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  • Maybe Hagrid's dad used Engorgio.

  • I love the chord changes in Looking for Alaska. Quite the beautiful song.

  • I am very disappointed with the quality of the Helen Hunt track. When Hank first played it, it sounded full of emotion and energy. It's a much more low key song now (and the backing instrumentals are uninspiring), and I miss the original.

  • i need to know ive been looking all night there is a video where he sings like david bowie i need it NOW tell me

  • @TheHotsaucekiller Please, commenting on a Vlogbrothers requires proper grammar. It is there for a reason. What the Zark is the meaning of your comment? It is kind of... unclear.

  • I love the song I'm gonna kill you. Specifically for the part about the crazy old lady in the grocery store. I'm a cashier at a large, international, blue retail store. I get those ladies all the time. They're even worse at the service desk! No wonder customer service people are so cranky, when they deal with mean angry people all the time, they come to assume that's how everyone will act.

  • Looking For Alaska is my favorite book. I read it and then was gonna read Twilight again...I couldn't really make it past the first chapter. LFA has like deep meaning from the first page. I like Twilight don't get me wrong, but its sorta boring. I like books that you can read and think about the deeper meaning of things.

  • I've been watching every single video in order. Is this the first sighting of the "Looking for Alaska" song, or am I just stupah?

  • @hizachyo its a cover, so it's the first time I think

  • Both LfA the the book and song made me cry. John and Hank, DFTBA!

  • @DinoTubz9638 they can't forget because by just being, they are awesome

  • Listening to I'm going to kill you while reading about Breivik's rampage in Norway is truly horrifying.

    All great songs but probably a bad choice for myself at the moment.

  • If you ever make a Best Of CD you should definitely put all of these on it (I guess you could leave off Looking for Alaska because someone else wrote it, but it is still excellent)

  • I hope my family plays looking for alaska at my funeral :(

  • Admittedly, I prefer some of his songs acoustically rather than the studio versions, which is odd for me, because I usually prefer the opposite. Perhaps it's because I saw Hank perform the other ones first? Mayhaps. Mayhaps. Either way, Hank rocks and I must invest in his CDs pronto.

  • hank please re-stock this album at dftba records! also everyone should buy is new album ellen hardcastle!

  • Is this no longer in print?

  • @ImperialGeorge I was wondering the same thing. It's available on iTunes, I believe, but I prefer hard copies of CDs because my iTunes and computers have exploded in the past and lost tons of my music xD

  • @ReKrisB

    Yes, I know what you mean. My computer got a virus, we got it fixed and the idiots actually DELETED out iTunes. Lost over 400 songs. But, a good choice (what I do) is I buy it on iTunes and then burn it onto a CD. Hope this saves you music!

  • "Looking for Alaska" (the song) almost made me cry. ...and then of course I had to go look up the chords for it. :')

  • Or "Harry Potter In Your Pants".

    I'd go with that.

  • This version of Helen Hunt in soooooooooo creepy. XD

  • I really need to read his books but can someone give me a breif no spoiler summary about Looking for Alaska and Paper towns<----pretty sure thats by John though

  • @ircuteskitty Yep John's the Author of the pair. He's Written and co written other books as well, An Abundance of Katherines, Will Grayson Will Grayson (With David Levithan) and a part of a compilation called Let it Snow. Anyway, looking for Alaska, from my interpretation,is a little bit about self discovery and a little bit about accepting the mystery in other people. Paper Towns has a similar theme but deals with how we imagine others and how difficult it is to really understand someone else.

  • Is So Jokes not in print anymore? I want the cd version. :[

  • hank, did you know if you search helen hunt pcp you get a picture of you? Thought you should know

  • "Your husbands name was Hank right?" in Helen Hunt

    Well, hank, me and your wife share a name :D

  • I've been doing scholarship stuff all day, and when this came on in my playlist I did an impromptu dance session. Now I can think again and finish my scholarships. Thanks Hank! :)

  • I still feel like almost all stories end where they should. I don't want a book eight, I don't want a seventh star wars, another part after luke burns his father's body, NO! no, no, no. I just don't think it should be done. sorry, touchy subject

  • 64,999th view FTW!

  • looking for alaska was absolutely perfect! :D

  • Is this still available to purchase from DFTBA records? I don't see it. :(

  • So, I knew that the Looking for Alaska song was gonna either be extraordinarily good or extraordinarily bad... the fact that after I post this comment, I'm going to ask my mom if I can use her card to buy "So Jokes" should be enough to tell you which option I went with...

  • ahh either im very stupid or its just nt der but i cnt find dis cd at dftba records! Dx

  • actually, i thought the epilouge was good and written to give us backstory AND to lead us on. she knew we wouldnt move on and we would stretch it out further. which we did.

  • hank looking for alaska is my fave song (of yours at least) and i thank you for making it. it makes me cry when i listen to it because it is so beautiful and amazing :)

  • I've always pronounced accio 'axio'... asio sounds weird :)

  • New favorite song: Looking for Alaska

    New favorite album: So Jokes

    You are so talented Hank :D

  • He sang about Hedwig dying BEFORE Deathly Hollows came out, right? Is Hank a Time Lord?

  • @PieSpirit ohmydeartimelord YES hank is a timelord!!!!!!!!! :D

  • I freaking love this album. This is my kinda music.

    I like mostly funny songs, which is what this album is, but I occasionally like the serious song, which is where Looking For Alaska comes in. All of Hank's music is brilliant, and I'm really looking forward to his next album!

  • Hahahahahaha he fixed the pronounciation of 'Accio' for the cd version:P

  • Never noticed how creepy the helen hunt song is lol still love it though

  • @cloudtail65536 Sucks isn't a good description word. Please explain your reasoning.

  • this is the SHIT!!!! for real! best cd ever.

  • i'm gonna kill you represents my life hidden in the shadows

  • I finally read Looking for Alaska and get all the references now!

  • I think my favorite song on this album is Nerdfighterlike :D

  • I love how Hank sounds in the Looking for Alaska cover

  • As Saturday approaches, my negroes.

  • I need to get this album. I'm so slack. Well, actually I'm so broke.

  • is that hank at 10:03 ?

  • uhh no?

  • Uhh, That's a girl

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  • For book haw about the nerdfighters collectively wright it at the ning ?

  • @12moondoggie12 Maybe if you found out how to spell how and write. Also please make your sentence "For book haw about the nerdfighters collectively wright it at the ning ?" into "For book eight how about the nerdfighters collevtively write it at the ning?" kthxbye.

  • You spelt collectively "collevtively". IRONY! :)

  • @rainbowscustard woops lol that was an accident

  • ahhh. your songs are like therapy. thank you for brightening up my morning.

  • I absolutely love it!

    My favorites are 'Looking for Alaska' and 'I'm Gonna Kill You'.

  • I lurve helen hunt

  • I think I'm in love with the "Looking for Alaska" song.

    You rock Hank.

    DFTBA

  • I'm so sorry. I put a thumbs down by accident. I meant to put a thumbs up. Sorry... DFTBA :) Sorry

  • Haha No prob =) I've done that before.

    Hoo Hah, Nerdfighters! **does hand thing**

  • I discovered DFTBA in may or June of this year through watching Alex Day's videos about Chameleon Circuit, and the meaning of the acronym only clicked with me today....I'm a doofus!

    DFTBA!!

  • Listening to these songs late at night while doing lots of homework actually puts me in a better mood!!

  • Im not gonna lie. The song looking for alaska made me almost cry. It was as beautiful as the book was and i think you did an incredible job with the song hank. Well done.

  • @TempestGod i think hank just did the cover song (or so the peson says), but no matter who wrote it, it is a lovely song

  • Hey John - FYI, I bought So Jokes for my long lost best friend in Montana who I haven't seen in 20 years. She loves it. Your music bridged a gap. Thank you! xoxo

  • i CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST CALLED YOU JOHN!!!  Duh. Sorry Hank.

  • Looking for Alaska was super awesome!

  • I still want to know if Helen Hunt has heard the song!

  • i really hope so. lol

  • you definitely dftba'd. this was so win.

  • You win :D

  • That is...so jokes.

  • Hank, you're so full of win.

    xD

  • Oh my, I didn't know about the Looking for Alaska song. So glad I watched this... hearing it made me cry. Hank wrote a masterpiece about John's masterpiece. xD Fantastic.

  • actually hank just did a cover its by a musician called graham... you should check her out, she's an amazing singer <3

  • Oh really? Definitely looking her up.

  • i like the original book eight better.

  • I can relate to the first part of I'm gonna Kill You! I felt like you read my mind when you wrote that song. I wish I could play it in the checkout line when rude, cheapskates are trying to persuade me to give them the $1 off the Dole product when the coupon says it's for Del Monte. I love you for saying what I have to resist screaming out.

  • I'm gunna kill you is so funny!

  • i really enjoy this video and how they reply to some of the comments, go nerdfighters dftba!

  • John replied to my video response for his Birthday, its on my channel!!

  • somebody should send book eight to jk rowling[:

  • "Looking for Alaska" is such a beautiful song,props to liane!

  • I'm Gonna Kill You is hilarious, I love it!

  • Looking for Alaska is my favorite song. =)

  • Book Eight is my favourite.

  • I need harry potter!

  • Hank...can I marry you? You are the awesomest person ever.

  • too late! *i know, dammit*

    jk! but hank IS awesome.

  • he's married. hahaha :) just kidding (but really, he is married.)

  • you want more wizzards?! one word friends... Discworld.

  • already have the cd, but i would have got it after this

  • 3:26 JULIAN IS FAMOUS

    ~Francesca

  • The instrumentals in each of these songs is amazing.

  • *are

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  • there isn't one

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  • No, those are the 6th and 7th books. There is no 8th. That's what Hank's song is all about. How could you have missed that? I take it you haven't read the books, eh?

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  • I fucking love the first song, it's amazing. So Jokes, very fitting album name.

  • But clicking the annotations doesn't do anything.

  • How come clicking the different songs just brings me back to the same video?

  • Looking for Alaska is A really Beautiful song.

  • I just got to say 1337 votes ^^

    Btw youtubers DFTBA!!!

  • Nerdfighters don't do illegal things, shut up. Take your piracy somewhere else.

  • I love how Helen Hunt gets all quiet at the end.

  • lol wtf?!?!?

    im ganna kill u is such a f****** violent song but its funny ass hell!!!!! LOLZ!

  • agreed! haha.

  • HELL YESS!

  • Gaah! i really want this cd! just dont have enough money :( i will save and save until i can afford! BTW i was sad to not see "It's too Hot" in this video EP,but the tracklist is still Great!!

  • are thes hank or johns songs?

  • hanks

  • kk thnx

  • i absolutely love all your songs!!

  • hey hank you should have this isn't Hogwarts and song to the yeti =] i love all the songs on the album but those are tow of my faves

    DFTBA

    oh and DFTBA [the song] the 5 word song[in you pants] and Vegetables that look like Penises =] i love all your songs

  • Hank's put hours and hours into this, over the span of 2 years. He's proud of So Jokes, if he want to advertise it while giving us a free demo I have no problem with that - I don't think anyone should.

  • I love the song for looking for Alaska <3

  • Hank....

    HANK !...i hope you know

    I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!

    and im just starting to learn to Tapdance

    so KILL ME...or well

    I'm Going To Kill You [Hank]

  • These players are really awesome, and so is your album (i think your album is even better than the player =P)

  • arghm

  • Why, for advertising his own product? Are you saying that Nintendo is a sellout for having a marketing campaign or that Phillips is a sellout for having their products in store?

  • "So Jokes" is his own product, and advertising your own original product is not being a sell out.

  • Dude, Sell out = Doing something you don't believe in because of money! ... You think he would have spent all this time to make those records if he didn't believe in it?

  • He would be a sell-out if he was advertising someone else's product, not his own. Think before you speak.

  • The epilouge was crap.

    And it would be boss if Voldemort did have a son.

  • I saw Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, and their family at Disneyland on thursday last week. I think I fainted.

  • OMG!!!!!!! u are the luckiest person EVER!!!! he is my favorite director ever, and she's my fave actress!!!

  • Book eight :D

  • Am I the only one who likes the old version of Helen Hunt better? I miss the guitar. =[ And the old one is less creepy sounding.

  • Leave now mammering tickle-brained measle!

    I can't get enough of Looking For Alaska! So good!

    Bravo for gifting us with such awesome ^_^

  • If you were truly worth our time and attention, you would know how to drop better insults, thou odiferous lily-livered skainsmate!

  • Hmm. Can't say I'm a fan of how you portrayed being gay as a bad thing. Next time, try to throw an insult that doesn't make you look like a douche.

  • What's a douche look like? Wait, don't answer that...

  • Obviously, a douche looks like a mindless hater, a.k.a. a decepticon!

  • Let's look at this:

    You seem to not like Harry Potter, nor songs about Harry Potter. You watched this video... That was a rather foolish thing to do, especially considering that it's obviously going to be Harry Potter related.

    Then you say that it's gay... I'm not sure how an action (singing) can have a sexual preference. "Your juggling is in love with my similar juggling!"

    Even if an action could be homosexual, I'm not sure why that would inherently be a bad thing...

    You're an odd duck.

  • your just a decepticon. why did you even watch it then?!

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  • mabye you should watch there video called "gay is not an insult."

    also relize that these songs are suppose to be comedic. have fun trying to think of a respone that dosnt make you sound like an idiot.

  • Homo whats? Homogenized? Homo sapiens? Homo erectus? Homogametic? Homogeneous? Homogonies? Homotransplantations? You're going to have to be much more specific.

    And why would be... copulating... with them? Well, if you meant homo sapien, then yes, I can understand that, but there rest... I'm not even sure how one would copulate with homogenization....

  • I wish I could make videos longer than 10 minutes...

  • Oh God, a book eight would bring me much joy.<3

    Great stuff, Hank!

  • now people can get ur songs for free :( noooooo

  • this is sooooo greaaaaaaaaaaaaat :D

  • Hank you are so cool and I love your music!!!

  • Not only do I really enjoy all of your songs hank, but this is an amazing idea for a video, what with the links and such...I like it!

  • i had a dream i had a dftba shirt!

  • Helen hunt scares me ;-;

    And JK Rowling SHOULD hear Book Eight.

  • SIRIUS IS IN MIDDLE EARTH!!!! YESSSSS! Someone go email Christopher Tolkein and tell him!

  • I was so happy when i bought my copy it is so great!

  • You guys are awesome!

  • Rowling needs to hear Book Eight. This should be a mission for nerdfighters!! lol

  • I <3 Book Eight

    (The song)

  • for all of you who are complaining about it being over 4 minutes of you look at the description, it's not meant to be for Brotherhood 2.5 it's a thing for DFTBA records.

  • Actually, it's Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 Haha I love Hank though!

  • AND it has a montage in it

  • this is so jokes! it must have taken forever to upload!

  • Wow! Awesome work! :)