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the great Luke Ski's Blog
Topic: Announcing, the MarsCon 2009 Dementia Track!
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fiogf49gjkf0d INVASION MARSCON!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ753ADeSaM
MARSCON 2009
www.marscon.com & www.marscondementia.com
Bloomington, MN - Holiday Inn Select (suburb of Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN)
March 6th, 7th, & 8th, 2009
Announcing, the MARSCON 2009 DEMENTIA TRACK!
It's time for another weekend of awesome comedy music concerts by some excellent new faces and some returning favorites. A quick rundown of our newcomers to MarsCon:
Music Guest Of Honor WALLY PLEASANT
Wally began writing, recording and performing his acoustic comedy folk songs in the early 90's. Originally from Michigan, he's toured all over the country and has had a lot of airplay on "The Dr. Demento Show" and on many college radio stations. As his website says, "Wally is the quintessential every man who uses humor to pull the listener in and irony and sincerity to provoke thought and warm the heart."
www.wallypleasant.com
MC LARS
One of the hottest acts in the nerdcore genre, you can pick up his albums and merch at Hot Topic, you can get his videos on your TiVo, and you can see him doing commercials for Channel G4. His anthem "Download This Song" tells old media where they can stick it. His forthcoming CD has appearances by "Weird Al" and Jonathan Coulton.
www.mclars.com
POSITIVE ATTITUDE
C minus and EMC came to Con on the Cob in the fall of 2007 and blew the roof off the place with their first ever live performance together. Since then they've opened for Green Jello, submitted several songs to the FuMP dot com, and occasionally make plans to rehearse. They're a welcome addition to the nerdcore ranks of MarsCon Dementia.
www.myspace.com/positiveattitude
MARC GUNN
Marc is one half of the legendary, popular, and kilt-clad duo "The Brobdingnagian Bards", and he has posted many songs at the FuMP dot com. If you ask him nicely, he might be convinced get out his autoharp and sing you a Celtic song about his cat. Maybe.
www.marcgunn.com
THE FENG SHUI NINJAS
The Midwest meets the Far East with the local Twin Cities folk act, "The Feng Shui Ninjas". Sometimes moonlighting as the Player Characters for Beth Kinderman, they're bringing their old-timey sounds to the sci-fi scene for some good times to be had by all!
www.myspace.com/fengshuininjas
INSANE IAN
Ian has been making funny songs for years, and is a regular contributor to the FuMP Sideshow. His song "Guitar Hero" was #11 on Dr. Demento's Funny 25 of 2008. Not only does he look like Simon Pegg, but he's met the guy too.
www.insaneian.com
SOGGY POTATO CHIPS
Alchav, another contributor to the FuMP Sideshow, has been attending MarsCon for years. He performed his cover of "Shaving Cream" at the Dementia Fan Showcase last year to much applause. He's also performed at Con on the Cob in Akron, OH.
www.myspace.com/spchips
And returning once again to rock the house for us:
CARRIE DAHLBY – www.carriedahlby.com
DEVO SPICE (aka SUDDEN DEATH) - www.devospice.com
DJ PARTICLE - www.djparticle.com
POSSIBLE OSCAR - www.possibleoscar.com
POWER SALAD - www.powersalad.com
ROB BALDER - www.robbalder.com
THE GREAT LUKE SKI - www.lukeski.com
WORM QUARTET - www.wormquartet.com
Host & Dementia Track Co-chair: WYNGARDE
Other Dementia Track (and other related) events include the following:
OPENING CEREMONIES
Earl "Wyngarde" Luckes and the great Luke Ski, intrepid co-chairs of the Dementia Track, will be performing in another opening ceremonies sketch that I'm sure will be hilarious once we actually write the thing. Hey, we got 50 days, no problem!
The DEMENTIA RADIO ROOM PARTY!
"Blasted Bill" Putt and the crew from the awesome 24-hour a day streaming audio internet station "Dementia Radio Dot Org" are returning to MarsCon again to throw another rocking party on Friday and Saturday night on the infamous 13th floor! There will be music! Snacks! Alcohol! Mayhem! Cheese Whiz! Cleavage! Rob Balder committing mayhem with cheese whiz on cleavage! So be sure to stop by and spend some time there when perusing all the parties on the 13th floor! www.dementiaradio.org
The FILKERS' ROOM PARTY!
Beth Kinderman and her friends from the local filk scene have decided to start a filk room party to supplement the Dementia Track and keep the live music going into the wee hours of the night on the 13th floor! They've already scheduled performances by the Player Characters, Gifted Gear, Karl Brown, Toyboat, and more! For more info (and to help them out with a donation), visit www.bethkinderman.com/roomparty.html .
The DEMENTIA FAN SHOWCASE
The one and only DJ Particle will host this event that puts YOU in the spotlight! Sunday morning at 11:00 AM in the Karaoke Room, 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 go to this link and send us a message letting us know who you are and what you intend to do in the show: marscondementia.com/contact-us/ So come on and join in the fun, because it's your turn to be a dementia star!
The Marscon 2009 DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN!
Sunday at 2:00 pm, we have our popular traditional pre-Closing-Ceremonies concert, the Dementia Smackdown! Bear witness to nearly all of our performers getting on stage and taking turns performing cover versions of comedy music hits of the past and present, possibly with some surprises thrown in! Don't miss it!
The FuMP SIDESHOW!
Sunday at 3:30 pm, to close out the weekend, the Funny Music Project website (a.k.a. 'The FuMP', www.thefump.com) presents a round-robin concert featuring performers from the FuMP Sideshow! We'll have tunes from DJ Particle, Soggy Potato Chips, Insane Ian, and more to be announced. www.thefump.com/sideshow.php
And of course, there's THE REST OF THE CONVENTION!
A gigantic amount of thanks goes out to MarsCon for allowing us crazies to have our dementia track as a part of their excellent convention. Everyone on the staff is friendly, helpful, and eager to make sure you're going to have the best experience possible at MarsCon. So be sure to show them your appreciation, and take a look at all the other great guests, panels, events, and parties happening at MarsCon 2008 (the Karaoke room has always been a favorite of mine). For all the details on this year's MarsCon, visit their website, www.marscon.com . They also have a MySpace page, myspace.com/mnmarscon . If you're on LiveJournal, be sure to sign up for the LJ community: marscondementia ( community.livejournal.com/marscondementia )
WHERE and WHEN?
The Holiday Inn Select in Bloomington, MN (in the Twin Cities, next to the Airport and the Mall of America) on March 6th, 7th, & 8th, 2009.
marscon.org/2009/hotel/index.php - www.himspairport.com
HOW MUCH?
Registration is $45.00 until January 31st, after that it will be $55.00 at the door.
marscon.org/2009/registration/index.php
SCHEDULE of Dementia Track Main Stage Events:
FRIDAY:
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm - Opening Ceremonies
9:00 pm – MARC GUNN
9:30 pm - POSSIBLE OSCAR
10:00 pm – POSITIVE ATTITUDE
10:30 pm - Luke Ski presents: HOT SNACK TIME
10:45 pm - {15 minute set-up/tear down/buffer-time break}
11:00 pm - DEVO SPICE (the artist formerly known as SUDDEN DEATH)
11:30 pm - WORM QUARTET
(ends at Midnight)
SATURDAY:
2:00 pm - POWER SALAD
2:30 pm - THE GREAT LUKE SKI
3:00 pm - MC LARS
3:45 pm - {break for tear-down & set-up, approx 15 min.}
4:00 pm – THE FENG SHUI NINJAS
4:30 pm - {break for tear-down & set-up, approx 15 min.}
4:45 pm - Music Guest of Honor WALLY PLEASANT
(ends at 5:45 pm)
SUNDAY:
11:00 am to 12:30 pm at Karaoke Joe's – The Dementia Fan Showcase!
1:00 pm - CARRIE DAHLBY
1:30 pm - ROB BALDER
2:00 pm - DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN
3:00 pm - {15 minute set-up/tear down/buffer-time break}
3:15 pm - Closing Ceremonies
3:30 pm - THE FuMP SIDESHOW, featuring DJ PARTICLE, SOGGY POTATO CHIPS, INSANE IAN, and more to be announced.
HELP SUPPORT THE DEMENTIA TRACK
Just a reminder that the MarsCon 2009 Dementia Track Fundraiser CD Sets are still for sale. We're still short in reaching our goal of covering the hotel room costs for our non-GoH out-of-town Dementia Track performers. If you can afford it, it would help us out if you could purchase a copy on CD or MP3 from our website, MarsCon Dementia Dot Com. The 2009 edition comes in 4 different versions to choose from, ranging in price from $15 to $30, each one a great collection of at least 2 and a half hours of live concert tracks recorded at MarsCon 2008. We also still have a few copies left of the 2008 and 2007 CDs. They make great Inauguration gifts. marscondementia.com/products-page/2009-cds/ Can you order them? Yes, you can!
Thanks for reading everyone, I'll see you there. Because...
…YOU'RE GOING TO MARSCON!
~ the great Luke Ski, co-chair of the MarsCon Dementia Track
www.marscondementia.com
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