For starters, a note from our editor-in-chief Trevor Forever:
“From here on in, content here on the Tumult Magazine [dot] com website is going to look more and more like the following post from Tumult’s design correspondent George Gunnar Nelson. It’s a short post, made to entertain immediately, perhaps inspire commerce, and be thought provoking without going too in-depth. We’re currently producing and saving the in-depth content for the magazine’s relaunch, to happen in the near future. Be on the lookout.” Read the rest of this entry »
Somebody in Hollywood needs to give J.K. Simmons twenty million dollars to appear in a movie for no more than seven minutes.
He was the best part of that movie that we all pretend that we didn’t like. He was the best part of Burn After Reading. His J. Jonah Jameson is the only consistently watchable aspect of the Spider-Man franchise.
Here’s the catch: we have no interest in seeing J.K. Simmons trying to carry a movie for ninety minutes. None. In fact, we have little interest in watching most of our favorite actors carrying movies.
Consider: the ingénue parts in movies, the stuff movie stars are made of, are always, ten-times-out-of-ten, the least interesting aspect of the movie. So. When you take a character actor and make him the star, you’ve taken the most interesting person in your film and decided to make him or her boring.
A few days ago, Bad News, Rap Dudes correspondent Wordrick Word sat down and watched a new documentary film, The Carter, about the life and times of Dwayne Michael “Lil Wayne” Carter, Jr. For whatever reason, Mr. Word was unable to arrange his thoughts on the film into any kind of cohesive document. What follows is a transcription of his notes upon watching the movie.
* QD3’s new documentary The Carter showcases the life of a strange, secluded savant in rap megastar Lil Wayne. Watching the movie, one quickly can’t escape the degree to which the studio, that which more than anything defines Wayne’s professional life, never seems far away.
All Wayne ever seems to do is record songs in a studio. It is an amorphous, omnipresent factor in Wayne’s life. It could be located in his hotel room, in his condo, on his tour bus, or in a dedicated recording facility. Read the rest of this entry »
To reiterate from the other day: There appears to be a lot that Amazon’s Kindle e-reader doesn’t do. But it does bring to mind an entirely new form of media[1] that has yet to be explored, or even named[2].
Here is some footage from “The Rumble in The Jungle,” the 1974 boxing match between then-champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali : Read the rest of this entry »
“For another two [dollars], I could be smoking crack.” – Dave Attell.
There’s been a good deal of endorsement of an ugly habit, the smoking of cigarettes, on our little website here. This seems, on its face, irresponsible of us. Especially when our primary argument is that smoking looks cool. (It does.)
There are actually a lot of reasons why a person would continue smoking, beyond the simple but absolutely real physical addiction aspect of the whole thing. One of them has to do with the way that smokers are treated these days. Not quite like second-class citizens, but something like second-class citizens. Think about this: smokers can’t come inside as long as they’re smoking. A lot of times you can’t smoke in your own home if you live in, say, an apartment building with central air, particularly if you live on the ground floor. In response, there seems to be a sort of tendency to dig in one’s heels, and to interpret being outcast as a new and more overt way in which the habit is sort of romantic. Read the rest of this entry »
IMDB.com is an indispensable repository of information about movies. This much we know. If you need to determine who was in what film, or who directed it, IMDB is the only place to go on the internet. Through no fault of its own, though, a lot of information available on IMDB concerning movies that have yet to come out is to be taken with a grain of salt. Any number of things can happen to a film project. Deals can get made and then fall through, investors can pull their money out, Terry Gilliam could get involved somehow. You never know.
That said, if IMDB’s cast listing for Sylvester Stallone’s 2010 film The Expendables is a true listing of the actual cast, then The Expendables could be the best action movie ever made. Read the rest of this entry »
Never mind that it’s fall now, and Light Blue is probably a summer fragrance. (We wouldn’t actually know.) Also dismiss the idea that it’s so hard to sell ads for magazines that venerable ones like Gourmet are shutting down. We just looked through the new issues of both GQ and Esquire magazines, and we didn’t see an ad for Dolce & Gabanna’s “Light Blue” fragrance anywhere in either of them.
We’re counting it.
Trevor Forever is editor-in-chief at TUMULT Magazine.
It used to be the music that punk rockers made when they weren’t making punk rock. Then it became ambient music. Now, it’s beginning to look like the official favorite genre of music here at TUMULT is that which has been made by people dealing with insane expectations by releasing music that is good.
Also, has it been long enough for us to be able to tell you that we never stopped listening to The Strokes without you thinking that we’re assholes? Because we didn’t. Read the rest of this entry »
Let’s put it like this: The Blueprint 3 is more than just a feel-good record, even if most of the songs on it are designed to make listeners feel good. If the first Blueprint is a recipe for success, then TheBlueprint 3 is about maintaining that success long-term. It is the sound of a highly influential figure coming to terms with his own cultural significance.
For starters, he’s called his new album The Blueprint 3, which not only openly invites comparisons to the original Blueprint, one of the few perfect rap records ever, but it also acknowledges the existence of The Blueprint 2, which had been previously disavowed up to this point[1].
