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Indeed, the whole film is in a style we'll call contempo-retro. It is beautifully shot by Christopher Doyle, who turns the puky green of motel lighting into a circle of Hell, and it features a busy sound track of rattlesnakes and buzzing flies--moral decay in the desert. Everything else is defiantly same-old. This Psycho is radical because it has not only the dialogue but also the tempo of a film almost 40 years...
Compared to the space station, balloons seem positively retro, something out of Jules Verne. Even today's sophisticated high-altitude models are little more than helium-filled sacs with gondolas swinging beneath them, rising no more than 20 or 25 miles, barely twice as high as military jets and complete captives of the wind. Yet while ballooning may seem the antithesis of the space age, it is exciting renewed interest as a low-cost alternative to costly orbital labs...
...Halloween at the Paradise Rock Club, and the Cardigans had found a new costume: a mask of hissing, buzzing electronica over the Swedish band's familiar retro pop face. The catchy pop melodies still lurked behind this sizzling new facade, to be sure, but the Cardigans' fans--hip, Eurotrash 20-somethings--had to grapple with a whole new persona...
...fact, though the Cardigans spun webs of retro romantic pop on their previous albums, this hard core was always there, beneath the sweet melodies; both Peter Svensson, lead guitarist and songwriter, and Sveningsson played in heavy metal bands before forming the Cardigans. Sveningsson explained: "We wanted to become a pop band; [Peter and I] played in individual hard rock bands back in the '80s. We met because we needed someone new to play with. Peter is still in that scene, but I have found other things to listen to." Keyboardist Johansson had a more pithy account of new, harder Cardigans...
...Garment District is your shopping venueof choice, this Bostonian retro fashionshow is making styles from the '50s and '70snouvelle and hip again. Proceeds go toward AIDScauses. 4 to 6 p.m., 1721 Washington St./ SouthEnd, Boston. $5 in advance, $7 at door...