I'm not sure that these would interest you but I walked into Schoolhouse Electric the other day and saw some lights that I wouldn't have given a second thought to but for having seen soonermagic's pendants. They are old but cylinder-shaped. The link is below. Here is a link that might be useful: Schoolhouse Electric pendant light shade

This is SO old, but you linked to my blog so I thought I'd answer you. Those aren't electric. they are candle lanterns that I found at Kirkland. :)

Soonermagic posted this in response to another query about the pendants: The island pendants are from westelm and are ridiculously affordable. They are my favorite low cost item in the whole house. I just checked westelm's website and it appears that they no longer sell those lights. Link to thread: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/build/msg110012455696.html?53

Thanks all--great ideas. I did find some nice shades at my local bigbox but they only had incandescent fixtures to go with them. I'll have to check the other one. I didn't even consider changing out the guts of a normal fixture. If I find something I really like that is an excellent option! Schoolhouse Electric, if anyone else has this problem, will stick a GU24 socket on just about anything that fits one too, like Rejuvenation. CA can install incandescent fixtures, just a certain percentage of fixtures in a remodel have to be high efficiency. So there's no problem shipping stuff here. What do they need to look like? Uh...I don't know. (I had actually decided to just use cans at one point so I could avoid this, but they would have been too obvious with the sloped ceiling.) I want them to be smaller than a basketball and really bright. Something appropriate for a fifties house but not something so retro it looks like I'm trying to make it look like a fifties house. Glass shade, chrome or brass (or white if it's that kind of fixture that just hangs by its cord). Dangly. My ceiling is still open so I can switch to a large single fixture over the island (although spouse does not like old fashioned billiard lights, alas!). See? I'm not picky! Thanks! :)