Linear thinkers are often very logical and cite information that they have found useful in the past to solve problems. Because of this approach to the world, linear thinkers often excel in the fields of mathematics, accounting and other technical fields. A linear thinker will likely prefer consistency and be predictable, which makes her excel in jobs that involve processes that are repeated regularly. You will be able to count on the linear thinker to get her work done when it is supposed to be done.
Nonlinear thinkers are creative, emotional thinkers. They will think of different ways to do things and come up with new, innovative ideas. Nonlinear thinkers can use their passion for originality to produce transformational products or services. If you run a business that's looking for fresh ideas that will break established patterns and challenge competitors, consider a nonlinear thinker.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
i don't think "linear" vs. "non-linear" is the best way of characterizing the distinction you're making. it sounds like pop psychology to me. kind of like the whole "chinese think this way, europeans think that way" stuff that used to be really popular.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
but this is an argument for another thread, i guess!
i'd like to say that i'm a linear thinker with over 8 hours of sleep, non-linear without :)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
i think it's my way of saying that i get restless with the "and now we cover this, and now we cover this" rigidity of a lot of nonfiction, and the storytelling i relate to most doesn't always make its motives or dot-connecting that obvious. i respond to finding the answers in unconventional ways. but some people really like rigid conventional narratives!
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
i just finished the Tusk one and it sucks so bad i want to throw it away
― Cory Sklar, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 9:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― just sayin, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Someone gifted me the Beach Boys Smile one and it was so bad/useless I did throw it away! It didn't even deal with the music for some mysterious and thoroughly incomprehensible reason -- only the band's career up to that point!
― liam fennell, Thursday, 2 July 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
I've been having trouble getting into the SAWII and Fear Of Music ones, even though I love these albums. Much as I admire and like the idea of the 'personal take' form of book, it only works well every so often.
― cod latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 July 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I can't imagine getting much out of the SAWII one. Seems like a really strange choice for the series.
― Position Position, Thursday, 2 July 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
cool idea, but some stuff is better off not being interpreted
― cod latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 July 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
I have not read the SAWII one yet but the author is an excellent writer and thinker IME
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
i just got a copy of Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! you ever see that thing? that thing is a whole lotta Smile action. put out by Last Gasp in the 90's.
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 July 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
it's really good. don't really see the point in a 33/3 book about Smile when so much has already been written about it in such vast detail.
― cod latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 July 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
The SAWII one is the only one I've felt like tossing out a window.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
I know I'll know it, but I'm drawing a blank on what SAWII stands for.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R45E26TVL.jpg
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
took me two googles, just add 33 third to the search
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
selected ambient works 2
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
i bought The Gray Album book, read maybe 40 pages. then put it aside. then accidentally ruined it while mopping and thus threw it away. no great loss.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 July 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
about to finish Matthew LeMay's book on XO by Elliott Smith, I really enjoyed it. John D.'s Master of Reality novella was fantastic.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 4 July 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
gonna order this surefire classic, will report back
http://333sound.com/2014/05/20/new-33-13-title-koji-kondos-super-mario-bros/
― dutch_justice, Saturday, 4 July 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
― just sayin, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:48 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM X2 except I think that's the only one I started and didn't even finish.
― Turn That Pout Inside Out! (Old Lunch), Sunday, 5 July 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to be pretty pissed off if the Shlomo Carlebach proposal doesn't get green lighted...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
NEW THIS FALL FROM BLOOMSBURY'S 33 1/3 SERIES: Out Sept. 24, 2015:Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew by George GrellaBeat Happening’s Beat Happening by Bryan C. Parker
Out Oct. 22, 2015:Metallica’s Metallica (The Black Album) by David MasciotraPhish’s A Live One by Walter Holland
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 August 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
This book, structured in abecedarian fashion, breaks down the fundamental components that defined Beat Happening’s self- titled album. Organized in a light-hearted yet incisive format, each of the book’s chapters details a particular facet of the record—band members, historic shows, recording sessions, songs, and ideologies—parts reflecting the album as a whole. These alphabetic ingredients constitute a recipe book for feeding your creative spirit
pretty bummed that it's the black album that got the nod but hopefully the book covers the Cliff years too
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 22 August 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
just an update to say that thanks to recommendations here i got franklin bruno's volume on 'armed forces.' it's by far the best one of these i've read and i came away thinking i had learned something and that bruno is very sensitive to the right things: nuances of arrangement and lyric, interaction of elvis costello's public profile and his music, etc. that said, the organization of the book--pretty much an "alphabetical," but really more or less random, assemblage of mini-essays--was a bit of a cop-out. i thought t hat bruno had a few threads in there that would have made really excellent, linear arguments that would have been much better served by a traditional structure that provided some context, walked through the album's production and discussed the songs one by one, then talked about relevant subsequent developments, then some kind of summary. maybe that's a little square of me, but it seemed like bruno had so many great observations but failed to develop a structure that wouldl show them off to best advantage.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:01 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
mm i mean i think it's meant to be mirroring the object of enquiry? in that (as bruno states repeatedly iirc) costello doesn't really have a 'thesis' or an 'argument' , just a whole bunch of stuff going on. i think that book is p great tbh
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 22 August 2015 00:08 (nine years ago) link
this pitchfork article though:
At the time of its release in 2005, this title was the only book-length examination of Neutral Milk Hotel
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 22 August 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
I've really enjoyed several of these books, but as the catalog gets deeper I'm having a harder time distinguishing this series from a tall pile of MOJO.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 August 2015 13:21 (nine years ago) link
http://333sound.com/2015/09/29/open-call-2015-the-shortlist/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Lulu (JM)-Lou Reed and Metallica
is this one of y'all
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
No Shlomo, no credibility. Seriously, it could be the best book in the entire series by miles.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
One of the Pinkerton proposals on the list is from a writer who identifies as "non-binary transgender". Who knows if that has anything to do with the proposal, but it could make for an interesting perspective.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
(GI) (JG) -GermsHad to look this up to make sense of it. Wasn't familiar with the Germs discog.
Muppets FTW obv. Also, hope Cobra gets a book rather than Refried Ectoplasm, and impressed that at least two people pitched the former.
But I'd read books on most of these TBH. Most exciting shortlist in… well, ever really.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
total jazz proposals: 1 (The Inner Mounting Flame-The Mahavishnu Orchestra)
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
I am so ready to pre-order a possible "Death of a Ladies Man" book.
For the most part this is the most uninspiring shortlist I've seen from 33 1/3.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
YESSSS
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
is the quality of the output predictable by the albums that will be written up tho
not that i particularly care, have only read one of these things
― dyl, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
i can't believe turn on the bright lights hasn't gotten a book yet, or anything by animal collective
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
Animal Collective fans can't don't read.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
I would definitely read a book about Death of a Ladies Man
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
I doubt it's going to make it to the final list, but I would love an Uptown Saturday Night book.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
yeees
― Spottie, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
can't believe there's still never been a Violator one.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat-Charanjit Singh
yessssss
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:20 (eight years ago) link
of course, since 95% of these books appear to suck, i won't get my hopes up
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
also that book would sell 0.3 copies :(
disappointed that the Watertown pitch from the longlist didn't make it, one of my favorite albums ever
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Brad I can't stand Lulu but I thought yr pitch was really strong, I'm having a hard time imagining the one that made the shortlist bettering it.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
Everett True didn't make the shortlist:
http://www.collapseboard.com/everett-true/how-not-to-write-a-book-proposal-rejected-unknown/
I know True isn't to everyone's taste (to say the least) but this would have been a great pick IMO.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link