Gurt Sherm

The end goal wasn't actually "get a degree with no student loans"

it was

"there's a music scene"

Having spent so much time in Athens and growing up playing instruments, I wanted to be in Athens for two reasons:

1. Music scene

2. I was good enough at high school and standardized tests to get into a top five journalism college

If I didn't get into UGA, I'd have been perfectly fine with the idea of just staying working at restaurants while I went headfirst into music.

I applied to one university for reasons beyond "all my sisters went to this college."

It's not even the sports aspect. Yes I grew up watching the Georgia Bulldogs as my preferred college sports team.

Part of the reason I'm so romantic about a weird college town with about 130,000 people.

Weaver D's restaurant in Athens, GA, USA Automatic for the people

I got hit with a picture of a certain place that a lot of us associate with some great times, great food, great music.

Athens, Georgia will forever have my heart.

It's also really funny to see:

1. You passed the bar exam

2. But I also did a lot of drugs with you before playing In The Fade by Queens of the Stone Age with you at your apartment...several times

LET'S GOOOOOOOO

My friend from college (bit younger than I) just got his first law job and moved to Savannah!

"Uhhhhhh thank you"

Austin Powers, falling off a ladder, hanging onto Dr. Evil's trousers that have now been pulled down:

"I used to think you were crazy, now I see your nuts."

"They're incapable of running a country! I'm so smart!"

No, they do a really good job at trying to be evil. That's their whole thing.

Okay I'm gonna say something old white liberals won't like.

The far-right isn't incompetent at doing what they wanna do. They just don't care.

I hate that "oh I feel smarter than them, so the issue will go away."

Welcome back to "Know Your Copy-rights" with non-lawyer Gurt Sherm.

Fun fact:

There are no laws in the United States that prevent you from rhyming the word "danger" with "1994 Ford Ranger"

lmao so this band i'm now involved in:

my band once played with them at a festival in 2018, we're texting about that wild day right now,,,

guitarist, gleefully:

"that day was fun. i woke up in someone's car!"

It's my favorite, at least!

Okay but if Kurosawa's film that is the greatest Shakespeare adaptation didn't exist...

There would be hundreds of Finnish metal bands fighting over the name Throne Of Blood.

Dammit man one of my friends started a millionth side project with a Kurosawa film title as a band name because of course he did

sex song cheat code:

rhyme hips with lips

I'm fucking fully unleashing creatively and there are gonna be like two or three that are just hardcore raunchy sex shit because nobody can tell me what the fuck to sing

Being unemployed for a few weeks broke my mind in a good way.

Hold down a dumb job that pays you too much because you're pretty sure they're laundering money.

Not my pig, not my farm.

Focus on music, the only thing that has ever kept me remotely sane and gifted me any sense of accomplishment.

I specify bass playing and low self-esteem because if you have the budget for an entire studio and waste in on a bass, as your first instrument, god cannot help you nor can your custody battle attorneys

Oh my god you just created the perfect name of a grift "company" that sells online bass lessons to divorced dentists with low self-esteem and a big budget to waste on a $3500 Gibson Thunderbird he mostly just looks at

We are cooking with hot fire, gang.

I mastered a two tracks from the comfort of my shitty old laptop in 20 minutes.

I wrote two new songs just this morning.

I'm finally a part of a band again. That eight months was rough.

I have a waitlist of "when I have the time to master your songs."

:)

I have forgotten more useless facts about bass players' fake names than most will ever learn

-Gurt Sherm, government name Garrett Shearman, B+ bass player

Also like I'm not that into Green Day, I like them just fine and a know a lot of shit about Dookie through American Idiot.

There was a whole mini round about Green Day songs and somehow we were the only ones to know the drummer's stage name Tre Cool? And why Mike Dirnt used the pseudosurname Dirnt?

The place where Max and I do trivia goes super hard on music and movie questions so it's unfair given what I'm obsessed with.

We have an unfair advantage, she's also a music person who is a film knower.

Oh there was a trivia question tonight (multiple choice) about "what band's third album in 1998 was called Celebrity Skin?"

The answer was B.

Hole.

We all laughed at saying B-Hole. A would have been funny too.

That was the cool part about music to me growing up.

With the family computer, an eight-channel Behringer mixer (used, lawn mowing money) and a guitar and a keyboard (also used) you could find a sneaky backward unconventional way to record a song.

Dude Andy Merrill playing ukulele The Wizard would be so cool