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Oz Fest
Ethan Slater was already, by some metrics, fairly well-known—dude performed Spongebob on Broadway with no particular results save a necktie and a few squarish pants and acquired himself a Tony nomination for it. However when GQ’s Eileen Cartter caught up with him in New York Metropolis not way back, she discovered Slater cautiously negotiating new territory like a veritable Sponge Out of Water (okay, that’s our final sponge joke this text; thanks to your indulgence.)
On the finish of subsequent month, you’ll see Slater as an traditionally pivotal Munchkin in Depraved, the primary half of Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster-in-waiting adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about good and unhealthy witches, and he’s a good larger a part of the second Depraved movie, which drops subsequent 12 months. Plus he’s relationship Ariana Grande, his Depraved co-star and fellow Jim Carrey fan, so he’s acquired the gossip-press consideration from that to cope with as effectively. It’s sufficient to make a person need to go reside underneath the ocean, in some kind of scaly yellow fruit—OK, that’s the final sponge joke—however for now Slater’s hanging in there, anxious but targeted, dreaming of a future by which he can leverage his physical-comedy abilities to grow to be one other Carrey whereas additionally being the following Tracy Letts. That’s such a particular lane that we would like it to work out for him, simply to see what that will appear like: Ace Ventura Osage County, anybody?
Odder Future
Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia dropped this week on the convention-bucking and notably humane-to-online-culture-journalists hour of 6AM on Monday morning. It finds the Odd Future mastermind-turned-multihyphenate following up 2021’s no-crying-on-the-yacht award-tour album Name Me If You Get Misplaced with a decisive vibe shift—the rap-album equal, writes GQ’s Frazier Tharpe, “of a trip hangover, coming house to search out the actual world and all its stresses mendacity in wait.”
It’s nonetheless a Tyler album, with all of the ornery braggadocio and God-moving-over-the-face-of-Lake-Como beat-changes that entails, however the Creator is starting to query his priorities after after years of accumulating Grammys, vehicles and private-jet miles whereas his real-world buddies log extra conventional game-of-life milestones (marriages, children, and many others): “They sharin’ photos of those moments, shit is de facto cute/And all I acquired is photographs of my ‘Rari and a few foolish fits.” As that is GQ, we are able to neither verify nor deny that there’s extra to life than foolish fits, however it’s inspiring to look at Tyler work by means of these questions with the identical blunt honesty and mordant wit he’s delivered to all the things he’s accomplished for the reason that days of the cockroach. Finest rap album ever about turning 33 (aka “the gateway to 35”)? That, we can verify.
Oddest Future
Lastly, however under no circumstances least: ‘80s teen-movie actor turned semi-enthusiastic online-irony-industrial-complex participant Corey Feldman additionally sings and performs guitar and writes songs. Do you know that? Do you know that, this summer time, Corey opened for Limp Bizkit on a tour that Limp’s always-I’m-rubber-you’re-glue-ing frontman Fred Durst dubbed “Loserville”? Having absorbed these two items of data, do you might have follow-up questions? Then you definitely’re going to need to try GQ contributor Cole Louison’s epic account of some days on the highway with Feldman and Durst and the individuals of their respective orbits, which (we are going to humbly counsel) is the best ten thousand phrase story you’ll ever learn in regards to the divergent but converging lives and careers of two guys who met on Backgammon Night time on the Playboy Mansion and the completely different bargains they’ve each struck with the world.
