Gurt Sherm

Coworker gave me free ganj just because his friend thinks I'm nice

These weed fairies keep gracing me

Grateful that it's on my arm and not one of those annoying finger cuts that'll be extra inconvenient for 8-10 days 🩷

Dude I just got the gnarliest cardboard cut at work, thoughts and prayers :(

that's my wallet in the pocket, not my hog

it's that time of year in the city of the second-busiest harbor on the US atlantic coast

who wears short shorts

local dumbass records two songs before clocking into bullshit job, takes shower beforehand, regrets how ages 21-29 were spent

i got paid

to see one of my favorite bands

reunite on stage

for the first time in 17 years

A member of the RnR HOF, a bass player about whom I wrote papers, knows my name.

I have lived a cool life, I just need to focus on being a better friend and having creative output.

My music career is all I've ever fucking wanted even if I'll always have to have a side gig to pay basic bills.

I have gotten to shake my favorite drummer's hand. I have gotten paid to set up equipment for a multiple of my favorite musicians.

A photo of Jack White and Meg White backstage at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia. Photo taken in 1999. Many years later, I would smoke weed in this very room, hang my jacket up in this very room, and later as employee do those things but just with a vacuum cleaner involved.

First time I played at the 40 Watt, I knew that I was standing where legends stood.

From when I first played there at 20 to cleaning the bathrooms when I was 27 to working the soundboards closer to 30.

I got paid to work for Jack White.

When they post pictures like this, I'm grateful.

music just being communal shooting the shit with people much older than you yet have faith in you to play well?

man that came at a time when i really needed it.

it was just the one gig, but having old experienced dudes in a different style i was used to and they say "you're clearly talented" 🥲

IT WORKED

IT ALL WORKED

Drummer said basically "open with that bas riff tomorrow, we'll all gradually join in our own styles, let it go and free flow for five or six minutes, then we stop abruptly and get into the songs we made you learn."

I obviously being very much young and white looked like the random puzzle piece I was acting as in the musical outfit, but it worked!

Day before the festival, we were rehearsing and this 60 y/o drummer with so much more experience than I liked a random drone-y bass thing I wrote.

Okay last music story before I get ready for work:

I got recruited to be a replacement bass player for the Human Rights Festival when I was like 23 or 24.

Reggae/dub/a little calypso.

I had three days to go to a random house and learn five songs with six Jamaican dudes 20+ years older.

I've had people tell me I'm a liar about a stupid eventual niche internet joke, why would anyone lie about something as dumb as that?

Bitch I've lied about things I hid from my family like alcoholism and homosexual feelings like A Real Man

last shitpost for a few hours every girl's crazy 'bout a jort-dressed man

I have one very specific current sports tinfoil hat to wear:

Anthony Edwards wants to play in Atlanta and no not just because of that one video at the all-star game.

You ain't lived until you've walked into a room with your friend doing weird shit ten minutes before you have to play rock and roll music for a few hours

I'm not kidding and this is real shit that happens when you tour:

I did once walk into a backstage room to see my guitarist snort cocaine off of his naked partner.

He comes from a long lineage of governors across the 50 States.

Trust levels if your band member offers to unload your 1995 Peavey Mark VI out of the 2005 Chevy Tahoe:

Drummer: 110%

Synth/sax guy: 100% he's just short

Guitarist #1: He's known me since I was a kid but he's talking to a pretty lady, 70%

Guitarist #2: no I just saw him do coke

Manager: HAHA

I am extremely here for this very specific reference.

The Fhqwhgads email situation is so weird because I've seen multiple people claim "haha, I wrote the Fhqwhgads email when I was so drunk in college."

No it was written by an elementary school boy in Kennesaw, Georgia.

I've lived a lot of lives in 30 years and 10 months

Everybody to the limit, Gurt Sherm is to the limit

Frank the Tank in Old School telling Snoop Dog's hype man to come streaking and bring his green hat

Oh also this sounds fake but Will Ferrell crashed our prom at the Georgia Aquarium because he was filming one scene at the aquarium and was like "hey I bet all these high school kids wanna see me for two minutes."

BRING YOUR GREEN HAT!

One of the coolest days of my very stupid life

We were wearing tie-dye shirts, he's a 6'3" handsome guy, I was about 6'4" and yes I'm also handsome if I do say so, the production assistants were like "you fit the vibe of people in the late 70's, early 80's, want some free food and meet famous people?"

Then we left AND FUCKING SAW SOUNDGARDEN

I was a background actor in the Anchorman 2 fight scene recorded at Woodruff Park in Atlanta just because my friend and I had tickets to see Soundgarden at the Tabernacle in our last month of high school.

I was on a movie set with everyone from Paul Rudd to Marion Cotillard to, ugh, Kanye.

Begging Jurickson Profar to stop doing shit that will get you suspended for at least half of an MLB season