# E3: Borrowing from Somebody Else’s Face; S9: The title should be "Make It Useful," but I would never call myself useful.

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Published: 2026-07-05T05:38:37+00:00
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OK, I’m making this description really short, because literally every time I start to write, it quickly turns into something that needs to become its own episode. So, guess what that means! The next episode I post will be the introduction to or description of this episode. BUT… Here, I’ll take the risk of giving you one more thing… which is the prompt that I gave to ChatGPT to get it to make the song. It worked on the first take. I tried one other thing… so that gave me more music that I could stem-split the vocals off of and use as background for the monologue. Okay, so here is a new monologue for an episode, and as I say in it, I’d kind of like to do a song. And so what I’m gonna ask you to do is like lyrics and then with bracketed instructions to Suno for what to do with the music and the voice as you’re doing it, and then also a up to 1,000 character Suno style guide that also provides a general sense of both the music style and the vocal delivery style. And I want it to be a male singer, and I don’t know what style. I want you to pick a style without asking any questions. And because what often happens with this is that, you know, you write something and it at least gets me over the hump of, you know, of dreading having to figure out what to write myself, because it’s easier to just like edit what you’ve done, and usually I end up writing my own thing anyway, maybe with just a few words from you. But it gets me started. And what I think I want you to go into here, what I’m considering, is going into the kind of desperate need that maybe I have that is evidenced through this work, that I have a desperate need to make all of my life experiences be useful and mean something. And, I mean, I seem to be achieving that, but it’s kind of a weird way to make a living. And,…

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