About Me

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Rob Balder . The Great Luke Ski . Possible Oscar . Raymond and Scum . Robert Lund and Spaff . Tom Smith . Sudden Death . Worm Quartet . Anybody else we could grab, roll into a rug, and ship to Istanbul. No, wait, that’s the most recent Bertrice Small novel. Sorry.

Anyway. The largest and wildest collective of comedy musicians in history, coming together with two goals in mind: taking over the world, and making you laugh so hard you don’t care. With over thirty albums, numerous awards (including several Number One Songs of various Years on The Dr. Demento Show ), and more synthesizers than they should be allowed to play with, we can only hope they’ll use their awesome powers for good.

Fortunately, that’s the plan.

Because The FuMP is here to bring you the absolute cutting-edge in comedy music, every stinkin’ week.

That’s right. Two brand-new downloadable songs from the Gods of Funny, right here, every week.

So get yer damn hands inside the ride and hang the hell on. ’Cause from here, it only gets crazier.

FuMP Podcasts

Click here to subscribe to the main FuMP Podcast -- two new songs every week

Click here to subscribe to the FuMP Sideshow Podcast -- a new song from members of The FuMP community every day, when available

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/10/2006
Band Website: thefump.com
Band Members:

Core Members

Rob Balder -- lyrics, masterminding, dreamy boyish good looks, least objectionable maniacal gleam to the eye

The Great Luke Ski -- marketing & sales, lyrics, marketing & sales, costumes, marketing & sales, beat box, marketing & sales

Possible Oscar -- music, lyrics, real actual competent guitar playing, con badges

Raymond and Scum -- music, lyrics, seriously good guitar and keyboard work, bemused headshaking at other members

Robert Lund and Spaff -- music, lyrics, incredible parodies, political activism, boobs

Tom Smith -- music, lyrics, guitar, MIDI, maintenance of this MySpace page, abject horror that he is the Wise Old Mentor of this bunch

Sudden Death -- music, lyrics, podcasting tech, webmastering, experience in dealing with New Jersey

Worm Quartet -- adrenaline, nipples, Meat Loaf-style bellowing, baby pictures, peas

Auxiliary Members

Bob Ricci -- wickerd funny lyrics, great performance, damn near Illuminatian influence

Brobdingnagian Bards -- kilts, manliness, Star Wars jokes

Carl Hatmaker -- blues, cool shades

Carla Ulbrich -- adorable perkiness, missing butts, waffle ho’s

Carrie Dahlby -- desperately needed fem cred, actual vocal training, buns (on her Princess Leia costume, what were you thinking?)

Flibbertigibbet (formerly Powered By Satan) -- unholy dark powers, beef

Hot Waffles -- mm mm goooood cookin’, various needed ass-kickings

Jonathan Coulton -- code monkeys, brainz, mad science, more cred than we deserve

Marc Gunn -- kilts, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

MC Lars -- nerdcore rap, RIAA-bashing refined to art

Paul and Storm -- fantastic harmonies, lousy puns

Positive Attitude -- extremely great noise, daredevil cojones

Power Salad -- childhood memories, invasive procedures

Project Sisyphus -- bent lyrics, techie toys
Seamonkey -- southern white rap, unnerving tingly feelings below

The Gothsicles -- tight music, loose morals

The Sideshow - Starring YOU!

That’s right -- YOU can have your song featured at The FuMP! All you have to do is go to The FuMP Sideshow and let us hear what you’ve got! You host it, we pimp it!

Influences: Caffeine, comic books, Dr. Demento, way way WAY too much TV
Sounds Like: A bunch of wet cats. Really, really funny and witty wet cats. Who occasionally break into perfect nine-part harmony. But only for a moment. And then it's back to the wet cats.
Record Label: FIDIM Interactive, LLC
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Lots of FuMP News

Heads up! Various and sundry Big Announcements from The Funny Music Project!First thing, sorry the MySPace page hasn’t been updated in the past week. With all the stuff I’m doing, and wi...
Posted by The FuMP on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:18:00 PST

New FuMP: "Why Cant I Shoot The Dog?"

Way back in the Lower Middle Mesozoic Era, there was a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System called Duck Hunt. Simple game, really -- ducks flew out of the bushes, you shot at 'em. However, it ...
Posted by The FuMP on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:56:00 PST

New FuMP: "She Wants An American Girl"

Toy marketing is one of the biggest and least comprehensible industries in the whole entire universe. Today's offering, "She Wants An American Girl" by Power Salad, examines the dark underbelly of th...
Posted by The FuMP on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:34:00 PST

MarsCon, and New FuMP: "Living On A Roll And A Prayer"

This weekend is one of The FuMP's favorites -- it's MarsCon in Bloomington, MN! And we're kicking ass and taking names in force. Check out this line up: Rob Balder, Sudden Death, Luke Ski, Carrie Da...
Posted by The FuMP on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:00:00 PST

New FuMPs: "Press Start To Continue" and "The Classiest Song In The World"

Sorry I didn't get the Tuesday update -- Real Life, you know how that can go -- but, to make up for it, we've got not only yesterday's song but a Bonus FuMP!First, Possible Oscar gets ready for the aw...
Posted by The FuMP on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:36:00 PST

MySpace, Phishing, and The FuMP

When I posted the bulletin that will be the next blog entry today, I got a screen warning me that Oh Noes! I would be leaving the tender, snuggly confines of MySpace and going to (gasp) AN OUTSIDE SIT...
Posted by The FuMP on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:35:00 PST

New FuMP: "Danny Boy - For Cat Parents"

Today's FuMP by Marc Gunn (from his album Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers) is a take on the old traditional ballad, "Danny Boy - For Cat Parents". 'Tis a simple ode to a simple concept: Cats are ...
Posted by The FuMP on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:08:00 PST

New FuMP: "Wake Me Up When This Math Class Ends"

Project Sisyphus weighs in this morning with "Wake Me Up When This Math Class Ends". As they put it: "With school back in session, the attention-deficit plagued slow learners at Sisyphus Remedial Con...
Posted by The FuMP on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:34:00 PST

New FuMP: "Shakespearean Pie"

Today's FuMP is another server-buster, an epic saga so huge we can't even upload the thing to MySpace's puny system. Fortunately, The FuMP's servers are robust and manly an' stuff, so you can go ther...
Posted by The FuMP on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:05:00 PST

New FuMP: "Everybody Get Weird!" (an A.P.S. Remix)

I do believe The Great Luke Ski can introduce his track this week better than anyone:For over 20 years, eccentric kazoo aficianado Art Paul Schlosser has been performing music on his accoustic guitar ...
Posted by The FuMP on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:09:00 PST