“Scud”
The newest song from the great Luke Ski,
Download the free MP3 now at the Funny Music Project,
http://www.theFuMP.com

This is a song about what is in my opinion, the greatest comic book ever, “Scud The Disposable Assassin”, created by Rob Schrab.

Rob and I used to take improv classes together in Milwaukee. Rob is one of the original members of “The Dead Alewives”, giving him the distinct infamy of being ‘the Mountain Dew guy’ in the world renowned “Dungeons & Dragons” sketch. During Scud’s original mid-90’s run, he moved to L.A., where his growing Hollywood workload made him decide to stop “Scud” at issue #20 with an armageddon-implying cliffhanger. Rob went on with his comedy partners to create such cool things as the pilot “Heat Vision And Jack” which starred Jack Black and was directed by Ben Stiller, “Robot Bastard”, “Channel 101″, “Acceptable TV”, “Monster House”, “The Hell O’clock News” for Tenacious D, he directed a video for Death Cab for Cutie, and he is the co-creator and director of “The Sarah Silverman Program”. A decade later, Rob felt it was finally time to finish what he’d started, and created issues 21 through 24 of “Scud”, which at long last finishes the story. Image Comics released them over the summer, and today released “Scud The Disposable Assassin: the Whole Shebang”, an 786 page Omnibus containing all 24 issues, available at your local comic shop now. Rob also announced a Scud fan film contest at his website, RobSchrab.com, and has already gotten some great entries.

I have been wanting to do a song about “Scud” ever since I started making music in ‘94. The song’s time has finally come. Many of my fans have told me that they would have never seen a movie or started watching a TV show if I hadn’t done a song about it that peaked their interest in it. My “Scud” song is my ultimate expression of attempting to achieve that desired effect. The comic book “Scud” is the coolest thing in my life that most other people don’t know about. So as well as paying tribute to something that has meant so much to me over the past 14 years, I hope you’ll go pick up a copy of the Omnibus and get sucked into the world of “Scud”. And FYI, I am going to attempt to make a music video for this song before the end of the month for the Scud fan film contest.

The opening and closing music for the song is by Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad, with vocals by Chris and Carrie Dahlby. What else left is there to say about it, other than… …It’s cool to be a robot.

~ Luke Ski, July 22nd, 2008

Possible Oscar recorded a cover of Tom Smith’s song Dead Again for the Tom Smith fund raiser album Mr. Smith Goes To The Hospital. To help promote this fund raiser album we are having a video contest.

Create a fan video for Possible Oscar’s cover of the Tom Smith song Dead Again, and you could win an MP3 player loaded with the entire discography of FuMP artists Tom Smith, Possible Oscar, Rob Balder and the great Luke Ski, plus The FuMP Volumes 1 through 9!

Entering is easy. Just follow these simple steps: 

1. Create a video for the song.
2. Post your video on YouTube.
3. Fill out this form to submit your video to the contest.

The deadline for entries is August 31, 2008. Winners will be announced in September 2008.

First prize is a 4 GB SanDisk Sansa e260 MP3 Player preloaded with the entire discography of FuMP artists Tom Smith, Possible Oscar, Rob Balder and the great Luke Ski, plus The FuMP Volumes 1 through 9.

Two runners up will each receive a free item of their choice from the FuMP Store.

Enter Now or See The Submissions 

Will this be the next “Peter Parker”? Let’s hope so. I’m going to dedicate this to all of my friends in the Twin Cities fandom scene, because according to the lyrics Devo wrote, some of you are at this party, doing some pretty freaky stuff. Hey, you know what they say, “What happens at the con…” ;D And don’t forget…

AND:

A Middle East Country, A Middle Earth Mountain Troll
by Project Sisyphus, featuring the great Luke Ski and Carrie Dahlby

You can make requests to hear these tracks on “The Dr. Demento Show” by going to the Official REQUEST page!

DEMENTIA REVOLUTION T-SHIRTS!!!

Are you a regular listener of Luke Ski’s internet show “Dementia Revolution”, and have been yearning to express your enjoyment of said listening by having logos and text printed on cloth which you could wrap around your upper torso? Well today is your lucky day! Thanks to the l33t skills of Dementia Radio Head Honcho “Blasted Bill” Putt, you can now order your very own “DEMENTIA REVOLUTION” T-SHIRTS!

The Front:
The Dementia Radio Big-d Happy Face Icon!

The Back:
“I’VE JOINED THE DEMENTIA REVOLUTION!”
w/ smaller Dementia Radio logo

Available sizes, colors, & prices:

MENS:
Orange - S, M, L, XL, XXL - $27.40
Black - S, M, L, XL, XXL - $20.90; XXXL - $23.90

WOMENS:
Pink - S, M, L, XL, XXL - $23.40
Black - S, M, L, XL, XXL - $20.90
Black V-Neck - S, M, L, XL - $21.90

To order, follow this link:
https://140008.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/Index/index/search/luke

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REITERATION NOTE: I’m not making any money off of this product. $1 from each shirt goes to Dementia Radio, and the rest goes to the t-shirt company. So again, if you have to choose between one or the other right now, wait and order the Tom Smith Fund Rasier product coming later this week, and get the t-shirt sometime later on down the road. Thank you. - Luke

Last fall, Spaff (who writes all of Robert Lund’s tracks) informed Carrie Dahlby and myself that he was writing a song parody with her and I in mind to sing lead vocals on.

Recently, he sent us the finished song lyrics. We read them, and thought they were very funny. We also thought the song was very nonsensical and silly. We agreed to sing it for him.

Suddenly, I got an idea for a sketch to frame the song in, in the same overall genre the song he’s parodying is known to have been from, which would kind-of sort-of make the song make sense within the context of the sketch. I proceeded to write the sketch.

Spaff enlisted (or maybe ‘tricked’ would be a better term) Bob from Project Sisyphus to not only create the music for the song parody, but to also create some brilliant sound cues for the sketch portions, and engineer, mix, edit, and master the whole thing.

A couple of great cameos by Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad and Tom Smith were graciously donated and added to the couldron, and voila, you have what could possibly be the weirdest track ever posted at the FuMP.

So, to recap:
Song parody lyrics by Spaff
Sketches written by the great Luke Ski
Lead vocals by Carrie Dahlby & the great Luke Ski
Music & Engineering by Project Sisyphus
Cameo appearances by Chris Mezzolesta and Tom Smith

Here’s the track (try not to read the title if you can, and click play). Please be sure to leave comments there (and here too if you like):
http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1057

Also, a mix of just the song parody by itself can be downloaded from the FuMP SideShow here:
http://www.thefump.com/side.php?id=242

There will be new tracks featuring Luke Ski posting at the FuMP on June 3rd, June 10th, and June 13th, so be sure to keep going back to http://www.thefump.com to download them all for free! My most recent song posted at the FuMP is “I WANT TO BE STEVE BUSCEMI” ( http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1047 ).

Tom Smith’s classic hit ‘I Want To Be Peter Lorre’ has been parodied countless times over the past couple decades. Back in the fall of 2004, I got the idea to take his song about the beloved bug-eyed character actor of classic cinema, Peter Lorre, and rewrite it about the beloved bug-eyed character actor of modern cinema, Steve Buscemi. I performed it a couple of times, but it has since been collecting dust in a spiral notebook in my storage room of doom. Recently some fans and friends were asking about it in the Dementia Radio chat room, which led to me asking Tom for his permission and talent in making it a reality. Tom graciously whipped up some background music for me to use… Background music which will later be improved for his forthcoming re-recorded version of ‘I Want To Be Peter Lorre’ as part of his ‘Sounds Familiar’ project which he’s been posting at iTom, where you can get even more free comedy songs, just like right here at the FuMP!… Anyway, I had always hoped to have this song recorded someday, so thank you again to Tom Smith for making this track a reality.

Dr. Demento played “I Want To Be Steve Buscemi” on his show 2 weeks ago! If you’d like to hear it make Dr. Demento’s Top Ten countdown, or would like to see my Top Ten hits “JACK BAUER” or “THE CHAINSAW JUGGLER” return to the top ten, you can request either song at the official REQUEST page, http://drdemento.com/request , and make your demented voice heard! Literally!

That’s right, as a new 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! 

You can also make requests for your favorite new Luke Ski songs for the Mad Music Top 20 at http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/top20voting.aspx , and for Dementiamania at http://www.dfsxradio.com/9400.htm. And of course, you can purchase the songs from my artist page at the FuMP: http://www.thefump.com/artist.php?id=2

SUMMER TOUR DATES:

ConVergence 2008
http://www.convergence-con.org/

Bloomington, MN (Twin Cities) - Sheraton Bloomington Hotel

July 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th, 2008

I’ll be doing a short set in Connie’s Space Lounge Cabaret on Saturday night, and a concert on Sunday at 1:00 pm in Harmonic Convergence. Also performing that weekend: Possible Oscar, dementia fangirl belly-dancers, and others! 

GenCon Indy 2008
http://www.gencon.com/2008/indy/
Indianapolis, IN - Indianapolis Convention Center
August 14th, 15th, 16th, & 17th 

I’ll be the judging-time entertainment of the Costume Contest on Saturday, and I’ll have a table in the dealer’s room in Autograph Alley. Tom Smith will also be there as a roving musician, with his dealer table hopefully next to mine.

I do not know yet if I will be performing at Dragon*Con 2008. I want to, I have contacted D*C about it, they have gotten back to me saying I will have to wait to find out if I will be booked this year, and the same goes for me coordinating any comedy music programming for D*C like I did from 2004 to 2006. I will let you all know as soon as I know anything.

My newest song posted at the FuMP, “THE CHAINSAW JUGGLER”, limbed it way to #5 on the Top Ten countdown for April 2008! Thank you to all of you who requested it! If you’d like to hear it make the countdown again, or would like to see my Top Ten hit from Jan/Feb’08 “JACK BAUER” return to the top ten, you can request either song at the official REQUEST page, http://drdemento.com/request, and make your demented voice heard!

For those of you who don’t know, I closed the MarsCon 2008 Dementia Smackdown concert by performing a cover of the original version of the song “The Chainsaw Juggler” by the Four Postmen. Not only was this song the #1 song of 1999 on “The Dr. Demento Show”, but it is also possibly the greatest comedy song of the past decade. With the approval of the mighty mailmen themselves, I posted my studio version of the song at the FuMP, featuring cameo appearances by Art Paul Schlosser, Carrie Dahlby, The Consortium of Genius, DJ Particle, the Gothsicles, Hot Waffles, Possible Oscar, Power Salad, Raymond and Scum, Rob Balder, Robert Lund, Seamonkey, Sudden Death, Throwing Toasters, Tom Smith, Whimsical Will, Worm Quartet, and Wyngarde. Rock out, dude.

BACON: the squeel! I mean, the SEQUEL!

Hey, remember my bacon song about bacon entitled “BACON!”?!? http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=42
Well, Sudden Death has now written a parody of it as a follow-up, “Bacon 2: Electric Bugaloo!”:
http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1039
Download it for free now at http://www.theFuMP.com !

Dementia Smackdown Wrestling PenguiCon Preview!!!

Current DSW World Champion the great Luke Ski talks some trash about Tom Smith, ShoEboX, and Devo Spice, his competitors for the title belt in the forthcoming click-per-view event “First Strike” at the Friday Night FuMP concert at PenguiCon (Video courtesy of Alchav of Soggy Potato Chips): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXcQ10_HDn0

Dementia Smackdown Wrestling: First Strike!

It’s the Season 2 Premiere Click-Per-View Event!

Match 1: #1 Contenders Match for the DSW World Championship: Richard Cheese vs. Dr. Pinkerton (of the Consortium Of Genius)
vs Rob Balder vs darkNES (of The Gothsicles) vs Wyngarde
vs Dr. Grant (of The Radio Adventures Of Dr Floyd)

Match 2: #1 Contenders Match for the DSW Tag Team Championship:
Hot Waffles vs Possible Oscar

Match 3: DSW Women’s Championship - Last Woman Standing Match:
Women’s Champ. Carrie Dahlby vs DJ :EYG: (of The Gothsicles)

Match 4: DSW World Championship:
World Champ. the great Luke Ski vs ShoEboX (of Worm Quartet)
vs Tom Smith vs Devo Spice (of Sudden Death)

CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE PAGE WITH ALL THE DEMENTIA WRESTLING ACTION!!!http://wwetuesday.livejournal.com/145605.html And don’t forget to LEAVE COMMENTS THERE!