http://yorgod.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by yorgo d. en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:57:57 GMT 2010-01-05T06:57:57Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977941340 No matter how long it's been, no matter how lonely I am or am not at any given moment, this poem by Leonard Cohen never ceases to describe my place in life any less clearly to me than it did when I first . . . Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:28:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977941340 yorgo d. 2009-12-10T20:28:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977873508   Kaitlin, This Tuesday “I wonder,” said Mark on Tuesday night, by way of asking, "Is the cat something I should be aware of? She acts like I’m intruding.”   . . . Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:54:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977873508 yorgo d. 2009-10-28T04:54:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977873356   Alert - -Possible Spoilers. I've endeavored not to reveal crucial info in the following film review but it is heavy on description. You know how much you like to know going into a film. If . . . Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:33:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977873356 yorgo d. 2009-10-28T02:33:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977865425   It’s entirely possible that a significant swathe of listeners, who came of age and discovered The Flaming Lips in the last ten years, have gone completely unaware of how shambolic . . . Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:59:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977865425 yorgo d. 2009-10-22T18:59:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977857455 In 1963 Maurice Sendak released his great children's book, Where the Wild Things Are . Since then it has been essential literature to millions of children around the world. An absolute staple of . . . Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:06:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977857455 yorgo d. 2009-10-17T05:06:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977845262   I'm not re a lly much of a tea drinker. When it comes to hot beverages coffee is my passion. On the whole tea just seems too, "on the fence," if you take my meaning. That's not to . . . Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:50:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977845262 yorgo d. 2009-10-09T03:50:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977840192 N ote: This is an in depth analysis, not a review. If you wish to avoid spoilers or excessive revelation about the film, read no . . . Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:47:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977840192 yorgo d. 2009-10-06T01:47:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977808837 I found this posted on a nutritional message board by a fellow named Tom. He did not take explicit credit as author but at very least he's my source.   Ordering Pizza in 2010   . . . Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:06:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977808837 yorgo d. 2009-09-11T18:06:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977699833 New content at Weekly Cinerama . I've been variously busy and lazy the last few months and let Cinerama gather dust. But it has shaken back to life in the last week and you should all head over to . . . Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:27:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977699833 yorgo d. 2009-06-03T05:27:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977688328   Now that I've seen Terminator: Salvation , an unpleasant, messy and slapped together hodgepodge of half-built plot device and hacky dialogue, I begin to sympathize with Christian Bale's now . . . Thu, 21 May 2009 16:14:33 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977688328 yorgo d. 2009-05-21T16:14:33Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977679223   It seems whenever a big budget script requires a lead who can seem ALMOST a person, someone with humanoid features but a vacant stare and reptilian lack of presence, . . . Mon, 11 May 2009 00:12:46 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977679223 yorgo d. 2009-05-11T00:12:46Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977677005 Prologue Hollywood is an industry, by and large, using tools it has never bothered to master. Every year we hear the terms "thrill ride, edge of your seat, work of startling imagination," . . . Fri, 08 May 2009 06:20:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977677005 yorgo d. 2009-05-08T06:20:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977666183 Stats: Age- 27 Height- 6ft. 6in. (approx) Weight- 185 lbs (approx) Sex- Male Income- Negligible Notes: Awkward personage, rarely visible in a crowd, no skills of marketable value. . . . Thu, 07 May 2009 00:13:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977666183 yorgo d. 2009-05-07T00:13:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977670449 As a resident of this time frame, subjected to dire apocalypticism from religion, science, news media and movies, I consider myself a connoisseur of the end of the world. And what would our yearly flirtation . . . Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:28:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977670449 yorgo d. 2009-04-30T20:28:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977667196 (Footnote) Lilly and Man By Yorgo Douramacos We are human, self-same and repeating, blinking fleshy mechanisms on time delay in the shadow world. Thus it may seem obvious to say, but, . . . Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:51:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977667196 yorgo d. 2009-04-27T14:51:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977656421   It was a small building, low standing and obscured by shadows from malevolent towers, a seething human economy. It sat beneath in the kind of area where time and tense don't . . . Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:07:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977656421 yorgo d. 2009-04-15T05:07:29Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977648352   It's not just that this album repesents a few good tunes threaded about with precious sub-Dickensian non-sense, because it does. And after this long with lead Decembrist Colin Meloy . . . Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:16:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977648352 yorgo d. 2009-04-07T04:16:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977644905 I love good entertainment; movies, music, television etc. I actively root for the emergence of good, subtle, entertaining product.  But I am perfectly willing to entertain the notion . . . Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:51:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977644905 yorgo d. 2009-04-02T20:51:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977643653 The website for The Hollywood Reporter  reports a looming film version of Atlas Shrugged , the fifty-year-old free-market manifesto and final novel by arch-individualist Ayn Rand. The . . . Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:24:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977643653 yorgo d. 2009-04-01T16:24:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977637536 The image of Hollywood as a playground of oblivious hedonists on the fringes of society, pumping their fetid take on pop-culture into America's equally oblivious gaping maw, like a half retarded mother . . . Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:32:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977637536 yorgo d. 2009-03-26T03:32:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977634458 In my opinion Nicholas Cage has just never been leading man material. He's a gifted actor and a strong presence, but to expect him to cut a central heroic figure, in the long tradition of Wayne, Connery . . . Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:16:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977634458 yorgo d. 2009-03-23T15:16:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977609538   Listen to these songs and then, "...into frantic oblivion; safety, obscurity, just another freak in the freak-kindom,"  - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas These songs . . . Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:00:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977609538 yorgo d. 2009-03-17T16:00:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977619358 This week's film is posted over at Weekly-Cinerama  and I hope you will check it out. Here's a quick sample: By and large it is Gary Cooper's job in this film to set his jaw . . . Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:43:20 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977619358 yorgo d. 2009-03-10T14:43:20Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977616072 Critic's Note: As a film, Watchmen performs admirably. For those not prone to physical or emotional vertigo from transgressive evils acted out in slow motion over two and a half cluttered . . . Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:38:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977616072 yorgo d. 2009-03-06T20:38:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977613332   As promised I've posted my account of the Before Sunrise/Sunset diad over on blogspot . Here's a sample: 1995's Before Sunrise was a complete work, unrequiring . . . Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:11:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977613332 yorgo d. 2009-03-03T20:11:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977612333 This week's film, Before Sunrise is reviewed and briefly accounted on Weekly Cinerama . Here's a sample: Before Sunrise was filmed in 1994 and released the next year, so, as . . . Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:40:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977612333 yorgo d. 2009-03-02T21:40:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977599449 Over the last couple of weeks I have become slowly aware of an impending Sherlock Holmes film. There is as yet no release date that I am aware of. But principal photography has wrapped and it is expected . . . Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:13:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977599449 yorgo d. 2009-02-19T05:13:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977595978 I would like to invite you to read my new weekly film blog, CINERAMA . Every Week I will be choosing a different movie to investigate and discuss and I would love to have any and all of you . . . Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:33:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977595978 yorgo d. 2009-02-16T03:33:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977552682 For the most of this decade fastfood advertisers have tried to burrow into vernacular speech with stupid comitee-engineered slang. They make up words vaguely associated with their product's characteristics . . . Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:53:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977552682 yorgo d. 2009-01-04T06:53:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977543957           Sales of turn tables and LP's have spiked significantly since the end of 2006. In an article last month Rolling Stone Magazine briefly . . . Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:51:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977543957 yorgo d. 2008-12-24T01:51:09Z