• “WHEN YOU WISH UPON A DEATH STAR” NOMINATED FOR A LOGAN AWARD FOR “OUTSTANDING PARODY SONG” OF 2012!

I am very proud to announce that my ‘Disney buys Lucasfilm’ medley piece “When You Wish Upon A Death Star” has been nominated for the Logan Award for Outstanding Parody Song of 2012! This is my third nomination in this category, and if I win it, I’ll be the first act to win the award 2 years in a row. I am so honored to have been nominated again, and whether I win or not, the Logan Awards this year at MarsCon is going to be incredible, so don’t miss it! To see the full list of nominees in all 3 categories, visit http://www.loganawards.com .

• “WHEN YOU WISH UPON A DEATH STAR” #1 ON DR. DEMENTO’S TOP TEN FOR JANUARY 2013!

For the second Top Ten in a row, “When You Wish Upon A Death Star” was #1 on Dr. Demento’s Top Ten! Thank you all so much to everyone who has been requesting it! Looks like I’ll be on the Funny 25 of 2013 as well! ;D If you’d like to see “Death Star” continue to top the Top Ten next month, please REQUEST for “The Dr. Demento Show” to play it again at http://drdemento.com/request , and be sure to include your e-mail address so it counts towards the Top Ten tabulations! And as always, you can listen to the show every week at http://drdemento.com/online.html .

• THE MARSCON 2013 DEMENTIA TRACK T-SHIRT IS HERE!

MarsCon 2013’s theme is “Ctrl/Alt/Del… Thriving Into The Future!” So, I drew all the Dementia Track participants as computer-related characters from fandom and pop-culture and arranged them on a T-shirt commemorating the 10TH YEAR of the MarsCon Dementia Track. You can get the shirt from Dementia Radio’s page at Spreadshirt: http://dementiaradio.spreadshirt.com . Remember, we will not have this t-shirt for sale at the convention itself, so if you want to have one to wear at the convention, you need to order it by about February 14th to ensure it gets shipped to your home in time.

Please note also that nobody (besides Spreadshirt) is making any money off of these shirts. They are not a part of the Dementia Track Fund Raiser, they are just being made because the fans wanted nifty shirts to wear. Special thanks to “Blasted Bill” Putt for setting up the shirts for us on the Dementia Radio Spreadshirt account. For a closer look at the individual drawings, visit http://marscondementia.com/performers .

• TOUR DATES:

CAPRICON 33 - Wheeling, IL (Chicago) - February 7-10

MARSCON 2013 - Bloomington, MN (Twin Cities) - March 1-3

OSFEST 6 - Omaha, NE - July 26-28

Go to the Tour Dates page for details.

As we have done every year since 2008, I have scoured through all 11+ hours of the live comedy music concerts from MarsCon 2012 and put together a 4-hour-long 3-CD set / MP3 album of all the best performances and funniest moments from last year’s convention. All the proceeds from this Fund Raiser go towards covering the hotel room costs of the non-Guest-of-Honor Dementia Track performers, “Table 27″ dealer room fees, and other Dementia Track related expenses. This year’s collection has tracks by TVs Kyle, Cirque du So What?, Worm Quartet, the Gothsicles, Seamonkey, Possible Oscar, the Boobles, Dino-Mike, Consortium Of Genius, Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, Power Salad, Feng Shui Ninjas, Beth Kinderman, DJ Particle, Jeff Reuben, Brett Glass, and Derwood Bowen! The track list for this year’s collection can be seen on the order page for the 3-CD set.

It’s $20 for the download-only version: CLICK HERE

And it’s $30 for the 3-CD set with instant download: CLICK HERE

Over at the Bad Rapport podcast page, I’ve posted a 35 minute free preview of the MarsCon 2013 Dementia Track Fund Raiser 3-CD & MP3 album.

All of our previous year’s collections are still available in the Fundraiser Shop as MP3 downloads, and many of them are still available on CD as well.  So please help us out and order the MarsCon 2013 Dementia Track Fund Raiser album today.

Special thanks to all of the MarsCon 2012 performers, as well as Wayne Garmil, Chris Peterson, Byron Lee, DJ Particle, Mike Beucler, and Jered Perez for providing me with the live recordings from MarsCon 2012. These collections wouldn’t happen without your help, which is very much appreciated by myself, the Dementia Track performers, and the Dementia Radio listeners.

• ATTENTION PODCASTERS & D.J.s:

Link to MarsCon 2013 long commercial (6:17):
http://tinyurl.com/MarsCon13adLONG

Link to MarsCon 2013 short commercial #1 (1:18):
http://tinyurl.com/MarsCon13adSHORT1

Link to MarsCon 2013 short commercial #2 (1:17):
http://tinyurl.com/MarsCon13adSHORT2

It would greatly appreciated if you’d be willing to play any of the commercials above on your shows. Thanks!

• Other Dementia Track events:

A couple of our returning events have changed days & times, so please make note of that everyone…

• DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN WRESTLING

Friday at Midnight in the A.V. Club Room

Every year Dementia Radio DJ and pro wrestling fan Jered Perez uses the latest WWE video games to create avatars of all of the acts appearing at the MarsCon Dementia Track. Then he records them fighting against one another in a 30 minute Battle Royal to see who will be crowned the champion of “Dementia Smackdown Wrestling”! So come root for your favorite act, and witness the virtual violence and senseless slaughter for silly supremacy! Featuring live commentary by DSW commentators Commissioner J.P. Tuesday (Jered Perez) and Duke ‘Flyboy’ DuJour (Luke Ski). Snap into it! Oooh yeah!

• DEMENTIA FAN SHOWCASE

Saturday at 10 AM in the Karaoke Krypt

The one and only DJ Particle will host this event that puts YOU in the spotlight! It’ll be your chance to get up in front of the crowd and show your demented stuff! Are you an up and coming dementia artist with some songs to sing? Are you a Karaoke fanatic who loves to sing your favorite funny tunes? Do you and your friends want to do a lip-sync to the latest demented hit? Then this is the show for you! If you’d like to sign up, just show up and bring any background music you need to perform with either on CD or in MP3 format on a Flash Drive. We’ll put your name in a hat along with our other participants, and we’ll pull names out at random to determine the order of our first rotation. Once we’ve gotten through the first rotation, we’ll go through it again giving people who want to more chances to perform. So bring your talent and creativity and be a Dementia Star!

• FLAT 29 PODCAST RECORDING

Saturday at Noon in the Fuji panel room

Since 2009, our music Guests Of Honor Flat 29 have been doing a podcast called “Big Book Of Everything” in which they’d talk about a specific topic, and create a new song on that topic, and also do quizzes, challenges, and generally just goof around riffing on whatever comes to mind. More recently, they started a companion sketch comedy podcast called “Fistbumpin’”, where they do sketches based on the previous “Big Book Of Everything” topic. Well at MarsCon, the lads are going to record some segments for future episodes of their podcasts, so you can come be in the live studio audience and join in the fun! So bring your Peri Peri Sauce, and get ready for some British accented fun!

• 2013 LOGAN AWARDS OPEN NOMINATIONS, DEADLINE JANUARY 14TH, 11:59 pm

Now that 2012 is over, it’s time to celebrate the best comedy music of the year with the 2013 Logan Awards! The website has been updated, and the “Nomination Form” page is now open.  Be sure to check out what songs have already been suggested on the “Open Nominations” page first, so you don’t nominate songs that have already been nominated. Our categories are once again Outstanding Parody Song, Outstanding Original Comedy Song, and Outstanding Comedy Music Video. This year’s esteemed Jurors are Dr. Demento “Blasted Bill” Putt, Kristen Kerouac, a.k.a. “Kornflake”, John “Hex” Carter, DJ Particle, Jeff Smith, and Tony Goldmark. You can learn all about them at the Juror page.

The Nominee Suggestion period will be from January 1st through January 14th, 2013. After that, our jurors will pick their favorites from January 15th through 28th. The five Nominees in each of our three categories will be announced during the live recording of “The Funny Music Podcast” on Dementia Radio on January 31st, 2013. The 3rd Annual Logan Awards Ceremony will be held at MarsCon 2013 in Bloomington, MN on Saturday March 2nd at 4:00 pm as a part of the MarsCon Dementia Track.

Well, what are you waiting for? Go to the Nomination Form and start submitting your favorite comedy songs of 2012, and please spread the word to your comedy music loving friends online about it!

• MARSCON 2013 DEMENTIA TRACK SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED!

Here’s who’s performing on the Main Stage at MarsCon 2013, and when:

FRIDAY, MARCH 1st:
7:00 pm – Opening Ceremonies, with sketch by Luke Ski & Earl Luckes
9:00 pm – POSSIBLE OSCAR
9:45 pm – STEVE GOODIE
10:15 pm – INSANE IAN
10:45 pm – TVs KYLE
11:15 pm – WORM QUARTET

SATURDAY, MARCH 2nd:
2:00 pm – THE GREAT LUKE SKI
2:45 pm – FLAT 29 – Music Guest of Honor concert (60 min)
4:00 pm – 3rd ANNUAL LOGAN AWARDS (90 min)

SUNDAY, MARCH 3rd:
1:00 pm - MAX DEGROOT
1:30 pm – POWER SALAD
2:00 pm – MIKEY MASON
2:30 pm – THE FUMP JUKEBOX
3:00 pm – DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN (60 min)

Yes, furry filker MAX DEGROOT will be doing a main stage concert, joining our list of other Main Stage first-timers; nerdy comedy rocker & stand-up comedian MIKEY MASON, and Music Guests Of Honor FLAT 29, the British comedy music trio doing their first ever performance in the United States!!! (Music GoH sponsored by Dementia Radio .org!) For links to all of these band’s websites, click on their names anywhere on this website.

• “TABLE 27″ SEEKS VOLUNTEER

Our huge double-wide merch table for the acts of the MarsCon Dementia Track is returning once again, and we need people to staff it. In exchange for your services, you’ll get a free badge into MarsCon for the weekend. Table 27 is just outside the doors to the Main Stage room, and will be open during the Dementia Track concerts. We will do our best to make sure our volunteers don’t miss out on anything at MarsCon they really want to see or do. Our goal is to have 2 or 3 people behind the table at all times when it is open, so if we have 6 volunteers, that should be easy to figure out. So if you’re willing to give us some of your time at MarsCon to help the Dementia Track in exchange for a free weekend badge, email Jean Prior at phoenix@spundreams.net . Thanks.

• MARSCON REGISTRATION ENDS ON JANUARY 31st

Weekend badges for MarsCon 2013 are $50 until Jan 31, after that they will cost $65 at the door. You can preregister now at the MarsCon website.

Thanks for reading everyone, I’ll be back with more updates as new information comes.

~ Luke Ski, 1/8/2013
Chair of the MarsCon Dementia Track

Over the past year, Carrie Dahlby and I were faced with the challenge of trying to figure out how we could continue to record our fortnightly-ish podcast “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport” while Carrie was tending to her motherly duties with her newborn son Alex, who is now 10 months old. As Alex got older and more vocal, he also became more intrusive. Mind you, he is a very happy and well-behaved baby, but his continual squeals of joy often made the podcast frustrating to listen to. It is the assumption of Carrie and myself that there are some people who used to be regular listeners who have stopped listening because of this. Well, I am writing this paragraph to let everyone know that Carrie and I have come up with a new plan for recording podcast episodes that will greatly minimize Alex’s intrusions, by about 95%. In a nutshell, we record them on Sundays so Josh can watch Alex in the living room while we record in the computer room. The past 2 epsiodes (#76 & #77) we recorded this way and came out rather well. So we’re encouraging those of you who stopped listening to come back and give us a try again. And if you’ve never listened to “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport” before, now would be a good time to give us a chance. Thanks. :) (http://badrapport.com)

We’ve got lots of new news for the new year! So let’s get right to it!

~ Luke Ski, 1/2/2013

HEADLINES:

• THE 2013 LOGAN AWARDS NOMINATION SUGGESTION PAGE NOW OPEN!

Now that 2012 is over, it’s time to celebrate the best comedy music of the year with the 2013 Logan Awards! The website has been updated, and the ”Nomination Form” page is now open: http://www.loganawards.com/nomination-form . Be sure to check out what songs have already been suggested on the “Open Nominations” page first, so you don’t nominate songs that have already been nominated: http://www.loganawards.com/nomination-list . Our categories are once again Outstanding Parody Song, Outstanding Original Comedy Song, and Outstanding Comedy Music Video. This year’s esteemed Jurors are as follows:

Permanent Juror:
- Dr. Demento - host of “The Dr. Demento Show” for 42 years & counting

Fan Jurors:
- “Blasted Bill” Putt - founder of “Dementia Radio”
- Kristen Kerouac, a.k.a. “Kornflake” - Radio DJ & podcaster
- John “Hex” Carter - Founder and Executive Director for Nerdapalooza

Musician Jurors:
- DJ Particle - comedy musician, host of “Mad Music Top 20″ countdown
- Jeff Smith - “Raymond & Scum”, director of “Stupid Teenagers Must Die!”
- Tony Goldmark - comedy musician, he’s also “Some Jerk With A Camera”

You can learn all about them at the Juror page:
http://www.loganawards.com/jurors

The Nominee Suggestion period will be from January 1st through January 14th, 2013. After that, our jurors will pick their favorites from January 15th through 28th. The five Nominees in each of our three categories will be announced during the live recording of “The Funny Music Podcast” on Dementia Radio on January 31st, 2013. The 3rd Annual Logan Awards Ceremony will be held at MarsCon in Bloomington, MN on Saturday March 2nd at 4:00 pm as a part of the MarsCon Dementia Track. Go to MarsConDementia.com for info on the comedy music track, and go to MarsCon.com for info on registering to attend the convention.

Well, what are you waiting for? Go to the Nomination Form and start submitting your favorite comedy songs of 2012, and please spread the word to your comedy music loving friends online about it!

Viva dementia,

~ the great Luke Ski,
Chair of the 2013 Logan Whitehurst
Memorial Awards For Excellence In Comedy Music
http://www.loganawards.com

• MARSCON 2013 DEMENTIA TRACK SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED!

Here’s who’s performing on the Main Stage at MarsCon 2013, and when!:

FRIDAY, MARCH 1st:
7:00 pm – Opening Ceremonies, with sketch by Luke Ski & Earl Luckes
9:00 pm – POSSIBLE OSCAR
9:45 pm – STEVE GOODIE
10:15 pm – INSANE IAN
10:45 pm – TV’S KYLE
11:15 pm – WORM QUARTET

SATURDAY, MARCH 2nd:
2:00 pm – THE GREAT LUKE SKI
2:45 pm – FLAT 29 – Music Guest of Honor concert (60 min)
4:00 pm – 3rd ANNUAL LOGAN AWARDS (90 min)

SUNDAY, MARCH 3rd:
1:00 pm - MAX DEGROOT
1:30 pm – POWER SALAD
2:00 pm – MIKEY MASON
2:30 pm – THE FUMP JUKEBOX
3:00 pm – DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN (60 min)

Yes, furry filker MAX DEGROOT will be doing a main stage concert, joining our list of other Main Stage first-timers; nerdy comedy rocker & stand-up comedian MIKEY MASON, and Music Guests Of Honor FLAT 29, the British comedy music trio doing their first ever performance in the United States!!! :D (Music GoH sponsored by Dementia Radio .org!) For links to all of these band’s websites, click on their names at this page: http://marscondementia.com/dementia-track-schedule

Stay tuned, because as soon as I can get it done, I will be posting the MarsCon 2013 Dementia Track Fund Raiser album on CD & MP3, featuring all the best live music & comedy from MarsCon 2012!

• “WHEN YOU WISH UPON A DEATH STAR” #18 ON DR. DEMENTO’S FUNNY 25 OF 2012!

Listen to the Funny 25 countdown here: http://drdemento.com/online.html

2 years ago, I was shocked to see “It’s Good To Be The King” hit #1 on Dr. Demento’s Top Ten so late in the year, and that act alone put it on the Funny 25 that year. In case you hadn’t noticed, I pretty much decided to take 2012 off from making new major songs, and I had early on resigned myself to the fact that I would not have a song on the Funny 25 this year. But in November, once I decided to answer the call of my fans and the good Doctor himself, I was crossing my fingers and was hoping that the same ”King” thing would happen again. I believe Dr. D’s words last month were that my Star Wars / Disney song “took the request page and ran off with it” or something to that effect, because it hit #1 after just one week, placing it at #18 on the 2012 Funny 25 countdown.

Thank you so much to Dr. Demento and my fans without whom this song would not exist, literally. Your incessant nagging brought forth what could be my next “Grease Wars”. Thank you to the AMAZING Bob Emmet for the incredible music. Thank you Carrie Dahlby and Chris Mezzolesta for your fabulous vocals.

If you’d like to see “When You Wish Upon A Death Star” make the Top Ten in January, you can request it again here: http://drdemento.com/request . Be sure to include your email address so it counts towards the Top Ten!

“Green Eggs And Peas” by Cirque du So What (written by Devo Spice) was #24 on the countdown, so hooray for that as well. Congrats to Ookla The Mok for snagging 3 spots on the Countdown, including #1, as well as Devo Spice at #4, Carrie Dahlby, Flat 29, Steve Goodie, and Art Paul Schlosser!

For more fun overanalyzation of the Funny 25, check out my LiveJournal post about it: http://lukeski.livejournal.com/730883.html . It includes a list of all 18 of my songs that have made the Funny 25 over the past 15 years, which you can turn into a nifty iTunes playlist and/or mix CD!

• DEMENTIA RADIO INDIE GOGO FUNDRAISER

http://www.indiegogo.com/dementiaradio - ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT!

The website for the 24-hour online streaming comedy music station “Dementia Radio” has long been in need of a major overhaul. Meanwhile, web programmer Devo Spice found himself suddenly unemployed and looking for freelance web work. So “Blasted Bill” Putt, founder of dementiaradio.org, decided to start a fund raiser that helps two entities at the same time! The purpose of this new Indie Gogo campaign is to raise the funds to pay Devo Spice to overhaul DementiaRadio.org! Some of the new features the updated website will have include: a database of all songs played with links to purchase those songs and request them for “The Dr. Demento Show” & the MMT20, ratings, keyword list sorting functions, pages for individual shows, staff, and DJ bios, integrated podcast pages, current song playing display, pirate cast button for DJs, a Dementia Radio App, and more!

Some reward prizes have recently been added to the campaign. One of them is an exclusive download album of 8 tracks that are either very rare or have never been released anywhere else before! Contributing acts include the great Luke Ski, Cirque du So What?, Carrie Dahlby, Devo Spice, TV’s Kyle, Insane Ian, and Carl Hatmaker. You can get that for a $20 donation, estimated delivery January 2013.

Their goal is to raise $4,300 by the end of the day on January 4th, 2013. Right now they have only raised $787. So if you have the means to do so, please donate something so we can help Devo Spice and help Dementia Radio! And please spread the word to your comedy music loving friends online!

• THE FuMP JANUARY SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL

The FuMP is having a special on subscriptions. If you subscribe during the month of January you will get 1 month free and a free FuMP branded USB drive with all of our 2012 releases on it.

Subscribers get unlimited high quality downloads, digital compilations, high quality RSS feeds, 20% off compilation CD purchases, and Level 2 gets you the CDs as they come out as well.

For details and to subscribe click here:
http://www.thefump.com/subscriptions.php

Please pass this on to any of your friends online that you think would enjoy being subscribed to the FuMP dot com!

• LUKE SKI SONGS CHARTING ON OTHER 2012 COMEDY MUSIC COUNTDOWNS!

The fans did not forget me this year in others corners of the web…

—THE MAD MUSIC TOP 50 OF 2012, hosted by DJ Particle!—

#39 - “When You Wish Upon A Death Star”
#12 - “I’d Buy That For A Dollar” by Scooter Picnic, featuring Luke Ski
#2 - “Luke, Are You Carrie?” by Carrie Dahlby, featuring Luke Ski

That last one is all the more befuddling when you consider that “Devo, Are You ShoEboX?” was #41, and the original that started it all “Kyle, Are You Ian?” by Scooter Picnic was in the low #50s.

You can listen to the show here:
http://www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=MMDT20_12-FY

—WACKED-OUT 40 OF 2012, hosted by Anthony “A-Log” LoGatto!—

#25 - “I’d Buy That For A Dollar” - Scooter Picnic, featuring Luke Ski

You can listen to the show here:
http://www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=AOTA-121229

—THE WACKY 30 OF 2012, hosted by Wacky Ben Pulliam!—

#21 - “I’d Buy That For A Dollar” - Scooter Picnic, featuring Luke Ski
#18 - “Luke, Are You Carrie?” by Carrie Dahlby, featuring Luke Ski
#16 - “When You Wish Upon A Death Star”

You can listen to the show here:
http://www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=BWR-13-01-01

Thanks so much to Emi, Anthony, and Ben for playing my stuff, and to their listeners who have been requesting and voting for my songs to get played again!

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REMINDERS:

• “STEALING LIKE A HOBBIT” MUSIC VIDEO FINALLY ON YOUTUBE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWHbX6kKu5s

You may not have heard about this, but “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is in movie theatres NOW! This seemed like the perfect excuse for me to get off of my old-media, outdated-business-model butt and finally post my music video for my most popular song of all time, “Stealing LIke A Hobbit” to YouTube. At the end, I added a plug for my new piece “When You Wish Upon A Death Star” at the FuMP, in the hopes to give that some more attention as well. So as you and your friends online get hyped for part one of “The Hobbit”, please help get me some publicity by sharing “Stealing Like A Hobbit” with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else that nerdy web traffic is generated. Thanks, and enjoy your second breakfast!

The song was also mentioned by the Houston Press:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/12/hobbit_songs.php?page=2

• TOUR DATES:

— MIDWINTER GAMING CONVENTION 2013 —
http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI
January 17th, 18th, 19th, & 20th, 2013

I’ll be doing a concert there on Friday night at 5 pm.

“WHEN YOU WISH UPON A DEATH STAR”
by the great Luke Ski
Available now for free download at http://www.thefump.com

In 2009 when it was announced that Disney bought Marvel, I quickly posted a song about it at the FuMP .com called “Marvel Poppins”, which the fans really seemed to enjoy.

Three weeks ago when it was announced that Disney bought Lucasfilm, known primarily for the “Star Wars” franchise, within hours I was inundated with emails, texts, tweets, and Facebook messages from people demanding that I do a follow up song on this topic, including an email inquiry from Dr. Demento himself. And with that I said, “Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go.”

So, with the Star Wars franchise’s history of making alterations to their films and re-releasing them into theaters, I present to you now a sneak preview of what to expect the next time you go to the cinema to see the saga again under it’s new mouse-ear-hat-wearing, pixie-dust-laiden management. You’re welcome.

Music by Supreme Chancellor Bob Emmet
Guest vocals by Princess Carrie Dahlby
and Prince Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad

If you’re interested in hearing any of my 11 previous “Star Wars” related songs, or my 4 previous “Disney” related songs, check out my Artist Page at the FuMP, or visit my website http://www.thegreatlukeski.com.

I hope you all like this song and will share it with your friends online. I hope this song becomes a hit and goes viral. After all, as the force dictates, if I keep on believing, the dream that I wish will come true.

IN OTHER NEWS (added 12/3/2012)…

• LUKE SKI CDs MAKE EXCELLENT HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR NERDY PEOPLE!

Here’s some of the stuff currently available for sale at my website:

* “BE AMUSED BY ME”
My most recent full length comedy music album, featuring the Logan Award winning “Snoopy The Dogg”, and fan favorites “Marvel Poppins”, “It’s Good To Be The King”, and “It’s A Fanboy Christmas 3″!

* “WHAT A RIPOFF! VOLUME 3″
A collection of non-album songs, sketches, spoken bits, outtakes and more, which includes “Skeksis Back”, “The Star Wars Chanukah Song”, “We Are The FuMP”, “I’d Buy That For A Dollar”, and “Luke, Are You Carrie?”

* “LUKE & CARRIE’S BAD RAPPORT: BEST OF 2011″
Highlights from Luke Ski & Carrie Dahlby’s fortnightly podcast.

* “GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1: 1996-2003″
A 2-CD set of all my most popular tracks from my early career.

…and a bunch of other albums too. You can find them all in the Store. So whether they are for yourself or a gift for a loved one, either way, I get your money in exchange for goods. Yay consumerism!

• HIRE LUKE SKI TO DRAW CARICATURES FOR YOU THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!

This year there are 5 full weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and yet, I only have 2 party gigs booked so far. So if you live in Illinois or a state touching it or Lake Michigan, then please consider hiring me to come out and draw at your holiday party! The details are here:http://www.artbylukeski.com/caricatures-for-parties-events/ I can also do caricatures or cartoon illustrations for you to use as gifts, cards, internet greetings, or whatever you like. Check outhttp://www.artbylukeski.com and contact me if you have any questions or would like to make arrangements for some artwork. Thanks.

• BIG MARSCON 2013 NEWS!

At long last, I am ready to make some announcements regarding the Dementia Track at MarsCon 2013! This news is so exciting, that I’m not even going to type it out here in text. Instead, I’m going to give you links to a YouTube video of the announcement, and an MP3 version as well:

Video version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hseUWi5yPyo
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/MarsCon2013promo1

Those of you with radio shows, internet shows, podcasts, etc., please download the MP3 of the announcement and play it as a promo on your shows. It’s 2:15 long, which for me is pretty dang short.

In any case, start getting excited people! MarsCon 2013 happens March 1st through 3rd at the Crown Plaza Hotel & Suites in Bloomington, MN. Go to http://www.marscon.com to register and for more information about this awesome sci-fi/fandom convention, and go to http://marscondementia.com for forthcoming updates on the MarsCon Dementia Track: the BEST WEEKEND EVER in COMEDY MUSIC!

• “STEALING LIKE A HOBBIT” MUSIC VIDEO FINALLY ON YOUTUBE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWHbX6kKu5s

You may not have heard about this, but “The Hobbit” hits movie theatres in 2 weeks! Well, part one of what is now a trilogy hits theatres on December 14th anyway. This seemed like the perfect excuse for me to get off of my old-media, outdated-business-model butt and finally post my music video for my most popular song of all time, “Stealing LIke A Hobbit” to YouTube. At the end, I added a plug for my new piece “When You Wish Upon A Death Star” at the FuMP, in the hopes to give that some more attention as well. So as you and your friends online get hyped for part one of “The Hobbit”, please help get me some publicity by sharing “Stealing Like A Hobbit” with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else that nerdy web traffic is generated. Thanks, and enjoy your second breakfast!

• DEMENTIA RADIO INDIE GOGO FUNDRAISER!

http://www.indiegogo.com/dementiaradio

The website for the 24-hour online streaming comedy music station “Dementia Radio” has long been in need of a major overhaul. Meanwhile, web programmer Devo Spice found himself suddenly unemployed and looking for freelance web work. So “Blasted Bill” Putt, founder of dementiaradio.org, decided to start a fund raiser that helps two entities at the same time! The purpose of this new Indie Gogo campaign is to raise the funds to pay Devo Spice to overhaul DementiaRadio.org! Some of the new features the updated website will have include: a database of all songs played with links to purchase those songs and request them for “The Dr. Demento Show” & the MMT20, ratings, keyword list sorting functions, pages for individual shows, staff, and DJ bios, integrated podcast pages, current song playing display, pirate cast button for DJs, a Dementia Radio App, and more! Their goal is to raise $4,300 by January 4th, 2013. So if you have the means to do so, please donate something so we can help Devo Spice and help Dementia Radio! And please spread the word to your comedy music loving friends online!

• VOTE FOR DEVO SPICE TO PERFORM AT iWORLD

Devo Spice is in the running to perform at MacWorld/iWorld, but he needs your help! Please go to http://www.devospice.com/vote and click on the button to vote for him! You can vote once per day. Details can be found at http://www.devospice.com .

• LUKE SKI APPEARS ON “PROS AND CONS” PODCAST

Mikey Mason and Jonah Knight have a podcast where they talk about fandom conventions, the music of that culture, what it’s like to be a person trying to make a living performing there. In Episode 9, they have a lengthy interview with me about my convention performing experiences, and play some of my songs. So check it out! http://prosandconspodcast.blogspot.com

When you wish upon a star, makes no difference that this podcast is SIX HOURS LONG!!! Join the great Luke Ski, Carrie Dahlby, and TV’s Kyle as they cover 84 years worth of cartoon, movie, TV, video game, & theme park entertainment, interspersed with an hour and 40 minutes of music & comedy tracks from the house that Walt built as well as by the likes of Brave Combo, the Replacements, Flat 29, Willio & Philio, Throwing Toasters, brentalfloss, The Dark Clan, Raymond & Scum, Power Salad, Patton Oswalt, Da Vinci’s Notebook, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Rob Paravonian, Barenaked Ladies, and They Might Be Giants. As they say at the Haunted Mansion, “there’s no turning back now”, so like a poisoned apple, you can slowly digest this this audiobook with benefits while you impatiently wait for “Wreck-It Ralph”, Disney’s 52nd full length animated feature film, hitting movie theaters on November 2nd. Until next time Mouseketeers, LET’S GET DANGEROUS! Episode Length: 6:00:07

Direct link to Episode 73 page: http://badrapport.com/2012/10/22/episode-073-disney-special/

Listen, download, subscribe, leave us COMMENTS at http://badrapport.com
You can leave a VOICE MESSAGE for the podcast by dialing (916)-LUKE-SKI
You can email us at badrapport@gmail.com
You can follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/badrapport
And we now have a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/badrapport
RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LukeCarriesBadRapport
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/luke-carries-bad-rapport/id335287593

Lyrics by the great Luke Ski
Music by Kyle Carrozza & Austin Aeschliman
Mixdown by Kyle Carrozza
From my 2011 album “Be Amused By Me”, available here on the Store page.

Welcome to my website, British people! Please check out my other songs here in tribute to Doctor Who, Monty Python, Harry Potter, Hamlet, Lord Of The Rings, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a parody of a song from “Mary Poppins”!

And to all the Americans, check out my Tour Dates page for info on new tour dates, including Archon in St. Louis, WindyCon in Chicago, Comics for Comics in Pittsburgh, and Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee.

“What A Ripoff! Volume 3″ continues in the tradition of Volumes 1 and 2, wherein Luke attempts to get his hands on more money from his fans so he can buy silly souveniers at Disney World. This album is made up of tracks Luke Ski has written and/or produced and/or recorded over the past few years that did not end up on “Be Amused By Me” or his previous few albums. It features appearances by Carrie Dahlby, Power Salad, Worm Quartet, Rob Balder, Scooter Picnic, and a track with almost everybody from the FuMP! There’s also a parody of a Luke Ski song by Ridikulus, and Luke’s contribution to the recent “Weird Al” tribute album! Plus more spoken word bits, sketches, commercials, narration, and “Explained Outtakes Part 3″! The album has been described as an ‘album’ by me just now.

–Includes the following tracks:–
MarsCon Dementia Track (2007 Version)
You Don’t Know Jack Harkness – by Ridikulus
Fabulist! - by Carrie’s BaldSki PowerBox
Flat 29 Choo Choo – featuring Carrie Dahbly
Jabba Jive – featuring Carrie Dahbly
We Are The FuMP – by the FuMP
Beavis and Butthead call the Scope
My Baby’s In Love With Jon Bermuda
Skeksis Back
The Star Wars Chanukah Song
I’d Buy That For A Dollar – by Scooter Picnic, featuring Luke Ski
Tom Lehrer Sings Public Enemy
Luke, Are You Carrie? – featuring Carrie Dahbly
Explained Outtakes Part 3
(and an unlisted bonus track)
Total length - 1:18:54

To order the CD version w/ MP3 download, $14.00 plus shipping:
http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/products-page/?product_id=225
To order the MP3 version, $9.99 download:
http://www.thegreatlukeski.com/products-page/?product_id=231

• IN OTHER NEWS…

Devo Spice has announced his plans to release a 2-CD “The Best Of Sudden Death” collection! You can get involved by donating to the project’s Kickstarter here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/371528925/the-best-of-sudden-death . There’s a lot of nifty prizes, and if nothing else, you can use it as a way to pre-order the 2-CD set now for it’s retail price of $20. So please go check it out and support your favorite comedy rappers (and his new song at the FuMP “In The 80’s” is awesome).

Speaking of awesome and humorous rappers, a recent episode of “The Dr. Demento Show” (#1233, Aug. 18th, 2012) is part 2 of Dr. Demento’s spotlight on comedy hip-hop music. As well as many classic comedy rap tracks by well known comedians, he also upon my suggestion played a bunch of nerdcore hip-hop, including tracks by me, MC Lars, and his show’s first ever plays of tracks by mc chris, MC Frontalot, and Schaffer The Darklord! It’s a great episode, so please go check it out at http://drdemento.com/online.html .

Speaking of Dr. Demento, he was a guest on the Nerdist Podcast! Not only that, but Jonah Ray mentioned me at one point and he, Chris Hardwick, and Dr. Demento said some very nice things about me! This happens at 1:05:15 into the episode, but the entire episode is a great listen. You can hear it on the Nerdist Podcast feed, and at this page on their website: http://www.nerdist.com/2012/08/nerdist-podcast-dr-demento .

ATTENTION FANS OF “BAD RAPPORT”: I want to compensate someone to do a chore for me, which is to scan through every episode of “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport” and make a list of all the songs we have ever played on the show. I used to have a list of these songs, but it was in one of my notebooks which was stolen last summer. If any of you is willing to do this for me, I’ll compensate you with CDs or art or money or something. Just email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com and let me know.

In other news, GenCon Indy was a smashing success! I had 131 people at my Saturday night video concert, my set at the Costume Contest went great and even had video accompaniment, and our collective “Friday Night Live” concert had well over 322 people in attendance! I go into more detail on the weekend on this week’s “Bad Rapport” podcast. Thanks so much to everyone at GenCon Indy who came out to the shows and supported myself and my fannish comedy music making compatriots! If you’d like to see a 45 minute video chat I did with the Damsels of Dorkington the week before GenCon, follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJe7-5Icpgk.

• “LUKE, ARE YOU CARRIE?”

A new Luke Ski & Carrie Dahlby song at the FuMP!

First, Scooter Picnic did “Kyle, Are You Ian?”. Then, Devo Spice & Worm Quartet did “Devo, Are You ShoEboX?” Now, the great Luke Ski & Carrie Dahlby bring you “Luke, Are You Carrie?” Will this be a capper on a trilogy, or a continuation of a meme? Only time will tell. To do your own brain-switched team-up song, get the instrumental on the Sideshow. Lyrics & mixing by Luke Ski. Please note the various micro-cameos by some other FuMP & Sideshow artists in this song. Download this song now on the main page of the FuMP: http://www.thefump.com

• ARCHON 36

I’m returning to Archon doing my usual Sunday afternoon concert (location TBA), and I’ll have a merch table in Artists Alley, same spot as last year. For details, visit the Tour Dates page, where you can also get details on WorldCon and GenCon Indy. Speaking of which…

• GENCON ATTENDEES: PLEASE BUY THE $2 SPECIFIC TICKET FOR MY CONCERT!

As of August 6th, my solo concert has 38 TICKETS SOLD. I’d really like to hit 100 by the time GenCon starts, so please purchase a specific $2 ticket for my concert at this webpage: https://registration.gencon.com/events/32218 . If you already purchased a $2 generic ticket with the intent of using it for my concert, email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com and let me know. Thanks.

You can read the rest of the comedy music concert line-up and find links to buy tickets for them on the Tour Dates page.

Sometimes it feels like so much stuff happens in such a short period of time that I can’t keep a handle on it. This is one of those times. Mostly it’s good, but I have to start with some sad news this time. A friend to myself and the dementia / Weird Al fan community passed away this week, Susan Parry Whelchel. I have many fond memories of her at Weird Al concerts as well as at OVFF and more recently Con on the Cob. She will be greatly missed.

On a happier note, I recently had a sociopolitical discussion with Alex Rasey. You can see that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5y2-mcohs .

Speaking of newborns, why don’t you stop by http://drdemento.com/request and submit a request for the song “Pregnancy Is Strange” by Carrie Dahlby? And be sure to include your email address, so it’ll count towards this weekend’s Top Ten countdown for June 2012! And as always, listen to the show at http://drdemento.com/online.html . It’s still the best show ever. Thanks!

And now, onto the news. ~ Luke Ski, 6/26/2012

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” WINS LOGAN AWARD FOR “OUTSTANDING PARODY SONG”!!!

When it was announced that the nominees for the Logan Award for Outstanding Parody Song of 2011 were “Charlie Sheen” by Power Salad, “If I Could Be Weird Al” by Moneyshot Cosmonauts, “Perform This Way” & “Party In The CIA” by “Weird Al” Yankovic, and “Snoopy The Dogg” by the great Luke Ski, I immediately came to the conclusion that the award was most likely going to one of the two songs by “Weird Al”. But it was to my shock and delight that at DeepSouthCon 50 in Huntsville, Alabama on June 16th that Dr. Demento announced that the winner of the 2012 Logan Award for Outstanding Parody Song was “Snoopy The Dogg” by the great Luke Ski. You can watch it happen on Power Salad’s Ustream page at the following links:

Logan Awards, Part 1: Dr. Demento talks about Logan Whitehurst (7:43)

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23367487

Logan Awards, Part 2: The ceremony with live performances (47:22)

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23367642

I thanked a whole bunch of people in my acceptance speech, so here I will specifically thank this year’s jury for the Logan Awards: Dr. Demento, Tom Smith, Anthony LoGatto, Mikey Mason, Jonah Knight, John Heering Jr., and James Allen. You’ve made another one of my dreams come true, and I am eternally grateful for it.

It’s also worth noting that it was announced at the ceremony that the Chair of the 2013 Logan Awards will be me, and that the ceremony will take place at MarsCon 2013 in the Twin Cities, March 1st through 3rd, 2013. Nomination Suggestions will begin promptly on January 1st and end January 15th.

To find out the other winners of the 2012 Logan Awards, visit:

http://www.loganawards.com

• KICKSTARTER UPDATE: SURVEYS SENT TO DONORS, LUKESKICON DATE PICKED

Hello, wonderful Kickstarter donors! Luke Ski here with some updates
for you regarding my Kickstarter, so you can watch the new video I
made…

…and/or you can read this:

— I sent off the surveys for your Kickstarter prizes Sunday night. If you didn’t get the survey, feel free to email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com, and I’ll send the survey to you that way.

— I have acquired all of the items for my new AV Concert Rig, and most of the additional tech items from the stretch goal! I’m holding off on the laptop & iPad for now because I may upgrade those two into a MacBook instead, also I want to have funds handy for LukeSkiCon preparation purposes.

— The tentative date for LUKESKICON is JUNE 21st-23rd, 2013. If any of you know of any big conventions, events, or other reasons why that weekend would not be good to have the convention, please let me know. Again, the convention will be in the Chicagoland area, near Des Plaines, IL..

Thank you all so much again for donating to the Kickstarter and making it so much easier for me to create and perform for you all. I look forward to working on all your prizes and planning LukeSkiCon 2013. Hope to see all you donors there!

• LUKE SKI GOES TO WORLDCON!

WORLDCON 2013
http://chicon7.net
Hyatt Regency Chicago - Chicago, IL
August 30th - September 3rd, 2012

Whether you call it WorldCon 2013 or ChiCon 7, it still means the same thing to me, that Luke Ski will be performing at a WorldCon for the first time! My concert is currently scheduled for Saturday afternoon at 4:30 pm in the Plaza room. If that changes, I will let you all know. Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to use my new video rig at this show (Union rules), but that won’t stop me from performing 75 minutes of my latest and greatest hits for the WorldCon audience! Hope to to see you all in sweet home, Chicago.

• “ROCKY HORROR” FANVID BY JERED PEREZ

Hot off the heels of making “The Ballad Of Optimus Prime”, Jered “Mr. Tuesday” Perez has struck again with another fan video for a classic Luke Ski song, “Rocky Horror”! Are you a fan of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”? Do you have other friends online who are as well? Well then for the love of Frank, please tell them all about it! So all you juggalos raise a Faygo toast to Jered Perez for another awesome fanvid!

• GENCON ATTENDEES: PLEASE BUY THE $2 SPECIFIC TICKET FOR MY CONCERT!

https://registration.gencon.com/events/32218

Ahem. Here’s the number of specific tickets currently sold for GenCon Indy’s comedy music related events:

Thursday Damsels of Dorkington show —– 177 tickets sold
Thursday Marc Gunn concert ————— 75 tickets sold (sold out)
Friday Damsels of Dorkington panel —— 124 tickets sold
“Friday Night Live” show with all of us - 260 tickets sold
Saturday Mikey Mason concert ————- 57 tickets sold
Saturday Damsels of Dorkington show —– 118 tickets sold
Saturday Marc Gunn concert ————– 100 tickets sold (sold out)
SATURDAY THE GREAT LUKE SKI CONCERT —— 18 tickets sold <———-
Saturday Tom Smith concert ————— 74 tickets sold

As you can see by the above list, everyone else is kicking my ass. My solo Luke Ski concert has only 18 tickets sold so far. This is my 18th year performing at GenCon. Mikey Mason is making his first appearance, and he’s sold 3 times as many tickets as me. Excuse me for a moment while I transform into Chris Farley from the old Herlihy Boys sketches from “Saturday Night Live”… …SWEET MOTHER OF GOD!!! WHAT IS THE HOLD-UP?!?! CAN WE STOP THIS CRUEL GAME, AND ALLOW LUKE SKI TO KEEP ONE SHRED OF DIGNITY?!?! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BUY A $2 TICKET FOR LUKE SKI’S SATURDAY NIGHT GENCON CONCERT!!! WHO ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO BUY A TICKET FOR?!?! JO-JO THE IDIOT BOY?!?! HOLY SHNIKEYS!!! COME ON!!!… …So in conclusion, it would make me really happy if by the time GenCon gets here, I’ve hit the 100 tickets sold mark. If you already purchased a $2 generic ticket with the intent of using it for my concert, email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com and let me know. Thanks.

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” ON THE NERDAPALOOZA 2011 LIVE ALBUM!

This album is 37 tracks recorded live at Nerdapalooza 2011, and features me performing “Snoopy The Dogg” as well as “MvL” by Insane Ian with Devo Spice and Luke Ski, along with tracks by the Consortium Of Genius, Brentalfloss, Captain Dan & His Scurvey Crew, Marc With A C, Sci-Fried, Adam Warrock, Schaffer The Darklord, Dual Core, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, and many more! Only $7 for the MP3 version, or $15 for a CD. Get it at: http://nerdapaloozafest.bandcamp.com

My song “Snoopy The Dogg” is nominated for Out­stand­ing Par­ody Song of 2011 for the Logan Awards! Thank you to my fans for suggesting the song, and thank you to the jurors who made it a nominee! We’ll see if I bring home the robot cat this Saturday at DeepSouthCon with Dr. Demento!

To see the full list of nominees, click here:
http://www.loganawards.com/2012-nominations/