- "I'M THAT TYPE OF SPY"
Luke Ski's new parody song tribute to "CHUCK"!
Download the free MP3 at http://www.thefump.com
This song is a parody of LL Cool J's "I'm That Type Of Guy", a song about a sneaky lover with a video featuring LL as a covert operative using all his espionage skills to break into the U.S. national scantily-clad hottie depository. Which led me to think, well, just what type of spy is he? And is there another modern spy more deserving of a task like that? The answer is yes, of course there is, and he lives in Burbank. I'm talking about "Chuck", the titlular character of NBC's awesome spy show about to enter it's 5th and final season, starring the nerd machine himself, Zachary Levi. So I hope all you internet-dwelling Chuck fans tell all your online friends about this song available here at the FuMP dot com, and it's excellent FAN VIDEO made by Emily Ann Meyer, which world premiered at Nerdapalooza 2011.
This song is from my new album "Be Amused By Me", which also has songs about Anime, Serenity, The Big Bang Theory, Bruce Campbell, Kevin Smith films, Monty Python, Red Dwarf, Disney buying Marvel, Twitter, Mel Brooks, and my big Dr. Demento Show hit of 2011 about Peanuts, "Snoopy The Dogg". You can get it from my website LukeSki.com, available as an instant MP3 download, or on CD with instant MP3 download.
- PLEASE REQUEST "SNOOPY THE DOGG" FOR THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW!
"Snoopy The Dogg" did not make the Top Ten for August 2011 on the Dr. Demento Show. However, the unofficial fan tallies indicate that it's still the most requested song of 2011 thus far, so it still has a chance to top the year end Funny 25 Countdown. The competition from the competent, confident comedy conspiritors is constant, so com on and please help keep it at the top of the list by requesting for "The Dr. Demento Show" to play "Snoopy The Dogg" again at http://drdemento.com/request . And as always, I can't encourage and recommend enough that you tune in and listen to the show every week at http://drdemento.com/online.html . It's still the best show ever. 🙂
In similar news, my new Monty Python tribute song "WalkingSilly" made the August Top Ten at #3! Splunge-tastic! 🙂 So after you've put in a request for "Snoopy The Dogg", feel free to put in an additional request for "WalkingSilly" if you like, unless some Army Colonel tells you that it's much too silly.
- LUKE SKI INTERVIEWED ON "CHICAGO COMEDY & ARTIST SPOTLIGHT"
On Wednesday, August 31st, I was interviewed live on Slam Internet Radio (http://www.slaminternetradio.com) by Josh and Abby on their show "Chicago Comedy & Artist Spotlight"! The show lasted about 2 hours and was a lot of fun. There was much frivolity and Pepe the King Prawn impressions. You can listen to the show via Ustream here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16994316
- THE 2010 "LOGAN AWARDS" SUGGESTION FORM IS LIVE!
Yes, next month at Con on the Cob in Hudson, Ohio, the first annual Logan Whitehurst Memorial Award for Excellence In Comedy Music will be held. Each year the Logan Awards will give out awards for excellence in comedy music for the previous calendar year, so this year we'll be awarding songs that came out in 2010. The awards will be voted on by a rotating jury of 7 experts, which this year includes "Weird Al" Yankovic, and permanent juror Dr. Demento. The jury's nominations will be based on the suggestions submitted by you, the fans, using the nomination form. The categories are:
Outstanding Original Comedy Song
Outstanding Parody Song
Outstanding Comedy Music Video
The Nomination Suggestion Form website is here: http://www.loganawards.com/nomination-form/ , and also has a link to a list of songs already nominated. Once a song is already on the nomination list, it doesn't need to be submitted again. The list already has my song "IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING" on it, as well as Carrie's music video for "WRECKIN' BY THE BOOK (THE CAKE WRECKS SONG)", which makes me very happy. Other songs of mine that qualify for potential suggestion are (Parody category) "Anime Fan", "It's A Fanboy Christmas 3", and (Original category) "Blues Campbell". So if you feel any of those songs are, in your honest opinion, so good that it deserves an award, then feel free to go to the Nomination Form page and suggest it.
The full details on the Logan Awards can be found at http://www.loganawards.com
- Luke offers reward for stolen / missing / lost notebooks
If we made the CdSW sketch "Looking For Things" into a L.A.R.P., that would accurately describe my sucky weekend.
My Labor Day weekend was spent laboring in various ways, starting at 9:30 pm Friday night and not stopping until 9:30 pm Monday. On Friday night, after seeing my brother's band perform at Schuba's in Chicago, I returned to my car to discover that someone had smashed my rear passenger-side window and stole my big black bag filled with my art supplies, notebooks, and such. Obviously, they thought there was a laptop in there, which there wasn't, just a ton of heavy paper. 24 hours later, I got a phone call from a couple of good Samaritans who found some of my stuff in various garbage receptacles in an alley about a mile away near Wrigley Field. I got back the empty bag, my caricature demo portfolio, my color artstix, and a few other really important things. I did not get back my digital camera (worth $150) or my Dick Blick Manga Set of 24 color Copic sketch markers (worth $125 at my local Blick store) (http://www.amazon.com/COPIC-Wallet-Sketch-Markers-Travel/dp/B000FWEAWM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1315325874&sr=8-3). Those things can be replaced. What can't be replaced is two notebooks. One has a blue cover and contains all of my notes, lyrics, ideas, etc., from the past year and a half (May 2010 - August 2011). The other has a pink cover and, even more tragically, is from my High School / College years (1992-ish), which I put in the bag last weekend so I could read an old comic book story that I wrote a script for but never drew a final version of, for later podcast discussion purposes. I read it last weekend, but didn't remove it from my bag afterwards.
After meeting up with the good Samaritans, I spent late Friday night, Saturday morning, and Sunday afternoon walking the Wrigleyville streets between where the bag was stolen and found, searching garbage cans and dumpsters for the 2 notebooks, even going so far as to put some fliers up offering a $100 reward for the 2 notebooks. A version of that flier can be viewed here: http://t.co/sgyxI0X Realistically, I have to assume they are gone forever, but at least I can go on with my life now knowing that I literally did everything I possibly could have done to try and recover them. Sometime very soon, I will sit down and type up a synopsis of the comic book story from the pink notebook, in case I ever want to try and rewrite it. The rest of my time Labor Day weekend was spent drawing caricatures at my 2 usual locations. I made good money this weekend, but I would have made at least a couple hundred dollars more if I hadn't stupidly forgotten that my art bag which in reality is a laptop bag was sitting in the backseat of my car when I went to Schuba's. Normally I am very paranoid about things like this, and I put things of value in my trunk or at least cover them up and hide them from plain view. After I talk about it on Bad Rapport and the FuMPcast this week, I'm going to stop beating myself up over it and do my best to put it all behind me, "keep moving forward", and get on with my life with a positive outlook on things.
- TOUR DATES:
CONCEPTION 2011
http://concentricconventioncompany.com
College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd - Glen Ellyn, IL (suburb of Chicago)
September 23rd - 25th, 2011
Conception is a small gaming convention at the College of DuPage. I will be there on Friday at my merch table in the dealer’s room 5-9 pm, as well as Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. I’ll be doing a couple of performances there on Saturday, at 1 pm and at 6 pm. (Note: I won’t be there on Sunday.)
GEEKEASY: Episode II
Saturday, September 24 - 10:00pm to 3:00am
Lucky Number, 1931 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
The event is FREE, 21+ only.
http://www.facebook.com//groups/219331881414358
Geekeasy is a late night of nerd entertainment and dance music in Chicago, IL, put together by DJ Aaron Ackerson. This time around, there will be live improvised movie riffing of the live-action “Masters Of The Universe” film by special guests Nostalgia Critic & the great Luke Ski, a performance by Geek Girl Burlesque performers Bella Canto, Hazel Hellbender, Lacey Lay, and Hootenany Cha-Cha, a 5-song set by the great Luke Ski (going on at about 12:30 am), and tunes spun by DJ Jeffito.
OTHER 2011 TOUR DATES INCLUDE:
ARCHON - http://www.archonstl.org/35 - Collinsville, IL - Sep30-Oct2
CON ON THE COB - http://www.cononthecob.com - Hudson, OH - Oct 13-16
NERDPOW! - http://www.nerdpow.com - Columbus, OH - Oct 28-30
CONTRAFLOW - http://www.contraflowscifi.org - Gretna, LA - Nov 4-6
WINDYCON 38 - http://www.windycon.org - Lombard, IL - Nov 11-13
See the Tour Dates page for details.