A year ago Will Ferrell made an unannounced and odd appearance at a Wal-Mart on the southside of Indy. Word came that it was part of a project he was working on. That project hits Netflix this week, and tells the story of a road trip he took with his fellow SNL alum Harper Steele after Steele\u2019s transition. This is an interview with them about that project.<\/p>\n
Also, just to paint the picture, you were dressed as Sherlock Holmes.<\/strong>\u00a0Ferrell:<\/em>\u00a0That was a bad choice, too. [Laughs.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Change Can Be Beautiful. Just Ask Will and Harper<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDo kids get excited about catalogs anymore? Probably not because they don\u2019t really exist as they did when we were kids, right? No Sears or Toys \u2018R Us catalogs to flip through endlessly as you made and re-made your Christmas list. I\u2019m not sure if we ever got a Radio Shack catalog, but I know I came across them occasionally in my geeky youth days and imagined building a workshop full of weird electronic gadgets and parts. This site allows you to go back in time and review RS mailers from 1939 to 2011.<\/p>\n
Radio Shack Catalogs<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA fun look back at how wild old Tigers Stadium in Detroit was.<\/p>\n
In a column that ran on May 31, 1980, he accompanied a bleacher regular to a nearby drug store before the start of that day\u2019s game. Puscas took notes as the man purchased a flat pint of rum and used athletic tape to secure this to the underside of his stomach. \u201cWhen the guards at the stadium frisk you,\u201d the man explained, \u201cthey never touch your belly below the belt. They\u2019d\u00a0better<\/em>\u00a0not.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Zoo Is Closed<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI loved this passage from Dash Lewis\u2019 Pitchfork review of The War on Drugs\u2019 new live album. It describes my favorite performance of theirs far better than I ever have. I will now go listen to it 18 times in a row\u2026<\/p>\n
The most surprising inclusion on\u00a0LIVE DRUGS AGAIN<\/em>\u00a0is \u201cCome To The City,\u201d a Drughead favorite from 2011\u2019s\u00a0~Slave Ambient<\/a>~<\/em>. On the album, Granduciel sounds as though he\u2019s singing from the eye of a hurricane, a buzzing cloud of overlapping chords threatening to consume him whole. Live, the band plays like a slowly darkening sky, adding a new layer every few bars until it becomes a colossal, undulating mass\u2026It\u2019s a near-perfect distillation of the cosmic, psychedelic Americana that the War on Drugs has been honing for the past 15 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n