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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Our buddy awkward Josh over at MTV recently did this fun little interview with the cast of Harry Potter and the Whatever with Wizards and Crap, where he tests their ability to speak American.  Of the four, Daniel Radcliffe (the creepy dark-haired one), Tom Felton (the creepy blond one), Rupert Grint (the creepy redhead), and Emma Watson (sugart*ts), I’d say Rupert Grint displays the most competence, which is probably for the best, since he’s a ginger and no one will ever love him.  You’d think Emma Watson would have an advantage since she goes to college in the US, but you have to remember that she goes to Brown, and everyone there has an affected, phony European accent like Madonna.

And as an Italian-American, I’m a little offended that one of the American phrases wasn’t “HEY! I’M WALKIN’ HERE, JERK OFF!”  We’re the grease that keeps this rich tapestry looking shiny, dammit.

Haha, Fauntleroy over here thinks “Boo-Ya” is a restaurant!  Yeah, buddy, just take the lorrie lift down to the loo and they’ll serve you up a fresh KNUCKLE SANDWICH you can take back to the queen.  USA! USA! USA! USA!

(LOUD NOISES!)

Here it is, the brand new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, coming November 19th.  The whole gang is back — director David Yates, Captain Eyebrows, the ginger kid, hottie mcwhatsherface — in truth, it’s been a while since I gave a crap about a Harry Potter movie, but I’m not opposed to them. Obviously they’re still a pretty big deal.   Hence all the opera choir gasping in the background.  In this chapter, there’s some evil dude on the horizon being mean to everyone, so the old dude is all, “Harry!  Use your magic!”  And Harry’s all, “It’s too hard!  I’m just a boy!”  And then Ron Weasely comes in and he’s all, “I hate you, Harry!  Your parents are dead!  We’re not friends anymore!”  So that complicates things.  Anyway, looks good.

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Kudos to The Guardian this morning for my printing my new favorite headline: “Martin Scorsese denies predicting great things for Rupert Grint.”

The Sun reported that Scorsese had compared Grint to the young Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom Scorsese has regularly collaborated, and said there was no reason why Grint could not follow in his footsteps. He was also alleged to have expressed interest in making a film with Grint, particularly if he were to play a “badass”.

However, publicists for Scorsese, who is currently in London working on his new film, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, today issued the Guardian with a statement from the director saying that it was impossible he would have made such predictions.

“With respect to the Harry Potter films,” said the director, “regrettably I’ve never seen them and therefore I’m not able to discuss them or the performances in them in any way.”

Scorsese went on to ask, “Wait, which one is Rupert Grint again?  The ginger kid?  Yeah, that’s just gross.”  Then he spit on the ground and crossed himself.

[Oh, and here's the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows poster, in case you're interested.]

I was going to wait until tomorrow to post this like I usually do, but then I noticed “Deathly Hallows Trailer” was the number one trending topic on Twitter, so here it is, the newly-released HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS TRAILER MEGAN FOX TOPLESS LESBIAN UPSKIRT #BIEBER.  Mmm, that’s good, papa needs strip club money.

If you’ll remember, they’ve split the final installment of Harry Potter into two movies, with part one opening November 19th and part two opening July 2011, both directed by David Yates, who also did the Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.  I’m probably not the best audience for this — I went through a boy-wizard phase back in college, but that’s about as far as it goes.  Nonetheless, it’s nice to see JK Rowling, who seems to be a good writer and super inventive, succeed instead of that dope Stephenie Meyer*.  Also, with Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Burton, and Brendan Gleeson in there, there’s enough acting talent to go around, at least enough to negate what an awkward weirdo Daniel Radcliffe is.  I almost peed a little when I saw Warwick Davis, that guy’s awesome.  But could someone tell Ralph Fiennes that no one’s buying this “Rafe” business?  Your name’s Ralph, dude, enough with fancy stuff.

Anyway, even if you’re not into all this dragons and magic crap, it should be noted that Emma Watson looks like this now. I’d like to sneak into her chamber of secrets, gnome sayin’?  (*chugs Bud, spills mustard on “No Fat Chicks” shirt*)

^{*Here’s an easy comparison: just look at the character names.  JK Rowling: Neville Longbottom, Horace Slughorn, Nymphadora Tonks, Mundungous Fletcher; Stephenie Meyer: Charlie Swan, Billy Black, Renesmee, Carlisle Cullen.  I ask: which ones sound like clever, children’s book names and which ones sound like an eighth-grade diary?}