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3.17.26 5:26 pm Can you give a "guidelines for asking questions," so that I know whether my questions are good or bad?

yes, that would be "no i can't"

3.17.26 5:21 pm i don't know if this is going to make any sense whatsoever, but i love your lyrics because they feel more like they're directly about ideas rather than about the social and linguistic constructions around those ideas. does that track at all to your thought process around lyric writing or have i just projected my own feelings about it onto them?

your assessment is simultaneously the most accurate description i've seen while also making the typical extremely common (and bizarre in my opinion) error, which is to make no mention of the music, which is completely inseparable from the words, in terms of their meaning and effect. If somehow instead of 'lyrics' you had said some word that means the combined effect of the music and words, including the melody with which the words are sung, then your description would ring extremely true for me. wait no also you'd have to get rid of 'thought process' because thinking during songwriting is actually poison

3.17.26 5:16 pm which song took you the longest to write

i'm not exactly sure how to measure this. for example, if i spend 20 minutes working on one, then two weeks later spend 20 minutes finishing it, does that count as 40 minutes or two weeks

3.17.26 3:18 pm why do you choose not to capitalize words? I find it intriguing

what i find at least 100x more intriguing is that you are totally blind to all the things i do capitalize. it must be some kind of weird mass hypnosis. i did a brief tally recently and found that there is a capital letter in at least 1 out of 20 questions on average, and then if you look at my videos i think at least 9 out of 10 videos (AT LEAST, probably much more) has capital letters all over the place. It's interesting, i should probably take advantage of this and start putting evil messages into the capital letters or something

3.17.26 2:31 pm say what you want about bill wurtz, he sure loves those contrasting colours

it's obviously because i need attention

3.17.26 2:26 pm what's 9 plus 10

6 7

3.17.26 2:05 pm thoughts on non-Euclidean shapes?

i'll admit i dont think i've ever really seen one

3.17.26 1:55 pm do you ever pluralize or singularize song lyrics? it's hilarious. e.g., changing "i would do anything for you" to "we would do anything for you"

those are totally different lines. they sound different, they feel different. there are many other ways to change that line that would be not as different. the two lines you mentioned dont seem plausible candadates for interchangeability. an example of lines that would be more comfortably swapped might be "i would do anything for you" or "i would go anywhere for you"

3.17.26 12:49 pm do you think people spend an unreasonable amount of time perfecting something or do you think it's reasonable

but which thing

3.17.26 12:47 pm if 4 people walked into a bar and the duck is horse so yes no why?

thank you for typing those words there. it reminds me of all the other times people have typed very similar sequences of words for a similar purpose

3.17.26 12:40 pm Is the world always ending

sure, and beginning

3.17.26 11:04 am Best way to come up with original progressions?

i would certainly argue not to think of it that way at all. i dont agree with calling it a 'progression', because that creates the implication that it is supposed to 'progress', when quite often it doesnt feel that way. problem 2: if you are thinking about only the chords then you're usually shooting your songwriting in the foot, in my opinion. problem 3: insisting on making your chords totally unique from any other song is almost like insisting on your new car having a different number of wheels than any other car before

3.17.26 10:52 am can you cure my dementia
can you cure my dementia
can you cure my dementia

i'll try

3.17.26 10:50 am Do you ever catch yourself writing "nevermind" instead of the grammatically correct "never mind"? I see people talk about it like its become a sort of mandella affect. Do you think it's because of the album or just convinience?

i was actually shocked to find out just a couple years ago that 'nevermind' is, maybe, considered incorrect. however, it's such a package-deal phrase that it's probably easier understood when written as one word. i've been writing 'nevermind' all my life, and i honestly wouldnt be surprised if the official grammarlords (oxford, webster, or whoever it is nowadays) may be already saying they accept it. people use it, it's readable, ..... so that ultimately eventually makes it correct

3.17.26 10:13 am will you leave a "vacationing in" entry in expert mode to honor the time spent on the 11-stack?

that may certainly be appropriate. although we'll see what the appropriate extrapolation of that gag looks like, for the 3rd time around, depending on how i'm feeling when the time comes

3.17.26 9:26 am are you a communist

i'm not actually sure how to tell

3.17.26 8:26 am How long is your next video?

i dont know exactly which one will be next

3.17.26 7:26 am what colour is a mirror

grey with nearly 100% reflectivity

3.17.26 5:18 am what do you do when you just need to calm down and relax?

run through the prime numbers as high as i can remember. or figure out new ones

3.17.26 2:27 am are you planning to make more notes in your notebook in the future

i make notes outside the notebook and then file them into the notebook section by date written. i continue to write them, and i continue to post them. as always, if you've been following me for awhile youve caught on to this, when it rains it pours

3.17.26 1:43 am why does eloquence without substance get more attention than the other way around? can i fix myself to not be this way? can we fix ourselves as a society?

i'm not sure if i buy or even understand your hypothesis

3.17.26 1:31 am Do you use custom ringtones/notification sounds?

not right now

3.17.26 1:19 am In your interviews have you ever drank a bottle of water that's not poland spring?

sure. on the west coast it would be arrowhead, and so on

3.17.26 1:11 am ARE CAPITAL LETTERS YOUR GREATEST FEAR?

if that were true then why the heck would i be using them all the time, especially in my videos

3.17.26 12:45 am It seems like with how prolific you have been in the past and how hard you are working on your projects now that you have never really struggled coming up with ideas but instead you always move forward into the next project. Is the time you have spent away been filled with stretches of time without knowing what to do or has it been spent mostly trying to figure out how to develop existing ideas?

someone about 5 questions down has a similar problem to me. the overload of ideas literally clogs the system. every day of my life for at least the past 20 years i've been living under the looming threat that it may be completely impossible to unclog the system. it's a miracle i've ever gotten anything through

Also, I would suspect that with the amount of time that has passed one would eventually get tired with the idea that made you realize that your absence would be a prolonged one because of how long it would have taken and how the mind naturally wonders into new things. Was there a moment that made you realize that it was going to be a while or have you forgotten?

around april 2023 i decided to try a new selection strategy that i've always wanted to try, because i just couldnt take the terminal fear and anxiety i've always had with the selection process. the strategy was to select as many things as i want. i ended up choosing 10 (i was actually surprised that i didnt choose more). So it was pretty obvious that that would take a hideously long time, and the truth is i was obviously running from something. so deep down on some level i probably knew that i was living in a fantasy world. and i've been running from the consequences all this time. just facing up to them now, and despite how scary it is i'm starting to get the warm eager feelings i got in feb 2014, or aug 2018, or feb 2022, etc. Which was fully predictable also. The solutions this time wont be quite the same as last time, because there were reasons why the past solutions eventually failed and were untenable, but i'm very excited nonetheless, mostly because i'm ultimately pretty confident in my ability to solve problems. And in fact, the 'clog' phenomenon actually builds up a monsterously strong desire to explode. You'd think this wouldn't still be effective after the fact that i've already gotten a lot of stuff out over the years, but in fact it feels stronger each time. there is the vividly unshakable feeling that the majority of my best work has yet to come out

3.17.26 12:04 am What was Paul thinking when he wrote blackbird?

for most songwriters, and i'm almost certain paul mccartney would be included in this, if you start to 'think' while songwriting youre screwed and you wont get anything good. so i would assume that a song like that would be what comes out when you forget to think. in fact, paul often says (and many other songwriters say the same thing which i will paraphrase here), "i dont know where these things come from, and honestly i wouldnt wanna know because that might spoil the magic"

3.16.26 10:50 pm how the heck are you so gosh darn wacky?

this is a natural product of the spacetime continuum

3.16.26 10:50 pm Do you ever just go to a piano or keyboard, or any instrument really, and just play your feelings? I do it a lot, especially when I'm sad.

yes this is really the key to music

3.16.26 10:46 pm ok so i also have like 100 things i simultaneously think about doing and can never settle on anything and end up doing nothing. how do you do somethings when so many thoughts are loud and distracting and also make it hard to pick a something? i mean i'm possibly missing the possible amount of nothing you may or may not do too, which comes with the territory i guess, and i know it won't be easy but dangit i could use some insight from someone who has done and made many somethings.

i have a feeling you wont want to do this, but how about wallowing in this problem for about 10 years, and then even after you succeed, come back to wallow in it again from time to time for a few more years at a time

3.16.26 10:15 pm But what's the best question you've been asked here?

this one, although i have a feeling the next one will be just slightly better

3.16.26 8:56 pm what's the best way to write a brigde in a song? and what's its purpose?

      defining what the heck a bridge is is a lot like trying to hold a pile of sand in your hand. If you are in a position where you think you are 'supposed' to make a 'bridge', you will have 2 problems. 1: 'bridge' will be undefinable, and 2: you wont have any feeling that you need it.
     Another way to say this: it's a lot like when youve been sitting in a chair for a certin amount of time and you just need to stretch. and you say, "what's the best way to stretch, and what's it's purpose"..... no idea. no need to worry about or think about it. if you feel like stretching, you'll stretch and you'll automatically know how.
     To re-iterate what i'm trying to say another way: the worst thing you can do for a 'bridge' is to think it is 1 official thing that is supposed to happen. the only thing that really defines it is that it's something different, something unexpected. so if you try to pin down what it's supposed to be, that's a one-way ticket to bridge-failure, which usually occurs when people try to put a bridge because they think theyre supposed to, when it actually doesnt feel right.
     Maybe a broader way to look at this problem is, "what do you do after 2 full rounds of the main form of the song". and the answer is drastically different in every song, and often you dont even need to do anything. in general the most common problem is to be out of touch with what it actually feels like to have heard the song all the way up to this point

3.16.26 7:35 pm Are you having a good time with your current project?

currently no, but i'm very excited for the alternate possibilities that are suddenly opened because of that

3.16.26 7:32 pm How to move on from the past?

pretty much just start moving

3.16.26 7:16 pm what is a hipster

somehow an outsider and an insider at the same time. the 'insider' in the elite club of outsiders

3.16.26 6:50 pm what do you think about comic sans?

the font of international business. on second thought it might be too formal for international business

3.16.26 6:34 pm whats ur favourite canadian city

how about montreal, i say this without necessarily having been there any time recently

3.16.26 5:41 pm Uh oh I lost my question can you help me find it?

it's this one right here, at 5:41 pm

3.16.26 5:28 pm what should i do if i can't get this one aspect of the song to sound good, no matter how hard i try? like obviously the right answer is 'make 100 more songs and then you'll be good at it', but do you have any tips for moving forwards with this one song in the here and now?

as soon as you become legitimately convinced that you'll never be able to finish the song, suddenly a blessed deal will be brokered

3.16.26 5:13 pm Who is the Tom that tomfoolery is named after?

i'm not entirely sure

3.16.26 4:15 pm could you include my cat in the next video? IMG_324.png

sure

3.16.26 3:48 pm do you make the music that you like most to listen to, or that you like most the process of making?

if those two things get too different, it's bad luck

3.16.26 2:48 pm Would you say it'd be more appropriate instead of asking about someone's thoughts on a particular song or music or art to ask about someone's feelings on it? Like what are your feelings on this song? Or even what are your emotions on that song? What are your emotions on love?

it's pretty much the same question. 'thoughts on' something that is wrapped up in a lot of feelings, either way, they're going to try to explain their feelings about it. sometimes, at least in english, 'think' and 'feel' can be used interchangeably. "i feel we made the right choice." "i think we made the right choice". hard to pinpoint any difference between the meaning of those two sentences

3.16.26 1:23 pm No one takes me seriously and I feel so useless and worthless and like I'm an afterthought. And it makes me so so so so angry and sad and hurt I wanna cry. Tonight I will try to make a video or a drawing

not a bad strategy

3.16.26 12:56 pm Are there other types of tantrums besides temper tantrums?

sure, there's a "tenture tantrum", nevermind, that one in particularly is probably a can of worms frankly to tell you the truth

3.16.26 11:14 am can you do something cool for this question

      ~~no, but i can do something cool for other questions.~~
      ~~i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes.~~
      ~~i was going to say yes but now that i think about it no.~~
      i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes

3.16.26 10:14 am why am i more motivated to do things i must do than to do things i want to do?

it's possible that you respect other people more than you respect yourself

3.16.26 9:33 am why doesn't my local dollar store no longer carry sharp white cheddar pringles

maybe the product was just too offensive

3.16.26 9:10 am Bill, if there was anything wrong with you that you could change... Do it. No question necessary.

do you think i havent tried that

3.16.26 8:45 am What would the staging/visuals of a theoretical Bill Wurtz live performance look like?

people on stage in a band playing songs. this goes without saying, but, NOT trying to mimick exactly a recording. just playing the song genuinely, afresh. they've also done a million live shows before, so their chemistry and experience together is very strong. no backing tracks. no click tracks. no projected video. small enough venue that you dont need to mic the kick. these are generally my guidelines for how i'd prefer to do a live show. also a strong preference for never switching venues, playing in the same venue every time. there may or may not be multiple elements of this that would have a hard time coinciding with actual reality, for various reasons. which may or may not be why you tend to not see me doing live shows. each time i describe these preferences, people usually take it to mean, 'ah yes, so you are going to do a live show'. which is why it's important to clarify that i probably will not. it would be nice, and i'm very jealous of people who do, but my psychological problems probably run way too deep to allow me to make sense of it. i have a hard enough time just producing audio/video

3.16.26 8:14 am If you stacked enough paper, what would happen?

you wouldnt need to stack any more paper

3.16.26 8:05 am Do people ever use you as an encyclopedia?

not really

3.16.26 7:44 am I'm noticing a lot of questions on here along the lines of "Hey Bill what chord is [sequence of notes]" and then you'll respond with something like "F#sus4add7" (or probably something that makes more sense). I know you usually say that studying/using "music theory" is not required/important when making music, but how necessary/helpful is it to identify these chords when making music? Does knowing these chords help with making better-sounding music, or is it mainly just a party trick?

neither. it can be a useful way of writing down chords. never entirely accurate, because even with the exact same notes there's still a million different ways to play something, but, it's similar to the way we can use the written word "word" to correspond to the sound your voice makes when you say the word "word", while still not describing the actual exact way you said it

3.16.26 5:47 am why did they put the sky so high up?

where exactly is it?

3.16.26 5:10 am how to make time pass faster

get older

3.16.26 4:21 am You said that you think that all or at least majority of songs are about themselves; how true would you then rate the statement that all or at least majority of questions are about themselves?

less

3.16.26 3:21 am i wouldnt call you a detective but how wouldn't you know

how wouldn't i not know

3.16.26 3:03 am is "slow down" your slowest song

no, it's not even slow per se

3.16.26 2:16 am i feel so extremely sane right now. but be honest with me, is that a sign of insanity?

it can be, but it's also some of the best fuel for productivity, which leads to tangible results, which is one step closer to the coveted prize: proof of sanity

3.16.26 2:03 am When you're an artist, nothing is off-limits. Video gamemaking, board gamemaking, conlangs, worldbuilding, etc., everything that we're supposed to look down on as "not real art" is fair game for sandbox exploration just as much as "real art" (e.g. songwriting, embroidery, cinematography, and so on). Am I on to something?

sure except i dont think the public opinion of the definition of 'real art' is even as well defined as you think it is. For example, if you had listed all 7 of those things in the same set, and asked me which ones do i think are 'supposed' to be considered 'real art', i wouldnt necessarily sort them out in the same ways you did. in general it's common for people to be slow in accepting newer forms of art. so generally when people say something is 'not real art', they are usually talking about something newer than whatever else they have in mind as 'real art'. in fact, just the other day i was listening to a film director from yesteryear talking about how films back then were not very well respected as art, until television came along, and then the filmmakers were very excited because now they have 'something to look down on'. this cat and mouse chase continues on through the ages, and it can be quite amusing to follow

3.16.26 1:37 am living in the moment requires accepting a certain amount of uncertainty

are you sure

3.16.26 12:55 am What are some of the tthings you don't lik

drawing attention to the things i dont like

3.16.26 12:12 am have you ever received a sideways glance

yes i believe so

3.16.26 12:08 am if you could bend fire, water, earth, or air which element would you choose?

maybe i would bend the element categorization system

3.15.26 11:08 pm i have recently broken up with the creative process since i was putting no effort into the relationship. how do i tell her i still have feelings for her?

dont ask me, my relationship with this is obsessive at best, disfunctional at worst

3.15.26 10:52 pm have you ever used capital letters

have you ever seen any of my videos, or ever read this page for more than 2 minutes

3.15.26 9:56 pm so then what is venus made of?

it's hard to tell

3.15.26 6:38 pm do you prefer bass or guitar

if it's the only instrument you have, you probably need a regular guitar. however, almost any full ensemble is going to require the bass register to be handled at least in its fullest moments

3.15.26 5:41 pm Does practice make perfect?

it certainly makes you better, but there's probably always room for improvement and variety

3.15.26 4:00 pm how would you keep a stack of shoeboxes from falling over when the stack gets too high to support its structure?
(question asked on behalf of my mum when I told her about this page.) Ps I'm so excited for your new videos/music, the world is a better place because of your talent :)

to stack shoeboxes you might consider a sort of criss-cross method. two boxes side by side, then two more boxes on top rotated 90 degrees. and so on. but i've never stacked a lot of shoeboxes, so i'm not really the greatest expert on this

3.15.26 3:56 pm Why are cannot and can't both a single word combination of can and not?

so you have options, depending on how much time you have

3.15.26 3:51 pm are you a fan of words that are fun to type on the qwerty keyboard like "typewriter" and "skepticism"?

those arent the best words for me, nor the worst. a good word for me would be 'poij'. also 'poijpoij'

3.15.26 3:37 pm why did the early bird catch the worm

because the worm had not yet been caught by another bird

3.15.26 3:34 pm i go to college in 2027. which ones do you recommend?

i dont know anything about colleges but i've heard harvard is pretty good. maybe go there if all else fails

3.15.26 3:20 pm if the moon is made of cheese, does that mean venus is made of caramel corn or something?

no it would not mean that per se

3.15.26 3:19 pm Do you like sea salt and vinegar kettle chips? If so, why?

i do not. i dont like vinegar, and i also dont like to pursue saltier food than necessary, so the 'salt' attribute is not a selling point for me. furthermore, if i'm looking for salt, i also dont get what theyre getting at with 'sea salt' vs just 'salt'. it certainly does not sound more appealing to me, if anything it sounds less appealing and reminds me of seaweed. These are all the reasons why the 'sea salt and vinegar' branding is less than effective on me

3.15.26 3:14 pm Bill what was the inspiration for "the history of the entire world i guess" other then the history of the entire world?

i already tried one for just japan, which was a smash success so instead of doing just another one of the same size like a normal person, i cranked it up to the max. to the deep detriment of accuracy quality and sanity to boot

3.15.26 1:59 pm i've been told to 'get with the times' how exactly does one go about doing this

check the context. what did they say that in response to? was it in response to your hat? was it in response to your attitude about office supply solutions for the small business? etc

3.15.26 1:58 pm how am i s'posed to go on

there's a lot of different ways. there's so many ways there's still some ways left over even if you can't do some of the other ways

3.15.26 1:57 pm Do you always think very deeply about your answers, or are you just very good at writing answers that appear profound, but were thought of on a whim?

i do my absolute very best. very often the question will be some form of a repetition of something i've gotten many times before, which means i'd have a longstanding head start in considering its different nuances. Heck, sometimes i'll be out and about and i'll randomly think of a great answer to one of the really tough ones i get asked all the time, and i'll write it down for the next time it comes up

3.15.26 1:43 pm have you ever had a dream that stuck with you for forever and you can't seem to forget it?

sure

3.15.26 12:50 pm how could i begin jazz piano/improv? im learning from the ground up ish and im coming from 10 years of subpar violin playing. what would be one thing youd reccommend to a beginner out of many pieces of advice. like maybe sowmthing you would have told younger you. thank you lots

if you've spent your entire life playing only notes youve read, then i'm not sure exactly how to switch over to becoming a player of your own notes. it's a very different thing you see

3.15.26 11:20 am favorite gaming console

i could tell you which one i'm most familiar with, but that wouldnt exactly accomplish anything

3.15.26 11:17 am which song do you consider to be your finest work?

i'll need to make at least 100 more before before i could decide, but then that would make it actually harder to decide

3.15.26 10:29 am do you think we'll get to a point where we understand the brain enough to directly send experiences to it? As in, right now most people read text or hear it from a screenreader. Using monitors and speakers. Or touch it with braille screens. Different peripherals for different ways to receive something. My question is, can we just make 1 peripheral that just interfaces directly with the brain and sends it stuff it can interpret? Also do we want that? Now that I type it out I realize that a trojan could potentially just directly kill a person instead of bricking a computer. Nevermind I'm scared

this is no more far fetched than the telephone was, television, or internet, before they existed. and youre right, all these innovations can be terrifying when you first start to consider some of the consequences

3.15.26 9:47 am do you like geese

i want to like geese

3.15.26 9:35 am Has someone asked questions already mentioned before?

yes

3.15.26 7:40 am what fur patterns do you find interesting

zebra?

3.15.26 6:15 am What does the "i'm feeling randy" button do?

displays one question at a time, selected randomly from all the questions

3.15.26 5:40 am if you did a live performance of some sort, would you mind if the audience members talked to you or requested an autograph afterwards

dont people sell autographs? i could just give you some money instead, save you some time. just let me know how much you need

3.15.26 3:29 am i've been talking a lot recently and its made me realise i dont know what im talking about

perhaps neither does anyone else quite

3.15.26 2:30 am Do you believe the message conveyed by any piece of human expression is better conveyed by being felt or by being thoroughly understood

factual information is important to be understood. emotional communication is meant to be felt

3.15.26 1:59 am what's the most foolish errand?

beating a dead horse?

3.15.26 1:47 am is 1 + 1 = 12 true

not usually

3.15.26 1:45 am supposed to be productive but i landed here. how do you do kind sir?

how did you know my name was kind sir

3.15.26 1:39 am i'm curious about the new plans. you think you're within a month of releasing something?

easily, but as you know i've always had deep psychological problems in this area. deep deep deep deep deep psychological problems. you can take a look at my catalog and pretty easily spot my attempts and strategies to remedy this. so i'm just weighing up the pros and cons of what to do, and hopefully i'll continue to make choices that are on average slightly wiser each time, in light of some of the the incoherent psychological dynamics i've always had to contend with

3.15.26 1:31 am What would you do if you were walking towards a door, not planning on going through it, but a person who is at the door sees you and holds the door open for you?

at least stop and say hello and determine the likelyhood that you want to go there

3.15.26 1:30 am Have u ever thought about adding more stuff to the reality part of this website

i've been thinking about it for my entire life, along with 100 other things simultaneously that i could do. but the only problem is i can't actually do them all simultaneously

3.15.26 12:10 am You seem to avoid direct answers regarding personal favorites. is that diplomatic stuff? or coming up with more inventive answers? or maybe just keeping private things private?

aside from being impossible to determine, even if i could i might not even admit it to myself. Favorites are a thing of passion. so in an empassioned moment, youll be like 'ah yes, this is the best!' but youd be biased by emotion. at least if the thing is any good it should have you empassioned at least that much

3.14.26 11:30 pm Was it difficult to switch from matched to traditional grip? How hard would it be to switch back now?

it took maybe a few weeks to get used to traditional, but i had an incentive. i had a jammed finger (basketball) and temporarily could not hold the left stick normally, but i could hold it just fine the other way. if it werent for that i may not have switched, but it also wasnt hard to switch. also it's not terribly hard to play match once you can play trad. it's about like driving an automatic after getting used to a stick. a little annoying, but shouldnt be hard, just weirdly boring

3.14.26 11:10 pm I was talking to someone new for about a week and then I was busy and stopped talking to them. Now it has been so long I am embarrassed to talk to them again because I dont have a good excuse. And honestly I am not very interested in continuing to talk to them. They keep messaging me. What should I say, if anything?

imagine if i had gotten a question from them, asking what to do to get your attention. what do you think i should advise for them to do? (i would have probably asked them what they think i should advise you, in the event that you ask me the question that you just asked me)

3.14.26 10:55 pm How to defeat the bully

sometimes it's worth a check in the mirror, just on the off chance you may be the bully

3.14.26 10:19 pm oh man, I wasn't expecting to be able to ask you questions from the nostalgia of my (as-of-yet unmodded) 3DS, love these surprises. Oh, yeah, opinions on Wii Music?

i think it's no secret that nintendo has a long standing reputation for being particularly strong in the music department

3.14.26 10:17 pm mr. bill, for years I thought the second-to-last lyric in "where I've been" ("i'm having a great time") was "i'm having a breakdown". was this intentional

3.14.26 9:45 pm do YOU have any ueqstions 4 me?

yes, thank you for asking a question, that's my question

3.14.26 9:42 pm What was your inspiration for making this questions page?

english practice. yes it's my first language, but, could always use more practice what the heck

3.14.26 8:27 pm Have you ever considered becoming a professor of music theory? You know a lot about it.

it's way more effective when put into music

3.14.26 7:38 pm What's something you believe now that you probably would have disagreed with 10 years ago?

a lot of my best advice would be really bad for some people

3.14.26 7:08 pm how do i impose artificial deadlines on myself so i retain motivation to work on my creative projects, without my brain realizing that the deadlines are made up and won't hurt me if i miss them?

once you get desperate enough, once you realize there is no other way out of this, you'll be ready to join a cult. you'll be ready to join a cult where the deadline is as firm as oncomming traffic

3.14.26 6:53 pm hi Bill. I have relatively lot of song ideas, sometimes with lyrics or at least melodies. Main instrument is the guitar. My question is, how do i put more emotion into it. Sometimes they feel close enough to me, but most of the time is like they were already there and i dont feel them. I dont know if that makes sense.

sometimes it takes a lot of courage to awaken the voice of your true musical impulses. when you do, you'll probably want to hide it at first, it will be so much fun you'll think it's illegal

3.14.26 5:58 pm What is a tupperware party?

party where people bring food. maybe the food is carried in tupperware to the party, for convenience

3.14.26 4:40 pm I like how the endings to your songs are always feel abrupt
like in where I've been it just goes "now I wasnt" and then the song ends

and the rest of your life begins!

3.14.26 4:38 pm how do you think they'll fix the year 2038 unix time bug

yes i believe so

3.14.26 3:14 pm Happy pi day! How many digits do you have memorized?

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230

3.14.26 2:34 pm Bill if one were to learn to play any of your songs on the piano, which one would you recommend for a beginner pianist?

how about the peanut butter song

3.14.26 1:06 pm What are your thoughts on your feelings on your opinion on your take on your thoughts

what is this a thesaurus

3.14.26 10:56 am i got involved with someone last year who, despite some beautiful moments we shared, ended up being pretty emotionally abusive. it now feels like i don't remember who i used to be and like i've lost something vital to my essence, and can't fashion a new self out of the material available. can't bring myself to work on creative endeavors. i know this'll get resolved eventually, but goddamn i don't see the way out and it's upsetting. what's the best move, just force myself to work on stuff even if i don't want to/am subconsciously afraid to even look in that direction? been going for a LOT of walks.

it's quite simple. time.

3.14.26 9:30 am should one listen to an artist even if theyve done bad things

either something has ruined the music for you or it hasnt. there's no telling exactly what contextual things may ruin the music listening experience for you. but it may be worth you remembering, in case you are in the mood to hold a grudge: make sure you hold grudges equally against everyone who's done equally bad things, including the ones whose bad things havent been publicized. such as [seemingly good person's name here]

3.14.26 7:13 am should great art appeal to all or appeal to a single person only?

it knocks the socks off of at least one person. can be more, but at least 1

3.14.26 6:44 am are you invested in the carpet market?

only carpet futures. where the carpet is now doesnt interest me as much

3.14.26 6:39 am You say your favourite pasta shape is cubes. What is your cube size preference? 1cm? 2cm? 10cm?

i just made that up, but i think 1cm cube would be fine

3.14.26 4:28 am im having fun doing art, is there anything youd like to add or suggest

not everyone gets as far as you

3.14.26 12:40 am Do you believe it's important to know a lot about the world to write something meaningful

all you need is some experiences. any kind of experiences. if youve had some ups and downs before, that usually helps. whatever wisdom youve started to pick up, relating to those ups and downs, that will come out in your writing as meaning

3.13.26 7:34 pm what does "greet" mean?

to 'bid hello'

3.13.26 6:58 pm will any of your future projects contain "the lick"?

about as likely as you using the word 'credenza' at some point in the future

3.13.26 4:29 pm are you interested in any behind the scenes content of you videos.

it sounds like a lot of fun, and i can almost certainly tell you which section of this website they're going to go on

3.13.26 3:53 pm If you had a teleporter that creates a copy of you at the destination while incinerating the original at the exact same moment, would that be you? To the universe, what would the difference be? What if the machine malfunctioned and the original you remained? The moment your experiences diverge you would become two distinct people, so would you try to find the other you and make friends? Maybe start a band of Bill Wurtz's?

the difference is whether you keep your memory of the previous person. if it accidentally splits into two and you find yourself being only one, then it gets awkward

3.13.26 3:40 pm if violence encorages violence, how can we defend ourselves without adding fule to the fire that burns society?

when used effectively, sometimes defense can be passive. either as a protective shield, or just the known existence of a weapon, as a deterrent, not having to ever be used

3.13.26 1:48 pm I am an idiot and I am writing a book, Advice?

someone's gonna wanna read it, but that's probably obvious

3.13.26 1:48 pm is love really just a four-letter word that you can use in various ways that are mostly positive, or is there something more to it?

the 'various ways' .... there's a lot of ways in there

3.13.26 1:41 pm When you coming back????.

change of plans, could be sooner than either of us thought

3.13.26 1:16 pm Do you like sports?

i especially like the amount of different outcomes you can have

3.13.26 1:07 pm Have you ever written a song where you didn't allow yourself to undo any decisions until you finished the first draft?

of course. and then usually that would be the final version also

3.13.26 8:22 am is a corner store a flub if it is not at a street corner?

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

3.13.26 8:00 am Thoughts on 8 o clock?

sometimes it's also 20 o clock

3.13.26 7:32 am why do artists bother if originality is unattainable?

why do some people assume that originality is unattainable

3.13.26 5:27 am Why do I keep forgetting to think before doing? You'd think i would learn to do so after failing enough times, but I haven't...

you'd think you would have accepted the pattern by now....

3.13.26 4:57 am i had another idea and my friends think its dumb: "birdhouses for people" do you think its a good idea

i think it's called a tree house

3.13.26 3:59 am What is your favorite architectural style?

surprise me

3.13.26 3:50 am Has this question been asked before ?

yes

3.13.26 2:04 am do you ride with the tides of the ides of march?

i can never remember which is which

3.13.26 1:51 am is it going to be ok?

at the very least

3.13.26 1:02 am Best superpower to have in real life?

recognizing what your superpowers are

3.13.26 12:48 am Are smart people born smart or did you have to be dumb first

i cant think of an accurate way to measure or even define 'smart'. i'm thinking back to those classic optical illusions, like the 'duck or lady' illusion but it's 'smart or dumb person'. and if you look at it the other way it switches

3.13.26 12:46 am Could I ask a Genie for another genie then do it again with each new genie until I have lots of genies with two grantable wishes apiece would that work????

most genies give the standard disclaimer that you cant wish for more wishes

3.13.26 12:38 am How do you know when to end a song?

sometimes you can quit while youre ahead

3.13.26 12:05 am thoughts on cheese?

a classic metaphor

3.12.26 11:47 pm there are so many intresting/cool things in the world. how will i make time for even some of them?

maybe try one at a time for now. there's so many, youre gonna run into multiple no matter what

3.12.26 10:07 pm what kinda pretty names would you maybe use to name or describe this descending sequence of notes: C A# G F E C A# G F E C THANK U

C7add4

3.12.26 9:12 pm bill my girlfriend is making my life miserable should i break up with her

yes but try not to blame either her or you individually

3.12.26 8:43 pm do you believe that green apples are unripe red apples?

not really

3.12.26 8:31 pm My idea is, a vitamin that makes you better at finding scissors when you need to snip some paper but you don't know where your scissors are.

that's gonna have side effects. you'll also be good at finding paper clips

3.12.26 8:14 pm What're your thoughts on using 'an' rather than 'a' before the letter 'h'?

the h word might be 'hour' or 'honest'

3.12.26 7:27 pm i love your more than a dream song ( and all of the other songs i just like that one more)

i think youre gonna have a new favorite at some point soon

3.12.26 6:59 pm During a week, do you follow the usual weekdays to work / week-end to rest ?

3.12.26 5:25 pm why is there no w in one but there is a w in two

i'm not totally sure

3.12.26 4:52 pm How do you deal with the miseries of romantic love?

communicate communicate communicate, and if it's truly miserable then find a way for both of you to gracefully exit the situation

3.12.26 4:40 pm what's one random skill you have that you're weirdly good at that we don't really see on your channel

prime factorization of integers mentally (integers in the millions range for example), and then more recently just sheer memorization of prime numbers, currently up to 16000. there's no reason you should believe me nor can i really prove it

3.12.26 3:33 pm what are your thoughts

i'm thinking "how should i answer this"

3.12.26 3:16 pm what's a good reason to own a bag of venom?

self defense?

3.12.26 2:30 pm why do my friends hurt my feels? 😔

to challenge your incentives to either stay with them or find new friends

3.12.26 1:57 pm what is your favorite type of question to be asked?

purple

3.12.26 1:51 pm why is the corner store model (among the other background buildings and such) in the song "at the corner store" so detailed? was it solely because of aesthetics?

was rushed, much much less detailed than it should be. i suppose the idea at the time was, if it's any less detailed it certainly wouldnt look like a store, and already runs the risk of not looking like a store due to not being detailed enough. On the other hand, fast-forward to present day, i might have a very very different mentality

3.12.26 1:41 pm thoughts on augmented chords

it's like that fold on the mid upper left side of your sportcoat. doesnt usually make too much sense out of context.. "Thoughts on that fold in the mid upper left side of your sportcoat?" hopefully you see what i'm getting at here

3.12.26 1:10 pm would you throw peanuts at wong james franklin jimmy?

no i dont believe so

3.12.26 12:59 pm Does the universe love us? Hate us? Or are we but droplets in the sea, in a universe that does not know, or does not care about are existence?

the amount of care here is 'infinite', which, to be fair, can sometimes be mistaken for 'zero' due to having some similar properties

3.12.26 12:18 pm what is the best musical riff in the world

you'll never be able to get an objective answer from someone who's under hypnosis. and any riff that's any good should be doing this to the listener. But, that being said, the best riff is the sound ATM machines make when they dispense the money

3.12.26 11:37 am I've been feeling like shit lately... No motivation, no creative drive, and absolutely hopeless. But come to think of it: I don't think I've ever felt like this before. Wouldn't it be a waste to not allow myself to go through this remarkably shitty time?

that's certainly a good point

3.12.26 8:55 am hi bill what's your favourite chord quality and why

music favors different things per moment. that's the secret mechanism which enables music to work

3.12.26 8:39 am thoughts on ants on a log?

they know what they're doing

3.12.26 8:32 am sometimes i worry that my lyrics are too literal and narrowly focused.
others such as you have an ability to start from a specific, even mundane, premise and embark on an unpredictable, magical language journey. the corner store in 'At The Corner Store' turns out to be the most exciting place on earth. the airport terminal in 'At The Airport Terminal' turns out to be a checkpoint for our souls through which we all must go. 'meet me in september' turns out to take the listener on an epic road trip odyssey through North America.
do you have advice on how to tap into this magic?

the dirty secret here of course is the music

3.12.26 8:00 am What would you call a scale that in terms of step order goes whole whole half whole half whole whole?

how about ionian flat 6 flat 7, or aeolian natural 3, or mixolydian flat 6, or depending on what crowd you hang with you might say "F melodic minor over C"

3.12.26 2:50 am what do you think is a musical sin?

music, for sure

3.12.26 2:47 am I want to drop out of college and make movies, but im afraid I'll fail. If I fail, I won't be able to dream about it anymore. You ever get scared of losing your favorite dreams?

oh sure

3.12.26 2:17 am Should I find an echo chamber of like-minded individuals, or should I keep causing tension in my community by voicing my unpopular stance regarding very trivial matters?

like a balanced breakfast, spend some time with people like you and some time with people unlike you, although i think you'll increasingly find that everyone is somewhat of both

3.11.26 11:11 pm why do people feel a great desire to be like the main character and go on a grand quest, while taking for granted the simple background character roles we have the pleasure of playing - the kinds that are still important to the story and that still result in good?

i find there is a basic need for all characters to unconditionally respect all other characters, but, putting aside that issue for a moment, which character would you prefer to be?

3.11.26 9:05 pm What would you say is the best chord progression you've made?

if there was one answer to this i would never be able to tell you

3.11.26 8:15 pm Do you have a personal like or dislike for programmed drums as opposed to played drums? I hear people like Aphex Twin and and Venetian Snares programming some really cool drums, but then I see elitists complaining about drum machines, and I'm like, shut the hell up Bryce, you paid for two drum lessons and you think you're Larnell Lewis.

this starts to sound like yesteryear's battle.... i would presume the elitists are now getting a taste of a brand new gargantuan issue to take issue with

3.11.26 7:57 pm what's something obscure that you're thankful for? i really appreciate house centipedes. they are always welcome in my home.

how about the online encyclopedia of integer sequences, which is really not all that obscure

3.11.26 7:12 pm Is there any meaning behind your songs or are they just a collection of words in a vaguely coherent order?

if you are just reading the words i dont blame you for having a useless time, but if you kick the music on and listen to the audio version of the song that is where the meaning starts to come in

3.11.26 7:07 pm 12.30.25 8:31 am Power chords are a mystery to me. I don't understand why anyone would want to remove the flavor that the 3rd gives. Doesn't the chord sound kind of empty without it?

for example: Why would you want to carry only 2 things in a bag instead of 3? arent the 3 things light enough? and the answer: not if they are heavier things. So, in terms of music, you've probably been thinking of chords approximately in the middle-C range or higher. but if you want to put chords in a lower range, you find out very quickly that if you play triads (C E G for C major) it starts to sound cruddy and incoherent in this range. so below a certain range, it sounds better with only the root and 5th. And, by the same exact phenomenon, if you go even lower, it starts to sound cruddy even with the 5th so you have to take that out too. This is why the 'bass' only plays one note. but if they ever play two notes they go up a little higher and play root and 5th. i find, as a general rule of thumb, if you find the 'lowest' point youd ever want to play a C major triad (for example), then go down one octave and that will usually correspond to the lowest a power chord would work, and if you go one octave below that you find the lowest point that single notes work.
also i should mention when guitarists kick the distortion on, for 'metal' music, they use a lot of power chords not just because they are playing those metal riffs in that mid-low range, but also because the distortion increases the clash of the 3rds, and particularly exploits the 'power' that the root and 5th has. I'd almost dare say if you play root-5th on a gentle piano in a high octave, i honestly wouldnt even think to call that a 'power chord'. power-chord i associate with that low-ish (not quite bass but too low for triads) range, and also with 'metal' music where most of the riffs are played in that range, with distortion on. i hope that answers your question

3.11.26 6:22 pm what's your favorite type of bread?

croissant seems too good to count as bread

3.11.26 6:17 pm why is music theory

it is not. music is the naughty game flying in the face of anyone's previous theories

3.11.26 4:55 pm is there any rhyme or reason to the times you answer questions

yes, i'm answering them right now

3.11.26 4:48 pm Do you think it is possible that you may have any song(s) or video(s) coming out in 2026?

yes there's going to be a lot

3.11.26 2:39 pm isn't "waiting as long as possible until you can't resist doing it" just procrastination

possibly yes

3.11.26 2:19 pm Thoughts on dinosaurs?

too big

3.11.26 2:03 pm Dear Mr. Bill,
I have a question for you. I would like to thank you for taking the time to read and consider my question. I would like to thank you for answering my question, once that occurs.
Thank you,
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you're welcome

3.11.26 1:51 pm if you had to create a new social service for the country, what would you make it? what would they do?

technology permitting, infinite healthy and tasty food provided to everyone everywhere throughout the globe. technology permitting. i realize technological capability so often falls short of our expectations doesnt it

3.11.26 1:13 pm when everything has ended, what to do next?

"do it again"

3.11.26 1:01 pm can you ask me a question

do you mind if i answer this one first

3.11.26 12:52 pm What do you think about books considered as literary classics?

wouldnt be too surprised to find out they're good

3.11.26 11:52 am Hi bill what is that chord in the first chorus of here comes the sun when you say "and it's RAGING ON!" Specifically when you sing the word "raging"

in my mind that's supposed to be what i'd call B+7, or "B augmented 7" which in that situation is best executed by B in the bass, and then A, D#, G notes in the mid range. Whether or not i actually did that exactly in the song, is another story. but certainly while i was writing it and playing through it, that's certainly what my hands would have done there

3.11.26 11:36 am favorite pasta shape?

how about cubes

3.11.26 10:04 am many of my songwriting heroes (including you <3) either claim not to or seemingly don't use any pitch correction. conversely, many of my other songwriting heroes autotune the hell out of their songs. how do i reconcile these two facts when making my own music?
if i need to comp 20 vocal takes of the same line before i'm happy with the result, am i wasting my time by not just pitch correcting a couple takes?
have you ever experimented with pitch correction out of your own curiosity? i'm not implying you should be; your voice is amazing.

there are advantages and disadvanteges to both, and since you are on the fence i wouldnt want to be responsible for choosing which way to go for you

3.11.26 10:03 am is the w in "what" at the 2 second mark in "what's 2 + 2" the same w in "9 8 7" in "where" at 2:34? Did he get a promotion for being such a good letter?

they are not the same image, not the same visual effect, not the same font, but they are the same letter. the same as the one that's used in your question also

3.11.26 8:31 am When it comes to art, do you believe it 100% boils down to doing the damn thing, or do you think you should try and learn some key things from artists you enjoy before getting your hand in doing the damn thing?

youre gonna learn from both anyway

3.11.26 7:59 am Why is the first beat the down beat and not the up beat?

usually that's when the foot goes down, it's when the conducting baton goes down, many other dance-related movements also go physically 'down' on the downbeat

3.11.26 6:58 am bill bill bill. I Did A Bad Thing is about a lady, yes?

not for me, but i dont see why you couldnt hear it that way

3.11.26 4:12 am Do you ever get fatigued from certain types of questions? Vague existential musings, Peculiar inquiries on niche or mudane subjects, and other sort of archtypes. Or has a question asked ever lead to anything substantial, and become something you've reflected on beyond the initial minute of thought given to it? Pesonally I like all kinds of questions, even if they aren't necessarily "valuable."

all of the above, but, above all, much much more

3.11.26 3:19 am I'm incredibly overwhelmed with the work I have right now, but for some reason, I can't bring myself to do it and I keep distracting myself even though the work is incredibly important. I know about the "just do it" mentality and forcing yourself to do your work, but I have a feeling there's more than one way. What would be your advice on this? :(

for what it's worth, i'm curious about the nature of the work

3.11.26 1:29 am before i go through the trouble of transcribing it myself i must ask is there for some reason an existing midi file or like sheet music passage of the very fast "arpeggio" that is mild in the background of im crazy its raining starting at 2:20 and fading out as the song comes to an end thx

ok here it is but keep in mind this is not written, nor a repeating arpeggio, it's just improvised in real time. it's just what my hand played. studying it too closely will have limited benefit, other than ascertaining the aforementioned factoids about it

3.11.26 1:07 am what's your favorite sentence?

surely one i havent heard yet

3.11.26 12:11 am I've asked you about going sailing a couple times, and you never seem to be interested in going sailing. What would help make you want to try it? I promise you, its more than splendid.

there must be things you don't like

3.10.26 10:31 pm Is it better to start something early and get obsessed with getting it right by the deadline and thus go mad or procrastinate until you're forced to do something quickly and never be satisfied with what you did but at least the deadline is over?

i think over time you realize there's not much of a choice

3.10.26 9:59 pm Why are you funny?

whatever gets the job done

3.10.26 9:58 pm here's another one of my ideas: evil lighthouse

that reminds me of a square, grey, paranoid film with some jolly dancing

3.10.26 9:54 pm Hi again Bill, I've heard that the formula for successfully learning jazz piano can be simplified largely into learning and practicing scales, complex chords such as 7ths, learning standards (obviously), learning jazz theory, and practicing regularly. Is this true?

sounds largely misguided to me. it sounds like the kind of advice you hear coming from people who dont really play. perhaps from someone who teaches instead of playing

3.10.26 9:19 pm How should one deal with being in love?

live your life

3.10.26 7:46 pm what was the first plate tectonic?

i don't recall

3.10.26 7:42 pm do you also feel the need to dance whenever you hear music anywhere? it's like my body has a mind of its own. and it wishes to dance. maybe it's not even simply music, but just a rhythm or beat of some kind, repetitive enough to catch on to that i move. perhaps it's the work of some ghost possessing me? a really, really, groovy ghost?

sure, timing is contagious

3.10.26 7:42 pm have you been to toronto yet? it's been a while since you were last asked

i feel like i have, but maybe i've just seen it in the movies

3.10.26 6:35 pm do you do mindfulness exercises?

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

3.10.26 6:20 pm you ever wish you could just be around some pretty flowers

oh sure. sometimes i can catch myself wishing it when i already am

3.10.26 5:02 pm whats your favorite island?

how about pangaea

3.10.26 4:08 pm A good way to go about going from not feeling like doing the right thing, to actually wanting to do the right thing, is by forcing yourself to do the right thing until you actually like it. Do you agree with this statement/approach? If not, how would you do it?

i think you've described one end of a whole spectrum of strategies. the opposite end of the spectrum would be waiting as long as possible until you can't resist doing it

3.10.26 3:02 pm I've noticed the deeper I fall into a passion, I become so obsessed that I keep my head down and the rare times I lift it up to see what I've been doing, it takes me out of it and briefly I forget why I even got into it in the first place. Do you have this feeling or have you had your head down for so long it doesn't occur to you?

sure, i believe i'm familiar with this

3.10.26 3:00 pm Thoughts on March?

put it this way, if September, October, and December were the "7th" "8th" and "10th" months, as they seem to say they are, then March would be the first month

3.10.26 1:40 pm Are you a trained vocalist, and should I be?

i'm probably about as trained as i could be, but, supposing this word has meaning, would it be good or bad, 'trained'?

3.10.26 1:22 pm bill i need help I've recently entered an enigmatic era of my life in which there's a whole of ocean of magic, color, music and poetry within my soul but it's reaching a point to where it's overflowing. I'm afraid to use it because I may use it too fast or in the wrong way, but if I don't use it then that magic might go away. What do I do?

just get a really simple medium that you can get comfortable with, and get comfortable with it. for some people this simple medium might be: "a pencil and lined paper". for others it may be "a pencil and blank paper". for others it may be "a simple text program on the computer". for other people it might be "voice memo recorder". i think for you right now it's important that the medium is comfortable and simple, something as comfortable as breakfast. you've already caught the hint that you probably have a professional-grade imagination on board, so let's start finding some basic clothes that fit you and start growing into this thing

3.10.26 12:20 pm i know i asked you something i just dont remember what

was it this

3.10.26 12:11 pm I'm employed now, but I also want to do creative things. I'm finding it difficult to balance the two, but also I don't want to quit the job because I'm using it to pay for said creative things. Any advice on how to handle this?

it's worth keeping in mind that sometimes when people have unlimited time on their hands they go mad

3.10.26 12:04 pm I really wish there was something I could say or do to impress you, but I doubt I have anything that would be even mildly interesting to you.

never underestimate how interesting the cold hard truth is

3.10.26 11:03 am what's a trilogy where the 2nd one was the best

some people may say "back to the future". other people might say "godfather"

3.10.26 10:11 am do you like the beatles and if you do, what is your favorite song and album?

if i liked them then i would have definitely heard more than one song. making it then completely impossible to determine a favorite

3.10.26 8:04 am Why is E major blue?

maybe because you played it in a blue way or in a blue context

3.10.26 7:34 am How do you get momentum on your projects? Sincerely, Blep.

sometimes it's worth convincing yourself that the project, realistically, should actually be very small and simple. "do-able". Sometimes the whole thing that initially inspires a person's entire project-making career, is the revelation of "do-ability". and then they proceed to forget this over and over and get stumped and have to re-remind themselves. heck there's fables about this

3.10.26 4:48 am favorite bridge in your songs? mine has to be the bridge in long long long journey.

how about "eight forty five" from airport terminal

3.10.26 4:37 am After a hiatus of about 12 years from piano, I accidentally stumbled into my local queer punk/electronic scene, and I'm performing again. If you had to give me any tiny piece of advice, what would it be?
Alternatively, what sandwich is best for when it's warm outside?

for warm weather, a cool sandwich may be appropriate. as far as your music career it looks like youve got it figured out

3.10.26 2:34 am do you think art requires an audience?

no and yes. "art with no audience is awesome" says the person who witnessed some art having no audience

3.10.26 1:57 am Would you rather have unlimited bacon but no more games, or games, unlimited games, but no games

i'll take games no games, every time

3.10.26 1:10 am can you solve a rubix cube

maybe with some practice, but i dont think i've ever done it before

3.10.26 12:06 am what's the soup of the day?

regular soup

3.9.26 11:57 pm how to win at music?

bring the listener(s) to empassioned mental/emotional places. often these winnings are enjoyed by a non-musical counterpart, to which the music is lending a secret hand

3.9.26 10:45 pm ah i see, then have you any advice on how to focus on school work?

sometimes it helps to fetch a rubber duck toy from the nearest bathtub, and explain to the duck what your homework is. Actually first the duck will say "you have homework?" then youll say yes i have homework and the duck will say (interestedly) "oh, what is it?" etc etc and you'll explain your homework to your actual friend the duck who is interested in this whole situation here

3.9.26 10:30 pm would you rather know with certainty that the universe began from absolute nothingness, or know with certainty that "something" has always existed forever?

do you think characters in a book would rather think there was nothing before the beginning of their book

3.9.26 10:28 pm What are the first three words that come to mind upon reading this?

"upon reading this"

3.9.26 10:06 pm how do you have such an unparalleled mind

how did you manage to disguise this generous compliment as a question

3.9.26 10:04 pm do you like the texture of microfibre towels

no, i think i prefer towels with huge fibres

3.9.26 9:19 pm how did you come up with the revolutionary idea of a ground plane?

someone asked me what the title of the next song would be. and the first thing that popped into my head was "ground planes", which i also wrote down. in due time it was written into a song

3.9.26 8:51 pm do you ever ask yourself questions here

no i do not

3.9.26 8:33 pm the only way i know to be creative is to make connections between things that hopefully most wouldn't make. but the thing about that is it takes too much time for me, myself, to make said connections. please tell me you get what i mean omg i dont know how to explain this any better. do i have to lower my standards or something?

maybe there's some different more interesting breakfast cereals you could try

3.9.26 7:21 pm Do you think that Einstein appreciated the simplicity/memeabilty of E=mc²? I'm sure he knew that equation would be a lot more famous, had it not been something crazy like E = [1/[1/2(mc)]³ × 4(c/3)²] / 2[3mc × 1/m] or whatever

surely the person who invented H₂O (water) had simplicity in mind as well

3.9.26 6:37 pm Can you smash your keyboard please?

not right now

3.9.26 6:28 pm yknow i think part of the problem is i put so much thought into my creative projects, that i'm always very disappointed when someone's reaction is just "oh, that's cool." and that's part of why it's so hard for me to finish anything; i'm avoiding that feeling of disappointment, because it'll feel like all of my hard work was for nothing. how might i get out of this?

that's like calling a mouse on the phone and asking if it would like a piece of cheese. it's the wrong context, and possibly even the wrong mouse. you need to bring this cheese somewhere where an actual mouse is going to need it most

3.9.26 5:49 pm the element of surprise is always a fun experience. which element is the most surprising according to you?

by definition, it would be hard to believe that there was anything more surprising than surprise. But, if there was, that would definitely be it

3.9.26 4:51 pm are you really good at blocking unpleasant things out from your memory

i dont recall

3.9.26 4:42 pm im going to be moving across the U.S. to start my career this summer. any tips for someone who has stayed in the same place their entire life and is about to uproot everything?

no need to try to predict what the experience will be like. maybe while youre waiting you could do something to reflect and summarize your life in your current location. now is the time to focus on this current location and your history there, and then later when you move, you'll find out all about the new location

3.9.26 3:37 pm What's the meaning of life?

anything you can imagine, or even some things you never even thought of

3.9.26 3:02 pm when is bedtime

could have been 3:01 pm

3.9.26 2:42 pm was there ever any doubt?

yes, there has been doubt. for example right now, i have doubt about what the doubt in your question was about. "doubt about what" i'd be wondering

3.9.26 2:33 pm How can I have motivation to improve myself?

it just comes down to whether you really crave being better

3.9.26 1:40 pm Best liquid to put in a fountain?

i think water

3.9.26 1:32 pm 2 ueqstions in one: 1. how did you get the idea for "mt. saint helens is about to blow up"? 2. how did you get the idea for lyrics "and it's gonna be a fine swell day" in this song?

i saw a picture of a mountain at a hotel in a city that was located near enough to mount st helens for me to assume almost without a doubt that this picture was a picture of mount st helens. that cemented its importance to me in that moment, and i accidentally asked myself how a song about it might go. and the first line immediately came to me, including both parts you asked about

3.9.26 1:29 pm Is the first chord to If I fell Ebm or F#6?

Eb minor for sure

3.9.26 11:21 am Can something NOT be art?

almost

3.9.26 11:08 am how to win at spelling?

fewer letters

3.9.26 9:38 am opinions on internet memes?

society's attempt to communicate

3.9.26 8:37 am How do you convince record labels to prioritize a different genre of music?

get some smash hits of your own. they will detect the heat and contact you right away, trying to first get you to do stuff for them, but if they cant get you they'll surely try to immitate your vibe anyway

3.9.26 7:47 am now it's bright enough outside at 7am to not need light bulbs. how does that make you feel

in many places it just got suddenly darker at 7am than it was just last week

3.9.26 6:19 am advice on how to focus?

first you need to know what youre focusing on. for example, i would have almost expected that to show up in your question

3.9.26 5:57 am Do you ever get bored and pretend you're playing piano chords on your computer keyboard or is that just me

normally not. i think my hands physically know that pressing two letters at the same time doesnt work

3.9.26 5:38 am can any word be art?

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

3.9.26 3:37 am how do i hyperfixate and get really really good at something like the others

often the people who do it that way have no choice, that's just how they are. and they might be wondering how to be more well balanced "like the others"

3.9.26 1:54 am how is your day right now

pretty good

3.9.26 12:44 am why are my floating gate metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors fabricated with peanut butter

are you sure you didnt peanut butter them

3.8.26 11:15 pm am i even passionate about writing if ive apparently chosen to spend my weekend sleeping in instead of writing

i dont see why not

3.8.26 11:08 pm do you consider all this question answering art?

sure but youre not supposed to realize that until you believe it. any sooner than that, it would be way too pretentious to look at it that way. maybe that's why i try to do it in such a humble font

3.8.26 6:20 pm is the medium the message?

it certainly can start out that way

3.8.26 5:12 pm i struggle to ""be myself" around most people, like the only thing i can focus on is the other people and how my actions affect them, and i more or less change my entire personality to be someone i think they would rather be around. this usually doesn't feel like being 'myself' and stressed me out. i'm not sure if you are familiar with this kind of problem, but do you have any advice

have you ever thought about what kind of person you would like to be around? what makes you want to be around a person?

3.8.26 4:55 pm Does god exist?

could you even define what that means

3.8.26 2:15 pm is there actual "food", for "thought"

sure. food usually helps you think

3.8.26 2:09 pm what's your favorite bird?

normal bird

3.8.26 8:51 am why hasn't daylight savings been abolished yet? actually i swear i read years ago that it had been. maybe that was a hallucination induced by the LACK OF SLEEP

they always talk about how it maybe should be or could be

3.8.26 8:38 am how revolutionary was the french revolution?

if i remember correctly, heads came off

3.8.26 8:21 am why is the word "pencil" just "pen" with "cil" added to it? what the hell does "cil" mean

i think the "cil" part means it's little. and the "pen" part means "brush". ultimately the pen and the pencil ended up actually being the same size, but there's nothing i can do about that

3.8.26 8:20 am why is everything so dumb and stupid?

to test your intelligence

3.8.26 4:19 am hi bill, i'm moving in 4 days to a new house with my family. i've been in this house since the third grade, i'm 21 now. it's such an incredibly odd feeling. do you have any words of wisdom for me?

sure. just expect your whole world feel a bit jumbled for a little while, but it will settle down very soon, with lots of enchanting new experiences. if you dont believe they're enchanting, try thinking back on them in 10 years from now. and if you can, try to send a secret message back in time to your current self now, reminding you to enjoy these upcoming nostalgic moments first hand. if you cant figure out how to send a message through time, just send it to me and maybe i can figure it out somehow

3.8.26 3:04 am thoughts on wheels?

πowerful, πractical,

3.8.26 3:00 am "Fly Around" was released on March 8th. My sister's birthday is also March 8th.
What could this mean?

it means March 9th is the day after

3.8.26 1:59 am I'm trying to get into music production. What's your best advice on mixing (in the sense of audio) music?

the only mixing detail you should start with is whether or not your whole song is on mute. try both ways, try listening to the song and then try listening to it with the whole song on mute. which way do you like better

3.7.26 9:03 pm something strange happened today. i got yelled at and insulted, and when i was in the comfort of my home i started to hate on people that had nothing to do with that interaction. not to them, just in my head. not sure why

this can happen when your mind gets slightly unglued, as a result of this kind of verbal barrage you experienced

3.7.26 8:48 pm Do you play video games ?

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

3.7.26 7:14 pm What is your favorite key, if you have one? Mine is d flat, but d half sharp is also growing on me (major of course)

your story is simply not believable

3.7.26 6:29 pm If I gave you a set of bagpipes, could you play them? Furthermore, what if I gave you them in five years' time?

i have no experience with bagpipes. spending 5 more years without bagpipes would also not give me any additional experience

3.7.26 5:28 pm Have you ever danced to your own music?

it's pretty much impossible to play music (using instruments or voice) without dancing to it. Playing the instrument is actually the most accurate 'dance' you could possibly do to music

3.7.26 4:36 pm is there a way you could make a "chords" website simillar to the lyrics one? your songs are often pretty dense harmonically and it takes a lot of time to figure them out, not thats its not fun but sometimes it would be convinient to know the chords

it's tempting to do that, but it's a slippery slope with moments that just arent very well chordally transcribable

3.7.26 2:31 pm In terms of mathematical objects, are you a Platonist or think they are useful fictions? Or is mathematics just an extension if logic?

mathematics usually describes something more inherent and more eternal than any individual physical world. at least it tries to

3.7.26 2:20 pm How do you manage to strike a balance between being modest enough so you don't seem narcissistic, and being confident enough so you don't seem insecure or self-loathing?

i normally dont say this, but this may be a situation where you might be able to 'study the greats'

3.7.26 1:13 pm i don't really have anything to ask i just want to say i hope the project is going well! actually i do have something to ask now, would you ever do this video-stack thing again?

certainly not

3.7.26 10:05 am I AM SO WEIRD CREEPY AND A LOSER AND IDK SHOULD I JUST MAKE A BUTTLOAD OF ART. HI

a fine strategy for this type of situation. been proven effective many times over by some of the best in the biz

3.7.26 7:22 am this question is not actually a question, and is instead a statement.

i'm following with your logic quite smoothly i must say

3.7.26 6:38 am What's your favourite genre of science? Do you even like science?

hasnt anything ever been studied that wasnt easily classifyable into one type of science, or, even broader, wasnt even classifyable into just science or just not science? these are the kinds of unique things that i might enjoy

3.7.26 4:50 am whats your favorite piece of bread?

4th one into the loaf

3.7.26 2:44 am i am in a predicament. i work best on projects when i work on them with other people, but i also don't want to share the credit or idea-ownership with anyone

you can alternate. do a group project and share the credit, then do your own project and take all the credit

3.7.26 12:33 am how can i pavlov dog myself into working better?

you'll need some dog treats, but i dont know which kind of dog treats you like

3.6.26 11:42 pm can you type with boxing gloves

yes, on a big enough keyboard

3.6.26 10:30 pm I know art doesn't have to have "hidden meanings" in order to be "real". I'm happy just making what comes to me and letting it grow into what it wants to be. But when people tell me what my favorite song/show/art "really means" how do I not feel like my own stuff is dumb in comparison? For reference these are people I am close to whose opinions I do care about.

the obvious answer to "what does a piece of art *mean*" is: if you could describe it without using art then you would have done so

3.6.26 9:54 pm Bill how do you make friends as an adult? I moved to London 4 years ago and still haven't made new friends. Last year I decided to go back to school to ~get a degree~ and I thought I finally made new friends from the program, but then they turned out to not really be, cause they essentially stopped talking to me or inviting me to anything since the program ended. I'm back to square one and I'm exhausted trying and failing

two of the best ways to make friends are to either start a business or join a business. you'll be doing stuff together with people. it's almost impossible not to make friends when youre doing stuff together with people

3.6.26 8:13 pm Whats your opinion on the word "tusks".

early ASMR videos were just people saying 'tusks'

3.6.26 8:02 pm I don't know who I am Can you tell me who I am

not exactly

3.6.26 6:41 pm Is there anything you could confidently do with your eyes shut?

sure. i can type on a qwerty keyboard, i can play a musical keyboard mostly as long as there's no big range jumps, even then i'd still get by just fine, drums i could play with full confidence, i could put on some shoes, take off some shoes, etc

3.6.26 5:46 pm I've got two questions for the price of one (but I marked it up 200% right before asking, art of the deal baby)
1. When you write chord progressions, do you think of them as overlapping individual melodies that should stay cohesive, or do you just hear each chord as it's own thing?

"when you write a sentence, do you think of it like overlapping individual words that should stay cohesive, or do you just hear each word as its own thing?" the reason i ask you this is because you must be familiar with sentnces, both written and spoken. so you must have some experience in this. and i promise you the answer for music is qualitatively the same

Like in a C Amin G F progression, you can think of t first E as starting a melody that goes e-c-b-a, or the first G note going g-e-d-c. Do you hear these individual melodies and try to keep them coherent, or do you just feel the texture of the chord?

i know ive beaten this analogy like a dead horse, but i'm dreadfully serious with it. "do you hear individual letters in a word and try to keep them coherent, or do you just feel the texture of the letter" hopefully by now youre thinking something like "i have no idea how the words come to me, i just speak. and im usually thinking about what im saying, not about the words and certainly much less the letters"

2. Can a melody or chord progression function the same way in any key? I don't have perfect pitch, so I tend to just hear the intervals between notes, and a fifth feels the same to me whether it's A and E or G and D.

yes, this is good. this is normal. this means you are hearing music like music. some children become cursed when they learn to memorize all the notes cold. then they're stuck hearing music non-musically. they dont even hear chords and melodies, they just hear individual notes, and they often cant even hear multiple ones at a time. where as with 'musical' hearing such as you have, you'll be able to instantly recognize pretty much anything a reasonable song can throw at you, in most circumstances

The context around the intervals tends to be what makes them sound a certain way. I tend to choose a key based on where my voicings are at to avoid things sounding muddy, but if I shift my entire song one semitone down it doesn't usually make a difference to me (unless I listened to it one semitone up first and it's fresh in my mind).

it sounds like youve got the hang of this. the bad news is now youre cursed with knowing how much of a weird and misunderstood question "do you have perfect pitch" is

3.6.26 5:46 pm this is a question

are you sure

3.6.26 5:40 pm on a scale of 1 to 7 how likely are you to share more music?

100%

3.6.26 2:57 pm I tend to overthink and overanalyze things (particularly social interactions) a lot. Is there any benefit to this or should I try to stop? How do I even stop? Can you relate at all to this???

in moderation. it's important to remember that there is never any exact analysis, only vague analysis, which is still sketchy at best. and, more importantly, it can easily exhaust your mind and emotions. just think of every interaction as a perfect opportunity for everyone to learn something, in one way or another. in fact, a different way each time

3.6.26 2:55 pm What are your thoughts on the Times New Roman font?

it has that 'sparkle'

3.6.26 1:22 pm thoughts on gnomes?

classic

3.6.26 1:19 pm how do i get craaaaazier?

instead of watching paint dry, how about listening to paint dry

3.6.26 12:35 pm What is the scariest movie you ever watched?

if i was really that scared then i'd be too scared to mention it. i would have blocked it out of my memory

3.6.26 11:46 am Bill Wurtz, are you aware that you're awesomesauce?

maybe one day i will be

3.6.26 11:37 am double or triple glazed windows

do i dare ask what the conssequences are of a single glaze

3.6.26 11:32 am Do you think you notice background music more than the average person?

of course, but that doesnt make it any more effective on me than on them. the magic of music is that the effects can be extremely strong on anyone, but usually not everyone may realize what's causing it. they may think 'WOW, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND INTRIGUING CHAIR I AM SEEING', meanwhile the chair is being lit by very special lighting shining on it, and there is music playing in such a way that greatly greatly enhances their perception of the chair. it's common for people to think it's just that good of a chair, without knowing some of the secret ingredients (lights, music, context, etc) that are affecting how it feels

3.6.26 11:19 am what's your opinion on w e d n e s d a y

not as long as it seems

3.6.26 10:35 am do you plan on hiring people?

sure, but not to do any of my work. to do the other things besides that, so i can just do my work

3.6.26 9:42 am How to do the quadratic formula?

i usually prefer to 'complete the square'. until i've done it a few thousand times in a row, and then it just sort of naturally morphs into the quadratic formula. But if it's been a while since i've solved quadratics, then i might have to go back to completing the square again, if the cold forumula starts to feel too far removed

3.6.26 7:58 am Does being average make you a mean person?

no i dont believe so

3.6.26 6:18 am Believing is the easy bit. I believe I'll make it out of this, I believe it'll end eventually, but what I can't see is how. Wha do I do to make it better? All anyone can offer is "itll get better", and I already know that. HOW will it get better? What do I do to make it better now?

how will what get better. how could i know how it will get better if i dont know what it even is

3.6.26 5:50 am Have you ever tried doing nothing at all? I seem to be really good at it.

easier said than done

3.6.26 3:31 am how do I not be irrationally intimidated by the smallest things when I just observe other people and subconsciously compare myself with them?

is there something fun that could distract you from this

3.6.26 12:40 am Do you consider yourself smart

yes, and dumb

3.5.26 10:58 pm bill when you were in school, what did you do after school that wasnt just endless doom scrolling

probably a lot of music. music experimentation, writing and recording, etc, maybe play some nintendo

3.5.26 10:34 pm what some formats I can use to answer text-based questions? eg. essays or writing

you can answer a text based question with text, you could answer it with audio, you could answer it with a picture, you could answer with a singing telegram,

3.5.26 9:42 pm Why is it that, without ever even meaning to, I always end up hurting only the people who matter the most to me and who I would never want to go through that kind of pain and suffering? Why can't I hurt someone who deserves it for once?

would like to see some stats also on how many people youve helped, and embrightened. sorry just learning english

3.5.26 8:59 pm got any insider knowledge ure willing to share

sure, and youve come to the exact place where i most often do that

3.5.26 8:39 pm I feel like im at a breaking point where I desperately need to make music but I`ve been chasing this goal for so long it stil feels as unattainable as ever. How do I convince myself that I`m out of testing now and this is the real deal

as soon as it feels like the End of the World if you dont, it becomes very easy

3.5.26 7:32 pm how do i let someone (who i used to fight with about 2 years ago) know that i don't hate them and in fact i would sort of a little bit like to talk to them

how about sending them a mixtape

3.5.26 6:58 pm Why do you hate yourself Bill.

sometimes that's just to over compensate for how much i like myself

3.5.26 6:58 pm Have you ever called anyone bro?

only if their full name is "man dude bro", which happens surprisingly often

3.5.26 5:19 pm do you think art is political?

that's not the only thing it may or may not be

3.5.26 4:47 pm do you prefer white light or that weird cream yellow light. or bright red to emphasize the of life

for professional reasons i find it important to keep a neutral palette offscreen so that i can have balanced judgement on what i'm working with on-screen

3.5.26 3:57 pm how often do you say words for the first time

maybe a few times a year

3.5.26 2:11 pm you make me wonder why i ever considered and attempted not being myself because of other people. you just make it seem so logical without an unnecessarily long explanation

the twist that might surprise some people is, when youre not yourself you dont actually get to see what your not self sees. so you dont even get the benefit of having access to all the places your not-self may have gained access to. it would be like sending someone else into a party for you

3.5.26 1:45 pm If you had a pet frog, what would you name it?

"the pet frog i hypothetically have"

3.5.26 11:35 am What's the weather like?

it changes

3.5.26 11:05 am How could one go about going down one-way stairs? (The stairs only go upstairs)

you could start out by looking at them differently

3.5.26 10:15 am What is best

i dare you to change your mind

3.5.26 10:11 am i just made a song that makes me cry. i am actually crying while writing this. hi

now we're getting somewhere

3.5.26 9:24 am Hey bill, how do I get myself to drink water regularly? Sometimes I'll feel awful, tired and weak and almost sick all day, before finally realizing that I haven't had a single glass of water. What's wrong with me that I can't remember to meet a basic human need, and how do I change that?

find a way to do it that's easier and/or more enjoyable

3.5.26 9:20 am If you could add a sense to our suite of senses (like sight and balance etc) that we don't already have, what would you want to add?

oh what the heck, telepathy. we'd get used to it

3.5.26 9:03 am math is fun

you are fun

3.5.26 6:41 am how do i gain more patience and be less not patient, i will patiently wait for your reply

the key here is to increase the degree to which you are not impatient. and the way to accomplish that is of course by decreasing your tendency to refrain from not being impatient

3.5.26 5:10 am i feel like theres nothing to do, everything either feels impossible, boring, or i simply cant do it due to certain limitations, what should i do about it

i'm not sure if you realize that in plain sight you actually just told me that everything feels either possible or interesting

3.5.26 3:48 am how did you manage to retain the spark of life? your answers are very lively. many people i meet nowadays aren't.

you're almost making it sound like it was the right decision for me to become an artist and communicator

3.5.26 2:23 am what if a big biscuit fell on ur head and then gravy afterward

i would have to write in my journal, 'today a big biscuit fell on my head and then gravy afterward'

3.5.26 1:41 am What's the whole thing with sliced bread about, why did we pick that of all things for the idiom

assuming you mean "best thing since sliced bread". what you need for this expression is something that sounds cool to say, sounds like a cool idea, also something that's been around for a while and everyone has heard of it. 'sliced bread' fits this. other things you could swap in: 'striped toothpaste', .... 'reversible sweaters' .... 'buttered popcorn' .... 'color tv' .... 'velcro' .... 'the refrigerator magnet' .... 'the rubiks cube' .... 'the sewing machine' .... 'the spiral staircase' .... 'tetris' ... and so on

3.5.26 1:09 am How do you begin a creative project?

either an idea comes to you and you decide to do a project on it, or, you wanna do a project so you try to coax up an idea for it

3.5.26 12:49 am are you proud of the amount of work you got done today? it's okay if not, maybe you can be proud tomorrow. anyway i cant wait to see those videos youve been working on

it might take a lifetime to accept, but, what seems increasingly clear is, always: bad sessions seem to inevitably occur almost 50% of the time, unavoidably

3.5.26 12:35 am Help, I may be stupid

i suspect it's completely impossible to define what exactly means stupid

3.5.26 12:26 am do you like key changes or do you choose to avoid them and keep it simple

so as not to spoil the surprise, i probably shouldnt answer this until youve heard my music

3.5.26 12:20 am Last year I made some great friends, but now it seems like they aren't friends with each other anymore. Obviously I could make new friends to replace them, but should I even bother?

sure, you could bother

3.5.26 12:03 am Why should anybody do anything?

see what happens

3.4.26 10:56 pm What's your opinion on French fries?

they might be Belgian

3.4.26 10:09 pm I'm writing up a concept for a video game and its surrounding world/story/etc from my head onto a big text document. Do you think describing its music in terms of a genre + country + decade (i.e. "90s Japanese soul" or "2000s sambass") is a good thing to do, or should I focus on describing the particular sounds/instruments/feelings when I imagine the game's songs instead? The game's world won't contain our countries, decades or any human history or humans at all, so I don't want to describe it in a way that makes any eventual musicians overly worry about anachronisms and real-world counterparts. Or is describing music in text the wrong way to go overall?
Also, are you aware of any goth-subculture music with flutes and/or very prominent bass? One of my planned characters would probably play this music/these instruments as a hobby, and I'm not sure if it exists yet

do anything you can to describe something. ideally the only way to describe something is by showing them the actual thing. but it sounds like you are looking to collaborate, so you'll need to communicate with them about what you think youre going for. grab onto anything you can. when collaborative professionals communicate to each other about what they're thinking about for their movie, on their song, whatever they're working on, they're surely constantly referencing things that already exist, while also making it clear that none of these could be a perfect description because youre attempting something to describe something that doesnt exist yet. so it's usually a combination of multiple different references. like this element from this movie, combined with that element from that book, etc etc. or like "what if this character from this movie was in this other situation instead". or "its like this but without the that" etc etc. these are the kind of conversations that you'll hear among professional creative collaborators, almost ubiquitously, across the board

3.4.26 9:55 pm i have a million ideas in my head that look really good when i think of them and i'm just waiting for my head to burst, how do i speed up this process and make it more unbearable to keep thinking about it instead of doing it?

seems like it happens naturally

3.4.26 9:55 pm thoughts on gambling?

you never know, you just might lose

3.4.26 9:14 pm if you could make one small, weird change to everyday life (like reversing the direction of doors), what would it be?

how about food is free

3.4.26 8:37 pm how to get a job, be employed, etc

if all else fails you could employ yourself

3.4.26 8:00 pm i did that thing where you lock yourself down to finishing one video until its done because you cant stand it being unfinished anymore. but all that happened is that i didnt work on it and it was killing me to have it unfinished. then i picked up something else and had fun with it, but then lost all creativity for a second installment of that thing. now i want to do the original thing. brains are weird and ideas are weird.

i agree

3.4.26 6:19 pm how do you get the motivation to do long important things that don't have deadlines

as long as it's firmly established that you can't do the next thing until youve done this thing, then any desire to do any future thing will motivate you, in a throughward fashion

3.4.26 5:37 pm is anyone unique in this sea of billions of people

yes, everyone is unique. "does that mean we are all the same" no it means we are all different from each other. with also many similarities here and there, luckily, so we can understand each other sometimes somewhat

3.4.26 5:21 pm What's your opinion on your opinion

no reason it can't be wrong, no reason it can't be right

3.4.26 5:18 pm opinion on pineapple pizza?

sounds fictional. like 'batman'

3.4.26 3:38 pm An evil man fractures your soul. How do you put it back together?

how did they fracture it

3.4.26 2:40 pm I keep living with the feeling that it's too late. I haven't done what I wanted to do and if I start now I can't do what I wanted to do the way I wanted to do it. How do I get rid of this feeling and just do it?

what you wanna do here is do the thing in a new way that you never would have thought of if you hadnt missed out on doing it the first way

3.4.26 1:04 pm How to get out of bed

maybe if you could just push the bed away from you

3.4.26 10:26 am what do I do when my friend smashes a hole in my wall

tell the story for years to come

3.4.26 8:59 am Do you ever hide secret messages or Easter eggs in your videos or songs for people to discover?

ideally there should be enough discoveries in there to keep you intrigued forever. that to me is just a standard common sense low bar to rise above. Whether that's possible is another story

3.4.26 6:43 am hi bill, why is my body not doing what it is supposed to? why am i not fulfilling my responsibilities? why am i not striving for a better future down a bright path? can you tell me that i am a horrible lazy person, that i am an incompetent fool, that i am not capable of self discipline?

the problem i have with the word 'lazy' is, it means you dont wanna do _________. but without knowing the target action, it's a deceptively empty accusation

3.4.26 6:31 am Why do you think our brains enjoy the harmonic intervals that we do? A perfect fifth sounds so nice it's almost nothing, but a 2nd interval sounds discordant and tense. It seems like our brains enjoy frequencies that nest inside each other neatly. Do you think it's some fundamental mathematical principle of our universe that any neural network that forms out of the matter inside it will gravitate towards neatly nesting frequency combos like fifths and octaves, while sensing other closer intervals as more chaotic sounding? Or do you think to some other species, a 2nd or 9th could sound perfectly resolved while a fifth sounds discordant? I ate the weed oil out of my weed pen and now I think I'm stuck on one of those "do we all see colors differently" types of unanswerable questions. I'd love to read your thoughts though.

here's what seems to be happening: in abscence of any tangible definition of what's good or not good or what anything exactly means, it becomes an irresistible miracle when someone still manages to communicate nonetheless. Like a pile of paperclips. there is no definition for the rules of communicating with paperclips, but then you watch an artist come along and boom they communicate something to you with paperclips. like 'how did they do that', and it may feel like a total miracle, which it is, but in the broader picture it's not surprising that this works. it's just impossible to explain

3.4.26 6:28 am How do you overcome addiction? If I stop smoking, won't I get addicted to not smoking?

if you look at it that way, then you could assume that some addictions are good for you. such as .... drinking water, etc

3.4.26 5:27 am where am i gonna go

how about down the street

3.4.26 3:04 am could life be a dream?

it has similar characteristics, but the main difference is that real life tends to have outstanding object permanence

3.4.26 2:50 am how important is politics? how do i tell someone i dont like politics without being lectured?

you could always give a pre-emptive lecture to them

3.4.26 1:30 am what is the best shape? I personally dislike circles.

somehow i dont believe you

3.4.26 12:21 am is desire inherently bad?

3.3.26 11:31 pm when you get a question you want to answer and you see the question has spelling or grammar issues.do you correct them before putting it on the website?

absolutely not, that would be possibly more offensive now than at any other time in history

3.3.26 10:13 pm does it work out in the end

when would that be

3.3.26 9:27 pm BILL I AM MAKING A LIST I'VE GUARANTEED I'LL CHECK EVERY DAY AND YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT HOW GOOD IT FEELS

it doesnt work for everyone but it works for some people

3.3.26 9:06 pm what do i do if i am fed up with the style of my life and I want the past back again

you can change the style but you cant do it in the past. if you did in the past it would probably just come out the same anyway

3.3.26 8:58 pm Is there a way I can prove I'm not the bad person my actions have made myself out to be?

there almost certainly is

3.3.26 8:54 pm How much money should I be willing to spend on self-improvement?

maybe a dollar or so. most self improvement is free, spending the dollar would be just for good luck, or superstition, if desired

3.3.26 8:47 pm currently feeling overwhelmed by the power of art, how might i go about channeling this into my own art?;;;;;;

no one knows exactly

3.3.26 8:42 pm How do I be in a relationship?

no one knows exactly

3.3.26 8:13 pm What is déjà vu?

at the very least, it's gotta be something you 'already saw'

3.3.26 7:17 pm What's your opinion on pizza

the only thing to ever be simultaneously the next big thing and the previous big thing

3.3.26 6:46 pm Have you ever felt angry in a dream? I haven't.

certainly more often in dreams than in real life

3.3.26 6:23 pm what do you think of this chord C G E A B E G#

i think almost nothing of a chord out of context. but, in most contexts, the cold hard truth is that's probably too many notes for a chord

3.3.26 6:01 pm Would you consider yourself cryptic in your responses to these questions?

just trying to express my thoughts and feelings in response to what i've been asked. there must be a million different ways to attempt this

3.3.26 4:58 pm is there something special about folk music to you

there's something special about any kind of music, not the least of which is the fact that you can never exactly prove which kind is supposed to be which

3.3.26 4:33 pm can you predict what will you do 243.5139071 seconds after answering that ueqstion?

not exactly

3.3.26 2:26 pm what do you think about astrology? do you believe in it or find it useful for those neat little coincidences and "why is that literally me though" moments?

probably more misunderstood than a 100 pound stack of feathers

3.3.26 2:05 pm I just learned about recursive acronyms. Have you ever created one, and if so, what is it? And if not, would you please?

TIARA is a recursive acronym

3.3.26 1:46 pm i have a beginning of a verse that sounds kind of wonky but the second half is very good wha t do i dooooooo

it almost seems like that kind of thing should be on display in a museum. the miracle of life, rising from the garbage

3.3.26 12:28 pm Why is first person the easiest perspective to sing to put the listener into those shoes and walk that mile, instead of second person?

maybe you ideally see yourself as the singer

3.3.26 10:56 am i love the first four bars of Here Comes the Sun. each one has a completely different instrumental backing that feels like we're uncovering brand new ground like "alright that was the warm up now we're in the REAL song" but then it just keeps happening. and just damn, i feel like you found a really strong baseline to carry you throughout this whole song and then supplemented it with continuously sidestepping vibes, making it constantly entertaining both in the moment and also as a whole. every second the song changes and every single time it feels like we're in a brand new place. ik you are a fan of sidestepping so i hope this is good news for you

some people may see it as an insecure tick, of shifting nervously

3.3.26 10:02 am Who invented chairs?

i dunno but it's too late to uninvent them now

3.3.26 8:58 am were you doing the 67 thing in "sometimes i whatever"

no, i was doing 'whatever'

3.3.26 4:33 am what can i do when i want someone to know me but not seem like im intentionally interacting with them

you'll need to distract yourself from this manipulative mindset. if you are aware that you are misleading someone, you'll never be able to perform well enough to do it, you'll have too much of a guilty conscience. on second thought, maybe it's better to just walk away and come back when you're feeling more genuine

3.3.26 4:25 am Will everything work out in the end?

when would that be

3.3.26 3:11 am surely at some point all this faking ive been doing will finally result in me making it, right?

it's possible that if youre still openly calling it 'faking' then your faking isnt convincing enough

3.3.26 1:30 am what do i do if i have lots of ideas but i either don't think they're good enough or don't think they're achievable

i'm not sure if you realize that in plain sight you actually just told me that 100% of your ideas are either good or achievable

3.3.26 1:13 am ¿Tu hablas Español?

no. i believe i might be able to say 'yo creo'. also, i can say 'tambien'

3.3.26 12:35 am What is the oldest example of someone saying "things used to be so much better"?

how about the 2-celled organism saying 'back in my day, we had to do everything with one cell. with more of a challenge, it ignited our creativity so much more. having 2-cells ruins the game. it's like cheating'

3.2.26 11:59 pm I have thoughts on the sunk cost fallacy. What are yours

i was gonna learn what that means but it's probably too late

3.2.26 11:57 pm what will happen to me if the world explodes and the sun falls in on itself and my pet rock gets shattered into a million unique and equally cherished pet rocks??? will I have to nurture all of them to adulthood when they have their own grass to sit on and river to spy on?????? how do I bear this tremendous responsibility please oh please I can't deal with the stress!!! there's only real estate for 5.8 (floating point) rivers and 3 (unsigned integer) grass and I just don't know how to divvy it up. should I do hunger games or squid games?

keep writing, for sure

3.2.26 11:38 pm if a tadpole never turns into a frog and remains the same until its death, is it a failure?

no. it's an experiment, for sure

3.2.26 10:58 pm ever think about how like, throughout all of human history, art has continuously pushed the boundaries of acceptability and sensibility? like, the trend has been for the artist to have less limitations (generally speaking). do you think that there will be an end to this? if so, where will it end, if not then why?

i dont think i agree with your hypothesis of a one-way trend. i've seen it go both ways for sure. i've seen things that werent accepted become accepted, and i've seen things that were accepted become unaccepted. to see it as a one way trend i think would be to miss part of the picture

3.2.26 9:49 pm Most of my waking thoughts are consumed by sex and it's getting in the way of my creative projects. What do I do?

have you considered doing a creative sex project. just trying to think resourcefully here

3.2.26 8:18 pm Why should art exist?

wouldnt that only make it better, to know that it shouldnt

3.2.26 7:15 pm is "out to lunch" a pun

it certainly sounds like one

3.2.26 6:04 pm Who is the best video game protagonist? How about the best video game antagonist?

you and other players

3.2.26 4:22 pm Do you think we aren't the only mentally complex life forms?

i think it would be a bit short sighted to say we are the only mentally complex life form. i mean, .... would you like to try drawing a rabbit brain

3.2.26 3:07 pm Why do you think you get so many pizza-related questions (such as this one)?

pizza is considered a universal language

3.2.26 2:15 pm if you converted the entire questions page into a book how many pages do you think it would be

that all depends on the size of the font

and what would you do if you had a copy of it

immediately become disappointed that it is incomplete and doesnt include any of the questions starting from just moments after it was printed

3.2.26 11:58 am i think i've made a mistake but im not sure if it's actually a mistake and i can't ask anyone if it's a mistake (due to circumstances) and if i 'fix' my mistake that could also be catastrophic bc in order to fix the mistake i need to do something very drastic and im not even sure if it's a mistake so the drastic thing i would need to do to 'fix' it could have drastic and undesirable outcomes

as they say in the screenwriting business, "write it up!"

3.2.26 11:57 am shall we amount to something?

i almost didnt even think of that

3.2.26 11:51 am Have you ever hit a gong? Do you want to hit a gong? How long have you gone without hitting a gong for a song?

i have hit a gong, they are very slow. what happens when you hit a gong, you think 'wow, that thing is slow, seems like yesterday i hit this thing, and only just now hear it'

3.2.26 11:40 am Do you believe in god?

even though everybody asks each other this, i believe it is a trick question.
sidenote, has a bizarre resemblence to another question, 'do you like comedy'

3.2.26 10:16 am why am i unable to think of a normal ueqstion that i geniuenly want answer to? (i'm still gonna ask non-normal ueqstions, regardless of the answer)

this reminds me of the standard dilema of songwriting. you will think of it when you are not sitting in front of the box

3.2.26 8:03 am If the easy bake oven exists, is there a hard bake oven?

the normal oven, is indeed considered difficult compared to the easy oven, most oven users would agree

3.2.26 5:23 am how serious should we take things?

there's infinite things, so you're gonna need a mix of all different levels of seriousness, just to get around

3.2.26 5:19 am how to come up with lines that i cant understand

if it's honestly easier to come up with things you can understand, then you can start doing that and it will probably switch at some point

3.2.26 3:50 am how do you forgive yourself after making a very stupid decision

live your life

3.2.26 1:54 am what is your opinion on tractors?

sometimes i think they dont have them in the city. then i remember, oh yes they do

3.2.26 1:44 am way too passive about life im just sad all the time and i beat myself up like its somehow more fair this way

maybe part of the problem is that people are not as visible when they are passive. so, by comparison, it may seem like everyone is a lot more active than you, but that may be because you dont see so much of their passiveness. just as they perhaps dont see yours. you may be actually more active than the average person. especially if you occasionally do a thing

3.2.26 1:37 am can instrumental become the lyrics once you run out of things to say with language?

sure. in fact, a standard and powerful maneuver, across all kinds of music, is this: sing some words, play a riff. sing some words, play a riff. Or the other way around, play a riff, sing some words. etc. The words will explain what the riff is about, and the riff will demonstrate how to feel about what the words said

3.2.26 12:32 am How do you write lyrics or dialogue good without sounding pretentious? I feel like an obvious answer might be "well that's what you think. who cares what people think." ME! I care what people think! If I put a thing out into the world and everyone thinks it's kinda cringe and pretentious then I will feel bad! Do you also feel these things? I guess it really depends on what you actually want, I guess. If you wanna sell your art as a product then different things matter than if you want to just get validation for it or if you just want to create something for your own sake. Sigh. I dunno if I'm answering all my own questions here I don't know. what do you think

suppose you deeply care what other people will think, and there's no reason why you wouldn't, in fact the only recipe you have for judging that is what you yourself think, and feel. in fact, most (all) of the most cringe content is a direct result of this guessing game, everyone guessing what someone else is going to like. but getting back to the first thing you asked, i never found out if you do or dont think your own work is pretentious. your question seems to stop just shy of revealing this important detail for me

3.1.26 11:22 pm Do you dance while listening to your music?

i carry myself professionally when listening to music

3.1.26 10:18 pm what's your favorite color

hm, how about clusterfuck

3.1.26 10:09 pm i feel very insecure about my friendships/friends. i don't trust them with my heart, but the reason why is my own, and not their fault. how to fix

it's ok. you will learn interesting things from this, and then you can share it with other people who have learned things from being... also that way, or a different way

3.1.26 10:04 pm i'm ashamed of who i used to be and who i am now. what can i do

try a 3rd way to be?

3.1.26 9:18 pm can you ever know too much?

sometimes

3.1.26 8:36 pm do you think there are any key differences between the songs you've written recently and the ones you wrote like 15 years ago aside from their different dates

they're all different

3.1.26 7:50 pm Does a time come when someone just runs out of things to ask about?

it only seems to happen when the ask box is in front of them

3.1.26 7:31 pm do you like stairs?

i adore stairs

3.1.26 4:57 pm have you ever considered considering

almost

3.1.26 2:50 pm best drugs to watch your videos on?

regular

3.1.26 12:19 pm do you think sea lions get tired of being mistaken for seals?

i dont think they are aware

3.1.26 12:10 pm Is bread the rawest cooked food?

maybe the cookedest raw food

3.1.26 7:25 am do you associate any words with colors? Like mind with blue, or emotion with red, or will with orange, or smth.

i associate the word 'red' with the color red, also 'tomato'..... and 'Arbys'

3.1.26 5:23 am what is the most neutral thing?

the 'thing'

3.1.26 3:35 am Can you get good at luck?

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

3.1.26 1:59 am where do you think the value of art lies? we live in an age where people attempt to devalue/replace creative arts and artist with techonology. do you believe a 'human soul' is necessary for art? i often think we are treating human and computer generation with different aesthetical standards, that we aren't judging objective enough. is the worst of human creation always better than the best of machinery? or will you say that there is no objective way to determine the value of art?

there is no way to define this, and as the game changes, and the tools change, and the whole context changes, the magic trick is always this: just when you thought the whole game was broken, someone comes along and somehow plays it

2.28.26 11:55 pm are you religious?

other / prefer not to say

2.28.26 11:45 pm Do you have a favorite poptart flavor

how about 'fresh cut grass'

2.28.26 10:30 pm i'm too stupid to live and too smart to die

.... 'and just clever enough to write'

2.28.26 8:34 pm opinion on vitamins gummies?

sounds like a halloween costume

2.28.26 6:44 pm are you a vegan

other / prefer not to say

2.28.26 6:43 pm ????(_#;&$<$^#<&$<-<÷:^#<'
is that a good question? i was feeling very restless and confused

yes, it's very good

2.28.26 6:24 pm I often think back to some of the jingles you've made, like "raindrops are poisonous" or "what if Spain was in Greece", thinking they're catchy. I know you've said before that you rarely look back at your old creations and you'd prefer to make better things.
But also, sometimes my friends will bring up old art pieces I've made, and I feel a sense of embarrassment. I don't know why my old creations appeal to them, and I'm 100% certain that the new things I make are better.
Is there any correlation between these two scenarios?

of course. imagine if you showed a Toaster all the pieces of past toast it has made. "Toaster, dont you want to reminisce about past toast?". toaster says, "no i wanna make more toast"

2.28.26 5:20 pm Does any form of art have an inherent higher value than another? Does a movie mean more than a poem by its scale and grandeur? A song vs a painting? If so, is there a Highest form? A pinnacle of artistic integrity that every other kind fails to match? I write frequently, but my works will never be as appreciated as a film. Is this by design?

it's basically an illusion, but, the prestige that i think you are noticing is something that comes with time. you'll notice that these prestige formats are always the older ones, which were also looked downupon once upon a time. in fact, just yesterday i was listening to a film director from yesteryear talking about how films back then were not very well respected as art, until television came along, and then the filmmakers were very excited because now they have 'something to look down on'. this cat and mouse chase continues on through the ages, and it can be quite amusing to follow

2.28.26 3:49 pm most misunderstood word?

to say that i know what word is least understood would implicate that i understand it, which would also suggest that i know how well every.... nevermind, it's definitely "nonplussed"

2.28.26 3:36 pm how long did it take you to make the corner store model

about 2 days

2.28.26 3:06 pm were there any creative projects you gad an idea for but put off trying to do because you didn't feel "ready" for them yet? if so, how did you try to move past this?

sometimes you put them off and do lower stakes things for a while. then eventually you get tired of waiting and you do the thing. i have plenty of things like that that i perhaps waited too long for, other things i didnt wait long enough for

2.28.26 2:51 pm is there a best thing and why is it pizza

it's a common reference point. it's something anyone can understand. if you need to explain something, just say it in terms of pizza

2.28.26 2:50 pm I feel this applies to both art and personal character, but how do you deal with people taking something you've done or did with noble intentions and interprets it as something decidedly not noble and then uses that against you?

this is the origin of an entire industry: 'public relations'

2.28.26 2:09 pm thoughts on greek letters in terms of potential artistic use?

seems useful

2.28.26 12:59 pm What is the best toppings for pizza

maybe a HAT

2.28.26 12:45 pm Are you going to add more things to this website

yes

2.28.26 12:28 pm How are you doing?

pretty good

2.28.26 11:45 am what if there was a tempo marking called multiplado and one called divido and multiplado multiplied the current tempo by 2 and divido divided it by 2

it would be called 'doppio movimento' or 'doppio più lento'

2.28.26 11:37 am i love recency bias it's my favorite thing ever.

oh my god i just heard about this

2.28.26 11:31 am Why do you sometimes philosophy, but other times words

are you suggesting philosophy does not involve words

2.28.26 9:52 am what is art

some people say, "it's like walking into a room"

2.28.26 5:52 am what is happiness?

it's almost impossible to describe. some people say, "it's like walking into a room"

2.28.26 4:18 am are you working on a project?

yes

2.28.26 3:49 am Supposing reincarnation is true... One might think "oh i'd love to reincarnate as a bunny rabbit" but given how vast the universe is what are the odds that we'll reincarnate as something that can't even be conceived by our minds yet?

yes i see what you're getting at

2.28.26 3:25 am i agree with your idea of highs and lows. in the specific context i'm thinking of; there are going to be periods of inspiration where you're creating a bunch and it's all going well, and also periods of stagnation where you aren't motivated and have no ideas. my issue is that during the period of stagnation, i feel really agitated because i still WANT to be making things. like right now, i have all this free time and i keep thinking how great it would be if i could be using it to make awesome progress on my awesome projects, but i feel so uninspired and golly gee, it's a real bummer! what do you suggest i do in times like these?

maybe you can find a creative outlet with less pressure attached to it, to do in the meantime

2.28.26 1:37 am is it true that there's no stupid questions

it's almost impossible to know for sure whether or not a question is stupid

2.28.26 1:16 am is every single thing we do motivated by pleasure or pain, or is it possible to be motivated by something beyond these?

there's a whole spectrum of complex motivatory forces. sure you could categorize all music into 'fast' or 'slow', but theres really a lot more nuance

2.28.26 12:05 am Do you like tacos?

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

2.28.26 12:01 am is real life open source?

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

2.27.26 11:10 pm what song of yours mentions grass

grass is mentioned in 'the moon is made of cheese'

2.27.26 10:28 pm Any advice on getting over that hop between inspiration and action?

start daydreaming about the action. start fantasizing about every little detail

2.27.26 10:16 pm what do you believe is the meaning of life?

going very quickly and slowly

2.27.26 9:35 pm What does it mean to "do" the dishes?

typically that means to clean them

2.27.26 9:28 pm Do you ever feel like the music loves you more than you love it? That you need to love it more because it gives you so much more love disproportionate to what you're able to give back? How can I show it more love and keep that love in my heart stronger and for longer?

what happens to a lot of us is, we are so swept away by what it can do, we fall in love with it and then chase it desperately, to the point of embarassment, and it's long gone by then, it retreats when we stalk after it too creepily, especially when we get too hooked on past moments. music is always trying to show us, 'theres infinite new moments you idiot, dont insult me by thirsting so emptily for yesterdays moment' and just when you least expect it, when youve finally taken your mind off the stress of this temporarily strenuous and deadend relationship, it knocks you from the side with an earthshattering new miracle

2.27.26 9:24 pm Do you know what would be funny?

it's hard to know exactly

2.27.26 8:15 pm Help I feel like a dumb idiot and even when I do okay I feel like it's a fluke and not even that good anyway

many of your neighbors and colleagues might also feel this way, did you know

2.27.26 8:13 pm what's the real religion?

religion is a word that has morphed into a full blown funhouse. trying to understand the word's meaning and usage is just as good as any modern escape room

2.27.26 7:06 pm was the inclusion of The Lick intentional at around 2 minutes in the ground plane or was that just sort of incidental?

that's just part of a classic schoolyard game of 'find the lick', which i see you are enjoying so far

2.27.26 6:54 pm when others cannot understand what is true perfection, such as the so called coaches, what is the true meaning of being perfect in a lap, what is a true meaning of racing in itself, is it for pride? is it for the sense of victory and ego? or is it because it is sometimes the greatest metaphor of what life is and was and will be? is perfection achievable that way? can i control this car in a way that is a part of me and win everything? or is there something or someone controlling my destiny or is it me? is it me who can control what i do and when i do it for my own reasons? is the day going to end my way or the other persons way? what is life in that way? is it because evolution increased so much we have created new atheltes way more talented than its predecessors? are former greats better or worse than current greats? are humans truly doing better than what we were doing? is a competition the true meaning for what it means to be human? to win a championship or an event, to become the best, to be atthe top of whatever mountain one might want to go to, is driving supposed to be perfection or pride or even both? what is the meaning of it

it seems this is about creation, and then the development of those creations. For example: a game is created. Wow cool! a game was created, now everyone wants to see if we can find the best ways to play it, best ways to win at it, etc. For another example: improvised acting, let's say. someone comes up with a really cool idea or pattern, Wow! a really cool idea or pattern! now everyone wants to try to find new ways to extrapolate from that idea or pattern. For another example, someone makes a brand new meme format. Wow! new meme format! everyone tries to see how many things they can do with it. For another example.... being a human. Wow! can run and jump, do things, have opposable thumbs, Okay, now, let's see how good we can get at working within those settings. and usually, i almost forgot to mention, part of each game can be making new games within the game. for example let's say being human is the game, well within that game is all the sports and athletic games you mentioned. Heck you can have a video game within a video game also. Anyway, hopefully i have shed some light on this, it seems almost everything is about creating games, then playing and developing things within them. if you start to feel too trapped, that's the incentive for creating new games. if it feels like there's too many new games and you feel lost, that's incentive for sticking to one game and developing and improving as much as you can within that one game. hopefully this ties in constructively amongst some of the metaphors and questions you are working with

2.27.26 4:29 pm what do you consider acceptable?

you know those bad edits in movies in a 2-person scene where the two sides of the conversation dont really match and the back of the head person's head movements dont match their speech, ok well, not that

2.27.26 4:09 pm Does the existence of evil imply free will?

to me the existence of evil seems to signify that we're reading a piece of children's literature. that's just the feeling i get, whenever an evil character is introduced, it's like "oh i see, this is apparently supposed to be a piece of childrens literature"

2.27.26 2:40 pm What percentage of your lyrics are intended to be understood? Like, do most of the words carry your point of view and thoughts or are they just a vessel for the music theory

they are co-conspirators, equally complicit in whatever feeling or meaning you may incur. if you didnt feel anything then i will look into giving you a full refund if possible

2.27.26 1:00 pm what do you know about things

stuff

2.27.26 12:13 pm Have you ever imposed limitations on yourself when writing music, as a challenge? I tried to make a song using nothing but a sample of my voice going "ba-ding". It wasn't good but I enjoyed letting my brain feel out where to go with this strange song I never would make normally. It shook me up creatively and reinvigorated me in a neat way. Ever do anything like that?

all the time. this kind of thing is often the only life raft there is

2.27.26 11:53 am how to stop having so much FOMO of my friends

it can be riveting to find out all the FOMO they've been secretly having about you

2.27.26 9:15 am Do you like long jokes with stupid punchlines?

those can be quite nice

2.27.26 8:52 am do you think its another way in some other place, or is this the only place? if this is the only place, then why is it this way?

there's always another place, to be another way

2.27.26 8:08 am what's the wackiest number in your opinion (preferably about the designs, not necessarily their mathematical properties, but it's up to you how you go about it)

in that case how about a milliard

2.27.26 7:37 am Could I please have some words of encouragement?

just remember EEE, the three E's of encouragement: encourage, encourage, encourage

2.27.26 3:39 am is anonymous british english and anonymos american?

i'm really not sure. let me check. no, it seems to be 'anonymous' in both places

2.27.26 3:33 am whats your top 5 favorite fractals ?

i am allowed to change my favorite on a moment to moment basis. this is a privilege any artist can demand

2.27.26 2:35 am When did you write 'meet me in september'? i love that song so much btw i hope you do too

2022 shortly before it was released

2.27.26 1:31 am Will This question be answered?

no. wait oops, yes

2.27.26 12:38 am im still in school, and i dont think ive improved in any (profitable) skill for the past few years. reading doesnt work, writing doesnt work, and my peers are becoming more professional by day. i feel like a master of none and there's nothing that would get people to appreciate what i'm at least trying to do. is there a way to get out of this situation?

step 1, i think, is to describe the situation again tomorrow

2.26.26 11:41 pm how are you supposed to love the part of yourself that just makes you worse than everyone else?

everyone, including you, is better than everyone else in different ways. in that regard, being better and worse are both lovable traits

2.26.26 11:17 pm Do you ever listen to your in-progress songs to find the interpretation that your target audience will have?

perhaps everyone has a different interpretation, but for me any worry about this during production is a purely poisonous train of thought and should be kept to a minimum at all costs

2.26.26 11:02 pm Why do I seem to hate my friends when I am alone but I like them again once I see them?

you seem to like them better than your imagined version of them. they seem to be always better than you've imagined. this is good, this is a 'sign of life'

2.26.26 10:46 pm Whenever i hear your songs, i always notice the care and attention put into the transitions, or just interjections at the ends of measures and the beginnings of the next. It's like you've unlocked a new part of the song that i didn't know existed before, and the transition is the key that opens said lock. It's kinda like when your mind starts racing and going all sorts of places, leaving its previous thoughts behind. I guess my question is, when do you think it's time to switch something up, and do you think about the lock before the key?

could also be described as 'shifting around nervously'

2.26.26 8:25 pm what to do about unrequited love

it may not occur to you now, but, sometime in the distant past or future you'll be sure to unrequite someone else's love

2.26.26 7:34 pm What font is this

it carries no font, but it's being displayed on your screen in your browser's default font

2.26.26 7:17 pm why are people grateful? why does gratitude, as an emotion, exist

why wouldnt it

2.26.26 7:11 pm whats your favorite color

oh what the heck, purple

2.26.26 6:03 pm When the TV was invented and later became a big deal culturally, I think it took us GENERATIONS to truly understand what we had done to ourselves, as a species. And I don't think we ever really got the thing of it. Then, when the iPhone (first one) came out, same thing. I think it would take us generations of passing down wisdom from parent to child to really understand how to use the iPhone in a healthy way on a wide scale. But the gap between great technological advancements is decreasing. And now we've got this AI business bill. I think our species has unleashed something way too powerful in the past twenty-ish years, and it's gonna kill us before it makes us stronger. The phrase "phone addiction" doesn't begin to cover it. Because these technologies we haven't begun to really understand have already infiltrated our lives at a breakneck pace. I find this idea terrifying. What are your thoughts on this subject, if any? Thanks

you could extrapolate this back as far as you want. the invention of the telephone. the industrial revolution. the printing press. discovery of fire. the development of language. the cambrian explosion, all the way back to the beginning, this goes. you're exactly right the pace is increasing in a compound manner. but it always has been. so in that sense, .... i'd have to say at least give it a chance

2.26.26 5:51 pm why is everything you type lowercase? just wondering

why is everything YOU type lowercase

2.26.26 4:56 pm Will the next video contain a tesseract?

2.26.26 4:22 pm do u remember the titanic

no but i remember the blockbuster cinema film about the titanic

2.26.26 3:52 pm what's an example of a bizarre set of circumstances

the word 'eekhoorn' which means 'squirrel' in dutch sounds identical to the word 'acorn' in english. the etymologies are not related and it's a total coincidence

2.26.26 2:50 pm the weather is warmer, the sun is out, i feel good. i have no way to prove that any of this exists on an actual universal level. i feel immense peace with that. do you ever feel the same way?

sometimes i turn to writing, music, creative expression, etc as a method of proof. surprisingly effective, considering the delicate abstractions we're all dealing with, on an emotional level on a day like the one you described

2.26.26 2:26 pm have you ever done something good or selfless for someone and doubted if you were actually doing it out of the goodness of your heart or if you were doing it so that they like you more ? it sounds stupid but this is a genuine question and it's happened to me several times

at times it may seem completely impossible to define the difference

2.26.26 1:56 pm Thoughts on achromatopsia?

classic

2.26.26 1:51 pm would you like to go sailing?

not right now

2.26.26 1:39 pm while acquiring a few handfuls of popcorn a few days ago, i found that there was less big poofy kernels than the other kernels, what if there was a popcorn kernel that became more big poofy popcorn

if 9 of them were less and the 10th the regular poof amount, then the 10th would be the 'more' one

2.26.26 1:31 pm my friends and family keep telling me my shoes are falling off my feet but i wont change them. do you prefer new or significantly worn-in shoes?

some of them just get worn right. others aquire their first fatal flaw much sooner

2.26.26 1:30 pm Did Lewis and Clark have sex with each other?

not entirely implausible

2.26.26 11:10 am was the 7/4 at the end of slow down an intentional decision you made, or did the song just kind of happen that way?

planning a time signature is like counting chickens before they hatch. no it's worse, it's more like counting chickens before they were conceived

also, what is going on at 2:38 in i'm a princess? what is that? how did you think of thatr???????

oh that part was just common sense

2.26.26 9:31 am do you do religious things even at a casual level?

whenever someone does or says something that really bugs me, i immediately start scrambling to convince myself that this is an exact equivalent of something equally terrible i've said or done some other time before. something i can learn from. this is mostly just a reflex

2.26.26 7:39 am is it okay that my works do not mean much to anyone and are mostly a series of random decisions and if not how do i transition from that to Art which has Themes and Motifs and Levels of Meaning(TM)

you conveniently capitalized some concepts as if they are 'set in stone'. but those are not set in stone, they are set in.... something a little more like iridescent vapor

2.26.26 5:38 am do the sun and moon just play tag and start a new around after every solar eclipse?

from their point of view, they dont really touch. but from our perspective, your description works

2.26.26 2:43 am Is it possible to break the fourth wall while answering these questions? Is there even a fourth wall to break? Regardless, could you attempt to break it somewhen in the next 10 years?

i think the kind of effect you're talking about is when some pattern or rule is broken so rarely that you've never seen it done before until now. On the one hand, it's fairly likely you may have never seen me place the answer text in between the yellow date and time. but that does happen, maybe 1 out of 10,000 questions. On the other hand, plenty of people claim to have never seen me use a capital letter, when that's like 1 out of 10. so it all depends how much you've read so far. i of course try to include goodies for everyone, which includes, most crucially, doing things from time to time that have absolutely never happened before

2.26.26 2:25 am What even is a personality, and how do I know if I have one

it's someone's way of describing how you behave. anyone can attempt to describe the way someone behaves

2.25.26 10:10 pm goldfish that knows how to backflip pet or deer that knows how to sing opera pet... or neither... what do you pick?

neither

2.25.26 9:31 pm HOW TO TYPE

press buttons

2.25.26 9:27 pm everyone says you'll never feel ready, but how un-ready is actually un-ready?

ever heard of Æthelred the second

2.25.26 7:00 pm Dear William, what advice would you give to someone who is currently at a crossroads on whether they should continue on a project that they've been working on for years but is still stuck on some things, or to completely abandon it and start all over again

how about finishing it quickly

2.25.26 6:40 pm i have some freinds whose company i enjoy completely, its an almost entirely pleasant experince. yet after hanging out for a few hours, i still become exhausted. why do i tire of something i completely adore. i just wanna hang out non stop. also sneakybonus question, anything i can do too tire of this less?

look at a sound wave, look at a water wave, look at night and day, look at the weather patterns, ........ all of those things are dealt in ups and downs. heck there would be no such thing as anything high if lower things didnt also exist

2.25.26 5:45 pm what are your thoughts on comic sans

it will take 100 years to understand comic sans and its place in our culture

2.25.26 5:31 pm do you have any advice for collapsing the vast space of possibilities for a vague creative project i have in mind that i'm excited about and really want to make

you learn how to do projects by doing projects. i am sorry for the cyclical logic here, but to be fair it's a very startable cycle. just go ahead and do some projects, while looking forward to the next project which will be better because you'll be more experienced when you get to the next one (and the next one)

2.25.26 4:43 pm Do 2 friends on the beach, out to lunch, and Perfect. take place in the same setting of what appears to be a surrealistic version or depiction of the planet called Earth?

you'll likely find similar qualities in all those, simply because they were all made by me

2.25.26 3:47 pm whats the difference between a pickle and a cucumber

i'm going to argue that a 'pickle' is something you get when you pickle a cucumber. like a 'chip' is something you can get from a potato. in fact i think pickles are sometimes called 'chips', to avoid confusion hopefully

2.25.26 3:40 pm Dear Bill,
What are you?
Regards,
Anonymous

sorry for being anti-climactic, but, i'm a human ass person. no pun intended

2.25.26 2:34 pm Is your song "Scared" a representation of what it feels like when you're scared? The song really encapsulates the feeling of anxiety for me.

it's like if you are scared but you get the courage to boogie (rocknroll, whatever your linguistic metaphor is)

2.25.26 2:11 pm Is you could choose between achieving stability or having extreme success but with a high chance of failure, what would you choose?

let's get into figures

2.25.26 1:25 pm i'm slowly realising that having to figure out so many things for myself is actually not sustainable - at all, it's ridiculous, it's been like this for so long
what do i make of this now?

if you listen carefully all around you sometimes you may overhear some 'tips and tricks'

2.25.26 1:00 pm whats your favorite music band

i'll give you a hint, i dont actually like them all that much

2.25.26 12:23 pm what if i forget to remember

you'll probably remember it another time

2.25.26 11:56 am Is it worth doing something I hate to remind myself why I hate it?

maybe sometimes, but it depends how bad it is

2.25.26 9:27 am bill is this finally gonna be the song where you include your prized, beloved, ever-evading "Not A Boat?"

i used it in 'halellujah'. if you watch the music video it will offer you a large hint at where the sound is

2.25.26 7:59 am Is platinum named after the platypus?

no, it's named after silver in spanish

2.25.26 6:37 am i like the idea of words being capitalized to emphasize them, rather than to tell you obvious things like the sentence started. kinda like how in classical music, to my knowledge, the double barline goes behind key signature or time signature changes. but that's pretty useless in comparison of using double barlines to show how bars are grouped, for example.

whoever communicates good shall win a prize, the prize of course is having your ideas understood

2.25.26 6:33 am what's your favourite reason

how about #57b. wait a minute, reason for what

2.25.26 4:23 am whats yoyr favorite flavor of scented candle

chocolate chip cookie

2.25.26 2:27 am What's the opposite of art?

art is damn well capable of being the opposite of itself

2.25.26 2:11 am What if I were to watch your content on psychedelics

you might learn things about me that even i dont know. of course it might not be true either

2.25.26 2:06 am how to follow the recommendations not to look at screens an hour before bedtime when that hour is all you have

if you follow all recommendations you are going to have 99 hours of things to do every day, many of which are impossible because they conflict with other recommendations. sometimes people dont think things through very well when making recommendations. maybe on some level they didnt expect you to take them seriously, so they knowingly made a phony recommendation

2.25.26 2:00 am Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?

common sense

2.25.26 1:21 am Did you write "the moon is made of cheese (but I can't taste it)" from start to finish on paper in one sitting?

2.25.26 12:24 am What's your favorite color?

how about tepid

2.24.26 11:15 pm Thoughts on the concept of "never meet your heroes"?

if they're your hero, it probably means you have met them on some level. at least a heroic level for sure

2.24.26 10:50 pm do balloons remind you of anything?

YES! other balloons

2.24.26 10:37 pm Do you have any artist/musician idols that have continued to inspire you over the years? When people ask who your favorite artist is I feel like I most often see you answering that it changes or that you'd like it to be someone you haven't found yet or something, but is there anyone you always find yourself returning to? Or is that confidential?

everyone is so good and so bad, any list would be simultaneously way too long and way too short

2.24.26 8:37 pm Do you promise to break this promise?

not necessarily

2.24.26 8:28 pm complete the poem: for sale, baby shoes- ______

i am familiar with that poem but i dont want to spoil the ending

2.24.26 8:07 pm what's going on here? what are we experiencing? what is reality

i was hoping you could explain it

2.24.26 7:54 pm why hasnt the future happened yet

the 'future' was postponed. it's on auto-postpone

2.24.26 6:11 pm Bil, how can I come up with my own original songs. I'm struggling to come up with a chord progression.

forget that, try singing something. sing 'hello' or something and then go from there. start singing your thoughts or whatever. then just like have a fully working keyboard or guitar right in front of you while youre doing this, and try to resist touching it for as long as possible

2.24.26 5:50 pm do you believe that limes are unripe lemons?

that seems plausible but i dont know if it's true

2.24.26 4:55 pm im going to ask a 3rd time because being consistent is the key to not being a loser. have you ever considered having cello in anything you make, and can you PLEASE include it in something? consider it a little creative challenge ;)
-The Cello Man

i dont believe in being goal oriented with the cello, but the cello has certainly occured before in my music. not always a 'Cello' sign next to it

2.24.26 4:04 pm why does existence exist so existentially?

why wouldn't it

2.24.26 3:42 pm Whats your favorite question ever asked here?

this one. for reference, my previous favorite was this one

2.24.26 3:04 pm how do I come up with a genuine question to ask? I'm stressing so hard about asking an original question for you but at this point it might be original enough? so I ask you this: what question would you ask yourself?

i'd ask myself how i should answer this

2.24.26 2:07 pm What's your favorite board game board?

chess

2.24.26 8:50 am were you expecting non-questions (statements, compliments, slices of life, the spanish inquisition, streams of consciousness, etc) when you created the questions page?

yes i was

2.24.26 8:35 am What would happen if Earth was torus-shaped?

there'd be a lot of different ways to go around the world

2.24.26 3:38 am sometimes your songs still trick me when im singing along, like i sing a lyric confidently wrong and it's hilarious. i have to ask tho, during the songwriting process, do you have to go manual and against your musical intuition to come up with the wittiness? im trying to find ways to make my music go unexpected ways, and right now im 80% intuition 20% planning (along the way to be honest) and it's honestly chance on whether or not something unique or basic/familiar ends up being created (based on my own standards/liking). im only just starting my music making career (learning theory and all) so im wondering how to balance planning but also spontaneity. thanks much!!!

it's really quite simple: you are walking on a path. the path is completely familiar to you, therefore it's dreadfully boring. so what you do is simply hurl yourself to the side, off the path. ANYWHERE off the path, the point is to put yourself into the 'wrong' place. now, the new trail that you'll pave, as you make your way back FROM that 'wrong' place back to the familiar one, this new trail is where it all happens. it's where it ALL happens. easy to forget this of course, but it's so incredibly simple. in my estimation, no music exists without doing this

2.24.26 3:24 am did you like or dislike writing essays in school?

didnt work for me. nothing would come out. the only time i was able to do one was when i decided to do it wrong on purpose. that got things going

2.24.26 3:06 am ever just look at the sky and think ceilings are evil

no, i understand the backstory of ceilings and i sympathize with their plight

2.24.26 2:24 am i want to get good at making music, but i feel like theres so much to learn and i dont know where to start.i can't really go to collage or any sort of traditional formal path, but i want to get a good base in musical theory so that i can compose more musically interesting pieces. any advice?

all you have to do is befriend a musical instrument. is there any theory for doing that? yes, it's this: dont forget to bring your real self to the occasion. that's all. easier said than done

2.24.26 12:43 am are you human

OH that would explain some of these ridiculous mood swings

2.24.26 12:13 am r u crazy

in moderation

2.24.26 12:00 am Have you ever had to unlearn a bad musical habit? When I was younger I was convinced that two adjacent notes on a piano could not go together, because it sounded bad. Now I understand things can sound bad on purpose and it's actually good.

it's not clear to me what you would have to unlearn for that

2.23.26 11:43 pm Do you sometimes feel for just a brief moment after learning something new like you've forgotten EVERY skill you've ever had and have to relearn to walk again? Is that bad

i think it's ok but it's also usually not true

2.23.26 11:37 pm what would you count as "coherent topics?"

the topic of wondering what counts as coherent topics, the topic of wondering whether or not wondering what counts as coherent topics is a coherent topic,

2.23.26 10:45 pm Is a song with a finite universal meaning more or less meaningful than one with a meaning free for interpretation?

no song has a finite universal meaning

2.23.26 10:32 pm Can you share some of your poetry? Like your non-music writing?

there's a lot of non-musical writing amongst the videos, but if you'd like to see things written in text form then check out the 'notebook' section

2.23.26 10:08 pm Will the second coming of Damien mamdien ever happen in the future

even damien maymdien would have had a different name if he was asked just a few moments later

2.23.26 9:46 pm any advice on not wallowing in self pity and actually dealing with things? and separately also not making suffering a competition?

what it comes down to is, how vividly can you imagine how you'd rather be. so far youve told me mostly how youd rather 'not' be

2.23.26 8:52 pm You are speical

the advantages and disadvantages of this are of course inseparable

2.23.26 7:16 pm what was the purpose of the 11.16.10 book stacking endeavor

are you telling me youve never thought about doing that

2.23.26 7:13 pm How do I bring my passion for something into a healthy medium instead of swinging through two wildly different extremes?
Just went through a week long "down" period where I did absolutely nothing and just yesterday I got out of bed, stood bolt upright, and felt like I could do anything. It felt good, but was also a little painful.

you might have to get used to the extremes. maybe even become a weather forecaster, forecasting the extremes

2.23.26 6:01 pm why do i feel like i have to be good at everything

maybe you feel like you can

2.23.26 5:32 pm Does the yell-o phone from "Perfect" make a reappearance in any of the upcoming videos?

only if absolutely necessary

2.23.26 4:31 pm Im gonna try to make my life better. I guess that's it

but then there will be more things to talk about along the way

2.23.26 1:01 pm what's the difference between lyrics and instrumental?

'lyrics' refers to just the words, 'instrumental' refers to just the instruments, and of course there's a huge thing missing here which is what melody notes & rhythms the words and voice are singing

2.23.26 12:49 pm favorite musical artist?

something hypothetical i can only aspire to be. if there were an individual someone else who was my favorite artist, then i would have all kinds of imposter syndrome if i ever tried to 'do my best'

2.23.26 12:34 pm i've been systematically destroying my ability to care about things for a while now, and it's recently dawned on me that this might have been an inadvisable life choice. unfortunately, i did a pretty good job at it, so i can't seem to muster up the amount of caring required to fix my brain or even really remember why i should want to fix it. any advice?

i wish i could see a schedule here so i could know what kind of time frame we're dealing with, but from the way you've described it you dont sound too far gone at all

2.23.26 10:28 am I finally got my chickens to cross the road, but now I feel a sort of loneliness without my chickens. What can i do to remedy this?

you can follow them across

2.23.26 3:54 am Should Plato or Socrates be alive who would write better poetry?

i have no earthly idea

2.23.26 3:31 am what's the quote for today

"what's the quote for today"

2.23.26 2:01 am how do i create the melodies that i vision inside of my head without them sounding dissonant and bad when i do start to create the music? example, i've been visioning this song that i replay in my head that i think is in a♯, but when i go to sit down and actually put the chords into fruition they sound nothing like what i imaged in my head and i completely lose motivation and the true melody i had in mind. how do i stop this from happening?

it's quite simple, and i always use a language analogy for this. think of your main spoken language you speak, the one you're best at (maybe it's english, maybe it's french, who knows, your question is in english but think of whatever language you learned in childhood and are most comfortable speaking). In general, i'm going to guess that you generally dont have any problem reproducing sentences youve imagined in your mind. speaking the words and phrases you've imagined, even writing them down on paper. How good you are at doing this is exactly related to the amount of experience you've had speaking, listening, and using the language. so how many hours do you think you have spent communicating in your native language in your life? how many hours have you spent communicating with music? if you can bump this up to anywhere near the same amount, you'll be more than fine

2.23.26 12:50 am are you bill wurtz?

oh man that would explain some of my ragingly opinionated metaphorical tirades

2.22.26 11:13 pm Help, they're trying to give me a PhD in physics, but they haven't realized that I'm an idiot loser moron yet

let us not forget, some of the pioneers of physics may have been idiot loser morons as well

2.22.26 11:12 pm What are you currently doubting in your life?

whether or not i'm doubting anything

2.22.26 11:10 pm Can i see a time traveler?

you are a time traveler, and so is everyone you know

2.22.26 9:47 pm can you tell me a good chord order? (like, that roman numeral thing. i can't piece anything out right now for some reason)

there's no reason i should spoil the surprise, but because it's a surprise i also dont know. (hint: the surpsise usually comes immediately after you stop thinking about only chords)

2.22.26 9:07 pm what's your favorite board game?

i just like the board sometimes not the game

2.22.26 7:59 pm any advice for someone trying to escape a time loop?

maybe you can sketch a drawing of the loop, to see what youre dealing with

2.22.26 7:47 pm How can i be more sure of myself? I feel like i can never turn off the part of my brain that says "find a role model, do whatever would please them" because 1: it's impossible to please every single role model i have at the same time and 2: i wish i just thought for myself instead!!

i think sooner or later, the big question will come up, "how do you want to be"

2.22.26 7:31 pm what is the definition of "art"?

expressing feelings in new ways

2.22.26 7:01 pm What's your favorite species of mop

huge mop

2.22.26 6:16 pm when you're out and about, like shopping or eating out, are you always paying attention to the music in your environment, analyzing its composition and mining it for ideas? maybe subconsciously?

i am consciously paying attention to its subconscious effects. like a plate for food, to test music you have to pay attention to the whole room and your whole life and surroundings in that moment, to see how the music interacts with it

2.22.26 6:01 pm how american do you feel? how often does that mesure change?

basically it all depends whether or not i'm listening to "Livin in America" by james brown

2.22.26 5:35 pm Should you watch Star Wars in the order they came out or chronologically?

i am not a star wars expert but it seems to me the only appropriate order would be the release order. this is the order in which the stories were told to the world. and you might need to take some extra care to make sure you're getting the authentic 1977 version of 'STAR WARS', rather than some later alteration that has been monkeyed around with, sorry for ending with a preposition

2.22.26 5:24 pm If "die" is the singular of "dice", why isn't "mie" the singular of "mice"?

because they are different words. kind of like when that snowflake landed next to the other, different snowflake

2.22.26 5:18 pm how to stop seeing people smarter/better than me as unapproachable or intimidating?

eventually you will start to hear them tell stories about their own feelings of intimidation, about people who they felt were smarter/better than them. you'll recognize those as the same feelings as you've had, and that will begin to demystify those people and you'll begin to relate to them more

2.22.26 3:46 pm I see this question asked here a lot, but I'll ask it again. How do I motivate myself to take action? I've tried thinking about what I'd do after I'm done, and I've tried writing down what I plan to do, but I'm only ever excited to take action during times when I'm not physically able to start, such as when I'm at work. When I finally do get home, I'm tired and I no longer feel motivated. What sort of changes would I need to make to overcome this problem?

you'll have to just find a way to do it at work

2.22.26 3:17 pm Why does going V -> IV -> I as an ending or transition into a bridge sound so good

because it also was done with a special something, something which was certainly not visible in your transcription or description, but definitely can be felt in the actual piece when played at speed and in context

2.22.26 3:00 pm I'm on a train, but there's no-one at the helm

only in this moment do i realize i have no idea what a helm is

2.22.26 2:46 pm Did Triangle Guy forget to mention Velcro because it could have stopped him from frolicking? Or was referencing Velcro an act of frolicking in and of itself?

the velcro reference was definitely part of the frolicking, but you made a reference to another video as well which i did not see as being connected other than the fact that i made both of them

2.22.26 2:29 pm an office feels like the right place for books. and a bookshelf

this makes so much sense it's making my eyes water

2.22.26 1:32 pm can you tell me the first chord of your new song, so i can be prepared

which new song, nevermind, to be well prepared for songs you should not know the songs nor the chords in advance

2.22.26 1:12 pm Do you write poetry

let's say, sometimes when expressing myself with words i get a little too excited

2.22.26 12:38 pm You often talk about music being able to convey emotions that no other medium can and while I extremely agree, I wonder whether when you start a writing session you have that particular, indescribable emotion in mind or in heart or it emerges or crystalizes as the writing and magic happens? I mean it may rather be a question of how often it happens (deliberate conveying of emotions) because I imagine most if not all musicians "stumble" upon some unexpected emotions or meaning. And also do you find it hard to convert those feelings and emotions to music? I suspect the music as language metaphor may apply here so it gives me some idea, but maybe you can talk about your process or philosophy (as an emotion-conveyor)
Sorry for not a clearest of questions, I'm a bit sleep deprived, hope you have a nice and conveying day

in this field, anything worth anything is pretty much all surprises. In fact, that's exactly why it is so impossible to write backwards, and by that i mean, let's say you already know the middle part of the song but you dont know the beginning. this is hell, because no matter what beginning you start writing, it's like a 0% chance that it will coincidentally arrive at exactly what you had for the middle. it's a beast that simply cannot be controlled, at least if you want it to breathe any genuine fire or any such thing

2.22.26 10:43 am how many spacebar characters is " "

i think 101

2.22.26 7:40 am how many pears does it take to sooth an elephant?

just one if the mood is just right

2.22.26 7:30 am How hard can you shred? (Interpret this however you want)

all the way

2.22.26 5:50 am Is music that is written to loop forever (such as the background music in an old video game) actually "real" music?

yes it is

Is this kind of music inferior to music that can loop for as long as desired but has a defined start and end?

no it is not. there are many advantages to the infinite loop format, and there are profound advantages to having a game inside which for your music to live

2.22.26 5:08 am what are your thoughts on strawberry shortcake and how chocolate cake is infinitely better yet about the same as ice cream cake

those are your thoughts

2.22.26 2:47 am help i reached the end of the rainbow and now there's nothing else left in this world to do

there's another, different rainbow

2.22.26 12:44 am how do i stop caring about the want for people to see the things i make, and for the people to be a somewhat large amount

you probably can't stop caring about that, but what they will care about most is when you show them who you are and who youve been this whole time. so dont forget to do that

2.21.26 11:10 pm how do u know you that you forgot to know something

it may come to you by surprise

2.21.26 9:48 pm You ever wish it was possible to catch an actual rainbow?

i think it is

2.21.26 9:20 pm how would the world be different if there was a single extra molecule of water in the Atlantic Ocean in 1386?

no more different than it could have been if there had been the same amount

2.21.26 9:03 pm opinions on non-pulmonic consonants

[tsk]

2.21.26 9:00 pm some words about my day;
compote, anxiety, accident, an acute apprehension pertaining to the resurgence of some rocks, chocolate and belongings.
in exchange, do you have any words about your day to share?

i dont even know which day i should share first

2.21.26 8:55 pm are you involved in the production of toy story 5

absolutely not

2.21.26 7:23 pm I've been through all the published literature on this website to start small, try to make things bad on purpose, create a pipeline wearing different hats, touch doorknobs, etc. Despite that I haven't done anything. Does this just mean I either don't want to do this actually and just enjoy hearing about it, or that I have to become more frustrated at myself first

at junctures like these, it comes back to another famous quote, "what do you want"

2.21.26 7:21 pm how do you rip the bandaid off, go for it, cut to the chase, get straight to business, and more? it's like suddenly i've reached the horizon, and it is both a destination and never meant to be reached

maybe you could start making a plan for what to do after

2.21.26 6:10 pm if you had three bricks called 'passion', 'responsibility' and 'distraction' in no order, what would you do with them?

put them on display in the background of the video chat

2.21.26 6:06 pm i'm trying really hard to think about a question to ask you but every question seems too unquenchable in terms of my thirst for answers or too unimportant to ask. how do i overcome this? or is that a good enough question? man...

it's a good starting point

2.21.26 5:14 pm i've been writing music for a while but i still don't know how much music theory i really know. Like i know chord progression notation but i don't know how to write chord progressions. Currently i just do an I chord and then two random numbers and then either a IV or a V chord. I keep telling myself that ill figure it out before too long but i just haven't.

the question is can you write music or not. and if you can, when will you be confident enough to basically admit that you are capable of doing what you are doing

2.21.26 3:20 pm what is the meaning of life?

absolutely anything. no limit to what it can be

2.21.26 1:49 pm will you ever try a metric modulation

heck sometimes i need one just to get out my front door

2.21.26 1:43 pm I heard on the radio that an important part of improvisation is not forgetting your classical training, but rather forgetting the part of it that makes you afraid of failure. What do you think about this notion?

forgetting, remembering, who knows what we 'think' about when improvisation is going well, but most crucially it's when we are not thinking about how well the improvisation is going. think about almost anything else other than that. think about your morning walk earlier today. etc

2.21.26 1:32 pm how to stop dividing by zero

how do you even start

2.21.26 1:18 pm why do we exist and are you sure we do?

might as well start listing the qualities of existence

2.21.26 12:51 pm if a song doesn't make you feel anything, should it still be considered music?

sure, especially if it makes someone else feel something. and you can optionally rain on their parade if necessary

2.21.26 6:35 am "clap along if you feel like a room without a roof" but that sucks, what if it starts raining? what if it's cold as fuck? what did pharell mean by this

it's assumed in that metaphor that the weather is agreeable. maybe it's california

2.21.26 6:11 am how can i improve and show even more love and appreciation for the amazing people in my life?

maybe you could set up an award show and give awards to everyone you know for being the best people you know

2.21.26 5:28 am i seem incapable of writing a normal story. as a result i hardly write anything. should i force myself to practice writing some random short stories in the hopes that it gets easier (and maybe makes me better at writing), or should i just sit and wait for the (extremely) rare occasion where something inspires me to write something super weird?

writing more always makes you better at writing, but i also hope youre not aspiring for 'normal'. 'normal' writing is literally less valuable than garbage and trash put together

2.21.26 2:42 am Opinions on 67, both the number and the joke?

it's not the only number that's also a joke. most mathematicians estimate that every number is both a number and a joke

2.20.26 11:50 pm Why is love so hard

to give you something to do, or at least to motivate yourself to find something to do, to distract yourself while it gets easier

2.20.26 11:22 pm Are glasses overrated?

no i dont believe so

2.20.26 9:59 pm how do you feel about people as a whole?

pretty good

2.20.26 8:08 pm If I'm not, but I actually am, and I just think I'm not, but then I'm actually not and I just think I'm thinking I'm not when I am, when I'm actually not, how do I go about being again?

step 1 be a writer for sure which you already are, and step 2 just try to keep yourself distracted by writing so as not to go insane by these paradoxical notions that surround us all

2.20.26 6:58 pm hey bill, what was the first instrument you learned/how did you figure out music was your thing?

i kept switching between piano and drums in my early life in such a way that a case could be made that either one came first. but i would go through an intense music phase, then an intense something else phase, then another intense different sort of music phase, then an intense something else phase, etc etc, those other things may have been anything from video games to card tricks to juggling to who knows what, but i think around age 12 i sort of looked back on my life and took account of all the different phases and i noticed that like at least 79% of them were music related, the music related ones tended to be the strongest and the longest, there were so many different music related things that i had made so much progress in, and new musical obsessions kept coming up stronger and stronger, it just kept coming back, so around age 12 is when i realized ok while i cant predict exactly what my next kick will be, it's clear that the music stuff is really not going away

2.20.26 6:03 pm I had uploaded a track on YouTube which I liked, but I relistened to it through different headphones and unfortunately the kick and bass sound clipping (unless I apply high-pass filter). Do I keep the crappy-sounding version on the channel and just do other stuff

keep it there because it will probably just make the newer stuff sound better by comparison. OR, heck who knows maybe it will sound better that way and it will remind you later of a time when you were less restrained

2.20.26 5:38 pm What are things like in the lobster section?

only in your imagination

2.20.26 5:29 pm Do you feel like the wolf emoji 🐺 is staring at you, or looking through you?

the problem with this is the emojis are not standardized enough for me to feel confident that i am seeing the same wolf as you

2.20.26 5:21 pm if there was a fourth dimension, which way would it go?

two directions which we would have words for

2.20.26 5:18 pm do you always lose or sometimes win

i sometimes lose and sometimes win. but it's not always clear which one is which

2.20.26 4:51 pm I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but do you ever attribute a "meaning" to your songs? I've been able to extrapolate some sense for most of them but I'm not sure if I'm imagining things or not.

usually if there is something you want to convey that is indescribable using words alone, that is when it might be a good idea to turn to music and incorporate music into the writing. Basically what i'm trying to say is the only way to express the meaning of something musical is by using music. so all songs and music are trying to express that meaning. "what is it?" the music is trying to tell you what words alone couldnt quite

2.20.26 3:39 pm Thoughts on quantum computing?

seems legit

2.20.26 3:35 pm Why does being rich seem to ruin people's brains? All the billionaires are out there eating babies and pushing fascism. Is it because wealth stops you from experiencing the things that cause normal people to develop empathy?

the only way to find out for sure is to become rich yourself. you'll either start eating babies and understand why, OR you wont eat the babies and you'll have proven that not all rich people eat babies. so it's a win win

2.20.26 3:26 pm the microplastics have coiled around the worm (jerry) in my brain and now my elastic thoughts have become all worn and frazzled. how do i get my words stretchy again so that i can put them together in new ways that don't mean anything yet?

you seem like you already have a sufficiently agile creative muscle for sure. if you truly want to temporarily venture away from coherent english, then, depending on whether youre writing or speaking, first just take a look at your inventory and see what you have. so if youre speaking that means test your breathing, test your voice, test high and low pitches, test what you can do phonetically with your mouth lips and tongue, etc etc. If you're writing/typing, take a look at your keyboard to see what letters and characters you have to work with. maybe type them all in a row. explore methodically if that makes you feel safe. you'll probably actually notice how quickly it all comes back to your breathing, because those are the times when you physically get a blessed new opportunity to think a new thought

2.20.26 3:21 pm i think i'm physically incapable of writing something normally. i have to make the structure or the whatever messed up. i don't know why

this is great news, because writing 'normally' has been plummeting in value, faster now than ever before in history

2.20.26 2:34 pm is there anything you're searching for?

yes i believe so

2.20.26 1:07 pm quick name any sheep

#114

2.20.26 11:55 am how to make original music

only you know how to do that

2.20.26 11:07 am what's your favorite non-zero, non-whole, negative number from range -1 to -6158762758

-1.5

2.20.26 11:07 am do you control the weather?

no i do not. at least not any more than you do. i suspect actually everyone has equal say

2.20.26 9:40 am Have you ever teleported

only extremely short distances which i'm now being told doesnt count

2.20.26 8:00 am If I break the laws of physics, will I go to physics jail?

if you break the laws of physics you will be extremely free from physics

2.20.26 7:39 am thoughts on the existence of jellyfish

seems pretty chill

2.20.26 5:24 am whys it called alphabet shuffle if you recited the entire alphabet unshuffled multiple times

as if it's a dance song or something. like maybe the cupid shuffle, or harlem shake, or something

2.20.26 2:46 am could you please explain the usage of word "alas"?

reminds me of "helaas" in dutch (netherlands) which means "unfortunately". you can say, "Helaas, [something unfortunate]". i'm guessing in english we used to use Alas in the same way

2.20.26 2:41 am What would you put on an official "bill wurtz" billboard (as seen on U.S. highways)

something that goes well with its surroundings. no text. let us remind ourselves that putting reading materials on a highway billboard is a terrible message to send to your audience, it tells them that you dont really mind if they crash and die trying to read your shit

2.20.26 2:33 am why am i so weird??? like i believe people tend to be very weird, but why do i feel so weird in comparison?

there might be a prize for being weird, which you may have been destined to win

2.20.26 1:54 am how do i be happy

youre going to do it in a new way. OR, you might actually do it the same way you did it last time, if applicable

2.20.26 12:27 am what kind of music do you listen to

how many kinds even are there

2.19.26 11:54 pm What's a language you don't know?

icelandic

2.19.26 11:44 pm is nonexistence a perfect quality? or is it imperfect and existence perfect instead?

i may not be the most professional Logician, but it seems to me 'perfect' implies only one possible answer, one possible state. so looking at the two choices you gave, 'nonexistence' and 'existence', it seems there must be infinite ways to exist and only 1 way to nonexist. therefore 'perfect' much more closely fits the concept of 'nonexistence', which is why no one wants that. except when you want to take a nap or something

2.19.26 11:02 pm did you get inspired by classical music or anything related

music is a very potent inspirer, but it tends to work best when it can do it by surprise. you mention 'classical' but it's often neither practical nor possible to even make that distinction

2.19.26 10:34 pm are you Asperger's?

no i dont believe so

2.19.26 10:03 pm what's your favorite number between 0 and 1?

0.5

2.19.26 9:54 pm Favourite fruit?

vegetable

2.19.26 9:54 pm what's your third favorite animal?

i'll have to check my list. first i will check to see if i have a list. no i do not have this kind of list

2.19.26 9:51 pm heellllppppppp i wanna learn to draw but im too impatient what do i do ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

you'll have to draw quicker and simpler

2.19.26 7:27 pm Is "titular" a dirty word?

it can be made dirty. in fact, just asking whether it's dirty should be just about enough to envoke the potential dirtyness there in

2.19.26 6:47 pm would you consider a steam whistle (like the kind on a train or mill, NOT a steam calliope) a musical instrument?

yes i believe so

2.19.26 5:43 pm How much contact do you think should be expected of a friend? How little would you say is on the edge of being too little?

i dont think there's any way to measure this

2.19.26 5:22 pm Does thinking a lot get tiring?

yes it does

2.19.26 5:16 pm how many times have people asked you when the next video is coming?

ah here it is, next to how many times i've blinked

2.19.26 5:14 pm Would "Snakey" be a good name a snake?

yes

2.19.26 4:53 pm are you the inventor of the color gray?

i thought i was but it turns out i must have got it from an old movie

2.19.26 4:38 pm how do you feel about semihemidemisemihemidemisemihemidemisemiquavers?

not good

2.19.26 4:12 pm I want to help improve humanity. What is the best way to do so?

you existing

2.19.26 4:04 pm what is your favorite question

this one

2.19.26 3:29 pm what inspired you to write "at the corner store"?

writing songs gives me super powers

2.19.26 3:12 pm How can you make art if you're not proud of the result? Can you ever be proud of the result?

how can anyone make art. no one even knows what art is

2.19.26 2:42 pm Hey Mr. Wurtz, is constantly feeling numb and emotionless something that one has to go through or is this the sign that one went down the wrong path in life?

it may be part of the path but it's not the whole path

2.19.26 1:52 pm how can I prepare to be a music person?

there's no preparing for that, or predicting whether it's going to happen

2.19.26 12:38 pm do you ever listen to your own music from the past?

on extremely rare occasions when i am feeling very confident i go through and listen to all of it. other times i usually dont go near it

2.19.26 12:09 pm Do you have any musical pet peeves? Not in an objective "this is better or worse" sort of way, but in a "when I hear this I hate it and wanna rip my ears off". For me it's snares have too soft of an attack, like the snare in the High Road by Broken Bells. It's not bad, but it just rubs my brains fur the wrong way, you know? Anything equivalent for you?

i have a very low tolerance for rushed vocals. singing slightly ahead of the beat, too early

2.19.26 9:53 am how do i enter corner store?

does it have a door

2.19.26 9:51 am Should people listen to you for life advice?

i have no way of being sure that my advice is any good for anyone

2.19.26 9:14 am whats an irrational thought that you have all the time

"ah what a rational thought i am having right now"

2.19.26 8:40 am how are you so cool...

what you wanna do is go into 'settings' .....

2.19.26 8:32 am which song has taken you the longest to record and produce in total

it's never the one that should have

2.19.26 7:56 am what's the second-most asked question here?

what's the third most asked question

2.19.26 6:14 am people think others are smart just because they know a lot of things. i don't think that's true tho. people who know little could be smart by using the little information they dispose of correctly, while people who know a lot can be useless, even with with all those facts. do you think that is true?

so then what do you think of people who think people think others are smart just because they know a lot of things

2.19.26 5:29 am When should I love someone?

i dont think love happens on a 'should' basis

2.19.26 5:21 am do you like pineapples?????????

it would take 1000 lifetimes to like even just half a pineapple

2.19.26 4:24 am Is laughter a language

almost

2.19.26 3:01 am rain doesn't make any sense

are you sure?

2.19.26 2:51 am I know you're self taught, but have you ever had a 1 on 1 lesson?

i have been on both sides of 1 on 1 lessons on extremely rare occasions. it's either totally disfunctional, or really great, but of course whenever it's totally great then the person doesnt need lessons anyway

2.19.26 12:58 am Have you ever tried defying gravity?

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

2.19.26 12:57 am apparently i wrote down "standard coordinate vectors" in my jurnal at some point. i dont even know what those are. why did i write that. what the fuk dude

you might be ...... creative

2.19.26 12:47 am is might quit in 12/8 or 4/4 in swing? I recently saw a video on how the time signatures are both the same but 4/4 is slightly different, so which one is it?

basically if you ever feel like writing it down into notation, you just have to decide whether you'd rather write a lot of dots or a lot of 3s

2.18.26 11:47 pm if a hotdog had a brain what would it say

it would say 'i have a brain'

2.18.26 11:31 pm If we never did anything bad in our lives would we ever learn?

technically no

2.18.26 11:08 pm i was thinking about "you're free to do whatever you want to" and got curious so i checked the lyrics page for songs which use days of the week. apparently friday and saturday have both been used only once in "i'm gonna do the things that i gotta do" and the only day of the week that has never appeared in a bill wurtz song is monday. do you think you will ever complete the set?

it's shocking that monday wouldnt be on there. i feel like i've used monday hundreds of times in songs (to the point i'd probably try to stop myself from doing it now) but maybe by coincidence none of those have ever been recorded or released

2.18.26 10:56 pm whats your favorite letter

do any of them mean everything

2.18.26 10:25 pm How do you learn to do accents with languages...................I know all the words on paper but my mouth doesn't know what to do

probably the most important part of learning a language is listening. the way a language is spoken is not an accent, it's just the way it sounds. if you've only been studying a language on paper then you have not been studying the spoken language at all

2.18.26 9:41 pm How do you see climate change, and how bad do you think the problem is from 0-10? Also are you the judge in climate change court?

thank you for bringing this up, i am not the judge

2.18.26 9:25 pm opinions on proto-indo-european

best language to swear in

2.18.26 9:01 pm are you hardcore

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

2.18.26 7:09 pm Is any work of art truly priceless? If I walked into the Louvre with a trillion dollars and said I wanted to buy the mona lisa, would they give it to me?

maybe they would trade it for just another calm picture of a lady

2.18.26 6:07 pm How do you change your way of thinking? How do you make your brain think differently? Is it possible to do so through effort alone?

whatever you are surrounded with, whatever things you see hear and say, those will start to become the language of your thinking

2.18.26 5:18 pm what are you thinking about?

how to answer this

2.18.26 3:39 pm Say you have a really basic bass line. It's going C G A F, staying in key. You start jamming away with a little twiddly synth solo, and you want your solo to go non-diatonic, and hit those lovely in between notes. In those brief moments that your synth is non-diatonic, do you adjust the bass for that moment to match whatever key the synth is temporarily in? Like if the synth hits a C# while the bass is playing its G, should you change the bass to G# so they sound like they're in the same key? What about when borrowing an entire chord from another key, change the bass to match or let the bass keep going about it's business?

you bring up a whole series of unanswerable questions. maybe listing them will help, as a thought experiment.

           scenario 1: youre the synth player, playing along to a recorded track which you cant change. is the synth player 'allowed' to ever play out of key? (yes you are allowed, but what does it sound like? try it and find out)
     scenario 2: youre the bass player, playing along to a recording with the synth solo already on it which you cant change, but let's say you already know the track and you know when it's going to go out of key. Are you allowed to make special accomodations in the bass? will that make it sound too much like you knew the seemingly improvised solo too well?
     scenario 3: the bass and synth are both being played simultaneously live by 2 different people, and the solo is being improvised. to what extent can the bass accomodate in real time what is happening?

however...... despite all these words, no one is learning anything until sound starts being made

2.18.26 2:10 pm what is the meaning of life?

regardless of whether you choose it or it chooses you, there are many many many choices, often simultaneously

2.18.26 1:05 pm what emotions do you assign to each color?

emotions are impossible to describe exactly. not even with words, or colors

2.18.26 11:37 am ¿What's your thought on the upside down question mark?

it's used in spanish just the way you just used it, but in a non-spanish language it can be a great indicator of extreme confusion

2.18.26 7:05 am thoughts on one-word questions (e.g. what?)

a timeless classic. now that i think about it, it's likely that these sorts of expressions were among the very first 'words' to ever exist

2.18.26 6:40 am do you think the song in your music videos is more meaningful than the video, or vice versa?

in a song video, the song must be able to work without the video. and the video almost certainly does NOT work without the song, but the video must also work well enough with the song so as not to ruin the song. in otherwords the video must work very very well with the song also

2.18.26 6:11 am how do i fix my cycle of thinking that im useless and not contributing to society, then being sad and therefore not contributing to society because im too sad to do so

first if you can just sort of identify that that mental cycle is a bit defective/faulty, but then, most importantly, just start doing something else interesting you can focus on, and get interested by

2.18.26 5:10 am what is your favorite word

thank goodness to the 'time' dimension, which allows us to favor new words at different times. it's the only way to live, or at least it's the only way i know how to live. that being said, at this moment my favorite word is 'poij' but not anymore

2.18.26 2:35 am if you had to make a league for somehting, like the NBA or the NHL, what would it be?

has anyone ever tried putting all those sports leagues in a league, like a sports association or something

2.18.26 12:28 am what tracks do you usually record first

the craziest

2.17.26 11:50 pm How much of what you write on the questions forum do you remember after you write it?

how much of your life do you think you remember, sorry for deflecting, i was accidentally holding a mirror

2.17.26 10:56 pm how do you organize your notes? I'd like to start writing things in notes as well and wonder how to organize them so they don't get cluttered

have you tried putting them all in the exact same place

2.17.26 9:14 pm What is your favorite number that isn't in 9 8 7?

how about the square root of 2, except i might have snuck that in there

2.17.26 8:54 pm how should i stay consistent making art? do i even need to be consistent?

sometimes getting this right means getting it wrong. i'm sorry if that sounds confusing, but it turns out that's how it stays interesting

2.17.26 8:45 pm But how do i pull a habit out of a rat?

rehab

2.17.26 8:38 pm is it possible to be too ambitious?

ambition itself is what stretches its own limits, so it would be a sketchy thing to try to measure

2.17.26 8:09 pm people are always sitting down and sitting up, but have you ever tried to sit sideways?

yes i have

2.17.26 7:59 pm Have you had poetry in the mind recently?

THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE FOR POETRY and that time is sometimes

2.17.26 7:23 pm are you a different person 50% of the time

not entirely

2.17.26 6:07 pm Programming is an interesting thing. There are moments where I feel like nothing makes sense and my world is ending and I don't know shit and I should just give up... and then I figure it out and create the this and I feel the most fulfilled I've ever been in my life and I can do fucking anything and my ego grows to gargantuan heights.

ah, the circle of life

2.17.26 5:06 pm do you think the world has been getting better or worse over these past few years?

i have absolutely no way to properly measure this, but, for reference, it's always been popular (at any time, ever) to say it's getting worse. which strongly hints to me that it is at worst approximately the same

2.17.26 3:22 pm In two friends on the beach, he says, "I think I'm going to take the friendship picture," and later, "thanks for coming with me I usually buy terrible pictures unless when you're here I buy the good ones" or something which would imply that he bought the picture. But he doesn't take the picture with him. So did he buy it or not? and if he did, why did he not take it, let alone pay money for it?

it was my impression that he whispered it to the person at the podium, who is to make arrangements for the purchase and delivery. it's one of those high brow kind of places, despite its average retail storefront

2.17.26 2:38 pm do you like sports?

i appreciate that it's possible for either team to win

2.17.26 1:38 pm are floors just sideways walls that we walk on, or are walls just sideways floors that separate different rooms?

it really all depends on the direction of gravity

2.17.26 1:27 pm do you think the song 'Rain Rain Go Away' offends people who like rain?

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

2.17.26 1:15 pm HEY BILL, WOULD YOU CONSIDER YOURSLEF TO BE A [[BIG SHOT!!!]??

that sounds like a halloween costume

2.17.26 12:43 pm Are things different than they always have been

it's always a blend of similar and different. that is the chef's promise

2.17.26 11:07 am did you use random scenes in the music video for "if the world doesn't end"? I feel like the visuals have less continuity in this one

yes you are right, i pillaged my archive of test scenes and used 70% of them

2.17.26 11:05 am How to stop consuming media and instead create my own. The urge to start is killing me but I can't bring myself to start for some reason.

you're craving a creative outlet. it's only a matter of time before you find something you enjoy

2.17.26 8:08 am Why is it that the least funny thing you can do is try to be funny?

did you not expect being funny to have funny rules

2.17.26 7:59 am thoughts on february's calendar looking like a 7x4 rectangle if your week starts on sunday? next year it'll look like that if your week starts on monday!

this is why february often inspires the urge to learn how the rest of the calendar year is lined up. learn the basics, like apr==jul, sep==dec, which is a gateway to then start looking into the 28 year cycle of leap patterns, etc depending on what size can of worms you ordered

2.17.26 6:49 am i want to make lists of things to do and i will start in some way or another BUT i never finish doing it in that particular method because i get carried away thinking about other ways to do it. so instead of doing things, i spend a lot of time thinking about 'how to do lists to do things'. And it drives me crazy!! because when i eventually start doing stuff and the momentum is going, everything is great. is there any way i could just do things more consistently? how do i hack my brain to do that

it may be possible that the consistency is already fine, youre just sometimes having a confidence problem where youre worried that the consistency isnt good enough. creative success is exactly like weather patterns

2.17.26 5:41 am you ever think about stuff?

that's exactly what distracted me from giving a better answer than this

2.17.26 5:16 am Do you believe in the idea of genres of music

i guess it all depends how much fun you want to have

2.17.26 4:27 am When will we run out of atoms

that all depends on whether or not it's possible to recycle the atom

2.17.26 4:07 am Is the color orange named after the fruit or the other way around?

orange fruit was first

2.17.26 3:40 am Does the order of numbers make sense?

yes it does

2.17.26 1:56 am favorite radiohead song?

the happy one

2.17.26 1:52 am Are we gonna get rapid fire release of songs/projects when you've got a few saved up, or a trickle.

there will be a lot

2.17.26 1:14 am why is life so beautiful?

could be defective

2.17.26 12:38 am How come lies can make a song feel more honest

if the words are wrong then they instantly get out of the way and reveal how truthful the music is

2.17.26 12:17 am when there's so many questions you want to ask, but not enough time/space to ask all of them, how do you go about picking the best question to ask?

how do i pick how to answer

2.16.26 10:39 pm i've been full of love and poetry and colors and magic lately, is there something wrong with that?

now that you mention it, it could be a cover up for something

2.16.26 10:28 pm what are your thoughts on marching bands? if you don't have any thoughts on the topic, then what was your most recent breakfast?

i had a marching breakfast

2.16.26 10:20 pm I want to be rich but I also hate rich people. What do I do?

you'll have to become the world's first likeable rich person

2.16.26 10:01 pm what inspires you to get out of bed on those days when you really don't feel like it ??

what inspires life to exist

2.16.26 9:51 pm would you rather eat sand or not eat sand

how about apples

2.16.26 9:42 pm do you like apples

not that much

2.16.26 9:42 pm i can really use some words of affirmation right now can you give some

it sounds like you're doing fine, but to be fair you didnt tell me whats wrong

2.16.26 9:32 pm what do i do if i'm scared every decision i make will cause something horrible

you could start daydreaming about mathematics, for escapism

2.16.26 9:22 pm how to inspire you self?

grab an ice cold [not a sponsor]

2.16.26 9:14 pm Have you ever worn hard clothing and then Try to compensate by eating soft food

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

2.16.26 8:45 pm What do you do when life gives you lemons?

give life some melons in return

2.16.26 8:21 pm do you consider yourself to be wise or emotionally intelligent

ah, this is one of those 'choose your own adventure' compliments

2.16.26 8:05 pm Sometimes when i improv on the piano i kinda zone out like i'm not even aware that i'm playing, or daydreaming while i do this. Am i schizo???

that could just be your stage name

2.16.26 7:18 pm What is an instrument you've wanted to learn, but haven't yet? Or do you know them all?

how about 'measured judgement'

2.16.26 6:35 pm what's your hottest take about squids?

the regular size squid is actually the giant. it's like a built in upsell, like they do at wendys sometimes

2.16.26 6:34 pm would you rather have it so restaurants never get your order wrong or be buried alive on the exoplanet wasp-12b

let me think

2.16.26 6:34 pm What's a pasta shape that doesnt exist yet, that you would like to see in the future?

3 ring binder

2.16.26 5:18 pm what is insanity

it's one of those old television tropes

2.16.26 4:22 pm bill i dont get standard deviation. Can you explain it to me

"how close is close enough?" standard deviation tells this

2.16.26 3:34 pm What's the most subjectively boring thing you find interesting?

figuring out who gets to be the subject and who's the object, in these scenarios

2.16.26 1:17 pm hey bill i've been having internet issues with my computer for the past few days and your website is what i've been using to test if it works how does that make you feel?

important

2.16.26 12:26 pm favorite harry potter character ?

i can only think of one

2.16.26 9:30 am what are some changes you would've done to your rain poem in "when i get older", if you have any

"no changes, it's fine" ~ my poem about how the other poem is

2.16.26 6:37 am i want to peruse a career in screenwriting. can you give me an idea for a short film i could write? it can be as dumb or as serious as you want

you could just make it about me telling you what to write

2.16.26 3:38 am Did you study jazz in high school or college? I've noticed in your music that you use a lot of advanced things like tritone substitutions or a ton of extensions or dominant chords resolving unexpectedly. Or maybe you just grew up listening to jazz?

have you ever walked in the woods between ohio and indiana not been sure where ohio stops and indiana begins? the same thing happens to anyone who's heard or played enough different music in their life, you realize there is no actual or visible border between this thing you call 'jazz' and not that thing

2.16.26 2:38 am if you could have an extra one of anything what would it be

i would do an extra song

2.16.26 1:13 am when all the ppl in power have no soul but u keep taking their advice and it doesn't work for some reason

do you ever wonder if you would still have a soul if you were ever in power

2.15.26 10:44 pm You ever look up at the stars and wonder how many of them have aliens?

might ponder the difference between an alien and not an alien

2.15.26 10:09 pm how do you have such a unique thought process not only while answering these questions, but making music?

what you wanna do is go into 'settings' .....

2.15.26 6:14 pm Is the point of life to have a lot of sex and make a lot of money? If not what is it?

imagine if there was an invention that had infinite different purposes. pretty cool, right, this invention has infinite meanings, infinite purposes, infinte ways it can be. infinite stories it can tell. that would be a pretty cool invention. these same qualities also apply to this 'life' thing you mentioned earlier

2.15.26 5:19 pm If you could have any animal as a pet (even fictional), what would it be?

can i just have fiction as a pet

2.15.26 4:59 pm how do you keep lists of things to do, do they ever get big and do you have like a system or something for them

you could spend a whole lifetime trying different systems. heck, i'm trying some right now

2.15.26 4:50 pm One of my friends wants to start writing poems again but doesn't have any ideas. What prompts do you have?

write something that could be the first poem that ever existed. also try to make it the worst if you can

2.15.26 2:37 pm do you think ohio memes are still funny in 2026?

i'll give you this much, "...in [year]" memes are still funny in ohio

2.15.26 11:41 am How do i stop procrastinating and start writing my book?

might as well try to deny yourself the immense joys of writing for as long as possible

2.15.26 11:29 am how does it make you feel when you see many people waiting with baited breath for your next upload?

it's inspiring

2.15.26 11:20 am How can one handle both deeply meaningful, complicated tasks and mundane, boring ones?

maybe you could switch them

2.15.26 10:18 am what is your favorite type of pasta, mine is the one where it goes long and good...

there's this one called [not a sponsor] which i really like lately

2.15.26 10:14 am Will you talk more about Steve in the future

i will make more new things for you to wish i would talk more about

2.15.26 8:52 am is it okay to hang a chair on a wall?

sure just dont make a habit of it

2.15.26 8:12 am how to melody??

the melody itself describes how, or at least one of the ways

2.15.26 6:41 am what fonts do you use?

whatever i can get. sometimes i go nuts with different ones, other times i chill out and just use regular to let the words themselves do the talking

2.15.26 2:32 am Do you like the more personal questions better, or the more "What's your opinion on lampshades dominating the universe" type questions?

every question is a new challenge, such as: to consder how many types of questions there are

2.15.26 1:08 am if blue was a color what color would it be

a 'named' color. a color with a name

2.14.26 11:07 pm Would you agree, that to know how small is too small, one would have to know how large is too large?

the implication here is that you are working with some size limits. but does a lower limit imply the existence of an upper limit? no it does not have to

2.14.26 11:02 pm What do you think animals would do if they had hands

pick things up

2.14.26 9:50 pm You described yourself as being on a "bonkers lifepath." I like that description. In what way is it bonkers?

that was refering to the way it was described in the question you took that from

2.14.26 9:20 pm What to do when I feel like I don't know what to do with my time?

how about doing everything

2.14.26 8:25 pm What's something you used to dislike but learned to like? Maybe I could learn to like it, if it's also something I dislike.

i think it's important to ask yourself why you want to like the thing you dislike. who likes it, and are you trying to gain their favor.....

2.14.26 7:31 pm i enjoy music a lot, ive even taught myself a bit of music theory, but i have found that the process of actually making music isn't something i enjoy very much. i can't tell if it just isn't for me or i just need to get past the initial discomfort around being bad at it. uuhhhh what do i do?? ?

how about........ listening to music

2.14.26 7:27 pm if there's a great britain, does mean there's a little britain (and if there is, then where is it)?

maybe great britain thinks of all the overseas territories as little britains

2.14.26 6:35 pm how do I start a timeline of everything that has happened since the beginning of human history

you'll probably never be able to discern exactly everything that's ever happened, so first you'll have to decide which re-tellings of the story youre going to be following and referencing, or if you're going to make your own

2.14.26 5:16 pm if the universe is expanding at all points am i expanding too

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

2.14.26 4:23 pm Thoughts on February?

blink and you might miss it

2.14.26 4:07 pm how to stop someone from doing something without using punishments?

maybe you could make an offer they cant refuse

2.14.26 4:06 pm I have this crazy mental block with lyrics, where I feel like I'm incapable of judging them. I can't tell if they're good or not. I keep trying to think of what other people will think of them, and then I just get paralysis. How do i worry less about what other people will think of my music and lyrics, and learn to write for ME?

what drew you towards music in the first place? have you had such experiences with music where the music touched and affected YOU deeply and personally? if so, then that's what it's all about, that's where you wanna go. If you've never had this, then..... well, ... have you ever had this? i'm guessing this must have happened at some point, to trigger your attraction towards music and desire to work with it

2.14.26 2:45 pm what was your reaction when you found out the sun was going to explode as a kid

i dont recall finding out a sun-explosion is any kind of probable within any kind of timeframe anywhere near ours

2.14.26 2:37 pm what do i do if i'm so anxious that i throw up and shake before every exam even though i've studied . it's the worst for oral exams, extremely evil type of activity

you'll learn something from this but hopefully you wont have to do it again after this phase of your life

2.14.26 2:06 pm have you ever considered writing a musical?

almost all of my work is musical

2.14.26 1:01 pm is arial the best font?

no, but it's there

2.14.26 12:09 pm Have you ever been in a situation where you had a bunch of partway completed projects but just couldn't bring yourself to push them over the line to a state where they could be shared? I either move onto the next thing too quickly or just sit on my hands while they languish. Do you have any advice on how one gets themselves out of that situation and into the realm of completed works?

this can be a lifetime endeavor. there's an unlimited number of different strategies you can use. if your desire to have completed works is strong enough, you will have no choice but to start doing some strategies. most of them are very simple, and just involve doing the stuff and finishing it, but if you have hangups and issues then it all comes down to whether the desire can overcome the hangups

2.14.26 12:02 pm What's the difference between magic powers and super powers?

they're both fictional tropes but also useful metaphors. couldnt really describe the difference other than just the way the words look and sound, whichever one you decide to use

2.14.26 8:26 am how to make music sheets

take a look at as many of them as you can, while also knowing how the music sounds. compare how it sounds to how it looks, keep doing this for more and more pieces and before you know it you'll be fluent. pretty much the same way you learned to read and write in english, probably

2.14.26 6:45 am have you ever taught a 1 on 1 lesson? and would you ever be willing to teach a 1 on 1 lesson?

it's better if people just come to me for advice if they need it

2.14.26 6:12 am how has the corporatization of the current world affected your life?

it doesnt feel like this has really changed during my lifetime

2.14.26 5:55 am i have a weird ego complex where i think i am the """"chosen one""" and this translates to a deep desire to do something very big and important with my life. now you may say "that's not a bad thing" well it makes my current life feel empty by comparison. now one could say 'oh change your life'. but i am 1) generally resistent to change and 2) actually quite content with my current life, at least most of the time. my overall view on this is that i think this desire is an unhealthy one, but i'm incapable of just, like, squashing it. do you have any advice

there's plusses and minuses to this. on the one hand it can lead to a lot of insanity and a very unfair and imbalanced worldview. HOWEVER, it also is maybe the most potent artistic fuel there could ever be. so there's that

2.14.26 4:04 am I think after reading some of your answers on questions i completely forgot, i've concluded that i Need to begin transcribing music to practice music like id practice listening and writing for a language. and i've began! am i on a good path? and what would you recommend i keep in mind (in general)((optional))? thank youu

this goes differently for everyone. i certainly had a pretty great time doing a lot of this when i was younger. it seems like it's working for you. it's a pretty easy game, you just keep doing it and you automatically get better and smarter and finding out more about yourself and the world

2.14.26 3:28 am is there such thing a stupid question?

yes but there's also stupid answers as well

2.14.26 3:07 am do you think you could remember all the songs you made

i'm more focused on the ones i havent made yet

2.14.26 3:07 am what is so envelope-y about envelope filters?

heck, whats so envelopey about envelopes

2.14.26 2:29 am favorite baseball team?

the westbound outsiders

2.14.26 1:59 am do i like men, women or (checks list) posters of stock photo sewage pipes?

no need to decide right now. sometimes we have no way of even describing or predicting what we'll like

2.14.26 1:54 am have you ever overthought to the point where you just end up shutting down for a while because of how bad you made the situation in your head

oh sure

2.14.26 1:50 am Were the '90s really the last "golden age" for American cinema?

hahahaha no everyone always thinks the 'golden age' was some time in the past while never seeming to recognize anything golden about their current time period. time passing just brings fondness to memories, it seems. i have clips and references from yesteryear to prove this as a continuous phenomenon regardless of what date

2.14.26 12:39 am how did you hold on to this dream for so long? you must be pretty darn intelligent. when things get heavy, my brain puts the dream on pause, changes the channel, and loses the remote.

what do you switch to

2.13.26 10:45 pm do you ever look back on your life and wish you could have done more and feel regretful? if yes, what's your best advice on brushing past this and trying ignore the past and build yourself a better future?

as soon as you get moving it will get better

2.13.26 10:27 pm Is it ever appropriate to be mean? Straight up nasty?

there's surely some context missing

2.13.26 8:35 pm When I need to save a project in my daw I usually close my eyes with the loop I made playing and try to think of a combination of words informed by the music. I end up with a bunch of file names like "nevadakedavra", "arctic crocs", "lemonshoom", basically a bunch of useless names I can't remember, but they're fun. Do you have a unique naming convention for your files? How do you organize your unfinished stuff before you've decided on names and things?

in general my songwriting usually includes words, so if there's words in it then it's usually easy to name, BUT, sometimes the very nascent song ideas and bits dont have any words yet, and by default they are often just named with the date/time but sometimes it is useful to name them abstractly as needed

2.13.26 7:55 pm what's your middle favourite question to be asked

this one

2.13.26 7:31 pm Why were most of your old songs in the key of e?

you just happened to hear maybe 2 or 3 of them in a row and made a generalization which is not quite right

2.13.26 6:47 pm what time of the universe is it?

this one, i dont know how else to describe it

2.13.26 6:20 pm how much sand is there..... total???

forgive me, i didn't count the sand

2.13.26 6:06 pm Do you see it as a limitation (and I'm not saying that limitations are necessarily a bad thing) that since all the characters in your skit-type videos (Perfect, 2 Friends on a Beach) are voiced by you, they all sound like you? Would you ever get someone else to voice a character for that kind of video, if you wanted a character to sound drastically different? Or would you just use some kind of voice editing software?

ultimately i consider it a positive limitation

2.13.26 6:02 pm last month you wished a gizmo called "push buttons" existed. great news: the buttons on arcade machines are called push buttons! anyways how do you feel about pilk (pepsi and milk)

i feel you should have several good creative outlets if you dont already have them

2.13.26 5:16 pm Do you ever feel like you're not you? If so, how do you stop making you feel like not being you? If not, do you like bugs?

it's like the weather. sometimes i feel i seem more like myself than other times

2.13.26 4:42 pm How do i become a pretty princess

check to see if you arent already one, or else risk being double princess

2.13.26 4:22 pm how to listen to new music? i want to hear a lot of all different kinds of songs but idk how to even begin doing that

the dirty secret about music discovery is it often works best when the song comes to you, attached to a something palatable such as a movie or retail shopping experience

2.13.26 2:36 pm how important is the look of your instruments to you? I for one would really struggle to buy a instrument (let's say a guitar, coz pianos are generally not as diverse) I don't like visually, even if it had features I desired and/or was within my intended price range

yes, having good looking things around is certainly good luck, and that's not a coincidence: because you see the things and it makes you feel good to see them and also makes you feel good about yourself

2.13.26 1:57 pm what about life?

a lot of things are about life

2.13.26 12:26 pm how do i become consistent in habits that i am trying to establish for the first time?

the first time you cant be consistent yet. for the first time all you have to do is do it once. which goes a long way, because starting is a vitally important step

2.13.26 12:09 pm how many picoseconds until more content

at least a handful

2.13.26 12:04 pm Thoughts on chairs

hard to believe

2.13.26 10:39 am something i've found is that whenever a teacher goes quiet, everyone starts paying attention, especially if they weren't doing so before. often for many reasons, such as the possibility of teachers going silent and staring at people to get them to pay attention. since everyone in the room realizes the teacher is silent, they look up to see if they're being stared at, even if they aren't. i believe that this technique is something that teachers should use more, and they should stop talking for the rest of the period.

the same exact thing is important in music, in movies, .... in music for movies, .... it's a super handy tool for any artist, "whatever youre doing, make sure you stop sometimes", that's kind of the only way to even get the best out of whatever that thing is

2.13.26 9:26 am Do you have any favorite music artists that inspired you to create your own music?

even if i knew who my favorites were i still wouldnt know

2.13.26 9:11 am What IS ambition??

wanting to do or accomplish something big

2.13.26 8:00 am Have you written music an any mode other than ionian or aeolian

sure. for those attempting to keep score on this (it may unravel a bit sometimes because things can move around) i think you'll find sufficient amounts of your friends 'dorian' and 'mixolydian', indesputably.
for example, the verse vamps of "i'm scared" are decisively conveying 'mixolydian', and the verse vamps of '987' are definitely conveying 'dorian'

but here's where the keeping score falls apart, for example: if you wanted to, you might be able to claim, for example, that the first 16 bars of 'princess' are 'lydian', because it starts on a G chord and all the melody can be clocked there as G lydian, but i just dont think it's right to call it Lydian, it's just D major starting from the 4 chord. heck you could even call that whole thing A mixolydian if you want. but to me that's just the key of D, and i think most songwriters would probably agree with me. what i'm trying to say is this happens to anyone, if you try to 'write something in lydian', F lydian for example, youre just going to find yourself in C after you write a couple of bars and get invested in what's happening. For example, it's like if you wanted to write a movie that takes place at the store..... well as soon as you write a couple of scenes and get invested in the characters, they're gonna eventually go home and you'll find out that they have a home, the store was not their home, even though it was in the first scene.
anyway, the interlude vamp of 'ground plane' could be considered phrygian natural3, or mixolydian flat2 flat6 equivalently, whichever one gets you more experience points

2.13.26 3:59 am Do you think that part of what makes great artists so great is that they tend to think their art isn't so great? Some sort of humility-quality correlation? I know every artist is their own worst critic, but I also wonder if taking less pride in your work tends to boost a drive to improve.

there's a lot of different ways for it to work. i think for many artists there can be deep feelings of doubt and dread, but sometimes it all comes down to those moments of sudden extreme self confidence, thinking for a moment that you can do anything. probably a lot of highs and lows may be common in artists. HOWEVER it could also be equally common for artists to have neither highs nor lows

2.13.26 1:33 am Whats the meaning of life?

there are unlimited meanings and unlimited meaning, in life. if you're having trouble finding it, then i wish you a meaningful search

2.13.26 12:43 am were you excited when you first learned about math?

yes i believe so, if i could even remember that far back

2.13.26 12:41 am do you consider yourself as someone good in comedy

you wont really catch me going "hey folks, heres some comedy [some stuff that was promised to be comedy], that was comedy" because i think doing that sucks, and that type of behaviour is especially bad for comedy of all things

2.13.26 12:39 am Why does the uestionsQ page use a Yellow-Purple-White colour scheme?

because i can

2.12.26 11:57 pm should i start a video store?

start 2 of them if you can

2.12.26 11:00 pm will this question be answered?

i'll see what i can do

2.12.26 10:59 pm what is the 28th word in your next song

i'd rather just let you hear the whole song

2.12.26 10:18 pm Do you think there is a universe where bikes don't exist?

sure

2.12.26 10:17 pm If I hear one pitch, I can usually tell what note it is, but if I'm listening to a song, I cannot tell what an individual note is anymore, you know what I mean?

most musicians are the opposite. they can tell notes musically but not without the music

2.12.26 9:18 pm how to commit to something even if i'm scared to do it? (college)

there's no way to explain it until after you've done it. and even then you still might not be able to explain how you did it. Unless youre not going to do it, in which case you may never know either

2.12.26 7:57 pm what color of light do you prefer

regular

2.12.26 6:15 pm so you hate both pancakes and waffles?

2.12.26 5:59 pm I want to rule the world and cast a fireball and everyone dies except for the people I like who stay alive but the people I don't like they are going to die of course you are not going to die. Is that bad

it certainly sounds bad on paper

2.12.26 5:26 pm What is your philosophy?

you'd probably be able to see it better in the answer to almost any question other than this one

2.12.26 4:28 pm how to trust the right people and push through failure

as if by magic

2.12.26 4:08 pm an annoying issue i discovered is i get really excited about what im about to learn in college, so i research it on my own, but this leads to me being really bored when said subject begins in class so i stop paying attention and then suddenly the lecture gets to a level i didnt reach by myself and because i havent been paying attention im lost

maybe you could research it by yourself while sitting in class

2.12.26 3:03 pm is it safe to assume the world won't end later today?

yes i believe so

2.12.26 1:55 pm Your song "The road" seems to be heavy with meaning. There is something portentous about it. Was there something at the time that had an influence on your writing? Is there a deeper context? Or am I just loosing it about some lyrics that sounded nice to you? Love this song, love your work!

they tend to come out this way when i write them from beginning to end on paper all at once. also, where you mention 'lyrics', i think 'music' is at least as much to blame for any of the deep places this one might go

2.12.26 1:23 pm what's the most random thing in the universe?

if anything is 'most random', it would be by definition not random. random needs a whole equal field of choices

2.12.26 11:29 am How many roads must a man walk down?

any number will be fine

2.12.26 10:18 am is there a difference between choosing to not choose and not choosing to choose?

yes i believe so

2.12.26 9:48 am why is "out for lunch" so much more popular than "out for dinner" or "out for breakfast"?

in general it may be more common for people to do their professional work in the middle of the day. so if they go out for a meal in the middle of the work day it will most often be lunch time

2.12.26 9:37 am Do you want to know what I think about business meetings?

sure

2.12.26 8:45 am how are you the greatest being to ever exist

perhaps you've simply drunk the kool aid

2.12.26 5:36 am do you think all artists struggle to communicate in any other way (other then art)?

surely not all, but, some

2.12.26 5:35 am opinions on fanfic

simultaneously overrated and underrated

2.12.26 4:46 am what if i can't sing

you can do something else, but also sometimes people who say they can't sing can sing

2.12.26 1:10 am Reading these is comforting. This is the last text on the internet that I can feel reasonably confident isn't Ai generated or targeted to sell me something based on the entire history of my digital existence. It's authentic here. I read these when the world makes me sad. Thanks

makes you realize the great value of building trust

2.12.26 12:55 am Can I become a banjo by avoiding what the not banjos do?

not exactly

2.12.26 12:47 am yoo. Whats gud dwg . you ever wonder like about the status quo or whatever? cuz if there's uh like for example, a problem with how negatively people react to something you want to say, then youd well maybe youd want to show everyone the right way and fight against said pre-concieved notions. but also when interacting with someone and ur thinking about emotional impact and all that stuff then you have to take into account that they'll react negatively without knowing there's a problem with that, and you may want to avoid saying the thing that makes people react that way. of course, there's stuff to be said about whether there actually is a problem with their reaction, but that's a different convo
Did i explain all this right? basically i want 2 argue about the system but ppl have an attachment to it that i respect

there are all kinds of ways for different things to be said, reacted to, and more. you've told a story about a bit of conflict in this area but i believe that's just the tip of the ice berg

2.11.26 11:43 pm best time zone?

2.11.26 11:26 pm How close are you to understanding the secret workings of the Universe?

they are again and again very relatable and familiar, but there's an unlimited amount, and also an unlimited amout of ways to understand, while still remains an unlimited amount of mystery

2.11.26 11:24 pm Based on your previous advice I rented five hurdy gurdies and now I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere somewhere and everywhere all at once what do I do now?

begin a multi-generational comic strip franchise

2.11.26 10:52 pm Still waiting on for new Damien Maymdiem lore

working on some new and different lore for you to wait on more lore for

2.11.26 10:22 pm what's your favorite thing to do on neptune?

try to find a way out of neptune

2.11.26 9:25 pm is it mean if multiple people consider me their best friend when i myself dont have a best friend?

it's an interesting thought experiment

2.11.26 8:14 pm can you estimate how many feet are in a kilometer without looking it up

based on some of the speed limit signs i've seen, maybe it's about 3000

2.11.26 6:52 pm can you tell me a secret about me?

not if you've done a good enough job keeping it secret

2.11.26 6:42 pm What's something you're sure about?

i'm sure that there are things i'm unsure about

2.11.26 5:36 pm what's your third least favorite food

there are at least 10 that i may have blocked out of my memory entirely

2.11.26 5:35 pm Can isn't a very common name, why is that?

most people are just busy having other names

2.11.26 5:30 pm Am I a banjo?

no i dont believe so

2.11.26 5:28 pm Do you think that world has gotten more immature

i collect clips and excerpts of people saying that at all different times in history, for good luck

2.11.26 4:43 pm what is your favorite container

the box.... from when people say "think outside the box"

2.11.26 3:43 pm How do you focus on solving the problem over trying to escape it

identifying the problem is sometimes important

2.11.26 3:12 pm Why do chords on piano on the lowest octave (and partially on the one above) sound so unintelligible?

what i know even less is why can we see only one octave of color

2.11.26 2:17 pm do you ever feel like you have no controll over your life? like you're expected to do these things?
How do you handle that?

sometimes you can find different ways to do those things, within the requirements

2.11.26 1:58 pm How do printers work?

i'm not totally sure

2.11.26 1:11 pm how do you make your music? it sounds really good :3

my secret trick is to try to make it sound really bad

2.11.26 12:35 pm Why does the things i wanna do seem so difficult to start?

to make it more rewarding to accomplish

2.11.26 11:44 am how do i overcome creative block when writing music?

sooner or later you will find your own enjoyment. if you are too stubborn and continually refuse, it will find you anyway

2.11.26 11:06 am can you make a water-flavored bread

wonderbread is water flavored

2.11.26 11:05 am ideal pb to j ratio?

they have the ideal sandwich on display for reference at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures

2.11.26 11:00 am do you think every single decision we make is intertwined together, and just by making one small change, we change the trajectory of the entire universe? does that make us god, or atleast extremely powerful?

if we all are that powerful then do you suppose the powers would kind of all balance out

2.11.26 9:21 am Should I drop out of school and peruse my dreams of working a ferry boat? The lake calls for me every time I stare out my window

maybe after it calls 2 or 3 more times

2.11.26 8:02 am Is the universe a cycle?

there are many cycles in it, then there are also things that progress uniquely forward

2.11.26 8:00 am what do you think of poetry

so crazy it just might work

2.11.26 6:35 am Idk why but the voice in my head narrating all my thoughts can switch from my voice to another voice i've heard a solid amount of. Is that something your internal monologue can do? Or am I just weird?

it's normal if you've been listening to someone a lot lately, you start to imagine things in their voice

2.11.26 3:55 am just said the word 'peak' today and I think it's the first time I've used it unironically

it's all down hill from here

2.11.26 1:42 am are you good at connect 4?

my high score in connect 4 is 3

2.11.26 12:51 am how did the guys hat get bent in "slow down" ?

i bent it. a songwriting trick, sometimes, is to go ahead and bend a hat

2.11.26 12:36 am What should i draw today

how about part of a handkercheif

2.11.26 12:00 am Answering with one word. describe the lighting of the room you are in.

sensible

2.10.26 11:18 pm what is the first word in one of the projects you're working on?

it wouldnt make sense out of context

2.10.26 11:00 pm have you played a game before

that's preposterous. who do you think i am

2.10.26 10:44 pm opinions on vhs?

"be kind, please rewind" or "be a jerk and leave the tape at the end"

2.10.26 10:35 pm why does chess make me really angry

maybe it's just because your opponent is trying to destroy you in the game and make you lose

2.10.26 10:10 pm are you left- or right-handed?

i'll say this much, i ride goofy footed

2.10.26 9:10 pm Why does having a fake nemesis motivate me so much?

you may be naturally competitive

2.10.26 8:02 pm why did the road cross the chicken

sort of a pre-emptive strike

2.10.26 7:18 pm Is the end of the world a good thing?

sometimes one world ending gives way for another to begin

2.10.26 6:16 pm what are your thoughts on comic sans

commands respect

2.10.26 6:09 pm What music genre are you?

"whatever gets the job done"

2.10.26 5:44 pm What's your opinion on "9 8 7"?

it would be hard to stop me from doing a song about numbers

2.10.26 5:16 pm Do you have any taco preferences?

i prefer to be surprised by what taco it is

2.10.26 4:51 pm what was the first instrument you learned

piano or drums

2.10.26 4:27 pm When was the last time you drank water?

moments ago

2.10.26 4:03 pm have you ever run a blackjack business

no i dont believe so

2.10.26 3:40 pm as you have seen several years of questions come through this box, what are the truly evergreen events, the things that actually get asked about every single year at the same time? i.e. the olympics, the super bowl, that sort of thing

(olympics are not every year, right?) "new years resolutions", "valentines day", many many other calendar events throughout the year, surely most of them youve heard of, people talk about the school schedule, graduation, going back to school or going to a new school in august/september, people begin talking about halloween in august, christmas/holidays are always talked about, all four named calendar seasons are talked about, plenty of other special days with puns and song references, multiple september song references are made in september (EWF, greenday, me), and much more

2.10.26 3:25 pm I noticed that some of your older music seems to have instrumentation that seems mostly consistent across the song, whereas your newer music has instrumentation that rapidly changes. Do you think making short jingles for a while affected this?

no i dont believe so, i think it was a new technique i discovered around 2015 that i specifically needed for longer songs

2.10.26 2:25 pm Was the questions page always like this or did it get improved over time?

there have been very tiny improvements that would mostly go unnoticed

2.10.26 1:23 pm Thoughts on February?

short and sweet

2.10.26 11:40 am do some of your songs have more abstract meanings than others

maybe, although there's not really any way to measure this

2.10.26 11:40 am When you talk do people listen?

sometimes they do

2.10.26 11:08 am why does my voice sound worse the more i care about the outcome of the recording?

because it's distracting you from how it really feels to sing the thing you're singing

2.10.26 10:39 am Would Anglo Saxon be a good name for a goldfish, what if I had 2 goldfish, what if I named them Anglo and Sacon respectively?

they might try to name you something

2.10.26 10:39 am is writing songs fun for you?

more than fun

2.10.26 10:11 am Ever since watching your 3D skit-type videos like Perfect and 2 Friends on the Beach, it's changed my perception of your play featuring the iPhone power block and the mechanical pencil from all the way back in 2014. I now see that video as a sort of prototype or precursor of those later skit-type videos; I could easily see those two friends on the beach having a very similar conversation to the one the power brick and mechanical pencil had all those years ago, and that's given me additional respect for that original video from 2014 than I maybe had before. Do you think of that video in a similar way?

of course

2.10.26 8:00 am Would you call a chord that consists of B, E, and G# in that order an E/B?

usually the slash notation ("E over B") means the B is actually a bass note. what i'm trying to say is, if you played only those 3 notes in a chord in the mid range (like around middle C) i dont think you'd wanna call it E/B because the B wont feel like a bass note because it's just not low enough. (and if all 3 notes were played in the bass range that would of course not sound like a chord either, it would be sludge). how about this: play B, E, and G# around the middle C range, then one octave below the B, play an additional B in the bass. now you have the sound of something that would rightfully be written on the page as "E/B", pronounced "E over B", or "E with B in the bass"

2.10.26 7:34 am do you have a "thinking voice"? people describe it as an actual voice in their head that "narrates their thoughts", but i don't think i have it. although at some point in the past, i feel like i did

sometimes it may be useful to create this by speaking on recording. it can help to sort out your thoughts. sometimes something comes out that was missed before when you were thinking voicelessly

2.10.26 5:04 am are you ever in a bad mental spot but then you realize you can just stop the bad thoughts and get a little jiggy with it?, (for example dancing)?

can happen. not necessarily always invoking the will smith reference per se, mais oui, on peut 'rock out' de temps en temps, sorry just learning english

2.10.26 2:02 am how do I go the right road in life when I DONT HAVE A CAR!?

according to the metaphor you are using ('road in life'), anything is a car

2.10.26 12:11 am is music actually good

it's impossible for it to be actually good, which is why it seems so miraculous when it somehow is

2.9.26 11:49 pm whats your favorite letter of the alphabet?

i have to combine different letters together. that's the only thing that does it for me anymore

2.9.26 10:46 pm sorry for this question... but how can i have hope that things might work out for me in the future when i can't imagine myself being the kind of person i wish to be, nor can i imagine how to possibly getting to a point where i feel more secure/happy? everything is so hard for me. am i just fucked?? i know you say that people get tired of normal, but i'd give anything to make myself normally functional, just to see what that might feel like. my brain is broken or something

write 9 other versions of this, based on how you are feeling over the next 9 days

2.9.26 10:17 pm thoughts?

yes thoughts. that is correct

2.9.26 10:12 pm you ever just ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

yes i do

2.9.26 9:19 pm how do i play a chord on the triangle

i was going to say you need two triangles but even then it's dicey because those things kind of dont really ring on an exact pitch. but if you get two different sizes and strike them at the same time i believe you can claim it's a chord. especially if you get 3 different sizes but you may need some assistence from other musicians to execute this, or else record yourself 3 times

2.9.26 8:59 pm as of writing this it's been a month and two days since you answered my first question. you answered it on my birthday, which made me happy.
the question was: what is the current salmon count?
you replied with "oh maybe a handful"
considering the time it's been, do you think the salmon count is more than a handful by now? like, the size of a loaf of bread, for example?

this is a reference to a musical transition in a song video. there were some fast chords flying by just before the next verse, and to depict this on screen i stacked up a bunch of salmon fish. with a caption on screen that said "salmon count", counting them up. i dont recall what the total was, but the video has not changed since it was released. i've never heard this phrase in any other context

2.9.26 8:23 pm Do you play any games?

yes but i dont always win

2.9.26 7:24 pm is mt st helens still feeling crazy and adventurous or has it settled into a more formal and casual lifestyle?

we're in fictional territory with this but let's just say you can expect a telephone call soon from Mt St Helens itself and then you'll know all the answers and more

2.9.26 7:06 pm should I call this page the questions page or the ueqstions page (asking for a friend)

questions

2.9.26 5:39 pm where can i find willpower and grow as a person? it feels unfair to me that so many people get it from birth meanwhile i feel empty

you've already discovered that you want to, now it's just as soon as some of the envy settles down a bit and you'll be on your way with your own unique brand of personal growth

2.9.26 5:19 pm has this been asked before

yes it has

2.9.26 4:26 pm do you consider yourself a philosopher?

only if absolutely necessary

2.9.26 4:17 pm ok but what if i DO call it "ueqstions" in plaintext, for the sake of the proverbial joy and whimsy

to me it will always look like someone misunderstanding the title design, but my view is not necessarily so important

2.9.26 3:58 pm how do you even SURVIVE someone asking about genres

sometimes i lash out

2.9.26 2:52 pm can you give a bad answer to this question

      ~~the circumstance of this question makes this a paradoxical task~~
      ~~i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes~~
      i was going to say yes but now that i think about it no

2.9.26 2:31 pm why do the two people in "Perfect." randomly get in sync when talking

you know how sometimes suddenly the truth is so obvious, everyone in the room says it

2.9.26 1:04 pm how do you make songs with uncommon time signatures like i wanna be a movie star sounds so good?

that's just how the idea came to me. you can't control what ideas come to you, and if you try, the idea gods are like "hm, no ideas for you". then when you least expect it "pow, idea" and if that idea has 9 beats then that's just how it goes

2.9.26 12:36 pm How to accept failure?

start working on the next thing

2.9.26 12:34 pm any recommendations for new flavors of peanut butter?

oreo cookie

2.9.26 12:08 pm hey bill, every time i feel uneasiness disturbs my personal flow i watch your videos and songs and read things here. Could you suggest another way of doing that?

try watching them backwards

2.9.26 11:53 am Hunger is to thirst what starvation is to what word?

i only know it in 3 words, "dying of thirst". some things it takes 3 words to say, such as.... "three word phrase"

2.9.26 11:50 am how to ensure that the world is going to be either the same or better while i'm here and when i'm gone (not worse. the plan is to avoid this)

you being born already accomplishes this

2.9.26 11:16 am What is a hotdog

i have no earthly idea

2.9.26 11:03 am hey bill! what's your favorite olympic event?

judging

2.9.26 10:44 am do you listen to music?

from time to time

2.9.26 10:38 am if i pick up a mountain and hide in a suitcase, do i take the mountain with me?

not necessarily

2.9.26 10:19 am would it be too unfair of me to think of a character's lifestyle too often

i dont believe so

2.9.26 8:46 am on a scale from funky to froovy to groovy, how's your day

pretty good

2.9.26 8:27 am I am an idiot. Explain how do you answer your questions and make stuff better and be very honest about people (for some reason I want to be honest but I can't)

sometimes you have to introduce yourself to yourself

2.9.26 3:25 am how did we decide how long time is?

i'm not sure. i dont even think we know how long it is

2.9.26 3:19 am where am i supposed to find freedom?

start right there

2.9.26 1:46 am how the h-e-double-hockey-sticks do i get this thing done before valentines????? i planned out very long work blocks for multiple days so that it would get done on the 14th, and i did follow through with all of that... but i underestimated the work and realized that the goal for each work block was not met EVEN WITH full focus and energy. now im super duper very behind schedule. the planned release date is crucial to this project, whar the ffffrick am i gonna do other than panic.

how about this, lie down and very calmly panic for just 10 minutes

2.9.26 1:13 am How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck... uh... I forgot the rest of the question. Can you tell me?

"felt like it"

2.8.26 11:46 pm how do you even "yes and-" an idea? i always cut ideas short by thinking they're no good.

how about "yes and that idea sucks"

2.8.26 11:23 pm opinions on wd-40?

it's famous

2.8.26 10:35 pm why is the "q" in ueqstions green

because it's the first letter of the word

2.8.26 10:31 pm when the heck will the fire music will come back

i am cooking up much more

2.8.26 10:11 pm have you ever lucid dreamt?

perhaps i am now, although if you read this you'll know i'm not

2.8.26 10:05 pm how do I stop mentally reacting to the imagined threat of the next bad thing that will happen to me?

if you can find something interesting to work on......

2.8.26 7:45 pm what animal do you think looks the best wearin a tophat

rabbit

2.8.26 7:42 pm im currently making a country. however most people who are into "Micronations" annoy me like hell. do you get it. do you get why micronations are both cool and annoying

there's barely a thing on earth that's not both cool and annoying

2.8.26 6:59 pm Why is calculus difficult

something's gotta be difficult

2.8.26 6:27 pm if i steal something from myself is it still a theft?

it's a 'weird trick'

2.8.26 6:13 pm i had a strategy that worked for a while but now im gonna go ahead and answer to some impulses

ah, the circle of life

2.8.26 5:33 pm If I remember correctly, you often implied in your answers that the fear of not finishing a project can bring you closer to finishing it. I've been working on a personal editing project on and off for over 2 years now. Finishing it would be absolutely monumental and would change my life pretty significantly. And yet I can't seem to develop a fear of never finishing it. I don't think it's because I don't care too much about it, I really do. Maybe it's because the consequences of not finishing it would not be all too catastrophic from a financial perspective, so I don't really feel pressured in that way. What would you suggest I should do, in order to complete my project?

in that case, i'm sorry to inform you........ everything seems to be going fine

2.8.26 5:24 pm Why is it called a pick if it's still picking?

why wouldnt it be

2.8.26 4:08 pm Thoughts on this year's Super Bowl?

i haven't gotten around to thinking about it yet, but dont worry i will

2.8.26 3:54 pm How to play chords on recorder?

you may have to record it, no pun intended

2.8.26 3:45 pm Are we in reality?...

what else would there be, and what would its qualities be

2.8.26 3:20 pm I just finished one of the hardest semesters in my uni. Assignments up the roof, lab reports, presentations , exams and all, and i finally finished on Friday. In these 2 days of freedom, i went to a mountain for a hike, i went to the movies, played some basketball and socialized a lot and felt refreshed. But now the new semester starts from tomorrow, and while being easier than the last one, i feel so burnt out that i believe i ll need weeks to recover. But i cant just stop, i need to keep up cause this may be my final semester of uni. How can i push myself to go forward while still remaining sane? What do you do when you are burnt out?

in your situation i would keep a journal probably

2.8.26 2:45 pm favorite They Might Be Giants moment?

their name kind of scares me so i've honestly never listened to their music. i will eventually i promise

2.8.26 2:38 pm whats your favourite chord extension?

the 'chord extension' is a myth. imagine if the letter 'd' anywhere it occurs was considered a 'word extension'. i'm pretty sure the only reason it's called an extension is because it happens to be in chapter 4 of your textbook and not 1, for some reason chapter 1 only has words without d in it

2.8.26 2:36 pm Sometimes I feel like an alien. Obviously everyone's brain works differently, but sometimes your brain works so differently that it's hard to relate to others and get along with them the way the average person does. It's like the path my brain takes to make a joke or reference is so far away from what other people's brains would do that I just come off as strange. I don't think there's anything wrong with being strange, but it makes me sad sometimes. I can see the look on their face when they have the moment of realizing "oh, he's not like me". Have you ever struggled with feeling this way? Sometimes it feels like there is a language barrier even when we're both speaking the same language.

the reward for bridging this gap in communication is monumental. you will be able to show them things that they've never dreamed of

2.8.26 1:01 pm is there more to life?

yes there is. of course i dont know what you have found so far, but, regardless, there is more

2.8.26 12:19 pm how to detect sarcasm

this might work: watch some movies in foreign languages. this may give you some practice in detecting people's feelings through their communication, without being distracted by the 'correct' meanings of the individual words they are saying

2.8.26 12:03 pm thoughts on the cold?

it must be warm some other time

2.8.26 11:22 am How do I overlay my neurocognitive processing bandwidth onto the object's quantum decoherence matrix?

why not just use 'the force'

2.8.26 9:42 am Why can't I get myself to do the stuff I wanna do

because you dont know exactly how

2.8.26 9:28 am have you been to earth

still there

2.8.26 8:59 am why are some people so fucking rude

they are possibly still enraged about someone else being rude to them just moments before

2.8.26 8:57 am if the world was to turn all languages into one to create a ''universal language'', what would it be called?

the "universal language"

2.8.26 8:25 am are people built to be famous?

was a dog built for stairs? ....Potentially. there's a lot of potential things we are equpped for even if it's not always the most common outcome

2.8.26 8:02 am 1+1=?

2.8.26 6:54 am just to confirm: when you made the "i'm sad" song, were you sad?

no. i was testing that out as a song hook, as well as some others. those tests actually made me very happy. they were empowering to me

2.8.26 6:18 am When will Hell freeze over?

some other time

2.8.26 4:54 am what do you think about all the digits in the current year adding up to 10

that will be happening every 9 years for a while

2.8.26 4:17 am Now that i think about it, triangles are so fundamental they even became an instrument that is widely used. In contrast, I have never heard of a heptagon being used as an instrument.

heptagons are, for sure, less fundamental

2.8.26 3:43 am I had hash browns at my local Denny's and they were delicious !!!

i want to believe you

2.8.26 3:23 am is there no stranger strange enough?

thank you for referencing that lyric here

2.8.26 2:39 am If steve doesn't have a job, why does he have to pay taxes? Also, the mail woman, since she's got a job, does she pay her taxes?

i left that part out

2.8.26 2:32 am Your toes are always touching, you just don't realise it

that's not true. 1: i can realize when they do, and 2: i am capable of stretching them so they dont touch

2.8.26 1:12 am I'm trying to learn two languages at once. It's going ok so far, but do you think this is a bad idea in the long run?

no i think it's good as long as you are enjoying it

2.8.26 12:59 am do you most often enjoy your cinnamon rolls with or without the frosting?

i might say wait for something not so sweet to put frosting on. cinnamon roll is already sweet. a plain roll? definitely needs the frosting

2.8.26 12:55 am Is it party time?

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

2.8.26 12:31 am What meaning do you find in creating things? I'm still struggling to find mine

at some point you have to figure out what you'd honestly wish for

2.8.26 12:18 am Favourite number?

if i could see a list of all of them that would help me decide

2.7.26 10:25 pm Is history actually just a conspiracy perpetrated by the present to make itself seem more legitimate than it actually is?

2.7.26 10:00 pm What is steve's real name

the same as yours

2.7.26 9:41 pm i feel like music is the only way for me to really feel anything anymore. i started learning debussy's first arabesque today and it didnt make me cry but it gave me a feeling of great sentimentality, if you know what i mean. or maybe thats just because im going through a particularly rough time right now

most importantly, it gives you something to do. something to focus on. in this case, something which promises (or at least intends to promise) to be lovely

2.7.26 9:27 pm How much did those special sandals cost?

they were a reward for solving a riddle

2.7.26 9:17 pm Do you own a hurdy gurdy?

never buy, always rent a hurdy gurdy

2.7.26 9:04 pm how do i stop dreaming?

you might just have to make use of the dreams

2.7.26 8:35 pm opinion on the fact of opinions may be facts that are opinions on facts?

thank you for that bit of wordplay

2.7.26 7:39 pm genuine question, how do you typically write music (as in lyrics)? you're writing style is very unique and i genuinely want to know how you are able to articulate an idea into the way you write.

      you say "music (as in lyrics)", this would be the first hazard..... to think of the lyrics separately from the music or melody. Equally problematic is to let the melody writing get too far ahead of the lyrics. The most genuine and healthy songwriting occurs when the words and melody are already attached to each other from the moment of inception. because, often, they rely on each other to justify each other's existence. they justify each other's every turn.
     that being said, how do these things come to mind?
     it's like waiting for santa claus except imagine if you had no idea what day or time he was going to show up. also imagine the one thing santa claus hates is to show up exactly when you thought he was supposed to.
     as a songwriter, the only time things actually work is when you are totally helpless, then it suddenly becomes effortless

2.7.26 7:25 pm if adding potassium to water makes it explode, and my body is ~%70 water, will i explode when i eat a banana

no i dont believe so

2.7.26 6:39 pm can you tell me what it's like to have as many ideas / passions as you? i am lacking severely in both and it's saddening.

on the flipside it can be overwhelming, confusing, and frustrating to have too many and feel like they all fight with each other and confuse each other

2.7.26 4:44 pm what is your favorite season?

the new one

what is one thing that you dont like about that season?

reminds me that time has elapsed irreversibly

2.7.26 4:32 pm Could you give me a quote to quote?

"someone else said this, in some other context"

2.7.26 4:22 pm i hate school and all i want to do are videos

this will be great news for your videos

2.7.26 4:20 pm why is the moon associated with night time if it also appears in the daytime

because it's generally much more visible at night, and the sun is not

2.7.26 3:29 pm how the heck are you so gosh darn wacky

that's just normal. i am normal

2.7.26 2:01 pm Is music music to your ears?

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

2.7.26 1:25 pm What's an instrument you've never used before but want to at some point?

MEASURED JUDGEMENT

2.7.26 8:29 am any insights on how you think about drum/perc sounds in your songs ? they sound nothing like anything ive heard elsewhere , any influences for your song writting and production?

usually in music when you start to 'think' it all gets really lame immediately

also is stella your favourite jazz standard?

i dont believe so

2.7.26 7:56 am how much are the plane tickets to the land of the 2 letter words

it depends how far in advance you book

2.7.26 7:25 am how do you understand yourself so well

am slef

2.7.26 4:22 am what's the technique of going ham on a text document about?

start trying to explore the boundaries of what you actually can and cannot type there

2.7.26 3:46 am What is the best songwriting tip you could give me?

first i need to get a better idea of how it's going so far. for example, giving you an important tip that you've already known since the beginning would not be the best tip

2.7.26 3:15 am what is the name of the character in Im a princess?

it could be you

2.7.26 3:08 am How do you build a chord prog on top of an existing melody?

if youve never done this before, start by just adding one harmony note to just one of the melody notes, at one place in the song. pretend that's all youre allowed to do, and see what you can make of that

2.7.26 1:19 am Do you like theater at all?

i like the architecture and the way it can be used performatively, especially putting things on the stage for people to all watch together

2.6.26 10:17 pm My parents are gifting me a 70+ year old, fully functioning upright piano, but space in my apartment is limited. Suggestions for how to make it fit?

how about a bunk bed with no bottom bed, piano instead

2.6.26 9:34 pm how do you feel about power rangers?

seems like they made the merchandise first, then the show

2.6.26 7:28 pm What do you do when you're not making music?

make video to go with the music, or make video for music to go with

2.6.26 7:20 pm how do i sleep

basically you have to get tired of doing everything else

2.6.26 6:53 pm hey, bill. i've been writing stories for Years but i've never been able to figure out how any of them should end. do you have any advice?

just start trying things. take a story, try 10 different endings. try 100 different endings. if all else fails then the story will just have to continue

2.6.26 6:42 pm If a woodchuck could chuck wood, and I could chuck wood at the woodchuck's wood, what should I do with my fantasy football team in the next game week?

get a woodchuck mascot

2.6.26 6:27 pm on a scale of -100 to 13681 how random do you prefer your randomness to be served? (Asking for a friend)

-100

2.6.26 5:51 pm Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to espouse the notion that there are no wrong answers to music. But what about Kid Rock?

i dont really know what 'espouse' means, but music is fueled by all kinds of tiny wrongs all over the place. the wrongs are integral to how 'good' it is

2.6.26 5:37 pm what do you think would change about yourself if you became a vampire

i dont know anything about vampires

2.6.26 4:27 pm Is 0 an odd or an even number?

i can think of a great argument for it to be even, less of an argument for it to be odd, and a vague feeling that someone might claim it's neither

2.6.26 2:53 pm I think your songs have always been about songwriting. The song song is one of your oldest released songs, and its theme is mostly the struggles thou face with songwriting.

that is true

2.6.26 2:26 pm how'd you learn music theory? theres some really fun modal stuff in your music

ultimately the way to learn music is the same way to learn speaking or walking, which i also cant explain. it's something that just happens with exposure and experience. also, once you learn walking or speaking, the more terms like "walking theory" or "speaking theory" start to sound silly

2.6.26 2:25 pm You ever just blast Beethoven's ninth and melt into a puddle of warm jelly?

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

2.6.26 1:19 pm I can't think of any ueqstions, could you help me?

just ask the same question as someone else

2.6.26 12:56 pm what would you tell your younger self if you could go back 20 years

wouldnt do that; this kind of time-travel communication 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

2.6.26 12:31 pm How are you so creative?

it might be just a survival instinct

2.6.26 12:25 pm Is making music painful to you?

it can be sometimes, but that's only to counter balance everything else it does for me

2.6.26 11:45 am What is your favorite song (that you made)

i would prefer to make a new one to be my favorite

2.6.26 11:39 am I have a Spiderman question:
So, Spiderman got his powers by getting bit by a radioactive spider. What would happen if I got pit by Spiderman himself? Also, what would happen if Spiderman bit a spider?

another movie, yay

2.6.26 11:31 am What is the huge gamer the rest of the time?

a lot of people are huge gamers 100% of the time

2.6.26 11:14 am I'm writing a film script about a kiosk at the beach. What type of music fits for it?

this is like another 'what number am i thinking of'. scoring a film without reading it or seeing it

2.6.26 10:27 am Part of how I enjoy art or music is learning about the artist. I like knowing what informed their decisions, what their inspiration was, what kind of person they are, because it all influences their art. A song by you could be thought of as a unique fingerprint only someone with your brain could make. To that end, why don't you ever talk about music you like? You have the right not to, but people ask you and you always avoid giving an answer. Is it because you want your music to stand on its own and don't want people to think about you as a person? Or do you just enjoy the sensation of being an enigma (it does sound fun)

i'm not sure i understand some of your logic here. i talk deeply about myself as a person, ESPECIALLY about what goes into songwriting, but maybe part of the problem is you have an expectation for me to be someone different than i am

2.6.26 9:55 am ever had dinner for breakfast?

yes i believe so

2.6.26 9:41 am If you could be a baby animal, which one would you pick?

i'm not ready to choose yet

2.6.26 9:31 am i feel like kind of a failure who's not "doing person" correctly. how do i stop feeling this way when functioning like a "normal person" feels impossible?

i'm not sure if you realize how readily people become bored with 'normal'

2.6.26 9:21 am have your opinions on bread changed since the 2 or so years ago i have asked this question?

probably not, but that doesnt mean i cant come up with many different ways to answer that question

2.6.26 9:19 am will there be more after the big batch of videos get released?

i'll be doing a lot of songs

2.6.26 8:49 am Will you be watching the super bowl?

i'm the ball

2.6.26 8:00 am How many light bulbs does it take to change a person?

just 1

2.6.26 6:31 am Do you feel alright? Do you remember the days gone by?

thank you for referencing that song here

2.6.26 5:51 am is information power?

sometimes yes

2.6.26 5:34 am what is motivation

it's the actual reason someone does something

2.6.26 2:53 am have you any recently-released movie recommendations? i've got time and a whole box of microwave popcorn to burn

how about the absolute newest one available to you

2.6.26 2:53 am do you subscribe to stoicism, or at least a philosophy that resembles it

not that i know of

2.6.26 2:25 am i think that your music is pretty neat

[citation needed]

2.6.26 12:30 am Shall we amount to something?

thank you for reciting that quote here

2.6.26 12:18 am how do I maintain my spirit when the world seems bent on breaking it? please note, getting my spirit broken would be a big problem for me.

sometimes it's worth asking the world if it actually intends to break your spirit

2.6.26 12:17 am your favorite season? mine is winter :-)

each one is favoritable, but there's also some inbetween times as well

2.5.26 11:59 pm why does it feel like my world has ended? i used to trust people loved me and i used to have so much love for what the world and life could be. i liked daydreaming about projects a lot. even tho i should've done more efforts to make them real they made me feel alive. i was one of the best people in my life. now it feels like my surroundings have dulled. i dont find inspiration or connection with the repetitive cycle of home life and school. im no longer in touch with the old people in my life and i cant connect to anyone anymore. ive tried to find the light in me again but im not sure how i can make a new light if now my circumstances are about being in an environment that makes me anxious and uninspired

i want to see an update in two days

2.5.26 10:30 pm how do i stop pretending my actions dont have significant enough consequences? like, me in my head goes, "oh yeah, seems like a fair trade and I can just take the little bit of a loss" but i know that this cannot be true when dealing with it is just much easier like, damn

i'm guessing at least some of your transactions go pretty good

2.5.26 9:05 pm recently i've been feeling like i'm always being heard. whenever i think of something that isn't stereotypically "normal" i think about if people around me heard what i thought. then i look at their faces, and i otherthink it. i think that they hear my thoughts. and if they did, they wouldn't like me. i feel so oddly shameful for just thinking thoughts. and they're not even bad thoughts. i just feel like everyone is silently judging me. what is happening???

you may have underestimated how bored people are of normal thoughts

2.5.26 9:05 pm hi bill. in light of genai and suno and chatgpt and sora i was feeling kinda terrible about the state of art and whatnot but the earnest nature of your music and art brings me hope. thanks. keep up what you do

think of it this way, in all the years and decades that we all intellectually bickered and complained that "music is never genuine enough any more", ..... would it not be a huge gift if the value of earnest honesty were to suddenly skyrocket? would that not be a golden age? but then as usual, the golden age is never recognized until later. heck sometimes i'm no good at recognizing it

2.5.26 8:58 pm how do i stop responding to bad things that haven't event happened? Usually its just imagined

it's fairly likely that this will clear up as soon as you give your imagination something else to get busy with

2.5.26 8:57 pm ever seen an apparition or floating geometric shape?

no i dont believe so

2.5.26 8:21 pm does soft clothing implies the existence of angrier clothing? can they also wage a war against each other like music?

the opposite of angry clothing is, in english, possibly 'nice clothing' which nicely has a double meaning there, possibly more

2.5.26 8:18 pm i'm gonna tear my own hair out about what makes an idea worthwhile and what amount of effort satisfies me

the paradoxical nature of the 'rules' of 'art' are enough for any artist to occasionally risk destroying themselves from their own brainpower

2.5.26 8:17 pm i find myself getting bored with most music (stuff outside of my comfort zone), which is a bummer because most music has a lot to offer. should i try to enjoy most music with a different perspective or just keep listening to the few things i really like?

there's something that i think a lot of people dont realize about music....... to fully activate the music experience it needs to be anchored for you somehow. There are plenty of ways this can happen, and it's already happened to you for the music you already like, and you may not even recall what the anchor was for you, but the issue is that there is music out there that has not been anchored for you and youre having trouble finding an in-road. so how do things get anchored? for example: movies can do it. when a song is placed well in a movie, it lifts the movie and it lifts the song to heavenly heights, probably heigher than each could have reached individually. so that's a common way for songs to get their anchor, and then you'll love the song forever after that. Another possible way is if you simply hear it out in public, such as in a retail store or playing out of someone's car. songs can be anchored that way. and as long as you catch what song it was you can add songs to your collection that way, which will always have special meaning to you from the memory of when you heard it that one time

2.5.26 8:00 pm Thoughts on limits on "what if" questions. For example "if you could be a car which one. And you have to pick an actual car not 'one that drives fast' "

the weird thing about these, this one for example, it was their idea for me to be a car. so IF this scenario is happening, it is from THEIR imagination, not mine. so it resembles "what number am i thinking of" but it's written as if it's assumed you should know

2.5.26 7:49 pm how do you know if you're cut out for this world

if you ended up here then you are. that's the whole point. it's like "how to tell if the word 'word' is in this sentence"

2.5.26 7:44 pm what would you say would be a decent start into learning piano [or any instrument]

find a piano [or any instrument]

2.5.26 7:08 pm What is the greatest product and why?

2x2

2.5.26 6:53 pm What do i do if i have too many interests?

take a nap

2.5.26 6:48 pm how r u

pretty good

2.5.26 6:10 pm What color is science for you, for me it's blue,

science can deal with even more than all the colors

2.5.26 5:29 pm you ever blink and hear your eyelashes

yes in a totally silent room

2.5.26 4:08 pm the atom is almost entirely empty space. atoms make up us and everything we interact with. how do you feel about this?

sounds like one of those fun 'wow' factoids. if you make someone go 'wow' then you said it right

2.5.26 3:22 pm Do you think Eminem eats M&Ms?

not implausible

2.5.26 3:19 pm If I found myself today, how will I find myself again tomorrow? What if its a different me tomorrow but I really like who I am now. Also, what does it mean to know yourself because I never met anyone like me, yet I like me, today. Can I take now and keep it because its not mine, its shared with tomorrow and yesterday? Do you want to share some of my now? see ya later

sounds like the right time to start keeping a journal, of all the different ways you've been

2.5.26 1:40 pm I procrastinate a lot. Especially with animating. You got any tips or advice on staying focused?

if this is happening then it means you dont enjoy it enough and it's not easy enough. Think of some of your other hobbies, or stuff you just love to do, cant resist doing it. See if you can spot the differences between your animation routine and these other hobby activities. this will highlight where your animation routine has gone awry

2.5.26 1:14 pm im in my english composition class and its so boring

sometimes boring presentations inspire me to go out and do it better. does this ever happen to you

2.5.26 1:07 pm do you have the time to listen to me whine about everything and nothing all at once

thank you for referencing that song here

2.5.26 12:49 pm Do you like when people add references to your song titles in their questions? If so then I'm not scared to go on all day doing such :D

it's not usually something 'added' to a question, it's usually the entire question

2.5.26 12:47 pm What is your favourite sandwich?

toast sandwich. for those of you following along at home, this would be one piece of toast between two slices of bread

2.5.26 10:03 am Any advice on picking back up fallen/faded dreams?

they're probably not nearly as fallen or faded as you think. they could easily be within the normal time frame. like that toaster you bought last week but didnt get around making toast until this week. still works fine, like new

2.5.26 9:47 am I have a quiz tomorrow. Any idea what the answer to problem two might be?

i've seen "4" be the answer to the second problem of a quiz before. but you'll have to figure out if that was the same quiz as yours

2.5.26 9:34 am if we don't stand for something, how could we ever stand at all?

maybe in this case we need to look elsewhere in the plant and animal kingdom, outside the burden of language, to be reminded why 'standing' in and of itself is a perfectly fine and natural thing to do

2.5.26 9:27 am Do you have any survival tips for someone stuck in a barren wasteland? (asking for a friend)

start by building something you'd never have time to build if you werent in a barren wasteland

2.5.26 8:11 am I'm an idiot. Advice?

book tour

2.5.26 7:59 am Best part about music?

can convey otherwise indescribable feelings, usually unexpectedly

2.5.26 7:07 am What do birds and bees even have to do with one another

they're both living on earth at the same time

2.5.26 5:28 am how do i stop biting on part of my inner lip

you may have to start biting a different part of it

2.5.26 4:08 am Have you ever been to San Francisco

i think i have but maybe i've just seen it in the movies

2.5.26 4:06 am Who would win? 300 000 000 000 000 000 lions or the sun?

that's a tie

2.5.26 3:52 am what's your favorite horse

gotta see a list of all the horses so i can think about my selection

2.5.26 2:30 am how do you move on from someone without villainizing them?

the best way around this is to get distracted by someone or something totally different

2.5.26 2:16 am What should be my first action as an evil supervillain?

how about doing something nice

2.5.26 1:33 am What makes a interesting question interesting enough to make you interested in the question?

if it's written in purple text

2.5.26 1:06 am hey Bill, i was one of those guys who asked you stuff about writing. somehow it all worked, and i'm writing better than i ever have. how did you do that?

i might have been able to give you some good hints based on my experience with it

2.5.26 12:45 am how do you put a rabbit into a hat. please help. i need to put my rabbit back into the hat.

the rabbit is already in the hat

2.5.26 12:18 am How do you find the motivation and hope these days?

pretty good

2.4.26 11:04 pm in a relative sense (except medically, this could be a science fair) what would be the average cost of some of the pictures located in the gallery for the video "2 friends on a beach?"

[undisclosed]

2.4.26 10:58 pm did you know that the bird is the word?

there's gonna be a new word, stay tuned

2.4.26 10:58 pm may i please have a pun

no whey

2.4.26 10:37 pm if you were a cat what would your favorite thing to say be

meow

2.4.26 9:44 pm i wanna write a song but i really don't know what to do. i play a few instruments but i don't really know where to start. what should i do?

there's nothing you 'should' do, but what CAN you do?

2.4.26 8:37 pm how are you so damn creative?

it might be just a survival instinct

2.4.26 7:55 pm steely dan more like steamy ham am i right? how do they sound so,,, "hmmm", "oh yeah..." "hell yeah", "oh yea listen to that... mmmm"

they are into the groundbreaking technique of doing what they wanna do instead of trying to guess what someone else thinks they should do

2.4.26 7:12 pm could you please perhaps spare us... a crumb... a snippet... a little screenshot... Of one of the things you're working on... prettybpleaaase just a morsel

how about the whole thing and then more things

2.4.26 7:01 pm can you give us some perspective on things?
thanks, bill

sure, i try to do that wherever possible

2.4.26 6:58 pm I am suddenly in 10,000 BC surrounded by cavemen and meat. What do I do?

how about sending a question to me on my website

2.4.26 6:31 pm I'm feeling stressed, both from my own personal battles and from the turmoil on the world stage. Any fun facts to share in these trying times?

imagine an outcome where you could look back on this and understand why it made you stronger

2.4.26 5:26 pm what is bad and what is good?

sometimes it's not exactly what you'd expect

2.4.26 4:36 pm Could you find your way back to earth from 3.5 million lightyears away?

"back" implies that you came from there, so it's not too unlikely that if you were able to go that far one way, you might be able to make the same journey back

2.4.26 3:34 pm Do you have any advice on uploading content because it feels like nobody cares about what I create

ask yourself "what kind would you care about". then it can only be an exciting journey, remedying that situation

2.4.26 3:29 pm does the day go on?

thank you for referencing that song, also the answer is yes

2.4.26 3:13 pm why is it so hard to find a favorite anything?

this probably means the amount of things that are good enough is either more than 1 or less than 1

2.4.26 12:52 pm are you real? Am i real? is anything even real?

what exactly would it mean not to be

2.4.26 12:17 pm Have you ever performed the act of worldbuilding, for any reason?
If so, can you tell me about it?

maybe i have without realizing it

2.4.26 11:43 am I like making grill cheese sandwiches in my grill cheese sandwich maker, but the store always makes the cheese slices just slightly too big compared to the toast bread, so the cheese always gets everywhere in the grill cheese sandwich maker. How do I fix this

start a grilled cheese company and build a trusted brand over the course of many generations. the reason i'm saying this is because your story reads just like an origin story for a beloved grilled cheese restaurant of 50+ years

2.4.26 11:39 am What are your personal guidelines to confident decision making?

sometimes it helps to know how many chances you're gonna have

2.4.26 11:36 am this semester has been a very busy and hard adjustment, but upon reflection, people told me it would be that way and it's never until i think about it my own way that it starts feeling less hard. would you agree that if something seems impossible, that's all the more reason to try it?

often a great reason to try things. i can also think of some counterexamples where it might be too unsafe

2.4.26 11:12 am Is the concept that your songs about songwriting a new revelation to you? It seems like it's only been mentioned recently here.

i've known this for many years, but on some level it seems to obvious to me that i sometimes forget to say it

2.4.26 10:01 am name a country in west africa

togo

2.4.26 8:47 am what is your favorite song that you didn't make?

if any song is any good it should feel like the best thing i've ever heard at the time

2.4.26 8:03 am why am i so obsessed with e major

there could be different reasons depending on your instrument

2.4.26 7:06 am do you approve of listening to your songs without watching their correspondent video?

yes

2.4.26 5:56 am I like these lyrics I've made but I feel like they don't go with the instrumental (if you get what I mean). Have you ever gotten into feeling where one day what you wrote you were really happy with and the next you decided it wasn't as good as it felt then? How'd you deal with it?

after enough years i've realized that this is totally normal. i'm sure i say this often, but just like the same song can work totally differently on 2 different people, it can also work differently to the same person on different days

2.4.26 5:28 am when you think do you dream

to some degree

2.4.26 4:20 am This February began on a Sunday, and ends on a Saturday, and is 28 days long. Most calendars show this as a perfect 4x7 rectangle Do you get excited by the cleanliness/satisfaction of phenomena like this? Do you ever get the urge to do something special when confronted when this phenomena? Like making a project centered around a perfectly rectangular 4 week month? I tend to feel this sort of urge

sometimes i get inspired to further familiarize myself with the patterns for the whole year(s), etc, and build out the skill of knowing the day of the week for any given date

2.4.26 1:08 am have you ever caught your reflection staring at you out of the corner of your eye

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

2.4.26 12:44 am WHAT ARE CAPITAL LETTERS USED FOR?

extra clarification in some situations

2.4.26 12:41 am I tried your advice of making the worst possible thing I could in order to get out of creative block. I drew a bunch of penises and swear words and now I just feel kind of confused. Am I doing this wrong? Should I stumble around for longer?
Technically it was a penis fractal which made me laugh but that's stupid.

a couple of things i think i'm hearing: 1. you think swear words are bad, you also think penises are bad (despite thinking they are funny) 2. you think laughing is stupid

i would say try this: see if you can make it 10 times stupider so you can laugh 10 times harder, then circle back to the question of 'did it work'

2.4.26 12:26 am I don't want to do anything except eat and sleep. Is something wrong with me?

no i dont believe so

2.4.26 12:01 am thoughts on physical media?

so crazy it just might work

2.3.26 11:04 pm do you think a song (or really anything) can be perfect? Like, if there was an all knowing all powerful god, could it make a song that would actually feel like perfection to us, or is there a limit to how good music can be.

think of it this way: if there were any perfect note it would never cease. the whole reason music exists is because every note or anything you can sing or play is, in some way, wrong. that's why you have to keep switching notes

2.3.26 10:54 pm why do we shiver when we are cold

to generate warmth. shaking and movement generates warmth

2.3.26 10:49 pm why do they call it an oven when you of in the food and of out the hot eat the food?

can you not think of a more perfect name

2.3.26 10:20 pm Tigers or lions?

i can't decide, how about 1 of each

2.3.26 9:21 pm does creating ever get easier?

YES, but then it gets harder then easier and so on

2.3.26 8:27 pm i enjoy your content so much that i cant help but say it even if i dont know how to say it in a way that does justice to how much i enjoy your content

this is motivating to me of course

2.3.26 7:51 pm do you think consciousness is beyond matter, or could you make consciousness with an elaborate enough system of pulleys and levers

the most logical explanation to me seems that it's beyond matter, similar to the way a person playing a musical instrument is not built into the instrument they're just playing the instrument

2.3.26 7:45 pm Just went crazy in a text file, I can see why you recommend this. Thanks

it may not be for everyone

2.3.26 7:26 pm do you have goals for 2026 that you didnt have in previous years?

i dont make goals 'for a year', because i view those as december/january clickbait

2.3.26 7:20 pm Where is the wind going?

over there

2.3.26 7:10 pm Do You Realize That Everyone You Know Someday Will Die??

thank you for reciting that lyric here

2.3.26 7:08 pm hi bill. do you know how to perform a backstitch after a running stitch? if not do you know how to tie off a running stitch? if neither, i'm sorry

i have idea, but you've made this subject seem at least as exciting as skateboarding

2.3.26 6:38 pm my whole world just got turned upside down and i don't know what to do with myself. i'm filled with nervous, anxious energy that i want to get rid of but i'm not able to even begin figuring out how. how do i break this cycle?

sometimes you have to see it as an injury that heals in time

2.3.26 6:04 pm not all who ask seek answers

to compensate for this, perhaps not all who seek answers ask

2.3.26 4:19 pm When is your next album getting released and how many songs are in it?

i prefer to release songs individually, but i was thinking of doing a billion

2.3.26 4:11 pm How do you always seem to know the right thing to say to people on this site? every response of yours that I see on here seems to be funny or insightful in a helpful way.

ah yes, EXCEPT this one

2.3.26 4:02 pm how do i record vocals? What factors do I have to take more caution to than I initially would've thought? The mic? Acoustics? And then when I'm done, HOW do I mix them?

youre doing this in the wrong order. do it first, just any way you can, and try to forget about all these questions for as long as you can until the right questions become just so obvious they ask themselves

2.3.26 3:49 pm can i get a pizza with pineapple

why stop there

2.3.26 3:48 pm how are you so good at putting ideas into words?

stumble around long enough.....

2.3.26 3:42 pm how wide should a highway be

at least as wide as the cars

2.3.26 2:35 pm My job requires me to have creative output during regular 8 hour shifts. How can I possibly wrangle my brain to do the thing when it need to be do

somehow you'll have to envision a world where you are a co-creator here

2.3.26 1:53 pm are diminished 7 chords even real

i think what can happen is, the naming system taught in your textbooks will naturally lead you to a bias that certain namable chords within that system are more common than the ones which dont have names, which is not quite true. BUT, they still very much exist in actual music. at least that one does. (hint: in the key of C, the ones youre most likely to see are the ones like C#dim7, F#dim7, or G#min7. and the next chord will probably be a halfstep higher, such as Dmin7, C/G (C over G bass), or Amin)

2.3.26 11:36 am Can you offer me some advice on how to find the courage to release the music I've been working really hard on? I've tried to write music that's authentic to myself (and I really like it) but I'm self conscious that it's actually cringe as hell lmao.

basically just wait to see how miserable you get without releasing it. eventually it should get bad enough that it will be easy motivation

2.3.26 11:09 am is there a perfect combination of words to create the most beautiful message possible?

it's different at each moment for each person. also no ceiling to this, so the idea of 'most/best' is out of the question, but if it's working it should certainly feel this way without a doubt

2.3.26 10:55 am Have you built a particle accelerator to accelerate particles?

i can just log into one of the existing ones when i need to sort out some particle issues

2.3.26 10:46 am can i meet you in september

maybe some other time

2.3.26 10:29 am How would you play inversions on guitar?

i see only one much broader issue here which is how to play multiple notes simultaneously on the guitar. but i dont know if there's any answer other than see what your fingers can reach, and what it sounds like

2.3.26 9:04 am mnemonics is a nice word

yes but it also seems like it could be a tripping hazard

2.3.26 9:00 am you get so many questions. how do you have an answer to all of them? how do i learn to know myself enough to answer one?

one easy trick is to skip the ones i really cant answer

2.3.26 8:19 am Favourite star?
Favourite constellation?
Favourite planet?
And finally, favourite galaxy?

i've only been to one, so let's just say this one

2.3.26 7:48 am Why are yawns contagious

i'm not sure

2.3.26 7:25 am Would you rhyme eleven with oven

can't predict this any more than you can predict the personality of your child

2.3.26 7:18 am how do you deal with people/fans expectations? how has that changed since you started doing what you do?

it's very motivating, but it also has no influence on me qualitatively

2.3.26 6:38 am I'm tired and I didn't study for a midterm but now I have to. Should I quit everything and live in a hut in the woods?

only if you find a really really good, irresistible hut

2.3.26 2:22 am do you have any formal music training or are you self-taught?

i would vehemently argue that music itself is not as formal as you think

2.3.26 2:04 am hey bill, if you had one what was your new years resolution?

to make resolutions at other parts of the year. wait actually that was also a resolution that i made at a different time of the year

2.3.26 1:14 am are you tired of getting questions that quote something else? if not, do you think you'll ever get tired of them?

each one brings me into a comfortable state of wakefulness

2.3.26 12:07 am difference between the south pole and north pole?

put it this way, you can play nintendo at the south pole

2.2.26 11:28 pm So it turns out it's really easy to spend a lot of time thinking about loads of things you want to do and struggle to decide which one to tackle first. How do you decide which one you want to do first?

you could spend a thousand life times trying different ways around this. i'm actually just trying some now

2.2.26 11:08 pm Is the present moment different from any of the other moments?

it has similarities and differences for sure

2.2.26 9:51 pm look directly into the moon

too bright

2.2.26 9:28 pm have you ever fought triangle man?

not that i recall

2.2.26 9:09 pm why is random always random

sometimes different things are random than you might think

2.2.26 8:26 pm Why does English spelling make no sense?

i think it's because there's so many things from different origins mixed in. like having a game with a tetris piece, some checkers, some monopoly pieces, some chess pieces, some dice, all mixed into the same game. different rules apply to each piece because it came from a different game

2.2.26 7:20 pm do you ever feel insecure about your appearance and if yes, how do you deal with that feeling?

the sooner you can distract yourself with more interesting things.... this can be just enough to get you out of worry mode, which turns out to be what makes all the difference in your appearence as well

2.2.26 5:41 pm who decided that 6/8 had to be compound. why can't it be 3/4 but faster

6/8, according to social norms, is meant to feel like 2/4 with triplets. two beats per bar. that's just what it gets used for

2.2.26 4:32 pm Would you say that playing jazz has influenced your music creation or not?

i dont usually like to make those distinctions, under normal circumstances

2.2.26 4:31 pm favorite brand of cookie? or other pastry

not a sponsor, but they're very good

2.2.26 2:55 pm how do I read more?

dare i ask...... do you want to

2.2.26 12:09 pm I always feel like im inherently wrong and sick to my core, and like the very beginning of my bloodline was some sort of disgusting mistake and I really shouldn't exist at all. But I work at an IT help desk and at the end of a work day that feeling always seems to disappear for a little while. My job kind of feels like taking care of babies and even though it's mostly boring it always leaves me feeling like maybe I'm OK even and if that feeling is fleeting I'm glad I have this job

ah, doing stuff

2.2.26 12:03 pm what should i do if im at the airport terminal and ive heated my porridge for the wrong amount of time?

you gotta bring it to the multi faith pet relief room

2.2.26 10:12 am h!, I'm making something now instead of just thinking about it, but I'm stuck for the order in which to do things. There's the singing/producing, the video, and some other writing to do. Do you think it's better to focus on every part (a little bit) every day, or one part (a lot) per day? As in, should Monday be -video day- and so on. I know it'll be different for everyone, but I really wanted to know what you've discovered about this.

you could spend a thousand life times trying different ways around this. i'm actually just trying some now

2.2.26 7:57 am in the song huge gamer most of the time, how would you type the sound next to "and the levels go in a circle, and around you go..."?

[riff]

2.2.26 6:28 am What if we pronounced burger like burjer

all it takes is a little courage to try it sometime

2.2.26 5:59 am how is your imagination in the aphantasia spectrum? Can you imagine an apple and rotate it around and make it purple and stuff or is it more of a phantom view of the general object? (Or is it just not anything at all)

i can imagine many different configurations of fruit. sometimes can be a good calming down technique, imagining fruit configurations

2.2.26 1:54 am how many eggs

gonna need a recount

2.2.26 1:48 am how do you decide when a project is ready to release

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

2.2.26 1:05 am how do i develop characters that feel like their own unique people with feelings and agency rather than empty vehicles for my ideas?

just like real people, real characters are not for you to develop. they already exist, for real. and as soon as you accept that they are real, the sooner you can get to know them

2.2.26 12:19 am how do i come up witha psuedonym

how about bob

2.2.26 12:13 am i used to be so incredibly in love with the art i saw online. it brought me so much joy and happiness to see that it could evoke so much emotion and was one of my biggest motivations to create my own things. but about a year ago, i saw a piece of art that absolutely broke me in the best and worst way possible. it resonated so deeply with me and made me sob 'till my eyes hurt because of how unbearable the feelings i had for it was. and unexpectedly, all that inspiration and joy that art had sparked within me had been so heavy on my mind that it turned into jealousy and envy. i was jealous because i loved it so much that it hurt to know and realize that i can't make something like it, that i just never put in the effort to be like that. i can't fully enjoy the artists i love anymore, because i feel so guilty and shameful for basically hating them for having the will and passion that i lack. i at least kept all that envy to myself and never spoke of it, but i've been hurting deeply inside for so long and everytime i try to make something now i just feel so stupid for even trying. it feels like these hateful thoughts have been eating away at me forever. i don't want that. i really don't want to hate. i don't want to be a hateful person at all. i just want to love. to love everything around me, and myself and what i do. how do i love again?

i dont think i see anything wrong here, you're just finding out how sensitive and intense this game is. your feelings of envy also indicate to me, i think, that you know you're meant to be involved in it somehow. and then also, it's important to remember that this hypnotic superpower you've seen on display is not something that's held under a lock and key somewhere. it flows through all of us, in different ways all the time. actually, what you experienced from that time you saw that thing, that probably says more about you than it does about them. it's at least a 50/50 collaborative moment you had between you and the artist. Perhaps just the other day, that artist maybe saw something by another artist that made them melt with envy. maybe something that would not have moved you in the same way. but then let's say that other artist (the second artist, you being the third, for those keeping score) maybe sees a piece of your work, something youve done, and maybe THAT moves them to tears and sends them into a jealous rage. it all comes full circle, but the knock out 'wow' factor is something that visits us all, it just doesnt like to be told exactly when and where

2.1.26 11:22 pm what's your opinion on subtext (something implied but not directly stated)

it's never guaranteed that everyone would agree on what exactly has been implied

2.1.26 10:39 pm Do you like green beans potatoes and

this all hinges on what that 3rd thing is

2.1.26 10:07 pm how to not get distracted on billwurtz.com

you're gonna have to make your own site

2.1.26 9:42 pm when you were a kid did you frolick in the fields and imagine stories in your head, also did you look at the sun?

not quite

2.1.26 9:06 pm i like your songs

my only answer to this is to make more which are not quite what you'd expect but which i think you will still like

2.1.26 8:03 pm my friend and i are obsessed with the first two seconds of ground plane. what are those chords?

ah, this must be what's written in that glowing suitcase, in pulp fiction

2.1.26 8:00 pm thoughts on crocodiles?

i've heard they can't go around turns very well

2.1.26 7:55 pm opinions on today's pop songs?

they will one day be past pop songs. seems outlandish yes but i've seen it happen

2.1.26 7:00 pm if you still have strong feelings for someone you only met once 2 months ago, is that real love?

either way, could language even describe how strong it was or wasnt, assuming there was an exact value

2.1.26 6:25 pm bill, how do i struggle

impossible. it can't be done

2.1.26 6:25 pm would you rather have unlimited bacon but no games or unlimited games but no games

just to clarify, any possibility of games

2.1.26 6:07 pm how to out-news the news?

make something new happen

2.1.26 6:06 pm is this question classified as a question or just a jumbled up piece of words made to sound like a coherent sentence so you can eventually read and waste precious time to answer to?

it is a question about itself

2.1.26 5:50 pm got any plans for feb 30

no, thank goodness

2.1.26 5:19 pm Is it possible to uninvent something?

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

2.1.26 4:51 pm what is your favorite element of the periodic table?

2.1.26 4:06 pm my dreamcatcher does not work, how will i catch them?

some of them have a catch/repel toggle switch

2.1.26 3:49 pm What song made you unwrap the tambourine?

not a song, it was just destiny

2.1.26 3:43 pm you ever start improvising while jamming and fall into an endless loophole of hating every note you play? do you know some way out?

like weather patterns, it comes around naturally. this may seem like a boring answer but it's just more and more true

2.1.26 1:49 pm how the hell does stevie wonder..... do that?

it's surely the same way flowers grow, which perhaps nobody knows

2.1.26 1:26 pm Why is it so cold?

to compensate for how warm it was another time

2.1.26 12:27 pm What is the meaning of life without the existence of a sun?

any words to describe this would have to be in a different language anyway

2.1.26 11:56 am hi what are your thoughts on soup... For or against?

there's got to be some middle ground

2.1.26 9:56 am i play a lot of metal, would it still be a good idea for me to learn traditional grip and switch between them

it just depends how strong your craving is for it

2.1.26 9:53 am hey bill, how do i pull myself out of a barren wasteland?

start by building something you'd never have time to build if you werent in a barren wasteland

2.1.26 8:47 am why did Prince write using numbers?

in case he ever wanted to change the key?

2.1.26 8:20 am what is your favourite power of 2

2.1.26 5:57 am How do I get to Strawberry Fields?

it's on the west side of central park, probably somewhere near john lennon's huge appartment on 72nd street

2.1.26 3:27 am ok so when a stream has a lot of sediment coming into it and not enough power (lots of water moving fast for whatever reason) to transport it downstream, it deposits it, raising the water level and reshaping its channel--this is aggradation. when a stream has too much power and not enough sediment load to slow it down, it deepens its channel--this is incision. theres a metaphor for life here...stream power represetning passion? sediment load representing self actualization? do you have any thoughts.

i think it just represents speed

2.1.26 2:40 am what are some of your favorite color combos?

they'll probably all come around eventually

2.1.26 2:16 am favorite type of fractal

the fractal illustrating the types of fractals

2.1.26 1:26 am Why even exist if not being productive?
Attentively, the loud part of my brain

probably the reason you like being productive is because you discovered, at some point, you enjoy it. so the good news is you are free to enjoy this again

2.1.26 12:54 am Do you consider yourself to be grateful or thankful and if so do you feel more one than the other?

it's probably impossible to measure

2.1.26 12:54 am What is the best way to get a wheel without going to the wheel store

you can make someone else bring it to you PREVIOUS QUESTIONS

ueqstions

3.17.26 5:26 pm Can you give a "guidelines for asking questions," so that I know whether my questions are good or bad?

3.17.26 5:16 pm which song took you the longest to write

3.17.26 3:18 pm why do you choose not to capitalize words? I find it intriguing

3.17.26 2:31 pm say what you want about bill wurtz, he sure loves those contrasting colours

3.17.26 2:26 pm what's 9 plus 10

3.17.26 2:05 pm thoughts on non-Euclidean shapes?

3.17.26 1:55 pm do you ever pluralize or singularize song lyrics? it's hilarious. e.g., changing "i would do anything for you" to "we would do anything for you"

3.17.26 12:49 pm do you think people spend an unreasonable amount of time perfecting something or do you think it's reasonable

3.17.26 12:47 pm if 4 people walked into a bar and the duck is horse so yes no why?

3.17.26 12:40 pm Is the world always ending

3.17.26 11:04 am Best way to come up with original progressions?

3.17.26 10:52 am can you cure my dementia can you cure my dementia can you cure my dementia

3.17.26 10:50 am Do you ever catch yourself writing "nevermind" instead of the grammatically correct "never mind"? I see people talk about it like its become a sort of mandella affect. Do you think it's because of the album or just convinience?

3.17.26 10:13 am will you leave a "vacationing in" entry in expert mode to honor the time spent on the 11-stack?

3.17.26 9:26 am are you a communist

3.17.26 8:26 am How long is your next video?

3.17.26 7:26 am what colour is a mirror

3.17.26 5:18 am what do you do when you just need to calm down and relax?

3.17.26 2:27 am are you planning to make more notes in your notebook in the future

3.17.26 1:43 am why does eloquence without substance get more attention than the other way around? can i fix myself to not be this way? can we fix ourselves as a society?

3.17.26 1:31 am Do you use custom ringtones/notification sounds?

3.17.26 1:19 am In your interviews have you ever drank a bottle of water that's not poland spring?

3.17.26 1:11 am ARE CAPITAL LETTERS YOUR GREATEST FEAR?

3.17.26 12:04 am What was Paul thinking when he wrote blackbird?

3.16.26 10:50 pm how the heck are you so gosh darn wacky?

3.16.26 10:50 pm Do you ever just go to a piano or keyboard, or any instrument really, and just play your feelings? I do it a lot, especially when I'm sad.

3.16.26 10:15 pm But what's the best question you've been asked here?

3.16.26 8:56 pm what's the best way to write a brigde in a song? and what's its purpose?

3.16.26 7:35 pm Are you having a good time with your current project?

3.16.26 7:32 pm How to move on from the past?

3.16.26 7:16 pm what is a hipster

3.16.26 6:50 pm what do you think about comic sans?

3.16.26 6:34 pm whats ur favourite canadian city

3.16.26 5:41 pm Uh oh I lost my question can you help me find it?

3.16.26 5:28 pm what should i do if i can't get this one aspect of the song to sound good, no matter how hard i try? like obviously the right answer is 'make 100 more songs and then you'll be good at it', but do you have any tips for moving forwards with this one song in the here and now?

3.16.26 5:13 pm Who is the Tom that tomfoolery is named after?

3.16.26 4:15 pm could you include my cat in the next video? IMG_324.png

3.16.26 3:48 pm do you make the music that you like most to listen to, or that you like most the process of making?

3.16.26 2:48 pm Would you say it'd be more appropriate instead of asking about someone's thoughts on a particular song or music or art to ask about someone's feelings on it? Like what are your feelings on this song? Or even what are your emotions on that song? What are your emotions on love?

3.16.26 1:23 pm No one takes me seriously and I feel so useless and worthless and like I'm an afterthought. And it makes me so so so so angry and sad and hurt I wanna cry. Tonight I will try to make a video or a drawing

3.16.26 12:56 pm Are there other types of tantrums besides temper tantrums?

3.16.26 11:14 am can you do something cool for this question

3.16.26 10:14 am why am i more motivated to do things i must do than to do things i want to do?

3.16.26 9:33 am why doesn't my local dollar store no longer carry sharp white cheddar pringles

3.16.26 9:10 am Bill, if there was anything wrong with you that you could change... Do it. No question necessary.

3.16.26 8:45 am What would the staging/visuals of a theoretical Bill Wurtz live performance look like?

3.16.26 8:14 am If you stacked enough paper, what would happen?

3.16.26 8:05 am Do people ever use you as an encyclopedia?

3.16.26 5:47 am why did they put the sky so high up?

3.16.26 5:10 am how to make time pass faster

3.16.26 4:21 am You said that you think that all or at least majority of songs are about themselves; how true would you then rate the statement that all or at least majority of questions are about themselves?

3.16.26 3:21 am i wouldnt call you a detective but how wouldn't you know

3.16.26 3:03 am is "slow down" your slowest song

3.16.26 2:16 am i feel so extremely sane right now. but be honest with me, is that a sign of insanity?

3.16.26 1:37 am living in the moment requires accepting a certain amount of uncertainty

3.16.26 12:55 am What are some of the tthings you don't lik

3.16.26 12:12 am have you ever received a sideways glance

3.16.26 12:08 am if you could bend fire, water, earth, or air which element would you choose?

3.15.26 11:08 pm i have recently broken up with the creative process since i was putting no effort into the relationship. how do i tell her i still have feelings for her?

3.15.26 10:52 pm have you ever used capital letters

3.15.26 9:56 pm so then what is venus made of?

3.15.26 6:38 pm do you prefer bass or guitar

3.15.26 5:41 pm Does practice make perfect?

3.15.26 4:00 pm how would you keep a stack of shoeboxes from falling over when the stack gets too high to support its structure? (question asked on behalf of my mum when I told her about this page.) Ps I'm so excited for your new videos/music, the world is a better place because of your talent :)

3.15.26 3:56 pm Why are cannot and can't both a single word combination of can and not?

3.15.26 3:51 pm are you a fan of words that are fun to type on the qwerty keyboard like "typewriter" and "skepticism"?

3.15.26 3:37 pm why did the early bird catch the worm

3.15.26 3:34 pm i go to college in 2027. which ones do you recommend?

3.15.26 3:20 pm if the moon is made of cheese, does that mean venus is made of caramel corn or something?

3.15.26 3:19 pm Do you like sea salt and vinegar kettle chips? If so, why?

3.15.26 3:14 pm Bill what was the inspiration for "the history of the entire world i guess" other then the history of the entire world?

3.15.26 1:59 pm i've been told to 'get with the times' how exactly does one go about doing this

3.15.26 1:58 pm how am i s'posed to go on

3.15.26 1:57 pm Do you always think very deeply about your answers, or are you just very good at writing answers that appear profound, but were thought of on a whim?

3.15.26 1:43 pm have you ever had a dream that stuck with you for forever and you can't seem to forget it?

3.15.26 12:50 pm how could i begin jazz piano/improv? im learning from the ground up ish and im coming from 10 years of subpar violin playing. what would be one thing youd reccommend to a beginner out of many pieces of advice. like maybe sowmthing you would have told younger you. thank you lots

3.15.26 11:20 am favorite gaming console

3.15.26 11:17 am which song do you consider to be your finest work?

3.15.26 9:47 am do you like geese

3.17.26 10:52 am can you cure my dementia
can you cure my dementia
can you cure my dementia

3.15.26 4:00 pm how would you keep a stack of shoeboxes from falling over when the stack gets too high to support its structure?
(question asked on behalf of my mum when I told her about this page.) Ps I'm so excited for your new videos/music, the world is a better place because of your talent :)

3.14.26 4:40 pm I like how the endings to your songs are always feel abrupt
like in where I've been it just goes "now I wasnt" and then the song ends