We Celebrate the 4th With the Wizard Rock of Harry and the Potters!!! / A Porn Star Reviews a Book

We didn't know much about "wizard rock" prior to yesterday's Harry and the Potters matinee, and we still don't know much.

But here's what we learned:

1) Wizard rock is in your face!! Here's one of the band's two Harry Potters jamming a saxophone solo atop a booth.
















2) A lot of attractive, geeky women enjoy wizard rock, and some of them wear tight Slytherin T-shirts.

3) A surprising amount of the audience not only knows the words to the songs but also knows how to do the dance moves to a song about Hagrid's beard.

4) The Teddy Lupin werewolf song is fucking awesome! ("Teddy Lupin is not a werewolf / Teddy Lupin could be a teddy bear / Like Teddy Ruxpin").


5) One of the Harry and the Potters actually lives in an ultra-modern home in North Larryville with an art history grad student. They were kind enough to have us over for fireworks and a Back to the Future themed-cake (surely the geekiest of you geeks will get the "Welcome home, Uncle Joey" reference, but why did Chip take an upside down picture?).


















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Yes, we've already written one post about Chester Brown's graphic novel Paying For It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John. But now that it's been officially reviewed in the New York Times Book Review by no less than famed porn star Annie Sprinkle we have to take another look.

Here are two excerpts from Annie's review:

"Chester’s penis is a leading character, and a charming one at that. Brown has made no obvious attempt to eroticize his drawings, and as a result his cartoons are totally sexy in the way real life and really good art are sexy."

Chip: "That is EXACTLY how I hope people feel about my boner on this blog: a charming leading character."

"[Brown] makes as convincing a case for the decriminalization and destigmatization of prostitution as anyone I’ve ever come across in the prostitutes’ rights movement...It is also a valuable resource for academics, a challenge to law enforcement and politicians, and a boon to johns the world over."

Richard: "What a delightfully concise and well-argued review! Why can't all book reviews be written by porn stars?"

The Times points out that Annie's career has taken her from porn star to prostitite to artist to academic to AIDS educator to author to filmmaker to political activist and finally to "ecosex educator":

"We shamelessly hug trees, massage the earth with our feet and talk dirty to plants."

Chip: "Sounds like hippie-talk to me but I won't judge until I try it. I'm going out to tell a flower that I want to fuck it."

Read the full NY-Times review here .