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https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	Why do you give answers to some questions that don't make any logical sense? Do you just answer purely emotionally sometimes without regard for logic?	i try to use a range of answering techniques. on one end of the spectrum, it's nice to be brutally plainly honest. there is value in the simple truth. on the other hand, over many many questions, this can become boring. so then i might lean toward the other end of the spectrum, where things like fun and enjoyment come into play
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	what's a thought you have that isn't crazy but isn't rational either?	being afraid of both the dark and the light
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	do you have any hentai recommendations??	no
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	how do you balance an intense dislike of people with a strong desire to be loved	how about writing a play
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	i feel selfish, but i don't know if i know that i feel selfish. am i actually selfish, or do i just feel like it?	you are just thinking about being selfish
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	is it "fall" or "autumn"?	neither
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	what are the ingredients in the dream? what makes them so appealing?	mems (that's short for memories)
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	An Am/D hurt my heart today and it was such a good and bad feeling I had to stand up and walk away from the piano for a minute.	i understand
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	how do you say something real	if you say 10 unreal things, and position them tenderly in a very specific way
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	what does mean mean	it's like a bean, but smoother
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	how repetitive should a song be?	you know how a wave-form goes up and down, well just make it keep going up repeatedly
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	what is a apple	it's the first object. object 1
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	do you know what a music is or is not	almost
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	How do you let go of caring what other people think about you or what you're doing?	start thinking about what you think of what they're doing. just to balance things out a little
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	how do you want your songs to be understood?	it's nice for them to be loved. i mean what wouldn't be nice about that
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	currently coming down from my nightly crying my eyes out for an hour about my vocal range being awful after watching videos of people who can sing an octave higher than me that youtube recommends me and so i need to ask if you know any way to stop this from ruining my life (how do i sing higher without sounding like garbage ??????) thanks	i'm actually not sure
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	is it dishonorable to resist an inevitable outcome?	let me perform some calculations
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	which song would you show an alien?	mambo #5
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	will u ever change the 'bio' section of this site	every time i consider changing it, i change my mind about changing it
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	what's your favorite kind of soap?	dirt
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-10.html	do you think having a finished backlog of 11 videos to release at a steady pace will buy you some time to focus on other things, like on this website or in your personal life?	i'd be doing the next batch
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Do you like listening to free form jazz?	if it's called 'jazz' then that's a form. if you want it more free, take out the 'jazz'
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how does someone make a song	no one knows how. if anyone has ever done it, they must have done it without knowing how
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what do the people on saturday night live do for the rest of the week	write and rehearse
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Would you consider yourself good at multi-tasking?	for some tasks
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Or do you focus on one thing at a time? Thanks, hope you having a great day	it all comes down to what is considered a task
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	when are you going to make a new video	right away
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	will part of your next song be in 13/4?	it's possible
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how do i feel ok	it's impossible to know how, but it will happen anyway, when you are least expecting it
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what's the opposite of a snowball	all non-snowballs
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what is the cool new controversy?	doing things the normal way
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	I still need help eating grass, I keep accidentally dropping it now	i don't know anything about eating grass. i've never done it
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Do you perform your own stunts?	i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	I had a dream that you and I were hanging out here in Portland and I was going on about how great the place is, like yeah man it's great, you can get anything here, people will be like "I know a place that sells great felted cones" or whatever, and you thought it was funny so you wrote a song about felted cones. Have you ever considered writing a song about felted cones?	no
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	is this a questions page	there's got to be a way to test that
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	have you done anything cool recently?	yes
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what was it?	flipped out
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how much did you cut down here comes the sun (length)	over the years it's been re-written many times. for many years it was 4:52. the 2020 re-write is much shorter
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	are you Banksy?	no, thank you for checking
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Are you okay	even better
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what is space?	i have no idea
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	I need some help with some chord names... (From bottom to too) Chord 1: Ab Gb B Db Ab	to be most exact, this would be Bsus2 over Ab. for easier readability, you might say Abmin11, but that doesn't really capture it. my personal short name for this chord is Abmin7sus11, but i wouldn't use that in a chart for someone else without explaining it to them
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Chord 2: Db B F Bb	that's a pretty standard way to play Db13
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Chord 3: Gb Eb Ab Db	how about Gbsus2 6 (you can put the 6 below or above the 2)
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	I know the first one is a Ab minor and the second one is a Db dom and the last one is Gb, so what I'm asking is how would I fit in the extensions into the name.
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	why is 240 on your wall	because it is less cliche than 420, which is what the numbers originally said when i got there
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	bill can you help me with my homework	sure
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Is it time to wake Green Day up?	no
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	I'm feeling extremely normal right now.	i understand
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	When is your next song coming up	right away
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what's a way to think about the finite aspect of our existence in time and space	it might be just enough
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	someone asked what a crazy thought you have is. what is a rational thought you have	how about being a cry baby
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	will it all be okay, even if i kind of suck at college?	yes
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	How do I know when it's time for me to stop learning old maths and start making new maths? I feel like I am unable to make new maths after trying hard for a while... because I guess I am not familiar enough with the old maths... But then I try to learn old maths all day long for months, even years on end; and end up feeling like I've forgotten all I've learnt anyway... So then I went back to trying to make new maths and failed again... So I've gone back to learning old maths, but it seems like its going nowhere again... Am I going to be stuck like this forever or will something new come out finally?	how about learning science
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	maj7 or △?	i use maj7
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how do you badly explain music	you could put it into genres and pretend the genres always stay the same
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Can you open windows	i suspect i could
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you thing drugs are a portal to another real dimension?	it's you, you are the portal
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	where is my washing machine	it's around the clothes
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you have a favorite movie?	if anyone ever makes a movie with no opening or closing credits, that will be my instant favorite
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what's the best pizza place in new york	one of the dollar places in the city
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how do you	aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa at least that's the way i do it
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	would you consider yourself good at sightreading	for rhythms yes
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	is your next song a bill wurtz song	yes
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	If you're self taught, how do you fix problems with your playing when all you know is that there is a problem (not how to fix it)? My instrument is not very popular and there are not many online resources :(	hmm.... i think you will still figure it out with experience, but there may be some mysteries along the way
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how to acquire poo-tang?	hop in to a time machine and go directly to the 1970s
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how does it feel when you make stuff	pretty good
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what's a crazy thought you have?	it's gonna be alright
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	are cats liquid	no
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	can you make a new word	sure. i can make words any time i want
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	one cool thing i recently noticed about writing songs as if you're someone else (from a perspective of someone who has had something happened which perhaps hasnt happened to you) as well as while picturing a scene (same situation, you imagine a foreign situation) is that people cna relate even if you havent had the same experience (in a traditional non-imaginary way) they are relating to.	that's true
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	What should I do?	how about building Rome in a day
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Should I continue to publish my writing online, even though it feels like nobody cares?	yes. you never know who cares
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	I bought some used rollerskates online, and when they arrived there was a little lego dog in one of them :)	since you are smiling, that means you took the lego out before you stepped in
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you do all of your own music?	yes
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you find forgiveness is a nice thing to give and receive or is it better when stripped apart, letter by letter, and thrown over a bridge, so it can never be again? if you get what I mean. any bridge will do	maybe you could make some ribbons with it
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Do you ever choose to think, or do you think right away without thinking about it?	some of the times i think, i think
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what do you do when you're feeling depressed?	i'm not sure
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how do you cope stress	i'm not sure
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	How should we structure?	that's easy. make everything exactly the same
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	How many chord extensions is too many?	it seems not entirely clear what 'extension' means. it doesn't seem to have any musical meaning. the chord is the chord. 'extension' implies it's different than it was
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Do I use "add4" if there as also a 3 in the chord?	sure. actually 'add4' tends to mean the 3 is also there. otherwise it's called 'sus4'
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Can I use just the scale degrees in Roman numerals notation for minor?	if it's minor, you probably should either write "min", "minor", "-", "m", or put the numeral in lowercase. but i'm actually not sure if that many people can read roman numerals nowadays
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Do you like the idea of Am7 G F9maj7 E7(#9),	seems normal, except the way you notated the F is weird because it looks like it includes Eb and E notes at the same time. it's most likely a notation mistake, considering the rest of the sequence looks common and normal
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	and do you like how it sounds?	it doesn't sound like anything on the page. you'd have to play it somehow
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you ever have moments when you don't know what song make or select?	yes. from the beginning of the selection process, all the way up to just before the end of the selection process, i don't know which one to do next. in fact, this uncertainty is the whole reason for the selection process
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles based on a true story?	almost. the turtles were adults
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you believe in parallel universes or is it just something fun to think about	both
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	hey bill	hi
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	are whiteboards white or a very subtle grey all the time	they are white
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	What's your favorite musical instrument?	the clicker thing
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how big is a billion?	1000 million
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Are you a screw-up?	yes, but that means some times i screw the screw up up
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	what's the reasoning behind time-stamping the questions and not the answers, as opposed to time-stamping the answers and not the questions, or time-stamping both, or neither?	with neither, it would lack proper context. with both, there would be too many dates on the screen. so i had to choose one or the other. and i feel, by a reasonably narrow margin, that the ask time is more important
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	how close do you feel to your past self, and how accountable do you feel to your future self	37%
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	Can you be more specific?	sure
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you believe a viewer's interpretation of an artwork is more important than the artist's intention?	it's a tie
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	do you believe artworks are pansymbolic?	i'm not sure. i've never heard that word before so i'm not confident that i know how to use it
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	How do i make a dohickey?	impossible. you must acquire one of the already made ones
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2023-09.html	tips for living	change, stay the same, and change between changing and staying the same

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Why do you give answers to some questions that don't make any logical sense? Do you just answer purely emotionally sometimes without regard for logic?

i try to use a range of answering techniques. on one end of the spectrum, it's nice to be brutally plainly honest. there is value in the simple truth. on the other hand, over many many questions, this can become boring. so then i might lean toward the other end of the spectrum, where things like fun and enjoyment come into play

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what's a thought you have that isn't crazy but isn't rational either?

being afraid of both the dark and the light

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do you have any hentai recommendations??

no

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how do you balance an intense dislike of people with a strong desire to be loved

how about writing a play

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i feel selfish, but i don't know if i know that i feel selfish. am i actually selfish, or do i just feel like it?

you are just thinking about being selfish

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is it "fall" or "autumn"?

neither

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what are the ingredients in the dream? what makes them so appealing?

mems (that's short for memories)

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An Am/D hurt my heart today and it was such a good and bad feeling I had to stand up and walk away from the piano for a minute.

i understand

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how do you say something real

if you say 10 unreal things, and position them tenderly in a very specific way

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what does mean mean

it's like a bean, but smoother

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how repetitive should a song be?

you know how a wave-form goes up and down, well just make it keep going up repeatedly

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what is a apple

it's the first object. object 1

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do you know what a music is or is not

almost

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How do you let go of caring what other people think about you or what you're doing?

start thinking about what you think of what they're doing. just to balance things out a little

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how do you want your songs to be understood?

it's nice for them to be loved. i mean what wouldn't be nice about that

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currently coming down from my nightly crying my eyes out for an hour about my vocal range being awful after watching videos of people who can sing an octave higher than me that youtube recommends me and so i need to ask if you know any way to stop this from ruining my life (how do i sing higher without sounding like garbage ??????) thanks

i'm actually not sure

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is it dishonorable to resist an inevitable outcome?

let me perform some calculations

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which song would you show an alien?

mambo #5

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will u ever change the 'bio' section of this site

every time i consider changing it, i change my mind about changing it

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what's your favorite kind of soap?

dirt

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do you think having a finished backlog of 11 videos to release at a steady pace will buy you some time to focus on other things, like on this website or in your personal life?

i'd be doing the next batch