my ironic mustache

i fucking LOVE this song

srdailey — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:34:58 +0000

i’ve spent most of today dancing in my living room to this song on repeat.

she was not the cure for cancer
and all my questions still ask for answers
there is nothing like someone new
and this girl, she was nothing like you

-srd

i put down the pack and picked up a pair of these

srdailey — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:50:54 +0000

those are the nike lunarglide+ 2′s i grabbed today. i’m already running faster. 5K in september, son.

a little backstory: about a month or so ago, for reasons i won’t get into here, i lost about 15 pounds. consuming nothing but cigarettes and vitamin water’ll do that i suppose.

once i came out of the woods i decided i wanted keep that weight off. seeing as stress-induced starvation isn’t exactly sustainable, i quit smoking and started running. and with every mile i feel stronger. safer. more myself again.

my lungs are the only thing holding me back. i’ve been pumping them full of tar for the better part of 8 years. now i’m 20 days out, cold turkey, nicotine free.

it feels good.

i feel good.

-srd

what year is this?

srdailey — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:37:32 +0000

this oil spill is a fucking disaster, no arguing that. and we can get mad at bp for their negligence or at obama for his perceived mishandling of the situation. but what i’m really pissed about, aside from the obvious, is the fact that it’s 2010 and we’re still burning shit we find in the ground for energy.

seriously? this goes beyond oil too. it’s coal, or switchgrass, or french-fry grease. the car has been around, in some form or another, for like 150 years. to this day, almost every car on the planet burns shit to run. same goes with the majority of our power plants. everyone who grew up watching science fiction should be ashamed. we should have anti-matter reactors or dilithium crystals or some other crazy nonsense that truly changes the game. instead we have multi-billion dollar companies sitting around saying, “how can we burn shit better?”

how about, “hmmm, maybe we should try something other than burning shit we find in the ground.”

“naw. that sounds like a lot of work.”

brilliant.

-srd

on bros icing bros

srdailey — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:08:05 +0000

by now you’ve probably heard of the bros icing bros meme. i’ve iced a bro, and been iced by a bro (technically a sis). essentially, if a bro hands you a smirnoff ice, you have to take a knee and chug it. but if you happen to have an ice on you, and why wouldn’t you, you can counter-ice the attempted icer and now said bro has to chug both ices. it’s retarded and kinda hilarious.

naturally, the internets are alive with conspiracy theories claiming this is all a viral marketing hoax perpetrated by smirnoff to boost sales. that’s almost as ridiculous as the game itself.

first off, smirnoff is not that smart. second, they’re also not that stupid. look at their most recent ad campaign:

the goal is to position smirnoff ice as the cool drink that creates memories amongst friends. tell me how that jives with a guerilla marketing campaign predicated on the idea that smirnoff ice is both disgusting and girly. it doesn’t. and no company, no matter how savvy they want to be, would willingly disparage it’s own product to increase sales. it’s bad branding and it’s bad business, a short-term gain that creates an even bigger image problem down the road.

bros might be buying more smirnoff ice right now, but it’s to punish their friends by making them drunk a bottle of gut-rot. the product is still regarded as shit and this supposed viral marketing campaign has done nothing to change that image. in fact, it’s reinforcing it. brilliant move, smirnoff.

more likely than not, it’s just some stupid game of frat-boy nut-punching that’s been co-opted by hipsters. you’re all giving smirnoff way too much credit here. or not enough.

next you’re going to try to tell me that the milk challenge was cooked up by the dairy council.

-srd

“they are not the hell your whales.”

srdailey — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:32:19 +0000

so i know you’ve been asking yourself, “how does my ironic mustache rank the star trek movies?” you definitely haven’t been asking that, but i was super tired on saturday (read: hungover), so i watched a bunch of them again. they’re mostly awesome, but here’s my official ranking.

1. star trek 2: the wrath of kahn – this is a no-brainer. it’s undeniably the best of the series and can even be enjoyed by the non-trekkie. plus, if’s heavily referenced in seinfeld, so that’s always a plus.

2. star trek (2009) – controversial! plenty of trekkies hate on this one. those people are idiots. j.j. abrams took a dead franchise and showed everyone how cool star trek could be with the right hand.

3. star trek 6: the undiscovered country – i’ll always have a soft spot for this one as it’s the first i saw in the theaters with my mom. it’s a great send-off for the original cast and nice little thriller to boot.

4. star trek: first contact – i grew up on tng so it’s was nice to finally see that crew get a proper movie. it’s essentially a zombies in space tale. add time travel and you’re in good shape.

5. star trek 4: the voyage home - speaking of time travel, this one never ceases to make my laugh. sure it’s silly, but it’s a so much fun. also, spock mind-melds with a whale. so there’s that.

6. star trek 3: the search for spock – it’s kind of a big reset button, but it had to happen. it gets you there with minimal muss and sets up 4 and 6 pretty well. i could do without christopher lloyd though.

7. star trek: insurrection – this is where the suck starts. it would’ve made a good two-part episode, but as a movie it’s pretty flat. still, there’s a enough in there for it to not be a total waste.

8. star trek: generations – yikes. it’s kind of a downer all around, kind of embarrassing for shatner, koening, and doohan, and kind of a tonal mess. plus, data + emotion chip = guhhhhhh.

9. star trek: nemesis - i’ve actually seen this one the least amount of times, but i can see the massive problems with it. kinda wish the tng crew went out on a better note.

10. star trek 5: the final frontier – i said “yikes” before, but man oh man, YIKES. the only redeeming aspect is the “what does god need with a starship?” line. and spock’s rocket boots.

11. star trek: the motion picture – i think i’m the only one that truly hates this movie. it’s just so god-damned boring. i literally can’t sit through it. every other movie just decimated it.

if there were ever an appropriate post for the “never getting laid” tag, this is.

live long and prosper, nerds.

-srd

i call her newsgirl, cause i’m super clever.

srdailey — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:24:33 +0000

ok, so who else has been seeing this chick on every damn website across the interwebz?

does she actually exist? like, obviously she doesn’t work for consumertipdigest.org, but is it just a stock photo of some chick in front of a fake newsroom, or does she actually work at some shitty local affiliate in fresno and every crappy internet ad company just cribbs her permanently mid-word visage? here’s another one i grabbed this morning from /film:

oh newsgirl, is there any report that’s not special to you?

-srd

updated: she’s real, and she’s an actual journalist. also, the hottest woman in the world, according to french fhm. special thanks to andrew for his crack detective work.

see, charlie sheen gets it!

srdailey — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:32:14 +0000

c/o videogum (my new favorite blog)

-srd

let’s all be friends…

srdailey — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:38:23 +0000

…on netflix!

it came to my attention that i only have one friend on netflix. and while ali and i have a staggering 81% similarity, i’d like to see where we all line up. so add me by making with the clicky.

-srd

updated: make sure to fill out your profile (or at least your name) so i know who the hell you are.

spring in midtown

srdailey — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:30:20 +0000

i shot this walking around my neighborhood yesterday afternoon. i wanted to experiment with getting some shallow depth of field with my hv30. also, i’m shit at color grading so i wanted to practice with a bunch of different looks. i particularly like the metal handrail outside my apartment and the fire hydrant. watch it embedded below, or click through to vimeo to watch it in hd.

-srd

the beginning

srdailey — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:46:39 +0000

this is where i’m supposed to talk about my new years resolutions, where i talk about quitting smoking or losing weight. these are things that i’m doing. but that’s not what i’m going to talk about.

i want to talk about this girl.

see, there’s this girl that i love. i’ve loved her almost as long as i’ve known her, though i haven’t always known it. i loved her two years ago, i love her today, and i’ll love her a hundred years from today.

this past spring she finally came back to me. and i was the happiest i’ve been in my whole life.

then i threw that all away. because i’m arrogant. because i’m selfish. because i’m kind of a dick a lot of the time. because i care more about being funny than being kind. because i didn’t love her the way she loved me, wholly. people have tried to tell me all of this in the past, but i was able to write them off because in the grand scheme of things, i always think i’m right and everyone else is wrong.

i’m wrong, and everyone else is right.

and when it comes down to it, i’m not just talking about this girl, though she’s the one who finally got me to see who i am versus who i think i am, and who i can be. i’m talking about anyone who knows me and reads this silly thing. because odds are, i’ve made you feel terrible for no other reason than to make myself feel good.

that’s no way to live your life. and i’m sorry.

so this is more than a new years resolution, more than some lofty goal we dream up and then forget about by the time the snow melts. this is a shift. this a declaration. this is a call to arms.

i will be kind.

i will be a better person, a better friend, a better brother.

and you – i will love you with everything i have, with reckless abandon.

like wildfire. like devastation.

amen.

-srd