The greatest weekend in comedy music returns in 2012 to rock the apocalypse! Performing in the Dementia Track this year will be Music Guests Of Honor The Consortium Of Genius as well as newcomers Seamonkey, The Boobles, Spaff, second-comers TV’s Kyle and Dino-Mike, and returning favorites the great Luke Ski, Devo Spice, Worm Quartet, Power Salad, Cirque du So What?, the Gothsicles, and Possible Oscar! Dementia Track schedule and details on other related events are at the track’s website, http://www.marscondementia.com .

You can help us out by ordering the MarsCon 2012 Dementia Track Fund Raiser CD and/or MP3 set! It’s 4 hours of live music & comedy recorded live at MarsCon 2011 by Possible Oscar, the great Luke Ski, Worm Quartet, Toyboat, TV’s Kyle, Steve Goodie, Nuclear Bubble Wrap, Cirque du So What?, Devo Spice, Carrie Dahlby, DJ Particle, Beth Kinderman, Smashy Claw, Rob Balder, BaldBox, Break Man Z, Brett Glass, Gifted Gear, Soggy Potato Chips, Jeff Reuben, Insane Ian, and Puppet Show! You can get the 3-CD set with instant MP3 download for just $30, or you can get the MP3 download only version for $20. All the money raised will go towards covering the hotel room costs for our out-of-town non-GoH Dementia Track performers. Please help us bring you the best set of comedy music shows we can by picking up a copy of the collection and help us reach our goal. Thanks.

I have created a 33-minute long FREE PREVIEW of the MarsCon 2012 Dementia Track Fund Raiser album. It features 8 songs from live performances at MarsCon 2011. You can listen to it on the podcast feed/page for “Bad Rapport” at http://badrapport.com, or you can get the MP3 directly from this link: http://tinyurl.com/MarsCon12PREVIEW .

Also, I’ve put together an ad for MarsCon 2012, the Dementia Track, and the Fund Raiser for D.J.s and podcasters to play on their shows. The short version is about 3:30, and can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/MarsCon12adSHORT . The long version is just under 8 minutes, and can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/MarsCon12adLONG . Any airplay you’re willing to give them would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Pre-registration for a 3-Day badge to MarsCon 2012 is just $45.00 thru Jan. 31st, 2012. After that it will cost $60.00 at the door. Single day badges are also available. You can purchase your badges, get hotel reservation info, and details on the rest of the convention (Actor Guest of Honor Claudia Christian!) at http://www.marscon.com .

Visit http://www.marscondementia.comfor more information on the MarsCon 2012 Dementia Track.

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” #1 ON DR. DEMENTO’S FUNNY 25 OF 2011!!!

Also, “WALKINGSILLY” was #13, and “ELEVATOR” by Cirque du So What? was #22!

Listen to the show here: http://drdemento.com/online.html . I posted my annual color-coded overanalyzation of Dr. Demento’s Funny 25 at my livejournal here: http://lukeski.livejournal.com/707419.html . I’m not posting everything from that breakdown here, just the most pertinent stuff…

So, this year I had 2 tracks on the list (#1 and #13), and Cirque du So What? had 1 (at #22, congrats ShoEboX on writing the best track on our 2nd album), and the FuMP overall had 10 tracks on the list. Also, I’m very happy to see Insane Ian hit #7, and Flat 29 hit #6 (they also appear in #13 and #22).

And in case you think I was just glossing over and burying the lead here, I’ll say it again: “SNOOPY THE DOGG” BY THE GREAT LUKE SKI IS #1 ON DR. DEMENTO’S FUNNY 25 OF 2011!!! You have no idea how happy this makes me. Born from an idea I found from my first list of song parody ideas in an old notebook from 1993, this song proves that good ideas don’t die, they are diamonds in the rough waiting to be found again. Thank God I saved all of my “too much stuff”. Hoarding FTW!

Thank you Dr. Demento. Thank you to my fans. Thank you to Jared Ringold, Bob Emmet, Carrie Dahlby, Chris Mezzolesta, Insane Ian, and the Stacey for contributing your extreme talents to “Snoopy The Dogg”. Thank you Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus. And thank you Charles Schulz, my first idol who inspired me to create things.

Also, thank you to Dan from Flat 29 and Bob Emmet for making “WalkingSilly” as awesome as it is. Thank you to ShoEboX, Devo Spice, and Chris Mezzolesta for Cirque du So What?, one of the most artistically satisfying things I have ever done. And thanks to my lovely, beautiful, and tolerant wife Sara Trice, who puts up with me and all of the dementia music, podcasting, convention-hopping, puppet-making, etcetera everything that I do. I love you.

Along with “Peter Parker” (2002) and “Stealing Like A Hobbit” (2003), I have written and performed 3 songs that have been #1 on Dr. Demento’s Funny 25 Countdown. The only artist who has more than me is “Weird Al” (he has 4, or 5 if you count the differing L.A. local Dr. D shows). That makes me feel pretty damn good about myself. If you’re going to go out, go out on top…

“But it was along side these other musicians that Luke realized he had a purpose in life – to be better than them.” ~ Devo Spice, 2010, from the liner notes of “the great Luke Ski: Greatest Hits Volume 1: 1996-2003″

…Yes, I’m stroking my ego here. Cut me some slack. This is the last time I will have a #1 song of the year on “The Dr. Demento Show”. Probably.

Thanks again, everybody. My heart is filled with warmth and love today.

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles Schulz

~ Luke Ski, 12/31/11

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” ALSO #1 ON MAD MUSIC TOP 100 OF 2011!!!

DJ Particle hosts the official countdown show of MadMusic.com, and Luke Ski was all over their best of 2011 list!

#1 - Snoopy The Dogg - the great Luke Ski
#7 - Cosplaying Fangurls - Insane Ian, featuring the great Luke Ski
#9 - Sneaking Snacks Into the Cinema - Flat 29, the great Luke Ski, & Carrie Dahlby
#11 - We Are The FuMP - The FuMP (featuring & written by the great Luke Ski)
#13 - WalkingSilly - the great Luke Ski, featuring Dan from Flat 29
#15 - Elevator - Cirque du So What?
#18 - Group Dynamic Meeting (One More Stupid Day) - Cirque du So What?
#20 - 200 Minutes of Free Prayer Time - Cirque du So What?
#28 - Red Bank, NJ - the great Luke Ski
#36 - Sheldon’s Delight - the great Luke Ski
#50 - It’s Good to Be the King - the great Luke Ski, featuring Devo Spice, Insane Ian, & Jared Ringold
#66 - My Baby’s In Love with Jon Bermuda - the great Luke Ski
#93 - I’m That Type Of Spy - the great Luke Ski
#94 - Serenity - the great Luke Ski

Listen to the top 50 from the list get counted down here: http://www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=MMDT20_11-FY

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” also #3 on A-Logg’s Wacked Out 40 of 2011!

“A-Logg On The Airwaves” continues his countdown tradition as well, which you can listen to here: http://www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=AOTA-111231 “Snoopy The Dogg” was #3 for the year, and “WalkingSilly” featuring Dan from Flat 29 was #7! Also, back on November 12th, A-Logg posted an episode which features an interview with me we recorded, and I completely forgot to tell all of you about it. My bad. So, go give it a listen here: http://www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?show=AOTA-111112

“THE STAR WARS CHANUKAH SONG”
Download the MP3 now for free at http://www.thefump.com

In the original “It’s A Fanboy Christmas” medley I did in 2000, I did a 25-second parody of the chorus of Adam Sandler’s “The Chanukah Song” about the “Star Wars” franchise. Since Adam has done a couple of sequels to his song, I thought it would be a-propos to update and extend mine for “It’s A Fanboy Christmas 3: Return Of The Magi” for the holiday season of 2010. However, when I got done writing the song, the new vignette was much too long for the already nearly 12-minute medley, so I decided to save it and make it into its own 2-minute song to post this year on the first night of Chanukah 2011. Music by Bob Emmet. Video by Donald “Dr. Don” Coleman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShjnLfNUOY I hope you all like it and will share it with your friends online. Peace and love to everybody.

LUKE & CARRIE’S BAD RAPPORT PODCAST VIDEO EPISODE #2!

Over a year and a half after the video debut of our truncated yet puppet-tastic episode of our podcast “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport”, we at long last have finally finished our follow-up episode, and this one is even more chock full of awesome comedy songs by some of your favorite acts from the FuMP! We also have News of the Stupid, we meet the respective spouses of Luke & Carrie, and we reinforce the supposition that some of these comedy music acts should probably look into getting a restraining order against Luke Ski considering how much time he puts into making fanboyish tribute music videos of their songs without their knowledge. [Warning: Some NSFW language, you might want to wear headphones just to be on the safe side]. Episode length: 17:58. YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnPZW7v13E Watch, download, subscribe, leave us COMMENTS at http://badrapport.com

UPDATE - 10/11/2011 - Jonah tweeted about the “Skeksis Back” video, followed by Chris, who also posted about it on the Nerdist website, calling the video “SKEKTACULAR”! I am very happy that my mission was a success, and that the Nerdist guys and so many others all got such a kick out of it. Special thanks to Eric “Seamonkey” Tomme for graciously donating the music, and to Sara Trice for puppetry assistance. NerdWin!

UPDATE - 10/18/2011 - You can now download an MP3 of the song “Skeksis Back” for free at the FuMP dot com!

And as long as I’m updating, I’ll mention these:

• PLEASE REQUEST “SNOOPY THE DOGG” FOR THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW!

“Snoopy The Dogg” crawled out of the dog house and managed to sneak onto the Top Ten for September 2011 at #10! According to the unofficial Fan Tallies, it’s still the #1 song of the year, but it’s tied with another song which has been the #1 song on the Top Ten for 3 months in a row. Between that and the other great songs by my colleagues, I fear I’m going to fall out of the top spot! Will October’s coming of the Great Pumpkin save me? I don’t know, but you sure can help me stay on top of the countdown by requesting for “The Dr. Demento Show” to play my song “Snoopy The Dogg” again at his site’s request page: http://drdemento.com/request . And hey, with Halloween just around the corner, what better time is there to tune into the show and listen to some spooky tunes and scary melodies! You can do so at http://drdemento.com/online.html . It’s still the best show ever!

It’s also definitely worth noting that my Monty Python tribute song “WALKINGSILLY” featuring Dan of Flat 29 also made the Top Ten this month, at #6! Funny, I thought there was NOOOOOOO #6! So thank you to all of you who requested that one as well, it looks like I’ll have at least 2 tracks on the Funny 25 this year. People will have to start calling me Luke “Two Tracks” Sienkowski.

• THE “LUKE SKI TOP 50 POLL” FOR 2011 - RESULTS ARE IN!
  

Some things stayed the same, but there were also some surprising new changes to the Luke Ski Top 50 poll. The results are now up at: http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/top50/ , as well as all of the songs & lyrics from “Be Amused By Me” having been added to the Song Index with Lyrics page: http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/lyrics/ . Thank you to the at 49+ of you who all voted in the poll.

• LUKE SKI NOMINATED FOR A LOGAN AWARD!

I am very honored to announce that my song “It’s Good To Be The King” was nominated for Outstanding Parody Song of 2010 for the Logan Awards! The song, a parody of “Down With The King” by Run DMC with Pete Rock and CL Smooth, is about the career of Mel Brooks, covering all 13 of his films, and makes note of his work on comedy albums, TV, and Broadway. It has guest vocalists Devo Spice, Insane Ian, and Jared Ringold of Possible Oscar, who also did the music for the track. It was #1 on Dr. Demento’s Top Ten for November 2010, placing it at #19 on his year-end Funny 25 of 2010. Originally posted at the FuMP dot com, the track also appears on my new full length comedy music album, “Be Amused By Me”. The winners will be announced this Saturday at the 1st Annual Logan Whitehurst Memorial Awards for Excellence in Comedy Music at Con on the Cob in Hudson, Ohio. To find out the rest of the nominees in all categories, visit http://www.loganawards.com.

• LUKE SKI INTERVIEWED ON “TALES FROM THE CON FLOOR”

While at ConCeption a couple weeks ago, I was interviewed for a new podcast called “Tales from the Con Floor”, a podcast dedicated to documenting the convention experience. My episode was posted recently, so you can go give it a listen at http://talesfromtheconfloor.com/2011/09/24/live-from-concentric-the-great-luke-ski/

• TOUR DATES:

NERDPOW! 2011
http://www.nerdpow.com
Hyatt Regency Columbus - Columbus, OH
October 28th - 30th, 2011

I’m performing on Friday night at 7:00 pm, and I’ll have a merch table there for the duration of the event. Also performing there will be Dual Core, My Parent’s Favorite Music, The Amazing Brando, MC Cool Whip, and more, as well as dances with awesome DJs spinning tunes, video game tournaments, costume contest, and lots of other fun stuff!

OTHER 2011 TOUR DATES INCLUDE:

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 of LukeSki.com for details.

“Snoopy The Dogg” crawled out of the dog house and managed to sneak onto the Top Ten for September 2011 at #10! According to the unofficial Fan Tallies, it’s still the #1 song of the year, but it’s tied with another song which has been the #1 song on the Top Ten for 3 months in a row. Between that and the other great songs by my colleagues, I fear I’m going to fall out of the top spot! Will October’s coming of the Great Pumpkin save me? I don’t know, but you sure can help me stay on top of the countdown by requesting for “The Dr. Demento Show” to play my song “SNOOPY THE DOGG” again at his site’s request page: http://drdemento.com/request . And hey, with Halloween just around the corner, what better time is there to tune into the show and listen to some spooky tunes and scary melodies! You can do so at http://drdemento.com/online.html . It’s still the best show ever!

It’s also definitely worth noting that my Monty Python tribute song “WALKINGSILLY” featuring Dan of Flat 29 also made the Top Ten this month, at #6! Funny, I thought there was NOOOOOOO #6! So thank you to all of you who requested that one as well, it looks like I’ll have at least 2 tracks on the Funny 25 this year. People will have to start calling me Luke “Two Tracks” Sienkowski.

• THE “LUKE SKI TOP 50 POLL” FOR 2011

It’s been two years, and now that “Be Amused By Me” has been out for 2 months, it’s time for me to update the Luke Ski Top 50 at my website to include all the songs that appear on the album into the running for the updated list for my website. Here’s all you need to do. Go to this link: http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/537028 Go down the list of songs (they are arranged chronologically by album), and if a song is a personal favorite of yours, click on it to vote for it. You can vote for as many as you want. I’ll keep the poll open until midnight on Tuesday, October 11th, and announce the updated list soon after that. Thanks fans for participating, I can’t wait to see how “Be Amused By Me” rates against my hits of the past.

• TOUR DATES:

CON ON THE COB 2011
http://www.cononthecob.com/music.html
Clarion Hotel & Conference Center - Hudson, Ohio (Cleveland/Akron area)
October 13th - 16th, 2011

Performing this year in the ShoEboX-chaired Comedy Music Extravagasm is Music Guest Of Honor Carla Ulbrich, the great Luke Ski, Devo Spice, Worm Quartet, Power Salad, Cirque du So What, Carrie Dahlby, Insane Ian, Rob Balder, Positude, Nuclear Bubble Wrap, Soggy Potato Chips, Max DeGroot, Derwood Bowen, ShiSho, and more. Also, the first annual LOGAN AWARDS will be held there. That’s the Logan Whitehurst Memorial Awards for Excellence in Comedy Music, to be specific. My song “It’s Good To Be The King” was nominated for Outstanding Parody Song of 2010! You can find out all about it here: http://www.loganawards.com Be there and witness comedy music history.

NERDPOW! 2011
http://www.nerdpow.com
Hyatt Regency Columbus - Columbus, OH
October 28th - 30th, 2011

I’m performing on Friday night at 7:00 pm, and I’ll have a merch table there for the duration of the event. Also performing there will be Dual Core, My Parent’s Favorite Music, The Amazing Brando, MC Cool Whip, and more, as well as dances with awesome DJs spinning tunes, video game tournaments, costume contest, and lots of other fun stuff!

• “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.

It’s the great Luke Ski’s 10th full length comedy music album, “Be Amused By Me”. Whether that title is a request or a demand has yet to be determined. What we are sure of is that this CD contains songs about Disney buying Marvel, Chuck, The Big Bang Theory, Kevin Smith movies, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Anime, Bruce Campbell, Serenity, Red Dwarf, his 3rd holiday fandom opus “It’s A Fanboy Christmas 3″, and “Snoopy The Dogg”, the most requested song of the year thus far on both “The Dr. Demento Show” and “The Mad Music Dementia Top 20″. Featuring Carrie Dahlby, Devo Spice, Insane Ian, Flat 29, TV’s Kyle, and many other friends from the FuMP, it’s an album Carrie Dahlby said to me is “probably your best CD since Unconventional”. Who am I to argue?

1. Be Amused By Me – 0:27
2. Marvel Poppins - featuring Carrie Dahlby – 2:10
3. The Hanna Barbera Polka – 3:13
4. I’m That Type Of Spy – 4:08
5. Sheldon’s Delight – 5:42
6. All You Can Tweet - featuring Devo Spice – 2:04
7. Platform Wars - by Devo Spice, featuring the great Luke Ski and Dual Core – 4:02
8. Wreckin’ By The Book (The Cake Wrecks Song) - by Carrie Dahlby, featuring the great Luke Ski, Worm Quartet, Power Salad, Devo Spice, & Wyngarde – 2:42
9. CosPlaying FanGurls - by Insane Ian, featuring the great Luke Ski – 4:03
10. Sneaking Snacks Into The Cinema - by Flat 29, the great Luke Ski, & Carrie Dahlby – 4:39
11. Epitaph - featuring TV’s Kyle – 3:02
12. Snoopy The Dogg – 3:37
13. Red Bank, NJ – 3:15
14. It’s Good To Be The King - featuring Devo Spice, Insane Ian, & Bud Sharpe – 4:16
15. WalkingSilly - featuring Dan of Flat 29 – 4:07
16. Anime Fan - featuring Carrie Dahlby – 3:14
17. Blues Campbell – 4:18
18. Serenity – 4:12
19. Smeg Head – 3:09
20. It’s A Fanboy Christmas 3: Return Of The Magi – 11:37

Click here to order the MP3 version for $9.99, and click here to order the CD with instant MP3 download for $14.00 plus shipping.

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NEW FuMP: “WALKINGSILLY”
A tribute to Monty Python’s Flying Circus
By the great Luke Ski, featuring Dan of Flat 29
http://www.thefump.com

It’s a man’s life in the FuMP… This song, not written in the shed, is an idea that languished in a spiral notebook for years. One of the biggest reasons why being that it is a parody of “MotownPhilly” by Boyz II Men, and the last time I recorded a parody of that group in 1997 the results were a bereft-of-harmony, tone-def-parrot of a track. However, my recent resurrected not-dead-yet song ideas which led to my recent FuMP hits “It’s Good To Be The King” and “Snoopy The Dogg” made me think it was about zalling time to enlist a couple of talented friends to join me on this holy quest to find my grail, that being the long overdue Luke Ski parody song tribute to the legendary UK comedy team, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”.

Sir Dan of Flat 29 - Harmony vocals, British legitimacy, hen-teaser
Sir Bob Emmet - Music, Mixdown, Operating the machine that goes ‘ping!’
with Sara Trice as Carol Cleveland

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CIRQUE DU SO WHAT?’S NEW ALBUM,
“STUPID COWBOY THING - VOLUME 1: GRANDMOTHER!”
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER, WITH BONUS ALBUM!

Cirque do So What, the sketch comedy super group made up of Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, Shoebox of Worm Quartet, and Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad, returns with their second album which is so packed full of comedy, insanity, and profanity, that it had to be broken up into two albums.

Stupid Cowboy Thing, Volume 1: GRANDMOTHER! features an hour of hilarious sketches, phony commercials, and bizarre music. The Guess The Context series continues unashamedly, and of course there are appearances by The Tile Guy. There’s also a really inappropriate song that you will find yourself singing at all the wrong times because it will get stuck in your head and will surface and the most inopportune times.

This album also heavily features Carrie Dahlby, Kim Crist, and Sara Trice, and also features a cameo appearance by the lads of Flat 29.

Stupid Cowboy Thing, Volume 1: GRANDMOTHER! is now available as a pre-order. If you pre-order the CD now you will receive the digital version of the album immediately so you don’t have to wait to hear it. Additionally, you will receive a special digital bonus CD with another 40 minutes of sketches, live performance recordings, and outtakes. Once the physical CD of Stupid Cowboy Thing ships the bonus material will no longer be available, so order now!

To order, click here: http://www.thefump.com/store_release.php?id=88

PRE-ORDER OFFER ENDS THIS MONDAY, AUGUST 8TH!

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• GENCON INDY 2011

http://gencon.com
Indianapolis Convention Center - Indianapolis, IN
August 4th - 7th, 2011

I’ll be the judging-time entertainment of the Costume Contest for my 15th year. I’ll also have a table in the Entertainers Spotlight area of the Exhibit Hall. My 10th album “BE AMUSED BY ME” will be released there, as well as the new “Cirque du So What?” sketch comedy CD “Stupid Cowboy Thing - Volume 1: GRANDMOTHER!”. Also appearing will be the Damsels of Dorkington and Marc Gunn, and more.

GEN CON INDY 2011
Comedy Music Schedule!

Note: Most events require at least a $2 generic ticket, and some events may already be sold out. We suggest getting tickets to guarantee a seat, event numbers are listed below. If seating is still available after all ticket-holders have arrived, there may be room for non-ticket-holders or standing room only.

FRIDAY:

Entertainer’s Spotlight
10:00 am to 6:00 pm – Indianapolis Convention Center – Exhibit Hall HIJK
Luke Ski, Marc Gunn, and the Damsels will be at their tables selling their CDs, T-shirts, and other merch. So stop by and say hello, chat with us, and if you can afford it, buy something funny and nerdy to take home and enjoy!

Experience Marc Gunn, The Celtfather Live!
8:00 pm - Marriott - Santa Fe
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The Damsels of Dorkington – Damsels After Dark
10:00 pm - Marriott - Indiana Ballroom F:
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SATURDAY:

Entertainer’s Spotlight
10:00 am to 6:00 pm – Indianapolis Convention Center – Exhibit Hall HIJK
Luke Ski, Marc Gunn, and the Damsels will be at their tables selling their CDs, T-shirts, and other merch. So stop by and say hello, chat with us, and if you can afford it, buy something funny and nerdy to take home and enjoy!

The 26th Annual GenCon Costume Contest
featuring a performance by the great Luke Ski!
4:00 pm – Indianapolis Convention Center – 500 Ballroom
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Secrets of Celtic Geek Music with Marc Gunn Live!
8:00 pm - Marriott - Santa Fe
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the great Luke Ski: Live in Concert!
featuring special guest performer Carrie Dahlby!
9:00 pm - Marriott - Santa Fe
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The Damsels of Dorkington – The Dork Pride Pandemonium
11:00 pm - Marriott - Indiana Ballroom E
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SUNDAY:

Entertainer’s Spotlight
10:00 am to 4:00 pm – Indianapolis Convention Center – Exhibit Hall HIJK
Luke Ski, Marc Gunn, and the Damsels will be at their tables selling their CDs, T-shirts, and other merch. So stop by and say hello, chat with us, and if you can afford it, buy something funny and nerdy to take home and enjoy!

CIRQUE DU SO WHAT?’S NEW ALBUM,
“STUPID COWBOY THING - VOLUME 1: GRANDMOTHER!”
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER, WITH BONUS ALBUM!

Cirque do So What, the sketch comedy super group made up of Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, Shoebox of Worm Quartet, and Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad, returns with their second album which is so packed full of comedy, insanity, and profanity, that it had to be broken up into two albums.

Stupid Cowboy Thing, Volume 1: GRANDMOTHER! features an hour of hilarious sketches, phony commercials, and bizarre music. The Guess The Context series continues unashamedly, and of course there are appearances by The Tile Guy. There’s also a really inappropriate song that you will find yourself singing at all the wrong times because it will get stuck in your head and will surface and the most inopportune times.

This album also heavily features Carrie Dahlby, Kim Crist, and Sara Trice, and also features a cameo appearance by the lads of Flat 29.

Stupid Cowboy Thing, Volume 1: GRANDMOTHER! is now available as a pre-order. If you pre-order the CD now you will receive the digital version of the album immediately so you don’t have to wait to hear it. Additionally, you will receive a special digital bonus CD with another 40 minutes of sketches, live performance recordings, and outtakes. Once the physical CD of Stupid Cowboy Thing ships the bonus material will no longer be available, so order now!

To order, click here: http://www.thefump.com/store_release.php?id=88