Every so often, when you least expect it, art and pop-culture will collide to make something incredible. A few months ago I was introduced to such a collision, and it is awesome.

Its called Wizard People, Dear Readers.

If you've never heard of it, its a separate audio track you play while watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's [or Philosopher's] Stone. Sort of like a Rifftrax, except for this the movie is muted and the story is re-told completely through the new audio.

And it is funny. The story is completely ripped to shreds. Hermione becomes an attention-starved hideous creature, Snape becomes a woman, Harry is godlike but battles alcoholism and depression, and a lot of other changes that are better left as surprises. The premise is that this is a book on tape, based on a book written by a guy who watched the movie and had no idea what was going on, in a sense.

All of this is done by Brad Neely. You've probably seen some of his work before.

Below is the first portion of it from youtube, but it is using older audio and its not synced properly. I highly recommend you download the audio HERE and play it as it was intended. Best viewed with a group of friends, some who love HP and others who despise it.



Has anyone else watched this before?

The Cribbage Match (Quidditch) is the highlight. You can find it on youtube, but they use the old audio, and none of it is synced up correct.

What I mean by old audio is there are two versions. The old is not as polished, Neely's voice is a little more annoying, and its pretty sloppy in some places. The new audio, linked above, is much better.

I must convince my friends to watch this with me.

We'll see...

We still haven't seen Moon you know.

Moon shmoon... Just imagine what Matte would say about this piece of awesomeness. Hint: "Imba".

Wizard People,Dear Readers and Brad Neely were featured in the documentary We Are Wizards, which you can watch below (its 1:17 long). Its not exactly a good documentary, and I don't really associate with the HP subculture, but the parts with Neely talking about what Warner Brothers put him through after making Wizard People is interesting and hilarious. He's in the intro and his segment starts about 20 minutes in then pops up throughout.



If any of you are wondering, I've never read the books.