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how do i start learning music and theory?
just start playing music. if you don't know what kind of instrument to get, i'd recommend something in the piano family. all the notes are layed out in order like buttons, so it's crystal clear what does what. it's like child's play. you'll have fun
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is there such a thing as being too reliant on music? cuz i'm at a point where whenever i have to complete a task that might take me more than 5 minutes i have to listen to music, or if i'm not listening to music i'm messing around on garage band or practicing my instrument for marching band but no matter what i do, it's music related. i just feel like eventually i'm gonna get tired of music and i'm scared of that happening because it's such a big part of my life.
make plans to worry about that later. now is not the time. if this ever happens, i promise there will be something else for you to discover
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hi. how do i know if i should make electronic music as opposed to something jazzy or in the realm of dream pop? do i even need to decide?
in your case, i think these 'genre labels' are too distracting. Like fruit, i think you will find that the fruit actually tastes much better if you peel off the label
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What do you think the man in out to lunch had for lunch?
i'm not convinced that that person has a stomach, or any digestive system in general
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Do you by any chance have a demo version/writing session of 'the moon is made of cheese' that you can share? I'd like to hear the stripped down, early version of that one.
i could share it with you, but first i'd have to get to know you well enough so that i trust that you won't go and post it on 'bill sucks' dot com
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Why do you think it is that we often feel so strongly that certain people "look" or "don't look" like their name? Like, oh you look like a Brian or oh she doesn't look like a Chloe. Do you think there are actually certain features associated with certain names? Is it just confirmation bias? Both? Neither?
on some level, there are some intrinsic qualities of visual appearance which may intrinsically match with some intrinsic qualities of some phoenetics. (i deeply apologize for using the word intrinsic 3 times, but upon further review i'm confidident that i needed it.) On top of that, there may also be some association happening with other people who have had that name. However, i should add, how people seem to 'look' is almost always heavily influenced by how they act, and how they carry themselves, and their personality in general. And personalities, also, may seem to intrinsically match with certain phoenetics. and this likeness may grow stronger over time, as people embrace (or, if needed, alter) what their name is
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How would you feel if some news organisation asked you a question on here and then quoted your off handed answer as if it was serious?
i'd feel like a true member of society
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Do you think we should rename sperm banks to semen factories
no
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What is your favorite type of door?
window
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hey bill, will ever use samples from other media like youtube videos, other songs, etc?
i generally don't do that. for me it's not worth the drama
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Should I try commission painting
sure
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What inspires you to use strange time signatures in some of your songs, such as how more than a dream's verses are in 7/4?
sometimes it's just about how much time you want to pass. the first line is what it is, so we know that has to be like a 3/4, and then we try the whole thing in 3/4 and we notice "that doesn't feel like enough time passing in between the lines. i just want more time to pass" so we make the gap 4 beats long instad of 3. and that's how that happens. Same as determining how long each shot should be, for a scene of a movie. sometimes 3 seconds is too long. 1 second is too short. but maybe 2 seconds is just right
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a good melody seems important if you want to write a memorable song (this is in regards to non-lyrical songs, because you can make it more memorable with words) but is memorability important to writing a good song?
that might be a reverse correlation... i.e., rather than things being good because they're memorable, i'd rather say, we remember things BECAUSE we find them good
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I often find new artists through looking through the Wikipedia pages for certain genres of music. For example, I found the band Television Personalities while looking at the page for "Anti-folk," and I ended up subsequently listening to their album "And Don't the Kids Just Love It," all based on the fact that the picture for Television Personalities at the top of the Wikipedia page was really cool. Basically, all this combined gave me the impression that this would be a cool band, based on their name, genre, pictures, etc. When I listened to the album, it was good, but it wasn't as good as I expected it to be, even though I couldn't possibly have had any expectations for their music. Would you say my expectations based on things that had nothing to do with the MUSIC of Television Personalities in turn made my experience of their album less enjoyable?
no, it possibly made your experience better, because you were in a welcoming mood
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Can that be applied to every artist? Is it best to just listen to a band's album cuz "fuck it?" as opposed to because "they looked cool," or "they had a cool album cover?"
music discovery certainly works best when you are in that welcoming mood. because, at first, what else do you have? it's just the picture, the image, the title, .... you gotta start somewhere. so, indeed, these superficial attractors are a natural starting point. In fact, on some level i believe music actually needs something to latch onto, otherwise it doesn't even work so well. We've all had the experience of enjoying music in a video game. or maybe you'd go to a thrift store and see an obscure reggae record from 1973 that just looks magical. so you take it home and listen to it. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not, but being enchanted by how-and-where you found it, and the cover image, title, etc, certainly puts you in a welcoming mood, which will help you embrace all that may be good about it
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Does answering all these questions help with your creative process or does it just help pass the time?
time passes just fine on its own. yes indeed, the questions process is full of many opportunities to learn and grow
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How is YHWH pronounced as featured in your "history of the entire world, i guess" documentary?
that's a very old word that's been around for many centuries and transcended through many different religions. i've worked with nigerian church groups who sing it something like "Ya Wey", but that's my only reference point on how to pronounce the word
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How do I get good at incorporating hand gestures in my communication
you could get one of those apps that gives you an electric shock if you say more than 100 words per day
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if you were to throw a milk chocolate raisinet, how fast do you think it would go? (in kilometers per hour)
maybe 30
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Ik vind het zo gezellig als je in het Nederlands schrijft. Is dat kinderachtig?
alle taal is kinderachtig. maar wat ik me afvraag, begrijp je daadwerkelijk de taal of maak je alleen gebruik van google translate?
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what if the singular form of sheep was shoop
then everything would make sense
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do you know how to solve the rubik's cube?
no
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do you like sitcoms
sometimes i like some of the ideas. sometimes those ideas feel desperately trapped in a furniture store with a wall missing, and a well-prepped audience laughing along
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how is air created
i'm not sure
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sometimes i think, then im told i thought stupidly, how can i change this?
maybe you can change which part of the story you tell. for example, you told me that you had some thoughts, but didn't tell me what those thoughts were. you only told me what one person's reaction was. but i'd like to hear more about what it is you actually thought (because it might not have been so stupid) and also maybe skip the part about the other person telling you what they think of your thoughts. maybe that's not as interesting as what the thoughts actually were. I'm sure there's someone else frowning at someone right now, but i don't always include that in my story
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how did the inspiration for 3d animation begin? did it stem from a lifetime dream of animation or was it an idea spawned from inescapable boredom?
i have a thirst for 3D environments. whenever i'd walk through the city streets at dawn on Sunday, i've always been enthralled by the way buildings look from different angles. in april, 2019, when i was starting on the video for "i'm a princess", i decided to dip my toe into this world, and all it took was some basic shapes in an empty room, and as soon as i put some lights in there, i was hooked, and it almost ruined my life
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i know it's a corny question but how do you deal with haters
like them
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since meet me in sept had no title or lyric when you selected it, what WAS there? like a melody or something?
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I eat bananas. Do you eat bananas?
not always
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what is the funniest sounding name
tim bob
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Why do u make music videos but two of your videos are 2 mans with friendship
i make videos and music to explore what it's like to be alive
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If two mind readers read each other's minds at the same time, whose mind are they actually reading?
ours
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What is the fastest way to earn money
invent something everyone needs
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Have you ever considered the idea that what we call electrons are actually just ideas? Or maybe ideas are the true smallest unit of the universe?
i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes
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But no ideas are original, because everything has been thought already? (Explanation for quantum entanglement, what may seem like an original idea has actually already been thought by someone else in another place) ???
well then i guess the fully correct name for 'originality' would be 'local originality'. shout out to London, Canada
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best bean color?
rainbow
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Why do weddings cost so much?
keep appearances up
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are you passionate about passion fruit?
no
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do you think it's passionate about you?
no
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what does a regular candle smell like
mostly like the corners
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What dimension do you reside in?
the first one
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hey bill i have a favor to ask you-- can you find the person who asked the question at 6.17.23  (4:09 pm) and get his name and tell me so we can all get steves actual name?? and if you tell me their name was steve imma cry
it's your name. it's a choose your own adventure
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how did you come up with the lick at the end of the 1st chorus in la de da de day oh? the one at 0:58
made it up
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do you have any advice for young people that don't know what to do with their lives career wise?
yes, i would recommend the 'step'. each step you take, regardless of what direction it is, you'll learn just enough information to choose the direction of your next step
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What do you want your songs to convey to people?
if i could explain it, then i probably wouldn't need songs to help me explain it
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Actually I cannot point out what makes a song tick with me. Like with the Beatles' 'Yesterday', I like it but I don't understand why. I mean objectively it's a song about longing for a happier past, which is ... kind of ... lowly(Don't take this the wrong way, I feel there is some magic in the song but I can't explain it)? Like the right thing to do may be to move on right? So isn't it kind of... giving a message that it is ok to hang onto the past? But there are also songs about moving on like 'Let it go' from Frozen, which is sung in a situation when the character absolutely should not be moving on! But I still like the song. It feels like these songs don't capture the whole truth and I am finding it difficult to explain exactly what is the difference between them and absolutely lowly songs that only talk about sex, money, etc... that make me like them. If I were to make a song, I would want to give people the truth, or rather the peace or fulfillment that they want, but I also find that whatever I put into that song will be inadequate in doing so... How do you set standards for your songs in such situations, knowing all you can throw out there is incomplete and imperfect?
if you ever figure out what is 'right' or 'good', then it would never cease. like, literally it would be just one note held down for the entire time. if that's the best note, then keep it on. if there were a 'best note', then why do we keep switching notes? so in that case, the only thing totally 'not-imperfect' would be total blankness without any disruption. but that's not what we like about music, it's not what we like about games, it's not what we like about 'taking a hike', it's not why we're alive. we are moving beings
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I am asking with regards to your own songs. Obviously you have high standards, a particular way of making songs that don't talk about lowly things. Like for example your song "might quit", which is about leaving and doing your own unconventional thing in a way that makes more sense to you... I cannot explain exactly but I tried doing that for some time in my life and it didn't work out... I realized it was just a pipe dream. So ...I'm ranting a bit... I guess I'm asking what is that thing of unending beauty that you can rely on?
the entire world, but, also, any individual piece of that world is sufficient guidance. but i guess if you find yourself worrying about not being 'good' 'enough' 'all the time', then i suppose it's worth remembering that every picture ever painted has some lines that go in the wrong direction. otherwise there wouldn't even be anything in the picture. So, when you go to make a new song, get excited about how wrong some of it is going to be
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do you think the dissolution of Yugoslavia has impacted the afro-eurasian car trade
i wouldn't rule it out
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all my life i have listened to music as much as i can, in all the different styles, trying to absorb everything and listen to whatever feels right at the moment. but the past week, no matter what i listen to. it doesn't feel right. like anything at all, just something feels slightly off about it. do you have any earthly idea what is causing this predicament
perhaps there is something in a visual medium that begs your attention at this moment. of maybe something in the realm of language, or geography. maybe it's the right time to start a manufacturing company
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do you think history can be analyzed in order to predict the future?
deliberate analysis might be too rigid. to intuit the future, curiosity is what's likely to get you there. indeed, you can browse the past, curiously
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Favorite Doritos flavor?
'afternoon nap'
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how do i play baseball
win some games and then switch to the losing team for the right price
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will i ever have friends?
sure
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Favorite emotion?
nieuw
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Is there a rule saying a dog can't play ball?
no
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WHY AM I HERE INSTEAD OF GETTING IT DONE WHY CAN'T I GET THE DAMN THING DONE
because it's a bit more sensitive than you think
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what should I do if I have too many ideas? should I try to do them all at once, or work on them one at a time? should I work on one, and then skip to a different one, and then so on until all the ideas are done? or is there another option; a totally spectacular, brilliant option that would solve all my problems; that I'm not seeing/hearing/perceiving in some way? if it's that fourth one, I would appreciate it if you would inform me what it is so I could go with it. thanks.
that's weird, i didn't know i was allowed to send myself questions on here
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if numbers had capitals like how letters do, would the current ones be capitals or lowercase?
capital
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what is the ideal question?
that would change because at some point it would like to get answered. the best questions have an answerability greater than 0% and less than already-answered (∞%). and therefore, an ideal question is destined for answerment at SOME point in time, and so when it is eventually answered it no longer is an ideal question, and in fact no longer a question
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Is the world actually going to end in 511 million days?
probably not
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have you ever been so angry u took a nice crisp jog to calm down?
no, but that would be a good remedy for that
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Is there a difference between add2 and add9?
maybe but not really. add9 maybe implies that the 9 should be in the higher octave, but it's also fine to stuff the 9 into the same octave as the rest. the reason a person would choose to write "add2" on paper (and i do), is to avoid tricking the reader into thinking they should play the 9 way up high. and in that case, if i ever wrote 'add9', that means i'm probably saying i want the 9 to be high, because otherwise i would have written add2. however, for "maj9" for me it is usually assumed that the 9 is not high. just because, in the professional world 'maj9' has come to mean 'must include the 7 and 2 and 3 and optionally 5'
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Would you play different notes for add2 vs add9, or would it depend more on context than how it's notated?
if you can prove that the transcriptionist commonly uses both symbols, then indeed you can assume that the octave matters, because they would have used the other one if they meant the other one. but if they seem to always use the same one, then i'd say there's no way of knowing which octave they'd prefer for you to put that note
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does this count as a question?
yes
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what is the best way to eat potatoes?
grind it up and sprinkle it onto another potato
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Do you believe that we or living in a simulation, or would you prefer to believe that we are all part of a giant societal self-correcting system comparable to something neurological?
your first option seems incomplete (simulation of what?), and the second option may actually encompass the meaning of the first option, if it were complete. regardless, i would like additional options to choose from
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Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
the oven was named after another oven, which was named 'oven'
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how do you live your daily life? does anything run through your mind at all? does work and videos interfere with daily life? what makes you tick?
i try to figure it all out. like that moment on wheel of fortune when someone says "Pat, I'd like to solve the puzzle"
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Have you been the milkman before
no
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do you think a skateboard could be used as a snowboard, and vice versa
only with significant modifications, and possibly dangerous without sufficient manufacturing experience
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How to bg vocals??? :(
start with just one extra voice, on one word. find the most important word of the song, and put another voice on it, and find what note works best. if you record it, make the back slightly quieter than the lead, try to make sure your consonants execute at the same time, and also sing 2 copies of the back and put one on the left and one on the right.
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favorite potato chip flavor?
hostile brand acquisition
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do you ever listen to film soundtracks?
i listen to the soundtrack (score) of a film, in the film (not separately). however, sometimes 'film soundtrack' means something else: a music album of songs that are either partially featured in the film, or just otherwise associated with the film. those types of albums, no, i do not listen to. although perhaps i may listen to songs that happen to be on such an album
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Would you rather be a sweet corncob or a bitter parsnip?
i would rather have more options
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have u eaten a hot dog before?
no
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will you ever release demo versions of your songs?
yes
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would you be able to share one here, maybe?
i would add a link here if asked, and if it was already on another section of the site
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Have you ever seen someone that you'd felt like you'd seen before, but you don't know where and you don't know when?
yes
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Where do I go?
when
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What do you do for fun with your friends?
make friends with more friends
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Favorite color?
medium
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if you eat brunch at midnight is it still brunch or is it a midnight feast?
brunch is always brunch
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how do you write a song
no one knows. everyone's waiting for you, to teach them
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Whats the H in Jesus H Christ
same as the P in "Alex P. Keaton", or the J in "Michael J. Fox". it stands for "style"
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what rhymes with orange
clothes pin
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In a recent question you brought up how music recommendation is sensitive. I think I have a general idea what you meant by this, but could you elaborate a bit more? Thanks:)
i mentioned that in response to what the question said. the question said something about when your dad tries to convince you to pay attention to jimi hendrix. and my feeling was that that's a good example of when a music recommendation comes on a little too strong. a better time for music recommendation might be if you are already sharing a lot of music with the person, and you've already established some commonalities between your tastes, and/or the receiving person has already expressed an interest in receiving recommendations at that particular time. Unsolicited recommendations, however, mostly will not be effective, even if the product is good
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If animals could talk, which species do you think would complain the most?
human
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Is being interviewed the way you are on this page very different from when you're a guest in a talk show or podcast?
yes
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what do you think of the possibility that you might hold views relating to the status quo?
never heard of it
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What was the inspiration for the ball amd stick video?
they just looked so good together on screen, i had to write something for them
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Should the people who attend movie theaters and willingly choose to sit in the front row of the theater and sit directly below the IMAX screen be thrown into psych wards?
no. the distorted viewing experience they're having is a sufficient punishment
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what is the best way to spend a pineapple?
put it in the bank
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is the orange shirt guy from "Perfect!" video lying about owning all the cars
it's likely
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Do you come from the land down under?
no
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Did the man in out to lunch actually take the opportunity to forget his past,
yes
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and if so, how much past did he forget?
i think just the part where the first club hit the ceiling
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what do you feel about songs that shift in tempo a lot
that happens a lot less often now in the age of computers. probably because it's more difficult to accomplish within the computer. in that sense, it's probably worth exploring, because it's still just as good as it ever was, and would probably seem more fresh now because it's less common
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Is green a creative color?
it might be
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If not, why?
maybe it was too predictable. for example: if you see a traffic light, and the bottom light is green, that is not creative. that's just what it's expected to be
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hi bill how are you
pretty good