Copyright 2023, Sandy Urazayev sandy@sandyuraz.com (Sandy Urazayev) Sat, 02 May 2026 19:33:00 UTC Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:27:44 UTC Blog Darkness (sandyuraz.com/darkness) https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification sandy@sandyuraz.com (Sandy Urazayev) en-us Visitor... Welcome to my Pink Lounge. This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter. I hope you enjoy ... https://sandyuraz.com/ Let us dream instead. https://sandyuraz.com/alucard/her-painted-hands Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/alucard/her-painted-hands My dear reader, and one day, I hope, to call each other friends—welcome to the little corner I call my home. It’s not much; it’s not grandiose; it may not even be comfortable... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 02 May 2026 19:33:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/lost-highway Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/lost-highway Yes. There is no need for discussion or explaining... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:27:00 CDT Projectsss 🍥 https://sandyuraz.com/projects/death-of-compsci Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/projects/death-of-compsci Even the scent of my engineering department’s hallways hadn’t changed. All these years, the physical sensation is the same, but I am emotionally distant. What a familiar place with such unfamiliar faces. It is an honor to get invited every year to host a lecture and get the opportunity to part knowledge on the soon-to-be-graduates with everything that I wish I had known when I sat where they are sitting now. Starting with the more practical subjects such as offer letters, negotiations, and even how shares work, the focus of questions I would... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/casino Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/casino As the casinos and mob-controlled enterprises had met their demise, so had the “good ol' America,” which compared to today’s faceless enterprises that know no bounds to their greed, had character, and some personality, which we can see in full bloom in Martin Scorsese’s Casino topped to the brim with Joe Pesci’s violence—man, I would not want to be near that person ever, you know something had gone wrong that some decisions had led to him—with De Niro’s elegance, and my, Sharon Stone’s absolute femme fatale energy. Casino occupies t... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/eva-30 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/eva-30 holy cinema �... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/sakura-train Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/sakura-train In the brief happy periods that I get to reunite with my besto friendo who had just visited me, here, in the land that he had moved away from in pursuit of greatness, he nerd-sniped me with a rolife building set—oh boy I love those—where after grueling four or five hours, when I found myself awake at three in the morning on a weekday, still building it, let me introduce you, my dear reader, to some pictur... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:43:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/wild-at-heart Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/wild-at-heart This itself got me Wild... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/innocents-abroad Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/innocents-abroad Only after my first Les Blank experience in Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers, I know I wanted more. He has this magical ability to both poke fun at something but do it with such an open heart that it stays right on the fine line of being wholesome, yet witty and satirical, and this is of course, the Americans’ adventures through Europe—with all the modern conveniences of life, like traveling through a dozen countries in just under two weeks—with maybe a day per country according to my rough ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:37:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/chloe Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/chloe The premise of hiring a callgirl to seduce your husband that you suspect of cheating, of say confronting him about it is a tough sell. Add on top all the times the movie’s writing hammered how good they were and still are as a couple, then the primary tension has weak legs to stand on. The final twist still pays off, somewhat, even if the viewer can see it coming from a mile away, but ultimately, deflated with the lackluster series of events that have no rhyth nor rhyme, as the sole saving grace the director was banking one were the nude shot... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:39:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/garlic Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/garlic It is a rare kind of experience and the pleasure that comes with it to eat cloves of garlic and a fried rice cooked in sautéed while watching Les Blank’s Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers. It’s absolutely wonderful. What care and love had gone into every reel, capturing the day to day life of all the people on film, loving, enjoying, obsessing over, cooking with garlic. It’s the smallest things in life that we always go back to. These pleasures and the energy-weaved connecting tissue that connects all of us—that is what we... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:15:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/no-other-choice Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/no-other-choice Trying to write something about Park Chan-wook’s new film about how we do live in a society is proving to be a more difficult task than I had originally anticipated. The primary reason being that there is not much that I can latch on to here—with the sole exception of seeing my boy Lee Byung-hun looking through for the entire run of... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/boogie-nights Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/boogie-nights There is no Mark Walberg before this—not without his massive Pulp Fiction-esque organ hanging in between his legs that got everyone mesmerized to the point of losing themselves in this plot full of lust, desire, danger, money, and greed—all the greatest things that the 70s is remembered by. Oh, and yes, the adult industry with the overflowing production of pornography is to remembered by everyone who lived in that time, because the quality today is too good compared to what—VHSs on a tiny screen in the family li... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:15:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/resurrection Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/resurrection Here I am weeping with chills running down my spine with the tearducks overflowing with my salty tears, yet I hold myself back from wiping off in fear I could miss even a single frame of this film that I had just seen two days ago—it wante... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:57:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/escape-from-new-york Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/escape-from-new-york I wouldn’t have expected to see the modern-day Skid Row and Tenderloin presented as this absolute Hell on Earth in a fictional Manhattan, which is really just the average experience of walking down in any large-ish city in the US. The only difference is that I am not hot and jacked and masculine as Kurt Russell, but also badass in a way that is ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:47:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-5 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-5 Wecome back. It is great seeing after all this time since our encounters four years ago, and three years ago, and two years ago, and even last year—wait for it—this year we will be doing the same! However, there will be a big difference for the simple reason of that whenever I drive, it is my spotify that gets connected to the car’s infotainment system and my wife is ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:09:00 CST The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/caffe-corretto Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/caffe-corretto Not only is this the “corrected” way to drink espresso, but the true and only way I want to drink it from now on. Having its roots from some time of the early 1920s—there is no better way to feel like a working class Italian of that time having a lunch break before getting back to work with the slight buzz of the infamo... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:02:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/I.L Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/I.L I rarely ever open goodreads but when I do, I have a flaming desire to share something either of a magnificent and of an unforgettable read, or something so vile that my dissatisfaction cannot be contained. I am beyond happy to report that today is the day for me to share t... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/runaway-bride Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/runaway-bride Didn’t know much about it but that my mom loves Richard Gere and after seeing it—I understand why. That’s it. Not to oversimplify, but following a story of a girl that is scared of commitment, where dumping three guys at the altar in succession and continuing to live in the same small town middle of nowhere is crazy. I liked the twist and the general feel of the movie, but nothing much to hold on to or to th... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain Loved reading through GReg TeChnoLogY Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s and seeing the list of lost Anthony Bourdain li.st’s made me think on whether at least some of them we ca... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/my-big-fat-greek-wedding Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/my-big-fat-greek-wedding Watched this a few days after I got married—it’s got that charm of the 90s and early 2000s cinema. A little dose of this and that in here and it makes for a movie to be enjoyed with the whole family. Exaggerated stereotypes, though some, frighteningly relatable—My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a treasure trove of one-liners, catch-phrases, and references that I can throw at any... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/crazy-rich-asians Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/crazy-rich-asians Qualifies as a comfort film. It’s inoffensive, pretty fun, shot nicely with little notes—whenever I stay at a hotel somewhere, I’ve developed this habit of just turning this in the background as an ignorable noise, so the TV keeps playing something and gives that missing illumination, since the hotel rooms seldom ever have any light sources that are more powerful than a bed night light or a lamp on its dyi... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/shit-sandwich Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/shit-sandwich You did a fantastic, really, phenomenal job on this. Simply, incredible. This piece though is a hot pile of garbage, it sucks ass, and it stinks. I’m sure it’s no big deal though. I mean, listen, whatever we can get to, it would b... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:33:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/angels-egg Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/angels-egg Walking blind into the movie theater—I must confess—I was not ready for what played on the screen. Having just finished worked and hurriedly arriving to my local AMC, so I could rendezvous in time with my friends, the mental and emotional space that Angel’s Egg required in general, and that specific night, was not something I could easily extend. It is one of those experiences that feel richer in retrospect. I hear some call it “/Type-II fun/,” where the enjoyment of the event is intensified through memories, rather than whatever was ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:31:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini-library Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini-library I built this over the course of two days and it had taken me more time than I have ever originally anticipated for it to take. In part, since it requires every single book to be individually wrapped—this set is a great teacher in patience that I might be just that much more of a holier m... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:59:00 CDT Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/to-be-hero-x Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/to-be-hero-x They had no reason to cook this hard. I believe this must have been a sting operation of some sort, since when I found out about this show, nobody was talking about it and even the most hardcore anime-watching-following-all-seasons friends I have, nobody had heard of this Chinese show. Only seeing the original trailer of the show had ignited our curiosity from nil to over elevent in a few moments’ time that we called everybody for an emergency council meeting, every two weeks, where we would sit down a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 05 Oct 2025 01:43:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/feelings Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/feelings I can’t seem to feel when I want to feel so desperately. When I must feel, why do I not have that sensation? There is something to be said of not being overly emotional or letting the fleeting sensations of the moment control the mind, but there is an equally strong argument to be made in favor of following those gusts of inspiration, as they often lead to places and times that are locked to anyone with a mind that is too literal and rational. Where does the carelessness stop and indiffere... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:49:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/one-battle-after-another Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/one-battle-after-another This is an epic tale of love, betrayal, loss, loyalty, mission, and consequences that come with each. The sheer scale of the story told is one to behold. From the moment it started, on a sensitive topic of today—it had not let me go from its tight grip not even for a moment’s time. The music, the cinematography, the separation of the events to the “dangerous fast-moving past, almost a glimpse into who they used to be” vs. “the aftermath of being domestic terrorists and meeting the wrath of militarized violence.” I’m impressed by the ide... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/minecraft Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/minecraft Minecraft Movie is probably one of the worst movies I have ever had the displeasure of seeing. It’s just straight-up bad, man. I studied films in college, took classes, even did a whole graduate-level course on trash films like Asylum, John Waters, Sharknado, etc., but they all had a charm to eat—they were campy, they had something to say, they tried so desperately to be something that they weren’t resulting in a product that genuine. Minecraft Movie is the polar opposite of it all, as it lacks any kind of substance, soul, purpose,... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:59:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/family-man Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/family-man My first memory of seeing this film comes from college, when my mother recommended me see this tale of Nicolas Cage finding out the life he had almost grasped but had let go of with a decision that nobody can really fault him for. The clips and the general inspiration for the film has been living rent-free in my mind since then. As corny as it sounds, but that contrast of Nicolas Cage achieving everything that a mere mortal could, he had only realized how impoverished his life was when he saw the much boring but much more fulfilling glimpse i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:30:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/daft-punk Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/daft-punk I went to a life-changing concert—well, a club—that gave me the closest experience I could ever hope to get to Alive 2007. It’s been almost a week since then, but my calves and quads hurt pleasantly from all the jumping an... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:00:00 CDT Sandy's Bookshelf 🔖 https://sandyuraz.com/books/own Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/own I remember growing up next to shelves filled with books of all widths and genres. My parents gave me the taste of collecting books such that one day, when their time comes, someone will read them. It kick-started my love for literature and where I am now. In 2016, while I was living in Armenia, I went to a small (literal hole in the wall) indie bookstore in one of their underground malls near the mai... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:00:00 CDT The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/old-pal Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/old-pal While watching The Be Hero X this Tuesday night, the boys had a healthy dose of four negronis, which prompted us to indulge ourselves in three dinners. It being one of the most frequently ordered cocktails in the world, if not topping the charts—it’s really easy to see why. Incredibly inoffensive, tasty, and straight-forward to make with any ingredients resembling the Big Three. I like to think the recent Mads Mikkelsen ad for Campari helped the g... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:13:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/f1-movie Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/f1-movie It would be hard to imagine a movie that is more formulaic and predictable than F1: The Movie, yet retains its Top Gun-style charm led by Brad Pitt’s affable performance and the story so inoffensive and straightforward that the total experience, albeit forgettable, is a positive one. The entire setup of our hero being a nomad guy who does it not for the fame and glory (anymore), but for the sake of driving of in itself. Writing this after watching it a month or so ago, I can’t recall that much in terms of details or anything that stood ou... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/anora Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/anora I was a little surprised to see the movie that I had just seen airing in my local movie theaters to get mentioned as a new Criterion physical release in one of their emails I get every now and then. Having a fresh movie off the press like that getting a physical copy must serve as some sort of a strong-ish signal of its relative quality. Especially with all the buzz from its numerous awards and nominations, I realized there is no better way to experience it than on my eight hour long flight from Chicago to Frankfurt in Boeing B747-8’s Econ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/kpop-demonhunters Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/kpop-demonhunters Since I fell asleep during the final ten or so minutes and have no intentions of going back and seeing it through—I don’t know how the movie ends and it doesn’t matter either. Entertaining KPop Demon Hunters for some fun songs might be a good ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/sexy-beast Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/sexy-beast Scrolling through the home page of my Criterion Channel, Sexy Beast was not my top pick—far from it, really. I did everything in my power to avoid picking this movie for our evening watch. Not that there was much that I could do, but offering two other films and spinning the three of them in an online wheel of fortune and Sexy Beast beating the two, I thought to myself, “Gods themselves must be speaking,” and I should already accept for what the wo... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:00:00 CDT The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/sazerac Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/sazerac iPhones are so bad in low-light shooting that the all kinds of chroma and luma noise get so bad to the point that I simply cannot edit them in any shape of form that could be presentable to the public. Especially since I also like the look of 50mm lens by having all my pictures taken in 2x mode—the actual canvas turns out to be a random sample of pixels each with a random color of your choosin... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/3-women Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/3-women Pre-Lynchian nightmare decanted straight out of Robert Altman’s mind. I genuinely hated the first half of the movie—either the mood was not right or I was too tired or simply not in the space to see it for what it is. The second half though took me for such a wild spin that the feeling I was left with after finishing it had haunted me for the next week or so. The absurditiy and terror of the final twenty to thirty minutes of the story evoke such a strong sense of flight or fight that I don’t have much to say about the plot and many themes t... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:38:00 CDT The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/manhattan Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/manhattan You can never go wrong with a Manhattan. I can never go wrong with a Manhattan. There does exist a number of perfect combinations of foods and beverages, like cappuccino and a croissant, like fish and chips with a Guiness, like an americano with a bagel—like a Manhattan with a steak. Even if I’m not treating myself to a nice cut of a red meat—the sharp yet viscous sensation of this drink is almost impossibl... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:54:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/story-of-floating-weeds Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/story-of-floating-weeds My father once told me, “Only if the new generations are better off than the last, then that is progress. That is why you must be better than I am.” I have never forgotten those words as they guide me on what it means to move forward, not just yourself, but everyone around me and especially those who will come after me. There is nobody quite like Yasujirō Ozu, who distills down universal values onto film; cutting through time and our made-up barriers. Almost a century later, I find myself weeping watching A Story of Float... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:59:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/lost-in-translation Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/lost-in-translation My office has a monitor that plays Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation around-the-clock every day—I never get tired seeing it throughout the day, watching it while doing my chores, thinking about it randomly, or feeling it when I need it the most—that about sums up my relationship with this film. Roger Ebert said it ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:24:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ballerina Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ballerina I am a lifetime John Wick customer. Show me anything made by the same people or in the same world and I am in, same deal as Matrix and Ballerina was no exception. Only having a few seconds of John Wick in the beginning of the movie made it all worth it. Everything that appeared after was a treat for t... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/materialists Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/materialists Bubble gum with the flavor of “/The Devil Wears Prada/” and I love “/The Devil Wears Prada./” The whole movie with its plot walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, where the duck in this hypothetical scenario is an A24 product. Has its charm and wit; can’t forget about the fucking gorgeous cinematography and scenes that truly stand out—I’m thinking of the din... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/joy Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/joy We have these widespread series at work, where speakers are invited to present on any topic they find interesting—does not have to be related to anything one is working on nor does it even have to be about tech. Some talk about their gardens, others about financial planning, etc. And what a surprise, I got an invitation to become a speaker at the end of one of the maj... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/life-of-chuck Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/life-of-chuck This felt like eating a nice dessert, not too heavy, but light and leaves you satisfied in the moment. There is a good message of the sheer scale of one’s inner Universe and the absolutely minuscule importance of one’s life in the grand scheme of the surrounding Universe. It’s a good contrast shown by the reverse chronological telling of Chuck’s life. Since I also happen to like Tom Hiddleston a bunch and went it to see the film on my birthday, it was a good treat for ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/final-reckoning Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/final-reckoning A less compelling story and a package as a whole compared to the previous installments, nonetheless, still fun to watch and has that MI secret sauce to it that keeps bringing me seeing it every time in theaters. The threat of AI, how on the nose, is omnipresent but hard to believe in or feel that something real is at stake. There is no character to it, not real sense of danger, as the claim that it as toppling governments and eroding the social fabric—the day to day life it seems had gone unchanged, while we are led to believe that the nuke... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 31 May 2025 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/taxing-woman Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/taxing-woman Going through Juzo Itami’s filmography in an almost random-like order offers one of the more jarring experiences I have had with any other director’s portfolios. The one anchor that is impossible to remove from any of his films, to the point where it would not be a moving picture made by Juzo Itami—Nobuko Miyamoto starring as the central character, as the heroine of the story, the star that constantly steals the show. One cannot forget the recurring acting staff that pops in and out of his movies at a regula... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 24 May 2025 21:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/woman-in-witness-protection Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/woman-in-witness-protection Torpedoing ourselves back from the late 80s to late 90s, a perfect decade, I find myself in the same situation of seeing all the familiar faces maturing yet again with age as we come out of A Taxing Woman. Not much is different; Nobuko Miyamoto is the star that will steal the show, but in ways I could not have foreseen. Her acting was absolutely superb and it was the first for me in seeing the range she can pull between scenes and within the same scene as well. Going from a ramen chef to a tax inspector to a supermarket manager to an actor-... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 24 May 2025 21:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/supermarket-woman Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/supermarket-woman Juzo Itami did it again—a wonderful story, a Western story of ambition, rivalry, and triumphic glory. If Tampopo told us the story of a struggling ramen shop, then this film’s core setting is even more mundane—the supermarket. Like Goro from Tampopo helping out Tampopo, now we have Tampopo—played by the one and only, Nobuko Miyamoto—helping out Goro’s “Honest Mart” fight off the existential threat that is the newly-renovated store that is super slimy in its business tactics—Disco... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 03 May 2025 21:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/tokyo-ga Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/tokyo-ga My family saw this right after we finished “Paris, Texas’' and as we all like Wim Wenders’ films—Japan is also a cool topic—see this little treat on the Criterion Channel? What a treat it w... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/paris-texas Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/paris-texas I could not get the pictures, the composition, the cinematography out of my head. The first third of the film, the story of finding the brother long-lost in the middle of nowhere called deep magnetic American West. Simply, stunning. I couldn’t stop taking mental notes with each frame unfolding, something so magical about it and the entire mystery that was driving the prologue of ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:30:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/nine-rules Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/nine-rules Addendum: make compute... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:24:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/flowers-of-shanghai Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/flowers-of-shanghai This felt more like a theater or a play than a film. Walking from one room to another only to witness personal tragedies of our characters unfolding one after another in rapid succession. There isn’t much to say, as all we have done is get but a glimpse into those lives, almost as an idle passerby. Ultimately, nothing happens, just life; and we leave them to it as if we were n... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:50:00 CDT Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/death-of-ivan-ilyich Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/death-of-ivan-ilyich What a harrowing read. Tolstoy has never been as close to my heard as Dostoevsky is, but this might be my favorite work of his. I have decided to finally read it after watching Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru,” which was loosely based on “The Death of Ivan... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:00:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/days-of-being-wild Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/days-of-being-wild Days of Being Wild is where you can see WKW polishing and finding the style that we would come to adore and love in Chunking Express and later in his absolute and undisputed magnum opus, In the Mood for Love. My partner said it well, “Wong Kar-wai is great at building the asymptote of love, desire, and loss.” There is something to be said of the constant “what ifs’' going through every character’s mind. The never ending desire for what cannot be; for someone who is ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/black-bag Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/black-bag Black Bag goes down like a glass of clean sharp martini—no brine, no olives, and definitely more gin than vermouth. It never loses its focus, never goes onto a tangent that is left unresolved, never does something that doesn’t feed into its larger story. Drinking it feels refreshing and reassuring that spy thrillers like this still get written and produced. It’s somewhat similar to "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," but more modern and carries that boutique store vibe to it. I have enjoyed it thoroughly—don’t think I would be watching it again ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:50:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dune-part-two Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dune-part-two What a disappointment. Cartoon villains with psychopathic tendencies in goofy ass getup trying to be intimidating in a script where writers have decided that nobody in the audience would be left behind, so they dumbed it down to the slowest and the least caring audience member to follow along as they scroll through their endless tiktok feeds featuring Chalamet and Zendaya as both of them are engaging in an emotionless, hollow, and forced-down-your-throat romance that bears no meaning of the word but to endlessly convince whoever watching tha... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:59:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dune-part-one Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dune-part-one It was fine. Frank Herbert was never near and dear to me as Isaac Asimov was, so that’s my relationship with the book, but I stayed open-minded for the movie to treat them with separate hearts. Overall, I could not make myself care about the family dynamics, the emotional context, and the plot in general, which at times presents itself so seriously with constant close shots of everyone’s faces that it simply beco... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:33:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/8½ Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/8%C2%BD Ahead of its time. I think the magic behind 8½ lies in knowing the whole story behind making of 8½ and if we are straight honest out of the gate, what is 8½ but a film about making a film, where the film being made is 8½ itself? That is Federico Fellini’s 8½. The stories behind on how it was made; how Federico Fellini was behind on making a film and decided to make a film exactly about that; the never finished movie of his—all of this trivia is fascinating to le... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:33:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/mulholland-drive Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/mulholland-drive It does not get more perfect ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:33:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/brutalist Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/brutalist The Brutalist with Adrian Brody left a mix of conflicting feelings—not the kinds that make you think, but the kinds that make you forget you have ever even seen the movie two days after the fact, which is me right now at night in the kitchen with nothing more than a paper and a pen; finally, decided to jot down a note or tow of what ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:59:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/ghostty Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/ghostty Having tried using Alacritty for a few months a few years ago left a bit of a bitter aftertaste with shoddy multi-monitor support, custom fonts, lack of macos compatibility (the app icon would behave erratically), and the “Rewrite in Rust” stench. Seeing the news of Ghostty going 1.0, why not give it a try? This would be the first time of me giving a shot to a new terminal emulator in two ye... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/farewell-my-concubine Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/farewell-my-concubine Mesmerizing, breathtaking, and ruthless in slicing your heart into the tiniest of pieces. What would the changing political and cultural landscape do to the bond between two brothers—stressed to its limit with jealousy and betrayal? Farewell My Concubine is a testament to the ideals that every film, director, writer should strive to reach for, or, at the very least, be intimately aware of. Similar to what I think of In the Mood for Love, this is a perfect film, where you cannot add nor subtract anything, otherwise, it would not ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:50:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/eyes-wide-shut Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/eyes-wide-shut It actually didn’t impress me that much. I recall seeing it many years ago, so finding myself fortunate enough not remembering anything about the actual contents or what impression it left on me before, I thought, "why not see it?" Nicole Kidman is a babe, Tom Cruise is also a babe, but otherwise, it’s rather bland. The “shock factor” of the rich wearing masks and having sex somewhere in a mansion falls into a “and what” ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:50:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/six-triple-eight Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/six-triple-eight It has a good story to tell but wholly lacks in imagination, discipline, technique, nuance, and courage to tell it well. The final execution presented to us is not only mediocre, it’s actively bad as it ruined a good historical context—which I wasn’t even aware of, my first time learning about 6888—the cast was wooden, the shots were bland, the acting was over-the-top, and the whole painted war landscape lacked any substance and didn’t just play it safe—it was... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/chungking-express Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/chungking-express Exquisitely shot and directed film built on vibes and loneliness. Pure cinema. Having watched In the Mood for Love for the tenth+ time—I wanted to experience Wong Kar-Wai’s earlier works and wow this was a pleasant ride. No wonder how it could confuse and puzzle the audiences at first glance. Beyond shallow reasons like having the two (almost) disconnected stories, the core challenge—as I see it— comes in appreciating the film for what it is, rather than what ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:47:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/lfs-cdn Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/lfs-cdn I have been using OneDrive as my CDN, where I would mask their big and ugly embed URLs with my custom-rolled monokuma url shortener. What has been bothering me for a hot moment was the fact that the sources for the website itself (a bunch of orgmode files) live on github and the rest of “heavy content” lives on OneDrive. What’s a better way to marry them than using the “heavy content... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:30:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ferris-bueller Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ferris-bueller My partner’s entire family has shocked me because they have never seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. With this being a chill Christmas Day’s evening, knowing what everyone’s tastes are like—I had no choice but to recommend this timeless classic. To my delight, it is as good as I have always remembered it to be. The cast, the music, the story, how pathetic Ed Rooney was, how cool Ferris is, how charming Sloane is, an what a great character arc Cameron goes through—starting off as a (truly) sickly kid, depressed, in fear of his parents, espe... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 25 Dec 2024 22:33:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/daytrippers Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/daytrippers This really had no reason to be this good. Met with an utmost difficult task with choosing a movie to watch on a plane on Christmas Eve that is shorter than two-ish hours—to my surprise, I will confess–Delta had a catalogue of Criterion movies you could choose from their in-flight infotainment screen. I recall having The Daytrippers in my watchlist for a while, so the choice was pretty clear. I will repeat; this really had no business being this good. L... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:21:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/nonsense-christmas Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/nonsense-christmas Until about a week ago I was not aware of Sabrina Carpenter’s existence. Sure, in my vicinity and random places I would hear her songs—they always seemed to me as “whatever is popular now” and I would move on with whatever else I was doing. She’s good! An innuendo Christmas special, where every shot is candy for the eyes, especially with how fine Sabrina Carpenter looks. I think my favorite song was Cindy Lou Who and the very last “fuck” ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:33:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/12-monkeys Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/12-monkeys Classic of the times—I think it must have been more than a decade since the last time I saw this movie. Good thing I haven’t remembered much—nothing really—about the plot nor even the actors. Did not recall initially that Madeleine Stowe was in it and I myself just found out that there is a TV show based on the film, which is kinda lame. However, let’s get back to the ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:34:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/ao-nanjo Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/ao-nanjo I’m in love with Kaoming’s works and characters they bring to life so effortlessly. So much so that I pre-ordered their Ao Nanjo bathing suit figure almost a year and a half in advance—it was almost a complete and total disappointment. Do not believe the pictures, as they are not accurate—with the bathing suit not being as translucent as shown—with hair made in too simple shapes—with the plastic on the eyes b... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:27:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/interstella-5555 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/interstella-5555 I just came back from a special screening of Interstella 5555 that was remastered with AI. It was bad. Real bad. This specific critique will cover the re-release and the original release by Mr. Matsumoto, as I have never had a chance to really cover Interstella 5555 nor Daft Punk specifically anywhere around these parts of town. It should be no secret to anyone here—nobody before or after has ever come close to what Daft Punk were able to achieve and unlock with their mastery over the ethereal quality... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:57:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/gladiator-2 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/gladiator-2 An aggressively mediocre rendition of the original, quite enjoyable for its visual effects, yet wholly lacking in anything substantial or even shallow to say when it comes to its story, message, and legacy. I enjoy thinking about the Roman Empire as much as the next guy—“Think about the Dream of the Roman Empire!” is such a great meme—but this movie felt like a series of scenes and shots optimized to become viral tiktok reels for year... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:50:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-4 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-4 We have seen each other in 2021, 2022, 2023, and now it is finally the turn for 2024 to come out and shine. I realized how lazy I have been lately because the last time I published something in the “random” section of the blog was almost a year ago, to the exact day. With Wrapped 2024 getting released, the thought of breaking the mold and giving life to this blog section had excited me but only for a moment or ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ice-storm Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ice-storm Bleak America—exactly how it is. All these people may live in the same house, share a last name, and spend the night in more or less within each other’s vicinities, but that is really about it. If you are looking for anything deeper than a surface-level pat—you won’t find it here, not in this film, nor in the real thing. Strangers living together, ever more growing emotionally distant from each other to the point, where they don’t know the first thing about each other. What is worse, they don’t even know the first thing about themselves. ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:40:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ikiru Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/ikiru It doesn’t really get more perfect and contained than this. A Dostoevskian-style narrative of a life so busy, dull, and boring that it is functionally no different from being dead. A bureaucrat surrounded by fellow bureaucrats, grinded out by their daily minutia, and finally hollowed out into a living carcass—devoid of any purpose or meaning behind it all. Not that it is the most important facet of life, but there is nothing else the... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:38:00 CDT The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/daiquiri Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/daiquiri Back to basics! When there is nothing around but a trusty rum, some lime and sugar—what are you gonna do? We could make this Hemingway style with double the rum and no sugar—but I thought of doing a classic to recall on how simple the greatest... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:48:00 CDT The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/kk-dirty-martini Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/kk-dirty-martini K.K. likes her martini extra dirty. When I say extra dirty, I mean extra dirty. Her tastes fluctuate as making an extra dirty Upside-Down martini—it would be too briney and taste like soup—bear in mind, she likes it but sometimes it even too could be... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:54:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/island Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/island A bit of a tough watch if experienced in its original form. In the style of its prose, it was more of Tolstoy’s moral lecturing than what I feel closer to, which is Dostoevskyian priest, Father Zosima from Brothers Karamazov. Beautifully shot and masterfully acted by Pyotr Mamonov, who himself has walked the path of enhancing one’s faith. Some moments are heavy-handed as the purpose of what is happening on the screen is already perfectly clear and instead, the telling lacks a certain heart and warmth I would want to see from a telling of a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 13 Oct 2024 11:50:00 CDT The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/mark-twain Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/mark-twain What a simple and delightful scotch sour with a nice history ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 12 Oct 2024 23:19:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/wolfs Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/wolfs dad’s movie—i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:10:00 CDT The Glass of Gods 🍸 https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/sidecar Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/glass-of-gods/sidecar I simply love it. Something about it. I always had a soft spot for cognacs, since my parents are Hennessy believers. With my lower than regular sugar levels, I like all stuff sour and tart. Can’t go wrong ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 07 Oct 2024 23:19:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/tampopo Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/tampopo A spaghetti ramen western set in Japan! Surprisingly enough, Tampopo is made of even finer stuff than its original American counterparts that it is so skillfully playing off of. Every element ranging from the main storyline of a lone truck driver guiding a woman with her failing noodle shop through the art and business of ramen business—to all the wonderful vignettes capturing the soul of being human through the lens of how we interact ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:59:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/okja Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/okja Highly recommended to me by my partner and what an interesting film this is. The message and purpose is so loud and clear that stating it would be nothing short of su... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 11 Aug 2024 23:37:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/crimes-of-passion Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/crimes-of-passion Watching Crimes of Passion is akin to drinking a concoction made up by mixing oil and water. The rowdy sex scenes with one helluva smooth tune, a crumbling marriage with surprising authenticity in its delivery, a dildo killer priest (absolutely stunning and show-stealing performance by Anthony Perkins), and an exploration of one’s sexuality and dark places it... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 11 Aug 2024 23:15:00 CDT That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dead-poets-society Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dead-poets-society I received this picture over the iMessage wire and realized that this was my cue to rewatch Dead Poets Society, which I haven’t seen in such a long time that I have forgotten almost if not all of it. This was the right choice, as the selective amnesia allowed me to enjoy the ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:59:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc “Hey, want to watch this 2 hour long French silent film from 1928 about the court proceedings of Joan of Arc of 1431?” Miracles in the world must exist, as I have found the special someone who wanted to watch it with me, even with the glowing review I g... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:50:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/le-samourai Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/le-samourai Now this is my kind of movie and tempo. A perfect blend of crime and police procedurals of the 1940s, absolute style of the 50s, and pop culture of the 60s. It’s slick, tense, and has the patience of a samurai when it comes to following the traces of gorgeous Al... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-cassandra-cat Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-cassandra-cat One of the most impressive and unique color gradings I’ve seen for movies of... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/gurren-lagann-movie-2 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/gurren-lagann-movie-2 So this is the power of the spiral... Not bad, not bad... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/mishima Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/mishima I felt so frustrated with myself. Paul Schrader, what have you done. How can one film such a unique, thorough, and breathtaking biographical picture of someone’s life, where someone is such a complex and layered figure that unraveling it would seem to be an insurmountable mountain for anyone; especially when it means respectfully and faithfully portraying the culture and soul of a nation that is a secret of its own to all the ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/fireball-werner-herzog Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/fireball-werner-herzog A Werner Herzog Documentary. That’s kind of it. It evokes a similar feeling when someone hears, “A Hideo Kojima Game.” You know what you sign up for and if it’s your style—you’ll enjoy i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/poor-things Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/poor-things Barbie circa. 2024 a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/scott-pilgrim Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/scott-pilgrim WE ARE SEX BOB-OMB! ONE! TWO! TH... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-holdovers Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-holdovers Good movie just right for the Christmas spirit. Could very well be a new addition to many people’s yearly catalogue of Wint... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/gurren-lagann-movie-1 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/gurren-lagann-movie-1 Went to the movie theater, which was rolling this classic. This masterpiece. This absolute magnum opus of anime as a fo... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/against-interpretation Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/against-interpretation I have finally come around to reading Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”; and “I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother’s father dad.” (William Shakespeare, King John) Beautiful essay. I’m yet on the track to read the whole collection of essays included in this book, but I simply wanted to share that everything Susan Sontag described—also some other essays I’ve read—it resonated so strongl... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/barbarella Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/barbarella Perfection. So much to say about Barbarella. I think I saw it for the first time in my Trash Cinema course at university and now, many years after—I found out that it was released in restored Bluray 4K quality with all the extra commentaries, booklets, and special materials. Being weak for Jane Fonda then and now—how could I not immediately snatch one f... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/little-odessa Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/little-odessa Surprised that this movie isn’t more popular. I saw Tim Roth and forgive me, but I like Tim Roth; to confess clearly, I stayed through the film for Tim Rot... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/past-lives Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/past-lives A certified A24 classic. Honestly, I don’t even have that much to say. Everyone in the movie is genuinely likable—will say that I did not expect the husband to be so tight, so that’s one way to subvert exp... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-last-road Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-last-road Russia’s first and greatest poet’s l... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/in-the-mood-for-love Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/in-the-mood-for-love Maman asked me to see it—feelings that are truly, one of a kind. Specially woke up around 6am to see it in the quiet darkness by myself before the day kicks in. Today was a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dersu-uzala Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/dersu-uzala Beautiful Soviet film directed by Akira Kurosawa on the indomitability of human spirit. The true, almost “Russian” kind of a male bonding—the kind of friendship that has almost been forgotten how to acquire—even that i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/tokyo-story Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/tokyo-story What a debilitatingly saddening film. Has the cinema industry as a whole been able to produce something of this quality, depth, and observational insight into a human nature anywhere around the modern times? This. This is rightfully one of the greatest films of... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 06 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/godzilla-minus-one Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/godzilla-minus-one This might be just the perfect classic... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/blue-velvet Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/blue-velvet I have some sort of a personal connection to Blue Velvet and really, a story of how I first learned about Criterion and the trained virtue of respecting films. It was some time of Spring 2019 or Fall of 2019. A high time of me running around with whatever a freshman and sophomore worries about—grades, relationships, and wanting to get m... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/party-girl Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/party-girl Good vibe and ambience of the rowdy 90s—unfortunately, didn’t strike a cord with me on the Criterion’s re... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/shin-godzilla Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/shin-godzilla I adore the fact that the biggest and baddest monster in this entire movie isn’t laser-beam-shooting-instantly-healing-born-from-radiation-made-out-of-pure-fear Godzilla, but the bureaucracy of the modern world; how would the government realistically respond to something as Earth-shattering and “not in the book” calamity like a sea monster that levels cities with a swing of the arm or all-pierc... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/rose-hobart Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/rose-hobart I was talking to Quiller on Letterboxd and the closing thoughts of h... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/millennium-actress Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/millennium-actress Films are more real than life itself or as someone told me once, “those who wander, realize it is in itself a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 01 Jan 2024 23:30:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-last-seduction Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/the-last-seduction Quintessential erotic neo-noir of the 90s. Harrowing and can’t-look-away-op-let-me-rewind-that-scene-once-again-to-see-her performance by Linda F... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 01 Jan 2024 20:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/delicious-in-dungeon Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/delicious-in-dungeon Brings out the charm of more vintage RPGs and food wars style preparations of monster ingredients. Superb art style! I enjoyed reading the first volume, even though dungeon-crawling and fantasy settings are unfortunately not my preferred genre. Still, I would be interested to know how it goes, especially since TRIGGER is coming out with the anime adaptation of it pretty soon. I’ll try to stay up to date, maybe buy the manga, and read it when the time... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/sex-lies-videotape Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/sex-lies-videotape an exercise in film truth telling that I haven’t seen in a while, long while—viscerally real and bravely vulnerable on everything we won’t be shown in the landscape of the modern ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/insufficient-direction Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/insufficient-direction This was a great and what felt like, a deeply personal read, which it definitely is. To get a peek into what it must be like to see legendary Hideaki Anno behind the scenes—in a day-to-day like routine, all through a collection of anecdotal stories, events of which are in some places could be exaggerated, shuffled around, all to make it all the funnier—what a big heart Moyoco Anno injected into... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/bullet-train Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/bullet-train john wick + lmf... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/high-and-low Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/high-and-low I’m lost for words. The supreme summit of filmmaking and taking the creation of art as one of the most serious embarks ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:00:00 CST That's drama. https://sandyuraz.com/drama/perfect-blue Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/drama/perfect-blue Brilliant. What an insight into not only Japanese, but overabundant consumer-based and generally pre-occupied contemporary societies. Satoshi Kon was a ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/fujimoto-22-26 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/fujimoto-22-26 I think I enjoyed this collection of stories a bit more than his selection from 17-21: Tatsuki Fujimoto, especially Nayuta of the Prophecy, where Nayuta is probably one my favorite characters that Fujimoto has come up with. The core themes felt to hit close home with family relationships and how we come to understand each other as relatives, brothers, sisters, and l... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:00:00 CST Sandy's Bookshelf 🔖 https://sandyuraz.com/books/wotakoi Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/wotakoi Wotakoi is near and dear to my heart. It was somewhere around the start of the end of 2022, must have been early December. I got so sick that I’ll take calling me bedridden as a form of flattery. The mood was so special that I even slept in my living room for the entire week, moving all my bedsheets and bedroom-bound belongings over to my big comfy soft inviting w... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 30 Dec 2023 14:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/fujimoto-17-21 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/fujimoto-17-21 Those earlier stories are a bit rough around the edges—a sign of a growing author, who already secured his very own style of what many would call bizarre and even insane. This is a good read to familiarize yourself with Fujimoto’s early stories and inspiration for la... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/csm-buddy-stories Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/csm-buddy-stories A nice stroll around the world of Chainsaw Man before Chainsaw Man. It was enjoyable to interact with already-known to us characters in a light novel form. Lo... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/justice-neondroid Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/justice-neondroid Trying out to play with processing RAW under harsher... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/csm Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/csm It was the July 30th, 2023. I adored the anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man and on an impulse, bought all available 11 volumes in English. The week at work was exhausting, so I was happy to have this gloomy and melancholic late evening all ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/komi Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/komi Humanity as a whole has not been able to produce anything of higher quality than Komi Can’t Communicate. This is a statement that I have made before, and again, and once more for a goo... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/sayonara-eri Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/sayonara-eri Art is the way to remember one’s subjectiv... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/omniscient-reader Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/omniscient-reader Second hardest drug I’ve e... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/abroad-in-japan Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/abroad-in-japan Pulls you in with sharp and witty writing, which feels just like Chris Broad from Abroad in Japan (haha). Atmospheric and personal. Loved the "behind-the-curtains" behind some of his big works he published throughout ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 24 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/zvezda Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/zvezda After seeing the Soviet adaptation of the play, directed by Mikhail Kozakov (playing Grig), and starring Anastasiya Vertinskaya (Mona) and Igor Kostolevsky (Marin Miroiu)—I decided to write a comparative analysis between the play and the picture for my graduate level f... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/year-zero Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/year-zero It was a fun and an enjoyable read, for what it promised with its premise and what I got with my expectations of modern science fiction—it was good! It’s a nice light read and it does w... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/bk Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/bk Because I have spoken to them so much about Brothers Karamazov and Dostoevsky, I have definitely given all my close friends some sort of a trauma and a trigger that comes for free with it. There is so much to say that if I start, this time—it might never end. So, in what I ca... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/dead-souls Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/dead-souls I cried laughing from beginning till the bitter end. No one is sharper with satire than Gogol. However, unfortunately, he does lack the ability to write philosophy—the digressions and pondering onto the Russian soul and the state of affairs of the nation do fall flat and get unbelievably boring, especially when they are sandwiched between what no one can even come close to replicating—Gogol... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/justice Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/justice Remember how I talked on and on about my absolute love for Helltaker? Justice is my everything. ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/onegin Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/onegin Encyclopedi... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/beowulf Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/beowulf Any modern action movie, epic tales, anything really, can and will be tied back to Beowulf. It’s a bit of a tougher read, as contemporary readers—we aren’t used to tens and hundreds of pages worth of digressions into someone’s family trees and ballads of their greatness, when they’re simply being introduced at a din... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/overcoat Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/overcoat I mean... This is The Overcoat. As Dostoevsky put it, "we all come from under Gogol’s The Overcoat," such as the entirety of Russian Literature can be deconstructed through Akaky A... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/the-gods-themselves Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/the-gods-themselves I love science fiction. Unfortunately, many of contemporary sci-fi works focus too heavily on some other-worldly tech, massive star energy collectors, colossal ships, etc. The science fiction that I grew up with, as in the works of Isaac Asimov, Alexander Belyaev, Stanislaw Lem, etc., which all primarily focused on people and treated science as a sociological... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/candide Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/candide I always like to say that Candide was centuries ahead of his time and this fact hasn’t changed even today. We aren’t ready yet, for the wit and sharpness of mind, to which Voltaire presents the absurdity of human condition. It is in fact, so tragic and irredeemably non-sensical that we can’t do anything in our right minds but to laugh and see it all as a comedy. Truly, "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/foundation-earth Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/foundation-earth This is a weaker installment compared to previous foundations, especially the original trilogy. However, I will preface that I am biased towards this sequel part, primarily because I read it as one of my close companions during the very first days of covid, when everything around was shutting itself off from the world. ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/foundations-edge Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/foundations-edge I must confess—I don’t remember specifically the middle point between this and Foundation and Earth, but Asimov’s writing is always what I like to call, "the perfect English." And this is a great companion to the original Foundation trilogy, as every civilization is doomed for the similar fate. If the history doesn’t repeat itself, it definite... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/prince-of-milk Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/prince-of-milk Similar to the Fifth Science, picked this one up as I was going through Exurb1a’s repertoire. Solid modern sci-fi with reincarnations, classic Exurb1a-ridden themes of existentialism, absurdism, all with a nice scenery of a relative quiet (weird) English co... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/foundation Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/foundation One of my all-time favorites of science fiction and in all. Young Asimov’s novel technologically doesn’t hold up with the times, such as still using coal for rockets and no computers; yet it doesn’t have to. It is a detailed study of sociology and how people interact with each other. The focus is on the human aspect rather than shiny technical aspects, which many contemporary authors prioritize over the human touch. Beautiful! Early Asimov in a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/fifth-science Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/fifth-science I have fond memories reading this collection of stories somewhere around the Summer of 2020. It’s a solid list, one of the stories with the galactic empire’s and humanity’s downfall struck a cord somewher... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/pooh Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/pooh It was my college sophomore year—I took a semester with really hard classes and found myself straight up in a not a good place. Doubted my every decisions, and doubts weren’t of the good kind, where you have the opportunity to reinforce your beliefs and become stronger—this was the debilitating kind of... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 09 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/dolls-house Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/dolls-house Something glorious is going ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/one-hundred-years-of-solitude Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/one-hundred-years-of-solitude One Hundred Years of Torture reading ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/1984 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/1984 Cartoonish levels of depicting oppressive governments with very little to no foresight and imagination to come up with something that has more meat to the matter, rooted deeper into a future that might be, all ending up reading as Orwell’s personal gripe with ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/kowloon Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/kowloon Melancholic, Gloomy, Yet Incredibly C... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/komi Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/komi I am biased towards this series, as it gave me support and warmth in times when I needed one the most. Impulsively buying the first 14-15 volumes at once from B&N, bedridden a while later, Komi and friends were my trusty companions, with whom I shared time, which is so near and d... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Goodreads 📔 https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/solo-leveling Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/goodreads/solo-leveling Hardest drug I’ve e... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-3 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-3 Hello there! Again and again. I’m happy you’re here with me on the third year of sharing my embarassing taste in music. I am not like the ot... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:00:00 CST Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/aot Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/aot Have gotten to it after following AOT the anime and manga closely for the past decade—the ending was OK. In many ways, it’s a natural ending that as I see it—it played everything till the end very safe. It didn’t try to go and do something crazy (say, killing the rest of humanity EoE-style), but neatly tied all the loose ends together that there is nothing left for the audience to think about or fee... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/oop Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/oop jameoop is coolits all about what tools best f... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/drive-thru Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/drive-thru On August 5th, 12023 H.E., my two best friends and I did the DougDoug Fast-Food Drive-Thru Challenge tha... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:00:00 CDT Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/kaguya Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/kaguya “Sandy, you should see Kaguya —it’s one of the best depictions of what it means to have a crush on someone, to have that pull,” a close friend told me about Love is War. I have received the same guidance over many months. It might have been more than a year. Now that I finally took some time off to pay for my sins and liberate myself from the shackles that hurt the mind—I have to watch Kaguya-sama: Lo... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/eva Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/eva In one of the discord channels, a friend of mine asked his ChatGPT-based discord bot to answer a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 08 Jul 2023 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/rebecca Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/rebecca Yoinked and twisted directly from a wall of text I sent to my friends in our discord server. Totally unsolicited and no one asked for it. My take on Rebecca and Lucy from Cyberpunk: Ed... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 27 May 2023 18:00:00 CDT Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/goldenboy Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/goldenboy I wanted to write a small post of appreciation for this great show, Golden Boy. A man completes all required university course credits for a Law degree; instead of graduating as anyone in the ordinary sense would—Kintaro travels across Japan, working odd jobs—all to pursue knowledge and learn everything a book won’t tell you. A studen... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 20 May 2023 18:00:00 CDT Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/shinkai Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/shinkai I think one of the principles of Makoto Shinkai’s films, which I do not regularly find in other “anime” movies or general media, is his sense of expressing the state of waiting and longing. Of course, his romantic plots can get cringy, hopeless, etc., but in my mind, those plots are always ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/despair Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/despair Taken from a conversation with my best friend. Why is more and more of modern media portrays dystopias and children fighting for freedom? Why has anime lost that certain kind of warmth to it? A s... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/komi Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/komi Taken from a conversation with my very close friends. A very weak link between Komi-san wa, Komyushō Desu and Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, but I liked it enough to want to ship it... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wisdom Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wisdom I wanted to try something new, copy-pasted something I wrote in a discord chat. I don’t feel like spending more time on this but still want to push it raw. F... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:00:00 CDT Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/lucifer Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/lucifer Helltaker by vanripper was my gateway anime. I was into anime way before when I was still a boy, but this absolute-masterpiece-of-an-indie-game was my renaissance. In the final year of university, during one of the tough times when I struggled finding commitment and courage within me on what I wanted to do when so many things changed in my life too quick for me to catch up – those sharply dressed demon girls and the man who wants to have them in his harem by go... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/people Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/people I don’t like three kinds of people, which boils some of my general views pretty succinctly: people who cheat, people who have a knack for doing wretched things, and finally, people who are on purpose annoyingly loud or inconsiderate of others. Some might even say I have high expectations of people or harshly judge them. It surprises me even further that staying decent human beings isn’t considered common sense anymore. Still, something to be debated and celebrated as an outstanding achievement or an impossible task, especially with how popula... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bk Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bk As more time passed since I first read Brothers Karamazov (BK) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I realized more clearly how profoundly this novel impacted me. Without all the exaggeration and even excluding the flowery language – I consider myself to be, if not radically, but consciously different people before and after my journe... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Cooking together 🍜 https://sandyuraz.com/shokugeki/takoyaki Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/shokugeki/takoyaki Big thanks to JUST ONE COOKBOOK for this gre... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/senchou Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/senchou I never got into vtubers – never became my vibe or something I crave for. Not to say that I am not addicted to watching streams and keeping myself from becoming a parasocial andy. However, I have some emotional feelings toward Houshou Marine. It might have been all the Twitter artists that have treasure troves worth of Senchou’s paintings, quick witted jokes, bange... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rem-sitting Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rem-sitting There can never be too... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rem-fancy Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rem-fancy This one was probably one of the least expensive figures I got (~$20), but the relative quality is insane. You have translucent hair, great sculpting, and soft plastic used for a clothes-... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rei-baby Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rei-baby There is too much written and spoken about Evangelion in the world. Who am I to contribute something to it? All I want is to include this quote here – so please,... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/joker-neondroid Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/joker-neondroid My last year at college was the most grueling part of my life. Taking 21 credit hours, three majors, two jobs, not going to Ph.D. or graduate school in favor of going into corporate – it all weighs in on you. No one tells you this. One of the things that gave me immense comfort and an out was Joseph Anderson’s Persona 5 streams. I would watch them while falling asleep, working my jobs, and doing regular homework. A calming voice that was always there. It gave me peace. Very parasocial. ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/ichika-neondroid Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/ichika-neondroid Ichika looks so cute in her glasses! Mwah. ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:00:00 CST Sandy's Bookshelf 🔖 https://sandyuraz.com/books/ryuko Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/books/ryuko I just finished the two volumes of Ryuko by Eldo Yoshimizu. Before going in-depth into why this might be one of my all-time favorite crime fiction stories (and stylish mangas), I ha... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 24 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/darkness-winter Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/darkness-winter I might have lied in the previous page – I must have bought the Summer Rem figure and Winter Darkness at the same time! It is possible I saw both of them and decided to break bank (I was still just a university stu... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/winter-aqua Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/winter-aqua I never understood why people hate on Aqua from Konosuba. Sure, she always complains. Sure, she is not reliable – like at all. Sure, she is usually more trouble than she’s worth. But hey, hard to imagine life wi... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rem Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/rem I don’t remember, but this figure must have been my first. It’s so cl... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/winter-rem Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/winter-rem “When you said that you hate yourself, it made me want to tell you all the wonderful things I know about you... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/winter-ram Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/winter-ram Re:Zero is probably on of the best animated shows ever made. Truly, the Brothers Karamazov of anime (or maybe Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann? why not both..... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Plastic love 🥖 https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/ichika Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/plastic/ichika Ichika doesn’t need many angles to capture her beauty – she already i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/stickers Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/stickers Something about stickers and plastering them on everything gets me all excited. I go to such lengths that my laptop have literal layer... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/adam Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/adam This was tough to pull off, but I successfully got The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. All it took was an amazon basics paint scraper, a steady hand, and a lot of patience. But hey, looks great in my li... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 04 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-2 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped-2 Well, well, well, here we are again! Almost a year later. World goes round, chaos happens, but we all patiently await for when Spotify drops new Wrapped. To get sentimental just for one fleeting moment – this was a tough year with its many downs and thankfully, many more ups. Let us see what music got us through those try... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 04 Dec 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/sophomore Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/sophomore If you have ever heard of COVID, you probably remember it happened sometime in 2020, well, March 2020, to be exact. Coincidentally, it happened in the middle of my sophomore year of college. Surprise, it changed everything: how the world works, how we view ourselves, and the new path I’ve chosen to walk on. I’m getting ahead of myself. It happened in the Spring. We are still due to start our reminiscing of the Fall semester.... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/one Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/one I ask myself what is evil and good. What separates those two? Across generations of poetry, thoughts, and religion, those two have been at each other for as long as time can remember. We always imagine evil working as a corrupting force on people – bringing their fall upon them. All in a while, the forces of good are actively battling those Machiavellian-like creatures. It’s all exciting, almost like an action movie, where you can side with one or the other and root for them. What a narrow-minded way of thinkin... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/configs Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/configs I like having my computers and tools tailor-made to suit my tastes and wants. It makes me feel at home. When I see my favorite collection of colors, contrasts, and schemas, it feels right. It might not be the best approach for your productivity, as you would spend the first couple of hours to a couple of days fine-tuning whatever you have in front of you to your liking. Yet, I believe there is value in bending anything and everything to fee... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/gradspeech Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/gradspeech Welcome faculty, students, and guests. Please ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:00:00 CDT Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/mgx Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/mgx I have to start with — I loved it. Let your partner know how you feel, and let them taste your drool, which encapsulates your physical and emotional state. Sharing the saliva is equivalent to sharing the burden of those states and bonding. Admittedly, it is a weird bonding method. Yet, Urabe Mikoto and Tsubaki Akira figured it out perfectly in Mysterious Girlfriend X. This is a small piece on the story’s emotional impact and what the show did incred... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/graduation Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/graduation Ah yes, I graduated! Now seems as good as ever – it has been a long time coming 🚀 What a feeling th... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/darkness Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/darkness It doesn’t feel right anymore. Every time I write something for my website, I feel that I have to dance to the tune of pandoc and asciidoctor. Maybe the Ruby and Haskell Gods will take pity on me and my stuff will render as I want them to. Oh... they didn’t? Time to write a new sed script to... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 24 May 2022 18:00:00 CDT I write 🥂 https://sandyuraz.com/writings/nameless_star Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/writings/nameless_star Did you know Romania has a railway line between Bucharest and Sinaia, a mountain resort popular with high society thanks to its gambling and hotel scene? An express train hurriedly runs from its point of departure to its destination. Passengers on the train are either excited to get a lucky gambling streak at a casino or return to business as usual. Interestingly, none of the people on board would know a small provincial town on the railway. But we also must ask ourselves, how would they know? It’s not like the train ever bothers to stop ther... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 24 May 2022 18:00:00 CDT I write 🥂 https://sandyuraz.com/writings/politeness Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/writings/politeness Politeness theory was proposed by P. Brown and S. Levinson in the late 70s. It focuses on the original notion of politeness, which Mary Henningsen describes as „efforts on redressing the affronts to a person’s self-esteem of effectively claiming positive social values ." The central concept of the theory is based on the idea of the face, understood in terms of sociology. “Face” is something that can be lost, maintained, or enhanced. "Every person lives in a world of social encounters, involving him either in face-to-face or mediated conta... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 24 May 2022 18:00:00 CDT I write 🥂 https://sandyuraz.com/writings/ideal_love Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/writings/ideal_love What does it mean to love someone? This is the question I asked myself many times over my own life with its tried and failed attempts at love. Fatefully, one summer, I discovered Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which reinvented the many ways I used to perceive what life has to offer. Standing here, I realize what a transitional experience it has been for many people who have had the pleasure and struggle to enter Dostoevsky’s mind in what has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. One of the essent... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 23 May 2022 18:00:00 CDT Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/deterrence Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/deterrence My assistant came running to me, looking all disturbed and worried. I wonder what could have gotten... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 03 May 2022 18:00:00 CDT Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/naked Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/naked I can’t be late. I can’t be late. I cannot be late. Donald Knuth himself is coming to the presentation tonight; I want to see him and all the other special guests we are having. Jame and Ethan should already be there. Hopefully it doesn’t start... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 03 May 2022 18:00:00 CDT Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/sao Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/sao “I like Sword Art Online” is something you would hear rarely if you ask someone about their opinions on it. It’s such a popular series, as of 12021, the series has 26 million copies in print. However, it received some rather harsh united criticism from the Western audiences. Some of the top kitsu reviews include “Self-indulgent power fantasy about a soulless husk in black savin... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/haste Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/haste I need to do this, I can’t miss that, and more is what we tell ourselves every day, trying to accomplish tasks and fill our “productivity meters` throughout the day. We hurry so much onto doing as many things as possible that no time is being left out to enjoy doing the things we... enjoy doing. You of course can like the things you do throughout the day, however, that time you spend just with yourself is as equally important. I ask myself, is this modern busyness needed or is its necessity something that we made ourselves b... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/eating Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/eating Eating is important. Eating well is crucial. For years, I have seen myself become the kind of person who eats to live, rather than the other type of living to eat. I would go have my breakfast/lunch/dinner and consume calories just because I knew I had to, otherwise, it wouldn’t go too good for you. This was all right for me at the time, as I had a crazy packed schedule, which hadn’t allowed me to simply slow down and taste what I w... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/solaris Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/solaris What if a planet could think? What if a planet could act as a single entity? Feel and make decisions as a whole. Not a modern hivemind kind of a way, nor an artificial structure. An ocean enveloping a celestial body is a big brain, which wants to make contact with beings so much inferior and less complex - humans. It would even seem hard to misrepresent such a fascinating concept, yet Andrei Tarkovsky, a Soviet film director found a way to do ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/reality Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/reality “Hey you, listen, /snap back into reality/”, someone might have told you at some point in your life. I want to understand, what does it mean? What reality are you talking about, my friend? It is absolutely crazy to me that select individuals (many more, actually) dare to dictate one or another how to live by boxing them into their ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/thecsw Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/thecsw Many have asked me about my tag thecsw that I have used for the past ten-ish years. I thought it would be nice to write up a quick summary of how it came to be, as it had many iterations and some arbitrary changes m... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/weird Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/weird An alternative title I had for this essay was Embracing Yourself, embracing your interests, and staying true to yourself. I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s walk through some of my thought processes more c... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/looks Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/looks I never intended for my website or persona on the internet to be hidden or anonymized. The online appearance I keep is pretty mainstream, yet predominantly isolated to sandyuraz.com. I have my real pictures scattered around from different platforms I used to have; allow me to share some... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/webp Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/webp Update: hi, this page got a little traction on HackerNews. I want to note that there are formats that are meant to supersede WebP, such as AVIF and JPEG XL, however, AVIF (69.25%) and JPEG XL (0%) are not as nearly adopted as WebP is (91.38%). Usage taken on April 13th, 2022. Also, get a browser released a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/games Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/games I observe that video games just aren’t that fun. It is not my intention now to trivialize it down to oh cmon bro, it’s pixels changing on your monitor, but to discuss the effect of video games on us, the entertainment value, and its necessity (or its uselessness) in our lives. Nonetheless, prepare for a hot and a subjective take.... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/cameraman Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/cameraman Lights are dimming down, small chair creaks are getting ever louder in a quieter classroom, the small light illuminating through an ajar door is sent back to the void when the small wooden doorstop is kicked away. Intensifying orchestral music is starting to play with the intro credits of Man With A Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov. After finishing the film, everyone knew they felt something and had ideas regarding it. One thing is for sure, it hasn’t left anyone in... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/story Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/story My toilet is clogged and the cold weather outside is making me cruelly feel all lonely. This is a fine time to get intimate with a good book and drown myself in the cozy atmosphere that follows it. I am a spoiled reader, so it better have a good opening sentence. Speaking of a good opening, how do you star... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/grind Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/grind A tutee of mine asked me today, “Sandy, how do you manage time?”. “Just like in general?” I asked in return to clarify. I think it’s about assignments and juggling school time with life. “Yeah, like homework and stuff. I had to do my chemistry lab, but this was my first time submitting it late.” ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/design Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/design This website has gone through many different iterations, looks, tools, and contents. I thought it would be a nice exercise to quickly, yet cleanly outline some of the inspirations I took from other blogs/websites and where does the current style c... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/horimiya Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/horimiya Horimiya is one of the most realistic depictions of the first love I have ever watched. It captured the beauty, awkwardness, embarrassment, and vivid colors of what it means to fall in love for the first time. I would even dare to say the privilege of almost feeling like being a part of it. It’s good to... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 20 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/pprof Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/pprof If you write a program with everything you’ve got, you will never be able to debug or maintain it, as the latter takes 10x amount of time and effort to put yourself through. One of the big parts of maintaining any application is optimizing its resource usage and how fast it can go to a reasonab... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/latex Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/latex There hasn’t been a single instance that I haven’t typed latex code for any assignments, proposals, documents, receipts, invoices, resumes, (more?) that I had to work on. For some inexplicable reason, the default latex template gives me uneasy feelings. Maybe I’ve seen it too many times for a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/web-legacy Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/web-legacy I love typesetting tools. In my experience, I have used and written articles and papers using the following list of tools: LaTeX, groff, markdown, Org-Mode, asciidoctor, HTML, plain text. I had to decompress Word files and wrestle with raw XML files there, what a trip... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/cheburashka Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/cheburashka I wonder where he is. It’s already been more than half an hour and he is still not here. Everyone knows it. Everyone should know it. It is the unspoken rule in our society that you are never to be late to a tea party, especially to the one you are i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/soul Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/soul I wish to share this beautiful son... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/friend Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/friend Come to think of it, it’s been a while since we talked. All the way from high school. Am I to blame for it or just the circumstances of the time? My family always lived in the area temporarily, we knew that I will have to go wherever my family does. It’s not like we haven’t tried to keep in touch and call each other whenever I was in the area, but... The feeling was different. We were best friends in school, talking for hours and no end every day. I left for university and he got drafted into... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/friend2 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/friend2 ‘Sergey, dear, how was your flight in? How is your family?’ her sweet motherly tone only softened over the years since I’ve last ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CDT Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/aristotle Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/aristotle I went to a pub that recently opened in our town. Beautiful wooden floors, old-style lanterns hanging on the walls, and a rich atmosphere with interesting folk. A nice table caught my eye and while sitting, I noticed a strange man across the room. He wasn’t dancing or drinking, just sitting, as if he is very deep in his thoughts. Pondering about something. I wonder what. He looked familiar, I couldn’t pinpoint his features, but I recognize this mysterious figure from what feels like a million prior encounters. No need to bother a lonely patro... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CST Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/today Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/today Today must be the day. How could it not? Tonight’s the night. Look at the stars, marvel at their beauty. The breeze is so fresh as if it came flying straight from the Mediterranean lands. On a quiet night such as this, it is no secret that the leaves of nearby trees are all singing of God. The Universe itself is singing a lullaby, preparing its subordinates to fall asleep before the new tomorrow. Must be a shame that it will all end for me today. It must... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CST Musings 🍯 https://sandyuraz.com/stories/tacobell Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/stories/tacobell Nothing felt the same as it used to. I looked around the room, everything seems to be in place, but... this feeling. This feeling of uneasiness and doubts is sinking deeper and deeper into me. Stuff like this always happens for the wrong reasons, at the wrong times. I think to myself, why do I allow it to ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/living Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/living Many go and ask themselves, what is the meaning of life? Some spend their entire lifetimes to come up with an answer that they would feel good or smart about. Many spirals themselves into self-imposed depressions, worry without an end, and lock their minds into a constant state of misery. All from a question on life’s meaning. Is it impossible to answer? Some would say so. Is the answer supposed to be something grand, beautiful, and divine? That is what we can assume from the effort that goes into it. Albert Camus said - "The meaning of lif... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:00:00 CST Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/flcl Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/flcl One time I heard someone describe FLCL as a fever dream of an anime. I think this reaction is justified, yet it doesn’t do it the complete honor it deserves. FLCL is the most unique and thrilling anime I have ever seen. Not only by its animation style choice, not only by its plot, not only by the ideas it’s evoking, but with the combination of everything listed and more, it creates something truly extr... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:00:00 CST Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/bunny Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/bunny My good friend James and I like to send pictures of fine anime art that we find around by endlessly browsing Twitter, Pixiv, and many places. You can say a gag between us drove us closer over months, bridging the gap. One fateful day, he sent me the gif (g is pronounced as graphical, not like a giraf... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 20 Feb 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/dvorak Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/dvorak I switched to Dvorak layout in the summer of 2018. That was a very important time for me, as a couple of months after, I would start my first year in college. Why did I decide to switch to Dvorak and do I still use it four years later? Let us walk through i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:00:00 CST Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/komi Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/komi First of all, I have to say that I absolutely loved it. I was pleased to watch the anime adaptation of Komi Can’t Communicate. It’s on Netflix, so go check it out! This review will be succinct; you wil... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/freshman Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/freshman Being a senior in college is weird. I have to confess that I contracted senioritis big time. So much has changed since my first time coming to the University of Kansas. The change was very well expected, actually desired. But what I failed to predict was the number of things that not only will change but completely go away. Don’t forget about this whole pandemic situation that happened right in the middle, kind of pushing me off... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/anime Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/anime I love watching anime. It hasn’t always been like this. I think the first time I got introduced to it was when I was around six or seven. I was living in Bulgaria at that time, I don’t think we even had Cartoon Network. A small TV somewhere on our backyard porch would run Pokémon: Indigo League on some unnamed channel, which I think is as far as you can go in terms of animated pokemon. I was waiting patiently for every "new" episode after coming back home from school. Then there was ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/wrapped Good morning! It’s been a while since I posted anything in the random section. I talked briefly in the past about my music tastes and what kind of music I listen to. I must confess, 12021 has been quite rough in some spots, which affected my taste and playlists in somewhat of a major way. What’s the better way to recap it than using the new handy-dandy Spotify wrapped that sums up everything you did on the platform for th... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:00:00 CST Anime is dying 🍶 https://sandyuraz.com/anime/banished Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/anime/banished Hello! Hope you’re doing well today. This is my first anime review; I don’t know the best format to follow. I think I’m the only person who will read this, so I’ll write it myself. If you’re not me, Godspeed.... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/emacs-macos Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/emacs-macos Emacs is like a drug. You get on it once, feel the bliss, and never look back. This already happened to me many years ago. I don’t even recommend it for new users anymore, it is a huge commitment. I wouldn’t want anyone go through weird machinations to make it work on arm machines and M1’s. Too la... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/copilot-game Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/copilot-game This morning while at work, I received an email from Github, letting me know that I got access to Copilot’s technical preview. Of course, I immediately dropped everything in order to play with this shiny new toy I... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/arts Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/arts I wish to talk here with you about aesthetics and fine art. Some things we might enjoy alone or together! Historically, my website had different sections for my favorite films, songs, shows, etc. I thought it would be nice to wrap them all up together and call it "Les Arts". This page should be able to present my interests and hobbies in a more centralized and cohere... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 22 May 2021 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/web-toolbox Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/web-toolbox Internet is a great place for content and cat videos, but also really bad stuff, like traumatizing advertisements, endless user data collection, and straight-up spying. This page is a soft introduction into some tools, services, browser extensions you can use to get back control of your online... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 05 Aug 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/emacs.sh Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/emacs.sh After years of carefully cultivating and taking care of my .emacs.d config files, I thought it may be time to try and share it, maybe someone wi... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/foundation-time Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/foundation-time Just recently, I’ve finally finished the original Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov. I’ve probably read the first book about three times in the last four years but I could never get my hands on the remaining two (Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation). Not going too deep into the series, I just want to say they are life-changing, in a... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/song_challenge Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/song_challenge With my new insta, I decided to do my first song challenge where I have to put a new song every day, which matches that day’s description. H... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/githubio Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/githubio Github Pages is a beatiful thing for static website hosting. If you have a github account with username myname and create a repo called myname.github.io, you officially have a static website that you can access by just going to https://myname.github.io! I used it for about 2-3 years now. A man has to grow up and finally have his own domain. This is a quick post about how to make ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 23 May 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/diffeq Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/diffeq There is also the original .pdf version ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 12 May 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/orgmode-css Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/orgmode-css Org Mode HTML output can look like this webpage, but as its big brother rightfully states, a grotesque pile of shit. Same goes for orgmode. I wrote a very small CSS file that you can add to your orgmode header and the output shoul... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 09 May 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/emacsd Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/emacsd Booting up emacs can be a challenging task for your terminal emulator and the rock that you tricked into thinking. This is a quick guide with some pointers on speeding up your emacs interactions 100x... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Fri, 08 May 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/go-emacs Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/go-emacs UPDATE: Emacs LSP is the way to go now. Please do not follow instructions below and use the more powerful lsp. It'... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 07 May 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/twin-peaks Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/twin-peaks Twin Peaks was one of the biggest impacts TV industry has ever experienced thanks to its rebellious nature against the traditional set values of mainstream media. In the realm of "bad movies" and "trash aesthetics", this behavior is often considered a cult film. This paper will research how David Lynch and Mark Frost changed the film industry with their infamous ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/encrypting_usb Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/encrypting_usb The Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is a disk encryption specification created by Clemens Fruhwirth in 2004 and was originally intended for Linux. -... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/ryan_codes Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/ryan_codes Memes are great and in many ways, define who we are. Couple of months ago, I found one of the best meme goldmines. Programmer Ryan Gosling I fell in love with it instantly. I love Ryan since the first time I saw him in Drive and I who doesn’t enjoy a bit of r/ProgrammerHumor? Unfortunately, the stream of content discontinued since Feb 14th, 2014 (what a coincidence). Heart breaking. My good fri... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/good_bad_movies Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/good_bad_movies My Spring break got extended, all classes are going to transcend into the cloud for the foreseeable future, and I have a lot of time to spare on my hands. I love watching movies, it is actually my favorite medium of entertainment. Looking at the screen and seeing someone else’s imagination form the scenes, charaters, and the plot. I wish to consider myself having a film version of melomania. However, every time I talk to my mother about movies, I just shock her into silence. I’m probably nowhere near her on the movie tastes scale and she wou... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/why_use_emojis Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/why_use_emojis If you visited my website, you probably have noticed some number of emojis I have put up almost everywhere. I like to send emojis via tex messages and post statuses with them. Many as... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/best_web Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/best_web This list has some of my favorite stuff on the internet, divided into categories with links! The list is complet... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/sqrt2irrational Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/sqrt2irrational $\sqrt{2}$ is i... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/better_mutt Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/better_mutt Hello there! This is an article on advanced neomutt features that might have been missed in my previous article on (neo)mutt. This page has been inspired by some of the issues I had with neomutt and the fantastic neomutt ... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:00:00 CST Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/year_12019 Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/year_12019 This is a converted version of my speech I gave at my public speaking class in college. You can find the original document here. This speech is meant to persuade its audience. I truly believe that changing the current marking method of history can shift the way we thenx and perceive ourselves. The idea itself was greatly inspired by Kurzgesagt’s famous vid... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Sun, 26 May 2019 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini_jenni Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini_jenni This is just a showcase of my building process of my new best friend - Mini Jenni, made by Jenny Cox. Before the pictures start pouring in, I want to say that this is not an advertisement, I do not personally know Jenny Cox, and I am not being paid in any way for endorsing t... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 16 May 2019 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/using_mutt Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/using_mutt "Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Invented by Ray Tomlinson, email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email." Email has been around for more than 50 years now. As we go further on our timeline, folks from new generations are starting to forget the beauty of email. This article will discuss the problems with the current s... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Mon, 13 May 2019 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/installing_arch Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/installing_arch Welcome to my guide on installing Glorious Arch Linux! For some background, I have been using arch for the last and it is still my only machine that I use as a daily driver. Arch Linux is a lightweight DIY type of distro that does not assume what kind of person you are and thus just lets you be... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Thu, 02 May 2019 18:00:00 CDT Cozy blog 🍣 https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mira_reddit Sandy’s Website ⛩️ https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mira_reddit I like Go and I think it’s a great language. I built memeinvestor_bot, which was one of the interactive reddit bots on the platform at the time. So you can imagine we used quite a bit of praw. About year and a half later, the python codebase became so disgusting and unmaintainable, where I decided to re-write the whole thing in Go. (The old "let’s rewrite everything" syndrome") Re-write would be too strong, re-build from scratch is what the... [ Continue reading... ] Sandy Urazayev Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:00:00 CDT 60