Harry and the Potters
My friend Lily, who is an obssessive-compulsive Harry Potter fan, just explaied to me that there is a band called “Harry and the Potters.” It is two guys, brothers, like 18 and 20 years old or something, who are like hard-core punk (they call it “wizard rock”) only they only write their songs about stuff that happens in the Harry Potter books. The weird thing is that many of their gigs are for kids in grade schools or at the library. A few of their hardest songs they can’t really play for them but the rest they do. It’s so funny because they’ll really be rocking it out, and the kids are just sitting their looking like fish with no idea what is going on. No clue what to do with this style music. The brothers dress in jeans, white collared shirts, grey British-school-uniform-looking sweaters, striped school uniform ties, and thick plastic harry potter glasses.
Here are a few of their funnier song titles:
Follow the Spiders
Save Ginny Weasley
My Teacher is a Werewolf
The Dark Lord Lament
Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock
The Missing Arm of Victor Krum
Cornelius Fudge is an Ass
And the best part? Apparently, in the song “Human Hosepipe” about Harry’s awkward and brief relationship with classmate Cho Chang, there is a lyric that goes, “And I’d really rather not discuss your dead ex-boyfriends over coffee”.
Who knew that such hilarious, tongue-in-cheek joy existed in the universe? Welcome to God’s merry chaos.
October 27th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
WAY too cool! I was laughing out loud about that one. Sorry about last night. I was a sleepy dork. I am better now. Are you going to the Halloween party at OSG Saturday night at 8? I can’t decide on a costume.
Dude, make your post on your xanga site a link, so I don’t have to copy and paste. That’s just me being lazy.