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Did you ever finish trolling the 2011 book?
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trolling probably meant something different back then, but indeed i did
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what are your thoughts on things?
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there should be a little pouch for them
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what's your favorite kind of flower?
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surprise me
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what to do if there's a bear chasing you
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try a 'reverse mortgage'. those things are crazy
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thoughts on gill sans ultra bold
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not bold enough
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Best piano piece you've ever heard?
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it got cursed after someone claimed it was the best. i'm not making that mistake again
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should i go where i am, or where i aren't?
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alternate between both, repeatedly
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difference between Eb7b9sus4 and C#min6/Eb?
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on paper, with no context, i see the same notes
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if there is none then how should i spell it in the context of Emaj7 |G7 |Cmaj7 |?, key of E major i think
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if you want that Ab note, then use Eb7b9sus4. because otherwise a player might not assume that note is so important
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i understand
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what's your opinion on J E S U S
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a version of 'bingo' for when you are just a little more turnt
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favorite note
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low A (27.5)
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How can you tell if a book is fiction or non-fiction?
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see if it comes true
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what are the chords under "no, i didn't know that" in rabbit?
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Dbmaj7, Abmaj9. except the C note might have been skipped, in the second chord
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fav meme
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addition
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how do you feel about water?
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too dry
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is making music fun
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yes
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tell me a number between 3 and 181
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4
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if you could remove any month what would it be
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not doing it
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how many soccer balls can fit in a swimming pool
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not nearly as many as can fit outside of the swimming pool
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Should I want to be more like the person from I'm a princess or the person from the ending?
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you should figure out what you actually want. wants cannot should. it just doesn't happen
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Where is the appartement for the landlord
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they live in a castle
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can i ask a question
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i couldn't even imagine what that would be like
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if you were to perform your songs live (i hope that happens btw), how many people would you need in your backing band and what instruments would you play personally
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there's many different ways to do it. anywhere from 3 to 12 people in the band. 12 people requires very strict arrangement. 3 would be all chemistry and improv. any more than 4 people would probably mean i would mostly only do vocal. it would be nice for people to trade instruments a lot. a lot of questions unanswered still
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whats your favorite pizza
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show me a pizza that's almost impossible to believe
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My list of song ideas, which are mostly just a few seconds of song each, is getting shockingly large. Like, it's well over a hundred, and I've only been collecting them for a year. I've written a few to completion, but it's always terrifying because I really really don't want it screw any of the songs up, because I kinda love all of them.
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that's understandable
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I hope to start recording stuff soon, but that's a stupidly large rabbit hole that I've yet to really touch. So.... what should I do?
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there are many good options here
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Should I stop everything and focus on writing more for the songs I have? Should I just focus on trying to record stuff? I'm not really sure exactly what direction to go in, and this whole thing is feeling like a crisis at this point
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talk it out, and you should start to see which way you want to go. new idea generation is always cool, you CAN continue to spend some time on that, however, if the guilt is killing you then you can suspend new gen for a while if it makes you feel more comfortable. If zero-record is kâilling you, then you can suspend all writing for a while if it makes you feel comfortable. Now, assuming you will record, choosing which one and which order is nearly impossible, especially for someone who 'cares' as much as i assume you do. I'm sure that every one of them has immense desire mixed with immense fear. this is normal. On one end of the spectrum, you could try to just go through the list and choose which one you 'fear the least', but this might actually make you pick the most boring one. You could do a brute force random, which means leave it to the computer to make a choice (count them up and randomize). And this may be a good idea but it also might not give you the best results. i've discovered that a hybrid method tends to work best for me, and it goes like this: go through your entire list, and pick out any one that excites you. and add those to a pre-selection list. And by the way, amount of writing completion shouldn't matter here. all of them are available, including ones at .01% writing. if it excites you, add it to the pre-selection list. Then, as soon as you finish the pre-selection list, immediately count them up and let the computer decide from there. and that's the choice. then finish the writing on that one, knowing it is the next one to be produced. then once the writing is done, then go into production. this hybrid method (half my choice, half random selection) has worked well for me for a long time, but, to be fair, that was long after i already figured out how to record a song. The problem i had earlier with recording songs is that it was too overwhelming, and what i actually had to do was write insanely short songs on purpose, so i could learn the ropes on everything quicker. so you might have to do that, if you are feeling overwhelmed with longer items. or who knows, maybe you won't be overwhelmed. but if you talk it out for a while, i'm sure you can come up with a great system that suits your needs. there are probably a million different schemes you could do, and the method you come up with can be something you are really proud of
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why are we predisposed to music or movies made when we were young, like anything made from when we were born to the beginning of our 20s?
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that's simple. they were better. whatever year you were born, all content was the best during that next 20 years, and worse before and after, and everyone else also thinks this but they are wrong
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can I go on your talk show one day, please?
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sure. you can be first
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the word "is" isn't included in the land of the two letter words and now i feel bad for that word because it might feel left out.
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of course it's there, it just didn't happen to be in those lines. for example, some songs exist which don't even have every english word in them, but that doesn't mean the songs are not using english. i hope you see what i'm getting at
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If you performed live would you have a giant screen that plays the music videos that go along with the songs you perform?
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absolutely not
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if the most normal thing is a box (https://billwurtz.com/questions/q.php?date=202302212025) and the most medium thing is total insanity (https://billwurtz.com/questions/q.php?date=202305152113), then what is the difference between being normal and being medium, if the most normal thing and the most medium thing are different?
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i think these answers are a bit more 'unleashed' than you may have assumed. in other words, i don't think those leashes you've tried to draw between them will hold
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What is something you'd like to improve/work on in animation?
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mass production
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i have an enormous collection of mp3s collected over the years, mostly in whole albums. is it worth keeping all the songs, even if i don't like a few from an album?
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yes
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why are raisin boxes like that
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the stars must have aligned, and the tradition held
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what are your thoughts on microtonal music
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the most important part of microtonal music is that you get to use the word 'microtonal', which can melt every nearby universe and even some distant ones, just by the sheer power of the smartness contained within that word
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how many friends do you have?
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1 billion
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Have you ever tried doing pinch harmonics on a piano
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no
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who are the names of the people in the beach episode and the guy who put a rabbit in the hat
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they are not named
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fav genre
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'very good'
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what went into animating the 3-D airport terminal from "in the airport terminal"?
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just an empty box, and then a huge amount of 2D colorizing
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what in the world is the college application process
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i have no earthly idea
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are you a poet?
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it's possible
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will u run 4 president?
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no
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what do you think of the band "pink floyd"?
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sometimes i wonder if there could be an even pinker floyd
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whats your opinion on helvetica
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looks normal
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opinion on fusing heavy metal and hiphop?
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sounds normal
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so there is 4:3 and 16:9, but what ever happened to 5:4 - 15:8?
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i'm not sure
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and also what would 1:2 or 2:3 look like?
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they look like
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juice might not be what you think it is, can you dig deeper into this matter?
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no. this was your idea, so the shovel is in your court here
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have you ever thought of opening a chili restaurant
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no
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In all of your videos with characters, such as "Hi, I'm Steve" and "Maybe I Could Eat Blades Of Grass", is there a storyline or anything? Do all the characters like Steve and Damien have backstorys or lifes of their own outside of what we see in the videos?
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the backstory is me making videos
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are you ever sure?
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i was going to say yes but now that i think about it no
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why can't everything be smart and intellectual?
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that would be boring
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If the multiverse theorem is true, which means that there are infinite universes with infinite possibilities, does that mean there's a universe where it isn't true?
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sure
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I can only pay attention to fun things but the important things in my life are 'not fun'. I'm in a real pickle here song man... what do I do?
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that sounds like a fun challenge you've got there
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do you like waffles?
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they're ok but they should have higher resolution
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do you prefer to find meaning in lyrics or to give lyrics meaning?
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let's not forget about the music
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is there a life goal you think is achievable with 24 cents for me to try
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sure. you can have a collection of US coins that contains almost all of the most commonly used coin denominations
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are colors lies
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i was going to say no but now that i think about it yes
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what is the most medium thing
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total insanity
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if questions is pronounced kwes-chuns, is ueqstions pronounced weks-chuns?
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i don't know, but,
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Hi r u in collage
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no
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also banana
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Opinion on water?
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it's worth it
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are cover songs cool
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yes
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What's your favorite letter in the alphabet?
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i don't recall
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where will you announce locations / venues / dates and stuff for concerts for when you eventually play live? im not missing that concert for the world
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i would actually prefer that you don't see the first one. live shows take a while to get comfortable. i'd love to just do a weekly residency somewhere, and keep it going for several years
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can i type nothing here
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sure. give it a try
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how do i get better at life?
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teach someone else how to do it
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I was listening to some music and I really liked it except for one part. I thought that I should make the music myself, but I realized I don't know how to that. Should I just try anyways?
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sure
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Have you ever been sold into slavery in Antarctica by the French government?
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not that i recall
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If so then how do I get out of Antarctica?
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why is everything so stupid
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that is due to intelligence
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what are the best kind of shoes
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huge
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Favorite Aspect Ratio?
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a perfect square
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you like to reform the Hungarian Kingdom?
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i'll do it when i get a chance
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what ur fav usic
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i'm not sure
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i keep hearing people say your music is its own unique genre, but do you feel like it fits under a different genre?
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genre is a game of cat and mouse. the cat chases after the mouse, and the mouse runs away. the music is the mouse
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do you have any experience or interest in tuning systems other than 12 tone equal temperament
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i explored that very intensely, day and night, for a 2 week period, and i emerged with a newfound appreciation for 12tet
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did you know that cashews come from a fruit?
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it could be possible, but your suggestion does not cause me to have any opinion about whether or not it's true
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how many sides does a circle have
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just enough
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favorite font to use?
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regular
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Why are people so mean?
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usually as a reaction to thinking other people were mean first
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have you ever build a brick tree?
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if i did, then i must have blocked it out of my memory
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explain discipline
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if it's uninspired, it probably wouldn't work
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what are you
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i am a bread crumb. thanks for following
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have you ever made a song that sounded like something but REALLY it was about something else. like a song about going to space but really its about your personal struggles or something. are all your songs like this
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songs have the power to fold many meanings into 1. i welcome this
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if venus is earth's twin sister, what is mars?
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maybe a brother
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bill, is it true that if we pretend bridges don't exist, then when we cross them we can pretend we are flying?
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sure, but you might be proven wrong immediately
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Is there a reasonable way to play pop music on a violin?
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sure. how about bars 7 and 8 of "rock with you" by michael jackson. how about "viva la vida" by coldplay. how about "at last" by etta james. how about the intro to "give your heart a break" by demi lovato. to be fair, some of these may be other instruments in the violin family, but surely some of them must be violins. and there are thousands of other songs from 1900 all the way up to the present day that use violins
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Why do you always type in lowercase?
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that's normal. this is part of a broader strategy of normalcy
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what are your top 3 volcanoes?
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i only know of 2 volcanoes
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how do I write lyrics that make people want to go to the bank and cash out their money and then hand it to me in wads of cash
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you probably can't do it with just lyrics. you might have to use music and lyrics together
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do you ever write music for the purpose of specifically trying to trip up instrumentalists?
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no
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I now have to know exactly what I want my cover of the day goes on to sound like, I simply am not Josh Turner, so I must revert to my natural form of playing jazz piano in solitude. Was this really a question?
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i think so
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in here comes the sun, you had a favorite part of the video listed (which i agree with); do you have any other honorable mentions for scenes in your videos?
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that's not actually my favorite part of the video. it's misdirection, because it's a part of the song that does not have lyrics, and no specific graphic content is implied. so by proclaiming it to be "my favorite", i'm trying to distract the focus from this possible emptiness
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in "got some money", what was the purpose of putting "memory" in the cuts between "aaaacv" and "frenca", "frenez" and "loveqa", and "lovesz" and "zzzzya"?
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What i would have preferred to do, is to be able to actually create that entire alphabetical phrase list. which i was able to generate quite easily, but the problem we run into, when the list goes into the graphics, .... the list is so long that it actually makes the computer lag, or probably even crash, depending on how you do it. There's literally millions of lines in that text pattern, if it were carried out properly from a to z across all 6 characters. So even though it's just text, it actually is an absurdly unnecessary strain on the memory of the scene, pretty much any way you slice it. And the truth is, in that scene, with the small amount of time it's shown, you'd never see all the lines. and also, another reason you don't wanna include the whole list is that the scroll direction would become incoherently out of phase. like those car wheels on tv that seem to move slow or backwards or whatever. So it turns out, even just to create the proper looking downward scroll, you need to reduce the number of elements drastically. like pretty much skip 99% of the parts during the fast scroll. But this still does create a continuity problem, because if anyone sees the (maybe 1) frame where you can see it jump from A to L or whatever, .... i feel there's gonna need to be an explanation there. So my explanation is 'memory' as a place holder for the perhaps millions of lines we've skipped
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How do you decide whether to put yourself in the video or just animate it?
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the same way i decide how the whole video or song goes in the first place, and i am not entirely sure how that happens either
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