Thanks so much to everyone who sent me well-wishes and comments on my new FuMP song "Fake Adult" on my 40th birthday. You are all awesome and appreciated. 🙂
Speaking of birthdays, yesterday was the 20th birthday / anniversary of the comic book "Scud: The Disposable Assassin". Creator and 'Mountain Dew guy' Rob Schrab asked his fans to post fan art birthday cards for Scud. Rather than creating a new piece of fan art, I created a cover version of the orignal "Scud Rap" from the Sega Saturn 1997 video game. I then took a whole lot of Scud fan art I did in the 90's and made a image gallery music video and put it on YouTube. Then, I posted all that old fan art to my Scud fan art galley on my Deviant Art page.
"Scud Rap" cover by Luke Ski video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Luke Ski's "Scud" fan art gallery at Deviant Art:
http://artbylukeski.
So much love and thanks to Rob Schrab for creating my favorite piece of media ever. And if you haven't read "Scud: The Disposable Assassin - The Whole Shebang!" Omnibus yet, then OH MY GOD WHY NOT GO GET IT NOW!!!
And now, the usual news news and pluggery of important recent things.
~ Luke Ski, 1/30/2014
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HEADLINES:
- "FAKE ADULT" - a new song by the great Luke Ski!
Download it for free now at the FuMP: http://www.thefump.com
Please REQUEST it for "The Dr. Demento Show": http://drdemento.com/request
and please include your e-mail address so it counts towards the Top Ten!
--- MARSCON DEMENTIA TRACK ---
* New video ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
* New audio ads for podcasters & streaming audio & radio DJs:
Long commercial (7:19): http://tinyurl.com/
Short commercial #1 (1:20): http://tinyurl.com/
Short commercial #2 (1:23): http://tinyurl.com/
* Fund Raiser goal dropped to $1,000! We are 70% towards our goal!
http://marscondementia.com/
* Deadline to order new "MarsCon Dementia Track" logo t-shirt is Feb 10th!
http://marscondementia.com/
* Dementia Radio Room Party needs volunteers or it won't happen.
Email thegreatlukeski@gmail.com if you're interested in volunteering.
* Pre-reg deadline is January 31st: http://marscon.org/2014/
* Hotel block reservation deadline is February 4th:
https://resweb.passkey.com/
- CARRIE DAHLBY'S INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN IS 58% TO ITS GOAL!
http://www.indiegogo.com/
- LUKE & CARRIE'S BAD RAPPORT
Episode #097 - Fuzzy Leapord-Print Burka
http://badrapport.com
- KYLE & LUKE TALK ABOUT TOONS
Episode #8: ANIMATED 2013 RUNDOWN
http://www.kyleandluke.com
- THE FUNNY MUSIC PODCAST
Episodes #188-#189 - http://www.thefump.com/
Ep. #188 features Luke Ski with kids vocalists Lauren Spice & SteveBox!
- FuMP JANUARY SUBSCRIBER DRIVE!
Get one month free and a USB of all our music from 2013!
http://www.thefump.com/
- LUKE SKI SIGNS UP FOR FEBRUARY ALBUM WRITING MONTH
http://fawm.org/fawmers/
- "FAKE ADULT" HITS #1 ON THE MAD MUSIC DEMENTIA TOP 20!
register at the Mad Music Archive forums here:
http://www.madmusic.com/
Submit your weekly votes at the voting page here:
http://www.madmusic.com/
You can listen to the show here:
http://www.madmusic.com/
- UPDATED TOUR DATES:
CAPRICON 34 - http://capricon.org - Wheeling, IL - February 6-9
RADCON 6B - http://www.radcon.org - Pasco, WA - February 14-16
MARSCON 2014 - http://marscon.com - Twin Cities, MN - March 7-9
(MarsCon Dementia Track website: http://marscondementia.com)
CHI-FI 0 - http://chi-fi.org - Chicago, IL - Saturday, March 29th
EERIECON 16 - http://www.eeriecon.org - Grand Island, NY - May 2-4
DUCKON 23 - http://www.duckon.org - Wheeling, IL - June 6-8
FuMPFEST 2014 - http://fumpfest.com - Wheeling, IL - June 20-22
...and more!
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- "FAKE ADULT" - a new song by the great Luke Ski!
My first new song in over a year has gotten a lot of positive feedback, with 22 comments on its page at the FuMP, and more from Facebook & Twitter. You can still leave a comment for it at the FuMP if you like, as it's the primary form of compensation FuMP song posters recieve. Download the free MP3 now at the FuMP:http://www.thefump.com .
Additionally, Dr. Demento played "Fake Adult" on his show last week! If you'd like to hear him play the song again, and possibly make the Top Ten for February, you can REQUEST "FAKE ADULT" for "The Dr. Demento Show" athttp://drdemento.com/request , and please include your e-mail address when you do so it counts towards the monthly Top Ten tabulations!
In related news, my "Surfin Bird (Family Guy Remix)" mash-up was #10 on Dr. Demento's Top Ten for January 2014! Freakin' sweet! As always, you can listen to the show every week at http://drdemento.com/online.
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- MARSCON DEMENTIA TRACK
HELP ADVERTISE MARSCON & OUR FUND RAISER WITH THESE ADS:
To help spread the word about MarsCon 2014, the Dementia Track, and the Fund Raiser, I made a YouTube commercial that explains it all. Please share it with your friends on all of your online social media thingys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
If you host a podcast, or DJ a streaming audio show, or even have a show on terrestrial radio (do any still exist?), please play one or more of these ads to again help spread the word about MarsCon 2014, the Dementia Track, and the Fund Raiser. Thanks.
Long commercial (7:19): http://tinyurl.com/
Short commercial #1 (1:20): http://tinyurl.com/
Short commercial #2 (1:23): http://tinyurl.com/
FUND RAISER GOAL NOW $1,000; WE ARE 70% TO OUR GOAL!
Thanks to the MarsCon Concom chipping in by covering the hotel room for Dr. Demento, the goal amount of the MarsCon 2014 Dementia Track Fund Raiser has been dropped down to $1,000! That means we are currently 70% towards our goal! Let's keep the ball rolling towards our thousand clams by spreading the word about the Fund Raiser, and if you can afford it, please consider picking up the 2014 Fund Raiser album. Again, it's a 3-CD set with instant MP3 download for $30, or you can get the MP3 download only version for $20, and we have previous year's collections on CD and MP3 dating back to 2007 as well! Get it all at the Fundraiser shop:
http://marscondementia.com/
On a different Fund Raiser note, so far only 4 people have ordered the new screenprinted "MarsCon Dementia Track" logo t-shirts. I was really hoping that number would be up closer to 20. The deadline for ordering the shirt is February 10th, so please consider ordering a new MDT logo t-shirt today.
http://marscondementia.com/
"DEMENTIA RADIO" SEEKS COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS FOR ROOM PARTY
The folks of Dementia Radio .org are considering doing another room party celebrating their station, it's DJs, and the comedy music it plays. However, they are not going to be able to do it without volunteers to help for a couple of hours each at the party.
Nate Boi, the guy in charge of the potential party, said this regarding volunteering: "When I say "help for a couple of hours", that's pretty much what I mean. Just be in the room for two to three hours, check IDs, hand out drinks, and generally make sure no one's doing anything stupid. I don't need a *lot* of stuff from you. But I do need you to commit and show up."
People interested in volunteering should email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com . Thanks.
OTHER MARSCON DEADLINES APPROACHING SOON:
Pre-registration deadline is January 31st. If you register by then it's $50 for the weekend. After that, you'll have to buy your badge at the door for $65 for the weekend.
http://marscon.org/2014/
And to reserve a room in our discounted hotel room block, you need to make your reservation by February 4th.
https://resweb.passkey.com/
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- CARRIE DAHLBY'S INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN IS 58% TO ITS GOAL!
http://www.indiegogo.com/
Carrie Dahlby says: "The FuMP's resident uterus, Carrie Dahlby, is ready to put out her 3rd album after 5 years have passed since her 2nd album! Your contribution will be used to fund the creation of 2 new fully produced comedy songs (1 of which will be an album exclusive), the creation of the physical CDs of "Sing All Funny Jokes", and additional money to make sure the contributor perks are a thing that exist. Sample some of Carrie's music here: http://www.thefump.com/artist.
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- LUKE & CARRIE'S BAD RAPPORT
Episode #097 - Fuzzy Leapord-Print Burka
The first episode of 2014 brings with it the first new song by the great Luke Ski in over a year, which was released on his 40th birthday. In this episode, Luke recounts the events of his actual birthday this year, as well as the birthday party he threw the followingSunday at Gameworks and a Korean Karaoke place.
You’ll also hear the fully produced promo that Luke made for the MarsCon 2014 Dementia Track & Fund Raiser which was meant to be a part of the free preview in Episode 96.5, but whatever. The point is, the Fund Raiser is still going, so please pick up an album and/or t-shirt today. However, Luke Ski’s MarsCon Fund Rasier now faces some stiff competition from Carrie Dahlby’s Indie Gogo to fund the completion of her 3rd album “Sing All Funny Jokes”! At the very least, it’s an easy way for you to pre-order her album now, which Carrie hopes to release at MarsCon 2014. I hope you guys are well-off and generous enough to donate what you can to both fund raisers.
We also play tracks by Patton Oswalt, Big Daddy, the Beatles, ABCmouse.com, Jonathan Mann & Justin “Jew Wario” Carmical, and FAWMer TV’s Kyle. Will Luke Ski be able to create 14 songs in 28 days for February Album Writing Month? Tune into Episode 99 to find out. In the mean time, you can leave comments for *this* episode after you listen to it, because time is linear, no matter what the DS9 wormhole aliens think. Episode length: 1:58:21
Listen, download, subscribe, leave COMMENTS @ http://badrapport.com
You can leave a VOICE MESSAGE for us by dialing (916)-LUKE-SKI
You can email us at badrapport@gmail.com
You can follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/badrapport
You can follow us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/
RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/
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- KYLE & LUKE TALK ABOUT TOONS
Episode #8: ANIMATED 2013 RUNDOWN
In this episode, we rundown all of 2013 animated feature films and tell you what our top 3 of the year are.
Our website is http://www.kyleandluke.com , and please leave us
COMMENTS on our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/
Subscribe to our RSS feed at http://kyleandluke.libsyn.com/
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/
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- THE FUNNY MUSIC PODCAST
Devo Spice and Luke Ski interview the artists who posted songs at
the FuMP dot com over the past week. Recent episodes include:
Episode #188: Dave Stagner, & Luke Ski with kids Lauren Spice & SteveBox!
Episode #189: Gregg of 'Fortress Of Attitude'
Webpage: http://www.thefump.com/
RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/
The FuMPcast is recorded live on Thursday nights at 9:00 pm CST on
Dementia Radio. To listen live, just take whatever audio program you
use to listen to streaming audio online (WinAmp, iTunes, Windows
Media Player, RealPlayer, etc.) and have it play the following
address: http://dementiaradio.org:8027 . If you need more help tuning
in, visit the Dementia Radio website, http://dementiaradio.org .
Dementia Radio can also be heard on Roku.
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- FuMP JANUARY SUBSCRIBER DRIVE!
http://www.thefump.com/
Geez, everybody involved with comedy music wants your money this month. If you've already donated to the MarsCon 2014 Dementia Track Fund Raiser and Carrie Dahlby's IndieGogo and you still have some money left over, you can get one free month and a USB drive full of all the music posted at the FuMP in 2013 if you subscribe to the FuMP this month.
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- LUKE SKI SIGNS UP FOR FEBRUARY ALBUM WRITING MONTH
Yes, I'm finally doing it. As a way to force myself to complete the 9 songs I owe people from my Kickstarter campaign (which were due last year), and as a way to maybe churn out a new album of some sort before MarsCon, I have signed up for February Album Writing Month, also known as FAWM. You can watch my progress athttp://fawm.org/fawmers/
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- "FAKE ADULT" HITS #1 ON THE MAD MUSIC DEMENTIA TOP 20!
It's a new year and there are new rules to bring some fairness to the Mad Music Dementia Top 20 countdown hosted by DJ Particle. I'm happy to report that "Fake Adult" was #1 on the countdown last week, followed by the "Surfin Bird (Family Guy remix" mash-up, as well as a bunch of songs from the MarsCon 2014 Dementia Track Fund Raiser. Thanks to everyone who has been voting for my stuff! If you'd like to listen and vote, the links to do so are below.
Register at the Mad Music Archive forums here:
http://www.madmusic.com/
Submit your weekly votes at the voting page here:
http://www.madmusic.com/
You can listen to the show here:
http://www.madmusic.com/
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- UPDATED TOUR DATES:
** CAPRICON 34 **
http://capricon.org
Westin Chicago North Shore - Wheeling, IL
February 6th, 7th, 8th, & 9th, 2014
I'll be doing a concert in Capricon Cafe on Saturday afternoon at 4:45 pm! We'll also have a fan table for FuMPFeST, so be on the lookout for that as well.
** RADCON 6B **
http://www.radcon.org
Red Lion Inn - Pasco, WA
February 14th, 15th, & 16th, 2014
I will be their Music Guest of Honor doing a concert on Saturday night at 7 pm in the Bronze Room, and I'll be doing a panel called "Current Comedy Music Fandom: What Dr. Demento Stared" on Sunday at 11 am in Room 2207.
** MARSCON 2014 **
Main convention website: http://marscon.com
Dementia Track website: http://marscondementia.com
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington-Minneapolis South
Bloomington, MN (Twin Cities area)
March 7th, 8th, & 9th, 2014
This year's Dementia Track will have Music Guest Of Honor HENRY PHILLIPS doing a one hour show, and the crew of MEEP MORP STUDIOS doing a Q&A about their documentary "UNDER THE SMOGBERRY TREES" joined by DR. DEMENTO himself! We'll also have main stage concerts by the great Luke Ski, Devo Spice, Worm Quartet, Power Salad, Possible Oscar, Carrie Dahlby, Insane Ian, TV's Kyle, Mikey Mason, DJ Particle, and Beth Kinderman & The Player Characters!
Currently pre-registration for a weekend badge for MarsCon 2014 is $50.00. The price will increase on February 1st, so get your badge before Midnight on January 31st, 2014.
** CHI-FI 0 **
http://chi-fi.org
Hilton Palmer House Hotel - Chicago, IL
Saturday, March 29th, 3:00 pm to 3:00 am
I'll be performing at this event, but I don't know what time yet. If you bought a pre-reg for Chi-Fi 2014 (now 2015) admission to the event is free. If you'd like to buy a ticket for the event, you can do so here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.
** EERIECON 16 **
http://www.eeriecon.org
Byblos Niagra Resort and Spa - Grand Island, NY
May 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, 2014
EerieCon's music track has a new chair, Adam English of Ookla The Mok! Adam asked me if I'd help kick off his first year as he brings nerdy comedy music to the Buffalo / Niagra Falls area convention scene! Stay tuned for coming details on who else besides Luke Ski and Ookla The Mok who will be performing there.
** DUCKON 23 **
http://www.duckon.org
Westin Chicago North Shore - Wheeling, IL
June 6th, 7th, & 8th, 2014
No details on when my concert will be yet, but I will have one. Also, the Toastmaster will be Tom Smith, and the Music Guest Of Honor will be Dan The Bard.
** FuMPFEST 2014 **
http://fumpfest.com
Westin Chicago North Shore - Wheeling, IL
June 20th, 21st, & 22nd, 2014
At LukeSkiCon 2013, Devo Spice announced that he will be the chair of FuMPFest 2014, a convention dedicated to the FuMP and funny music in general. We are proud to announce that the Guest of Honor at the first FuMPFest will be none other than legendary radio personality Dr. Demento! He will be joining us for the weekend giving presentations, playing funny music, signing autographs, and joining in all the FuMPy fun that we have planned. Also performing will be Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, Worm Quartet, Power Salad, Carrie Dahlby, Insane Ian, Tony Goldmark, Possible Oscar, Tom Smith, Raymond & Scum, Seamonkey, Garden Fresh, Dan Hart, and more!
FuMPFest will take place at the lovely Westin Northshore in Wheeling, IL, from June 20-22, 2014. Our hotel group rate is $109 a night. If you call be sure to mention “FuMPFest” so you get the group rate (and we get credit for the booking, which is very important). Or you can book online using this link: https://www.starwoodmeeting.