Look, I realize I’m not the person to talk about Parry Gripp without slipping into hyperbole, because I think everything he does is great, Space Unicorn is my favorite song, and he was the only celebrity I ever cyber-stalked until he agreed to be on the Frotcast (outside of Rob Huebel). That said, I think any rational observer would have to agree that this latest video is pretty great. Parry wrote a song about Rupert Grint, aka Harry Potter’s Ron Weasley, and set the video to fan-submitted, Rupert Grint-themed artwork. Let’s be clear: You cannot go wrong with fan-submitted, Rupert Grint-themed artwork. I’m hooked as soon as I hear the phrase “Rupert Grint-themed artwork.” Yet the execution exceeded even my wildest expectations. If more people could channel their Harry Potter fandom into MSPaint drawings and power pop about ginger wizards, and less into competitive private school Quidditch, we might achieve peace in our times.

You can see some more artwork below, and meanwhile, I still contend that “Rupert Grint” is actually a better Harry Potter name than “Ron Weasley.”

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Former Frotcast Guest Parry Gripp’s latest, Cats Wearing Hats.

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Jordan Carver has very large breasts. |GorillaMask|

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Here’s Parry Gripp’s latest, Penguin Wearing a Funky Shoe. This is the non-funky version. There’s also a funky version.

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Samantha Harris is naked, but very sneaky. |GorillaMask|

Hot Bieber lesbo action at the Billboard awards. |TheSuperficial|

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Chucky video game announced. |G4|

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You go, girl! |NYCStool|

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It’s rare that a bad day starts with a new Parry Gripp video.  If you can listen to, say, Space Unicorn and still be sad, you probably have problems.  Anyway, the new one’s called “Hamster Yawning in Your Face.”  Enjoy the strange looks from people wondering what the f*ck you’ve been accidentally singing later today. [ParryGripp - see also: the Parry Gripp Interview]

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Lindy’s Your Highness review funnier and more concise than any I’ve written yet again, that twat. |TheStranger|

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So this week we got to interview Parry Gripp, he of awesome-internet-song and underrated-rock-band fame.  Hopefully I didn’t make toooo much of an ass of myself, but the fact that we managed to do an interview that wasn’t just 20 minutes of girlish squeals has to be considered a success.  INTERVIEW STARTS AT THE 47-MINUTE MARK. We talked animal songs, the birth and re-birth of Nerf Herder, rock music’s horrible death in the late 90s, the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate, and lots of other fun stuff.  One interesting note was the genesis of “The Girl at the Video Game Store,” the song G4 eventually used for Attack of the Show and made a video for starring Olivia Munn (which he’d recorded on his own before G4 came along).

“I was trying to buy a Nintendo Wii, and I was working on this record for Hallmark, of kids’ music.  And my system was to work late into the evening, and then wake up in the morning and take the things that I’d recorded, go to Starbucks, buy a cup of coffee, and listen to what I’d made the night before.  Then I’d walk to the video store right when they opened and see if they had a Wii.  And it was probably a couple weeks before I got one. So I’d go in there, and there was this girl who worked there.  And I’m kind of older, but I know if I was younger, I would’ve been kind of fixated on her, because that’s just the kind of nerd I was in high school.  So every day for a couple weeks I’d go in there, and I’d ask if the Wii was in yet, and the girl would be like, ‘You know, you could just call.’”

I should also include a link to Horrible Movie Night, which I think I was supposed to ask about but didn’t.  In all seriousness, it sounds pretty cool if you live in the LA area.  Besides Parry, we brought Lindy West back to talk Sucker Punch.   Listen, share, enjoy.

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