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MarsCon 2008 - Feb. 29th, March 1st & 2nd, 2008 -
Bloomington, MN - Holiday Inn Select
Would you like to help support the Dementia Track and get a live double-CD set of last year's best performances with bonus material? Then check out the
MarsCon 2008 Dementia Track Fundraiser CD now!
MarsCon 2008 Music Guest Of Honor:
HOT WAFFLES!
Chris and Timm Waffle triumphantly return to MarsCon, ready to do two things, (1) blow you away with a comedy rock spectacle the likes of which has never been seen, and (2) consume mass quantities on the 13th floor afterwards. They've appeared on EXTRA and G4's Attack of the Show, and have performed at the Improv, the Ice House, the Carpenter Performing Arts Center, and the Orange County Comedy Festival. They've also performed with Dr. Demento, and who can forget their performance of "The Yolk's On You" at the MarsCon 2006 Dementia Smackdown? So get ready for a rockin' musical breakfast of Hot Waffles at MarsCon 2008!
This
year at MarsCon, be prepared for a different kind of storm...
PAUL
& STORM!
Regular contributors to the nationally syndicated
morning radio comedy juggernaut, "The Bob & Tom Show"!
Half of the legendary a capella group "Da Vinci's Notebook"!
Many hits over the years on "The Dr. Demento Show"!
Tons of tour dates being the 'Opening Band' for Jonathan Coulton!
You don't even realize what lucky bastards we are to have them!
And the rest of our MarsCon Dementia Track
performers,
who are
all going to be doing 30 minute concerts on the Main Stage:
ROB BALDER,
ERIC COLEMAN, CARRIE DAHLBY,
the GOTHSICLES, the great LUKE SKI,
BETH KINDERMAN
POSSIBLE OSCAR, POWER SALAD, ART PAUL SCHLOSSER,
SUDDEN DEATH,
and WORM QUARTET!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29th:
10:00 pm - Beth Kinderman
10:30 pm - Eric Coleman
11:00 pm - Worm Quartet
11:30 pm - The Gothsicles
SATURDAY, MARCH 1st:
2:00 pm - Rob Balder
2:30 pm - Sudden Death
3:00 pm - Paul & Storm
4:00 pm - [break time for tear-down, set-up, bathroom, merch buying, snacks, smoking, etc.]
4:30 pm - Possible Oscar
5:00 pm - Hot Waffles
SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd:
1:00 pm - Art Paul Schlosser
1:30 pm - Carrie Dahlby
2:00 pm - Power Salad
2:30 pm - the great Luke Ski
3:00 pm - Dementia Smackdown
Other MarsCon Dementia Track events:
OPENING CEREMONIES is on Friday at 7:00 pm, featuring a sketch written by and starring Brian Labounty, Earl Luckes, and Luke Ski, and features appearances by Carrie Dahlby, & ShoEboX! So please don.t miss it.
The horror parody film by Jeff Smith (of Raymond & Scum) "STUPID TEENAGERS MUST DIE" is showing in the film room Saturday at 10:00 pm.
Dementia Smackdown Wrestling presents: the Marscon 2008 Dementia Track BATTLE ROYAL! Late Saturday night at 12:30 AM at the Dementia Radio Room Party on the 13th floor! It.s a live DSD Wrestling live commentary recording with Commissioner J.P. Tuesday and Duke Flyboy DuJour! See all of the MarsCon 2008 Dementia performers virtually battle it out for Twin Cities supremacy!
Sunday at Noon there will be a panel, "Demented Music as a Sub-Genre" with Dave Romm, Earl "Wyngarde" Luckes, Chris & Timm Waffle, and others.
The MARSCON DEMENTIA FAN SHOWCASE
hosted by DJ PARTICLE!
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! DJ Particle will be performing some new songs herself as a part of the show! Here are the acts that have signed up so far:
There are still slots available, so if you'd like to perform in the show, send me an e-mail at LukeSki@Juno.com with the subject line "SHOWCASE" and tell me who you are and what you plan to do. So come on and join in the fun, because it's your turn to be a dementia star! :D
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!
The Marscon 2008
DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN!
Sunday at 3:00 pm, we close out the weekend with our popular traditional pre-Closing-Ceremonies concert, the Dementia Smackdown! Bear witness to all 14 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!
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, MARSCON.COM. They also have a MySpace page.
WHERE and
WHEN?
The Holiday Inn Select in Bloomington, MN
(in the Twin Cities, next to the Airport and the Mall of America)
on February 29th, March 1st, and 2nd, 2008.
HOW MUCH?
Registration is $45.00 until January
31st, after that it will be
$55.00 at the door.
If you're on LiveJournal, be sure to sign up for the LJ community: marscondementia
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
(The other co-chair would be Earl "Wyngarde" Luckes, who is too busy being a proud new daddy to whip up a cheesy website like this.)
Want to hear a musical con report of last year's convention in the style of the late legendary schizophrenic Chicago street musician Wesley Wills? Sure, of course you do! Here it is!
And to read a more conventional web page con report with pictures for MarsCon 2006, click here.
Nearly every dementia performer at MarsCon 2008
is a core, auxiliary, or SideShow contributing member of
the FuMP, a.k.a. the Funny Music Project,
where you can download new free comedy songs every day.
Still
not enough comedy music for you? Then point your computer's audio player to
Dementia Radio Dot Org, where every night a veritable plethora of DJs
from across the county hosts live comedy music shows. And when they're not on,
they have a 24-hour a day random server playing the funny non-stop!
And either way, you get to request what songs you want to hear! You can't lose!
Dementia Radio! Ridiculous!
Do you like pudgy cheeseheads who make rap songs about Lord of
the Rings?
You DO?!?! Freak...
(c) 2008 Luke Collis Sienkowski, All rights reserved