Q: "Just did a bad thing" is the most addictive piece of music ive ever heard. it's structured so perfectly. what happened that made you come up with that song?
A: nothing really, that first line is just one of many other song ideas from a song idea generating session. not even the best one, probably one of the worst actually. but the reason it got picked for recording was due to time constraints. i kept narrowing it down and ended up excluding all the choices for not being good enough until i narrowed it down to 1 but then i excluded that one too for not being good enough. 'bad thing' was excluded way earlier, because it was one of the least good. so after having eventually excluding them all for not being good enough, i realized i was at a dead end and the clock was running out so for a twist i just kind of picked one of the worst ones, and wrote it extremely quickly. this was actually an advantage, because when you try to make a bad thing good in a very short amount of time, you are forced to bring out your very best. it's kind of like when it's 8:59 and the bread store is closing at 9:00, you will discover some automobile maneuvering skills you perhaps didn't know you had, just to get that bread