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1.30.26 4:21 pm If our brains are wired a certain way, is liking something even real?

it certainly would be real in that certain way, of course

1.30.26 2:30 pm is there a science to when certain sounds "synergize?" I recorded a bassline and it sounded alright, then I added some deep piano hits over (just some perfect octaves in the bass with reverb) it and it completely changed its sound into something really meaty feeling that's more than the sum of its parts.
or maybe this is just something that happens randomly and you have to feel it out each and every time

there is no science to this. this could be good or bad news depending on your worldview

1.30.26 12:17 pm is nothing real, or isn't it?

'nothing' is created when there are somethings surrounding it

1.30.26 12:14 pm favorite trigonometric function?

oh what the heck, sine

1.30.26 11:40 am do you like roleplaying?

sometimes i role play as a role player

1.30.26 8:11 am do you think making art only requires effort/skill? or do you think there are other elements to it as well

the real power of art comes from something unseen, mysterious, and unpredictable. "effort and skill" are usually part of our attempts to wrangle it. and honestly it does not like to be wrangled. i'd say "skill" might come in handy sometimes, but "effort" can be a real parade rainer. the hard part is restraining this when you care so much

1.30.26 7:18 am do you think its worth being honest (i misspelled honest as homest earlier to be honest)

most often, especially in the long run, it is worth it

1.30.26 7:02 am now that you mention it, i actually think purple and yellow is not a bad color scheme. it's pretty. it also reminds me of someone i loved in the past, who had these two as their favourite colors. what do purple and yellow mean to you?

at some point at a young age i think i saw something that was yellow and purple, and i remember thinking "huh.... i dont think i've ever seen that before. .... cool." and then a few years later i saw something else that was yellow and purple, and i remember thinking "oh, hey, there's those 2 colors that i saw years ago and thought was cool... huh... cool." so for some reason i've always had a special feeling about those 2 colors together. so when i built this page it was like "ok, the time has come"

1.30.26 6:53 am have you ever sung in an ensemble/choir?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.30.26 5:37 am Why are we taught sentences begin with a big letter? what does it mean to defy the status quo... why do we feel the need to fit in, and how can i STOP? theres too many boxes, and yet none of them fit me!!

i think you're doing fine

1.30.26 4:40 am why not try mixing it up and being super generic and derivative for a change? and then find a way to make that good?

might be the worst time in history for that

1.30.26 4:13 am Do you prefer time, or space?

can't seem to even separate them

1.30.26 3:42 am Why is water the most important liquid?

it basically gave birth to us, so that's naturally why we find it important

1.30.26 3:37 am my mind is open

oh good

1.30.26 1:54 am Do you believe it is immoral to intentionally commit tomfoolery?

1.30.26 1:18 am i know you love songwriting, but you also have a real knack for regular writing, and you seem to enjoy doing it too. have you ever considered writing something longer-form, like an essay, short story, poem, ransom note, manifesto, etc? or do you get more "bang for your buck" with audiovisual content?

check the 'notebook' section

1.30.26 1:17 am whats a fun fact you know

the backstreet boys are actually from the front streets

1.30.26 1:13 am pancakes or waffles

said the person who has yet to discover the waff cake

1.30.26 12:07 am intentionally "not caring" is nearly impossible most of the times because care is something necessary and fundamental to being a person. so, what is the real way to stop caring about something that you know you shouldn't care so much about?

one weird trick is to start focusing on something new. you'll start to care about the new thing instead

1.29.26 11:27 pm How are babies made

it's so crazy you'd never believe me

1.29.26 11:20 pm I figured out life. I figured out every aspect with complete certainty

i'm sorry to hear that

1.29.26 11:09 pm how to be the best pianist

this one step is shockingly easy to forget: be a pianist

1.29.26 10:39 pm I feel like I wasn't meant to be here. Im lazy and bad at everything yet overwhelmed when I have an incredibly easy life(not lying my life is practically perfect) yet i still feel sad. It's like Im in the wrong world. What do I do I just want to leave but that would make me even more pathetic.

this sounds like one of those cases where the answer is going to come around the next corner and find you. at least a hint. so i'd say look out for those

1.29.26 10:14 pm im carrying a lot of pain right now and im crying nearly every day for reasons that are my fault. ive drowned before but this might be the worst it's ever gotten. sorry. thats a downer. i guess i just needed to get that out. does it get better

yes, it actually gets better at times exactly like this. or if not now then maybe after it gets just a little bit worse

1.29.26 9:26 pm how do i not tie my self worth to my work, and similarly, how do I not take judgement of work as an attack on myself? I find myself sometimes doing this.

i'm not sure exactly how you can make yourself less sensitive, but i can tell you that this sensitivity surely gives you some great advantages when it comes to the work

1.29.26 8:56 pm do you remember the way some songs were written when they become relevant to a specific moment in your life? eg. "just did a bad thing", and coping with the fact that you just did a bad thing by remembering your written wisdom on the subject of doing a bad thing

actually what happened on that one was i had narrowed it down to about 20 choices for which song (or song idea) was going to be the next one to finish and record, and that was one of them. it was certainly not my favorite, but it must not have been my least favorite because it made the top 20. that idea itself is not related to any particular bad thing or other, it's just a song idea which i apparently thought was cool when i came up with it. and slightly cool when i picked it for the top 20. Then i started narrowing it down by eliminating ones from the 20, that was probably one of the first to get eliminated, then i kept eliminating them and eventually i got it down to 1, but i didnt really want to do that one either, so i eliminated that one as well. I just sort of frustratedly shrugged and said "well that wasn't the point", and i un-eliminated all of them and then just quickly chose the "bad thing" one, because it was kind of the one that felt the weakest. because the point is that it shouldn't matter which song you choose, any idea can be made good. And the truth is, it can actually be very energizing to work with a weaker idea, because it makes the creative engine turn on stronger, to compensate. and that's certainly what i noticed, after getting started on it and writing the next 8 bars or so. so sometimes i refer to the "bad thing" as the fact that i accidentally eliminated all of my choices and ended up going with the weakest one. Other times, i tell the story that the "bad thing" was that i spent simultaneously too much and too little time on the production of the song, and accidentally spent the exact right amount of time, but that's another story

1.29.26 8:31 pm what is your opinion on new zealand? not the people or the government or anything, i mean the landmass itself

seems tranquil

1.29.26 8:16 pm yes, taking a picture counts. did you like taking the picture?

i enjoy taking a picture. i mostly enjoy figuring out exactly how to position it within the rectangle

1.29.26 6:35 pm what do you do when you feel like you're failing at everything, and then sabotage your chances of succeeding because you don't believe in yourself?

take a walk

1.29.26 6:28 pm how familiar are you with the idea of entropy? i ask because i just learned the full scientific definition of temperature and its kinda insane

people always seem to throw that word around in a very bad news kind of way but i honestly dont get the meaning. they're usually trying to explain why the world sucks

1.29.26 5:48 pm Is it weird that I've kept a can of soda on my desk since early 2023?

1.29.26 5:40 pm disclaimer: this might come off as more of an existential rant than a question. i love how into songwriting you are. you are among the only people on earth that i really resonate with when they talk about it. but then again, one thing differentiates us two. you actually do it. you put out songs. i understand everything you're talking about when answering these questions, i feel as if i percieve it the same way you do, sometimes i even console myself saying it's what i live for, yet i still don't make music. you give beautiful inspiring insights, yet i still can't regularly put them to use. it means so much to me that it scares me out of it. and it's this constant cycle of wanting it too much and not wanting it enough. sometimes i catch myself in the middle ground with the guitar in my hand but that middle ground is so unpredictable and it throws me off every time it comes by me. it's so short as well. it leaves me dazed, journaling for so long in attempt to uncover what made me land at the sweet spot. i almost always get too self conscious before anything worth sharing feels complete, yet it always gives me a little hope. but it's been 6 years... i've been officially in love with music for the last 6 years. 4 of which i have been in this stagnant state. i convince myself i dont need it. i judge myself when i see others succeed. how do i actually get myself to actually and consistently do it??? how do i balance out wanting it too little and too much on a regular basis??? i love creating so much it genuinely, literally hurts when i'm not doing it. and most of the time i'm not doing it. i'm sorry if this is a bit intense, i don't mean to burden you with any emotions. but if you have any wisdom to share with me, it would be greatly appreciated. thank you for everything you do by the way

all i can say is, one day you will probably find yourself on the other side of this conversation, advising someone who is envious of the things you seemingly so simply just "can do". but of course they'll have no idea what it took you to get there

1.29.26 5:35 pm Is meh a word or a sound

both

1.29.26 4:33 pm Opinions on 42?

highly composite, also has multiple pop culture references

1.29.26 4:24 pm do you know how to stop being terrified of recording vocals

i think sometimes what happens in life is there's something more terrifying than doing that, and then you realize the benefit of singing outweighs the consequences. or maybe you just realize that anyway, without the secondary thing

1.29.26 4:09 pm this questions page has honestly probably saved people's lives. Which is really weird to think about. Have you ever thought about that?

yes i have. makes the purple and yellow color scheme not seem so bad after all

1.29.26 4:04 pm how do i forget about the love of my life

new love?

1.29.26 3:09 pm Its hard to care for many individual things due to the level of focus and care i give to things i care about

isn't that ok?

1.29.26 2:55 pm would you ever take a vacation to china?

maybe but not right now

1.29.26 12:51 pm will you give a straight answer to a question on here?

sometimes i give them way too straight and i need to take a moment to settle down

1.29.26 12:48 pm Would you lie?

(lying) "no"

1.29.26 11:53 am Why do people laugh?

because it's ridiculous. but this only raises another question, what does ridiculous mean. and that's something that, seemingly only you know. but, for some reason, in that moment, someone else seemed to know it exactly too. that's what's so amazing, hence the physical response. sorry for circular definition

1.29.26 11:30 am When you were doing the 2 week schedules, were you getting anything else done in that time as well? Don't get me wrong, I can sing and play guitar for hours on end but production is laborious to me. I've noticed you learn languages and do maths in your spare time, that gives me some hope.

i recall watching an entire kenny loggins concert after finishing the song but before starting the video. this was in november so this was one of the later ones. things tend to get compressed toward the end as time goes on. because it's always a dire situation but then when you actually pull it off you get the idea that what you did was possible. so you end up pushing it a little further. until you push it too far and it collapses. i've been through this a number of times

1.29.26 10:23 am how many seconds are there in a day?

86400

1.29.26 9:33 am i like singing but im not musically inclined or talented. would it be wise to pursue it as a career?

it all depends how much you feel you want to

1.29.26 4:42 am What if one day someone kept calculating pi and it just.. stopped

it has been proven that it doesnt stop. apparently by a guy named Lambert?

1.29.26 4:12 am Does Dasani Water count as water?

yes i believe so

1.29.26 3:35 am In "just did a bad thing" you said at the end of the song "just did a strange thing, now everything's pink". You also commonly say your songs are based on how it felt to write them. how did everything become pink during the songwriting (whether literally or metaphorically)? Also big fan of your vids, bill

i'll tell you exactly what that is. it's a song ending. it's a very strange thing for a song to end. when you're in the song, the song is the whole world. but eventually the song has to end and you have to transition into the world outside of that song. so song endings, at least for me, often have this weird shocking quality to them, kind of like a vestubule of a building, or a decompression chamber. or that space between the inner and outer wrapper, on a loaf of bread.

nevermind, better metaphor, it's like the song is dying. the song ends, so the ending of songs often sounds like the song is being killed. that way a plausible next move for the song at that point would be to no longer be playing

1.29.26 1:54 am HAVEC YOU EVER TRIED TYPING WITH CAPS LOCK ENGAGED? IT HELPS YOU FEEL POWERFUL

the strongest thing about caps lock is the contrast it has to its non-capped surroundings

1.29.26 12:49 am do you play electric guitar?

if necessary

1.29.26 12:00 am Define "bagel"

sort of like a school project version of Saturn

1.28.26 11:34 pm what is your opinion on tape

be kind, please rewind

1.28.26 11:14 pm why was six afraid of 7

because they both became so violently trendy so suddenly that corruption and excess drove them into paranoid jealous rage

1.28.26 10:46 pm What would happen if Saturn was turned into a chocolate donut? its a school project, trust.

in that case, some of the other students might also need to turn it into other things as well

1.28.26 10:33 pm do you like those sticky hands that they sell at the dollar store

too strong at first. let it get nice and dusty

1.28.26 10:25 pm I think you only answer questions that aren't cultural based.

i disagree, there's cultural references here through and through

1.28.26 9:21 pm Can you recall having visited a haberdashery?

1.28.26 9:13 pm so what should i do instead of adding a new layer every 2 bar loop

do you not like doing that? if you like doing that then you should do it. if you do not like it, then we can talk but it's still gonna have to be your own discovery

1.28.26 8:16 pm have you ever done photography, and (if so) did you like it?

i have taken a picture, does that count

1.28.26 8:03 pm can you list all easter eggs/references in "perfect." that were intentional

no that would certainly ruin the fun for both of us

1.28.26 7:06 pm you said you would release new music "regularly for a long time starting pretty soon". How much is "a long time"? How much content and music have you been making and saving?

i have no exact way to measure or predict these things, but maybe it will make you feel reassured to know that it's something my life depends on. you may be excited for it, but whatever the urgency is for you i can assure you it's even stronger for me

1.28.26 5:33 pm you say 'most' of your songs are about songwriting, and I can see this. my question is, are there any you have in mind that are most understandably about something else, or do you say that just to be safe

i think they are all primarily about songwriting, and then secondarily pretty much anything in the universe can creep in. heck, just about the whole universe is welcome, or should be, in songwriting

1.28.26 5:31 pm am i the best person ever?

sometimes

1.28.26 5:20 pm have you figured out what money means?

thank you for referencing that song

1.28.26 4:33 pm how do you put on a belt

it's complicated

1.28.26 4:27 pm was the small noise at the beginning of "and the day goes on" made specifically for the track or was it just like some room noise that made it there by accident or semi-accident

i made that on purpose. i probably got the idea after having done the video, because i needed something to go with the grass sleeping, but the song wasnt released yet so i felt it was good also for audio song version

1.28.26 3:36 pm What is your favourite book?

switching from book to book. that's the only thing that does it for me anymore

1.28.26 2:57 pm Do you plan to release only the most refrigerated music

i'd like to go for a variety of temperatures

1.28.26 2:35 pm What would happen if Earth was dipped into Jupiter?

memes

1.28.26 2:14 pm how close are you to approaching the singularity?

i dont know if it would be possible to measure that

1.28.26 12:13 pm Any thoughts/comments on your songs with more explicit meaning ex "I'm scared" and "More than a dream" vs more abstract meaning ex "Fly around" and "I'm a princess"? Or would you say that there is no different levels of explicitness in meaning and that it's just the listener's perspective that makes some songs' meanings seem more prominent?
(Addendum: "Fly around" has a lot of meaning to me as a song about memories + growing up but it could also just be based on my personal experience of life.)

let's be honest, all my songs are about the wild and deep thrills i get out of songwriting. songwriting means everything to me. naturally, most of my songs are about that

1.28.26 12:00 pm i've run into a very very minor issue of ethics that affects literally nobody: self-confidence and selflessness are needed to be a better person, but being self-confident feels a lot like putting myself on a pedestal, which feels like narcissism (not good). wghatt to i dooo because i can't just say "oh i'm so smart, i'm so strong, i'm not chopped and i have so many friends" then i feel like a horrible egotistical person but if i don't say that then i feel worthless BILL HELP ME

out of all the parodoxes found in nature, and in the world, this one is pretty standard. you can just be both. Everyone else is already doing it because it never occurred to them to think about it so closely. I'm not suggesting you think less, that probably wont work for you anyway, but what you can do is enjoy the wild ride of this living dichotomy, which, as i said before, is certainly one of the most standard ones found in nature and the world

1.28.26 11:51 am how do I prove to the world that I am a unique human being?

that's for only you to know, and the rest to find out

1.28.26 11:41 am thoughts on adding a new layer every 2 bar loop

meh

1.28.26 11:16 am how exactly can one "go nuts" in writing?

1. make up a new way, any way. 2. see if you like how it felt or what it did for you. 3. do it again, now youre getting the hang of this

1.28.26 9:30 am any particular opinion on logical operators?

great for party games

1.28.26 8:06 am Are they still guarding the coast?

thank you for referencing that song

1.28.26 6:51 am how do you learn music theory?

maybe the first dirty secret is, when you take a look behind the curtain, it turns out there is nothing that's actually called that. all that stuff that the people in front of the curtain were calling that, doesnt really exist or do what they think it does. it's all just music. music is music. but now, what is music? in some ways this unanswerable question is the actual reason music is made. so basically what i'm saying as soon as you have curiosity about music, that's when you are instantly ready to make music

1.28.26 5:48 am should i run a marathon

sure but run some shorter distances first

1.28.26 3:01 am when will you release more music?

regularly for a long time starting pretty soon

1.28.26 2:39 am How do I deal with extreme guilt

get a little more busy with some new things

1.28.26 2:19 am thoughts on when people ask you to elaborate on a previous answer?

hit or miss

1.28.26 2:01 am thoughts on u-substitution?

dank

1.28.26 1:23 am WOAH! I just pressed the "I'm feeling randy" button and it turned out there was nothing to be scared about. This has been a great lesson for m- oh yeah the question. The question is why do i hide under my bed every night?

maybe there's fewer monsters on that side

1.27.26 11:04 pm roses are red, violets are blue

are you sure

1.27.26 10:59 pm do you know the last digit of pi

no last digit

1.27.26 10:55 pm can you answer this question?

yes i believe so

1.27.26 10:12 pm I noticed that today when you were answering questions, you used the phrases "AND. x AND y" and "know exactly how to fly the ship until after a few hundred episodes" twice each.
Will you be using these phrases in the future or is this more of a one off thing?
Have you used these phrases in the past before when answering questions or are they brand new to the ueqstions page?

it's not uncommon for certain phrases to come up twice in a row. because i answer the questions in order, it's not unheard of that a phrase will still be on my mind from a previous question, and, on rare occasions, it may seem to fit quite well on another question. this would be the case with your second example. Your first example, however, is something i've used before, and i find it works well on the "x or y" questions

1.27.26 9:58 pm You seem to shrug off rules and conventions, rights & wrongs, shoulds & shouldn'ts, etc. With somewhat of an 'anything goes' philosophy, do you ever feel guilt? Obligation? (I'm very principle and duty-oriented, and I'm trying to imagine what it would feel like to just let it go.)

i disagree with your assessment. it may have been taken out of context

1.27.26 9:23 pm What is the most nonsensical answer to this question?

there is unfortunately no limit to nonsense

1.27.26 7:08 pm what are you working on at the moment?

voluptuous amounts of CONTENT

1.27.26 7:01 pm How much wood wouldn't a non-wood chuck not chuck if a non-wood chuck wouldn't chuck wood?

all of it

1.27.26 5:43 pm are you a real thinker? are you not a thinker? are you both?

there's got to be even more combinations

1.27.26 5:39 pm 6 7?

you'll never believe what number comes next

1.27.26 5:19 pm i'm about to start teaching myself singing (by practicing) but i do hear that if you do it wrong you may risk damaging your voice. that sounds unpleasant, do you have any tips on how to avoid this?

hydrate a lot and basically dont scream

1.27.26 4:45 pm Favorite flag

checkered

1.27.26 3:53 pm im having trouble figuring out what to write

how about writing everything, just to be safe

1.27.26 3:12 pm Do you enjoy the band Dire Straits and what is your favourite song by them? (mine is planet of new orleans)

there's this instrumental guitar riff that i hear in stores sometimes, which i've been informed is dire straits

1.27.26 2:41 pm if you can be king of one entire country for TWO MINUTES, which country would you pick?

usa

1.27.26 2:03 pm should antidisestablishmentarians all get pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and die?

no. what should happen is there should be there should be a top ten list of longest words, and then there should be a prize for memorizing them. this would make a lot of people happy

1.27.26 1:31 pm are you becoming too powerful?

not quite yet, but almost

1.27.26 12:48 pm What do you do when bored

something different

1.27.26 11:36 am Do you know what aspect of jukeboxes make them particularly juke for a given box?

the song repertoire, and to a lesser extent the quality of the soundsystem

1.27.26 11:12 am Do you think it's somebody's job to come up with the names of paint colors? Like obviously someone has to do it, but is there a person who shows up to work every day to stare at color swatches and decide which should be called "Miami sunrise" and which should be "gilded eiderdown" or whatever? How does one even apply for such a position? And how many people have this job? Are all the paint colors in all the home improvement stores in the world controlled by a cabal of like 45 color commissars? That would make the world seem so large, yet so very small.

somewhere between design and marketing, these roles exist. actually now that i think about it it might often be the person who starts the company who decides on the colors

1.27.26 10:07 am Ever wonder how things happen?

yes i do

1.27.26 10:02 am how do i ask a question

just like that

1.27.26 8:20 am Rarely, I'll come up with short songs or tunes, and I'll record me humming them so that I don't forget them. Now I find myself wanting to have them recorded on piano or something so that they exist in a more realized form, but to do that it seems like I'd have to buy a keyboard, learn how to play it, and practice a bit just to get a dozen short tunes. I'm not necessarily interested in playing piano in any other capacity, so it'd be a lot of work for something that I feel should be simple, am I missing some easier way to just get a realization of these songs? Thanks in advance, love your stuff.

if you try to do 10 steps at once (or as you called it, "a lot of work" and some procedures you described) it probably wont work out the way you expected. i think it's very important to work your way into these things one reasonable step at a time. similar to the way i described a few questions down about how you wont know exactly how to fly the ship until after a few hundred episodes

1.27.26 7:45 am what are your favorite kinds of questions to answer?

purple

1.27.26 7:23 am Have u ever played Dungeons and Dragons

dragons, not dungeons

1.27.26 7:15 am Is "pineapple on pizza" a sin?

it varies by region

1.27.26 5:17 am if you had a late-night TV show would you have an opening monologue with jokes about the current affairs and close off by saying "we got a great show tonight"

that sounds too generic, but like most things i wouldnt know exactly how to fly the ship until after a few hundred episodes

1.27.26 4:36 am What if the things I want to do and enjoy doing are not sustainable for my long term well being? Should I still do them? Stop? Or is the answer more nuanced?

answer C, more nuanced, final answer

1.27.26 3:01 am Opinions on the phrase "au contraire"?

comes from french, but it might not be used in french the same way it's used in english. these things tend to drift a little

1.27.26 1:58 am unicycles or tricycles?

AND. unicycles AND tricycles

1.27.26 1:43 am bill will I ever find a house to live in

yes i believe so

1.27.26 12:53 am Buckets catch dreams as they fall from the ceiling, but do blankets come into this equation anywhere?

blankets are not mentioned in that song

1.26.26 11:54 pm Why do you think 27 is so "coincidental" (for lack of a better term.) For instance, the 27 Club, Weird Al (he started adding it into his work after it coincidentally popped up several times in his work) and many other instances you or I have probably never heard of.

i'm going to start colating a list of references to '28' as a friendly competition

1.26.26 11:54 pm cheese sticks or grated cheese?

AND. cheese sticks AND grated cheese

1.26.26 10:15 pm when have you felt your ego - your sense of 'you' - at its quietest or least present?

if you say it's quiet or unpresent then i would argue i dont think that would be perceptible. unless youre doing it for the likes, in which case you'd want to announce for sure

1.26.26 9:41 pm name a solid beatles song

unfortunately no song is solid

1.26.26 9:13 pm Why are there bee hives but wasp nests? Are there any other scenarios where such synonymous concepts have distinct words?

all over the place. the name for a group of animals is different for almost every animal. this is a classic party game actually

1.26.26 8:35 pm My friends want me to try magic mushrooms. Should I try them?

only if you can't stand the curiosity any longer

1.26.26 8:22 pm I just remembered I can move my piano!

i see your point

1.26.26 7:51 pm Was La de da de da de da de day oh a song you made about your feelings of your switch from Vine to Youtube with celebrating the longer length of videos but mourning the loss of your home? Or was it one of the songs that didn't have a particular reasoning?

neither. it's a song about songwriting (like most of my songs)

1.26.26 7:30 pm what is the meaning of life?

anything and everything

1.26.26 7:24 pm What is your favourite book?

it would have to be one i haven't read and haven't heard of yet. more mysterious that way, although unfortunately i wouldnt be able to name the title

1.26.26 7:06 pm what's the longest song you've written?

i have never written a long song

1.26.26 6:40 pm When should I add reverb?

when your characters are in a room with hard floor and hard walls and not much soft furniture

1.26.26 6:23 pm excluding percussion tracks entirely- approx how many unique sounds (piano, different piano, bass guitar, wurli, etc, that kind of thing) are you typically using in your songs?

i think the answer would somehow disappoint and overwhelm you at the same time

1.26.26 6:08 pm i made a bit of music and each time i'm mostly just disappointed by the gap between what i made and what i wish i made, or what i hoped the result would sound like. does this ever stop

not really, except occasionally by accident

1.26.26 5:31 pm what if inertia is the only thing keeping me going?

then i think it's called 'momentum'

1.26.26 5:14 pm Do I turn left or go straight at the library to reach my aunt's house?

i thought she lived in the library

1.26.26 3:10 pm what if i put all of my eggs in one basket but the basket was just a mirage the whole time and now my eggs are shattered on the ground and no one has ever told me where you're supposed to get eggs from and on top of that i have never even seen eggs or baskets anywhere out in the real world but people still claim to be in possession of them

you're doing great, keep it up

1.26.26 2:54 pm do you like trains

i like the routes for sure

1.26.26 2:25 pm what would be a better name for myself?

magic johnson

1.26.26 1:45 pm why are oranges called oranges
but apples aren't called red

you're interpreting the story backwards. imagine if the color red was called 'apple'. would this make at least a little more sense?

1.26.26 1:41 pm how to live a life without making profit? seems fair

it's kind of difficult to do. because to survive you need resources. but it's not so easy to make the exact right amount of money. it's almost always too little or too much. and you're always gonna need to survive more later, or at least you'll have friends or relatives who will, so you're always going to need more for the future or else risk putting your survival at risk somewhere down the line

1.26.26 1:39 pm How do you become a better writer?

write, live life, go nuts, etc

1.26.26 12:48 pm Hey, Louisiana people here, what color artificial worm should I use for bass fishing on this high pressure day?

this is outside of my wheelhouse for sure

1.26.26 12:25 pm hi im storybpoarding an animation right now do you storyboard your videos before animating them or do you just vomit creative potential at your computer/magical cosmic brain-rock until it makes something beautiful and evocative?

when it's a song video, i always tell myself i should plan the visuals but i dont. the song audio is usually sufficient to drive the action. the one time i did, however, and it was an amazing experience, was in the last verse of 'meet me in september', i suddenly got a huge stomach upset, just hours before the deadline. so basically what i did, while lying in bed, i thought through exactly what i wanted to do. then did it. it was the only tolerable way to perform through the nausea, but it was very effective and i enjoyed it immensely. i felt more in control than usual

1.26.26 10:16 am have you been able to 'think' in 5D or higher?

not nearly as well as in fewer dimensions

1.26.26 10:15 am Do you remember the first time you registered something as music? I have a distinct memory of listening to the end of "Centerfold" by J. Geils band (na na nananana nana na na nanana na na) as a very young child and recognizing the language of pitch for the first time, as separate from words. It was a total mind-blow.

i think in my case, melodic awareness came before language. that could explain why my english is so weird sometimes

1.26.26 10:13 am have you experienced ego death?
i have. it was death-ey.

for some reason i think if youre still saying 'ego death' then i dont think it worked. it tends to be the ego that likes to talk about 'ego' related matters

1.26.26 9:43 am You famously say you don't like albums, but some albums tell a story and are kind of cool. Are there any albums you respect in this regard, where the whole album feels like a big song, and each song in it feels like it belongs there?

i thought i would, because i always assumed that's sort of what they're supposed to do. but then one day i woke up and realized i've never found any that do that for me. i've never even found an album that sounds like the songs are in the right order. i'm sure youre going to recommend some to me now, that's usually how this goes. like when people recommend different cheesecakes to a non-cheesecake fan

1.26.26 2:37 am do you think numerically when writing chords? like I-viiø type of thing?

when notating chords i can write with letters (A, Dmin, etc) or i can use numbers if i dont know what key it's going to be in (1, 4min, etc). but when using numbers i use regular numbers not the roman ones because i just never got comfortable reading roman numbers

1.26.26 2:15 am i'm scared of the "i'm feeling randy button" because of its dangerous looking colors. should i click it?

sure

1.25.26 11:42 pm whats ur favorite number?

if i could just see a list of all of them, to see what i have to choose from....

1.25.26 11:07 pm ive got a spelling bee tomorrow how do i win at spelling

spell everything with all Fs

1.25.26 9:34 pm How've you been for the past 13.8 Billion or so years?

pretty good

1.25.26 9:23 pm hey bill any tips on being more direct with people and telling them stuff to their face

i think if you can start to get your head around what it would truly feel like for them, to hear it, from their point of view, then i think you'll be comfortable saying it

1.25.26 8:09 pm In a wasteland apocalypse, what would you do?

maybe get some rest

1.25.26 7:56 pm i screwed up real bad and lost the love i found. what now?

new love?

1.25.26 7:13 pm I'm on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Have you ever been on a boat in the middle of the ocean?

1.25.26 6:29 pm what's your favorite time signature?

regular

1.25.26 5:58 pm When is the next song going to come out_

pretty soon

1.25.26 2:33 pm how are you so wise? you answer all questions with top accuracy

ah yes, the kool aid i see youve found and drank quite comfortably

1.25.26 12:16 pm what would you do if the world ended tomorrow

technically nothing

1.25.26 10:15 am What's your favorite species of tree

huge

1.25.26 9:55 am Are you interested in stand up comedy?

i think the name of the format ('standup comedy') is inherently embarrassing; but it's a perfectly great format. perhaps 'public speaking' would be a much much more appropriate name for this format. the strange thing is, calling it that would probably make it much much more funny. the formal expectation that something is required to be funny is just about the worst curse you can put on the funnyness of anything

1.25.26 9:01 am so i was making some.... shoddy fuckn 2d vid instead of the 3d like i was hopin ykno, cause like the vid was due in.... i dunno a few weeks or maybe days at that point? cant remember. so something about me is that i have an incredible amount of confidence that i can get anything i want to done, in basically any amnt of time. but ths time i was overly ambitious, and at least a little bit stupid. accepted some things i shouldnt have. and with limited 3d experience under my belt i decided to take on 30s of animation, planning to do it 3d. and they needed a bit more help so i volunteered to take on 30s more. now at the time i was really interested in learning maths and physics, and i had to help out the fam with some stuff. so that took up a lot of my time. and i was planning on doing everything; modeling and rigging characters, setting up env stuff, animating it all, everything. but then i realised nearing the due date that i may not be as superhuman as i thought. and they also were rushing me a bit and i felt increasing anxiety that id never get the video done and theyd be disappointed in me. so i spent the whole of 2 days quickly doing a minute of 2d animation with only some 3d scenes where i felt it didnt look out of place. but it's like fuckin hell, i didnt try hard enough. i probably couldve done it if i took it more seriously. i kept sleeping and doing other stuff. i feel guilty for giving some half heartedly made, botched video to these people instead of giving the best animation i could

i dont think you realize how much better your actual result was than what you would have let it turn into if you could have

1.25.26 8:39 am don't you think its weird you did the "67" motion 11 years before the meme?

no, this is a result of having done a lot of stuff. you know who also runs into this same kind of thing constantly is the simpsons. people say all the time oh my god the simpsons did that along time ago, they 'predicted' it, etc etc. makes me very proud of the time i invented the letter A all those years ago before it became a massive trend to use the letter A

1.25.26 6:51 am should i persist

sure, what the heck

1.25.26 2:44 am Are you still able to enjoy simple music even though you write pretty complex jazzy stuff? Do you ever listen to Believe by Cher because of how incredible it is, despite being a pretty basic song?

there's a lot to unpack here. you assumed 2 things about the song you mention, as if they are facts "it's incredible" and "it's basic". both those things could be true for some people at some times, but they dont have to be. but then the main question you raise, i think, has to do with complex vs simple and is one or the other better to me, and my answer is no absolutely not. complex and simple are both wonderful. stereotypically i feel there is a prevalent viewpoint out there that complexity ruins music, but then again there's another prevalant viewpoint out there that complains about 'mindless/stupid' music. i basically reject both viewpoints, and i maintain that there is not even any definition of what makes music good, AND, most of the time there's not even any eact definition of what makes something complex or simple. but to get perhaps closer to what you were asking, i do like the song, i dont really think it's basic, but i also do not consider 'basic' an inherently positive OR negative trait, nor is it even definable

1.25.26 2:13 am do you think the weekend should have three days instead of two?

from time to time

1.25.26 1:53 am so what do you even get up to in the real world

oh you know, "walkin down the street",

1.25.26 1:33 am you know how they say ignorance is bliss? wurtzian music is the only kind of music that does it for me anymore. i liked my listening habits better before i knew songs like this were out there.

my only response to this is to make some even deeper music to ruin you even more

1.25.26 1:14 am Do you ever feel lonely? Is that normal?

yes it is

1.25.26 12:45 am what's a gizmo that you wish existed

the push button

1.24.26 10:45 pm Let's gooooooo, man just made it to the top of big building

am i the only one curious about how he got down

1.24.26 8:09 pm thoughts on onions?

they seem like they're from outer space

1.24.26 7:26 pm Is creating inside a creation (let's say, inside a videogame) an inferior form of creation than other creations that are not created inside creations?

sometimes it's a brilliant trick. very effective. the fact that you posed the question of it being 'inferior' is kind of a give away that it has an inherent hidden power to it, worthy of guilty feelings

1.24.26 7:10 pm do you live or aspire to live by a defined philosophy? or by a set of your own changing principles? or a mix of both?
even though i rarely adhere to these kind of dichotomies, i feel like everyone falls into one of those three categories.. but if you have an other way of seeing things, feel free to explain, im curious

i think i somehow disagree with everything you just said simultaneously

1.24.26 6:52 pm i want to try to simulate the human mind using a computer. is this a good idea or will i be struck down for my hubris

there is a worldwide trend of trying to do that. at the very least, if nothing else, we'll find out what a mind is not. which may be helpful in our quest anyway

1.24.26 6:47 pm CUE OFF KEY FURY, GO!

thank you for reciting that part of that video here

1.24.26 4:10 pm Has a schedule-your-full-day system ever worked for you?

from time to time that can be a great answer to life's troubles. good to have as a last resort, when things feel too lost

1.24.26 4:01 pm Did you know most microwaves have a mute functionality?

did not know. big if true

1.24.26 2:30 pm Can you help me with my math homework?

maybe

1.24.26 1:11 pm how's old macdonald? is his farm still exploded?

if i were prepared to answer that, this video would have lasted longer than just a few seconds

1.24.26 1:09 pm If its unfeasible but not indefensible, should you commit to it?

let me perform some calculations

1.24.26 12:46 pm do you asdfghjkl

not always so easy to stop before the ;

1.24.26 12:20 pm Whats one instrument you could never live without?

life

1.24.26 11:21 am why are oranges a color and not a fruit

but it is a fruit. it's also a tree

1.24.26 10:48 am eminem had this quote where he says that whenever he's making music he never thinks about making it for a huge audience or critics, but that there's always some kid in like detroit or something who really gets what he's saying, and thats who he makes the music for. when you make stuff, do you think about the fact that its gonna be seen by millions of people or are you making it for that one individual who really gets what youre trying to say?

it's pretty much always a curse to start thinking about what other people are gonna think of something while youre making it. luckily i am very familiar of this curse and the particular feeling of ashamed tiredness it causes, so i can recognize it easily and hopefully dismiss it wholeheartedly

1.24.26 8:51 am so, a while back i had a serious mental breakdown, and i coped by writing stuff.
the stuff i wrote was really amazing, like the best ive ever written
but now i cant seem to write anything thats of the same quality. how do i do that?

ultimately you dont really get to decide whether what you write is 'good' or 'not', or when. but the good news is, it always will be at some point

1.24.26 8:34 am why's it so cold -17 degrees in michigan

probably because it was warm another time

1.24.26 8:32 am petrichor, yes or no?

dank

1.24.26 6:48 am i really like this cliff, you know. and i'm so excited to jump it, but i haven't perfected my parachute yet. and it's taking me a million years to make the parachute well so i don't just fall hard and fast, off into the cliff. and it sucks because i know that it's not really about the cliff, or the experience of jumping off the cliff, no, if i really break this down into segments of time it's about the parachute. but i hate the damn parachute. i don't want anything to do with the damn parachute. but i know that i can't skip the parachute because i won't survive the cliff, you know? but how am i supposed to enjoy the parachute if all i'm thinking about is the cliff

or, equally fair, how are you gonna jump if youre only thinking about the parachute

1.24.26 5:18 am don't you think its weird you had a shirt that had "67" on it 15 years before the meme?

no. the number has existed for at least 20 years or more

1.24.26 4:41 am what guitar tone do you enjoy most nowadays

heck, this would change way faster than a day. to use the food and drink analogy, which do you prefer nowadays food or drink. i suppose what i'm trying to say is, different sounds and tones are to each other just like food and drink

1.24.26 3:22 am do you ever have an existential crisis? what kind of thoughts go through your mind?

if i can express and portray the things i'm going through, it will all be worth it

1.24.26 3:03 am so, in my focus on mt. st. helens and your subsequent music of it, i've decided to really take up writing my own music, something i've only dabbled in since i can never really write good poetry. what do you do to make lyrics? take whatever comes to mind and elaborate from there? what about when you can't elaborate any further?

it almost looks like somewhere along your question, the words got disconnected from the music. to use a cookie making analogy: some people wonder what really makes a good left half of a cookie

1.24.26 1:08 am i thought i was doing really good for my age but then i saw a few people my age doing more than me in 1 or 2 tricky ways that are unattainable right now, and probably will be for many years. do you think i can i do something about this

keep in mind it's fully plausible that they looked at you and thought you were doing better than them. you know people try to present their best side, especially people who are in the business of doing really good

1.24.26 12:14 am do you think youll ever make your best work

kind of impossible to measure that

1.24.26 12:09 am im at a job interview waiting line right now, any advice?

not until youre in there

1.23.26 10:24 pm How is it possible to manage hype when attempting to do so frequently creates more hype? Is hype the most dangerous form of attention?

believe it or not, hype is self-calming

1.23.26 9:32 pm I have really pervasive struggles with resistance even though I'm way happier when I'm creating and not giving in to it. Do you have any hot tips for dealing with this? Spicy hot and temperature hot are both okay

this should work out automatically. if you enjoy it so much, then if you dont do it you'll eventually become so desperate to do it that you'll just simply do it. the awkward part is sort of the part in between the high and the low

1.23.26 8:49 pm did you write this whole website yourself?

basically the parts that i didnt write are the parts on this page in the purple text

1.23.26 8:35 pm What would you do for a Klondike bar?

thank you for reciting that ad campaign here

1.23.26 7:33 pm this is going to sound incredibly stupid, but. somewhere along the way i mentally tied my physical appearance (especially my youth) to my "deserving" to create art. I made a bit of music i liked, and as i was listening to it i looked in the mirror and saw someone with burgeoning forehead wrinkles and a receding hairline looking back at me, and suddenly i felt like i dont deserve to make art and that it only belongs to people that still have their youth.

if i may tell you the opposite side of the story, people who are young and attractive sometimes find themselves in a peculiar situation where they find they have to work twice as hard to convince people they actually have real talent. sometimes they feel they need to overcome the perception that their success is based on looks alone

it felt like i needed to give up on art and just get a boring job and try and start a family or whatever. i understand this is stupid and based on societal expectations and recognizing patterns of young attractive people making music and old people working normal jobs. but. its really affecting my ability to conceptualize myself making art in the future. I keep imagining myself at like 47 strumming the same stupid guitar and playing the same chords and i feel so infantile.

if youre bored with strumming that particular guitar then that has nothing to do with age. if youre having these thoughts then it almost seems like you might be bored with it now already

i really respect how committed you are to making art for as long as you can be alive, and i feel the same way, it just feels so stupid to have a hang up like this interfere with what i'd ostensibly thought was my life's mission. maybe if im weak enough to let something like aging bother me this much then i wasn't cut out for making art. i dont know. maybe you've felt something similar? sorry about this stupid rambling non-question vent session. also im 23 years old yeah yeah yeah cue laugh track i know i know im young. i just feel old as balls

there are so many different ways to go about all these life issues, i dont even think i could list them all. but it seems pretty standard that the biggest and brightest stars of creativity have certainly suffered at least the same insecurities as you've felt. but it seems like this sets up a nice pit of misery to rebel against. which is exactly what your work needs to make it come alive

1.23.26 5:30 pm do you think i, alone in my bedroom, can get comfortable and confident with musical improvisation

of course

1.23.26 3:55 pm how is your friendship going on with your front door ?

that's just a song you are referring to, which i appreciate

1.23.26 3:34 pm why be the next big thing

someone's gotta do it

1.23.26 3:12 pm i'm eating peas and carrots now, and soon i will brush my teeth and go to bed. i got paid less than i thought i should today but then i checked the pay slip and it was actually correct which bummed me out but also made me feel relieved bc i wouldnt want to send any emails about not getting enough money

now that's what i call storytelling

1.23.26 3:03 pm Using yesterday as an example, do you spend more of your time working on songs or videos?

currently i'm woking on underscoring for non-song videos

1.23.26 2:04 pm do you qwertyuiop

yes i believe i do

1.23.26 2:01 pm Is reloading this page useful for anything?

i suppose it would be useful to find out if it's been updated since you last loaded it

1.23.26 1:18 pm If you were a pirate sailing upon the seven seas, what would you steal from unsuspecting merchant vessels?

technically yes

1.23.26 12:44 pm what inspires you to make music?

it's an incredibly powerful (and, let's be honest, mostly subliminal) emotional communication tool. really a must-have

1.23.26 11:45 am were you going to say no but now that you thought about it yes

i was going to say yes but now that i think about it no

1.23.26 11:03 am all this time i thought you used times new roman but you actually use some sick fucking distorted version and i'd like to know what that font is

on this page there's no font. whatever sick font you're seeing, that's just whatever sick ass distorted font you have on default in your web browser

1.23.26 10:41 am what's your opinion on winter?

makes the summer seem warmer and brighter

1.23.26 9:46 am Why is fear such a good motivator?

why wouldnt it be

1.23.26 5:25 am what gets you out of the bed in the morning

the at least 75% of my work and almost 100% of my best work that hasnt been made yet

1.23.26 3:41 am What do you think about songs which repeat the same lyric without ever expanding on the idea of that lyric? Also, what do you think about songs which repeat the same chords or rhythms throughout the entire song without changing them up?
Does it feel like the musician is trying to pad out the runtime of their song by minimizing the effort spent composing the song and writing the lyrics, or is there a good reason to keep repeating some parts of a song without variation? Why does it feel like modern songs are just composed of simple loops and lyrics, rather than feeling like every part of the song is unique?

there's a lot to unpack here. first, the golden rule. what one listener might find 'useless and repetitive', another listener might find totally enthralling. and, for a different song, those same two listeners' opinions might even be reversed.

totally separate question, do music artists sometimes try to fill out the runtime of songs just because they think it 'should' fill up that much time; probably yes some people do that and i'd be of course wholeheartedly against that and i lecture against it frequently. part of a general anti-should worldview that i probably have, when it comes to creativity. ("should i do this, should i do that, whats the 'correct' way", art suffocates when asked these questions. either it's driving you wild or it's not.)

then thirdly you indicated that you are feeling that songmakers currently seem to be generally not living up to your expectations of them. It is perfectly natural and normal to feel this way. And what i always strongly advocate is: use this frustration to fuel your inspiration to do it better. If you truly believe you are onto something that 'most other songmakers' are not, ..... then, ... my goodness what a huge gift that is. this is exactly the kind of scenario that can inspire a whole career

1.23.26 3:26 am How can I live laugh love in these conditions

basically you just gotta put up the live laugh love sign and then people will think you are normal. it means "i'm normal"

1.23.26 2:06 am do you have a preferred type of spaghetti sauce?

regular

1.22.26 11:29 pm Has this exact question ever been asked before?

yes i believe so

1.22.26 10:32 pm hw 2 eb cvitaere w.out lokin rndom??? ? i wnt 2 hve fnu bt hw mch is 2 mch ? do u evn ndrstnd wht im syin or should I stop trying to be unique for the sake of actual communication? I just don't know anymore.

how to be HOW TO BE c.

(take a break)

how to be creative without looking random:

sometimes it's good to go back and forth between pretending you are and arent there

1.22.26 9:25 pm Is it ever useful to harp on the past?

is there a way to harp nicely

1.22.26 8:53 pm i've been making instrumentals actively for about half a year now, and i want to move into songwriting. but that involves writing lyrics, and whenever i try doing that, i always think "this is too cheesy" and scrap it. did you ever experience this, and how did you get through it (at least partially)

the problem is you havent figured out how to put your deepest feelings into words. heck, you may not have even allowed your deepest feelings to learn how to speak. in fact i know you havent. (you'd know if you have, it feels pretty psycho). So at this juncture the only thing youve been able to do is to just kind of.... write what maybe most other people would have... written? which of course is cheesy and not even real. so basically you need to do the crazy thing of, little by little, actually teaching your deepest darkest demons to talk. which feels psycho and is pretty psycho, for sure. allow approximately the same amount of time as it took your superficial self to learn how to talk

1.22.26 8:11 pm bill i think i speak for all of us when i say the world will only start healing once you start releasing songs again. my question to you is: what is the rough timeline on when you will start healing the world with your songs?

right away

1.22.26 7:26 pm is it really you answering or someone you bullied into doing this.

probably the reason i do things the way i do is because i never learned how to bully anyone. honestly it can sometimes be seen as a problem

1.22.26 7:11 pm i don't write lyrics because my mic is bad

if you only knew how much the world has been craving bad mic music

1.22.26 6:31 pm How to remember more about other people?

i think just spend more time with them

1.22.26 6:27 pm What do you think of monday?

not the most reliable thing

1.22.26 5:33 pm should I make peanut butter and jelly sandwich or not make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

both, in due time

1.22.26 5:07 pm What do I do with my life?

if i did know, i don't think i would want to spoil the surprise

1.22.26 4:33 pm have you ever accidentally made somethin perfect?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.22.26 3:13 pm What are the political impacts of frozen shrimp?

it creates jobs. someone's gotta unfreeze all that shrimp

1.22.26 1:05 pm can you speak like a pirate?

no but i also dont really know how pirates speak

1.22.26 1:03 pm is the future bright

yes i believe so

1.22.26 10:52 am dear bill, I'm terrified. sincerely, scaredy jones

in that case, i apologize for the scary response

1.22.26 10:35 am Parlez-vous français?

not quite

1.22.26 10:30 am Should one go with the flow or swim against the current to see where the source of the flow is?

certainly you can try both

1.22.26 10:23 am What is the worst possible name to give to a clothing brand?

old navy

1.22.26 9:14 am What should my next painting be about

see if you can make it about the next future painting after that

1.22.26 8:53 am do you think that "prehistoric" (i do not like this term) men drawing murals in cave already thought "everything cool has already been done, i cant bring anything new to the art of mural painting!"

absolutely. it's normal for anyone to think this at any point in their life, about anything

1.22.26 7:39 am so, imagine, if I went at corner store, so, are there any cashier or worker... Or not?

well i think it depends what year it is. like if it's before 2 thousand and... something... then yes, people work in the store. who knows, later on the store might become just more of a hang out spot anyway

1.22.26 7:28 am would you say tom jones is a cool name?

absolutely

1.22.26 6:07 am . o sureeee u just djdbdhufbrhdjd and it's done. no need to panic. Well i mean there is but th unavoidable panic of not getting it done is wat gets it done i think, meaning i eventully do get it done so the panic of not getting it done is technically not valid but it puts pressure on me to get it done so i need it . i like how it makes me feel depended on
Is that relatable or am i a masochist

it is relatable but i also dont really know the word masochist, so it might be both

1.22.26 5:24 am when did you start answering the questions similar to "what is your favorite on all your creations" with something similar to "i'm gonna create another one to be my favorite
i'm scared of things that i love to be scared of

that's always been the way i answer that. if it were really time to shop for favorites then that implies there is no longer the ability to do anything new. i have yet to really make anything that lives up to what i imagine i am capable of, but with each new thing you make the hope is alive that you might do it this time. i think any artist would agree with this, it's pretty standard

1.22.26 3:57 am What do I do if I can't do a backflip ?

figure out what you can do

1.22.26 3:21 am What is the best possible question to ask in here?

whatever you actually ask

1.22.26 1:26 am have you ever asked yourself a question on here and then answered it?

absolutely not

1.21.26 11:32 pm opinions on clouds? favourite cloud, least favourite cloud? i love all cloud types except stratocumulus, it serves no purpose and i would prefer normal (real) cumulus instead.

my opinion on clouds is you know some cloud terminology

1.21.26 9:29 pm what is your favorite song

whichever song is currently playing is either my least favorite if i dont like it, and my favorite if i like it

1.21.26 6:55 pm do you ever feel crushing anxiety at the thought that you might never create enough or reach whatever your "full creative potential" may be? there is obviously only one solution to this which is to just keep creating. but i am still afraid.

this is all normal

1.21.26 6:02 pm it's friday, bill. do you know what that means?

you're making this up

1.21.26 5:40 pm My process is seemingly so different from yours (as I understand it). You write your songs first on paper in a quiet space, and later actually hear how it sounds on instruments, correct?

that's one of many methods. nowadays i usually have a keyboard with me

Like you know in your head what it's going to sound like? To me that seems CRAZY as so much of the writing process TO ME is feeling out what chord best fits next to hit emotionally where I feel the song going, a process that I feel I could never capture abstractly to ever "mathematically"

whoa whoa whoa hold on. Are you able to sit in a quiet room and write down english sentences that you'd want to say, and is there anything 'mathematical' about that?

deduce what chord I'm looking for, you know? I'm sure much more music theory will give me more options and allow me better guesses at the next chord, but I could never write a song in my head the same way. (I say "in my head", but of course I mean only hearing it in my head while writing) I guess my question is... are you able to distinguish the emotional impact of the chords you choose, even when not hearing the song as you write it?

if i couldnt then it certainly would not be safe to write without an instrument. similarly, and i always use the language analogy, if you werent comfortable speaking and writing in english, it would be impossible to coherently write things, such as your question, without speaking them. but, again, like the language analogy, this takes YEARS of experience. this is not something that a person can do in their first few weeks of learning, let's say, their first language. or even their second

Do you think of chords in that way, or is it more informed by theory?

for the above reasons that question makes no sense to me. i suppose that would strike me as an enormous 'false dichotomy'

I would love some insight into that side of your process. How do you know what chords, inversions, voicings, qualities, etc are going to hit how you expect them to when you go to record a song you have written?

the same way you know what words to use, which, as i always say, is quite a miracle. the imagination is mysterious and powerful

(Of course this is all built on the assumption that I understand your writing process being done on paper first, and assuming you have all the chords written out, and a melody in mind, before actually playing any notes... please correct me if Iam wrong.) Thanks Bill, love your work :)

1.21.26 5:04 pm why is your computer in Dutch?

nou ja, geen idee eigenlijk

1.21.26 4:37 pm why do some many people use apostrophes in the wrong manner when writing/typing a word that ends in s. like for example they'll type "i need to grab my notebook's" i hate it so much

once you do it the correct way for long enough you may begin to tire of the correct way

1.21.26 4:06 pm what's the font you use in most of your videos? and is it your favorite font?

it's just regular. and what i like about it is it doesnt distract from what the words are saying. it's as if the contents itself is the font

1.21.26 3:09 pm does it get better?

yes

1.21.26 2:51 pm is it bad that i'm not doing anything creative lately?

it's neither bad nor good. but, with creativity, you can be both

1.21.26 1:50 pm If a self driving car has a computer to drive it, is the car driving itself or the computer driving the car?

the computer can be considered part of the car. the car is driving itself, OR, it could also be considered that the user has driven the car by selecting its desetination. OR it could also be considered that the creators and designers of the car could be complicit in the driving because they created the machine to do it

1.21.26 1:09 pm what is your aesthetic ideology?

at this point, what comes to mind is: Sometimes as an audience member we may see something and think to ourselves "eh, that was probably faked. or at least if it wasnt, it could have been. or even SHOULD have been, to save time." Regardless of whether the thing was faked or not, this still creates a lousy detached feeling for the audience, just to have been brought to this thought process. So the goal is to find ways to never give the audience that feeling. this might be one of the most exciting creative challenges there ever was, but at the same time it's also an echo of similar challenges at earlier stages in our technological history

1.21.26 1:05 pm what do you think of chalk?

"i can't believe it"

1.21.26 12:34 pm why do i feel so miserable when im sick

maybe this is to remind you not to get sick again

1.21.26 11:32 am How do you adapt to making videos when the Internet changes what gets popular over the years

i guess it just depends whether you want to be a leader or a follower. if you are a follower then i guess you just decide who youre following and that's it. just do the same as them, i suppose. and if youre a leader then you do fuckall what

1.21.26 11:20 am would you believe me if i told you that i can play what a fool believes?

something about your choice of words gives the impression that you are viewing it as an accuracy challenge, rather than something as comfortable as, for example, a selection of clothing to wear

1.21.26 10:09 am do you have any pet peeves about the way people record music sometimes?

surely i do. but that doesnt mean they're doing anything wrong

1.21.26 9:15 am Do you ever think about how, every month, for years, and for years to come, millions of people deeply appreciate you and your work?
Does your impact on all these individuals matter to you, or do you do your thing just as an outlet to express your emotions?
Either way, thank you so much. You are a blessing to humanity, and the world is a slightly but noticeably better place because of you.

i am seeing a lot of generosity in this analysis

1.21.26 7:13 am why do you think the word orange is also orange in french? and why is both the name of a color and a fruit?

the reason it's a color and a fruit is because the color is named after the fruit. and the reason it's the same in french is because it's been around for a while

1.21.26 6:05 am it's my birthday can you say happy birthday for my birthday on my birthday (today) day

but what if i want the days before and after to be happy instead

1.21.26 4:29 am do you like oreo milkshakes?

that seems like it could be too intense

1.21.26 3:26 am Do you think you could play the trumpet better than a rooster?

sure, but, they could make way better rooster noises than me

1.21.26 3:24 am whats your remedy to move on from someone, especially if they didnt hurt you (things would be easier if i just hated them dammit)

the way to move on from anything is to focus on something else. it sounds almost too simple

1.21.26 2:19 am have you ever used coconut oil to soothe cracks on your hands due to them drying out after excessive time in water

no i dont believe so

1.21.26 12:40 am Should I stay home from work tomorrow, just because I really really want to?

i'm not sure

1.20.26 10:30 pm what if one were to go on a short, short, short journey instead of a long, long, long one?

seems pretty chill

1.20.26 10:30 pm do you like to watch sunsets

sure, but i dont necessarily go looking for them

1.20.26 9:21 pm i loved at the corner store, when are you gonna release more music?

very soon

1.20.26 8:42 pm How is your motivation today compared to average?

average

1.20.26 8:33 pm who do you think will win super bowl lx? thank you for your time

the NFL

1.20.26 7:59 pm Do you find yourself naturally driven to experiment and create in the way that you seem to do in your videos? Long time fan, love your work.

i dont understand the question, but you are very generous

1.20.26 7:50 pm Is there some significance to the phrase "i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes"?

it's one of the 3 basic answers. "yes", "no", and "i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes". Actually, now that i think about it, there logistically should be a 4th one: "i was going to say yes but now that i think about it no". But for some reason the "no-->yes" version seems to be used at least 10x more often than "yes-->no". i wonder what that says about the underlying yesness of questions

1.20.26 7:33 pm can you answer a question from my pet ferret

can the ferret ask a question

1.20.26 6:53 pm can you help me on homework pleasee

sure

1.20.26 6:33 pm have you ever just ran around in the grass for no apparent reason

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.20.26 6:12 pm Would you agree that it's easier to find creative motivation if you're not doing whatever creative outlet just for the sake of doing it? (You have some sort of extrinsic or motivator like a group project, a concert/convention, a(n online) following) Or perhaps an intrinsic motivator, like it keeping you from being bored, or you seeing your thoughts, and ideas and such coming to life through whatever medium...

it's the kind of thing that fluctuates just like weather patterns basically

1.20.26 5:55 pm What came first, the chicken or the egg

both simultaneous, yet gradually

1.20.26 5:37 pm Do u are hav reggae?

yes i believe so

1.20.26 5:27 pm what's your favorite chess square? from a1 to h8

1.20.26 5:22 pm in a world of so much good shit, what makes you want to shit?... i think i just answered my question by using this allegory but i would actually like to hear your take on this. What makes you want to create when so much has already been created?

the vast majority of possible things have NOT yet been created. it's like the freakin gold rush actually

1.20.26 5:10 pm Dude, please release smth. I need new songs from Bill wurtz in my life

dont worry there's going to be plenty and they will be way crazier than all the others so far

1.20.26 5:03 pm is everything the same, or is everything different? which option of this false dichotomy do you resonate more with, without any "if any" because i want precisely one of two possible answers

if you want to put those kinds of restrictions on the answer then you might have to answer the question yourself, or resort to someone who is happy to choose between only 2 possible answers

1.20.26 4:47 pm Is every way out also a way in?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.20.26 4:42 pm What else can be done amok besides running amok?

nothing. 'running amok' can be considered one word, which happens to have a space in it. can be conjugated: run amok, runs amok, ran amok, etc

1.20.26 4:29 pm hey bill, i'm in a bit of a pickle. do you have any general advice for pickles in general?

i'm not a good pickle advocate, because i just dont like pickles. but i respect them

also do you plan on releasing any more music in the near future?

yes

1.20.26 3:54 pm is the word the the

let me perform some calculations

1.20.26 2:45 pm do you select the best questions or do you awnser all of them?

kind of neither

1.20.26 2:41 pm why must we feel pain

good feelings might not even feel any good without something at least a little less good than good

1.20.26 2:38 pm Is 2 the most important number? Do most things in life boil down to "one or the other"?

i suppose it COULD be reduced to a long series of binary decisions. for example, even if there's 10 things, you can still narrow it down to 1 just by dividing it into 2 groups a series of times, choosing one of them each time. then you might even make a different choice tomorrow

1.20.26 1:51 pm How do I try to be as good a person as i can be

you already are trying

1.20.26 1:33 pm Is a slice of cheese just an older slice of milk?

it's probably not quite that simple

1.20.26 1:14 pm Do you ever intentionally create ponderability?

certainly

1.20.26 12:54 pm your a stupid person

not entirely an unfair observation

1.20.26 12:45 pm how are you soooo creative?

perhaps i just have a chain that is proverbially easy to yank

1.20.26 11:56 am Would a sadiator be an opposite of a gladiator or a radiator?

no i dont believe so

1.20.26 10:56 am i feel like i have no order in my life and i dont know how to start having order that will actually last

it will happen, maybe by surprise. the reason i think it will be a surprise is because you currently do not know exactly what it's going to be like

1.20.26 8:40 am Do you know or happen to know anyone who is a fish

no i dont believe so

1.20.26 7:52 am Did you know that the only thing differentiating a wall, from a floor or a ceiling, is the earth?

i see what you mean

1.20.26 6:59 am I think trees make sounds when no one is listening. Why would the air stay completely still in the absence of a human? That makes no sense. I think it's dumb to think things only happen when observed. Unless it's in a dream of course, bc you're making the dream while dreaming it. But this is not a dream.
(not saying you think this, of course. Just reacting to that philosophy question in general)

i dont think there are any tree sounds that are entirely exclusive to when no one is listening. or if you look at it another way, there are some things that happen only when no one is listening, but at the scale of a tree something is always listening

1.20.26 6:17 am How does one set serious deadlines for something they've never done before? How can one estimate how long something will take if they've never done it before? I feel I need deadlines to get anything done, but I don't know where to set them.

eventually you will get so much more desperate and then some scheduling idea will emerge that's so simple and tryable that you will be jumping out of your socks to try it

1.20.26 12:45 am what do you do when you feel really restless and frenetic but also tired of things? does it just mean I feel these feelings about two different things

sometimes it's just like the weather. you can just wait it out

1.19.26 10:52 pm is there anything wrong with frolicking in the snow

usually not, but like most things it depends on the context

1.19.26 10:29 pm but what if there is nothing new under the sun?

what if there wasnt anything new 50,000 new things ago (there wasnt, trust me, you can hear everyone saying it on record, from back then. i collect these things for good luck)

1.19.26 9:21 pm do you think life is a one hell of a ride? is there even a term called one heaven of a ride?

'one hell of a' means 'quite a', which means it has that 'wow factor'. the word 'hell' is not really related to 'heaven/hell' in this case

1.19.26 9:16 pm i like how you describe music as if it is a sentient creature

the only reason i describe it like that is because i have no choice. deep down there is simply no taming it

1.19.26 8:55 pm how do i grow an audience without seeming preachy, interjecting self-adverts where it may be annoying (i see ads of people talking about "i'm sending YOU a free cd please listen to our AWESOME MUSIC" (paraphrased) and they make me angry and not want to listen to them ever). I want something a little more graceful

there is a workaround where if you believe in your own content 10x more, then in your reachouts all you have to indicate is that you are there. dont tell anyone what to do, just make many many people aware that you are there. combined with making content which you believe in 10x or 100x more than perhaps the average joe. turns out this is not as tall an order as you might think because there's a lot of people who dont even believe in their content at all, they're just kind of playing this weird game of playing what they think other people would want them to do which in my opinion has no strong effectiveness

1.19.26 8:50 pm how do you force yourself to do things that are somewhat necessary for the future but you do not want to do?

sometimes it helps to get an even clearer idea of what the things are and what their exact influence is on the future. like carrying a baby, it often helps to understand and know the baby as much as possible

1.19.26 8:08 pm do you like weird al

he seems very honest, which i appreciate

1.19.26 7:29 pm you keep saying something along the lines of "i was going to say [blank] but now that i think about it [blank]. Would it be accurate to classify this as a bill wurtzism?

maybe, but it's not particularly original nor unique. sometimes it's just the plain truth. it indicates changing your mind. which i am sometimes a fan and advocate of, sorry for bad english

1.19.26 6:16 pm ive been eyeballing these questions for months now, and it seems like every week you get prouder of the fact that your a real squishy mammalian person(obviousky because ai situation). would you ssy this new concviction is good for you?

it's just another unique trait of this particular era, which one could call 'the golden era of creativity' which, to be fair, is what you could rightfully also call any other era

1.19.26 6:00 pm do you consider answering questions on this page to be an art form? would you say that answering questions is part of the broader art form of "conversation"? do you believe the term "art form" to be poorly defined? or do you disagree with everything i just said?

i mean when you get right down to it, existing is an art form. which everyone is probably guilty of at one time or another

1.19.26 4:23 pm are you a fool on a hill

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.19.26 2:57 pm Should I be worried?

that's just scratching the surface. should you be worried about whether you should be worried?

1.19.26 2:40 pm Hi Bill, how are you doing today?

PRETTY GOOD

1.19.26 2:36 pm What is the meaning of dreams?

that's for them to know and us to wonder

1.19.26 12:56 pm it's painful how you're a complete stranger to me because i read and watch all the things you put on this website, i hear what you talk about, and it feels as if you're the only other person on this planet who is going through the exact same thing i am. it's so eerily resonant with me, in a way nothing has ever resonated with me before. or maybe i'm just crazy and dumb who knoes (know toes) i'm sure it could be like this for a lot of other people with a lot of other artists as well

yes i believe it is. this can be quite common

1.19.26 12:30 pm what year is it

must be in the billions by now

1.19.26 6:24 am How many songs are in each song? Like, some songs have sections that sound like entirely different songs. Just how many songs can one song contain? If you listen to a playlist of individual songs, is the entire playlist just one big song with several parts?

usually there is 1 song per song

1.19.26 4:49 am When does someone become irredeemable?

maybe right around 3:45

1.19.26 4:30 am how would you describe what timbre is?

basically just sound. maybe describing the sound of something that rings or resonates, assuming it could be different sizes and ring/resonate differently

1.19.26 4:27 am letter of the alphabet that looks the best in uppercase but the worst in lowercase? or vice versa

1.19.26 3:42 am Can the same man step into the same river twice?

not exactly

1.19.26 2:39 am Bill, is it a good idea for a complete beginner to start learning with the trumpet? I loooooove songs featuring trumpet, and the idea of learning to play has crossed my mind. Or should I just stick to listening?

every trumpet player once began

1.19.26 2:11 am Do you ever feel as if you'll never be good enough?

no but sometimes i fear that i wont be able to properly demonstrate how good i am. Reading between the lines, i'm sure it would appear here that the underlying problem is that i'm actually not so good, but i never actually fear this

1.19.26 1:14 am Am I a little baby

not exactly

1.19.26 12:47 am Is Antarctica like arctic but for ants? Like a tropical (arctical) getaway

no i dont believe so

1.19.26 12:20 am do you know about my friend jackie

no i dont believe so

1.18.26 11:47 pm if your life depended on it, how long would it take you to learn russian (approx)

a little while

1.18.26 11:16 pm what do you think about toki pona?

it's hard for me to believe that it wouldn't naturally outgrow its intended small box, if ever released into the wild. or actually used

1.18.26 10:44 pm what do you think of the number 37?

111 ÷ 3

1.18.26 10:17 pm do you do four unreasonable things each day

technically yes

1.18.26 10:08 pm sometimes i don't know what to do
what should i do when that happens?

you could always do something and then see what it was

1.18.26 9:45 pm how do i get rid of my crippling agoraphobia

probably exposure therapy, little by little

1.18.26 9:11 pm To own, to rent, or to stream? That is the question.

the question is do any of those 3 actually get you a copy of the god damn file

1.18.26 7:44 pm what do you do when you want to do something but also feel like doing nothing?

start making a list of other things you do and do not want to do. you are in the rare position of having time to do this. might as well take advantage of it

1.18.26 7:43 pm so we can all agree we're human here, yes? this is a safe space for human people where we are all assured each other is human. so you can share the location of earth's world leader, yes? cause im human?

in that case then you should know this just as well or not well as i do

1.18.26 7:35 pm If you scream out into the void, what makes you feel more comforted? hearing a response, or hearing nothing but the echo of your own voice?

the most comforting thing is to be sure that the response is correct and genuine, whatever it may or may not be

1.18.26 7:29 pm if you were going to practice to a song thats 12TET but A= something else, (bach) would you tune your instrument to that, or just pitch the audio to A=440?

could be fun either way

1.18.26 6:50 pm If a tree falls but nobody witnessed the fall, do you think it made a sound?

yes, especially if it was recorded, or even just heard by a person who wasnt watching

1.18.26 5:46 pm why is called latin america if the people there don't even speak latin

they kind of do. spanish french and italian could all be considered dialects of latin, depending on your perspective

1.18.26 5:16 pm to meow or not to meow?

could happen occasionally

1.18.26 3:20 pm what's the meaning of life, bill?

should be signs for it. some people prefer to make their own signs

1.18.26 2:49 pm Why is it still called a painting, even once it's been painted?

why wouldnt it. ever heard of a building (something that was built), or a drawing (which has been drawn), or a peace offering (which has been offered) or an ass whooping, etc

1.18.26 2:34 pm How do you manage your time?

sometimes it can be like swimming in the ocean

1.18.26 10:43 am so there's this house in new orleans...

i'm on the edge of my seat

1.18.26 4:57 am Can you give me at krast 1 tip to nake my music better?

thank you for typing at such a lovely angle. that reminds me, typing at an angle is also not a bad way to make your music better. i mean this only slightly metaphorically

1.18.26 2:48 am How do you know when a project is truly done without having the urge to keep refining it?

if it's EVER...... ANY good

1.18.26 1:07 am are you a teacher or learner

surely both, but that's just kind of like breathing

1.18.26 12:35 am Why do you think everyone is currently feeling nostalgic for 2016?

because everyone hated it then. this completes the circle. 'hate it now, pine for it later and label it the golden age'. that reminds me i was planning to pine pretty hard for the current era sometime later

1.17.26 11:51 pm I recently realized I related "way too much" to people with the so called "gifted kid syndrome" (especially the part of hating yourself for being lazy just to develop an inferiority complex and get even less things done), to make things worse I actually googled it a while ago when the internet went down, just to forget about it completely. I assume you've been through this, how was your experience realizing and coping with it?

in this regard i might not be quite as similar to you as you've imagined so far

1.17.26 10:12 pm Are all dichotomies false?

1.17.26 9:22 pm gosh. my trumpet has 38 trumpets

congratulations

1.17.26 9:16 pm whats some of your influences on your work?

sometimes i'm not totally sure what has and has not influenced me

1.17.26 9:12 pm Are you currently alive

oh man that would explain some of those cheeseburger cravings

1.17.26 7:41 pm do you use psychedelic drugs? because your music videos are like psychedelic

to some people it would be more exciting if i do. to others it would be more exciting if i dont. believe it or not there's also some additional exciting scenarios as well

1.17.26 7:33 pm Which way is a duck?

duckways

1.17.26 4:31 pm Do you listen to your own music?

once in a while when i'm feeling very confident i'll go through all of it

1.17.26 4:13 pm What's the worst thing?

destroying the universe maybe

1.17.26 4:05 pm how much does your time cost? surely it isn't free

it's almost impossible to figure out the price, because every time i try to sell it someone trips and falls

1.17.26 3:07 pm Are there many versions of the song 'the girl from ipanema', because there are many girls from ipanema?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.17.26 2:28 pm Have you ever achieved making something in a week?

yes

1.17.26 1:59 pm favorite tertiary color?

that's not important right now

1.17.26 11:10 am have you ever done math before

hold on i'm just counting up the times i've done it, to make sure it's greater than zero

1.17.26 10:20 am Why do modern recordings of ancient music so often employ excess reverb?

because they're idiots? maybe

1.17.26 9:28 am are you a fan of board games?

they seem cool but i'm not currently involved with any

1.17.26 9:25 am what's your favourite hobby

how about putting ducks into columns

1.17.26 9:16 am have you ever not released a song you made?

sure but then later did release it

1.17.26 8:14 am what is your favorite fruit? i really like fruit, so when i think someone is interesting, i am interested in what their favorite fruit might be

pineapple is the most distracting, that's for sure

1.17.26 6:13 am Do animals of different sizes experience time differently possibly due to difference in metabolism?

it's possible. for example, if you've truly tested the speed at which cats can follow a beam of light, i think that's evidence that their experience is very different

1.17.26 5:15 am What is the best thing about games?

taking a quote from one of my songs and writing it down here

1.17.26 4:39 am did you ever ask yourself a question because you wanted to answer it in this forum be honest

i have never done that, but i also realize it's impossible to prove this

1.17.26 2:07 am How did Linkin Park's 2024 comeback affect the farming economy?

probably not much

1.17.26 12:32 am did you ever work out when the windmills slowed down?

their pace has always been pretty good, i would assume

1.16.26 11:38 pm Thoughts on January?

normal. "the normalest month"

1.16.26 10:29 pm help i found old zealand in my basement what should i do

make sure it's not flooded. build some dikes around it

1.16.26 10:22 pm where do you put your rage?

preferably into terrible artistic choices

1.16.26 10:18 pm what does tomorrow hold?

what can you imagine

1.16.26 8:24 pm thoughts on everything?

seems pretty chill

1.16.26 8:00 pm people always be asking about your favourite [blank] this, favourite [blank] that, superlative this, superlative that... do you have a LEAST favourite movie?

i can think of at least 4 that were a miserable experience for me, but it's important not to share that with anyone. because they were probably very good

1.16.26 7:48 pm why should i ask you a question?

because you already did

1.16.26 7:43 pm its 2026. how come it doesn't feel like the future?

because it's still the present

1.16.26 7:38 pm What is the name for a good dog?

"bad dog"

1.16.26 4:50 pm Would you agree all the best art probably came quickly to the artist (regardless of how long it took to realize the vision physically e.g. a song being written quickly but taking a while to record)

yes, usually art prefers to be experienced in real time

1.16.26 4:13 pm i found love. what do i do with it?

tell the tale

1.16.26 3:23 pm Has anyone ever asked you this question before?

yes, but they've never asked it at this exact time of day. wait no actually i believe they have

1.16.26 3:00 pm "Doo doo doo, doo doo-doo doo": third eye blind

ah yes, the happy song about doing meth

1.16.26 2:20 pm you seem like a man that believes in the power of play, but also you're Big on Getting Down to Business. supposing i mastered those two disciplines, what discipline would you suggest i learn next?

those 2 should keep you busy enough. just figuring out how and when to combine them

1.16.26 2:07 pm When will the night return?

tonight

1.16.26 12:13 pm Do you think that the Josie who is on vacation far away from the "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love Tonight" song is the same Josie from the Steely Dan song?

i don't think so

1.16.26 11:51 am Do you ever think about making a documentary or long video about your life?

heck maybe i could explain it all in one sentence

1.16.26 11:39 am Do you ever have to listen to less music to get more creative yourself?

i've considered whether this matters, and i dont think it really matters. youre fine either way. whatever you feel like

1.16.26 10:04 am Have you ever been to Atlanta, GA?

yes i believe so

1.16.26 9:23 am your favorite quote?

"your favorite quote?" - you

1.16.26 9:13 am In your video 'Perfect.', two cars are doing what you call 'avoidance wars' where both drivers are trying not to make eye contact with each other. Have you ever seen anyone actually having an avoidance war?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.16.26 8:30 am what's your opinion on the philippines

the streets are paved with concrete, or at least something that looks like concrete

1.16.26 6:36 am What do you do in your free time??

my time is actually very expensive

1.16.26 5:54 am will there be more skits like "Perfect." and "2 friends on the beach"? i really like them because they are so dreamy

i have some incredibly good news for you

1.16.26 5:31 am what's the story behind the "no video today" video

the twist is i did actually do one

1.16.26 1:11 am Why do time travelers wear cloaks?

maybe it's fiction

1.16.26 12:44 am Would you do a heavy metal scream in a song?

maybe not exactly

1.15.26 11:46 pm whats the best theme for my birthday party

AGING

1.15.26 11:38 pm Hey, Bill, i need some help.
So, i wrote i nice chorus and a bridge but now idk how to write an intro and verse. Any tips?

i find it almost impossible to work backwards like this. but there are two tricks you could start with here: ask yourself, how bad would it really be to just start with the chorus? Or the other thing you could do is play through the part that you have and see what it wants to do after. just keep writing forward until you run into something that also works at the start

1.15.26 10:46 pm How much time do you spend answering silly questions like these?

that's a trick question, this question is not silly

1.15.26 10:43 pm is it true that "more than a dream" is in 7/4 time?

the verse could be counted in 7. (or alternating 3 and 4)

If so, why?

no one really knows why music goes the way it does. not even the person writing it

1.15.26 10:31 pm is today opposite day?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.15.26 9:58 pm did the la (de da x3) de day oh video really take 2 weeks to make?

absolutely not, that one was way longer

1.15.26 9:45 pm Why do you never use capitals in these answers?

probably because you stopped reading after like 5 seconds

1.15.26 8:51 pm Why do we dream?

sort of a natural reflex, probably

1.15.26 8:16 pm do you have a favorite building?
if so, which one?

are there any tall ones

1.15.26 8:09 pm what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?

a book quote.... which sometimes even overshadows the book it's from

1.15.26 8:02 pm the person who said banjo is subpar... what? they've certainly not heard it in the genre, and it can sound quite sad and wistful and profound in the right song. now my question for you: is there an instrument you feel you've underutilised or not used at all but would want to include more?

jeans, for sure

1.15.26 5:42 pm Do you have any interesting tales from the creation of the music and/or video of outside?

had the chorus/title idea first

1.15.26 5:24 pm hey I forgot what my last question was what was it?

was it this

1.15.26 2:27 pm Hello, I just wanted to thank you for something. See, someone I knew recently died of something that almost killed me, and I've been having a horrendous time dealing with all of the things my brain is doing about it. I was feeling exceptionally not OK, went on YT to watch some cat videos to try to calm down, and saw one of your videos in my recommendations. I decided out of curiosity to see which of your videos were released around the time I was sick. And I found out that you posted "if the world doesn't end" right when I was... not quite well yet, but through the dark and experiencing the miracle that I had survived. It helped end a panic attack (so did the cats.) It's so strangely comforting. So I just wanted to thank you. Please keep being weird and amazing. I suppose I need a question here, so... what do you want to do if the world doesn't end?

make a huge pile of songs that is twice as high and twice as important as all the others before

1.15.26 12:18 pm do you like rain?

in moderation

1.15.26 11:20 am thoughts on raging bureaucracy?

seems pretty chill

1.15.26 9:33 am I forgot what I was going to say
could you tell me?

no because you could always change your mind after i predict

1.15.26 8:00 am Thoughts on anarchy?

surprisingly organized

1.15.26 6:37 am How many Christian communions do you think one would have to attend in order to have consumed one entire Jesus?

sometimes you can get it all in one

1.15.26 2:40 am what is your operational definition of "near future"

i suppose it's all relative

1.15.26 1:10 am Ive been playing guitar for a while and ive also recently started playing bass. Im still not too good at guitar even after having played it for a year already, and im new to bass so that's obvious how I'm doing. Have you got ANY good tips for continuing my learning of music in general, or anything specific about those instruments?

you're going to figure out it all anyway, and it's going to be way more fun than if i tell you the wrong thing at the wrong time

1.15.26 12:45 am Should I tell my crush that she has the power to break the patterns that torment her?

sure but it might be hard to convince her that you also wouldn't mind if she broke those patterns without you

1.14.26 11:39 pm Who is going to win the super bowl?

the NFL

1.14.26 9:48 pm what if i just made a statement instead of a question

so crazy it just might work

1.14.26 9:25 pm would you ever not be a princess

i was going to say yes but now that i think about it no

1.14.26 9:20 pm what is something that is not a pyramid scheme

"fair and square"

1.14.26 8:50 pm Why do we call them cookies if we specifically bake them?

some sort of language mixeroo. as usual

1.14.26 8:35 pm how do i actually make music? i like making fun sound on the piano but i look into making music and its just piles of words i dont understand.. so how do you go from "oh this sounds nice" to a completed song?

at some point it's worth asking yourself what you feel a completed song should be. Do you feel other songmakers have gotten it right, or deep down do you wish it was a little different?

1.14.26 8:13 pm what exact date will you release a new song

many dates but it will probably be a weekly schedule or something similar

1.14.26 4:37 pm oxford sent me a rejection letter yesterday, should I reject their rejection letter

this could get out of control

1.14.26 4:20 pm i just ate some carrots it was about a 6/10 experience wait i lied it was actually 6.5 it was pretty fun

i'm following along with the story so far

1.14.26 4:16 pm wat is mgic to u? as in hw u dfine it

magic is a word i sometimes use to describe other things

1.14.26 4:10 pm What is your favorite month and why is it the one you choose?

whatever month it currently is

1.14.26 3:44 pm do you ever think feelings, or feel thoughts?

now we're talkin

1.14.26 3:35 pm How much time does it typically take for you to respond to a question after it is asked?

let's see, donderdag 15 januari 2026 22:27:13 maybe about 31 hours, for example

1.14.26 2:49 pm How do you feel about the word cabbage phonetically? I personally enjoy the sound and texture of it.

it's good but not as good as "cribbage"

1.14.26 2:37 pm what is the best substitute for curtains

.... shades?

1.14.26 1:57 pm Is the sun 5 nanometers away?

from what, nevermind, no i dont think so

1.14.26 1:25 pm What's your favorite Pokémon?

the.... yellow one

1.14.26 1:24 pm sorry if this is a rude question but i suspect you'll answer when the time is right: will people be seeing, hearing and feeling new videos from you soon?

yes i believe so

1.14.26 1:14 pm can I count on you to live as long as possible.

yes i believe so. i'm very serious about my work, which is intimately connected to being alive

1.14.26 10:15 am what do i say at the interview to make them want to hire me

one classic trick is to ask them questions

1.14.26 8:19 am have you heard of the new instinct-vs-intellect explanation of the human condition and do you think it's probable? basically that our ape ancestors were completely instinctively orientated to love, but that when they developed a conscious mind it clashed with the instincts, causing it to become psychologically upset which is the mad state we still suffer from today and have for eons tried to free ourselves from

i think that's a bit of storytelling and it's certainly not the only way to look at it.
another way to look at it (and also not the only way), for example, is: in the past, most animals have had to brutally fight each other for survival in many ways. Nowadays, we humans still find ourselves having to do that to some degree but we are deeply devoted to keeping this at an absolute minimum, we almost unilaterally consider it 'bad', and we are becoming increasingly more ashamed about it

1.14.26 8:13 am favorite philosopher?

surprise me

1.14.26 8:10 am how many digits of euler's number do you memorize

i dont know any of it. havent looked into it yet. i would have but i've been busy making music etc for a long time

1.14.26 7:25 am I've always felt banjo is a bit of a subpar instrument. I mean, it produces a unique kind of sound so this fact alone justifies its existence, but to me it always lacked some richness and sexiness that comes from other stringed instruments like guitar. (Side note I just realized - banjo is kinda like a reverse bass. Or maybe ukulele is)
I know it has its use cases and wouldn't want to tell anyone what to play bc who the heck am
What are you thoughts on banjo?

i've used it in probably the majority of my songs. it's incredibly groovy. so in this case i apologize, if you have ever listened to my music, for all the banjo in it

1.14.26 6:57 am What is your favourite jazz chord

hot take there is no such thing as a 'jazz chord' and also a different chord is favored at each moment of the music

1.14.26 6:29 am have you ever thought of making a full length album?

yes but i'd rather just make many many many songs

1.14.26 3:24 am what does your average bass fx chain look like? any tips or warnings for people envious of your mixing?

it probably will help a lot to clear the bass frequencies away from the non-bass instruments during times when the full band is playing. single out the instruments that are really doing the low frequency job (bass, kick) and let them have the low end, and keep that mostly out of the other instruments. this can help a lot. and also compressing the bass (not have a lot of loud-soft range) will help usually help. for some reason, wide loud-soft range is usually not too useful on the bass

1.14.26 3:07 am any tips on how to reconcile with something you have to live with forever?

it might be possible to use it to your advantage. ultimately that is the best way to handle these things, if at all possible

1.14.26 2:23 am What's the difference between a connoisseur and an aficionado?

"connaisseur" is from french, meaning expert/judge/taster. "aficionado" is from spanish, it means a fan/enthusiast of something but it also means 'amateur'. The meanings of those 2 words may have merged together a little when used in english, but looking into french and spanish i can see that perhaps the connaisseur may perhaps be a little more high brow than the aficionado

1.14.26 1:04 am What are you up to this year? any fun plans?

i dont plan exactly by year, but i have some ridiculous plans for both the near and distant future

1.14.26 12:39 am what should i do with my life

i wouldnt want to spoil the surprise of the different possibilities you'll discover. actually they'd even surprise me because i dont know them

1.14.26 12:36 am Do you have this question part of your website to entertain fans or for yourself? Does answering them help with the creative process at all by getting your mind "going"?

i just love reading things in a purple font

1.14.26 12:16 am Bill, I hope this is not too personal but I remember the time when you didn't feel comfortable sharing your own food consumption preferences (something I find very respectable and reasonable). Can I ask what made you change your mind on the matter? Thanks. Keep up the great work, you are needed.

i've generally found it boring and a little unsettling to talk about physical body processes to a wide audience, HOWEVER, going into the AI era this is changing a little because i think being a real-blooded human-ass being is starting to become a more cherished thing to be proud of. like, i actually use toilets, if you can believe that shit

1.13.26 11:59 pm If you had to pay a nickel to listen to nickelback would you want a refund after

it's hard to imagine this situation because in general it is free to listen to nickelback

1.13.26 11:06 pm since there is no coloring for "m" in "sumic" on your spotify bio, does that mean your bio on spotify is indeed the word "sumic"

yes but that's just music, spelt casually

1.13.26 10:42 pm What has been your favorite question asked thus far?

this one

1.13.26 9:45 pm i love your music, would you ever consider making a full length album?

i always turn out to be more of a song person

1.13.26 9:00 pm Does our free will to make choices actually create alternate timelines or are we just too busy living in our crazy world to realize we're too predictable to make any other choice?

i am certainly a believer in the 'many worlds' theory, of infinitely branching timelines at any given moment, and free will is essentially us choosing which one to go on right now. while i also believe that we will probably do all the others EVENTUALLY as it comes back around in infinite million lifetimes. also i think this necessitates the belief that each one will also be chosen infinite times

1.13.26 8:55 pm How exactly DOES Believability Bob calculate believability?

believes everything. bob is extremely gullible

1.13.26 8:45 pm Do you sometimes stand in your room?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.13.26 8:36 pm Should my friend name their dog Bingo?

that could cause a lot of chaos, but sure

1.13.26 6:53 pm does procrastination imply anticrastination

no i dont believe so

1.13.26 6:51 pm I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.

fair play, mate

1.13.26 5:50 pm i find it that you use "meme" as a general term for, among other things, what i would call "meme templates" or even "meme template templates". do you think you have a similar subdistinction

memes are a meme, that's for sure. and it just so happens that one of the best templates for a meme is in fact the meme template template template template template

1.13.26 5:46 pm bill, i've noticed recently that i have been writing too many songs with descending chord progressions. any idea how i can get myself out of this loop?

make at least one song without any of these things (whatever they may be), and see what's the most fun you can have doing it

1.13.26 5:38 pm how did you become the person you now are

by being the person i once was

1.13.26 5:16 pm do you think people are born into the world, or born of it, like leaves from a tree?

i'm not sure if i understand the difference

1.13.26 4:57 pm I know you've gotten music from your dreams before, but have you ever gotten videos?

yes i believe so

1.13.26 4:39 pm why is socialization so fricking hard and how can i make it easier

maybe you could find a way to pretend it's..... real

1.13.26 4:05 pm How committed are you to education?

i'm very serious about educating myself, if that's even possible, and i'm also mindful to educate others when appropriate, BUT that of course can be sand trap of arrogance, because, who am i to assume that i know something that someone else 'doesnt and should' know

1.13.26 2:56 pm What do you feel are your strengths

being weak!!!!

1.13.26 2:14 pm should i write down songs that I made and played in my head for 2 years before I forget all of them by going through the trouble of garageband

yes absolutely

1.13.26 1:11 pm hey bill how is 2026

probably fine, but we MOSTLY dont know yet

1.13.26 11:11 am If you could invent a new number, what would it be and what would you name it?

let's face it, if i knew what it was then i would have already invented it

1.13.26 11:07 am how often do your song ideas come from dreams?

at least a couple times a month

1.13.26 10:45 am Can you be nostalgic for the present?

yes i believe so. and that's definitely a wonderful trick if you can accomplish it

1.13.26 8:00 am Why is it called the kick drum if you don't actually kick it yourself

close enough, you kick a pedal that kicks it. like when you call someone on the phone, you actually call an operator who calls the person (update! the operater was replaced by a machine! a long time ago actually)

1.13.26 6:59 am Favorite time of day?

6:59 am

1.13.26 6:05 am I need you to know that the Kiwi has the largest egg to body ratio of any bird on Earth.

that's very impressive. thanks to you i am very impressed with the Kiwi

1.13.26 4:51 am is the world stupid

1.13.26 3:59 am where would you go if you could teleport

anywhere

1.13.26 1:38 am Would you say you've become quite an expert on answering questions? A real questionnaire you might say?

'eer' not 'aire', lets say. 'questionaire' already means 'a list of questions'. -eer is more often used for someone who can do something. engineer, racketeer, actually not sure what a racketeer does, make rackets i suppose

1.12.26 8:42 pm any idea how to start making music if I know no music theory nor have any instruments, or how to learn to make music

good news, even if you knew how to make music you still wouldnt know

1.12.26 7:44 pm do you have perfect pitch? do you wish you did?

i would want to know your opinion first, of what you think that means and whether you think it's good

1.12.26 7:41 pm favorite mathematician?

euler obviously

1.12.26 6:50 pm any hot tips or sweet tricks on maintaining patience?

i will tell you them later

1.12.26 5:34 pm Where can I get that red bass from your videos

i'm still using it, but the good news is it's not special, so you'll be able to accomplish just as much (probably more) with another bass. With the added benefit of, just in case anyone were to notice this, you wouldnt appear to be copying me (which probably no one would notice anyway, because it is a fairly generic looking instrument)

1.12.26 5:07 pm hi bill, i have a physics issue I came up with that i want your opinion on: imagine a perfect sphere one meter in diameter, made of a nondescript matter with perfect curvature and no substructures (atoms, quarks, molecules, etc). A perfect sphere, as if someone just drag-and-dropped a UV sphere from blender into the real world. What do you think would happen when our real atoms touched this theoretical object? would our atoms be pushed into each-other, undergoing fusion, or something more interesting?

according to the description it seems to be monkeying with things on a subatomic level, which, at the very least, means i have no idea what would happen, or if the thing would even be visible, or what. but something tells me there is also something not well enough defined about the question. but i assure you i do not know, i am not a physicist

1.12.26 4:01 pm what is the best kind of clock?

all of them, in due time

1.12.26 3:45 pm are we sure potatoes grow underground? Or do they just hide from humans when they hear us approach?

i don't know that much about potatoes

1.12.26 2:51 pm What's a prank you like to do

being born

1.12.26 1:16 pm Why was 6 afraid of 7?

because they both became so violently trendy so suddenly that corruption and excess drove them into paranoid jealous rage

1.12.26 11:55 am Thoughts on pitch bending on vibraphone? I like how it sounds like "dee-woo".

so crazy it just might work

1.12.26 9:32 am Why is this page called questions and not questions and answers? The answers are a very important part of the experience

i suppose i didn't want to spoil that part

1.12.26 8:04 am Thoughts on E major?

higher than Eb major. lower than F major

1.12.26 6:56 am sometimes figuring out the tooling/processes to do something can be fun, but the problem is you can get distracted for a lifetime of improving on it and never actually get shit done. I've been doing this for 2 years at this point and I seem addicted to it despite clearly noticing the problem. How do i stop being an idito

it's time to even more honestly weigh the advantages and disadvantages here

1.12.26 4:28 am would you say you like more things than you dislike? or is that impossible to quantify

that would be answer B, impossible to quantify. final answer

1.12.26 3:13 am think of the weirdest color you can think of

yellow

1.12.26 3:09 am Would it be reasonable to call the equals sign ("=") the equator?

it would be great except in english that word already has a strong universal connotation with the 0 degree latitude line on the earth globe. like even if you were not already talking about globes, youre doing math doing math etc then you say 'equator' and immediately everyone now thinks youre talking about globes. the word is already in use for that. Otherwise it could have been a great word for the equals sign in mathematics, for sure

1.12.26 12:54 am whats your favorite song

if any song is any good it ought to be that one, at least while it's on

1.12.26 12:46 am good golly i feel the urge to create but too fixated on the end product rather than the process. help. i cant be a master of every hobby immediately then i burn myself out. ouchie. how does one conquer this conundrum

it sounds like you have yet to invent yourself into the new king of the avant garde

1.11.26 11:28 pm Are spheres the perfect 3 dimensional objects?

possibly. as you can see that doesnt mean they are always 'the best', or even any good. well no surely they're good sometimes

1.11.26 10:46 pm why is the math video i uploaded for a class project gaining traction

maybe it was good

1.11.26 10:23 pm favorite color gradient?

how about enjoying a series of slightly different colored gradients, gradually

1.11.26 9:21 pm What do you think happens inside of black holes?

anything and everything. this is sort of like a book wondering what happens outside the book

1.11.26 9:20 pm Did u rub your jeans for the percussion of I'm scared?

i dont think so, but i know i did it for 'airport terminal'

1.11.26 8:58 pm how to play the snare drum

hit it with a stick, pretty much

1.11.26 6:21 pm How is doubt different from uncertainty

the word 'doubt' probably is more like youre leaning toward 'no' about something. but the word 'uncertainty' is probably less specific. it probably just means you dont know. Which makes me realize i think people probably use 'uncertain' to almost mean 'doubtful' and if you think about it that probably doesnt seem fair, from a linguistic standpoint. but as always there's surely way weirder atrocities just around the next corner, in the lagnuage

1.11.26 5:26 pm the last line of one of the projects you're working on will contain the letter A.

but how much exactly constitutes a 'line'

1.11.26 4:22 pm hey! I'm in the process of reinventing the way I write music and I'm curious where you start your writing process. What do you typically start with when writing music?

i start with what level of update i want to be working on. For example: if i'm working on update level zero, i'll come up with some brand new things. If i want to be working on things of update level 1, i'll work on only things that i have come up with before but never updated, and update those things. If i'm working on update level 5, then i'll work on only things that have been updated 5 times (well actually 4 times if you dont count the original inception as an update)
i should also mention it's quite often that brand new level 0s come at me out of nowhere sometimes when i wasnt even trying to write. those then get added in and become eligible alongside the other level 1s

1.11.26 2:56 pm do horses speak to you sometimes?

no i dont believe so

1.11.26 2:27 pm if i don't know everything that i dont know but i know that i dont know everything does that mean that i know everything without being smart

it's going to give you some philosophical confidence. which can turn out both nice and not nice

1.11.26 1:32 pm do you actually like to wear soft clothing (cuz it makes it feel like you're rough in comparison)?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.11.26 1:14 pm How many owls do you need to see in a short period before you start thinking something is weird?

that really depends where you are and where the owls are. there are perfectly normal places to see lots of owls

1.11.26 12:27 pm hoq so i stop being a liar

step one is finding the truth. that's really the hardest part

1.11.26 12:00 pm Is the US to the east or west of russia

both, and also to the north and south and vice versa

1.11.26 11:53 am thoughts on alchemy?

seems legit

1.11.26 10:22 am You are like the genie of answering questions (?)

my only answer to this is to go ahead and respond to this question with an answer

1.11.26 9:48 am do you get musical ideas when you're about to fall asleep. i think you got might quit from a dream or that it was in your head when you woke up but do you ever get ideas in hypnagogia

yes, avalanches of things come at me when i'm halfway asleep. certainly not all of them are useful

1.11.26 7:37 am What type of question do you like answering more? questions about your content or questions about anything else.

the natural variation and variety is cherished. as in nature

1.11.26 6:00 am Do you think bad art is worse than no art?

not necessarily, but it's also impossible to define either of those

1.11.26 4:48 am I've heard of people who give the advice, "Be yourself", but is it truly possible to be anyone other than yourself?

i see your point, and i see that that makes it kind of an empty phrase. which is probably why i try to avoid using it

1.11.26 4:47 am Hi Bill !
I was forced to play piano as a child but had to learn on my own, no classes or teachers. Obviously that didnt work very well and just made me resentful of music and piano in general. I could play basic chords with a bass octave on the left hand, but no sheet music, no inversions, no scales, no music theory etc.
Some years back, music found its way back into my heart and i want to learn piano again.
Could you give me some advice on how i could approach it?

the advice i always give is you have to make it your own. although you have an interesting situation because you actually did it on your own before. this is the way i would recommend, but i think the huge difference boils down to the fact that someone else wanted you to do it. so in that case you should be all set now. whatever excites you

1.11.26 3:09 am favorite guitar capo placement

who knows, 3rd

1.11.26 2:25 am thoughts on the estimated sign ℮?

i dont think i've ever seen that before

1.11.26 1:33 am What is the word that you use the least (but still use)?

that would have to be a tie between many different words, because there are many different words i've only used once. and when i use them i usually act surprised (because i actually am) and i mention "... and i think that's the first time i've ever used that word before"

1.11.26 1:20 am what have you been thinking about lately?

as usual, you will find out all about it later

1.11.26 12:47 am Why do I care so much about what others think of me?

because on some level you know that they are just as important as you. the twist here is that they are also wondering what you think of them. which means, at the same time, you are just as important as them

1.11.26 12:22 am thoughts on 67?

1005 ÷ 15

1.10.26 11:42 pm if plants could think, what would they think about

what do you think about

1.10.26 10:18 pm where is kentucky

next to tennessee

1.10.26 9:35 pm What is your favorite animal themed saying or figure of speech?

how about woof

1.10.26 7:55 pm do you think it's important to actively do good things, donating, volunteering, helping people, etc. or do you think it's good enough to just not do bad things?

you'll probably never even discover all the different good and bad ways to be

1.10.26 6:58 pm what type of building does out to lunch take place

octagonal, that's for sure

1.10.26 5:29 pm Out of all the songs that you've made, which would you say took the longest?

maybe "i'm scared"

1.10.26 5:17 pm Im going to try to become a pilot. How do you fly?

i'm not really sure

1.10.26 3:09 pm Do you think it is likely that I am a fish?

1.10.26 2:53 pm thoughts on number 3 being the number of perceivable dimensions for us humans

"it's worth a try"

1.10.26 2:33 pm Do u think of a sus chord as the VI chord over the V-Basstone or just as a bunch of individual suspensions that all have their own significance? Sorry, my english is not the yellow from the egg

i dont think of it either of those two ways. if music is going well, i'm feeling not thinking. if i'm 'thinking' too much then it means i need to take a break and come back when i'm in a more appropriate mood

1.10.26 2:18 pm why is everything so dumb and stupid?

due to intelligence

1.10.26 2:06 pm how does everything work

everything works the same way, but i realize that's not a very useful answer

1.10.26 1:09 pm would you ever be open to having your work be featured in an exhibit somewhere?

every time i walk through a museum with modern things in it i say "dammit, who are these people and why arent i in here", but then i remember i have been asked to have my work featured in museums and i apparently say no every time

1.10.26 12:29 pm when i listen to your music, i keep forgetting how good/important the percussion actually is. obviously the drums aren't the central point of the song but i keep being surprised by how good they feel to listen to and how much better they make the song. how do you usually go about drum programming?

it's not programmed it's played, but it's based on my musical instinct from years of experience. similar to the way you use the words you use when you speak

1.10.26 11:49 am i've been reading up on wolves recently and i think they're cool. what do you think about wolves? do you think i can be a cool wolf if i really want to. thoughts or advice?

you're way ahead of me on this topic

1.10.26 11:46 am Does working on your art and music feel different these days compared to a few years ago? Like the pressure, production stages, etc.
Do you prefer it?

in some ways it always gets harder, but then it eventually becomes impossible and that always opens up a brand new door for it to become much easier. this cycle continues

1.10.26 10:35 am i realized in the hi im steve vid when not steve is talking about the mountain and in the history of the world when talking about singled cell organisms under water the music you chose was very similar between the 2 situations. what would you say your musical inspiration is for this musical texture thing that you use from your musical texture pallet thing is?
happy new year btw

the music was done after the video, so in my case the music is inspired by what's happening in the video. the reason they sound similar is because.... well..... i'm still me

1.10.26 9:59 am all words without meaning actually have one, and they refer to themselves. e.g: "life means nothing" = "life means nothing", but "flubglub means nothing" = "the word 'flubglub' means nothing". do you agree?

sure but this is only scratching the surface of where meaning can be found

1.10.26 9:41 am why is spacebar the universally accepted jump button in videogames?

because jumping is important and it's the biggest button

1.10.26 8:48 am what is your favourite tetris piece?

that all depends on the current landscape on the ground

1.10.26 8:16 am Where can I buy someone's soul?

that's actually impossible

1.10.26 7:55 am Do you like hot chocolate and if so do you have a favourite kind?

it's too hot for me

1.10.26 6:58 am going to try picking up woodcarving. any suggestions for what I should carve?

you probably wont know until you start carving and see how it feels

1.10.26 6:57 am remember that time when __________

yes, that's happened many times

1.10.26 6:44 am how do you come up with so many non-answers that somehow also make sense?

as soon as the teacher told us about 'artistic license,' i immediately skipped school and went out and got one and i've been renewing it daily ever since, just in case

1.10.26 6:42 am how do I escape my overwhelmingly complex mind

you probably cant escape it but you can use it to your advantage. write down what youre feeling and thinking. other people may find it dazzling

1.10.26 5:31 am I don't know why but this site was in my dream last night and you somehow found my number and told me you would make more music, is this a prophecy ?

i'm making more music but that was already true. i've also said that here many times before

1.10.26 4:56 am Mr. Wurtz, what is your favorite spatial dimension? And why?

1.10.26 3:03 am pluto the (dwarf)planet is still cool right?

yes but it's hard to know what it's really like because it's so far away

1.10.26 1:46 am why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?

be and be not cause

1.10.26 1:22 am Do you think of every human on earth when you release content?

i would but i dont know them all

1.10.26 1:19 am Have you ever incorrectly answered a question that has a correct answer on purpose?

sure, i've tried that

I'm surprised by how accurately you answer some of these language, logic, and mathematics questions being asked here.

honestly, answering 'correctly' a lot makes it more valuable and refreshing to occasionally make something up. And, in turn, making up a lot of answers makes it more valuable and refreshing to suddenly tell the cold hard truth out of nowhere

How much time do you spend researching the questions, or do you perhaps already know the answers?

i occasionally do research, but i usually do not

1.10.26 1:06 am best kind of cheese?

terrible, terrible cheese

1.10.26 12:32 am Which is easier to understand: quantum mechanics or quantum physics?

i dont think i actually understand the difference

1.9.26 11:22 pm im really scared of ai especially since im young and music and art is a big part of my life. do you think it's plausible that ai blows us all to smithereens

what exactly is a smithereen

1.9.26 10:13 pm How do you deal with feeling avoidant?

probably avoid it

1.9.26 10:12 pm where did you learn how to play the drums
i noticed in the im a princess video that you play traditional grip (jazz grip? idk dude nobody knows what to call it)

at home, and in the work place

1.9.26 9:25 pm If you could invent a new color, what would you call it?

'could'

1.9.26 9:24 pm do you think I will ever be free?

yes and no

1.9.26 8:52 pm What's the newest thing in history?

you asking this

1.9.26 8:46 pm What is your favorite "key" on a keyboard?

there would be no music if an argument didnt begin about which key to favor on a moment to moment basis

1.9.26 8:15 pm Is lust even real, or is it just love society doesn't like?

it seems like it's not even a word people really use, except when comparing it to the word 'love'. you almost never see the word 'lust' used without the word 'love', so it's hard to get a feel for what the word actually means on its own, outside of that context

1.9.26 5:01 pm what's the longest word you can think of right now

'cat' oh no sorry 'cats'

1.9.26 3:05 pm could you answer this question with just blank

no but i sometimes answer different questions that way. ones that don't ask me to do it

1.9.26 1:50 pm Ever shook hands with a dog?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.9.26 12:29 pm the fire alarm just went off in my school
was it a real fire?

USUALLY not, but it still might be

1.9.26 12:01 pm What to do when you're bored

how about writing a book

1.9.26 11:23 am Why don't you make more videos?

it's not as easy as you think, to make them. it probably is easy for other people, but not for me. the reason for this is quite simply because i'm crazy. i used to have some more logical explanations for it, but then i later realized i was wrong and i no longer know the reason. and the reason i thought those reasons were correct before is because i'm crazy, which is also the reason that i don't actually know the reason. That being said, getting back to your original question i'm always making more videos

1.9.26 11:16 am i realized that pretty much internalize everything other people say and i don't know how to navigate that

maybe there's some way you could send it back out

1.9.26 11:12 am what is the cultural significance of Comic Sans?

one day it turned up on Windows as one of the default fonts. it seems as though everyone fell in love with it so fast that it became so overused so fast that everyone got so sick of it so fast that it became a joke. but the font is still good, and so is the joke. so it's like a 2-in-1

1.9.26 9:19 am what is something novel you have partaked in recently

cubic numbers, for example

1.9.26 8:46 am You mentioned once anout your "Piece of Garbage" videos that they came from an exercise on how you felt at some point in your life's calender. Are there any other songs or videos you tried this for?

yes, the majority of the short jingles starting from july 7, 2015 are probably part of this

1.9.26 7:59 am Does hand size matter when playing an instrument?

sometimes but it's usually not the most important thing

1.9.26 7:21 am what is your favourite number between 0 and 10

oh what the heck, 5

1.9.26 6:32 am is there anything that's been overlooked in your work that you haven't had the chance to mention?

probably, but i can't be sure because i don't know exactly what every individual person has seen

1.9.26 4:44 am Is the media the enemy of the people?

media is the enemy of other media with an opposing worldview

1.9.26 4:09 am What's your opinion on refrigerators being invented as a response to frigerators?

not true

1.9.26 3:28 am help! i am in constant awe at the beauty of this world but there is not enough energy in my body to canvas it into art! this kills me!!

i know it feels that way, but this is exactly what energizes your work. it's energized your question for sure

1.9.26 1:52 am oh, my memories are coming back in ways that i wasn't ready for, but i'm still enjoying the way it feels

thank you for saying that lyric here. it's very helpful

1.9.26 1:27 am do you like playing basketball?

seems like fun but i've barely done it

1.9.26 1:17 am so i was making coffee. had to wash a mug because i don't trust my family to do it yk. so i was out here using soap, making sure the hot water washes off any grime on every part of the mug. but then i realised after a long time of washing it that i didn't get a tea spoon. do you know how much faster it would have been if i washed the tea spoon with the mug?? so i grabbed a tea spoon and it had an uncomfortable amount of food on it, despite having just come out of the dishwasher. i try using hot water and soap, hoping the pressure of the water will be enough to wash the food off but nah i had to use something. sadly that something had to be my hands because i don't trust the sponge. i'd use gloves but we don't have any for some reason. so i have to wash my hands after that. so now i can make coffee, yeah? i put the coffee stuff in, pour hot water and go to the fridge where i saw before a bottle of milk. i grab the bottle of milk and apparently someone thought a drop of milk is enough to do anything with cause i check it and it's empty. literally nothing. that has never happened to me before. i had to drink black coffee cause i already brewed the thing

now that's what i call storytelling

1.9.26 12:44 am Is there a point which one can expect to find the balance between giving a crap and not doing so on the creative journey?

these two forces will probably always be toying with each other. actually probably if either one of them wins, the show stops

1.9.26 12:23 am should i adopt a ferret?

sure. or get adopted by a ferret

1.9.26 12:18 am What's your thoughts on rats? Like the little guys that killed a third of Europe and fight over bagels

how could i dare upstage the thoughts that you've just brought to the table

1.8.26 11:43 pm what makes something meaningful

anything can make something meaningful. there is no limit to the mechanics of this

1.8.26 11:16 pm should I take a personal loan to get out of my parents house

has anyone offered you one

1.8.26 11:08 pm does having an answer always imply there was a question to begin with?

not exactly

1.8.26 11:03 pm probably has been asked before but, aside from the likely technical difficulties of performing live given the range of instruments you use and the fact most of them are random electronic sounds not entirely bound to physical instruments, would you ever consider doing a live concert? In a hypothetical scenario where you were able to perform everything live using say, a ridiculous amount of synths and/or soundboards, or some other sort of device. Perhaps with funky lighting that takes you on an equally epic journey as the visuals of your music videos do. Would you do it?

the problems with doing a live show are completely different from the ones you mentioned. if a live show happens it's going to be a band of human ass beings playing in an ensemble of somewhere between 4 and 12 instruments. normal instruments like the ones you see in most bands. and i have a strict rule of no backing tracks and no video

1.8.26 10:47 pm what are your top 5 instruments as ranked by silly factor

clarinet, clarinet, clarinet, clarinet, clarinet, clarinet, sorry whoops i accidentally gave you the top 6

1.8.26 10:36 pm Does making your music sound older make it fresher

this becomes increasingly true if you are cross pollinating from multiple different times and places

1.8.26 9:47 pm do you like when people send you their art via this page? if so, do you enjoy being shown specific things, and/or do you prefer to be left to explore a larger archive on your own? i find that i don't usually enjoy specific songs people send me, but when i check out the rest of an artists work..... now that's when the real fun happens

it can be very awkward for someone to individually and directly show another person something they made. the perception and response is going to be inseparably wrapped up in the relationship of those two people. now that i think about it there's nothing wrong with that

1.8.26 9:26 pm Is Sonic's last name The Hedgehog?

yes

1.8.26 9:23 pm What should I do if everything is stupid and always has been

write about your stupid feelings

1.8.26 8:17 pm How do you feel about that species of snail that does photosynthesis by nabbing chlorophyll from eating plants?

never heard of it

1.8.26 7:44 pm how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

i'd be more concerned with how many it takes to get out

1.8.26 7:27 pm ignoring cultural overuse and misappropriation, do you think that swear words (specifically the F and S words,) are phonetically pleasing? For example, the "Phuh" sound followed by a strong "Kh" allows for a great release of air in the word, affording the speaker a lot of satisfaction from saying the word. Does this seem accurate? also second question favorite swear word?

like any kind of aesthetics, it can be impossible to say what's pleasing and not, because it has so much to do with what's been seen or heard before and after

1.8.26 6:46 pm The power of music is mystical and boundless. I'm ashamed to admit it, but my heart is frozen in bitterness, resentment, anger, and hate, but today, while listening to a song, I felt a glimmer of hope. I can't even tell you what the words were; it was mostly a feeling, but it changed my perspective ever so slightly, in a completely unexpected moment. Isn't music amazing?

yes, music is magic

1.8.26 6:34 pm do you have a least favorite dinosaur maybe

1.8.26 6:07 pm I am ten thousand years old

i want to believe you

1.8.26 4:53 pm Why did 7 eat 9? What did 9 do to 7?

nothing, that's just wordplay in english

1.8.26 4:15 pm Do you follow & participate in a religion at all?

over time i seem to find that word more and more defective

1.8.26 4:04 pm hello is this the post office

no i dont believe so

1.8.26 3:01 pm ever walked on top of a big gray square?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.8.26 1:39 pm did you ever wonder what you were gonna do in life as a kid?

yes but i also did things in life then

1.8.26 1:26 pm what's yur opinion on the concept of humans wanting to understand everything?

dont you think it would make for such fantastic dinner table conversation

1.8.26 12:32 pm Which of the planets of the solar system is spinning on its 'side', compared to all the other planets?

uranus maybe but i'm not totally sure

1.8.26 11:38 am A lot of the times I feel like I have no will over anything at all. It's all either predetermined or random. Am I crazy for thinking this way?

no but i also dont think it's true

1.8.26 10:45 am I love the expert mode of this site, but it seems to me that it's also simple mode. Do you agree?

no, people often struggle to understand exactly what does and does not go on there

1.8.26 9:40 am what's that movie where its like war on the stars

dune

1.8.26 9:01 am do you have a favourite dinosaur? If so, which one is it?

maybe if any of them werent so freakin extinct

1.8.26 8:21 am potato

thank you for writing potato here

1.8.26 7:58 am Thoughts on 9?

plays some really cool games with digits, in base 10. this is normal for a number one less than the base number

1.8.26 6:01 am I'm gonna write my master's thesis this year and last year when I wrote my bachelors thesis this one guy was my thesis supervisor because he was the only professor at our university that had knowledge of the methods I was using. and then after that his wife birthed twins so he was on parental leave for a while. but I heard from a different professor that he will still want to be my supervisor for my masters thesis even though he is partly on leave. but he never told me that himself I just heard that from a different professor. and just yesterday we had our first thesis seminar where we discussed some things about everyone's theses and what they're gonna be like and what the process is gonna be but my supervisor-to-be wasn't there because it was Wednesday and he doesn't work Wednesdays so one of the professors that were there told me to email the professor that wasn't there to schedule a meeting to talk about my thesis with him. so I sent the email but now I'm scared that he never wanted to be my supervisor this year to begin with and that it was all a huge miscommunication and that he's gonna find my email really weird and that will be so embarrassing. I'm so nervous

(nods understandingly)

1.8.26 4:26 am what is the cube root of pi?

a little less than 1 and a half

1.8.26 3:17 am i feel like i lost the recipes should i go through an intensive memory lane session or bang rocks and hope i get a spark of familiarity or start a new big or something else or all of em?

those all sound like fine strategies

1.8.26 2:52 am how uis all of your music so good i just listened to like 30 fucking songs from you while playing minecraft at 1 am and it was an ethereal experience

good heavens, it's my target audience

1.8.26 12:17 am What do you think of this poem I wrote?
PLEASE GOD HELP IM SCARED
PLEASE GOD HELP ME IM SCARED
PLEASE GOD HELP ME IM SCARED
WHATS GOING ON
WHATS HAPPENING IM SCARED
WHATS GOING ON IM SCARED

great. very strong, clear, almost feels like a satire of the 'poem' format, which feels well deserved and well executed

1.7.26 11:56 pm why do people ponder the "meaning of life" and never stop to ask themself what the hell kinda loaded question is that. it was nobody's choice to put us here, there is no reason, we just have to deal with it. sorry i was just saying what was on my mind what are your thoughts on the meaning of life?

i think it's a ridiculous question for totally different reasons than you. to me what you said is also ridiculous. for me the ridiculousness about the "the meaning of life" thing is that it makes it sound like there is supposed to be 1 meaning and purpose for everyone at all times. but the way it seems to me is that there are infinite meanings all the time. new ones, old ones, it's endless. literally everything is meaningful. meaning is inescapable. even little pockets of what may seem like 'meaninglessness' only elevates the surrounding meanings

1.7.26 11:32 pm Should I do a bad thing today?

maybe some other time

1.7.26 10:16 pm what is the meaning of life to you

it's indescribable except for the fact that everything ever done or said describes it

1.7.26 9:48 pm 'falseth' needs to be a word similarly to 'truth' im tired of saying 'falsehood'

sometimes it's called a "lie", sometimes it's called a "myth", if you're really in a special mood you can call it a "fib"

1.7.26 9:33 pm Why are some people confused and sometimes even mildly offended when I affirm to them that I enjoy solitude? Also 'Fly Around' is a certified banger just thought you should know.

i dont really have an answer to this, except to make more music which you can enjoy listening to alone

1.7.26 9:11 pm do you try hard to make it look easy and if so, do you wish otherwise

neither

1.7.26 8:43 pm What do you think about the Swiffer Sweepers?

back in my day we had to swiff and sweep with two seperate devices

1.7.26 7:05 pm Is jazz stupid?

out of context it's not really possible to know what is meant by the word jazz

1.7.26 6:54 pm you ever try makin a grilled cheese in a pan with oaxaca cheese & sharp cheddar in it? and squashin some garlic cloves and getting the butter all toasty with the garlic cloves, and adding honey, chili powder, rosemary, and thyme into the butter in the pan? life could be a dream

no i have not tried exactly those steps

1.7.26 5:38 pm What is the rabbit's name from your most recent video?

the rabbit

1.7.26 4:38 pm best use of a swear word in a song?

i'll have to hear all the songs first to know for sure

1.7.26 4:20 pm Do you think "music for musicians" is more accurately "music for autistic musicians"

no i dont believe so

1.7.26 3:41 pm You said in a recent answer to a question that you've never really found an artist that you can "trust wholeheartedly and fully". I'm curious about what you mean by this...As in, you have never found an artist who you can always count on for making works that connect with you, that you appreciate in some way or another...?

sure, that sounds about right

Do you aim to be an artist that people can "trust wholeheartedly"?

of course that's what i'd be going for, but i also recognize based on my own experience that that's a ridiculously tall order. considering no one has ever completely done this for me. but for fleeting moments it sure feels like it

Do you think this is even an achievable goal that artists should strive for?

it would be none of my business to tell other people what they should or shouldn't strive for

1.7.26 2:54 pm To piggyback off someone else's question, my guess is that you receive two kinds of questions here: ones that ask for an answer, and ones that don't. Would you say that's accurate?

you could try to categorize them any way you want. that may be a fairly logical distinction you've made, but that doesn't prevent someone else from using a whole other categorization system

1.7.26 11:49 am Why do you like Satan?

'satan' seems a little... fictionalized. if i ever mention 'satan' it is likely that i am speaking in a fictionalized manner

1.7.26 2:11 pm Can it actually get better? I'm not sure it's allowed to anymore.

no it does

1.7.26 1:04 pm Can you leave the response to this question blank?

yes but i could also put lots and lots of words in it

1.7.26 11:36 am how do i ask a girl to go out to the city with me without sounding pushy, i've already asked twice and she was busy. we've seen eachother before once, and i know she isn't fully opposed to going out or making stuff up, we're friends and have everything in common, i just need to play my cards right. but i suck at gambling.

sounds like it's her turn to ask next. or maybe you can do it one more time as long as you let her know that it's the last time youre gonna ask. if she thinks youre gonna keep asking forever then that's not gonna be good for anyone

1.7.26 11:28 am what's the current salmon count?

oh maybe a handful

1.7.26 11:14 am have you heard of leitmotifs? it's a snippet of a lead or melody that plays throughout other songs to convey a certain emotion or idea in that moment. Have you considered using motifs in your music? or have there been instances where this would be useful?

i might disagree with you on the purpose of that, as well as the name, but i can certainly use bits of familiar melody as a reference or reminder of the previous time it was used

1.7.26 10:04 am when you start uploading new videos, will you do it on a regular schedule always on the same week day (like you used to do with Tuesdays)? and if so, will it be Tuesdays again or something else? and if not Tuesdays, which day?

i've always liked tuesdays, but there are also different ways to do it

1.7.26 10:02 am If Im in a car traveling from 0 to infinity, is 1 halfway there?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.7.26 8:20 am Do you believe consciousness is in electromagnetic fields? If so, would that make my coffee pot and toaster conscious, briefly, every morning around 6:30AM?

consciousness is impossible to describe but extremely familiar to us all

1.7.26 2:41 am this site has the random question button labeled as "I'm feeling randy" and I must ask. Who is Randy?

randy is not a person, it's a mood you could be in. it's when you want to see randomly selected questions one at a time. there is a button you can press when you are in that kind of a mood

1.7.26 12:03 am Have you ever met damien maymdien? Have you ever asked him why everything is so dumb and stupid?

it's basically just me. and people often ask me that question because they've seen it in the video, and my standard response is "due to intelligence" which is a response i've been very happy with for many years, but i still feel the need to try to use some different responses, for good measure

1.6.26 11:01 pm why is it so hard to let go of the past while building the future?

this is because of your MEMORY

1.6.26 10:09 pm Thoughts on disco?

a word that sometimes means something that sounds like what you'd hear in a dance club in the late 1970s, OR sometimes especially in europe it might just mean the dance club itself, regardless of what year it is

1.6.26 9:15 pm favorite clickbait thumbnail?

nowadays those things are self-clicking

1.6.26 9:10 pm how long have you wanted to make music

my whole life but i've also been doing it for my whole life as well

1.6.26 8:54 pm What are some of the filler words that people use in the Netherlands (such as uh, um, like, so, etc.)?

"even denken....ah, kijk, bijvoorbeeld, volgens mij gaat het een beetje.... nou ja, geen idee, hoor" .... of zoiets

1.6.26 8:49 pm how could one cope with things using something that isnt distraction?

take a walk or nap depending on your level of awakeness

1.6.26 8:42 pm whats your favorite song

whichever one is the fastest

1.6.26 6:57 pm thoughts on making it all up as you go along? that is to say, what's your take on faking it. i guess what i mean is -- could you do some meditation on self-misrepresentation. ok sorry i got carried away. please don't take this the wrong way. please do take this to the bank

as you may already know, this can be quite a lot like a muscle. it's not the only muscle, but it's one of them. there are people who do this professionally that have developed an absurdly strong improvisational muscle. This alone might not be exactly enough to carry everything, but by golly it surely helps

1.6.26 4:44 pm what is your favorite major river system in the United States of America?

it would be hard for anything to upstage the mississippi

1.6.26 4:27 pm Favorite scale degree?

1.6.26 3:54 pm How to feel real? Is that even possible or is the advertising just misleading me?

probably both

1.6.26 3:42 pm How do you define kindness?

now that i think about it, it's not exactly possible to define

1.6.26 3:22 pm How many of you does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

i switched to non-screw lights

1.6.26 2:37 pm I love your content, will we be able to see more?

yes, dont even joke about that

1.6.26 2:33 pm No matter how much i convince myself that i need to do some new projects or learn some new really cool skill I can't get myself to do anything consistently any advice?

gather up a story about exactly that you want to do, and how you think it would be done, and tell someone such as a rubber duck

1.6.26 2:23 pm what is your opinion on colors?

seemingly too good to be true

1.6.26 2:09 pm when was the last time you touched a snow shovel

heck, i'm touching one right now. for luck and good fortune

1.6.26 2:05 pm How come we go to the moon, if it's round and has no door?

no one has gone IN the moon, but you dont even need a door for that, you could just dig

1.6.26 10:32 am We ever gonna see an update to the reality section on this site? It's my favorite.

to put it in perspective, most of what you see there was all in one massive update. there will certainly be one later that will dwarf that one

1.6.26 10:14 am how do you do something when the tree of prerequisites seems infinite or just very long? i wanted to romhack a game to change a sound but i have to learn C and assembly and how to read the memory of a program while it's running and i might not live long enough

at other times you will be thankful that you'll never run out of challenges. from time to time it may actually feel like there is not ENOUGH to do. but there is

1.6.26 10:06 am What was your first goal immediately after high school

go ahead and record all my music

1.6.26 10:05 am How come there's an avocado on your desk in your instagram post from 12/5/15?

that's because there was an actual avocado on my desk. crazy how that used to work, in the pre-AI era. syke it was a percussion shaker that looks like an avocado

1.6.26 9:51 am so from my knowledge there seems to be two kinds of questions: genuine questions (usually about music) and jokes. Would you say this is accurate?

not even close

also thank you for the phrase "earthshatteringly unoriginal" i am going to use it constantly

you're welcome

1.6.26 8:29 am Hey Big Wurtz guy, I have a couple of questions. Btw I'm the guy that asked you for grace and asked about orphans.

i do not remember this

Favorite artist? real answer please.

i've never really found one that i can trust wholeheartedly and fully, but at the same time i also place unconditional trust in all of them, just for existing

what are the boundaries of questions? You never answered my question about the password to reality, but that's okay. Realistic answer wanted but not needed.

i have answered that one plenty of times before. there is no password, all you need to know is admit you dont know the password and you get right in. i believe there is an option to say "i dont know". What will not get you in, however, is pretending you know. because you dont know, because there isn't one. does this make sense

If you don't answer this, I wanted you to know (because I know you'll see this) that you are a really cool person, and I love your humor and music. Love them piano cords.
Is rain optional?

yes but i'm not sure if you or i really has singular control over it

1.6.26 8:29 am square, circle, or dodecahedron- which shape do you like the most?

thank goodness there is no need to decide, because it's impossible

1.6.26 7:58 am What's the strangest thing you've seen?

"everything"

1.6.26 3:27 am Are the things you say true? Is your answer to this question true?

in some ways

1.6.26 1:24 am Hello! I have a question, when would be an appropriate time to ask it?

any time

Also, how often do you think about the spectrum of light and how much it effects daily life?

let's say a few times a year

1.6.26 12:41 am how do you feel about media designed to elicit unpleasent emotions, like sadness or fear?

let's just say it wont be getting a lot of happy customers

1.5.26 11:57 pm I have been very inspired by your music, is a different style that I love

my only answer to this is to make more which i think pushes things along even further

1.5.26 10:44 pm how to spell cat

i have no idea

1.5.26 10:12 pm hold on let me just let go of brevity. your kindness unabashedly radiates from your answers and actions, and your passion and artistic talent shines brighter than embers at midnight, a vision the sun and the stars at dusk themselves would envy. it has ignited a flame within myself to courageously go forth in my own endeavours. translation: ur cool

holy multiple cornfields, what a barrage of generosity you've brought to the table

1.5.26 10:05 pm If reincarnation was real what would you want to be reincarnated as

that really depends on how the rest of my work goes here

1.5.26 9:12 pm whats your favorite dimension?

the first

1.5.26 8:38 pm most an ad has shocked you?

there was a picture ad, it was for a weight loss product. it was in the AI era for sure, and it was like those before-and-after things where they show the fat and skinny version of the person, but here's the problem: it was an outdoor beach photo and it was the same exact picture. it was the same person in the same place on the same day at the exact same moment, except they were fat in one picture and skinny in the other picture..... does anyone see the logistical problem here.... ('yes i took this weight loss product and it made me lose weight in this photo i already took of myself before')

1.5.26 8:05 pm what about ceres? does ceres deserve to be called a giant boulder?

sure

1.5.26 6:42 pm how can i go from overwhelmed to just whelmed?

maybe take a nap

1.5.26 6:16 pm are there any instruments you wish to have that you don't?

i dont think so

1.5.26 6:07 pm what's an example of being "cruel on stage"?

i was hoping you would use your imagination

1.5.26 5:51 pm how can i spell words at a consistent rate?

maybe you could try typing along to a metronome?

1.5.26 5:06 pm What are some things that surprise you about the submissions you get here?

there are just a lot of really weird ways of saying things that are so insanely common. a lot of questions that make no sense to me, yet they are extremely common. so to be more specific i'm no longer surprised by them but i was surprised long ago when i first found out that they were so common

1.5.26 5:05 pm airplanes and the flying of them is a (slightly) recurring theme in your work, meaning it's something you sometimes think about. what's your relationship to this concept?

it is the standard human-invented method of flight. you know what they say, "if youre not bird, you'll have to get in a plane"

1.5.26 4:45 pm What songs do you recommend if I'm feeling angry?

how about mambo#5 by lou bega

1.5.26 3:28 pm have you ever seen a silky anteater? can't believe it's not muppets

in fact, i've seen muppets and i can't believe it's not a silky anteater

1.5.26 3:23 pm do you appreciate conciseness in questions?

i appreciate the freedom for each individual person to ask or say things in any kind of way

1.5.26 3:03 pm Do you keep the instrumentals of your songs

yes BUT, crucially, i also keep the vocals as well. in fact i keep every instrument individually, including the alternate takes

1.5.26 2:46 pm would you be a horse if you had the choice?

not at the moment. there's still an overwhelming series of very unhorselike activities i must attend to first

1.5.26 11:29 am is there any way last thursdayism is worth thinking about?

sure, for me just now it was worth doing some surface level research to figure out when and how that was popularized, at least under that name. because, for example, it could have just as easily been called 'wednesdayism' but you said thursdayism. so that was the immediate clue for me that this is something that was popularized by some specific piece of media which caught on at a particular point in time

1.5.26 11:24 am piano player here, love your musicianship. was curious if you're self-taught or if you studied music anywhere, and who your influences are.

i've exposed myself sufficiently to all the relevant musical terminology, but my relationship with the actual music is totally homegrown, and by that i mean at home and in the workplace

1.5.26 10:57 am if you've seen Whiplash, what did you think?

imagine if they made a movie about flower arranging, and in the movie it is assumed that the way youre supposed to be the best flower arranger is to punch every flower in the face as hard and fast as you can

1.5.26 10:12 am would you take the airplane to save your life? or do you feel like the horrors of any plane but the ground plane are just too much to bear?

the ground plane is just a metaphor, but i also use airplanes. metaphorically and actually, as needed

1.5.26 8:33 am Are oranges callled oranges because oranges are orange, or is orange called orange because oranges are orange?????

'orange' is originally the name of a fruit. then later a color, based on the fruit. so according to my calculations that would be your second option

1.5.26 8:12 am How do I get someone to notice me?

i mostly only know of nefarious ways

1.5.26 6:44 am was it fun making this website? im making one right now and its really not fun.

then your users will probably not have fun either

1.5.26 6:27 am Suppose you have a network of N users who each have a direct line of communication with one another. Which formula accurately describes the total number of lines of communication for any number N? Only count a line of communication between two users (such as A -> B and B -> A) as a single line of communication.
A) N-1
B) N!/2
C) (N-1)*N/2
D) floor(N/2)
E) (2^N)/(2N)-1

answer C

1.5.26 5:43 am whats a cool song you've been listening to recently?

would it be possible for me to underhype something instead

1.5.26 4:25 am For two different sized circles that are apart, the pair of lines tangent to those two circles will meet at a point.
For three different sized circles that are apart, drawing the pairs of tangent lines for each pair of circles will result in three intersection points. These three points will always be on the same line.
There's something to be said about finding comfort in the arbitrary. Is thst so weird?

honestly this seems like one of the most reliable religions imaginable

1.5.26 4:11 am why is there 240 on your wall

because the person who lived there before me had the earthshatteringly unoriginal "420" on the wall, so then i tried to be a little resourceful with it

1.5.26 4:03 am picture this: billwurtz the app. just like the website but worse in every way. what do you say??

"no"

1.5.26 3:37 am You're going to ask me a question, but I'm going to predict it and answer it
Pineapple, because they just can get any fruitier

in some ways your prediction has failed

1.5.26 1:21 am Would you rather take a nap or drink a glass of water?

both in due time. (repeating self) both in due time

1.5.26 1:15 am man this is a wild way for folks to interact with you. do you find it odd that otters exist?

yes i do

1.5.26 12:57 am Is technology simply the subjugation of nature?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.5.26 12:42 am I'd like to try a ground plane someday. Which airline provides the best ground planes in your opinion?

i have no experience on this subject other than the fact that i made it up

1.4.26 11:44 pm Why is the world so dumb and stupid

due to intelligence of course

1.4.26 11:21 pm is caring about criticism an important aspect of living? if so, to what degree?

i dont even know how you would measure that, but communication is pretty cool and healthy anyway

1.4.26 10:35 pm what was new canaan like

you've heard of "unkempt", well new canaan is extremely kempt

1.4.26 10:22 pm in "2 friends on the beach", one person asks the other if they want to go in the "lobster section". person #2 responds with "i can't handle that right now."
now, this begs the question, what IS in the lobster section?

it does in fact beg that question, and, whether you've noticed or not, from this section or elsewhere, i am in fact the kind of guy who begs for questions. So this may not be perhaps an answer to that question, but it is an answer to why i may have thought it was a good line to use

1.4.26 8:54 pm can you explain "The Lick"? I keep hearing about it but i don't know much about it. does it have a backstory? is it just a meme with no meaning beyond its memehood? or something else?

that's been around for a long time. somewhere in the 1900s someone noticed that jazz players tend to play this one riff a lot. a friend told me about this maybe 20 years ago, sang what it was, and i was like "oh right. that one. i like that one anyway". i think the general consensus is that it's a common riff but it's actually pretty good anyway. so it's been a meme long before the word 'meme' was a meme. Then, much more recently i saw some youngsters on stage doing a show and one of them threw that in (somewhat gratuitously) and gave a memetastic glance to the bandmates, and i thought to myself "oh nice, here is some social currency that i am already familiar with. how convenient" and since then i continue to use it both by accident and on purpose

1.4.26 8:54 pm so you hate waffles????

no i dont believe so

1.4.26 7:43 pm Are there questions you're surprised you get so often?

yes absolutely

1.4.26 7:41 pm what are your 2026 goals

i have many goals but they are not specifically linked to the calendar year. sometimes when i do use the calendar for goals it usually involves weeks

1.4.26 7:27 pm Do you usually spell "dress" with a "j"ress?

1.4.26 5:03 pm have you ever considered switching your daily schedule to something other than 24 hours? i mean doing cycles of 8 hours of sleep and 17 hours of being awake which adds up to 25 hours so every day you wake up at a different time

even if i thought that was a good idea, i have no where near that kind of control over sleep

1.4.26 3:52 pm can you just force a song out of you even with no idea or inspiration? like just sitting down, writing a song, from start to finish, because you decided you would do so. this would be convenient

yes i can do that, but it's not always my preferred way. from time to time i may resort to this if i feel like nothing else works

1.4.26 3:32 pm what r some of ur goals currently

i dont know if i can say, except i'm sure i do actually frequently say

1.4.26 1:57 pm im making something SO cool and big and im so mad that no one even knows about what im doing because it feels like they dont even know the real me and they'll constantly misinterpret me because this thing is like a huge part of me at this point that they dont know about but i also dont wanna tell anybody about what im doing because that would be a huge infringement on my negative face and i dont want to let anybody into this world im making because its my world and i dont want to share but im still mad that no one but me knows about it

this is actually how many wonderful things are made. There are other ways too, but you dont need to worry about those ways right now because you are doing it this way and it is a very fine way. in fact it's a way that a lot of people probably never get the courage to do

1.4.26 1:45 pm do you support the idea that animals should be larger?

not necessarily

1.4.26 1:14 pm Do have tips for learning how to do nothinng?

sometimes the trick is to sandwich it between two somethings, on either side. otherwise it's hard to even get a recipe for nothing

1.4.26 12:39 pm how do you feel about halloween?

very orange

1.4.26 11:44 am About the Scary Pockets thing, pardon me if i make an unwelcome incorrect assumption, but you seem mildly annoyed about the rushy tempo of the project. I guess it it's only fair especially if it was only 20 minutes you mentioned, tho this approach probably has some unique upsides i'd assume. Would you say you enjoyed working on this cover and also the finished result?

your assumption is totally incorrect and exactly the opposite. upon first meeting, jack and i instantly bonded very excitedly over this obsession of moving quickly, and all the horrific demons that come from sitting too long on a project. we traded horror stories on the subject, and in fact, we instantly discovered that we were both massively inspired by the documentary about the production of South Park, the main theme of which is the weekly deadline and the priceless blessings that come as a result, despite the mayhem

1.4.26 11:11 am why should i use a time signature other than 4/4 and 3/4

ideally you wouldnt even really realize you did until you analyze it after the fact. and then in that case, you could ask why did it happen? why did you come up with a bit of music that did not fit neatly into recurring 3 or 4 beat patterns? also no answer to this. But there's usually no need to be goal oriented about it. this would be like going to visit a friend and planning to make sure you only speak in 5-word sentences

1.4.26 9:19 am if you could only play one chord for the rest of your life what would it be

doesnt matter, it would not be any more effective than no chord at all

1.4.26 7:40 am What makes a passion fruit so passionate?

just the name

1.4.26 4:18 am What's your favorite flute?

i would need to consult a list of flutes, for completeness

1.4.26 3:37 am so how is 2026 so far

hard to tell

1.4.26 3:34 am Why do my brain feel foggy

most likely preparing for clarity soon

1.4.26 2:43 am Is Billie Jean your lover?

1.4.26 2:20 am Favorite month

the current month

1.4.26 1:38 am do you have any tips for falling asleep?

no, it's probably never gonna happen

1.4.26 12:01 am forget everything you know

why dont you do it first, just to test

1.3.26 11:47 pm Should we celebrate the new year or is time just a construct?

pardon me, false equivalence alarm going off. new years day/eve is a construct, time is not. however this does not answer the question of whether to celebrate either one

1.3.26 9:06 pm do you know what 67 is?

yes it's 201 divided by 3. very convenient

1.3.26 8:38 pm i can't find the ask button

yes you did probably or you pressed enter

1.3.26 8:02 pm Would you like to play UNO with me

ok but what are we gonna play after that

1.3.26 7:37 pm what's the best pizza topping

burning your lip and getting an unsightly scab for a few days

1.3.26 6:02 pm what are the steps in your most powerful recipe

count to 2?

1.3.26 5:55 pm Do you have the first few primorials memorized, just in case?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

1.3.26 5:03 pm What's your opinion on constructed languages (Conlangs)?

discovering the magic of real languages ruined conlangs for me

1.3.26 4:56 pm what's your current understanding of how you can best tell which of your thoughts turn into reality and which ones don't?

it's hard to predict

1.3.26 4:55 pm i want to go to the moon alone, but i can't get there by myself

you'll have to invent something

1.3.26 4:45 pm are you capable of hate?

somehow the way this question is framed makes both 'yes' and 'no' sound weird and incorrect. wouldnt be the first time this has happened

1.3.26 3:38 pm Do you practice conciseness? Is so, how? If not, that's cool too :-]

sure, on questions for example, i type an answer and then i look at it and feel "oh yuck thats way too long, if i was reading that i would probably wanna skip it" then hopefully i can come up with a shorter and also better way, and then i might feel "ah, that's much better"

1.3.26 3:15 pm If you met a mermaid and the mermaid played some awesome music for you, that no human has ever heard before, would you try to replicate the mermaid music when you come home?

maybe

1.3.26 2:30 pm whats the best n umber

remind me again which ones are popular at this exact moment in society for no apparent reason

1.3.26 2:06 pm how do i stop wanting

sometimes if you start working on something this can be enough of a distraction

1.3.26 12:21 pm Should I eat food or try photosynthesizing?

just guessing that food is gonna work better for you. this is just based on your language use

1.3.26 8:45 am listening to "i like to wear soft clothing because it makes me feel like i'm rough in comparison" makes me feel like my skin is softer than the clothes i'm wearing

hm, maybe there should be a warning label

1.3.26 8:44 am Favorite clef?

i'm the most familiar with treble

1.3.26 7:49 am hello mister wurtz, i have had something haunting me for the better part of a decade and i would really like to know your opinion on it. back in third grade i stole my classmates' ants on a log because originally they said they didn't want it, but later on they were looking for it and wanted it and i never came clean, i don't know, i think about it a lot. am i a bad person?

i think it's time for you to hear some stories about some of the many sinful memories some other people have. for perspective

1.3.26 7:11 am what aren't your new years resolutions?

anything involving 'new years'. if i make a resolution i want to be actually effective all the time, naturally

1.3.26 6:52 am I really enjoyed the Don't you want me cover with Scary Pockets. In case of such covers, I reckon all the music is prearranged beforehand by an organizing party or someone, but I wonder if and how much freedom you had. Given the level of musicians included and the free-formity of jazz-like vibes, it seems likely (to a barely musician like myself) that you guys didn't need to play the arrangement note for note and some freedoms could be allowed.
How was it in the case of drums? Were some parts added by ours truly?

i will tell you exactly how it went. jack was going through a real 'hurry is the only way' mentality phase at that point. he had been brutally stuck on some projects recently and was determined that the only way out was QUICK. so it was just let's get in a room and figure it out within like 20 minutes and actually even start recording it before we've even totally figured it out. but there's also another weird story about the arrangement for that song, because they had sent me the song choices the day before (which they dont normally do, i dont know why they did.) and for some reason, and maybe this is actually a generic choice, but i had the idea to do a purdie shuffle for it, but the weird thing is when ryan picked me up at the airport he said he'd also had the same idea. so me and ryan coincidentally both thought to do a purdie shuffle for it. and then the 4-on-the-floor-reggae thing in the intro i think was my idea, because i noticed that the riff actually sounded kind of like a sort of marley riff when you re-purpose it that way. And then i think to swap in some actual 16ths at the tail end of the riff was jack's idea. But the two governing principles of all the sessions at that time, for those guys, i believe, was 1: try to make it a 'different' style from the original, and 2: wing it at breakneck speed and start recording takes before you've really figured it out

1.3.26 4:32 am What's your thoughts on Nyan cat, the trendy 2012 meme sensation!

it's a great example of many things. it has been a go-to for me, for philosophical and analytical purposes

1.3.26 4:17 am What are your thoughts on oxford commas

famous yet unknown. everyone has heard of the oxford comma, but i think it would be a challenge to find anyone who actually knows what it is

1.3.26 4:17 am Was the song "I'm crazy/it's raining" originally called "I'm crazy/it's raining" or could you just not decide between "I'm crazy" or "it's raining" so you ended up using both?

all of the above

1.3.26 2:35 am On the question about limitations, I'm not the person who asked that question, but wouldn't forcing yourself to do something in a specific time frame count as a limitation?

absolutely. that's a classic

1.3.26 12:49 am Why did Peter piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?

diction exercise. or should i say piction

1.3.26 12:21 am would you eat a cheeseburger or get dissolved in acid

let me think

1.2.26 11:44 pm do you like tinker bell?

i'm not actually sure

1.2.26 11:00 pm what's the difference between recapitulation and regurgitation

i think recapitulation might be some kind of compensation or adjustment to something. where as regurgitation is like spitting something back out

1.2.26 10:53 pm Have you considered adding the ability to like or dislike questions and your responses?

absolutely not, one of the reasons i was so eager to set up this whole site is to have a place free from that kind of drama

1.2.26 10:14 pm why do my parents hate me?

in some cases they might actually be just jealous of how young you are

1.2.26 9:11 pm Why is it that, when asked how our day was, some of us will instinctively say it was great, even if that's a lie?

sometimes we may be trying to help make the other person's day good

1.2.26 8:58 pm On christmas, answering another question, you said that your fans understamd you about 12% or 34%. Does that mean 34% or 12% of the fans understand you at all, or that all fans understand you by 34% or 12%? Or is it the average or median understanding over all fans? Does anyone overstand you?

it's impossible to measure, actually. that was just the feeling at the time that was asked

1.2.26 8:56 pm For the outro of your Slow Down tune, it's some sort of F, C7 and Dm7 on loop and the last one is Bbadd9 instead of Dm7. Is this correct?

not even close, i have no idea where you got any of that. the outtro to slow down is pretty much just Bbmaj7, Amin7, Gmin7. and the last one probably sneaks some kind of Bmin7 instead of Amin7

1.2.26 8:10 pm Am i depressed or just being dramatic?

maybe neither. maybe both. wait no sorry, now actually i'm being dramatic

1.2.26 8:10 pm do things intrinsically have sound or are sounds simply reflections of actions

option B there is not bad, i'll admit

1.2.26 7:57 pm Is there a narrative continuity to your songs? Which order should we listen to your songs in?

everyone should probably listen in different orders. which order you listen will depend a lot on which person you are

1.2.26 7:35 pm if you had a hyperfixation on one of the words of all time, which one would it be?

'if', particularly because that would have been the one that would have gotten me into such a fix, in this case`

1.2.26 7:30 pm what have you learned about architecture?

it's pretty good

1.2.26 6:24 pm In the part "it's wrong it's right it's staying awake at night" I'm trying to pick apart the voices layered on the melody when it switches to Bbm11 on the lyric "slipped into this new rhythm" and I think I sense some special sauce on the second syllable of "rhythm". Maybe it is JUST the Db I can hear which starkly contrasts with the previous Cmin11 chord but I could be missing something. What I'm really curious about is how many different notes are layered on the lyrics "and this is what it goes like" because it feels like a whole bunch of Db Eb and F layering the main melody but I can't pick out where exactly they appear. Please help;it is very important that I work out what you were trying to do here.

in this case it seems you've zoomed in too far and are leading yourself astray here. you can trust your own ability to be cool, and there's no reason your 'sauce' would be any less special than mine, once you start expressing yourself. what you've described sounds like you are trying to understand an actor's performance by analysing the position of their individual eyebrow hairs

1.2.26 6:20 pm I have a knock-knock joke, but you have to start it.

no i dont

1.2.26 5:47 pm how do i find the things i am interested in? how do i know if there are any? because i know what my interests used to be but i don't seem to care as much or at all about them now

this part is out of your hands. whether you trust or dont trust the world to find a way to show you something new, it will anyway

1.2.26 5:36 pm Are you still too small for the mall?

never was

1.2.26 5:16 pm What is your favourite type of pastry-based dessert?

cookie, although we can argue all day about what that even is

1.2.26 4:43 pm [Not the person who made the what would you name a 13th month] (Continuation) What would you name the 14th month.

you'd have to look up the latin prefixes, and then decide whether you are going along with the weird 2-displaced mishap built into the current gregorian month scheme

1.2.26 4:17 pm when you drink water, does cold water feel sharp? does hot water feel round? does regular water taste exciting?

cold or hot water could both be described as sharp, as long as they are a certain difference away from normal temperature. normal temperature water feels very bland and boring

1.2.26 3:37 pm Do you ever place restrictions or constraints on your art? In the vein of "limitations breed creativity". If so, what were some of the restrictions that gave you the most gratifying or unexpected results?

i dont know if i've ever successfully placed limitations, but i've tried. for example, in the video for the money song, i think if you look at the way the video starts you can get a general idea of what the idea was, but eventually it gets broken, for better or worse

1.2.26 2:51 pm is the 12 tone system a miracle

yes i believe so

1.2.26 2:15 pm What would you name a 13th month

trescadecember, but actually undecember

1.2.26 2:09 pm why do all of the questions on this page feel like they've been asked by me, despite the fact that almost none of them have been asked by me

maybe that's just "human nature"

1.2.26 1:17 pm Have you ever ridden a manatee?

no i dont believe so

1.2.26 11:25 am How are you able to write songs that sound nonsensical but also profound?

profundity is everywhere. that's not my fault

1.2.26 11:06 am yo. every time i talk on this page about my problems or how bad of a person i am, you reassure me it's okay. does that mean i'm just crashing out over nothing....? cause that's kind of embarrassing for me ngl

i'm just doing my job

1.2.26 10:27 am Do you believe there are constraints to every conversation with anyone? Are they necessary? How much?

i could probably think of some constraints that apply to almost every conversation you'll ever have. for example: dont vaporize the person

1.2.26 10:13 am Do you usually try dividing by 2 first for prime factorization

if the last digit is even, yes

1.2.26 10:12 am this isn't the first time I've asked a question but I always forget to come back for your answer! do you have any suggestions on how to improve on this front?

1.2.26 7:10 am There's a squirrel outside my window looking right at me. How could I respond?

look back

1.2.26 5:05 am how do you laugh

not sure

1.2.26 2:54 am do you like grilled cheese?

in principle yes

1.2.26 2:32 am i was browsing Pat Methenys QnA page in his website and it reminded me of this questions page. Any inspiration or just coincidence?

q&a is not something i invented. however; not using cookies is something i apparently did invent

1.2.26 1:53 am Why did we feel the need to make a base 16 version of rgb values?

not sure

1.2.26 1:34 am what kinds of irregularities are you interested in?

the prime numbers? which are technically not irregular but whatever

1.2.26 1:31 am Has your social media inundated you with that one guy who keeps showing up to smalls jazz club at the jam sessions claiming he's a self taught God?

no but it has been inundated with other people with other habits and claims

1.2.26 12:46 am What is the most efficient way to rotate my sandwiches

attach to a wheel

1.1.26 11:36 pm opinion on donuts?

should be called "no nuts". never seen nuts in a donut

1.1.26 11:36 pm have you ever looked up at the stars?

yes i believe so

1.1.26 11:06 pm would you rather have 5 bananas or 9 bananas

why not 7

1.1.26 10:43 pm whats your favourite unicode character

1.1.26 10:30 pm what's the best chord? answers like "it depends on context" or "there is no 'best' chord" or anything else with any amount of nuance are not acceptable, you must pick exactly one (1) chord

for you the answer is C. i am Confident that this answer will be Completely Correct, for you. Certified

1.1.26 9:38 pm i can't remember if i asked this here before, but does the existence of a piston imply the existence of a pistoff?

it does not. However: the existence of words and play implies the existence of wordplay

1.1.26 8:53 pm what are your new years resolutions

figure out how to fit 7 days in a week

1.1.26 8:32 pm Why does listening to sad music feel like you're purging and cleansing your body of all your negative feelings, while actually experiencing sadness in your life feels like developing a flesh-eating rash?

why does this feel like actually you're something you're telling me not asking me

1.1.26 8:10 pm do you believe in soup as a religion

no but i respect it

1.1.26 7:05 pm can you elsiay urtdsnaend a qtsoeuin wrhee msot of the ltrtees are jbemlud up?

i could actually understand it without even reading the whole thing because this is the only thing people ever say in that format

1.1.26 6:57 pm is there any way at all

yes there is

1.1.26 6:17 pm Hi bill, could we start the new year with a 2026 prime factorization?

sure, but it's a little underwhelming. it's just 1013x2

1.1.26 6:17 pm do you like math

sometimes it calms me down

1.1.26 5:54 pm what the heck is a noncommutative ring

i have no idea

1.1.26 5:20 pm To make some sense, one of my friends watch the song "Might Quit" so much, he left school, chopped trees for the first time, and make a house that he can "live in it" to make things crazier. rain poured down. My friend is your #1 fan i guess.

i suppose i should be careful about what to put in songs

1.1.26 4:50 pm English may be a mess, but it sure does allow for some fantastic word play and poetry/lyrics, sometimes suspiciously so.
Have you ever had a moment where it was just like, 'There's no way that that worked out that way?'

guitar players can play a power chord through a power cord

1.1.26 4:26 pm favorite time signature?

regular

1.1.26 4:17 pm Is ice wet?

sure, if it's warming up

1.1.26 3:26 pm How do you end a song you want to last forever

sometimes honesty is the best policy

1.1.26 3:17 pm Where are you currently vacationing?

it's hard to describe exactly

1.1.26 2:41 pm how much do you care about spelling words right? I've always been more of a connection Hunter.

what i care about mostly is communication

1.1.26 2:02 pm how many hairs on a hare?

i am unawair

1.1.26 2:10 pm will you remember me when you remember me?

let me perform some calculations

1.1.26 1:11 pm How do new things become old things?

time

1.1.26 12:04 pm why is the Q in the header misplaced to make "ueqstions"

same exact reason why the first letter in a Title is often mis-sized

1.1.26 11:36 am Is it true that, in general, people on the very ends of the bell don't care about using genera to define music? Like that meme where the simpleton on the left is like "music is just music" and then the crying person in the middle is like "nooo its all so different and i have to use 5 different words to describe this particular type of thrash metal" and then the genius on the right side of the meme is like "music is just music" ?

this analogy is pretty good except i think actually the person all the way on the right is probably crying even more, because it's all... SO different, way too different for words to keep up with any kind of correct accuracy

1.1.26 10:45 am do you have any motivational advice to help me finish the game im trying to make?

yes, tell me the enchanting story about what the game is and how and why you started it

1.1.26 9:34 am if i quoted a random lyric from one of your songs, would you be able to tell which song it's from? (without looking for it)

you could always make it small enough that it would be impossible to tell. for example 'the'

1.1.26 5:53 am as a follow up to your answer to "how many 'r's are there in strawberry" which was "now you've got me wondering how many 'r's there are in 'how many 'r's are there in strawberry" do you know how many 'r's there are in now you've got me wondering how many 'r's there are in 'how many 'r's are there in strawberry

1.1.26 3:45 am what's your new years resolution

to observe the gregorian calendar

1.1.26 3:43 am are you a gamer?

not exactly

1.1.26 3:01 am Are you disappointed that we aren't in a perfect square year anymore?

dont worry, there's another one right around the corner, in 2116

1.1.26 1:18 am do you have any new years resolutions?

no but that's because those are designed not to work. i make resolutions other times, as needed

1.1.26 12:06 am Happy new year! My new year's resolution is to throw the ball they dropped so they can drop it again this year.

thank you, that's very helpful

1.1.26 12:00 am Happy new year

are you telling me there's going to be ANOTHER year?

1.1.26 12:00 am Am I weird for trying to get the first question of 2026 instead of watching the ball drop?

watching the ball drop is probably pretty weird actually

12.31.25 11:32 pm What is the best metal band?

how would someone even win or score such a contest

12.31.25 10:38 pm Oh no! I travelled back to 10,000 BC. How do I get back home?

you might have to build a new one out of rocks

12.31.25 10:05 pm how would you feel if humans used base 9 or base 11 instead of base 10?

i would probably feel fine

12.31.25 8:49 pm What do you think about thinking?

it's like another world, in your mind

12.31.25 8:47 pm happy new year
do you like tacos/burritos?

yes i do

12.31.25 8:38 pm do you ever wonder about water, and stuff? i love how it hydrates me and makes me not die

yes that is pretty interesting

12.31.25 8:15 pm What was it that you said 3 or four songs ago?

"it's time for the show"

12.31.25 6:24 pm how do i live my life like a persona game

you probably already do

12.31.25 6:06 pm Yay, we're at the "and a happy new year" part

what part is after that

12.31.25 4:04 pm how much do you care about spelling words right

what i care about mostly is communication

12.31.25 3:35 pm Ive been spending more time worrying about what the right thing to spend my time is and im starting to realize worrying about what the right thing to spend my time with isnt the right thing to spend my time on.

i'm following your logic very smoothly now

12.31.25 1:54 pm is the future or the past before us

thank you for pointing out this glorious flimsyness of language

12.31.25 1:11 pm If you could care less, would you?

occasionally

12.31.25 12:18 pm Bilbo Wurtz, what are some skills you hope to develop in 2026?

i've learned not to make plans for specific calendar years

12.31.25 12:10 pm is there a color that you feel indifferent towards?

i was going to say 'regular', but that one actually has a nice familiarity to it

12.31.25 11:35 am Do you prefer round shapes or pointy shapes?

when you put it that way, how about a cone

12.31.25 11:18 am motivation: there may be two main motivators in us, instinct and intuition. Instinct the urge to do things NOW, and intuition the quiet but absolute knowing what to do. in some people (you maybe? could be) they are aligned. in others (me for one) they're fucking opposites

for now there is no reason to assume that it's any better on your neighbor's side of the fence

12.31.25 6:58 am skyscrapers are made of sea shells

well then, what are sea shells made of

12.31.25 6:43 am okay. the big problem of 2025 for me. i don't think i know how this works. making art. i keep trying too hard maybe, i think, probably. not sure if i'm describing this right but i keep focusing on how original (synonym for creative?)/not original the art i make is. i probably would/should instead focus on what choices i make in the art give me the most enjoyment but like.... something about all choices usually giving me just about the same enjoyment (ive talked about this before). which sometimes makes me think im not being myself by picking choices just to make them, and therefore i should probably give up and stop making art. but ive started to think that maybe this is just who i am. cause i get enjoyment from making art even if specific choices don't always excite me. hold on i got a translated hayao miyazaki quote for this.... "i can feel it everyday, the limit of my ability. but if you said 'why don't you quit?' i'd say 'shut up'". that's basically how i feel about making art. so wait what's the problem? oh yeah, i still don't think my art is creative. my art seems very. basic or. formulated. commercial. uncreative... gross words like that. okay and im still not sure if art is for me despite not making art sounding horrifying and depressing and also despite admitting in the first half of this text that making art is for me and gives me enjoyment. so im going in circles. i need to reconcile this. knowing who i am would be great

you're doing fine. i was going to say you should just channel all this energy into the art, but i'm sure you have plenty more

12.31.25 5:53 am how do i defeat the ever-growing catalogue of embarrassing moments that replay in my head when i am trying to sleep?

you'll never beat this, but it might help to know that other people go through this as well

12.31.25 5:06 am What is your favourite shoelace

first i need to make sure i've seen them all, so i can judge properly

12.31.25 2:56 am do i care enough?

if you didnt you wouldnt be asking this

12.31.25 2:50 am i need your honest opinion. should i get a tattoo or nah?

i don't know anything about tattoos

12.31.25 2:29 am i just submitted my resume, when can i expect an interview?

if i was the employer, if you submitted a resume you'd never hear from me. if someone made a resume then that says to me that they're not serious about communicating genuine information

12.31.25 1:00 am Why do you try to make your songs sound so different from each other? I love your distinctive sound and style, and I don't understand what's wrong with sticking with the same general style over time.

so should i change to staying the same, or keep changing it the same way

12.31.25 12:25 am what are your political opinions

i always forget to pick sides. i suppose that means i can't play

12.31.25 12:20 am do you have any memories of crying joyful tears?

sure, that happens quite often

12.30.25 11:52 pm any opinions on beefsteaks ?

almost sounds fictional

12.30.25 11:17 pm is nothing something and something nothing at the same time, or is the existence of something a mere illusion?

nothing and something can both be sometimes something and/or nothing. also illusions can happen on occasion but not all the time

12.30.25 11:05 pm Id love to say im musical in nature but i quit viola after a few year and kinda hated it, and only did 2 years of percussion in band spaced out by a good few years. I guess i did piano for 3 years i think when i was younger but that was just so i could do percussion. Realistically i have bo musical talent, im just good at finding and predicting the beat. I love drumming honestly but i think its a bit too late as next year is my senior year. I couldn't even consider trying to make music of my own, i can barely read sheet music. All i know is i love music so much and get these funny litttle melodys stuck in my head sometime. How would i even go about trying out music making with no experience?

first you'll have to break whatever hypnotic spell has made you think you dont have the experience and talent that you do have

12.30.25 10:15 pm are dust bunnies considered to be "cute"?

sometimes

12.30.25 10:08 pm passionfruit implies the existence of malaisefruit

disagree

12.30.25 10:02 pm what color is this square --> ■

purple, but i'll admit that's my fault

12.30.25 9:30 pm Wait, so flavors are impurities, right?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

12.30.25 9:24 pm can you imagine a reddish green

seems brown

12.30.25 8:53 pm do you like making random stuff?

not so much

12.30.25 8:25 pm is the place at the start of huge gamer directly based off a real place?

yes i believe that was a bank building somewhere in iowa. but honestly probably not the inside. just the .5 seconds that you see the street corner

12.30.25 7:49 pm Due you think there are rules to conversations with different people? As in "here are the things you MUST NOT say to this person and here are what you can say" or "here are topics you can discuss and what you cannot"? Can these rules be broken too? What's the limit?

there may be some rules, but yes they can be broken. no exact limits really

12.30.25 7:44 pm Do you read staves as face-egbdf or efgabcdef

it depends what notes are on them

12.30.25 7:31 pm if not now then when?

pretty soon

12.30.25 7:20 pm Believe it or not I've learned how to appreciate the grass on my side, even though it's greener on the other side.

congratulations

12.30.25 7:19 pm what's your address

earth

12.30.25 6:53 pm I just looked up a random list online of "The Most Hated Songs", and what all the songs had in common are that they are wildly famous, ingrained in the pop culture zeitgeist, catchy songs that get stuck in your head that everyone knows the words and melody to..
Hmmmmm... this makes me want to write a song that becomes one of the most hated songs?

yes, how popular a song is will determine how much hate it can get. hard to hate a song you don't know, you must admit

12.30.25 6:31 pm why is the alphabet in alphabetical order?

because you said

12.30.25 5:51 pm what's your opinion on outsider music and do you listen to any?

remind me again which side is the outside

12.30.25 5:23 pm How well do you think you're fans understand you?

maybe about 34%, or 12%

12.30.25 5:16 pm The 21st century is just about 1/4 complete. What are your thoughts on it so far?

it's been very............ computery

12.30.25 4:53 pm is music real, or is it all just hallucinations

it's real but it's nuts

12.30.25 4:34 pm what's your opinion?

1=10

12.30.25 4:17 pm did you ever count the keys on your piano one by one not by octaves?

yes but it's never a surprise, what the total is. it's written on the box usually

12.30.25 4:11 pm Your website is very cool, how did you make it?

just write some things down

12.30.25 3:48 pm i think these questions are fake and you just farm engagement because you're a fucking evil trickster

alright well then, what does that make you

12.30.25 3:08 pm how often do you write your ideas down?

very

are there any ideas you consider too small (or too large) to write?

12.30.25 2:52 pm will we all die sad in 2085?

not necessarily

12.30.25 1:36 pm will the novelty ever wear off?

yes but no

12.30.25 1:23 pm You good?

YOU good

12.30.25 12:59 pm what is the largest number of peanuts you have experienced in a peanut?

12.30.25 12:55 pm Help me I don't know if I'm at a local minimum or a local maximum in my life! Could it be the dreaded saddle point?

how about the 'origin'

12.30.25 12:53 pm How do you reconcile creativity and content?

"go nuts"

12.30.25 12:24 pm have you ever been sponsored by chess 2?

12.30.25 11:38 am do u have a favorite music genre or nah

they're fake

12.30.25 10:28 am Do you like warm weather or cold weather more?

what about medium temperatured weather

12.30.25 9:56 am what can I do to make you care?

nothing, i already do care

12.30.25 9:43 am Oh yeah of course. Close your eyes see you eyelids close you

fair enough

12.30.25 9:34 am AM I TOO LOUD RIGHT NOW?

12.30.25 9:11 am what can make you answer my question?

you asking it, for example

12.30.25 8:31 am what are power chords, and have you ever used them in a song?

power chords are usually when talking about guitar. it means a major chord with no 3rd. in other words, it means, for example, notes E B E. usually with distortion on. sure yes i have used them

12.30.25 8:06 am can you suggest a trick for overcoming the fact that i absolutely hate the sound of my voice in recording

yes, just do it more, you'll be fine

12.30.25 7:44 am give me grace, a simple answer, be serious, please Mr. Wurtz a little more light, sunshine, objectifying night

ok, i will

12.30.25 6:50 am How to deal with stalkers?

there are lessons to be learned here about the human condition

12.30.25 5:01 am god. i'm cringe. so cringe i can't even call other people cringe cause i'm the absolute most cringe person i know. it's like i don't even know what i'm doing most of the time. in fact i should probably apologise to everyone in my vicinity for how awkward and socially inept i am. including you; sorry. damn. i should probably just qui- oh nevermind i learnt some advanced maths, i'm so much better than everyone, people are so lucky to be able to talk to me cause i'm an absolute genius

fair enough

12.30.25 4:42 am when asked a vague question, should one respond with an equally vague or inversely proportional specific answer?

no rules. use imagination

12.30.25 3:11 am happy new year in advance friend, love you (platonically)

fair enough

12.30.25 1:53 am how are you feeling?

pretty good

12.30.25 1:37 am what do you think?

allow me to demonstrate:

12.30.25 1:24 am can we escape our past?

50% YES

12.30.25 1:12 am On my own, would I wander through this wonderland alone never knowing my right foot from my left, my hat from my glove?

i don't see why not

12.30.25 1:07 am how do i use capital letters

hold shift or press caps lock

12.30.25 12:57 am do you think the girl i been texting is into me

does she think you're into her

12.30.25 12:47 am thoughts on dawg?? (spelt 'dawg')

fine but slightly ineficient. the word 'dog' is fewer letters

12.30.25 12:22 am do you play games

yes i do

12.29.25 11:57 pm why do you not answer any of my questions

coincidence

12.29.25 11:20 pm huh. you only answer the questions i don't expect you to. that's pretty fun though

i see what you're getting at

12.29.25 10:57 pm If back in 2018, a time traveler came by and showed you all of the songs that you would make and you heard them all, which one of those songs would you like the most

"it's the first show of the day"

12.29.25 10:43 pm I'm sad. What should I do about that?

nothing actually

12.29.25 10:30 pm what do you think of the new year's ball drop?

i have noticed the ball never goes up

12.29.25 10:24 pm Opinion on Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition?

i actually thought there would have been more editions by now

12.29.25 10:22 pm Did you here about the guy who didn't like musicals?

12.29.25 10:21 pm Are there any questions you would expect someone to have asked by now, yet haven't been asked

12.29.25 10:16 pm favorite category of music?

music

12.29.25 9:54 pm i just wanted to say i love this website and the things on it

well that is kindness right there

12.29.25 9:05 pm Why do you hate indomie? What do you think about instant noodles in general?

almost too quick

12.29.25 8:36 pm I miss your music & videos, any chance for a comeback during 2026? Also I hope you're doing great anyway, and if I had to choose between seeing more of it or you being happy, well guess what? I can always watch/listen to the ol' classics ;)

dont worry the best times are oncoming

12.29.25 8:30 pm whats your ethnicity

ridiculous. no just kidding, it's fairly unremarkable

12.29.25 8:19 pm evening. do you have any goals for 2026 you want to share? mine is to go on more walks

i dont make goals for calendar years, i just make goals in general

12.29.25 8:13 pm i think i may be ignorant to other people's problems and feelings. like when someone talks about how difficult their life is or how stressed they feel but i dont think their problems are that bad. i sometimes dismiss it as privilege. maybe cause ive been through pretty shocking stuff and know people whove gone through even way more than me, so i compare the problems people complain about with what ive seen and decide their problems are "lesser". but i dont want to be dismissive of people talking about their struggles

that's okay

12.29.25 8:00 pm how to be original without cannibalizing yourself and those around you?

just do like the next thing over. should work

12.29.25 7:14 pm Favorite letter?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

12.29.25 7:13 pm how are you?

prety good

12.29.25 6:52 pm Galapastop

i see what you're getting at

12.29.25 6:41 pm if i make the right assumption, do you feel the same?

i was going to say no, but now that i think about it, yes

12.29.25 6:38 pm i want to write lyrics but i feel like i have nothing to say. what do i do

how about this

12.29.25 6:11 pm do you prefer peanuts with or without shells? salted or unsalted? roasted? (important)

the most important thing, i find, about peanuts, is the number of peanuts per peanut

12.29.25 4:40 pm Whats your best song you've made???????22?

i would prefer to make a new one to at least pretend to be the best at least at that moment

12.29.25 4:22 pm as an artist, how do you deal with distraction?

express the distractions

12.29.25 3:54 pm you're very wise

are you sure it's not just the wise ass looking color scheme on here

12.29.25 2:46 pm why do you not answer any of my questions

sometimes that's just the way it crumbles, cookie wise

12.29.25 1:33 pm Are you emo?

sometimes i am emotional and/or have emotions. i'll give you that much

12.29.25 1:24 pm what's the chord at the beginning of "a hard day's night"? or at least your interpretation of it

sounds like G7sus4, feels like D is in the bass but maybe that's just what i would do. listening it sounds like the bass is playing D but you can hear a low G on the piano

12.29.25 11:42 am any thoughts on Vocaloid music?

i just call it 'music', although i dont use that particular tool in my own music

12.29.25 11:07 am Do you ever take like a week off from working (holiday season or otherwise)? In an intentional way, like, "I need some time away to refresh so I will spend X days just taking it easy"
I feel like if I was working for myself that would be really hard to do

it can happen

12.29.25 9:38 am can people truly change

yes and no.. oops just changed, but didnt

12.29.25 9:15 am What do you think of meme culture in the current day?

might as well just print out the current calendar date. "December 29, 2025". hottest meme you'll ever see, of the current day

12.29.25 9:02 am thoughts on computer-aided design

computer or no computer, what are YOU bringing to the table

12.29.25 6:03 am what do you think of liquids

what a wild state

12.29.25 4:47 am what things do you agree with

remind me again what all the things are

12.29.25 3:36 am Did you build a particle accelerator

not that i am aware of

12.29.25 2:04 am if you could add a new letter to the alphabet what would you make

why so hypothetical? either i do or i dont. i probably already have actually. i'm sure i've said things like $top or g0, especially if i'm feeling restless

12.29.25 1:45 am Will we ever be able to access the video (or song), " VACATIONING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUN?"

with deep regret i must tell you that i think the expert section is slightly too advanced for you

12.29.25 1:09 am wouldn't that be funny if the body dreams just because it gets bored during sleep

there's no reason it wouldn't be accurate to look at it that way

12.29.25 1:08 am What's between wisdom and truth?

'and'?

12.29.25 1:04 am i must be some sort of an idiot

i know this feeling. this is a common feeling probably

12.29.25 12:41 am i got laid off from big4 consulting (a deep derivative of corporate), filmed the moment and went viral for it. the question is coming, just hold on for a bit more exposition: thus began my entrance to the coliseum of content creation (imagine a D minor -> B flat maj -> F maj -> C maj on loop that's what it felt like, requiem) it's been 1 year of me pushing short form slop out there which led me to today, craving a deeper long form project. HERE IT IS: When you began your content journey, if you had one sentence to tell your younger self right in the moment you went from ideation mode to execution mode, what would you tell yourself?

nothing, i wouldn't want to talk to myself backwards through time. could cause a chain reaction that could destroy the entire universe

12.28.25 11:30 pm Are you a judgemental person? I think i am but i dont want to be.

if you dont make judgements how are you gonna figure anything out or make any decisions about anything

12.28.25 11:16 pm will you answer this question?

no way, oops

12.28.25 7:54 pm whats the most intresting question you've asked somone?

i have no way of knowing how interesting it would have been to the other person

12.28.25 7:16 pm if you could make any chord its own single key on every piano which one would it be

how about the lowest and highest note together

12.28.25 7:03 pm do you have a way to find out if you've been running too much in circles on a project or do you just bully yourslef until you finish it/something else... sometimes i look at stuff i used to work on and be like, oh yeah im glad i never continued working on that and im wondering if theres something that can allow me to forsee further than usual if a project will end like that or if that is something id want, do you have any thoughts about this? do you think this is heavily dependant on how much you want to work on something at the time?

no one knows the answers to this, and the only thing i can say to ease your disappointment about there not being any answers to this is that the fact that there's no answers to it becomes very profound eventually, the more different ways you try these things

12.28.25 6:58 pm do you find joy in observing the marvels in our sky, such as astronomy and cloud watching?

i don't see why not

12.28.25 6:22 pm how many days after christmas should you just stop saying merry christmas? btw, merry christmas

you can say it any time you want. most of the time it's probably christmas anyway

12.28.25 4:17 pm whats the best star?

the one for earth but let's face it i'm biased

12.28.25 2:25 pm thoughts on bluegrass?

neither blue nor grass. discuss

12.28.25 1:28 pm What's the longest you've spent on a question, that you can recall?

heck there are some i'm still working on

12.28.25 1:24 pm Do you think the Beatles are as good as people say they are?

if everyone says they're good then you're gonna have to check to make sure

12.28.25 1:13 pm Why do notes sound "nice" together? I'm familiar with the harmonic series and such, but why would constructive interference sound pleasurable? The only way I can think is that dissonance is harder and harsher, even more painful to listen to so by comparison. This leads into another concept:chromatic gravity. Why does it sound satisfying when dissonance is resolved by frequencies moving by small increments. These questions opens up a whole can of worms pertaining to humanity itself don't you think?

yes, you are getting at a collosally important question, which is how do we do this, what's even good, why is it good, what makes a 'good' musical experience, what makes a good story, what makes a good cinema experience, ..... what is the recipe, what is the rule, what is the formula.
[spoiler ahead]

     what do you wish the formula was?
     do you enjoy being surprised by what appears to be a new formula?
     do you ever feel comfort in seeing a familiar formula, but with a twist sometimes?
     do you suppose it would be fun to sometimes even see someone use a broken formula, or the wrong formula on purpose?
     do you ever think it would be fun to see a formula work when it shouldn't, or not work when it should?

            if you answered yes to any of these questions, congratulations it's not a formula. it's you.
     What's the formula for 'you'?
     Do you think you could still know who you are without one?
     Would you prefer it to be easy, complex, or totally paradoxical?
     would you prefer being able to choose, or would you like to sometimes be surprised?

if you answered yes to any of these q
sorry out to lunch

12.28.25 12:08 pm Do you like trains?

yes but ONLY as a mode of transportation

12.28.25 10:40 am What's your favorite of the 10 commandments?

the one that says not to sue or kill your friends or neighbors or have affairs with their wives at least not on sundays

12.28.25 8:23 am what is your favorite multiple of 13

30030

12.28.25 7:02 am when did the new years become depressing what

usually sometime in january, which perhaps you are thinking ahead towards

12.28.25 6:29 am how many 'r's are there in strawberry

now you've got me wondering how many 'r's there are in "how many 'r's are there in strawberry"

12.28.25 3:43 am when did you write mount st helens? how long did it take to make the video?

it was written and recorded within a 2 week period (or should i say 1.5 week period) in september 2018. the fact that it happens to be the same week i came up with the first line is a coincidence. it didn't have to be. but fact that it took 2 weeks (or should i say 1.5 weeks) is due to a rigorous schedule i had started in just the prior 2 week period

12.28.25 1:05 am how do you feel about george orwell's quote "a man who would write the same book twice could not even write it once"

seems fair

12.27.25 11:13 pm What's something that happened to you recently that you haven't told anyone that would make a good campfire story ?

recently i told a story at a campfire. might make an interesting story, to tell at a subsequent campfire

12.27.25 10:45 pm what's the most interesting question you've ever been asked?

it's that one that everyone always asks. sort of a lucky coincidence actually, that that's the most interesting one

12.27.25 10:16 pm what's your favorite movie?

if any movie is any good, it should at least feel like the best movie while watching it

12.27.25 9:44 pm why did you start taking questions?

it's my way of letting you into my life

12.27.25 9:16 pm When did you last take a tram?

on tramsday of course

12.27.25 7:54 pm are new year's resolutions real?

no, which is why it's so confusing to always hear so much about them

12.27.25 5:12 pm yesterday we did uh.. gourmetten. idk how to translate. dutch thing where you put a bunch of raw food out and everyone has a tiny pan and theres like a small (usually electric) stove on the table for people to put their tiny pans on and fry their tiny meats and vegetables on. but we are old fashioned so we all had our own seperate tiny spirit flame stove and my entire thing caught on fire bc spirit had spilled all over my stove somehow and there was a brief moment of panic where everyone stood around the table watching my little stove and the table cloth burn until the spirit ran out and we all went back to eating and frying our meats. my mushrooms were nicely fried in the fire

zoals een bepaalde kenny b liedje vanuit 2015..... "[songtekst]"

12.27.25 3:24 pm what is your favorite dinner experience?

how about lunch

12.27.25 2:09 pm i just nooticed that if you put a capo on a E standard guitar at fret 2 and strum strings 3-6, it plays the opening chord to might quit

yes that makes sense. the song would be then be in D on that guitar

12.27.25 12:28 pm on a scale of 1 to 24, what would you rate rats

12.27.25 6:10 am I once had a dream once, your song was in it
how do you spell that and what does it mean

that just means you'd been listening to the song recently

12.27.25 3:26 am hello, mr wurtz, you probably don't remember, but i asked you on the 13th of nov regarding me performing a 10 minute set and if that was okay. my set ended up being 20 minutes long and i pulled through. thank you so much. all i ask is one more question: how do you feel about Godzilla?

i always forget which one is godzilla and which one is king kong

12.27.25 2:24 am How much does it bother you that you get the same questions so many times? (It kind of bothers me to know I likely can't think of an original one)

in theory it should give me a lot of practice

12.27.25 1:47 am if all that awaits is the void, why cling to a single idea?

why cling to that specific idea

12.27.25 1:38 am When will the next songs come out?

dont worry it will be soon

12.27.25 1:33 am bill i hope you're doing well! what's your thoughts on gravy

groovy

12.27.25 12:39 am how to make things more specific?

it starts by looking and listen carefully, to see what's there. Even if you're making this up, still imagine you are looking and listening, then describe what you are seeing and hearing

12.26.25 11:55 pm What's the cheapest but still doable way to check if I have enough interest in music creation to do it as a hobby

it's free. you'll just know if you wanna do it, and how badly you wanna do it will control what youre willing to do in order to get it

12.26.25 9:11 pm do you think 2025 was better or worse than 2024? I've been thinking about this for awhile and I can't really decide

at the end of each calendar year it is tradition to all get together and proclaim this has been the worst year ever. it's hard to see any perspective amidst the hype

12.26.25 9:00 pm opinion on the key of e flat minor?

lotta black keys

12.26.25 8:17 pm could you answer this question using a double-digit prime number of letters (spaces not included)

apparently no(t)

12.26.25 7:56 pm i haven't been here in a while and it's been even longer since i asked a question... hmm... do you ever just stand in a doorway? (yeah, that's a GREAT question right there, some real invigorating stuff) ok, cool, i'm going to disappear now bye

doorways are quite thrilling, i think that's obvious if youve ever gone through one. on the other side is a whole new room, or in some cases, the whole world

12.26.25 7:45 pm how are your surreal songs and videos so touching to me despite most of the meaning going over my head?

how could it have gone over your head if you said it touched you

12.26.25 7:16 pm i miss when you used to release new content on a regular schedule. is that dickish of me

how about this, would it be dickish of me to always inevitably return to such schedules

12.26.25 6:59 pm i get really motivated to do something when i know it'll make someone i care about happy. one time i learnt some theoretical maths (how to turn a sphere inside out type stuff) because someone asked me if i could help them. but if the thing is just for myself i'm not so motivated and i may never do it. i'd like to be as motivated to do these type of things for myself as i am for other people

in your case it seems like the involvement of other people can be quite nice

12.26.25 6:38 pm how do you get out of tough situations?

the 3E technique: evade, evade, evade

12.26.25 3:46 pm what's your favorite flavour

regular

12.26.25 1:42 pm Can you please acknowledge my existence?

sure

12.26.25 12:54 pm Is this seat taken?

even worse, it's not a seat

12.26.25 12:13 pm is there a time signature you'd consider underrated? like 3/4 or 5/4 for example

no i dont believe so

12.26.25 11:27 am Did you fight in Nam?

no i dont believe so

12.26.25 11:21 am Have you built a particle accelerator?

no i dont believe so

12.26.25 10:04 am want a math problem i thought of? if not you can stop reading. the question is: can you play a valid game of chess where you get back to the starting position, but its BLACKs turn instead of white's in that position? if so give the moves, if not then prove it. i can come back with a hint or the answer if you want.

first we can say pawns can't move because you'd never get them back. that being said, the only thing that can move is a knight, and then the rook can toggle back and forth when the knight is away. now, for the knight to return home, it must make an even number of moves, i claim. because each time the knight moves it switches to a different colored square. so for a knight to get to the same colored square it must make an even number of moves. Ok so what about the knights trading places, well for the knights to trade places, this would require an odd number of moves for each knight, still making an even number of moves in total. The only other thing to move is the rook, but this also will always be an even number of moves, because there is only one available square to toggle to. for the rook to return home it must make an even number of moves. So for everyone to return home, both sides must make an even number of moves. The problem with that: whenever it's black's turn, white has always made 1 more move han black has. which means their move totals can never be both even at the same time (unless it's white's turn). therefore this task seems to be impossible, i believe. i look forward to the humiliation of you telling me you've found a way

12.26.25 9:40 am how do you feel about cartoons or anything you can think about?

pretty good

12.26.25 8:49 am What's your stance on christmas pudding?

never heard of it

12.26.25 6:17 am What's your current sleep schedule with regards to what you're currently making?

i work on it while i'm awake, despite the obvious drawbacks to this

12.26.25 2:54 am What is something that you're looking forward to in the new year?

the calendar tends to run as expected, but there are all kinds of things i'm looking forward to in the future regardless of what year it is. heck i'm looking forward to some things later today

12.26.25 2:43 am how do i stop sabotaging myself?

maybe take a nap

12.26.25 2:03 am which philosopher do you identify the most with

i'd like to say i identify as myself, although i suppose there's some rule against doing that. i shall rebel at some point

12.25.25 11:47 pm What's your opinion on loaded questions?

fun to observe the exact loading mechanism

12.25.25 11:45 pm I never learned how to whistle and I am currently trying to, do you have tips on it?

no, i don't really have that either

12.25.25 11:32 pm what time of the day creates the most interesting or different ideas

a different time

12.25.25 7:27 pm what do you mean when you say your time is very expensive, when asked what you do in your free time?

it's partly just a bit of wordplay, but i think it's also a nice notion to consider one's own time expensive. being inspired to make the very best of it

12.25.25 6:12 pm Why are a good chunk of the questions superlatives?

sometimes i start to think it's a trick of the language, "whats the best _____" actually just means "mention a _____"

Maybe there's an underlying assumption that whatever thing a person has thought most about recently is the best? weird if true

12.25.25 4:29 pm Have you really ruined everything, and let the things you've ruined ruin you?

no but of course it can feel that way sometimes

12.25.25 2:13 pm Why am I so sad

probably to clear the way for being happy at some point in the not too distant future

12.25.25 1:29 pm How do I deal with loneliness in the romantic front

how about becoming a writer

12.25.25 1:02 pm How do you feel about a future where you can cannonball yourself to the moon ?

seems pretty chill

12.25.25 10:23 am Are you Christian?

12.25.25 9:36 am what's your opinion on the letter Q?

pretty cool

12.25.25 8:59 am how do you fly a kite?

i have no idea

12.25.25 6:44 am I made cookies and I'm gonna try sharing them with you via telepathy. If you suddenly feel jollier than usual it was probably me

thank you, i appreciate that

12.25.25 5:50 am How do I know what's something decent to ask?

imagine yourself being asked it. then check to see how decent you feel

12.25.25 3:56 am How do you overcome the frustration of being unable to finish a song when you're so close to being done with it

how about taking a nap

12.25.25 2:50 am do you think that if someone producing their own original songs was inspired by your material, affecting the ways in which they write/produce, you would enjoy that sort of music, or be put off by it? or would it be case by case? (or any other option)

no one knows what songs are gonna work for which person, at which times. sometimes it's even different for the same person with the same song on a different day

12.25.25 2:09 am if i read every single question and answer on here, do i get a secret prize (or a non-secret prize)

you'll probably discover a lot of things along the way which might feel like secret prizes

12.25.25 2:00 am cats or dogs

you'll have to alternate, cat dog cat dog etc

12.25.25 1:17 am On 12.23.25 at 5:06 pm you answered that capslock is the only key with an on and off position, but what about scroll lock? num lock? do these not have on and off positions or does your keyboard not have these because it is less than a 100% keyboard?

in some ways your observation is backwards. the exact reason a keyboard does not need a scroll lock is BECAUSE it is a 100% keyboard, with the numpad. it would be the smaller keyboards that need the numlock key to pretend some of the letters are numbers

12.25.25 12:48 am can I use your chair

12.24.25 11:20 pm what would happen in a situation?

got to be a sequence of events

12.24.25 10:14 pm What are your favorite serif & sans-serif fonts?

i tend to appreciate whatever is built into the device

12.24.25 10:01 pm Does the intro of the "the ground plane" video (the airport) take place at Pittsburgh's airport?

probably not, i was imagining a very flat landscape

12.24.25 9:31 pm There's something like 6 days between Christmas and New Years. What are five things you are gonna do during those days?

as always, i will be much more forthcoming about the details of my activities afterwards

12.24.25 8:47 pm will you ever try to make a song or video that doesn't contain the letter e?

12.24.25 8:40 pm What happens above the mistletoe?

some sort of fastening device, to afix it to the ceiling

12.24.25 8:11 pm when you're not home and you miss it you're homesick. is there a word for the inverse situation, when you Are at home and you're content/satisfied/fulfilled/"it's good to be home", but as a single word? i'm asking in case there's an obvious common term (or even phrase) i'm forgetting

the phrase that comes to mind, somewhat classic, is 'home sweet home'

12.24.25 8:11 pm it's christmas time isn't that nice?

yes BUT, other times are nice too. thank goodness

12.24.25 7:59 pm hi bill, I hope you have a great christmas, and your day goes on and you're in a good mood singing la de da de da de day oh

for me it would be new ones you havent heard yet. for example i've got one of them going through my head now that's burning a whole in my soul just like those other ones did before i got them out

12.24.25 6:22 pm whats a good question to ask

only your imagination holds the answer to this

12.24.25 5:08 pm when do you think we as a society will move past christmas

some other time

12.24.25 3:24 pm how do i stop abandoning projects i am working on?

eventually you will feel so sad and so abandoned that you will be just on the edge of giving up entirely, but then you suddenly realize the one thing that could give it all hope is to simply make a new rule that you only do 1 at a time, and the completion of each one is the only key that can unlock the next. makes it almost as exciting as super mario bros without the warp pipes

12.24.25 1:22 pm would you listen to your own music, and if so, do you?

once in a while on the special occasion that i am feeling unusually confident, i'll sort of binge through everything. it's usually quite a gratifying experience because for the most part i dont really know of anyone who makes music quite like me, plus it caters to all of my own tastes including the ones that almost no one else can tend to. But for the most part i am afraid to listen to it because on a less than confident day i am simply horrified with cringe at all of my seemingly lifelong weaknesses

12.24.25 1:13 pm you said that you write the lyrics before doing the instrumental, but do you also record the lyrics before the instrumental??

i write the lyrics and music at the exact same time (they are not two different things), then record temp instruments then sing the vocal then clear the temp instruments and then do a better job on the instruments. the final product is an extremely close but more detailed representation of exactly how i already knew the song went after writing it.
However, recently i've been looking for ways to get recording involved way earlier, like in the writing process. bring it one step closer to that genuine direct imagination-to-table rauwheid, sorry just learning english

12.24.25 12:39 pm how are you supposed to deal with people constantly telling you you're great at something when in reality, the something in question is a mystifying and fearsome challenge to even interact with at all, and you're just Faking It

the question is are you enjoying it

12.24.25 9:57 am what is the best time signature?

12.24.25 9:48 am Your songs are really special to me, as of late I've loved more than a dream. Its so pleasant, I wish I could make something so purposeful, but i also feel that the best things come out of nowhere rather than being forced.

i've tried all different combinations, but that one i tried to force it to be unforced. with mixed results

12.24.25 5:52 am How are you so awesome?

sometimes the grass is greener on the other side of the fence

12.24.25 4:55 am Do you listen to rap?

i dont see why not

12.24.25 12:26 am how do you spell cheese?

i have no idea

12.24.25 12:14 am do you believe in canada

yes i do

12.23.25 10:53 pm what is your favorite subatomic particle

there's got to be something undiscovered

12.23.25 7:34 pm do you have a favorite artist(s) at the moment?

12.23.25 7:23 pm how do I go about coming up with more ideas than I know what to do with?

start by starting a list of things that are or are not ideas

12.23.25 7:06 pm what is your favorite mountain? Have you ever hiked/climbed it? If not, would you?

i dont know how to pick a favorite mountain, other than to choose the highest. which i would not climb because i do not consider it safe

12.23.25 6:55 pm I watched a clip from a Weird Al Yankovic interview recently in which he said that one of the reasons why he does fewer parodies these days is that there's much less of a musical monoculture than there was a few decades ago; people now are kind of mainly listening to music that fits in the specific niche subgenres they're into, and there are few new songs these days that really "everyone knows about", making it more difficult to identify what songs really are hits, compared to in the 80s, when everyone" watched MTV and knew who the biggest artists and what the biggest songs were (At least, this was my interpretation of what he said). Do you agree with this? Do you think that there's less of a centralized pop music culture than there once was, or do you think there are still songs that come out that "everyone knows about"?

this is true if you only consider new releases, but if you are considering older releases then there is more common exposure to those than ever before

12.23.25 6:40 pm We say that we take a shit, and we say that wr take a piss. Why don't we ever call it taking a nut then

check other languages, these helper words (take/make/do/have/etc) will be arranged differently still

12.23.25 6:20 pm i think time may be passing too quickly do you think we should slow it down? maybe like by like 50%

i dare you to try

12.23.25 5:06 pm the ostrogradsky method says you can convert an integral of type 1/W^2 where W is a binomial term with a negative discriminant into (Ax+B)/W + integral of (Cx+D)/W thus reducing a difficult integral that would require a tricky trig sub or a nasty recursive formula into a simpler one that will evaluate to some arctangent with simple transformations. The only annyoing part is finding the constants a, b, c, and d which is achieved by differentiating both sides of the initial equation (integral 1/W^2 =3D Ax+B/W + integral Cx+D/W) multiplying them by W^2, and comparing coefficients next to same terms. for some reasons my analisis class didnt teach me this and instead only showed the nasty recursive formula for situations lime these (this formula can be derived but it takes a long time and memorising it is not an option, besides this isnt what math is about). However they did show us the ostrogradsky method but exclusivly for integrals 1/sqrt(W). I recon it might have been purpesful to see who blindly learns the formula and who tries looking for a better solution by, in this case, applying a known method for a different purpose than it was taught for.I hope my professor will let me use this on an exam without having to prove this identity.

ok, by the way can you teach me calculus at some point

12.23.25 5:06 pm someone asked before what you think about the right shift key, but whAT ABOUT CAps lock?

very nice. only key that has an on and off position. even better on older keyboards where it indents mechanically

12.23.25 4:08 pm When do you think of lyrics? And do you always write them before you put them to music?

for best results the words and music are conceived together as one force. they rely on each other dearly, and they tend to be the reason for each other's existence

12.23.25 3:40 pm if you had to choose between a Ronettes style Sleigh Ride or a Leroy Anderson style Sleigh Ride which would you pick?

for sleigh ride i usually want the original orchestral version

12.23.25 1:30 pm How do you feel about so many people coming to you for wisdom and advice?

it's the least i could do

12.23.25 11:13 am do you ever really start to know if you were going to even try to have already been thinking about it?

put it this way, sometimes i catch myself wondering whether i'm aware of something

12.23.25 10:38 am Are moose scary?

probably just because of the size (hugeness)

12.23.25 10:13 am i have been struck several times recently by unrelenting love. how can i use of it to be a healthier person?

often this kind of thing can be fuel for writing

12.23.25 9:55 am am i a princess?

let me check

12.23.25 9:43 am How are things, down there in the gutter?

pretty good

12.23.25 8:38 am should i get a job or stay in college

i have no idea

12.23.25 6:36 am what's your favorite dialect

every time i think i hear a 'great dialect' or a 'terrible dialect', i am always proven wrong by hearing another person later with the exact same dialect and it feels the complete opposite way. i can say with certainty that it's never the dialect, it's the personality of the person speaking that makes the difference

12.23.25 5:22 am how prime are prime numbers

"just enough"

12.23.25 4:57 am Ya think we'll ever run out of letter combos on this site, thereby making it an impossibility to ask unique questions anymore?

12.23.25 4:52 am can i tell you something?

i'm not sure. you seem to have asked me something instead

12.23.25 4:11 am Is it possible to give an approximation when will you release your next video?

12.23.25 2:14 am What is a thing that you've heard great things about but just personally can't get into

how about Star Wars

12.23.25 1:18 am how do i be contemporary?

you dont have a choice. here you are, right now

12.23.25 1:07 am What's your favorite quote

"this is my favorite quote"

12.23.25 12:46 am if you can talk to your past self, what advice will you tell him?

thank you for all the future advice

12.23.25 12:41 am can i be a friend to myself?

sort of

12.23.25 12:30 am is uppercase morally indefensible?

12.22.25 11:48 pm opinion on the atlantic ocean

it has a rhythm to it

12.22.25 11:46 pm oh hi bill, how esoteric are you feeling today?

just the standard 50%

12.22.25 8:33 pm First of all, you are lovely. Second of all, least favorite body of water? Lakes, rivers, etc.

how about the near freezing slush puddle on the street corner. no just kidding, i love those

12.22.25 7:53 pm do you like every single one of your songs?

if i'm feeling confident, yes. if i'm feeling un confident, no

12.22.25 6:47 pm what's an instrument you don't know but would like to learn

integral calculus would be pretty flippin convenient i must say

12.22.25 6:09 pm do you like opera?

i'm not sure

12.22.25 5:57 pm Is music an illusion caused by silence?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

12.22.25 5:41 pm Any opinions on the number 413

59x7

12.22.25 5:35 pm What the hell should I do in this next week i have no plans or ambition or motivation. Heck, I dont even know what to think about.

dont you have some kind of oracle you could go to, wait dammit that was probably supposed to be me. Ok this may be a long shot, how about making a list of everything you did at this time in previous years. the perspective could make you think of something

12.22.25 5:26 pm why is there a button for if you are feeling randy. Who is randy

randy is #when you're in the mood to see randomly selected questions one at a time

12.22.25 5:04 pm Able was I, ere I saw Elba?

the problem i have with this one is i just dont know the word 'ere'. i claim it has not been in actual use during my lifetime. actually the whole sentence is using some kind of obsolete grammar that i'm not familiar with. On the other hand, "Was it a rat i saw?" makes total sense and is probably what the pizza rat guy said just before photographing the award winning pizza rat

12.22.25 4:30 pm y ou wrote questions wrong :(

in this case i think you read it wrong

12.22.25 3:30 pm is christmas to you about santa and presents or jesus and his birth/life

for me it's about lights and also seasonal song repertoire

12.22.25 3:11 pm Does Portland have a lot of ports, or is the land itself the port?

there are many different portlands, but it seems most of them were either directly or indirectly named after the Isle of Portland, England. which would have to be a port or else that would be a huge missed opportunity

12.22.25 2:27 pm When I learn a new skill my other skills atrophy because I'm not spending as much time practicing them. I'm squandering the opportunity to be very good at one thing by doing multiple things. How can I be less upset by this?

for some perspective you could stick to just one skill for a while, squandering the opportunity to learn any others

12.22.25 1:59 pm Do you ever feel aimless and crushed by the hopelessness of things?

occasionally yes

If so, what do you do in these times?

often with a little storytelling sense, this can turn into the most deeply gratifying escape room you've ever had the privilege to partake in

12.22.25 12:04 pm can a skill be learned from mere observation? I've been told by friends that I'm a great writer but i have no prior experience beyond observing other wonderful stories and daydreaming in my free time.

you have a lot of experience using your imagination and expressing things in english

12.22.25 11:45 am how do i know if my headphones are working

try some other working headphones on the same device

12.22.25 11:30 am What are your thoughts on the letter "j"?

seems distantly related to "i"

12.22.25 11:00 am hey bill, how can i not forget the question i asked? i asked a question on the 18th of december, but i forgot what it was, so i cant check to see if you answered it

was it this one

12.22.25 8:56 am What's more important, work or mental health?

when you say it that way, it kind of forces the answer

12.22.25 6:32 am After a short break from creating, I've realized I didn't really like what I was doing.
The thing is, I don't know what I want to create anymore. I know I want to create, but I don't know what.
Have you ever found yourself in a similar situation before?

sure. Here's a way to get started: write down a list of 100 things that you MAY OR MAY NOT want to create. dont forget the 'may not's, that can actually be the most fun part of this, surprisingly

12.22.25 6:27 am a) are you a dog
b) have you ever been a dog
c) do you have any plans to be a dog in the future

a) yes. b and c) not sure

12.22.25 5:05 am Are you gonna have a merry Christmas

oh what the heck, why not

12.22.25 3:21 am what do you think of hypnagogia

sounds wild on paper

12.22.25 2:54 am Do you think ill get into grad school (i fucked up my last year in college)

i didn't even know those places had an entrance

12.22.25 1:48 am visually do you prefer, if you understand what i'm visualizing, music notes that are under the middle note in the staff, therefore with the stem facing upwards, or notes that are on the middle line or above, with the stem facing downwards?? because i don't know why but for some reason i have a strange attachment to the notes with their stems facing down. also, when handwriting eighth notes, i draw the tail the fancy swoopy way instead of just adding a diagonal line like music teachers always do for some reason. this might also contribute to my liking of notes on the middle line or above because i like drawing that little swoopy thing curving back towards the notes with their at the end. anyway how do you hand write your eighth notes and do you like your notes on the top or bottom

i just like whole notes. if you need anything faster just increase the tempo. if you hear me using 16th notes at 100bpm, for example, that's actually just whole notes at 1600bpm

12.22.25 12:54 am songwriting with lyrics feels kind of cringe when i do it. i'm good at it and i'd really really really like to make songs with lyrics, but it feels a little cringe

this can happen before you figure out what you really mean to sing

12.22.25 12:27 am If I sent you a link to a secure website would you click it?

generally heck no

12.22.25 12:17 am what's an example of a "good point"

might be kind of a cliché, but how about leonard euler's solution to the basel problem

12.22.25 12:09 am I have found this page for the first time. How do I know I won't ask a question that hasn't been asked before?

it's almost guaranteed, that you won't ask a question that hasn't been asked before. sorry for the double negative

Does it even matter?

every question matters

12.21.25 10:46 pm how to undo the mountain of shame and regret? i just have the mountain, dunno how to get the undo popup

just off camera there is space next to the mountain to get a new fresh start

12.21.25 10:45 pm Do you wanna drink beer on the mountain?

yes but no

12.21.25 10:24 pm Would you consider directing a feature length film

not exactly

12.21.25 10:17 pm do you like bread

bread is inescapable. i have convinced myself i like it

12.21.25 8:35 pm hi. can I get sports for 600

750 final offer

12.21.25 7:07 pm Does "the world" refer to earth or the universe?

my feeling is that it should be as broad as possible

12.21.25 4:05 pm whats your favourite video resolution

not too high

12.21.25 2:11 pm I feel school is a disease on my writing process and I have learned lyrics and harmony much better than melody. Doctor is there a cure

this is self curing, but no one can predict exactly when

12.21.25 1:32 pm bill wurtz

thank you for typing my name there, that's very helpful

12.21.25 1:28 pm what's the color of your toothbrush?

regular

12.21.25 11:23 am How did you learn mathematics? I'm trying to get better myself, but have no idea where to start. I remember doing from school about higher order mathematics like algebra or trig.

i mostly dont know mathematics. or maybe it's just that the higher mathematics community is so bad at communication that they have me convinced i don't know what they're talking about. whenever i pursue my own mathematical interests completely independently, it's loads of magical fun and i feel like i should win prizes

12.21.25 7:43 am what is the meaning of life? why do we exist? what IS the purpose to everything? everything that happened to this world, all the atoms and zeptoseconds, even nothing is invovled. what even is everything? what describes everything? does everything exist? what is the point of existence? b

the adventure of figuring it out

12.21.25 6:27 am i find when i write music - i can either write a good verse, or a good chorus, but never both at the same time in the same song.
how do i stop doing this?

have you tried making the whole song bad

12.21.25 2:45 am what's something you say that people don't understand

yes/no, things like that

12.21.25 2:36 am Was the time of day 7:30 yesterday

at some point yes

12.21.25 1:09 am how many digits of pie do you know?

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230

12.20.25 11:19 pm why is there something rather than nothing?

i suppose you think you would 'notice' if there was 'nothing'

12.20.25 11:17 pm Come to the dark side.

ok i will

12.20.25 10:44 pm Would you rather be the country mouse or the city mouse? Keep in mind the country mouse has safety but the city mouse gets yummy snacks. Goodbye!

is there something in between, also not being a mouse

12.20.25 10:37 pm are you in the epstein files?

yes! wait no sorry that's not me, that was bill clinton

12.20.25 10:13 pm I won't lie, I didn't believe you when you said millard fillmore's parents were Millard and Fillmore, but I looked it up, and it's actually true??? It's their last names though which seems more plausible.

getting a lot of mileage out of that one

12.20.25 9:58 pm Is it true that a person needs emotional integrity to be true to themself and make original art? Was wondering this cause of a previous question you answered

"no, not necessarily" and i say this for 2 reasons. 1: original art can secretly be found just about anywhere, even where you least expect. 2: "emotional integrity" does not always wear itself on its sleeve, and sometimes furthermore it is worn phonily on sleeves. to again make the search more misleading still. sorry just learning english

12.20.25 9:57 pm was it a conscious decision to do a lot of uploads in a very short period of time directly before launching into another long term project

no, this is apparently just mother nature. if you asked me before how long the quick schedule would continue i would have said forever. which is exactly what i'm going to say next time

12.20.25 9:19 pm advice for any non-musicians?

is there any more positive way of describing yourself? (i'm saying this as a non-non-musician, if you catch my drift)

12.20.25 7:29 pm i have a cool verse idea with words and chords and all that but it really calls for some sort of a chorus and yet i cant come up with anything that fits the verse, ive been hitting the wall with it for 2 weeks now. what does one do in this situation

you're going to have to calm down. this will happen eventually, there's really nothing else you can do about it

12.20.25 7:04 pm when all reality is for me remains as unicode characters on an html submission form powered by providers on a regular and being hosted by one guy, how do i escape the box? HELP

maybe it's time to make your own box to host

12.20.25 6:29 pm Do you like snuthing about the Christmas season? Or do you think it's all just commercialized garbage?

the christmas season has a deeply magical quality about it, which is particularly impressive considering how much it has been over commercialized

12.20.25 6:03 pm what is that coarse of entertainment and is it true?

i regret to inform you that that one is probably just me babbling senselessly

12.20.25 5:58 pm a lot of the time when i try to """make""" """art""" i end up making the Structure of an Art Piece without anything to actually fill it. a form without a function, a frame without a meaning. do you ever get that?

sometimes i have the opposite problem

12.20.25 4:43 pm I'm terrible at maths, do you think i can actually make myself like it one day?

you might discover the fun in it but that probably wouldnt be something you make yourself do. it will happen probably more naturally

12.20.25 3:10 pm Which beatles album is best

heck, none of them are even as good as themselves

12.20.25 3:07 pm Shredded wheat or wheat shredded?

i mean, how far could the rabbit hole possibly go

12.20.25 2:59 pm What's the best question you've received?

this one

12.20.25 1:06 pm are you a gamer most of the time? what games do you play? are there any new/upcoming games you wanna play?

song writing

12.20.25 1:03 pm what do you think is going on at the center of a black hole? it concerns me

'everything' which actually breaks the game so if it ever gets to that you might as well consider it a different game at that point. game hack

12.20.25 12:47 pm Could a broccoli and an alligator be colleagues? I don't think so but I'd like to know your thoughts.

certainly sounds good on paper

12.20.25 11:55 am HELLO

h i

12.20.25 7:51 am Whats "ice butter"? what does it mean, where did you get it from?

if i recall that was putting a rectangular block on the screen and then trying to explain away how cheap it was

12.20.25 7:23 am There are too many parties and events in December :/

that may be true

12.20.25 3:45 am how would you go about teaching the mixolydian scale to a pet turtle

any turtle already knows the mixolydian scale. or as Prince calls it, 'mixolodian. very impressive'

12.20.25 3:35 am is math foreplay?

no, it's the real thing

12.19.25 10:50 pm how do i focus better? ex: i listen to music, sometimes i'm singing instead of being on track writing

have you tried singing about what you're gonna write..... it's a long shot

12.19.25 10:31 pm Hey dude, how are you feeling today?

12.19.25 9:20 pm what percentage of the questions sent here in this site do you reckon are about questions (like this one for instance)

a cool 2.2%

12.19.25 9:17 pm how do you make your videos

"i still don't know"

12.19.25 8:28 pm Why is it spelled ratifacts? How do you pronounce ratifacts?

it's not ratifacts, it's ratifacts pronounced 'artifacts'

12.19.25 7:27 pm Does cheese deserve to vote?

is it capable

12.19.25 7:27 pm hey bill, i listen to your music when i'm out for walks sometimes, and have done on and off for the last 9 years or so. i find it hard to put into words why, but it feels very special to me. it's just got that primal "this thing means a lot to me" feeling. i'm just curious, what music has that feeling for you?

it happens when i least expect it. i could name names, but that wouldnt do it justice, because then you'd be expecting it

12.19.25 5:35 pm Are you doing well in life, Bill?

i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

12.19.25 5:26 pm bill, im being dead serious give me one thing to major in and ill do it in uni /srs

do you think they would just let you teach there? sorry i dont know how these things work

12.19.25 5:03 pm are you dutch?

no, i just one time had a kipburger die zo ontzettend lekker was, ik moest opeens de hele taal leren. was een sprekende kipburger, dus

12.19.25 4:30 pm I think a straw has infinite holes all stacked on top of each other. I just ate a bunch of christmas chocolate like chocolate that I got for Christmas times. I still have more chocolate left that a different person gave me for christmas I'm gonna eat that tomorrow probably because it's getting close to my bed time and I need to brush my teeth. I feel like I wasted today or even the entire week. I may waste tomorrow as well. but I will also have a sandwich and some fruit tomorrow. I like your website

thank you for the generous contribution to the questions timeline

12.19.25 3:48 pm How would you organize a research video that has nothing to do with history

step 1 would be what is it about

12.19.25 3:34 pm Are you still human with two eyeballs?

yes, knock on wood

12.19.25 3:14 pm do you still own the long sleeve shirt that says 67 on it from the reality video with timestamp 11.20.10 5:06am?

yes, and i also have one with every other number, just in case

12.19.25 2:55 pm How do you feel about Frank Zappa? (his music specifically)

it really doesnt work for me but that doesnt mean it's bad

12.19.25 2:23 pm what if santa IS real but since none of the aldults believe in him, they put out presents FOR him so he's out of a job

this leads to an interesting question of who would santa's employer be

12.19.25 1:46 pm should i lower my expectations?

some of the time. other times raise them

12.19.25 1:38 pm If I think I know what you're gonna say to a question I ask, should I ask it anyway?

sure

12.19.25 1:14 pm If given limbs what would be the longest classical symphony a planet could play out?

you'll need to write a longer one, in case this ever happens

12.19.25 12:04 pm Would it do to eat cereal at 7 pm

cereal is edible at 7 pm

12.19.25 12:04 pm Least favorite number?

remind me again what the trending ones are

12.19.25 11:53 am What's the worst question you've received, besides this one?

they are all tied for the worst. which is honestly not so bad

12.19.25 10:57 am I've been working on a project for the past 1.5 years and I've noticed that whenever I get halfway through I think "oh yeah, I can see the end now, I can totally do this" but then my assurance that I can finish makes the whole thing uninteresting. So then I add to it, and make it bigger, and then I get halfway though the bigger project, then I think, "I can totally do this" and add more and then I never get anything done. This is a general pattern with my bigger projects, I tried to prevent it this time by limiting part of the project but I think I just ended up going way deeper instead of way wider. And now in the past couple weeks I couldn't even look at it anymore. I don't think it's that I have trouble finishing things, because I've finished smaller things in the past 1.5 years where I'd spend a month or a few weeks on something and put it out. It's just that last 50% always sounds so boring. But starting a new first 50% sounds so fun! Does that make sense? Help pls

at some point you will remember why you are doing any of this

12.19.25 10:23 am How do I get a response to the question I asked

sometimes it just happens

12.19.25 10:11 am do you like the airport terminal? i know i do. how do you come up with the ideas for your songs?

they apparently come up with me

12.19.25 10:07 am the moon is pretty cheap but i cant buy it

that's ok, you dont need it

12.19.25 9:59 am please calm down I'm scared

ok i shall

12.19.25 9:02 am I'm sort of glad that i don't speak spanish. for it would render jokes that utilize un-expected spanish injection less funny

imagine how many spanish jokes there are which utilize un-expected english injection

12.19.25 8:08 am I just wanted to say I think these quick breaks in might quit (0:37) (1:12) might be the most sonically complex things I've ever heard in my ears. How do you design something like this so incredibly? Thank you for making music

my only answer to this is to do it more

12.19.25 7:51 am what are some examples of good numerology?

1+1=2

12.19.25 7:48 am where do I book a ground plane

from the ground

12.19.25 7:31 am whenever i try to come up with a melody, i sometimes get the creeping feeling that someone - heck, maybe even multiple people - has already come up with it before. it may even be possible that i've heard the melody from somewhere else before, and now i've unwittingly plagiarized it. for some reason, the thought DEEPLY disturbs me. i don't like the possibility that a cool idea that i thought was uniquely mine, turns out to not be so unique after all. i know this is a stupid thing to worry about, but this feeling haunts me regardless. how do i get over this

maybe you'll just have to make way weirder melodies

12.19.25 6:25 am Do you ever skip questions?

next question

12.19.25 4:27 am Hi. I think your music is great. Especially your new stuff, but the old stuff is good too. You're really good at harmony. Anyway, I wish you all the best and I hope you're not getting overwhelmed with whatever you're working on now. If I put a question mark at the end, will you still notice that this message is not a question?

yes i believe so

12.19.25 3:05 am what counts as a question?

an unidentified flying object, for example

12.19.25 2:47 am what is your favourite number

remind me again what the trending ones are

12.19.25 2:44 am Have you ever thought about what happens in the space you can't see when the lights go out?

yes i have

12.19.25 2:20 am I just graduated high school and I'm wondering, should I try and go into music or art ? Or do I try and find balance ? I feel like finding balance could be overwhelming, but it would be satisfactory in the end. I feel like my issue though is that I don't know how to balance it if I do take this route. Keep in mind too that all these options are in the idea that it would be freelance, and not professional. Also love your stuff, you'll always be an inspiration.

usually you wont know how the story goes until during or after

12.19.25 2:07 am for some reason I've never listened to Metallica in my teens and just only got around to it and I just wanted to say I really enjoy how in Unforgiven II, Hetfield sings "or are you Unforgiven too" and a) it's just title and with a number at that swiftly inserted into lyrics and b) it's funny to imagine he asks the person "or are you Unforgiven II?" like yes i am the song you are just about now singing sir

i always claim any song usually wants secretly to be about itself

12.19.25 2:04 am do you think of time as more a counter or something that demonstrates experience?

those 2 descriptions are ok with me, but there are others

12.19.25 1:19 am does the fact that us people, our planet, and everything else around it, are made of mostly nothing, come to your mind rarely?

that doesnt really seem like a realistic way of looking at it

12.19.25 12:49 am If you had a really big block of cheese like the size of a house what would you do with it

probably see a therapist

12.19.25 12:11 am Is it ok to put things that aren't books on a bookshelf?

heck you can put books that arent even books

12.19.25 12:00 am it seems like there's something you don't like about christmas

christmas is magical, but i will give you this: it seems like you think there is something i dont like about christmas. would that be fair to say

12.18.25 11:27 pm should i go into debt at a 4 year college immediately or go to a community first and then transfer credits to a 4 year?

this is not a game i am familiar with, but that doesn't mean it's not fun

12.18.25 11:05 pm do you like music

it likes me

12.18.25 10:43 pm How do I ask a question

i'm not sure. it seems like it should be so easy....

12.18.25 9:56 pm Should I worry about what lies ahead of me in life?

have you considered worrying about whether you should worry, oh wait....

12.18.25 9:45 pm how do we rise above

above what

12.18.25 9:25 pm I'm in my senior year of high school and have done no extracurriculars. Am I done for?

no i dont believe so

12.18.25 8:07 pm Oh Bill. I've met this wonderful person and he's so talented in multiple ways, he's like a film character. I really want to ask him to do vocals on a track because he makes music too, but it's a classic case Fear of Rejection, or worse: fear of someone agreeing to do something they don't really want to do out of politeness. Also don't want him to think I'm flirting, because he's dating a close friend of mine?? But that's just me overthinking probably. -xXx-

artist to artist business relations are not my strong point. they are in fact my weakest point

12.18.25 7:35 pm what do you think of the right shift key

i just now realize i think i only use the left

12.18.25 7:31 pm i feel like i am at my best creatively when my mental state is at its worst, and i have so much desire to create but i dont want to feel so horrible all the time. have you ever felt this way/how do i make it better

i have never found a way to tame the creativity gods. i've only become more and more certain that they cannot be tamed, and they must be respected in their all powerful unpredictability. this may sound like theistic talk, but i can promise you i am saying this purely in the name of science

12.18.25 7:14 pm is this the krusty krab

no, but everything else is

12.18.25 6:51 pm How do you feel about carpooling

so crazy it just might work

12.18.25 6:28 pm if i ask you "whats your favorite key" without specifying how will you interpret it

it sounds like a musical question

12.18.25 6:27 pm what are your thoughts on thirteen president of the united states millard fillmore

his parents were, you'll never believe this, Millard and Fillmore

12.18.25 6:19 pm Opinion on the free space in bingo

never heard of it

12.18.25 6:15 pm is it true that you only play jazz so that your attack timings are less predictable, giving you an edge in hand to hand combat? i was shocked and dissapointed too learn this as you dont seems like a violent person. also ive just realised it should really be called fist too fist combat

i was going to disagree with every nuance of your question, except it turns out to be entirely correct

12.18.25 6:08 pm just bombed my math final, what to do now mr w

take another!

12.18.25 5:40 pm what is the best tetramino to you

the best thing is when you find yourself liking one you didnt think is the best

12.18.25 5:19 pm what is your favorite flag

how about red

12.18.25 5:13 pm Do you believe there's a point to exploring our universe? Trying to find extraordinary things, life outside our planet etc. even if there's practically zero chance that we'll ever even get close to being actually able to visit or interact with these things which are as far out in space that we're most likely to find them at?

exploring is a natural desire to have. and sometimes it really pays off

12.18.25 5:03 pm is it better to move from a big city to a small town, or move from a small town to a big city?

equally good

12.18.25 3:33 pm Have you considered watching Napoleon Dynamite at 3pm EST on a Sunday while playing the kazoo and playing it to the Chinese national anthem? This is required to continue to the next level.

no it's not

12.18.25 3:22 pm are you goated with the sauce?

you'll never believe me, but i have found a key to greatness without using goatsauce. this is easier than it looks because i found it before the goatsauce trend. this is good because it should continue to work after

12.18.25 1:53 pm I had a question but I forgot it

that's ok

12.18.25 1:38 pm will we be getting a new song as a Christmas present?

what i can assure you is a long stream of songs coming out in the near future

12.18.25 1:09 pm is the sun made of cheese?

would have to be very hot cheese

12.18.25 12:32 pm i'm trying to write down the rules of the road. this is of course, very vague and "the road" is not clearly defined. all i think you need to know is that you are on the road and you will be on it for the foreseeable future. i don't think i'll be able to ever get all of the rules down, but i can hopefully get a significant fraction down. is there a rule that you think should be "of the road"?

these things change all the time, but i have learned a lot of things. i tend to spew them here, as i can. they also change, but i also spew about how they change. like right now actually

12.18.25 11:51 am Do you ever doom scroll or get caught looking at internet feeds?

usually not

I have such a bad habit of getting lost/unfocused when I need to be working, how do you handle your own focus? (Im currently distracted by your website)

sometimes if i get hooked on something, i try to turn it into a project. see if i can somehow summarize or organize what exactly i am pursuing in it

12.18.25 11:19 am whats your favorite musical instrument (tool that makes pretty sound) or at least which one would you tell us it is?
hmmmmmm....

the ones that generally work well for me are voice, keyboards, bass, and drums. those are the ones that i use. to explain why i use those and not others, well that would be to tell my entire life story which i often try to promise myself i wont do on this website, at least not all in the answer to 1 question

12.18.25 11:10 am can programming be considered "art"? not in the traditional sense of course... but since you made this website and know more about programming...

1. programming can be considered art, 2. this website can be considered art, 3. this website mostly might not be considered programming, 4. i changed my mind, it can be considered programming in the sense of 'television programming' except the major difference is i do not tell you what time to look at what

12.18.25 9:31 am When are you planing on releasing all the songs?

soon but not all at once

12.18.25 8:39 am i'm stuck and isolated. in this one place. metaphorically and literally. for the literally part, it's too difficult to explain why i can't leave. maybe imagine i'm being held at gunpoint to stay. but being stuck is torture, and i'm around people that yell threats at me constantly and occasionally punch me. hold on i'm sorry, that's probably really upsetting to hear. it doesn't feel as bad as it sounds, and my life is pretty chill otherwise. but all of this has messed me up for sure. and it's ruined the one thing i loved and could control, which is art. there's this lack of emotional integrity that comes from being in the kind of environment i'm in. it's repetitive, abusive, and quite numbing. unless i'm mistaken, it'd seem like you need emotional integrity to make original art, but that's not really something i can offer. it's not like i don't want to make art or that i'm not self-motivated to make art, but i don't seem to be able to make art that's truly me or whatever. or like, there's so many ways to make the art and i don't really care which way i do it. i want to care a little more about my art. this problem made me look at other people's art process, but that made me panic about not being like those people instead of someone who can't follow the advice "be yourself". i could if i felt more about what i do than i do. not making art would be sad, making art mostly makes me want to throw up and berate myself for not actually being original or authentic

has anyone ever said this to you before

12.18.25 8:00 am Thoughts on numerology?

probably gets a bad reputation due to bad numerology

12.18.25 7:53 am did you know that I'm asking you a question?

not until reading it just now

12.18.25 7:28 am are microwaves cool? if yes, what makes them cool (contrary to their primary purpose of heating things up)

what makes them cool is that they are interesting

12.18.25 5:55 am If bills are money, using the transitive rule you are money. What do you think of this shocking revelation

i think it's just wordplay in english

12.18.25 5:29 am do you agree that guitar is the most instrument-like instrument because you Strum In the moEnt?

no, that's just wordplay in english

12.18.25 2:48 am Which do you generally like better, watercolor or oil paintings?

surprise me, if that's even possible with only 2 discrete choices

12.18.25 1:39 am when im looking for comfort should i try to find people who can relate with what im going through or people who dont so we dont just agree. dont want to be stuck

both seem good. see if you can try both

12.18.25 1:36 am Do you ever just have a really long workday? How about a really long workweek?

oh sure

12.18.25 1:33 am Opinion on soap?

too clean. not realistic

12.17.25 11:55 pm what do you want for christmas bill

a new year

12.17.25 11:13 pm do you like sudoku or any other logic games?

for now maybe just the catriona agg puzzles

12.17.25 11:10 pm does a straw have two holes or one continuous hole

12.17.25 10:16 pm "The best way to avoid something is to do it" - agree or disagree?

sounds great on paper for sure

12.17.25 9:18 pm are you supposed to mop your ceilings

it's not as important as mopping the floor, thanks to gravity

12.17.25 9:13 pm Hey, I'm a freshman just starting high school. Should I consider taking AP classes next year?

i honestly dont even know what that means. sounds like the kind of thing that happens behind closed doors. Then again, now that i think about it, technically the same can be said about what i do. i guess it just depends which side of the door you're on

12.17.25 7:32 pm I want to play ragtime on piano but I can't consistently hit some of the chords because my hands are too small :(. If I modify them the piece doesn't sound as full. What do I do?

in this case i dont know exactly but i promise you there is a way. i promise you can use this to your advantage. i am sorry for not having more specifics, i realize that would help, but i swear on the grave of django reinhardt that you can do something wonderful here

12.17.25 7:08 pm Would you say that superstitions or talismans play a role in your songwriting, even if unintentional? For example, I notice that your songs will sometimes include a statement immediately followed by its negation (eg "i'll never say goodbye / yes i will, but i won't say it tonight", or "i love you / no i don't, yes i do"), which reminds me of my own tendency/compulsion to avoid saying or thinking things that could be misinterpreted as some kind of wish that could have undesired consequences. Like forgetting to roll down the trash can on garbage day and thinking "ugh, I wanna die" but then immediately following it up with "no I don't" just in case a genie or God or something decides to grant my wish. Even if you don't suffer from that particular compulsion, are there any artifacts in your songs that resulted from some sort of superstition?

i think you've presented a stunningly plausible psychoanalysis

12.17.25 5:07 pm Can you give me a cool sword name (color optional)

how about 'Sword 2' (i did not exercise the color option)

12.17.25 5:06 pm so there's been a somewhat recent sequence of events in my life that I'm not sure what to make of. it starts with the bog-standard situation of my brain deciding to develop a crush on someone. I'm pretty shy in general, so unsurprisingly it took me forever to even get comfortable talking to her. it is here that she asks me about my crushes on campus, and after I fumble before asking her back, she tells me about her own crush that rejected her. at this point I consciously force myself to draw the conclusion that it's over. an incredibly common story now that I think about it, but for reasons I still don't understand, I decided to compose a roughly 4 minute piano piece. forever x3 later when said brain's finally gaining back some semblance of normalcy, I once again inexplicably composed. I'm not sure if the specifics are relevant to the question of "why?" why would I mull over sadness, let alone give it form? and why am I proud of them even though their inspiration still invokes sadness? I came across this thing once, that essentially there's infinite everythings. infinite songs, infinite memories, infinite outcomes, infinite nostalgias. it's scary. why do Ihave to choose? I may have only created them as a way of dealing with whatI felt, but why get attached to any of them if there's always infinite more?

.... so you are evidently a writer .....

12.17.25 5:05 pm would you agree that restrictions/limitations breed creativity? And do you ever place some upon yourself before making music

this is somewhat of a cliche but it is absolutely true. the core of creativity is that the process itself is a story. with conflict. challenges to overcome. sometimes villains

12.17.25 4:21 pm Bill, when is your next song coming out?

there's no way one song is gonna be enough. there's going to be a lot of songs coming out, but dont worry they will come out one at a time

12.17.25 2:54 pm I was recently reminded of the tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes work artists/performers/musicians put into their creations, and it hit me how often I take it for granted. And not only time and effort, but also the passion that is poured into their craft; their hearts and souls are deeply invested as well. It's so easy for me to miss that as I take in what is presented at face value. I know it sounds cringingly cliche, but the experience reminded me to be more appreciative and less critical when a creator offers to share their art with me, because it truly is a gift from the heart.

true, but you also have to be honest about whether the thing works for you. there is no shame in admitting that a certain piece of work does not move you. fake appreciation can be a waste of everyone's time, and it is a hard-written law of creativity that different things work for different people, and it can even change for the same person at different times. Although, if you are talking about a situation where an artist personally presents their work directly to you, an audience of 1, and sits there in front of you while you watch it...... that's just a terribly awkward situation that i think everyone should probably avoid

12.17.25 2:54 pm what do you think of bill wurtz?

impossible to work with. probably because i demand all the credit while also being too honest to steal credit from anyone else

12.17.25 2:39 pm have you tried a "is this good and is it still fun to work on?" as a value system when doing creative work as opposed to "can this be better?" when deciding whether to keep working on something vs calling it done. i mean just thinking of the can this be better question gives me anxiety hehe, ofcourse anything can be better than what it is at any state that it is. if not just change what better means and its still true... i guess a deadline related question is a good third question for the decision making process. whats your current system for calling projects done?

i see a lot of different questions in here. i see a question about fun vs better. i can say with confidence that 'better' is an ellusive, illusive, paradox. but whether or not it was a fun adventure to make the thing, that will shine through. But i also see another question in here youre asking about "when is something done", and my answer to that is "if it's EVER .......... ANY good"

12.17.25 2:29 pm How long does one of your songs have to be to be considered a full song instead of a short song?

technically there is no length limit

12.17.25 2:28 pm do you think giraffes are real?

yes i believe so

12.17.25 2:22 pm i am terrified of the 30th,31th,1st; i don't want fireworks to exist; how do i survive the panic attacks, and the fact that i know that people, a8u4wy5 o987ea4toi7 ao7e4t6ipau 4htoi7ao4 ty78t o47o78aw4o8t7 aoi74tia su84ety9pao4 ywpy984ae typ7a4pwy7py78 9t4aphy78thpapy7w45pt9y7py9 78a4ew9py7t8py978ae4w9pyt9pya784t9py7a9poy7we4tp97oy

maybe someone can give you some isolation headphones for christmas (vic firth makes a good pair) and you can listen to your favorite music during the festivities

12.17.25 11:22 am do you think we are insignificant in the grand scheme of things?

there is probably a huge prize out there just for identifying what the grand scheme is

12.17.25 10:53 am did you go to college and how many times have you eaten mcdonalds

put it this way, it would be technically impossible to divide the number of mcdonalds meals i've eaten by the number of college educations i've received

12.17.25 10:34 am a site dedicated to archiving the self sounds lovely, in a way has it helped you retain sanity?

yes

12.17.25 8:22 am thoughts on 61?

one fifth of miami's classic telephone code

12.17.25 6:22 am isn't it infuriating when you can't wait to go home and write some music, only to turn on the pc and stare at the DAW software, not being able to extract anything out of your mind?

you dont have to believe me, but this sounds exactly like the curse i found myself facing before i discovered the separate writing session. which, in the extreme case, at first, is to take some paper someplace cozy and do all your writing on paper. imagine exactly how the song could go, from beginning to end, and write it down on paper. i dont know if this will solve the issue for you but it obliterated the issue for me

12.17.25 6:19 am why does infinity have different sizes?

it's hard to really say that it has an actual 'size', but there are certainly different recipes for infinity that have different qualities. for example, you could say "how many multiples of 3 are there". then you could say "how many multiples of 4 are there" ...... well if the bounds are limitless, then there are an infinite amount of both, but considering in any given limited range there will always be more multiples of 3 than multiples of 4, it would be not quite fair to treat both infinite cases equally

12.17.25 6:12 am what inspired the "feels great to be doing stuff" jingle?

that was a little writing exercise where i would randomly select a day in my life and then write something about what was happening around that time. this one in particular is about the feeling where you had felt like a useless lowlife and then something comes up that you can go out and do, and you get out there and do it, and you think to yourself, wow, "feels great to be doin stuff"

12.17.25 6:07 am it's been a while since the unboxing video, do you still have dust at your home? have you considered getting a newer model?

was rented dust

12.17.25 5:26 am do you think music is reaching its peak more and more every day because of how accessible it is and how niche it has become? Now theres a collection of songs to fit almost every taste. You like an entire song that just stays on Cm with drill noises in the background ? probably exists

there's always a new story to tell. For example, if there is an over-abundance of all the things that anyone thinks they want to hear, then suddenly it all starts to feel meaningless. so: the next story is what kind of picture can you paint, upon that backdrop, that has new meaning. Happens all the time, esecially as new technologies emerge

12.17.25 3:00 am why are your songs so similar to Bill Wurtz's music, honestly I think you're quite better than him.

well then let's see if we can settle the score

12.17.25 1:36 am what do you do when you take a break?

EVERYTHING! there should be time

12.17.25 12:09 am could you have painted the mona lisa

heck, i could have been the woman in the painting

12.16.25 10:37 pm bill do you enjoy reading and answering really long or really serious questions

of course

12.16.25 10:33 pm favourite computer keyboard key?

12.16.25 10:28 pm Thoughts on December?

its name has traces of its history as the 10th month

12.16.25 10:00 pm are you learning the fourth dimension right now

"time" is sometimes considered the 4th dimension, and the learning process with that one is a lifelong endeavor

12.16.25 8:12 pm do u like thin crust pizza

sure but i also the other sizes of crust

12.16.25 6:57 pm do you like playing games

let me think

12.16.25 6:11 pm what do you think of taco bell?

strong branding for sure

12.16.25 5:52 pm hey I was seriously wondering just now, how well did you do on your school projects? and when I say school projects I mean in public speaking, where you have a presentation, and you must dicuss or explain a topic, were you any good at that? got any stories about that? any tips?

i don't recall. i don't seem to have the ability to do projects by assignment, other than self assigned

12.16.25 5:27 pm Is Movie Star your only song in an unusual time signature?

certainly not

12.16.25 4:24 pm Are you more inclined to think of chord progressions by their emotional impact in a given song, or is it a mathematical thing for you? I've always been confused how you can possibly know how a chord will hit before actually hearing it in context... (based on my knowledge of you writing songs, presumably with all the chords, on paper beforehand)... I just wonder how that is possible, as my process is much more spontaneous in that regard.

there are probably many non-human animals who wonder how we can just magically think of the 'words' we say when we speak. how do we know which word is going to mean what we are trying to say? or is it a mathematical thing do you suppose? do you have to do calculations to know what word to say?

12.16.25 3:29 pm im changing my major but im worried ill regret it in the long run. what do you think i should do?

if you're really not sure then it means both options are equally good. if either option was way more good than the other, then you would already know the answer. so basically what this means is you know that neither choice is terrible here

12.16.25 3:05 pm How are you so wise?

who knows, maybe i saw a ghost at some point

12.16.25 2:42 pm If the world doesnt end speaks to me in such a personal level that just acknowledging it seems crazy

the only answer i have is to make more songs

12.16.25 1:20 pm What have you learned from your new approach to making videos? Do you think you'll continue with this method after the current batch of videos are done?

the main thing i've learned is how overwhelmingly excited i am to do a lot of songs after. mostly not with this method at all, except maybe borrowing some things from it from time to time

12.16.25 12:18 pm what is your favorite thing you have ever done?

i would prefer to do a new thing to be my favorite

12.16.25 10:45 am was stereo audio a mistake? should we all just listening to stuff in mono???

stereo audio is very cool and nice, and very commonly used. not a mistake. but the mono experience should also be tended to from time to time. you never know who's only hearing a mono version

12.16.25 9:31 am why is it called "ueqstions"

it's not ueqstions, it's just questions. stylized in the title heading as ueqstions

12.16.25 6:52 am I'm trying to play the bass line of the chorus of YMCA but my fingers can't seem to move that fast.

for now just find another way to play it so the song still feels good. Keep in mind, as the bass player in a band playing the YMCA song, your job is not to play exactly what the original guy did on that recording session that day. Your job is to play the YMCA song, and make it feel like the party that it wants to feel like. this is your chance to be innovative, and make the song feel like this without all those extra 16th notes. you dont get any extra points for doing it the exact same way someone else did. you get party points for making the whole song altogether feel like a party, in this case. I'll give you another hint: if you are trying as hard as you can to hit those double 16th notes, and youre just barely getting it 'correct' while trying as hard as you can, guess what, it's not gonna feel good for anyone on the dance floor. but if you play a simpler version, maybe just up and down, then you'll be in a much more comfortable place to drive the party properly

12.16.25 6:44 am ways to stop caring so gosh darn much about the music/art you create? because feeling a deep emotional connection to every chord change is becoming quite the hindrance

how about taking a brief walk around the block

12.16.25 5:39 am wheres the rabbit gone to now

might be turned into a duck, depending on how resourceful i'm feeling

12.16.25 3:32 am how large is a table?

in between the size of two other tables

12.16.25 2:36 am what do you do when you're writing a song and finding out that it already exists halfway through?

take a break

12.16.25 1:18 am are adults just big children or are children just small adults

they are both more than just this

12.16.25 12:46 am hello bill, it's me again the guy who asked you to complete the sequence 1 2 6 (11.30.25). You must complete it with ONLY ONE number to make it complete. Last clues : the four numbers of the sequence are the only four numbers that verify a certain property, and it is not a mathematical property...

'sev'

12.15.25 11:24 pm have u ever tried bread with butter?

yes i believe so

12.15.25 11:00 pm set theory or type theory?

this would be 'or' theory

12.15.25 10:32 pm what do you think of the possibility of a fifth Beatles member

go for it

12.15.25 9:09 pm What do you think about extended plays? (EPs) Is it better than albums for you?

to be honest i really dont get the terminology of that one and it sounds even more pretentious. that's just the way it feels to me, not the way it feels to other people necessarily (this part should be obvious i feel)

12.15.25 9:01 pm Have you ever laughed at a question here

hahaha no

12.15.25 5:50 pm what was mr. maymdien's skipped question?

this one

12.15.25 4:42 pm is it technically gay to be a straight man? since straight men like women and most women are straight which means they like men and that's gay

everything is gay, dont worry about it

12.15.25 4:40 pm What sort of music do you like to listen to, if at all?

it's usually a surprise

12.15.25 3:15 pm why does most of the music i make sound so repetitive? it seems like a juggling act of trying not to make it TOO random but also not TOO samey. is this just a me problem, or do you have any tricks or workarounds?
i wrote ts on a 3ds

this almost sounds like a problem you would have if you do all your writing in the recording studio. i'm not sure if this is the case for you, but i think the way i solved that problem for myself is the advent of the separate writing session. which, in the extreme case, at first, is to take some paper someplace cozy and do all your writing on paper. imagine exactly how the song could go, from beginning to end, and write it down on paper. i dont know if this will solve the issue for you but it obliterated the issue for me

12.15.25 2:17 pm 1 + 1 = ?

12.15.25 2:10 pm thoughts on music?

can't believe it. seems almost totally implausible

12.15.25 1:35 pm oh nooooo what if this fear i have of creating music is not bc i think i'm not good enough, but because i'm afraid of my own feelings....................................

in that case, maybe you could have some fun putting them directly into the horror genre

12.15.25 1:25 pm do you support 67?

what i have done is i have added it to my almanac of flash-memes, under 2025. harambe, for example, is under 2016

12.15.25 12:28 pm what's the strangest word you can think of right now?

eeuw. als in: in de 16e eeuw,

12.15.25 11:23 am thoughts on fortune cookies?

iconic

12.15.25 11:18 am how does anyone make., anything? i think i'm having some trouble

making things is magic. but the good news is you're already doing it. pretty much any time you say anything

12.15.25 11:09 am is/are your next project(s) more than 80% complete?

a case could be made

12.15.25 10:02 am Did you know that the sun rises once a day?

in most regions that is true

12.15.25 9:53 am Do you know any languages

yes i believe so

12.15.25 9:51 am What is sleep?

i'm really not sure

12.15.25 9:10 am Favorite HEX Code?

how about F

12.15.25 6:51 am do YOU consider yourself a music snob?

i typically turn my nose up at most music snobs, which would imply that i am above music snobs. but of course i also see the terrible flaw in this logic. probably no one who does anything is immune to snobbery in one form or another

12.15.25 3:38 am sorry if you get this all the time but i absolutely love being able to talk about art with you. i don't really know anyone else who wants to. and it's definitely been a help in the art that i make. also i really really like your positivity and work ethic, it's really inspiring. so in gratitude i'd like to say thank you for making this page, thank you for answering my absurd questions, thank you for being yourself online, thank you for sharing your art, thank you for working so hard every day and also thank you for reading this. oh, and i'm pretty sure "la de da de da de da de day oh" was the first song to make me cry, isn't that crazy?

now i'm wondering which part

12.15.25 2:41 am You have a lot of experience making videos. Have you learned anything new during your current video project? Anything you can share?

yes, i have learned that the benefits from this project are immense but not what i expected them to be

12.14.25 11:11 pm i've mixed my song and i think it's sounding really nice in isolation, but when i compare it to literally any other song, it sounds very quiet. i'm aiming for -14 lufs, which i'm pretty sure is a standard number (?), and i'm using a limiter to precisely get to -14. the strange thing is, even some of my own previous songs sound much louder at -14 lufs. i very recently started using some new techniques to fill out the mix during the actual recording process, and i wonder if that's wreaking havoc now? but i like the sound i have with the technique, so....... i'm a bit stuck here. i spent an hour chopping off sounds everywhere with EQ to quiet individual parts down so i could turn the whole thing up, but i listened to it and i absolutely hated it so i undid all of that in a panic. thoughts would be appreciated, thanks (and sorry for the giant paragraph)

just don't panic, and try it again some other time. there are other times when it's just gonna be much easier than this, for reasons nobody can explain

12.14.25 10:52 pm whaat do you do when its been so long since you squeezed creative juice out its hard to do it like you used to?

how did you learn to do it before?

12.14.25 10:20 pm is the number 47 good

yes, all numbers are good

12.14.25 10:12 pm ive thought up some cool stuff i wanna make and things i wanna do. just random stuff that feels right to me. how could i go about trying to do all the things i want to, and maybe try to implement the routine of working on subject thing into my day-to-day ? (sometimes, it feels like i come up with idea after idea, without actually committing to anything, or giving up partway through, or being to caught up in obligatory life stuff)
also, what would be the best way to preserve the idea and idenity of these ideas, should i decide to attempt to pursue something at a later date? sometimes i feel words just dont do justice enough

for me i had a breakthrough when i started a list of all the ideas, organized by the original date of the idea. then those list items refer or link to any relevant materials on those items

12.14.25 9:47 pm What if a box was inside of a box and two more boxes were inside of a box and boxes were inside of boxes and the fox was in the box and all the boxes were inside boxes? how would the fox get out of those boxes?

got to go deeper. go into to more boxes

12.14.25 8:49 pm would you believe me if I said I was mozart

your name may be mozart

12.14.25 8:19 pm whats your favorite chorus youve wrote?

probably one of the ones i havent recorded yet. those always have a more appealing quality because i havent ruined them yet

12.14.25 7:51 pm How many things have you needed to be an expert on in this 11-stack of videos

put it this way, to answer this correctly i would have to be an expert in thing counting

12.14.25 7:43 pm do you now have a different opinions on albums? if i remember correctly (which i don't think i do) is that you don't like album that much and that it somehow diminishes some of the song as you compare it to each other subconsciously or something

no i am quite sure the format is just not fun for me, and every time i say this i get interrogated and lectured for it, which i expect this time no less

12.14.25 7:12 pm How difficult is it to answer these questions?

there are questions of every level of difficulty, but the twist here (and in life also) is that sometimes you wanna approach something at a different level of difficulty than what may have been intended

12.14.25 5:26 pm bill please help me learn drum set i have no earthly idea where to start

here's what i would suggest.... get some isolation headphones (vic firth makes a good pair), then get some playalong recordings of songs with the drums removed. then listen to those recordings through the headphones while sitting at the drums. youre the drummer now. just to see what it's like

12.14.25 4:14 pm in meet me in september, what are the chords or whatever's going on around 2:25 and 1:13

ok so at 1:13 i think the chords you want are Dadd4 over C and..... Gadd4 over A. and at 2:25 i think the chords you want are F# over B, then Ab over Eb, then D over G, then E over F#, then Gadd4 over A. then i should be spanked probably because this is too greedy right here

12.14.25 2:03 pm do toasters have feelings

only at the exact moment the toast pops up

12.14.25 1:57 pm lets type "brochure" together i think it can be quite fun brochure borchure aw crap

nice job on this, this is good content

12.14.25 1:56 pm do you put ketchup on rice

no i do not. i would consider putting rice on ketchup, but i probably wouldnt eat it

12.14.25 12:41 pm What would you do if you were in an overly specific hypothetical scenario that would never actually happen in real life

i would make a specific series of moves and take a specific series of steps

12.14.25 8:51 am Why does everyone say merry christmas, but never happy christmas or the word "merry" on its own?

certain phrases can act like a time capsule, preserving the individual words in them from another time, when they wouldnt be used individually. there are hundreds of examples of this. "lo and behold" is still recognizable, but the word "lo" on its own is probably completely gone. "wreak havoc", i dont think anyone wreaks anything else anymore. i could go on

12.14.25 3:56 am Has anyone ever told you to not touch their macaroni

no i dont believe so. that being said i have never touched anyone's macaroni

12.14.25 3:19 am How do I recover from having my ego shattered after typing "your" in a live chat when I should have used "you're"?

not only is it chill to do that, it also in some cases can be a human telltale. you dont get any points for being 'correct', you get points for communicating

12.14.25 1:16 am if you're making art based on an emotion you feel but your emotion changes while you make it, what do you do? keep making the art about that one emotion? mix the current emotion with the previous emotion? scrap that piece? wait until you feel the emotion again???

mix in the current emotion. honesty is the best policy

12.13.25 11:48 pm Opinions on the number 67?

201 ÷ 3

12.13.25 10:26 pm What to do if I want to write music but can't stop thinking about math

i think for now you gotta do some math. get right to the math you most really wanna do, to help save time

12.13.25 9:30 pm what's resolve mean in music

you can pretty much use that word however you want. you have to hear the music yourself, and then if you feel like that would be a good word to describe anything youre hearing, go for it, otherwise you dont need the word. If someone else describes a part of the music and uses that word, then just ask them which part they're talking about. and if you agree with them that it feels that way, then you can be like 'oh yeah true' and if you totally dont agree that it feels that way then you could give them maybe a bit of side eye

12.13.25 8:21 pm can a single note in a piano being playing with a spoon technically be considered a full song

yes i believe so

12.13.25 8:20 pm is life real?

that would explain how ridiculous it is

12.13.25 8:09 pm What is your favorite kind of cardboard box?

firm and dry

12.13.25 8:03 pm You think magenta can be pink sometimes

surely

12.13.25 7:47 pm How come it fellas like my life is over when I wake up at 5:45pm?

it's because you didn't make any plans for what to work on tonight in the overnight

12.13.25 7:01 pm do you prefer ionic or covalent bonds

gotta switch it up and try both from time to time

12.13.25 6:40 pm What are things you do that everyone else also does

travel through time, forward, at the normal rate

12.13.25 5:35 pm should people be more productive or less productive with their lives?

there are all different rates of producing all different things. no matter which ones you try, you're gonna learn something

12.13.25 2:45 pm am i in the wrong for being bummed out in a setting i was forced to go to not even intentionally

let me perform some calculations

12.13.25 1:32 pm do you think the notes go past G (or H in Germany) but musicians are too scared to discover them?

it loops around. D relative to C is the same thing as A relative to G

12.13.25 12:41 pm How does one go about writing dialogue for a video like "Perfect."

first set the location, then just imagine what might happen there

12.13.25 12:36 pm is eleventyone a number?

just a tiny bit of imaginative linguism will reveal that this should be 111, in all logicalness

12.13.25 12:30 pm most random thing about you

my native language is 'english'

12.13.25 11:08 am Wanna drink tea on the beach?

yes but not right now

12.13.25 9:56 am how do i ask a question

just like that

12.13.25 9:22 am Why do chopper and shopper sound so similar, but mean such different things ?

i think the issue here is the limited phonetic inventory of human language

12.13.25 9:16 am How long has 2+2 been 4 for?

at least as long as i can remember

12.13.25 5:37 am a local theater company is doing a production of my favorite niche musical ever (so niche i've never seen it irl), and i love to sing and take lessons for it but i haven't performed onstage since middle school out of fright and feelings of inadequacy. if i audition and it goes poorly, i feel like the rejection might ruin my favorite musical and performing in general for me for a while, and i'm not sure if i could handle it. do you think i should take the chance or maybe try to be involved in another way?

i think you should probably try

12.13.25 3:43 am rank cars, trains and planes from best to worst

the rankings would change before i'm even done with the list

12.13.25 1:04 am how do you deal with needing external validation? do you ever struggle with feeling insecure about your art?

i typically play what's known as the 'long game' on this

12.13.25 12:50 am do you think i would look good with huge muscles?

possibly

12.13.25 12:25 am are clouds actually just stars made out of water

no i don't believe so

12.13.25 12:02 am happy christmas, or merry christmas?

there's surely enough time for both

12.12.25 11:09 pm do u evr use that one voicing where (in c major) the II is Dm9 voiced FACE and then u lower the C to a B so u get G13 and then u resolve to C

sure, that sounds very sensible, and plausible

12.12.25 10:36 pm i recently had the bizarre and distressing experience of getting stranded on a frozen island in the atlantic ocean while trying to complete a business trip (i'm a poet but i work for a company that makes me travel and do appearances at events. it is a whole thing). i'm okay now but i'm still a little shaken up from the whole ordeal. any thoughts? this is real by the way. also you're music helped me stay calm so thanks for being with me on that island!

now i'm wondering which island it was

12.12.25 10:29 pm whaddaya think of panpsychism?

seems pretty chill

12.12.25 10:18 pm is there some pattern with the n of prime numbers in 1 to 100, 1 to 1000, to 10000.....?

yes, it settles into a logarithmic curve. not exact, but it very closely follows the curve. the number of primes up to 1000, for example, should be approximately 1000 divided by the natural log of 1000. i hope i said that right, i'm new to logs but not new to prime numbers

12.12.25 10:14 pm how many words are there?

how many do you think you want

12.12.25 9:43 pm do people here ever accidentally send answers instead of questions?

oh sure

12.12.25 9:18 pm Do you think blue is a good color for the sky?

yes

12.12.25 9:11 pm thanks for bottling up bits of the human experience and handing them out. means a lot

it's the least i could do

12.12.25 9:07 pm Do you have songs in H minor

sure, if you are studying them in germany for example

12.12.25 8:13 pm are blades of grass consumable?

maybe sort of, but i've never tried and don't necessarily recommend

12.12.25 6:57 pm should good chords be so good that you notice them, or so good that you don't notice them, or some other third thing? does it depend on their placement?

the main strength of chords usually happens on a very powerful subliminal level, but from time to time they will be featured in a "notice me" way. For the majority of listeners, in most cases, chords will be pulling massive emotional strings in the listener, which the listener will usually attribute to something else. they'll probably think it's entirely the lyrics making them feel like that. Also the same thing happens in movie scenes

12.12.25 6:31 pm ever thought of doing a country esque song?

ever thought about the melody for the verses of "and the day goes on"

12.12.25 5:57 pm when at the grocery store, do you get the cheap or expensive cookies?

tate's. any representatives from tate's out there wanna talk some business

12.12.25 3:36 pm whats the meaning of life

collect all 12. no just kidding, there's way more than 12 meanings

12.12.25 1:36 pm Do you ever wonder that all your hard work will go unappreciated? because that is what I feel like and it is really demoralizing.

ultimately it is unlikely that it will be unappreciated. sorry for the double negative

12.12.25 1:15 pm To what extent is your work inspired by your travels? "New Canaan" and "mount st helens" both seem to be explicitly influenced by trips you've taken (arguably "airport terminal" too?), but would you say traveling or seeing new places is a major influence in a lot of your writing?

yes, new experiences and journeys bring very special new feelings. songs often come from this

12.12.25 1:09 pm Why does your music make me so happy?

could be that extra bit of crack cocaine i slipped in there

12.12.25 12:54 pm What's your third favorite type of reptile?

i can't even think of 3 types

12.12.25 11:41 am Thinking about feeding the roses outside some pasta water. Maybe let it cool first, idk. Sound like a decent plan?

it certainly sounds good on paper

12.12.25 8:44 am have you ever written a poem?

for me the real fun starts when you don't admit whether something is poetry or not poetry. that is, when you obscure the poetry-nonpoetry status indicator

12.12.25 7:06 am where did you learn that penguins cannot be scared?

that's a sham. probably not true

12.12.25 4:30 am Will you post more reality videos and stuff, i liked them a lot

of course i will

12.12.25 2:54 am I am unsure how I feel about jam sessions. they often seem to lack direction and gravitate around ideas that come off awkward and more often there's no development. in principle its seems already scary and somehow I feel like as a 'real musician' I ought to like them. its so different from songwriting and producing alone though. have you had similar experiences?

it's a trade-off. and the same thing is true for dialogue improvisation vs scripting. Improvisation means that every moment is stamped certified genuine, impossible to feel fake. every word out of everyone's mouth, every note out of every instrument is guaranteed genuine. but as you said it can sometimes feel aimless. Writing and scripting, however, gives you a chance to really build some special things, but the sacrifice is that when you perform the thing, you're only as good as your ability to "imitate" how it felt when you first came up with the thing. so you're constantly fighting against the fake feeling of being a re-creation of a genuine moment that happened before. so it's a trade off

12.12.25 1:37 am there really are people out there who are music snobs. i've met some popular ones. have you ever met one?

absolutely. almost everyone who cares about music runs the risk of becoming one, in some way, at some point in their life. i almost wanna say no one is safe from this

12.12.25 1:28 am Is your music just vibes or are you like a super serious student of music theory

if those are two separate things then something's broken. ("does your car go forward, or does it just have wheels")

12.12.25 1:05 am read a thing which said utopia is all about longing, wanting something that can never fully be here. if that's true then is it a good idea, or even possible, to pursue utopia despite it being necessarily unattainable? or is it better to focus on the stuff we can actually do?

i don't know exactly which story i'm lifting this from, but it feels familiar: the idea that when you achieve utopia it quickly turns to hell for one reason or another. Another similar idea is that many of the most hellish scenarios are based originally on what started as a utopian idea. Highs and lows are inevitable, and even if you get everything you wished for, you'll realize you're still not ok. I'm pretty sure in an ideal situation, people are going to want a lot of games and challenges. There could absolutely be a futuristic way of humanity that has plenty of games and challenges in a way that is safe yet still fun

12.12.25 12:16 am Any reccomendations for anything to read/watch/listen to?

it's all good. the best part sometimes is being surprised about which ones work for you at which time

12.11.25 10:40 pm I feel like everything is collapsing, but I also see light at the end of the tunnel. How can I push through?

maybe you can sort of coalesce all your ambitions together into some kind mantra that you can keep saying to yourself

12.11.25 10:32 pm Do you like trains?

they're ok

12.11.25 10:12 pm if u could be any musical note which one would you be and is that objectively the right answer? or are we all Left?

the unanswerability to this is precisely what might drive someone to get into creative expression

12.11.25 9:51 pm What's your favorite aesthetic?

liking one that i didnt expect to like

12.11.25 9:06 pm Why don't you like albums?

dare i even ask........ "why am i supposed to"

12.11.25 8:59 pm not every thing is a different thing. some things are the same thing. but which things?

this and this. ..... unfortunately that's pretty difficult to prove

12.11.25 7:26 pm Do you have any advice on making music while also having a full time job?

surprisingly chill

12.11.25 6:35 pm out of these four given percentages, which is the most approximate estimate on the progress of your current project? A. 32% B. 50% C. 77% D. 93%

12.11.25 4:52 pm who is the great magician who makes the grass green?

how do you know it was ever another color

12.11.25 3:23 pm what's the most underrated instrument in your opinion

the paradox here is it would have to be one that i also under rate

12.11.25 1:03 pm i have a big cool ambitious thing i wanna make but i haven't made a lot of progress on it which is terrifying. i get joy and fun and fulfillment (synonyms, etc) every time i work on it but its existentially overwhelming thinking about the finished product and, knowing myself, i'll probably let it destroy my mental health until i give up before its even close to finished, rendering the entire process useless outside of self-discovery or learning from failure or whatever. i'm also partially inexperienced in the thing i'm trying to do, and prone to procrastination, thus endlessly afraid (the thing is both video and music related but i know much more about music than video). any tips on how to not lose my mind?

maybe keep that one in mind but try some smaller endeavors first

12.11.25 11:45 am are we living in a simulation

of what

12.11.25 10:25 am what game is playable?

chess maybe

12.11.25 8:23 am ive been recording my music and saving them on my computer for like two years and its fun

you're almost famous. not even joking. this is most people's biggest obstacle to being famous and you've just crossed it handily

12.11.25 8:00 am How do you feel about making up idioms that don't exist?

seems pretty chill

12.11.25 7:41 am Were you there on January 15th, 1919? You seem like a fellow who likes molasses.

i was not there

12.11.25 6:43 am How to learn something I want to learn but don't know how?

usually the key that's gonna work is the exact one that excited you in the first place. go back to exactly where you became inspired to learn this thing, where you even learned what it was. there are clues there of where to go next

12.11.25 6:24 am i really want to understand maths... what is a good way to understand trogonometry?

i am definitely not a trigonometry expert. but it's worrying about how long the blue and red lines are, compared to what time it is. yellow line is always 1, let's say

12.11.25 4:26 am yo i've been thinking about people worrying about everything already being done and it being hard to make anything "truly original". But does it even matter if I can just recycle (knowingly or not) the same shit someone did 50 years ago? People will either not know about it or have forgotten, so it'll feel fresh anyway

it's certainly handy to expose yourself to things from all different time periods. ultimately the power is going to come from you, saying what you're gonna say the way you say it, but it's always healthy to sort of 'cross pollinate' through different time periods, just in terms of what you enjoy. it will tend to increase the vibrancy of what you output, when it's time to deliver. in fact, any time someone comes along with the hot new sound, it's basically someone who is being proudly themself whilst also having been living in a slightly different musical universe from what the audience was used to in that moment

12.11.25 2:56 am Any hide and seek tips? Either hiding or seeking, or possibly even both

how about hiding in plain sight. at the very least it will be hilarious

12.11.25 2:46 am What does the song 987 mean to you? Or what does it represent for you? just out of curiosity because this song speaks to me but i just. cant decipher it

it's always been obvious to me that counting songs are just.... barrels of fun. so no one was gonna stop me from doing one. but, if you find you can't describe what a song means, that's no accident. that's the exact reason why we needed music for this in the first place. think of it, this is like trying to describe a cherry pie to someone who has never had a cherry pie. i mean what's the point, get them a cherry pie, that's the only way they'll know

12.11.25 2:12 am do you ever put yourself through a scary or unfamiliar situation so that you can perhaps use the experience for art purposes? I know that just sounds like regular life, but I mean going into it specifically, thinking, "whatever happens here, I'll probably want to write a song after it's over." (I do this for films I make)

it's not a bad idea, but honestly the scariest thing i ever did for that was take a train to New Canaan, connecticut

12.11.25 2:09 am Man, I gotta ask - Is the huge run of songs immediately following your big daddy stack of videos you mentioned in answer to 12.10.25 4:57 pm is in any way in production already ? Or is the "immediately" referencing a broader time scale where you'll just stick to individual songs (starting them after completion of your big daddy project) for a while instead of focusing on another big daddy project?

the idea is i'm going to whip one up in between each video release. to hopefully cushion the blow of these wildly obsolete and over-worked videos. honestly i wish i could get started on the songs now. i've been doing a lot of writing for sure, but you never know which ones it's gonna be

12.11.25 1:12 am would you rather.

in some cases yes

12.10.25 10:38 pm lobgm question... do you think humans are innately able to detect bits of soul in art, and that's why AI art is immediately noticeable because it lacks the soul that only humans can imbue art with via passion? or am i overthinking it...

this is just the tip of the iceberg

12.10.25 10:07 pm why is it called "Perfect." on youtube but "Perfect!" in videos and expert mode?

this may seem almost too perfect, but, it's actually because i am imperfect. genuinely

12.10.25 8:24 pm when you are mixing your songs do you ever reference other song that you think are mixed really well or do you just mix it based on your internal taste compass

at some point i stopped using references and just check it against one of my previous songs, at the very end. just for loudness, basically (.....and bassically)

12.10.25 6:41 pm This isn't a question but you should put out an album

the thing is, i dont like albums. so the only way for me to genuinely make an album would be if i were somehow making fun of albums, but that really wouldn't be fair to all the genuine album likers out there

12.10.25 5:13 pm you ever wonder if anyone thinks pretty much exactly like you

not exactly. but at the same time there are also probably a lot of similarities between just about anyone

12.10.25 4:57 pm since you've been working on your stack of videos for a few years now (i think?), and the age of AI paranoia certainly didn't exist to the extent that it does now prior to your latest video release in 2022, have the videos you're currently working on at all been impacted by this wider paranoia? obviously it's ridiculous to ask "have your videos been affected by the world as it currently exists", but specifically have you embarked upon any missions to present your work as aggressively human, or even just tweaked some stuff or left some extra mistakes or unpolished work in that you previously might not have? for myself, i'm trying to record songs with a more lo-fi feel, which has the added benefit of theoretically speeding up production, but damnit it's hard to not want things to be super polished and shiny. at the same time..... i've also started getting very quick to be like "oh that's AI" even when it might not be, which is kinda sad but also reinforces my thoughts that WOWWWW i really need to be taking some drastic measures to humanise myself like never before (so uhh yeah just curious if you've had similar thoughts)

i have certainly thought about it, and for this run of videos, that will mostly be taken care of at the end. However, in the huge run of songs immediately following that, i will be able to express this issue much more directly from the ground up. and i am so excited about this that i struggle to even keep my pants on somedays

12.10.25 4:31 pm I need to sleep and want to sleep because sleep is the only thing I like doing anymore, but the problem is that I need something to think about to sleep, I literally like nothing and dont want anything, and just get sad or annoyed thinking about things, so anyway. What's your favorite coffee?

i had an answer to the question i thought you were leading to, but i have no answer for the question you actually ended up asking

12.10.25 2:26 pm what is the best thing to put things on

a table, hands down

12.10.25 2:04 pm You ever see a music video for a song you like and think "that is not what this song looks like they got it all wrong"

of course. but you wanna know something crazy, i just went to check up on all my best examples of that, and now suddenly they all seem good. Exact opposite of what usually happens on here

12.10.25 1:27 pm earth or sea

sea is considered part of the earth

12.10.25 12:11 pm Do you think answering these questions has made you a better reader and writer?

yes i believe so

12.10.25 11:50 am What's something eerie you've came across on the internet?

a website

12.10.25 11:16 am antiqua or fraktur

i'm not even qualified to step to the doorstep of this conversation

12.10.25 10:02 am Do you believe in objectivley good music

heck, stuff's not always even good to the same person on two different days

12.10.25 9:17 am are you a turtle

no, i don't believe so

12.10.25 8:02 am Favorite color of music?

as if the menu were finite

12.10.25 7:01 am If someone referred to themselves as being the least humble, is that person humble or prideful?

probably hard to measure that

12.10.25 4:49 am Hi Bill, have you taken math classes like calculus or linear algebra? If not, would you have interest in doing that sometime?

i pretty much didn't make it past trig in school, but it is certainly a priority for me to drastically expand my mathematical education, and i am taking steps to do so. more along the lines of whatever school i was following when i bumped into pythagoras on the toilet when i was 7. whilst contemplating toilet paper squares and their diagonals

12.10.25 4:08 am What is your opinion on toads?

a toad is to a frog what a frog is to..... wait a minute, this could get out of hand

12.10.25 3:29 am Any predictions about what will happen in the year 2026?
And maybe for funsies also 20026?

in 2026 someone will realize that 2026 is 1013x2, and be fairly underwhelmed. in 20026.... someone will realize that 20026 is 31x19x17x2, and be, i'd say quite a bit less underwhelmed

12.10.25 2:03 am have you ever done crystal meth

no, but i have listened to semi-charmed kind of life, by third eye blind

12.10.25 1:52 am if you (as in you in dec 2025, now, present day) could say one thing to yourself when u started making music back in the 2000s what would u say

i started making music way before the 2000s, but i would prefer not to talk to myself through time. the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the spacetime continuum and destroy the entire universe

12.10.25 12:03 am whats your favourite computer key? mine's e. nice vowel and a good feel to it yknow

how about the space bar

12.9.25 11:45 pm i agree with you on a lot of things! a suspicious amount of things... almost makes me feel like i'm not original. which is why i find it a very good thing that i don't agree with you all the time. at this point i cherish every single thing i disagree with you on, cause good god i couldn't handle it if there was someone EXACTLY like me out there, you know what i mean? basically i'm saying thanks for being yourself

glad i could help

12.9.25 11:11 pm Do you ever think there will be an east virginia?

regular virginia can be considered east virginia, if you put on your thinking cap

12.9.25 10:22 pm what is your favorite trigonometric function?

oh what the heck, sine

12.9.25 9:20 pm You know at end of commercials on the tv or radio when they say all the "fine print" stuff really fast (like side effects for medications, etc.).. Do you think that they record the voice track at normal speed and then speed it up for that part, or do they hire voice actors that can speak very quickly?

heck, nowadays a lot of them probably dont even have a human for the normal speed part. but that's a separate issue. anyway, we are long past the point where that physical human talent of fast-talking is useful in this situation. In the old days, maybe 30 years ago or more, certainly a human had to really talk that fast. but the invention that changed this was the ability to speed up a recording without raising the pitch. this technology came into play sometime around the turn of the century if i'm not mistaken

12.9.25 8:36 pm beginning songwriter here! i've written some songs with vocals, but i can't sing very well yet. do i take the time out to practice singing and then release the songs with vocals (which would take a while), or release the songs as instrumentals (which might make them bad), or something else? advice would be much appreciated

just sing them now. best way to practice anyway

12.9.25 7:33 pm thoughts on thoughts?

it's like another world, in your mind!

12.9.25 5:53 pm i just bought bread for a dollar

the question of course is, how much bread

12.9.25 4:52 pm if 9 wasnt a number would you have named it 876 or 1087

if 9 wasn't a number i would assume we are in base 9, which means it would be written as "10". and 81 would be written as "100"

12.9.25 4:37 pm how do you do the thing that makes this: ÷

on the mac, press option slash (same button as question mark but with option instead of shift). on windows it's alt 0247. on phones it's probably in some symbol menu. but if you need it to show up in an html document such as this, you must type ÷ which in fact i had to type into your question to replace the one you used, which showed up as ÷

12.9.25 4:34 pm okay okay so i love u, but when you give long answers it makes me panic. maybe that sounds like i'm telling you to stop, but that wouldn't be fair to you and... the people who panic at short answers i guess. i think i'm saying this to get some sort of validation for my feelings but idk that sounds kind of stupid so just imagine i have like some really really good reason for saying this. also i don't even know why i panic, like what's up with that

it's going to be ok

12.9.25 4:21 pm Do you have any tips for my thermodynamics final exam tomorrow?

12.9.25 3:16 pm Do You Know Your ABCs....

sure, i also know my ZYXs, but that's not important right now

12.9.25 3:13 pm what do you think of

at this moment i am thinking of this question actually standing alone coherently, despite a vague suspicion i have that your intention was for it to sound like there was a word missing

12.9.25 1:55 pm how long should I cook my rice so that its perfect?

that really depends on how much rice there is

12.9.25 1:54 pm Hello? Is this thing on?

yes it is

12.9.25 1:33 pm Glenn Gould goes so hard on the Goldberg variations, do you agree?
Also, why is Bach the GOAT.

glenn gould seems to get inside the emotion of the composer. very empassioned. and your second question "Bach is the GOAT" because you have been moved strongly by his work recently. that's really what it comes down to

12.9.25 12:37 pm if you were to, hypothetically, set an ai chatbot to answer these questions, when do you think people will notice?

people "notice" every day, as we live in the era of rampant ai paranoia. it's normal for everyone to think everything might be ai. every day i get asked if i'm ai, and surely you do to. it challenges me constantly to dig deep and present my true soul in new ways. but your hypothetical is not very realistic for me if you know what kind of a control freak i am. back in the pre-ai era i still rejected all forms of human assistence. i just have to have my own damn hands on the pie, otherwise we're not even in the neighborhood of what i am here to do with myself and life, for you

12.9.25 10:51 am How come there's no video for "Got to Know What's Going On"

so that i could make other videos instead. such as "hi, i'm steve". or "movie star"

12.9.25 10:23 am What are your plans for this Christmas?

i have to deliver presents to the whole world. no just kidding, i will just be chillin

12.9.25 10:07 am I can never create unless I'm feeling Lots. Feelings Lots isn't always a great experience, because it can be a lot of Bad, Good, or somehow a lot of Nothing. Well, I guess I want to ask if this is normal? Or okay? Sustainable? Art is made of emotion so... I think? But I do know that I have a lot more emotion than I think other people do.

it sounds like you know what you're doing

12.9.25 9:43 am How many apples does Jimmy have?

i have no idea

12.9.25 1:19 am Opinion on Snakes?

a cornerstone of Philosophy

12.8.25 11:50 pm when do you usually lay down the bass part on a recording? do you tend to do it earlier or later in the process?

last. unless it's some kind of distinctive catchy riff, then it might go earlier. but honestly if that's the case then it's also gonna be doubled by something higher, which would probably go in first

12.8.25 11:40 pm what's your favorite number?

1 or 2

12.8.25 9:59 pm You ever notice how horrifying the expression "keep your eyes peeled" is when you think it through?

sure. sometimes i notice that while i am skinning a cat

12.8.25 8:31 pm i'm getting quite sick of the usual random number generators, do you have any advice on how to generate your own random numbers on the fly without falling to the usual cliches

i have no method of 'inventing' randomness. even if i try, there will be a major shadow of doubt on its authenticity

12.8.25 7:43 pm just got gas at a gas station (as one does) and i managed to get exactly 12.000 gallons. but o! at what price?! $41.99! that's right, i was one cent away from a perfect $42.00, which would've been doubly exciting had it aligned with the 12.000 gallon mark. alas, i was cheated out of something special! should i be satisfied with my perfect 12.000, or upset at the price?

next time you can try to get a round number price. You probably won't be able to do both, unless the price of gas is a round number. in this case the price was probably 3.499 per gallon. Actually now that i think of it the price could have probably been a round number if you did just 2 gallons. that would be 6.998 which would have rounded to 7. but honestly i'm not sure if those machines truncate or round

12.8.25 6:04 pm why are there so many new places instead of old ones. except for new england we know that old england is just england

the original is usually not called 'old' because there was no need to make the distinction between old and new before the new one exists, and no one wants to change their name to old something. i can promise you that almost every place in the world called 'new something' has a corresponding old place that is usually just called 'something', not 'old something'

12.8.25 5:13 pm Are you one? Are you two? Are you three?! Are you four!!!! Are you 987???

not exactly

12.8.25 3:10 pm will i be ok

yes i believe so

12.8.25 12:42 pm Favorite type of cheese?

oh what the heck, venezuelen beaver cheese

12.8.25 12:18 pm Is everything we do a balloon, or like, a zoetrope, or is nothing real? Or really like that at all? Maybe? I don't Remember. Maybe the sun is a hexagon as well.

i think the answers to those are mostly no

12.8.25 11:50 am what is food?

that, my friend, is the million dollar question

12.8.25 10:11 am Has it ever happened to you, especially earlier on in your music journey, that you wrote a song or part of a song that was so difficult you couldn't play it yourself? Do you have any advice on preventing this situation, because it is kind of embarrassing when someone else (more experienced) has to help you to play something you wrote...

in the modern era, and i guess i can include the past... 30 years at least.... this is no longer totally a restraint. there are plenty of ways of making things happen on recording that you wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. but this arguably starts to seem more and more like a curse

12.8.25 9:49 am can you read?

yes i can

12.8.25 8:34 am Pretty much every visual in your videos seems tightly controlled, but are you interested in any kinds of procedural visual effects like particle systems or funky equations where you set the rules and watch what happens?

i've done plenty of that too. have you seen some of the explosions of gamepieces in the 'huge gamer' video

12.8.25 8:04 am Is a two note arpeggio a trill?

i don't see why not

12.8.25 7:03 am I want to express myself but I hate expressing myself, what to do?

maybe you can try doing it so badly that it because tremendously fun

12.8.25 5:57 am Doctor I can't tell if I'm not me

for this you dont need a doctor, you need a linguist. i = me. you can just look that up, in english

12.8.25 4:49 am can you explain to me why 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯ = -1/12 I dont quite understand?

ok so here's what you can do. let's look at another series, 1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1...... repeating forever. You might say that this will equal either 1 or 0, depending on where you STOP, but of course 'forever' means you never stop. you dont stop at +1, you dont stop at -1.
Let's try this...... let's try 1 minus the series. subtract the series from 1.

1-(1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1.....)

            subtracting something in parentheses makes all the signs flip, so that's the same thing as 1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1.....
     so when you subtract that series from one, you get the series itself. 1 minus X equals X. what could that be, do a little algebra
     1-x=x
     1=2x
     1/2 = x

Weird, but fair, i think. 1+1-1+1-1 if you EVER stop, will equal 1 or 0 depending on when you stopped, but if you truly never stop then there is no one ever to decide whether it's 1 or 0 so it's 1/2. There are other ways of showing this series (i guess we're calling it X) equals 1/2.

ok back to the other series, 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8..... let's call that one A.

Consider another series, 1-2+3-4+5-6+7-8 ...... forever, the signs switching back and forth forever. let's call that B. Now let's take B plus B... but for some crazy reason because you are crazy, you decide to slide it to the right a little bit when you add it. i will leave you to decide whether or not this is a legal move. Hopefully this lines up the right way on your screen, it should be slid to the right by one number, but it's still the same series B, added to itself.

           1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 - 8 ......
           1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 ......
     ==========================
     1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1.......

so here it appears that B plus B equals X, the series of alternating 1 and -1. which we found to be 1/2. So B plus B equals 1/2, which means B must equal 1/4.

           Now we'll take A minus B.
     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 .....
   - (1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 - 8 - 9 ....)
     =============================
      4 + 8 + 12 + 16 + 20 ........

which is actually 4 times A (your original series)

           so A minus B equals (4 times A).
     we already saw B equals 1/4, so A minus 1/4 = 4 times A
     do a little algebra
     A - 1/4 = 4A
      - 1/4 = 3A
      - 1/12 = A

There are many many other ways of getting this result. I think the key to understanding this whole thing is the fact that you "never stop". If you EVER stop, let's say you're adding 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 up to a billion and you stop, you're gonna get.... a huge number, actually it would be a billion sized triangle with a billion across the bottom. but the key is you truly actually never stop. that's where the mindfuckery probably happens. if you claim to do something literally forever then the answer is gonna kind of have to be in some kind of other dimension. and this is how we can quantify it

12.8.25 3:19 am Can we expect anything for December?

31 days

12.8.25 3:02 am ... my mum is pregnant even though my dad's not around??? that shouldn't be possible, yeah?? sorry, i felt the need to tell this to somebody. anyway. what's spacetime?

spacetime is space and time

12.8.25 2:05 am Do you have other people listen to your music for you before you release it to make sure that it sounds good or do you just rely on your own ears

that's a slippery slope. i just keep the judgement to myself. probably some of the greatest moves are ones that would crumble against the thought of having a specific person judge it

12.8.25 1:52 am thoughts on
repetition
repetition
repetition
repetition?

seems pretty chill

12.7.25 11:59 pm i've been abused my whole life, should i kill everyone in retaliation?

i think you'll get a lot more bang for your buck if you put it all into writing and fictional works instead

12.7.25 11:04 pm whats your favorite thing

liking something i thought i didn't like

12.7.25 9:54 pm as a new york native do you know where old york is

north eastern england, and to answer the other half of the question which you didn't ask, old amsterdam is in netherland

12.7.25 9:00 pm Just averaging some figures here, what if 68 is the real comedy gold.

not gonna lie 68 is lookin pretty good right about now. haven't had this much fun since area 52

12.7.25 7:56 pm you've beat the scale before, have you considered beating the arpeggios?

this is not the kind of thing you can really plan on

12.7.25 6:55 pm Was "I'm sad" and "I wanna go home" exercises for you go through the entire writing and production process?

absolutely. those were just tools to get the game going

12.7.25 6:07 pm What is so good that nobody should use it?

everything

12.7.25 3:46 pm do any of the upcoming 11 videos have names yet? and if so, can you tell me one?

yes, but no

12.7.25 3:26 pm how do you commit to a project for a long time without getting demotivated and quitting

the trick here is to gravitate towards projects you know mean the most to you. i don't think it's possible to change how much something means to you, but it is possible to seek out things that mean the most to you. and those projects will be the ones that will last. Then, suppose midway during that project you feel yourself sort of 'forgetting' how important it is to you. Then it's just a simple matter of communicating with your past self who started it, have a convo about how important this thing is, and i honestly dont know who wins this conversation but if your past self wins it means they can explain to you why the thing was so important to you and you'll buy it, and be jazzed about it again

12.7.25 1:58 pm Do you think we have free will, and if so is it compatible with the idea/reality of determinism and caused events

i honestly thought determinism was crushed handily in the first quantum revolution, a century ago

12.7.25 1:27 pm i feel guilty when people are nice to me

that's ok

12.7.25 12:41 pm Do you enjoy illogical and unnecessary counter arguments?

from time to time

12.7.25 12:02 pm Is an ai answering the questions

put it this way, i get cheeseburger cravings. all the ai's out there who get cheese burger cravings, let's see a show of hands

12.7.25 12:02 pm do the two friends in "2 friends on the beach" have any sort of name or has it been a sort of thing where it never passed your mind during the process of making the video

in the writing they were labeled f1 and f2. in the graphics production they were labeled 0000 and 0001

12.7.25 11:25 am Did you hear the "hello and goodbye" part of might quit also in the dream or was that just the logical progression of the first part

the dream was only the melody of the first section. the next section just follows songwriting, which i would not exactly call "logic", i would call it "magic" if i'm lucky enough to get out of the way of it

12.7.25 10:51 am What is the fastest bpm you've ever used

maybe 813

12.7.25 7:47 am Where's French Guyana

north eastern south america

12.7.25 7:00 am A starving person will probably enjoy a meal more than a merely hungry person. Do you believe that both people would receive an equal increase in satisfaction if meal quality was equally increased?

i believe so, if any of this was possible to measure

12.7.25 6:46 am How does one balance "want to make art" feeling with "want to sleep" feeling? And thanks for answering people's smart dumb questions

i don't exactly know how to settle this particular debate but it's also hard to get it wrong

12.7.25 5:33 am What is your opinion on brick walls?

pretty chill

12.7.25 3:38 am why is two plus two equal to four?

.. ..

12.7.25 3:03 am idk who you are, but what uni degree do you contain

i definitely do not have one of those. i honestly dont even know what they look like or what they do

12.7.25 1:20 am has a piece of music ever spoken to you? if so, what did it say?

if i could describe exactly what it said then the music wouldn't have been necessary

12.7.25 1:06 am why is the "not satisfied?" line in "if the world doesn't end" so satisfying

it's possible the bass is to blame, but i can't be sure exactly what you're getting from it

12.7.25 12:24 am does wonder increase or decrease with age?

it can go different ways for different people

12.6.25 11:04 pm Do you think there will be a new new york

i wouldn't rule it out

12.6.25 10:33 pm How many waltz would bill wurtz write if bill wurtz could write waltz?

"more than enough"

12.6.25 9:58 pm do you prefer the random joke questions, the actual meaningful questions, or the questions about the questions? if possible please include the letter z twice in the response.

i don't know if i agree with that sort of categorization of the questions, but in terms of preference the only thing i prefer (which is also built into the mechanics of this page) is that the questions are asked by not me (other people). that is really where the thrills come from

12.6.25 9:53 pm i used to think that you were a crazy artist in a world of normal. now i think you are a normal person in a world of crazy

ah yes i see the kool aid is working

12.6.25 8:39 pm What are your thoughts on bossa nova?

if all else fails....

12.6.25 6:10 pm whats up ?

hello

12.6.25 6:04 pm answr4e

ah, i see what you did there

12.6.25 4:52 pm have you ever seen a doorknob?

yes i believe so. i believe i have some doorknobs in my videos

12.6.25 11:20 am I'm the kind of person who can never be satisfied with the state of my songs, like there's always something that i feel i should work on more before releasing. How do i get over that feeling and just release the songs anyway (without immediately dying from embarrassment and shame)?

basically what happens is you stay just like this for a long enough period of time that you are screaming inside because you're so desperate to get something out, and then it gets worse and you begin screaming on the outside as well. and then just when you think it's completely impossible to solve this, you remember it's actually very easy you just release something

12.6.25 10:30 am When we sleep we have these wild crazy dreams, totally unlike the "mundane" things we see in our waking life, that are usually completely unrelated every night. When our dreams sleep, do you think they have "mundane" dreams, totally unlike the wild crazy things they see in their waking life, that are usually completely continuous every night, being our own waking experience? Who is dreaming who in that situation?

the main tangible difference i notice between 'dreams' and 'not dreams' is the object permanence

12.6.25 4:04 am where is old jersey

off the north coast of france

12.6.25 2:03 am do you like chess

certainly after seeing the movie 'Searching For Bobby Fischer' which by the way is not about bobby fischer

12.6.25 1:20 am Thoughts on pickled vegetables?

very difficult to unpickle

12.5.25 11:51 pm So how long did you spend altering the ethos and mythology of the creation process for your projects, before it either:
A) Worked and you found a system/method that reliably guides you to create and publish your work
B) Made you give up on finding "the perfect way" to do something and just start freestyling creation
Did either of those options occur, or something else entirely?

there's a whole spectrum. plenty of elements and issues have found well established answers and strategies over time, there are other elements and issues which have never found an answer, then there are still others which have had a firm answer for a while but then one day there might be good reason to question it

12.5.25 11:35 pm i'm depressed can you tell me what to do

now you can go ahead and use Cardano's formula

12.5.25 7:24 pm Thoughts on the Flammarion Engraving

amazing what the power of mystery can do. makes you want to withhold some information on purpose

12.5.25 7:23 pm if you could make a chandelier what would it look like?

i wouldn't know until i design it. i would design one right now but i am still working on something else

12.5.25 7:07 pm i think fantastic mr fox was better than the phoenician scheme partly because i watched the former when i was a kid and also because i think the stop motion animation was really cool as well

by far my favorite scene in the mr fox movie is the scene with the real estate agent. then i suddenly realized why that is

12.5.25 6:12 pm Where did all the good times go?

into the past

12.5.25 4:19 pm can i ask a question or does it have to be a ueqstion?

there is no sucth thing as a ueqstion. this is the questions page. did you read the line right above the box

12.5.25 3:56 pm I've always been told that people couldn't possibly stand being alone, but I've come to find that being alone isn't really that bad. Why is it that some people desire company so badly?

there are certain games you can't play alone

12.5.25 12:55 pm How hard is perfectionism hitting you right now

not at all. perfection is easy, useless, and usually pretty boring

12.5.25 12:31 pm chromaticism vs diatonicism

those are not rivals. they are co-conspirators

12.5.25 11:21 am do you like fake plastic trees?

sure

12.5.25 10:41 am ok so, you know how there's sizes of things that go "small," "medium," and "large."? well, there's also the extra version of small and large, and that makes sense. but what would an "extra medium" size be? would it be closer to the mathematical medium size between the small and large, or something else?

"extra medium" is inherently illogical, which is why it's commonly used as a joke or confusion tactic

12.5.25 10:29 am what do you think about the hypothetical goal "learn every song"

eventually you're gonna wanna start wrting your own

12.5.25 10:24 am you don't answer my questions because im ugly???

no i don't think that would be even possible

12.5.25 10:03 am Do you think numbers (and math in general) are created or discovered by mathematicians?

discovered

12.5.25 9:10 am What is your favorite Christmas SONG?

the best thing is liking one i thought i didn't like. i don't know if that gets me any closer to an answer to this question

12.5.25 6:26 am are you a professional at not making sense?

no. of course i would like to think i'm a professional at making sense, which requires brief controlled pockets of anti-sense on a surprisingly regular basis, resolving to sense each time, like breathing, but, to assume any of this would be to also ignore the potentially huge amount of mistakes i can make

12.5.25 5:13 am I know what I want to do, but how do I start doing it??? Have I not thought about it enough yet?

it's time to "explain it to the duck". your rubber duck is excited to hear your plans. explain everything to the rubber duck. if you are unable to pretend you have a rubber duck, it may help to go out to the bath toy store and just get one. then explain your plans to it

12.5.25 4:56 am Are you ever disappointed in us?

there is an implication here that this question was co-authored

12.5.25 4:31 am what do you know?

your question was "what do you know?"

12.5.25 4:24 am Do you prefer the word thingamabob or thingamajig

how about dingetje

12.5.25 1:19 am how do you pick a project and stick with it? i have so many ideas but can never focus on one

basically what happens is, you slip deeper into this despair, and just when you're starting to think you're cursed and it's completely hopeless, you suddenly realize that it does not matter what selection you make, as long as you worship the selection and dont do anything else until that selection is done, then the train is guaranteed to keep moving along. And you can always use your desire for future selections as a magnetic motivator toward finishing the current selection. Now you just gotta decide on your selection method. and it really doesnt matter what it is, so you might as well make it something you can be proud of

12.5.25 12:13 am Do you like music or language more?

each can do things that the other can't quite. using them together is downright dangereaux

12.4.25 10:38 pm what in the world is a thingamabob

the world is in fact a thingamabob

12.4.25 9:57 pm thoughts on laundry detergent?

almost too clean

12.4.25 9:26 pm what is with your interest with 67? did you predict the meme?, is it meme related?

the meme is not really of interest to me. the number 67 has existed for thousands of years before the meme, and will outlive the meme by thousands more. heck, it seems like only yesterday that 69 was THE default two digit number meme

12.4.25 8:58 pm does ueQstions work as a plaintext approximation of the title of this page

i don't think so, it's just 'questions'

12.4.25 6:32 pm today i thought to myself "smart people take psychedelics, which is true, but the secret is, even smarter people dont"

kind of difficult to measure

12.4.25 5:53 pm Frankenstein is the name of the monster

i believe you

12.4.25 4:20 pm i've realized that the only way i'm going to be happy is if i'm making art i'm proud of. i wrote a song that i think is good and i've had a pep in my step for a couple days now. the problem is that eventually i end up thinking the song is bad from listening to it too much and then i start hating myself because my self worth is entirely tied up with my ability to make songs I like. Is this a dangerous way to live my life?

the ups and downs will be at a fairly high magnitude, but this is a common artist condition, and can generally be exploited for artistic purposes. just be careful not to get hurt or injured. when you sense a crash, just be gentle and patient because you know it comes around the other way, and when you sense a skyrocket, .... just try not to bump your head on the sky

12.4.25 2:37 pm Where to find repetition in a world of difference?

start by just asking that again

12.4.25 2:33 pm Was 'Mount St Helens is about to blow up' written for a specific time period or was it meant to be timeless?

it's gonna work best in a context where you are familiar with mount st helens as a volcano that actually does or has occasionally blown up. also just in terms of language if you go more than 100 years forward or back in time, the english language i'm using will start to become gradually less intelligible, requiring the music alone to do more and more of the work. That being said, it was written and released in 2018

12.4.25 2:05 pm how long does it take to edit 19 seconds of a music video?

any amount of time you can imagine

12.4.25 1:14 pm Hello are you forklift certified?

12.4.25 1:01 pm just wanted to express my thanks - this page has taught me more than any teacher could. i recently restarted piano lessons after a long hiatus, and my current teacher is a wonderful guy - kind, smart, talented, honest. but i always end up walking out of my lesson feeling stupid and like i don't know how to improve. but then i started applying wisdom i've learned from this page and saw improvements almost immediately. sometimes i feel sad because i feel like i'm impossible teach, but i think it's just that standard teaching methods don't work for me. i always end up having to carve my own path and i feel like this page has been instrumental in helping me do that, so thank you

i suppose my only answer to this is to try to teach you more things

12.4.25 12:55 pm Is it possible to be extremely moderate or moderately extreme? If so, are they the same thing

extremely moderate, yes. moderately extreme, .... not really.

12.4.25 12:17 pm do you think the album pet sounds is christmas music

there are sleigh bells on 'god only knows', i'll give you that much

12.4.25 12:16 pm how do you make music when you don't know enough instruments to make the music sound 'full'

trust me, fullness does not come from a lot of instruments. it's actually fairly common for someone who uses a lot of instruments to suddenly discover the secret power to fullness is using less instruments

12.4.25 11:29 am how can you give yourself a name

sometimes it just happens. it's hard to force it

12.4.25 10:45 am if i have a problem, know a solution, am fully capable of implementing it, don't, and then complain about the problem not being solved, is it fair to call myself an idiot?

not necessarily

12.4.25 10:44 am why is it so easy to love what we love and not so easy to love the rest

the peaks are not possible without the valleys

12.4.25 10:16 am do you feel that the nature of the questions you get asked require your usually short answers, or is it moreso a preference to keep them concise?

after about the first 10 weeks i discovered the power of conciseness. but then still of course on a fairly regular basis i also explode into unhinged verbosity

12.4.25 9:38 am Do you think it would be neat to be a ghost? Where would you haunt?

maybe i could haunt the television

12.4.25 9:09 am What is your favorite Christmas carol?

not exactly sure how old something needs to be before it's called a carol and not a song. for example if a popular artist releases a brand new original christmas song in 2025, does that count as a carol. i'm not sure

12.4.25 9:07 am how do you add a little whimsy in your day?

just saying the word whimsy ought to be enough

12.4.25 6:11 am which song took the longest amount of time to write and why? what about the shortest?

i don't know exactly

12.4.25 4:15 am How to avoid going nuts having to listen to banal and irrelevant bullshit 6 hours every day?

there is an opportunity to think about something deeper, somehow via this bullshit

12.4.25 3:36 am how much of your music is recording of instruments vs meticulously placing midi bricks/notes vs recording midi notes/bricks and their placement?

the only real way to get good results is to be playing

12.4.25 2:47 am what is the acronym for l.e.a.v.e in "where i've been"?

leasurely exit, and venture elsewhere

12.3.25 11:02 pm URGENT!!!!! - what is your favorite color?

the problem here is my favorite thing to do is pretend one that's not my favorite is my favorite

12.3.25 9:19 pm why do all the cool ideas wait until the most random times to show up

how else are they gonna be cool

12.3.25 9:15 pm which of your songs or parts of songs do you think would would be easiest for a super-extreme-basically-never-done-this-before beginner to play on piano / keyboard

it has to be one you like

12.3.25 7:01 pm are you multiple people or are you just one person pretending to be multiple people

i am one person trying to remind myself that i am 1 person by gathering all of my works onto 1 website named after myself

12.3.25 5:29 pm Why are you so good at music

the cold hard truth is that it drastically helps my ability to 'influence' you

12.3.25 5:22 pm would a religion of many insane people believing in many other insane people control the world someday

it could certainly feel that way from the outside

12.3.25 3:50 pm if everyone is princess does that mean no one isn't prince?

no, i think you fumbled the logic. as they say, "2 wrongs can make a right, but 3 wrongs definitely do not. this is a math error". two cancel out and the other one remains. what you said is the equivalent of "everyone is princess therefore everyone is prince"

12.3.25 2:41 pm how much percent of making music is having ideas? 50%? 75%? 100%?

all of it

12.3.25 2:22 pm if the meaning of life is everything and your favourite toppings on a burger are also everything, does that mean that the meaning of life is to eat burgers

no. what it does mean, is everything is everything

12.3.25 1:39 pm back when you made purely instrumental music: did you always know your music needed words, but weren't sure how to go about it at first?, or did you just know something was missing but not that the thing in question was words?

i never had any intention to exclude language. i love language anyway

12.3.25 1:16 pm why are people such idiots?

do you consider yourself also people or are you something else

12.3.25 12:29 pm I keep starting to learn a language, but then I get interested in another language and want to learn it instead. How can I (or should I) stick to just one?

sometimes what you really wanna do is alternate between pursuing new languages, then coming back to your strongest one. i think if you let yourself go wild for a little while jumping to new languages, i think quite soon you will get the urge to go back to your strongest one so you can feel better about yourself. and then eventually get restless again and want to do something new again. there might be no reason to deny this natural flow

12.3.25 11:59 am Is there a good way to focus on getting what you need to do done and not put it off for temporary comfort?

sometimes there is a way to get genuinely excited about the big picture. sometimes just asking yourself about what the big picture is, is enough to start warming up to what and why it is

12.3.25 11:50 am have you developed your instrumental chops by practicing traditional technique (scales etc), just messing around and seeing what happens, learning other people's songs, figuring stuff out during the process of songwriting, some combination of the above, none of the above, etc ?

everything you said except scales. scales would be like a way of boring yourself on purpose

12.3.25 11:35 am are you good with new year resolutions

yes, the whole trick here is that it's a curse to tie your resolutions to new years. think about it, do you know anyone on earth who, now, in december, is still doing their new years resolution from 11 months ago? it would be almost insane to even think it is supposed to last for the whole year. the most successful resolutions i've ever had were in february, august, another one in february, and another one coming up soon and i have no idea exactly when it will be but the key here is to uncouple it from new years if you want it to have any realness whatsoever

12.3.25 11:13 am does this count as talking to you? like you answering my question? can i officially say i have talked to bill wurtz?

sort of

12.3.25 10:04 am i think it's quite amazing that I, some randy the rando across the globe can directly inflluence your existence by typing letters into this white box, even if the effect is potenitally almost infinitely insignificant, the butterfly effect still stands.
uhh I guess what is your opinion on butterfly effect? And I mean the effect not the movie ofc

imagine if that one guy hadn't let the other guy talk him into switching the story from a seagull to a butterfly

12.3.25 8:09 am why is christmas music so powerful

the holiday season is a sort of polarizing phenomenon which synchronizes the yearly mood swings of all songwriters

12.3.25 8:03 am Thoughts on geocentrism?

seems chill

12.3.25 5:40 am you're awesome, do you agree?

it seems there's always the potential that i could be someday

12.3.25 4:50 am how do you make art with nothing?

you need at least something to go next to the nothing, otherwise you wouldnt even know where to look

12.3.25 4:26 am where did all the serifs in your videos go

this is just the tip of the iceberg. where did all the serifs in society go

12.3.25 3:47 am Is it ok for gen Z to ask questions here

it doesnt matter how old you are, but i would disagree with the logic of grouping the age groups around what i consider arbitrary boundary lines. i think we all can relate to the uncomfortable experience of having a friend who was born 1 day before you, but they are in a different generation because they are on the last day of the previous generation and you are on the first day of the next. i mean how would they even relate to each other, it would be a forbidden friendship

12.3.25 3:30 am How do I ueqstion? How many lines should mu ueqstion be? Is it better to like my own ueqstion? What is the best comment to ueqstion? Could you give me an idea for a ueqstion?

normally i don't have any suggestions or critiques, but there is one thing here that seems like it's begging to be addressed. 5 times you've said 'ueqstion' which is really not right. this is the 'questions' page. what youve done is took the title design and tried to somehow write it in plain text but it doesnt work that way. it's either 'questions' or ueqstions. the q is meant to go first, but that's not so apparent when there is no color scheme to guide you

12.3.25 1:05 am do you secretly come up with the questions yourself or do the questions come up with you?

the questions are asked to me, by..... well, you for example

12.3.25 12:02 am are you jolly for jolly season?

i am jolly for other reasons

12.2.25 11:36 pm hey mr. bill i have to cook for my date later and i don't want to fuck it up. how long should i boil my steak so it's al dente?

i have no idea

12.2.25 11:15 pm how many times have you just completely nuked one of your songs halfway through, and kept some parts but drastically or almost completely changed others

i was counting them up but then i switched to a whole different way of counting them

12.2.25 9:38 pm if a duck quacks, does it mean 6 more weeks until christmas?

no i don't believe so

12.2.25 8:55 pm How do you respond to people who are wrong but are confident that they're right?

sometimes it's as simple as looking in the mirror

12.2.25 7:13 pm how about we agree on using the Oxford English Dictionary as a reasonable word pool and you randomly choose five words and answer with those words and only those words

Sorry, About, Nothing, Being, Random

12.2.25 6:06 pm Can you wield a sword?

no i don't believe so

12.2.25 5:44 pm Do you have any aspirations to perform live?

yes and no

12.2.25 5:34 pm why do you just make the current progress of your new videos so enigmatic. just tell me exactly where it's at. right now.

in exchange for you being curious about the present, i will always tell you extremely detailed stories about the past. Which also gives you something to look forward to, because you know i'm going to tell extremely detailed stories about the present, in the future

12.2.25 5:30 pm when you were struggling to write songs in the early 2010's, was it only because of perfectionism or did you not have your songwriting procedures solidified at the time.

for the most part after 2009 there was no more struggle. that is generally when the flood gates opened. plenty of things continued to improve and take shape after, but in general from 2009 forward it was significantly more fruitful excitement than struggle. there was also a time, many years before that, where i did plenty of writing instrumentally, but then eventually there was a sort of dark period in between where i had to figure out what i'm saying linguistically and with ideas on the more verbal side of things. but by 2009 or 10 i was fully 'out of the closet', in terms of like, ok, enough moping around not knowing what to do, ready and desperate to just fling open the door and see whatever the fuck comes out

12.2.25 5:14 pm what font is this page in

this page does not have a font. you are seeing this page in your browser's default font

12.2.25 4:20 pm sometimes I feel like I love everything, and sometimes I feel like I hate everything, what the heck is up with that?

these sound like mood fluctuations. it happens to me also

12.2.25 4:09 pm how the blippity-doo-dop does your newer fancy 3D animated videos make so much but so little sense? is this an allegory for life?

to get the full satisfaction out of 'making sense', sometimes you need to briefly hide the sense or play slightly hard to get

12.2.25 4:04 pm how do you combat lack of motivation

what would you like to have motivation to do

12.2.25 3:16 pm What is the meaning of life?

everything

12.2.25 3:08 pm I'm extremely frightened that I am actually not meant to write music and that its all an illusion that I made up at one point in my life, that I don't have the skills needed, that I also seem to not be able to develop them. However it would also totally break my heart if i would give up on it. I'm afraid of having lost excitement for it but also unsure if its just self doubt trying to win over me. I have produced snippets of music that clicked and hold some magic however only very seldomly have I ever carried it to a sharable state. It somehow stays an isolated meaningless nugget and I grow more afraid whenever I sit down to write something meaningful, drifting away into thousand anxities at once while writing. Am I going insane here!?

yes, but, insanity is a tremendous advantage in the arts. You think a lot. you talk a lot, and you write a lot, because you think a lot. (and ultimately this is because you feel a lot). This could be, in some ways, a disadvantage because you're able to talk yourself out of just about anything. But on the other hand it's an endless creative resource that you can use

12.2.25 3:05 pm serious question here: why is not being able to go home such a common theme in your lyrics?

maybe that's just my face. think of Tom Hanks for example, a lot of people ask why is Tom Hanks's face so common in Tom Hanks movies

12.2.25 1:34 pm what are some things you consider when creating background vocals

how you want the song to sound, go, and feel

12.2.25 1:25 pm Do you know what it means when I flip flop very fast (over about a day) between loving and despising school and math

a case can be made that you are a sensitive person

12.2.25 11:00 am can you please explain the usage of the word "Lest"?

i think it's an old fashioned version of unless. wait no, it's the opposite of unless..... i think maybe it means "in the unfortunate case that..." i'm not sure, it's old and doesnt really get used anymore. maybe 'or else'?

12.2.25 10:39 am do you think chocolate is overrated

12.2.25 8:50 am how do you deal with being perceived ? do you ever get used to it ? not only on youtube but in general ? being perceived is weird

sort of like breathing. crazy at first, but if you keep doing it for long enough you'll be totally comfortable with it

12.2.25 7:16 am No question, but just wanted you to know I've had some of your songs on my playlists for a lot of years and they've brought me joy. Thankyou.

my only answer to this is to make more

12.2.25 4:19 am what's your MBTI?

i got all the questions wrong

12.2.25 2:33 am your answers sound so lovely. occasionally i don't understand what you mean at all but it still sounds lovely so i trust it's a lovely answer

sometimes it's considered a dangerous skill, to make everything sound lovely. watch out for people who can do that

12.2.25 1:12 am When you make a song do you intentionally inject a meaning or moral or do people just find their own message in your songs?

nothing you just said makes any sense to me. the way it works is, when i let songwriting happen i discover deeper and more indescribable meanings than i ever thought possible. i dont know if that was what you had in mind

12.1.25 10:09 pm if you could use uppercase letters, how and where would you use them?

check out any one of my videos and see. or you could just read this page for more than 30 seconds. Or what the heck, just look under your own finger when you just pressed the 'ASK' button

12.1.25 9:25 pm What do you recommend?

everything

12.1.25 8:59 pm are you still making songs and stuff?

hang on i dont want to spoil the surprise

12.1.25 8:58 pm do you believe love is real ? i think it is made up

whatever 'love' describes is usually more complex than the word could describe

12.1.25 8:15 pm Do you ever consider the implications of ur music on the giraffe population?

i have not

12.1.25 7:12 pm Favorite food

how about trash

12.1.25 7:04 pm Is The FitnessGram Pacer Test a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues?

it certainly seems like it would be

12.1.25 6:47 pm what is your favorite formula

making patterns and then breaking them, which of course makes a make-break pattern which you then wanna go ahead and break as well

12.1.25 6:38 pm what question should i ask?

how about this one

12.1.25 6:34 pm whats your vocal range

it depends how i'm feeling

12.1.25 4:19 pm pancakes or waffles?

said the person who didn't know about waff cakes

12.1.25 4:18 pm is hotdog a sandwich?

technically yes

12.1.25 3:54 pm What have you been up to lately?

working on videos while fantasizing about all the song making i'm going to be doing afterwards

12.1.25 3:15 pm how many protons, neutrons, and electrons do you have

i'm not sure

12.1.25 2:12 pm have you learned how to go up yet?

might have just learned

12.1.25 1:59 pm If the fish in "Fish Opinions" thinks "sock" should be two words. What two words does he think sock should be?

..... so ck?

12.1.25 1:16 pm Do you eat moon dust

not that i know of

12.1.25 12:07 pm what do you think the Italians are really good at?

talking, for example

12.1.25 11:19 am Bill this isn't a question but I wanna let you know your songs have helped me through some hard times where my Parents almost divorced and I wanna just say thanks for making music that speaks to people in weird ways but also apply perfectly to whatever people are going through.

my only answer to this is of course to make even more meaningful songs, which, admittedly could get out of control

12.1.25 10:12 am i just moved to a new apartment. any pro tips for living?

as long as you can move around comfortably

12.1.25 9:54 am math question: If the universe was inifite, then would all possible versions of let's say earth exist and would there be infinity of them? I.E. imagine there was Earth-2 of which the only difference from our own Earth would be that I had a moustache (sadly I can't grow one). Would the fact of Universe's infinity mean that there would inherently be inifnite Earth-2 replicas? Or maybe inifnite Universe doesn't force infinite copies of a thing and there could be only one or few Earth-2s?
Also I find your music really inspiring, thabks

i think it seems plausible for there to be infinite of just about everything. However, i think it also is plausible that there may be some things which never exist

12.1.25 9:02 am In another question's answer you said that everyone is already an artist. Do you mean that everyone already has creativity inside them and could make songs or paint or some other artistic endeavor, or do you think that pretty much anything people do with room for creativity can be art (EG, a particularly well-made powerpoint presentation is in some sense art) and thus whatever they're doing, they're making art?

it would certainly be hard to disagree with just about anything you said

12.1.25 8:55 am whats a mediocre color to you? why?

how about putrid

12.1.25 8:46 am i've heard somewhere that awkward people are only awkward because they don't have the capability to fake their genuineness. do you believe this to be true?

".... and they think they still have to" i would have to add. Because once you can set free from that, then you'll turn into a rock star pretty quick

12.1.25 8:12 am is this a question

just about

12.1.25 7:36 am where did all the bad times roll

into the past

12.1.25 4:37 am you ever wanna march down the street like the dura cell bunny?

not exactly

12.1.25 3:07 am how to appreciate something that usually didn't matter because I didn't care?

i think one day it's just gonna randomly compel you, by surprise

12.1.25 3:04 am ive learned that all my problems come from other people, so I'm going to stop looking for human connections and sever the ones I have. does this sound like a good plan, as someone with more life experience than me? Thank you Mr Wurtz

that sounds like daniel plainview from 'there will be blood'

12.1.25 2:38 am do you ever think that sometimes girls just wanna have fun

yes, and i also think 'bip bip bip bip bip ' .... (flailing bunch of high pitch blips on the black keys, in the key of F# and D# minor around 120 bpm)

12.1.25 2:18 am Where should I put my ukulele away? I feel like no matter where I put it, it doesn't look tidy

how about getting a stand, and/or a case

12.1.25 12:47 am When is Now?

pretty soon PREVIOUS QUESTIONS