John Linnell MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is John Linnell? John Linnell is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/sx - in Enneagram, RLUEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
https://therumpus.net/2013/02/swinging-modern-sounds-42-hey-man-i-thought-that-you-were-dead/ ^This whole interview is Ti af, but special mention goes to this paragraph: Interviewer: "I can’t really even fathom how beautiful your melodies are sometimes... Do you sing these melodies first? Or hear them first? Or do you have to have a keyboard at hand? Is it again the case that there is no accounting for them?" JL: "At some point I should ask you about your own writing process, as long as we are entertaining the concept of the artist as passive conduit for some exterior feed. I don’t think either of us completely buys this notion, or maybe it’s an example of begging the question (in the original, useful sense which expresses the idea that the premise itself force feeds you the answer). Where or what is this radio station from which one receives inspiration? I’m probably more of a soul deadening materialist than you, and if I had to come up with the prosaic explanation it would come down to a complicated system of stimulus and response with lots of beeping and blinking lights going on in the brain. But this would be me begging the question in the contemporary sense of “begging for a question” during the awkward silence that follows my dull, reductionist version of the mystery of creation."
Biography
John Sidney Linnell (born June 12, 1959) is an American musician, known primarily as one half of the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. In addition to singing and songwriting, he plays accordion, baritone and bass saxophone, clarinet, and keyboards for the group. Linnell's lyrics are perhaps best known for their inclusion of strange subject matter and word play. Persistent themes include aging, delusional behavior, bad relationships, death, and the personification of inanimate objects. Conversely, the accompanying melodies are usually cascading and upbeat.
