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https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How much water would you say you drink daily? | a lot |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Why have you not done any other history videos? | i am making as many as i can, as fast as i can. in fact, i am doing one right now. how many have you done? why haven't you done more? |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Are there plans in the works for a new history video?? | i am writing one |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | I love your videos. Please make more. They bring joy to my heart and fun to my life. | i am working as fast as i can |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what's the story behind "I'm about to graduate from school"? were you really about to graduate from school when you wrote it? | that was kind of like i felt like i had done enough "nonsense" experiments to really feel i could confidently say ANYTHING in a song, and make it work. who knows if that's really true, but that's what i was feeling |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Written songs keep piling up, and I'm never satisfied with what I have already recorded. Mixing issues, mostly: bass too loud, sibilance, etc etc. To relieve stress, more songwriting takes place, and at the same time, no new recording takes places because it feels "wrong" to move on until those old recordings are "OK". Somtimes, I get on a roll of "just doing it" (like what u said about demon-killing songs), and it feels so, so great! The experience stacks up, and slowly things start feeling smoother, it flows. But at some point I will always look back at the first recordings and think, "that was a good song, but it's recorded terribly. Maybe I should go back..." and that halts the whole flow. I guess there's no real answer to this situation, but I'm wondering if, besides the demon-killing, did you set yourself any "limits" too? Like, "once a song is recorded, that's it"? It takes so much willpower to do, but I guess sometimes songs n
eed to b
e used as fuel to kindle the fire of future songs. Or something. It's hard!!! | welcome to earth |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What inspired you to make your first history video? | 0 was the amount i had made. 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 was the amount i had always wanted to make. doing 1 was a natural first step |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | will there be a sequel to "here's a bowl in case you throwup."? | you could consider all these videos to be in a direct series: |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | i was listening to 'the future song' and was wondering what the story behind it is. in the chorus you sing "you and i was born" but in the verses it seems like you talk more about loneliness/longing as though the other person is gone or left. or i'm totally misinterpreting it (hopefully you don't mind explaining, it seems like a lot of questions have been asked today on the background behind your songs) | i think the underlying theory is that something completely revolutionary is happening with mankind, which i guess the entire history of mankind has been leading towards, but really began to pick up speed in the ... 1500s ... or the 1900s .... or the 1960s ... or fuck it, right now ... However you want to look at it. basically just trying to hype up the current generation that we might be able to "get it!" and make everything great using all our combined knowledge and spirit, etc. It was written in 2009, but probably could have been written at any time, with the names of all the decades and years changed |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you write lyrics first or instrumentals first? | i write the lyrics and music at the same time, and then later, i record them both at the same time also. |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you ever get ideas for songs from your dreams? | sometimes. one time i got what feels like potentially the best song of my career |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what is your favorite paradox | you |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | can u ask me a question? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what is some advice for people who might want to write music? | don't Ever think there is any rules |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what is your favorite word? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Will you ever do a Reddit AMA? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you like opera | i have barely heard any |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Who is your favorite classical composer | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What is your favorite music historical period (Renaissance, baroque, etc) | the Holocene epoch |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What is your favorite mode | AWESOME MODE!!!!!!!! |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What is your favorite chord | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What is your favorite key | the one that is most comfortable for the singer on that particular song |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you have a process for writing songs? if so what is it? | i have used many different ones |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | would you call yourself successful now that you've acquired a fairly large fan base and made widely viewed content? | there is still a long way to go |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you often add little details to videos after a while? | absolutely not. this especially wouldn't work on youtube, because you would have to delete and re-upload the video at the current date |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do i make friends? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | If I donate $50, what would you do with the money? Will it mean more time to make strange videos? | it will be a little sooner until i can quit my job, which would give me a lot more time. it would also go toward a new computer, which would be much faster. it would also be toward a new keyboard with a USB jack that actually works, so i don't have to re-plug it 10 times before it works. those are probably the main things i am saving for. the most important would be quitting my job. i want to emphasize that no one is pressured to donate. watch and download all the content and donate 0 if you want (that's actually a great indication that you are serious about life). but i know there are people out there who would like to donate if they have the opportunity, so i have provided those |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Is the next research video gonna be about Prussia? | no, but i have a series of cool tweets coming up about prussia, which i think are pretty cool but will most likely be a total flop |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how can i learn something super fast? | relax |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you like jomny sun on twitter? he types the same way as you. | i am a huge fan of jomny sun (jonnysun). he is one of the strongest links between outrageous twitter and profoundly spiritual twitter. he has said some truly incredible things |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you have any inspirational figures/role models? | absolutely |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what is your favorite song? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | du bist sehr dumm | thanks for the update |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | I know you don't want to spoil it, but could you at least say which country your next history video will be on? | what makes you think it is about a country |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | I agree with the last question you should really play undertale. It's pretty normal at a first glance but has a nice morbid sense of humor and some internet culture in it too. | that is a good suggestion, but i might have to make videos/music instead. i apologize for all the videos and music that will be made as a result |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Would you say the place you live has a good view? | absolutely not |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you believe in reincarnation? | i think i believe in it more than most people who believe in it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | From bo's ama
"In getting an audience early, I realized how incredibly fluky and volatile peopleÕs attention was. And that trying to control it directly was impossible. The only thing I ever have had control of was the actual work. And for me, the corny truth at the center of it is that you should try to follow your impulse to GIVE something to people, not the impulse to get something from them. I try to tell myself to just shut the fuck up and work hard on something that I think is good and important and make it as good as I can and when IÕm done with it, share it. Self-promotion should be the last step, not the first. But also I got super lucky and didnÕt have to promote myself so IÕm a bit of a privileged hypocrite Ð but like that self-branding shit is pretty gross and I just think like makes you feel icky and unsatisfied and I donÕt think leads to happiness even when it works." | seems legit |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What's the history of "i can play"? (I can't get this song out of my head.) | it was originally written in 2 different 2010 library sessions. |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | i just listened to your songs "i love you" and "do the thing" and i'm overcome with memories and emotions. i was wondering what inspired you to write them and if there's a connection between them. as a pair, they remind me of something similar i have gone through in my life. keep doing what you're doing bill, you are one of a kind | they are similar, and were written in a similar time. sort of experimental. kind of like the feeling of being a puddle of liquid on a hot sidewalk. this would also go for the songs surrounding it during that time period (BEFORE "what love is"). honestly, these songs have an experimental quality that i would not necessarily recommend. i think i was trying to compensate for the random unpredictable quality that my songs had had previously |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | would you consider me a good panda | your typing skills make you not a very believable panda, i.e. a bad panda, or in other words 'not a panda.' however you are a very good non-panda |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | memes? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | am I funny | i would assume so |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | have you ever died? | i would assume so, otherwise i would still be alive as someone else |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | where did you get the "hiring all positions" poster on your wall? | it was there when i got here |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you smoke cigarettes? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what is ur opinion on sitting on a duck and not feeling bad because you aren't doing a different thing | my general rule is don't sit on a duck if you are bigger than the duck |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | when do you think your next history video will be done? | i am about 30 to 45 seconds into the writing. i really like the direction that it is going. i am using the same strategy as i did for history of japan, which is "say as much as you need to say to sufficiently explain the topic FAST and efficiently, but make it as long as you need." when the writing is done, i will do a timed read through and then i will know how long it is. i am guessing it will be anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes. (if i can say everything i want to say in 3, that would be fine too. if it takes 15, ...... i guess that's fine too.) japan clocked in at exactly 9 minutes on the first timed run through. i am also working on this video every day, every available hour (just like the last one.) The main difference between this time and last time is this: during the 14 weeks that it took to make history of japan, i was also writing and creating short videos for vine Every Single Day for about the first 2/3 of the time i was working on history of japan. so that would be maybe about half the work time each day devoted to vine, and NOT the history video. Now i am not doing that. so that would be a significant reason why this video might get done faster. Also, after making history of japan, i have refined some of my techniques a bit more, and might be able to work faster. However, the scope of this topic is a bit different, which might present some unforseen challenges. There is also a small chance that I may decide to make a short video just to have Something to release during the long haul (although i might NOT do that, because that will only directly delay the release of the long video.) The good news is, i have a 1 minute song and music video already completed which i am waiting to upload. i am saving it for when i am deep in the depths of production on this long video, so i have something to release. i hope that answers your question |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Could you maybe give a little backstory to "barf on me"? Is there a story behind? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How much of your recent (lets say last year to now) music that you released is new and how much of it is old written work waiting to be recorded/reworked? | anything in videos made for vine (aug 2015 thru jan 2016) is new. anything in monday or thursday videos from 2015 is new. all of the wednesday song releases in 2014 are old (except for a 'not bugs' and 'i hope that it's ok to love'). also there were music videos done to old recordings, in that case not even the recording is new. those were on tuesday and friday in early 2014, (then i think fridays were briefly replaced with song releases, which would be newly recorded but old writing) and then the music videos shifted to only fridays, and then i think after september it all went to free videos (non-songs, newly written.) 2 long songs were picked from the archives to be recorded in 2015 (crazy/raining, and free to). i have the details on all the songs if you ever want to know the history of any of them just ask specifically. i can't exactly explain every song right here |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Why is the title on top of the questions page "ueqstions"? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you find it easy to listen to music and enjoy it like a fan of that particular song? or do you nitpick bits and pieces and only listen to it in a technical sense? this keeps happening to me and it scares me, i miss listening to music for fun. | the technical criteria i use is ONLY based on fun and/or emotional fulfillment. that's how i derive anything technical i know or don't know about music. this also will be different from person to person, which is really why there are no strict rules in music |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | have you thought about using soundcloud? i saw your thing about spotify and impending doom and i don't really know if you can make money on soundcloud but you can upload the songs onto it yourself | i can upload songs to my website myself, and there are no limits, rules, or regulations. that's why i ultimately made the website, moving away from sites like soundcloud, tumblr, etc |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what fonts do you like and why? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | why is this question in the color purple? | the same reason all the other questions are purple. it is the color scheme i chose |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do you feel about the fact that you are physically attractive | i would say that's more of a myth. and i would like to perpetuate that myth for as long as possible |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | When do you think your next history of japan video will be done | i am not making another video about the history of japan. i have already covered that topic as extensively as i think is reasonable for me |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | where did you last experience a feeling of impending doom? | when i realized that spotify really does not care about letting me control what my profile picture is, and really doesn't care about me at all. and the only way to even get my music on to the most mysteriously ubiquitous platform in the world is to pay TWO (not one) different "distributors" who are essentially paid to 'upload' my music to spotify because i am not allowed to upload it myself because they don't want me to be. and also spotify is making more money off my music than i am |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What made you start posting videos on youtube? | i was already posting them on the |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | i think you should play a game called undertale
undertale.com. music/story is incredible. best way to play it is without any info | that is a good suggestion, but i might have to make videos/music instead. i apologize for all the videos and music that will be made as a result |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | why did you make your history of Japan video in the first place? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Why am i such a waste | because you are thinking about being a waste |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what is your favorite answer to a question? | i think |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | lol do u even vape bro? | can someone recommend a good vape that you don't have to clean? i would really appreciate it, and it might even make me live longer |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Have you ever asked your self a question on this page? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Have you ever asked your self a question on this page? | no |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do you ask a questio | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How insignificant is my existence | as insignificant as you want |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What is the password to your reality page? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Will there ever be a history of Bill Wurtz? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | have you ever answered a question about questions about questions , because I have a question | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | My girlfriend refuses to listen to your stuff, what should I do? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | are you going to do any history of another country like for example my country Nicaragua ? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | its my birthday, what do i do? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | help | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | why does some of the questions that I send to you doesn't apper on the website? | because i didn't answer them |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do u like America? | it's neat but i wish it wasn't an island |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Can you make a video about the history of israel , that would be hilliarious, thank you | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do you win at music i'm stuck on the last boss | it's yourself |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Is this a good question? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Can you make a history of people asking you to make history videos video? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What time is it? | 1:54 pm |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What can I do for you? | i dunno. |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | will you make more "history of (country)" videos | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | in expert mode, what is vacationing in the center of the earth ? it's the only one that doesn't link to anything. | if you think that's the only one that doesn't link to anything, you have not gotten very far |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you ever think that you might be overdoing something before you even really begin at it? | sometimes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What's the difference between the dominant and the arab scale? | i don't find it too necessary to think too much about scales. i'm not actually sure what you mean by the dominant or arab scale. arab music doesn't seem to require a scale at all. if there is an "arab" scale, i would suspect that europeans or maybe even americans invented it and that it's not helpful for making real arab music |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Would you consider yourself a perfectionist | no, i actually try to make things bad |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you want people to know that you're empathetic? | i would like to keep it a secret for as long as possible |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | if you could go back in time and do any one thing what would you do? | be myself |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you have a crush on me | who is this |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you watch other youtubers? | does someone who does more stuff outside of youtube than on youtube count as a "youtuber"? |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do u answer all of ur asks or just a select few | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you keep your workspace separate from your sleep space? I sleep in the same room that I do music making in, not sure it's a good idea. | it may not be ideal, but it is not worth worrying about. in some parts of the world, an entire family of 9 has to sleep in 1 room, smaller than yours. with no windows |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how old am i? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you have any advice for people who want to sing and play (bass, for example) at the same time? Or is it just "practice makes perfect" ?? | just start doing it. playing and singing together will feel like its own instrument. for bass, you absolutely must play in a band to really get any experience, i think. for piano + singing, for example, that's something that works well all by itself, and i should mention that regardless of vocal, piano in a band and piano outside of a band are also like 2 different instruments (the work is divided completely differently between your hands). for bass, one of the confusing things you will run into is note duration (length of notes) which is very important for the bass, and it will be confusing at first to get those right while trying to sing something which will have different note durations. but experience will do the trick. will lee did it on TV four days a week for 30 years and he got it down pretty good (well, the singing part wasn't usually on TV, but it happened during the break) |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | i'm in bushwick too, will you hang out with me? | in 2010? |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what is your ssn i want to be you | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | whats the password to the "reality" section of this wonderful website? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Why is your avatar an umbrella on youtube and twitter and other social media? |
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