Continuing in my career long quest to have a song on every major topic in the many worlds of geeky fandom, I bring you my tribute to the entire genre of Japanese Animation, more commonly known here in the states as “Anime”. This parody of “Candyman” By Christina Aguilera sung by Carrie Dahlby covers everything to the kiddie programs, to the giant robot shows, to the teen melodramas, to the ‘adult’ stuff. With any luck, there will be at least a dozen AMVs posted on YouTube of this song within a month. If you make one, please be sure to tell folks in titles at the end of the video that they can find the song “Anime Fan” at “the FuMP dot com”! Arigatō! ;D

HEY REAL LIFE ANIME FANS! Please help spread the word about this song to anyone you know in the anime fan community, I would to see Anime Music Videos made for this song, and to have people use this song as a part of Masquerade, Costume Contest, and other Cosplay related convention events across the world! So please spread the love and tell all the Anime Fans you know out there online to come download the song for free at the FuMP dot com today!

(After April 1st, the song will move into the FuMP Archive where it will cost 99 cents to download it.)

The full color MarsCon 2010 Dementia Track Dark Lords T-Shirt is now available! Order yours now, so you can have it shipped to you before you leave for the convention (because they won’t be available for sale at the convention). The front is a full color cartoon image of all of the 2010 Dementia Track performers as famous Dark Lords & Femme Fatales (illustrated by Luke Ski), the back is a list of all of this year’s acts. You can also order previous year’s shirts there (Alien Invaders & Video Games), as well as MarsCon Dementia Fun Bus and Dementia Radio T-Shirts.

https://dementiaradio.spreadshirt.com/marscon

(Note: None of the proceeds from these MDT shirts are going to myself, MarsCon, the Dementia Track Fund Raiser, nor Dementia Radio. The charges are just the minimum amount the SpeadShirt company charges for making their products. We just wanted cool t-shirts to wear.)

Just did a substantial update over at MarsCon Dementia Dot Com, so go check it out!

http://www.marscondementia.com

CIRQUE DU SO WHAT?

Over the past 5 years, ShoEboX of Worm Quartet, Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, and Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad have been secretly writing sketch comedy material together, which they recently got together and recorded, and after a fortnight of furious mixing and mastering by audio God Mezzolesta, is finally ready to be unleashed on an unwitting public. At MarsCon 2010, the debut sketch comedy album by dementia super-group “Cirque du So What?” titled “Procrastinators of the Apocalypse” will be released. Pre-order the CD now at http://www.cirquedusowhat.net and you’ll receive a special bonus disc with 20 minutes of additional sketches and outtakes. You’ll be able to pick up your copy of the album and the bonus disc at MarsCon (we’ll refund you for the shipping cost). So order now at http://www.baconnipples.com , uh, I mean, http://www.cirquedusowhat.net , yeah, there. See our first ever live performance on Saturday Night at 10:00 pm on the Main Stage following the Masquerade. Note: Rated R like a mofo.

Tour Date:

MIDSOUTHCON 28
http://midsouthcon.org
Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center - Olive Branch, MS (suburb of Memphis, TN)
March 12, 13, & 14th, 2010

I have concerts on Friday night and Sunday afternoon, more details soon!

PLAY MARIOKART WII WITH LUKE SKI!

My MarioKart Wii code is 1162-0579-0945. If you’d like to race with me via Nintendo WFC, please email me your code. Thanks, and I’ll see you on the pixelated racetrack!

Thanks, and I hope you’re all as psyched as I am.
~ Luke Ski, 2/15/2010

“Battlestar Rhapsody”, my parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” about “Battlestar Galactica”, has been getting a lot of attention today due to the fan video made by nnaylime on YouTube getting mentioned at several notable popular blogs, including the Huffington Post, and the Twitter of TV star Alyssa Milano (sadly I have no songs about “Who’s The Boss” or “Charmed” to dazzle her with). If you found my website because of any of those, thanks so much for stopping by. Please look around this site to find dozens more pop-culture based comedy songs, both parodies and originals. A good place to start would be the page listing off my Top 50 songs as voted on by my fans.

Click here if you’d like to purchase an MP3 of “Battlestar Rhapsody” for $0.99.

“Battlestar Rhapsody” is from my 2008 album “Target: Audience”, which also has songs about “Heroes”, “24″, “Babylon 5″, “World of Warcraft”, and more. The album is available on CD for $14 plus shipping, or as an MP3 download for $9.99.

If you’d like to listen to almost every song (full length) I’ve released over the past 3 years for free, visit my page at the website of the Funny Music Project, aka, The FuMP dot com!

Oh, and because I forgot to mention it to my regulars, Episode #6 of my PodCast “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport” was posted back on December 19th. Visit http://badrapport.com to listen & comment.

So say we all,
~ Luke Ski, 12-28-2009

Please leave COMMENTS for the episode there, or you can email us at badrapport@gmail.com ,
or you can LEAVE US A VOICE MAIL MESSAGE at (916)-LUKE-SKI !!! We’re on Twitter too: http://twitter.com/badrapport

If you’re interested in hearing a PREVIEW of the 2010 Fund Raiser set, I’ve created a special 30 minute PodCast that you can listen to and/or download for free here:
http://badrapport.com/podpress_trac/web/30/0/LCBR_Ep004point5.mp3

The MarsCon 2010 Dementia Track Fund Raiser: 3-CD set - $30.00
(An optional MP3 download of all tracks is included with purchase. Price includes shipping)
http://marscondementia.com/products-page/2010-cds/marscon-2010-dementia-track-fund-raiser-3-cd-set/

The MarsCon 2010 Dementia Track Fund Raiser: MP3 Download Only - $20.00
(Contains all the tracks from the CD version. Length: just under 4 hours)
http://marscondementia.com/products-page/2010-cds/marscon-2010-dementia-track-fund-raiser-3-cd-set-download-only/

We also still have CD & MP3 sets available from 2009, 2008, & 2007’s Fund Raisers. You can order those and read the track listings at http://marscondementia.com

Every show mentioned in this song is a real Hanna Barbera cartoon. Seriously. I can’t make this stuff up. But apparently William and Joe did, which is why we were inundated with decades worth of anthropomorphic celebrity rip-off animals, cave people, future people, groovy kids, talking vehicles, freaky super-heroes, and sit-com tie-ins, all walking through buildings and passing the same window over and over again while solving mysteries and playing in rock bands together. So here’s an up tempo Oom-”Paw-Paw” of a polka to celebrate the company that created the shows “Capitol Critters”, “Fish Police”, and the unforgettable “Rick Moranis in Gravedale High”. All of which I watched. Regularly. Willingly.

Arrangement by: The Spooky Fisherman’s Ghost, who after removing his mask is actually TOM SMITH!!!
Indirect inspiration: ShoEboX from the Worm Quartet which sounds like a Hanna Barbera show but isn’t.
Person whose head will likely explode upon hearing this song: TV’s Kyle

The Hanna Barbera Polka
by the great Luke Ski
Download it now at the Funny Music Project
http://www.thefump.com

You can listen to the episode and/or subscribe at our website http://badrapport.com Please leave COMMENTS for the episode there, or you can email us at badrapport@gmail.com .

ATTENTION LUKE SKI FANS - In this episode I discuss a potential forthcoming album “Luke Ski’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 (1996-2003)”, so please go to http://badrapport.com and check out the proposed track listing and leave comments there letting me know what you think of it. Are there any tracks from 1996-2003 that are missing that you think should be there? Please let me know.

* LUKE SKI TOP 50 ANNOUNCED - LYRIC ARCHIVE COMPLETE!
Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll to determine the Luke Ski Top 50 of 2009! Seven songs from my newest album “Too Much Stuff” made the countdown. To see where your favorites placed, go to the Top 50 page at my website: http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/top50/ Also I decided to use the posting of the new Luke Ski Top 50 as an excuse to get off my butt and finally type and post the lyrics to all the remaining songs from my main CD releases that were not yet posted. Special thanks to Jered “Mr. Tuesday” Perez, Tony Troxell, and Sara “Dementia” Trice for helping make that a reality! So you can go visit the COMPLETE LUKE SKI LYRIC ARCHIVE here: http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/lyrics/

* MARSCON UPDATE - 2 ACTS ADDED TO COMPLETE THE LINE-UP!
MARSCON 2010 - March 5th thru 7th, 2010
http://www.marscon.com & http://marscondementia.com
Holiday Inn Select - Bloomington, MN (suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Perfroming at the MarsCon 2010 Dementia Track: Music Guests of Honor The Nick Atoms, newcoming acts Throwing Toasters, Schaffer the Darklord, Steve Goodie, Nuclear Bubble Wrap, Insane Ian, Dino-Mike, Odd Austin, and returning favorites Rob Balder, Worm Quartet, The Gothsicles, Power Salad, Hot Waffles, Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, and JUST ADDED: Carrie Dahlby, and Raymond & Scum!

* PLEASE REQUEST “TOO MUCH STUFF” FOR “THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW!”
According to the unofficial fan tallies, “Too Much Stuff” is currently TIED FOR #1 SONG OF 2009 on “The Dr. Demento Show!” There’s only one more Top Ten Countdown airing this year before the show is taken over by holiday music, so please please please REQUEST for Dr. Demento to play “Too Much Stuff”! The request page is here: http://drdemento.com/request And of course, you can listen to his show at his website, http://drdemento.com !

* ART BY LUKE SKI DOT COM
AS OF RIGHT NOW, I HAVE NO CARICATURE GIGS BOOKED FOR LATE NOVEMBER OR EARLY DECEMBER HOLIDAY PARTIES! So, if you need a caricature artist for a party or event (the sooner the better), or would like a caricature, cartoon, or chibi to give as a gift, visit http://www.artbylukeski.com

* Luke Ski’s latest CD “Too Much Stuff” available now:
Click here to order the physical CD:
http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/products-page/?product_id=185
Click here to order the MP3 download:
http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/products-page/music-downloads/too-much-stuff/

* THE MAD MUSIC DEMENTIA TOP 20 COUNTDOWN!
Please go register at the Mad Music Archive forums here:
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/signup.aspx
Submit your weekly votes at the voting page here:
http://www.djparticle.com/mmdt20/
You can listen to the show here:
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/mmtop20.aspx

* Tour Date: VISIONCON 2010 - http://www.visioncon.net
Clarion Hotel - Springfield, MO - January 22nd thru 24th, 2010
I’ll be performing there, as well as the hot and hilarious Willie’s Wenches!