy music fans to come register at the website and vote weekly for your favorite funny tunes! Signing up is free, and you can do so here: http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/signup.aspx . Once you’ve signed up, you can vote weekly here: http://www.djparticle.com/mmdt20/ .

• A note for funny music fans: AL FEST 2009

I’m not scheduled to be there, but it looks like there’s a lot of nifty stuff happening for “Weird Al” fans at Al Fest 2009, so if you’re in the southern California area and have nothing to do on August 1st, please check out their website for details. http://alfest2009.com/

Cat and Ron of the up and coming comedy music group “Ridikulus” back in ‘08 posted an answer song to my track “Bacon” called “Cheese”. Well they’re at it again, taking my tune about Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean and making it about Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who & Torchwood! It’s fantastic, savvy? So check out this immortally clever tune now at the FuMP Sideshow, and be sure to leave comments for them! You can listen and download the song for free at: http://www.thefump.com/side.php?id=461

Hi all, Luke Ski here. This is a message to encourage you to try listening to one of my favorite internet shows, “In The Stream” with T.D. Mischke. Tommy Mischke is a Twin Cities radio legend, who after getting let go by KSTP am1500 in December regrouped and started a webcast sponsored by City Pages dot com. It streams live on the web weekdays from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm CST. You can join the stream here: http://www.citypages.com/mischke .

If you can’t listen live, you can get the show as a PodCast as well:
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=311049660
RSS feed: http://www.citypages.com/syndication/podcast/mischke

T.D. Mischke covers both local Twin Cities news items, as well as the big and unusual stories from all over the world. Quite often he’ll embellish these stories and take them on his own imaginative and hilarious tangents. Sometimes he even makes up songs about these news items live on the air, banging on his desk for percussive accompaniment. I was introduced to him by Carrie Dahlby, who started the first T.D. Mischke online fan community years ago when she was living in St. Paul. We’re both big fans, and Mischke was kind enough to record an intro to Carrie new CD “Giant Kitten”.

All the episodes he’s done since he started the new show a month ago are available to listen to and download as well at http://www.citypages.com/mischke . I called into the Friday, March 20th show, and Carrie called into April 3rd show.

So please tune in (or download) his show, and give it a listen at least once. It might not be your cup of tea, but I’d appreciate it if you’d give it a try and see if it’d be something you’d want to listen to regularly. Mischke is new to the world of internet broadcasting, and I’d like to help his audience grow.

And if you do decide to listen live, you can call into the show at this number: 651-330-4091

Thanks, and I’ll see you “In The Stream”!

~ Luke Ski

PS: Join the Mischke chat! http://www.byronlee.com/mischkechat/chat.html , or mIRC irc.phazenet.com #mischke

• New Luke Ski song at the FuMP dot com: “THE DADA SLIDE”!

It all started so innocently with tunes like the Hokey Pokey and the Chicken Dance, then came the Hustle, then the Macarena, and before we knew it we were being inundated with songs with facist MC vocalists commanding throngs of drunken bridesmaids to do the dance moves of his bidding. In my efforts to both destroy and capitalize off of this phenomenon, I have created the new dance sensation that will sweep the nation, “THE DADA SLIDE”. I dare you, I f#@%ing DARE you, to play this song at the next dance-related function you attend. Cameo appearances by TV’s Kyle, Insane Ian, Soggy Potato Chips, and Odd Austin. Thanks guys.

“THE DADA SLIDE” by the great Luke Ski
Download it now for FREE at the FuMP: http://www.thefump.com
And please be sure to LEAVE COMMENTS THERE FOR ME!

• “Spock Star” hits #2 on the Mad Music Dementia Top 20!

DJ Particle hosts the Mad Music Dementia Top 20, which is a weekly countdown of the current funny music hits as voted on by the folks signed up at the website The Mad Music Archive, a great resource for comedy music & it’s fandom online. The number of people voting has dipped recently, so DJ Particle is asking for more comedy music fans to come register at the website and vote weekly for your favorite funny tunes! Signing up is free, and you can do so here: http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/signup.aspx . Once you’ve signed up, you can vote weekly here: http://www.djparticle.com/mmdt20/

On last week’s countdown, “Spock Star” was #2 on the coutdown! Thanks to all my fans who voted! I hope you’ll keep voting for it in the weeks to come. You’re also encouraged to go to the Mad Music Archives and search for my songs individually if you’d like to vote for something that isn’t as recent (Ahem, “Too Much Stuff” for example). So please pay those sites a visit and join the fun!

• “Everybody Get Weird” nominated for MAMA!

“Everybody Get Weird”, the great Luke Ski’s Art Paul Schlosser remix as heard on “The FuMP” dot com and from his most recent CD “Target:Audience” is nominated for a Madison Area Music Award for Pop Song of the Year! No joke! If you’d like to vote for the song, you can sign up to do so at the MAMAs website: http://www.themamas.org/ . Warning, there is a small fee to sign up and vote ($5 I think) which goes to a charity that supports music education in schools. Art Paul is also nominated for Unique Song of the Year, and Unique CD of the Year.