"Informer" to Make Sundance Dance to an 80s Beat!

"The Informer," director Gregor Jordan's (Buffalo Soldiers) new picture set around early 1980s Los Angeles and based on a book of short stories by Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho) makes its Sundance Film Festival debut on Thursday. The sexually supercharged movie stars a mostly unclad Amanda Heard, Mickey Rourke, not entirely unfamiliar with the excesses of the era and Kim Bassinger, Rourke's co-star from the classic '80s erotic thriller 9 1/2 Weeks. Billy Bob Thornton and Winona Ryder are also on board, as was Brad Renfro in his final performance before his untimely overdose at the age of 25. The New York Times has more.

All Aboard the Rock of Love Bus!

Bret Michaels has made a second career out of looking for love in all the skankiest places and "Chickbomb's" unbelievably in depth analysis of the first episode of Rock of Love Bus is almost as long as the show itself. Perfect slow day at the office reading material, also ideal for putting off that pesky job search and the captions alone are worth the price of attention. Hi-Yo!

http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/rock-of-love/a-whole-new-bre-8661.php

Time Off For Bad Behavior

Stuff White People Like's latest entry is all about the time honored Caucasian tradition of "Taking a Year Off" to recover from finishing college, put off joining the real world and provide much needed resume padding. Come to think of it, two years would be better.

Born Under a Bad Sign

The Unborn
Movie review by Spyder Darling

Equal parts Nightmare on Elm Street, The Omen and The Exorcist, The Unborn is a sit-through-able supernatural thriller, starring Odette Yustman as Casey Beldon, a comely co-ed whose disturbing dreams of a ghostly child with a menacing message that somehow connects to her mother’s depression and subsequent suicide.

After rummaging around her family’s big old house, the perfect location for expected but nonetheless effective knee jerk frights, Casey follows a trail of uncanny clues to a sinister sanitarium where she meets her long lost grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor whose tale of unspeakable Nazi experiments conclude the only way Casey can save herself from certain demonic doom is an exorcism. Preposterous? Sure, but tell that to diminishing circle of family and friends.

Enter Sendak (Gary Oldman) a reluctant rabbi who, with the help of a sacred text borrowed from a local library attempts to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born. Or something like that.

For a PG-13 fright flick, Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) has crafted a passably terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn. While not as scary as its influences, the New York Times financial section, or a New York Knicks box score, it’ll take your mind off the madness of modern day life for a 96 minutes and that’s not kid stuff by any means.

Peter Blast Releases "Chinese Dragonflies"!

Notorious Chicago rocker Peter Blast has just released the cinematic new video "Chinese Dragonflies" featuring footage from Blast's infamous "Dive Bar Tour" (with yours truly on bass) in support of his latest CD "A Plush Horse...with a Monkey on a String." Lie back and enjoy the ride! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugiO7LG0tgk

Stooges' Guitarist Ron Asheton - Dead at 60

This is "No Fun" at all. The NME reports Ron Asheton, founding guitarist and bassist for proto-punks the Stooges, featuring Iggy Pop on vocals, was found dead from an apparent heart attack in his Ann Arbor, Michigan home. He was 60.
http://www.nme.com/news/the-stooges/41900

A Salt on the Senses

"Stuff White People Like" just posted this item about sea salt and the crazy caucasians who gotta have it.