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https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | How long was your sleep last night | a little while |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | If we were made without meaning doesn't that make life meaningless? | hypothetically no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Hello Bill Wurtz. Do you like things? | yes i do, but i also like some things that are not things |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Do you think Punxsutawney Phil should be getting some sort of lifetime achievement award at this point or should we not be handing those out to any marmots at all | go ahead. hand them out to everyone |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | have you ever felt sad | it's possible |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | should i go to film school? | maybe it would be more fun to make a film about going to film school instead |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how many almonds is the perfect amount of almonds | 5, but that might not be the number you want |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Do you still play with dolls? | i never did |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | which note do you like more, e or c, or do you like them both the same | i like the relationships they can have |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | do you take any inspiration from oscar peterson? | maybe, but not by name. i have never deliberately studied that particular player, nor could i recognize him in a series of other piano players |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | What if I don't wants to do any of the things I should do | maybe it's time to make up something totally new |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how wasn't your day tomorrow? | in the past |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | i'm playing an alto saxophone for my high school music class, do you have any advice for this | no, i've never been in that kind of situation |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | what are your songs about- what's the message? | if i could express it without the song, i wouldn't have needed to make the song |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | whats your opinion on tractors | for tracting, nothing else can compare |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how are you enjoying earth so far? | it's ridiculous |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | How can I be happy? | unexpectedly |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | How do our brains remember that we forgot something, but we can't remember what that thing was? | must be a sort of checksum system |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | How do I ensure that my intuition will never fail me? | that's impossible |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | What is a crime against civilization? | how about an inaccurate clocktower, in the town center |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how do i stop my mind from bouncing off the walls? | maybe get rid of the walls |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | do you like europe? | in some ways |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | if so, what do you like about it? sincerely, a europe hater | switzerland is ok |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | How many times a week do you eat sandwich :3 | about 7 |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | When was the peak of human civilization? | coming right up |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Are you a perfectionist | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | have you ever made microtonal music? | i use whatever size tones i need, given the occasion |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Hey there! Have you ever wanted to just love the universe and slide down from heaven on a groovy rainbow? | that sounds more like something Prince would do |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Ok, so I'm in my first year of university, but oops, I kinda hate it. Not the "being here" part of it, just what I'm actually doing. Like, at this point my life may as well be homework, which is horrible, because I don't have time to do what I really wanna do, and yet I still manage to procrastinate away my homework (because I hate it), getting nothing of any type done. There's SO much I wanna do in terms of songs and videos and expressing a billion things to every human alive, but I just...... can't. I know I wanna do that for the rest of my life, that much is certain, but that's not exactly a smart move if I wanna..... you know..... have literally any money to live. So, what should I do? I feel kinda trapped by the fact that at the end of the day I still need to have money, but I feel like I'm going insane right now | well, that is literally why they call it insano world |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Are you excited for leap day? | yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Do you want to trade wheelhouses for a day? | maybe for an hour |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | What chord did you put under the word "terminal" in the line "but I'm lying down on the terminal floor"? My friend and I are arguing over it | Ab/Db ("Ab over Db") ("Ab triad over Db bass, with Eb note in the melody") |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | what do you believe makes a life worth living? | the fact that there can be infinite answers to this |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how essential to your music do you consider the "music video"? | about the same as it is for anyone else's music |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Can you help me get a job? I've been looking for more than a month now and I have 2 more before I have to give up and pick up a job not in my field. I have a college degree. | i don't know anything about the college degree or what it means or does. sounds like a cult, but maybe i'm just jealous |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Do the dates and times that proceed each question correspond to when they were asked or when they were answered? | they correspond to when you're reading them |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | If energy is never lost or gained, than how did we get from no energy to a ton of energy in an instant? | you must not have seen all the dimensions of the playing field |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Why does hardship suck? | because goodship is too good |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Should i quit and do something i think i would like to do. Or should i keep doing this, that i somewhat like? | that sounds like 2 alternate universes that might as well both happen. whichever one you choose first, i'm sure you'll get around to choosing the other, at some later juncture |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | When you go back to making songs again like you said in the latest vibe chamber pod, will it be the same kind of format as huge gamer most of the time and ground plane were? coz you said it would be a mix of the newer dialogue stuff and the songs | i will further explore the combination of dialogue and music, in all different ratios, especially the ones you mentioned |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | bill wurtz vinyl yes or no | first i'd have to actually become accustomed to the format. i've never physically handled a record or record player. i don't know what the experience is like |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | should i write down/record every single song idea or only the ones that stand out to me as "good"? | as long as you switch it sometimes, and write down the bad ones instead |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Would you go skydiving if it was 100% free of charge | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | was there a single moment that you can recall that... shaped who you are, I guess. or was it a culmination of things or can you not pinpoint any moment or moments | might be about 500 such moments |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | What's the chance of us sharing a pizza? | 50% |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | if u were a sandwich what kind of sandwich would u be? | whichever one was printed just off the page of the menu |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Not a question, but I'd recommend learning Latin before going into Italian, French and Spanish. It's really cool in general to see where many words and parts of words originate from | i was thinking of doing it the other way. learn the 3 modern ones and watch them magically converge into Latin's living ghost |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Thoughts on babies? | too small |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Will you be running for president this year? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | you ever been walking down teh street and a stranger gave you a side quest? | i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Could you leak the 37th word of whatever you're currently making? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | do you like raspberry pie? | no, but that doesn't mean it isn't good |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | what is the "yes yes restaurant?" on perfect video? | i believe that would be a chinese restaurant |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | thoughts on numbers ? | too big |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Is this too generic of a question | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | heads or tails | both |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how do i get over myself and allow myself to be bad at things at first without beating myself up over it? | at some point you'll find out how much fun it is |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | should i get rid of the sun in retaliation for blinding me? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | what's your experience with, i guess, "the finish line is in sight" anxiety? (idk if there's a better name for it. summit fever, maybe?. you know, when the end of a project is in sight and you start rushing and the quality starts to drop in favor of just getting the thing over with) | i would tend to react the opposite way. i'd tend to care more about the project, not less |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | i recently got a job making videos, which i like doing. the job is great, my boss is great, and the pay is also great. so everything is great, except that in order to do it i have to communicate a lot with people that i don't know very well. i am very bad at this, and it stresses me out a lot. so i feel stressed about this job even though i like almost every aspect of it. i'm not considering quitting or anything - it's only going to be for about a year anyway, it's very stable, and i need the money. i'm just thinking that in the future, i shouldn't make my hobbies myjob, unless i'm just working for myself. is this reasonable? maybe after awhile i'll get used to the communication parts of the job, but still, it's really stressful for me i'm also slightly worried that this job might set me on a career path of solely making videos, which isn't really something i want to do. is that a valid concern?
i don't really know if those questions are really real, i just wanted someone to tell me whether or not i was freaking out for no reason. so, am i freaking out for no reason? | you have a very active mind, readily analyzing and questioning things. this has its benefits and challenges, but it's probably a very important part of who you are |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | I made banana scones. Do you want one? It's a triangle. | not right now |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | if you were given the option to either be an amarantoraphidia or a spongiforma squarepantsii which would you choose | i'm not ready to make that choice |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | if your life is a movie what genre would it be? | would not be a genre. a genre immediately ruins a movie for me, usually via the cover |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | have you ever thought of remaking old music, and if so what songs? | i'll do all of them if i can |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Do you already have it planned what the next video you will release is? | it's multiple choice |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | If so, what is one word from the title? | the titles may change |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | A while back you said you don't really like albums because it seems that all the songs are making each other worse. Do you feel that way about albums that have a shared and connected story between songs? | it would be nice to use scenes and visual information along with that. but, is that really still called an album |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | How are you? | pretty good |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | And a follow-up: how aren't you? | i'm not sure |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Favorite Paradox? | the non-paradox |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how do i get my bass drum to sound more bassy and less thwappy when recording? | you may have to wait until that thing hits puberty |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | what would you do if you were not making songs? (aka right now) | i would try to make everything else |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | What is your favorite form of fiber arts? | i can't tell them apart |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain comin' down on a sunny day? | yes, i saw it in those oppenheimer scenes with einstein by the pond |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | maybe you could do a radio show | i'll look into it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | do you agree that "silence plays too"? | yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | why are you like this | why are you like that |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | do you like waffles? | i like the ones from actual Belgium |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | is the door of the corner store related at all to the one you became best friends with | no, but i thought that song was about you anyway |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | favourite piece of furniture? | the stairs |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | where did the idea for the ground plane come from | on february 15, 2020, someone here asked me what the title of my next song would be, and for some reason i just said "it might be called ground planes but it might not". then i suddenly realized i should take that idea seriously, so i skipped that question and saved 'ground planes' as a 'title only' seed. that entry came up years later in due course, and i did the work |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Should i make music in english or in my native language? | why not try both |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | How can i know? | know what |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | if you could go back to when you first found out about music, what's one thing you'd want to tell that version of yourself? | something like 'crazy, huh?' although that probably wouldn't be necessary, and i should point out that i discovered music before i was fluent in any spoken language |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | what is it called when you know there's 100000 things you want to do but instead of doing any of that you're sitting and sipping some tea and listening to music and thinking about how much time you've spent doing this exact kind of thing before, and how you've accomplished a decent amount but not really 100% in the ways you wanted to, and there's so much more you want to do also, and you know you can do it but you also aren't sure you actually will, given the history you have of ending up in this kind of situation where you don't actually do it, but you also know that probably, if you wait long enough, you'll get back into some project or another and do a pretty good job and be proud of yourself but not completely satisfied and the cycle will continue? thanks | the human experience |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | i like your music. when will i like it more? | pretty soon |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | If you hypothetically were living in a time loop reliving the same day over and over again, what would you do? Asking for a friend | i'd gradually increase my knowledge and skills, and push the boundaries of what's possible |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | i think tomorrow (different timezones and stuff) will be a somewhat important day for me. can you leave me some wise message for when it's over,then regardless of how it went i can open this website say "ha, that's so true!" | no. you've controlled this role-play so tightly that there's no room for any genuine input from me |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | I saw that yesterday someone asked you "what's your next song called?" and you responded with "i can't tell you." Is your next song actually called "i can't tell you?" | absolutely not |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | how to answer "how are you" in polite society when the answer is "terrible" to the point where you don't have the mental resources to answer with the polite lie | how about some form of a shrug, then immediately ask them how they are doing. all 4 possible outcomes to this will probably make both parties feel better |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | What is your opinion on the hit song "Gucci Flip Flops" lyrical statements? | none. i think to evaluate a hit song only as 'lyrical statements' is usually missing the point. a hit song is a magic confluence of things, not the least of which include rhythms, melody, vibes, words, maybe throw in a dance craze, |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Would something like this inspire something you are working on? | there's almost no stopping anything from inspiring me |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | are you up to anything? | yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | do you have any tips or tricks to make a really good milkshake | no. i'm not even really sure what a milkshake is |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | When someone says "What's up?", do you think it is fair game to just reply with "hey" (or hi, hello, etc.)? | yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | I know "what's up?" is a greeting, but I'm slightly confused if I'm supposed to answer with a greeting back, or when/if I should actually respond with what I am up to. | it means 'hi' now, or at most 'how are you' |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Favorite fishing bait? | how about a free 30 day trial |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | are fun bad? | almost |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Will you show us your studio/music setup/whatever you have sometime? | yes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html | Are you excited for an early spring? | yes, and then winter to make a surprise encore appearance, then spring again |
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