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Harry and the Potters

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With my Harry Potter obsession, and my growing obsession with wizard rock, it’s rather surprising that I’ve never devoted a whole post to any specific wizard rock bands. 

Harry and the Potters were my introduction to wizard rock (henceforth known as wrock), and they are one of my favorite bands.  They were the only band I had ever heard of, as far as wizard rock goes, and they’re definitely a great place to start. 

One of the things I love about wrock (besides the band names) are the song titles.  Based on the song titles alone, I’d say some of my favorite songs are Hermione Screws Up The Polyjuice Potion, Never Going To The Bathroom Again, Smoochy Smoochy Pukey Pukey, We Save Ron’s Life, Part 8, the Hogwarts Tonsil Hockey Team and the Human Hosepipe. 

Other favorite songs include Bertie Botts, I Am A Wizard, Phoenix Tears, and Harry Potter.  As for my favorite album, I honestly can’t pick because they’re all good, but The Enchanted Ceiling is probably the one I’d start out with. 

They’re pretty creative, because all of the songs are from the perspective of Harry Potter, and they’re all about Harry Potter.  Anything that can inspire a whole genre is pretty awesome in my book.  If all of the different bands can do music in character, there’s no reason why I can’t write a harry potter fanfic. 

Hopefully they’ll come out with something new soon, since I’m always looking for new wrock.  I may have to start taking a look at the multitude of compilation albums.

Some of My Favorite Podcasts

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Today, I’m sharing a few of my favorite podcasts.  I finally decided I needed to start listening to them, since they’re piling up.   

  • Tudor Talk: It’s all about the Tudor Dynasty in pop culture, so it covers the t.v. show on showtime, different movies, and books covering the time period.  It looks like it’ll be going on for a while, so that’ll give me plenty of time to catch up. 
  • Jane Austen Podcast: It’s about Jane Austen, her books, movie adaptations and her life.  I’ve been catching up on this one as well, but I’m taking my time catching up on it.  The woman doing the podcast had to stop doing the podcast due to lack of time, which is why I’m taking my time with it.  It’s too bad, because I’m really enjoying it.
  • Accio-Potter Wizard Radio: It’s a podcast devoted completely to playing wizard rock, which is something I’ve been listening to more frequently.  There are well-known bands like Harry and the Potters and Draco and the Malfoys, and bands I had never heard of before, like The Quaffle Kids and The Hufflepunks.  The band names and song titles alone make listening to wizard rock worth it.  I’ve been catching up on it slowly, since updates are not as frequent as they used to be.
  • The History Chicks: They cover different women, both historical and fictional.  Since it’s relatively new, I only have a handful of episodes to catch up on.  
  • Gilmore Girls Re-Watch Podcast: The hosts are rewatching all 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls, and talking about Gilmore Girls one episode at a time.  I actually might start re-watching gilmore girls right along with them, since it’s been a while since I’ve watched it.

The problem I tend to have with podcasts is it’s hard for me to find something I like- it seems like some of the podcasts that are even mildly interesting aren’t updated, and if they are, it’s updated very infrequently.  Or it’s interesting, but for some reason, I can’t get into it. 

Podcasts are good to listen to, in that I don’t get distracted.  Unless I’m listening to Accio-Potter Wizard Radio, in which case I always want to start singing along.