Page 8 Retriever A reader's guide to period ical partyi ng Subject: New wave musIc• by Bill Fox What are all those odd-looking people this are both intriguing and with spike haircuts doing on those album important. covers? And where did they get those weird The new record by James Chance, Off names you've never heard on the radio? White, is a bizarre yet pleasing mixture of Well, this is the new wave section of the John Coltrane and Johnny Rotten. The record store. Sure, there's lots of junk here, hard hitting rock is spiced with some very like the Plasma tics and the Dead Boys. But fine sax playing. This one is probably better there is also a lot of great music just waiting left to those with a curious ear. to be discovered. Here are some of the best has just released a live album with bets to try. only six songs on it. You can buy it for less The Clash's latest album, Sanainista, is than a regular album ($4.99), and it will a huge offering from the premier group in CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 new wave today. It includes 36 songs on three that run the gamut from reggae to rock and roll. The Clash is one of the few Continental OJ groups to hang on to the ideal of political • music as pioneered by the Sex Pistols. But don't let that fool you, this is a tough one to IS listen to sitting down. Speaking of albums that are not for easy listening, the new album by the B-52's, Party by Ira Finkle Mix is a specially remixed version of some of Continental Divide brings together their older songs madejust for parties. With Michael Apted (director of Coal Miner's just the right mix of computer driven beat Daughler) and Lawrence Kasden (writer of and gutsy vocals, this one is sure to keep Body Heat and Raiders of the Lost Ark) in everybody moving. the poorest effort of either to date. Deborah Harry of B10ndie fame has a new I he title, Lontmental Divide. is just the solo album out called KooKoo. This one is a sort of trite symbolism that meanders its way new wave-disco composite with Chic through this film; it refers. of course, to the ("Celebrate") supplying some help in the differences between the characters of Joh background. "Backfire", the hit single from Belushi and Blair Brown. the album, is receiving air play on both rock The plot skips along, picking up and disco stations. relationships and dropping them every two Jim Carroll is probably the most breaths. Belt!shi is Ernie 'Souchak: a tough interesting person making music today. Chicago reporter exposIng corruptIOn In the After being a chtldhood heroin addict. he dirty city. He is known by everyone from wrote a book, Basketball Diaries. which was cabbies to prostitutes. In fear for his life. he nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He then leaves town to cover a story on Nell Porter. went on to play college basketball for played by Blair Brown. Trinity. Now the tall. slim red-head is Photo by J. Schamp She is an ornithologist in the Rocky making some of the freshest and most ImpetuI, UMBC'I dance company In residence, will perform at the Mountains who lives a secluded. wholesome theater Thursday, September 24, at 8 pm. The program will also feature exciting music around. The Jim Carroll life in her electric cabin. studying eagles and 1010 performancel by faculty memberl Cathy Paine and Impetul director Band album, Catholic Boys, is a raw, hard­ Jeff Duncan. Admlilion II $1. Tlcketl can be reserved by calling 455-2179. having woodsy sexual encounters with a driving rock album with a twist: the lyrics on wild Mountain Adonis. City boy Souchak stumbles along behind country girl Porter, managing to keep his Looking at film In• a fog

by Patrick Pannella Alright, we see the thick layer of mist rising from the miniature steam jenny. And we can spot the different computer­ animated shapes being projected into this spray by a film projector about four feet away. But what is it all for? "Put your head right in there." snaps Visual Arts professor Vanderbeek. - Right in? Right in that tortuous steam!? "Come on up." he commands again. "Get right inside it. You'll see color from a drastically different perspective. "You have heard of the movie, 'Coming At You.' Well. this rea/~v comes at you!" And, it does. As steam shoots up from the jenny. its water particles act as prisms and reflect a rainbow of colors. And when you stare into the sight, when your eyes have a Photo by B. Lisberger chance to get into the shapes, the images Stan Vanderbeek demonstrates his Iteam­ become life like. proJection technique. You try to duck your head when a spinning cylinder whizzes by, but it is too late. No use jumping back now. It's already amazing intricacies of his scale-model through you. And guess what? It did not "steam screen" invention, any person would hurt a bit. claim to see the light. "When I tell people what this can do, they Stan Vanderbeek, however, sees more never believe me," claims Vanderbeek. than this. He can see this idea someday Stan Vanderbeek "They say, 'color from even black-and- changing the traditional habit of watching a white film? And 3-dimensional shapes, too? movie while sitting in a coal-black theatre. What do you mean?!'" Oh, it would be rather ridiculous to think It is true. All of this is a little difficult to that people all over the world would start to comprehend. But after standing' in the dim fling their heads into projected images. So, light of this second floor projection room in he wants people to walk through the films. the Fine Arts building, and after listening to ''I'm talking about semi-sculptures." he the strong-voiced professor describe the CONTINUED ON PAGE 11