10 things you would describe as mindblowing
 

This applies to entertainment, only... music/movies/video games/books/pieces of art that you would describe as having blown your mind. Limited to 10. The definition of "mindblowing" is pretty loose, this doesn't have to be your favorites in every field or something, these are just things that have helped reshape and change your mind and change how you rethink things. "Life-changing" would also be a good substitute for the word "mindblowing", but I dunno. Here is mine, in no order...:

captain beefheart and his magic band (musician)
dog star man (film)
harry partch (musician)
the holy mountain (film)
ico (video game)
john fahey (musician)
neon genesis evangelion (television series)
tetris attack (video game)
the ticket that exploded (book)
xavier: renengade angel (television show)

Okay, go.

on the road (book)
the western lands (book)
disco pigs (film)
nijinsky (just a photo in an art book that i then lost)
aleister crowley (biography, think its called the great beast)
fear & loathing in las vegas (book)
the road to excess (brian barritt, book)

now i have to go to work, 7 will do!

Sonic Youth (music)
The Choirboys (book)
Breakfast of Champions (book)
Don't Look Back (film)
Metroid (video game)
No Setlist (book...sorry if that sounds arrogant, but it DID fucking change
my life)
Peanuts (comic strip/TV specials)
The Simpsons (TV show)
Gaki No Tsukai (TV show)
Slayer (music)

Fuck yeah, I almost had Metroid (and Xenogears) on mine but I had to replace 'em.

This. If nothing else.

Also, thanks for that silly drawing you sent me in the mail!

:)

It was just something I thought you'd like.. Was there any money inside, or did the mailman steal it?

Haha, yeah, there was. Thanks!!!

Okay, good.

Thank you, too :)

Philip K. Dick (writer)
circuit bent Boss delay pedal, custom made by spunkytoofers
Gothic I and II (videogames)
Tom Yum thai soup (food)
James Ferraro (musician)
Vietnam (country)
my girlfriend (girlfriend)
Orwell's 1984 (novel)
District 9 (movie ... yes, I said it)
Sonic Youth (band)

"my girlfriend (girlfriend)"

haha.

Girlfriend is not a piece of entertainment, though, but I'll let it slide. My girlfriend blew my mind constantly -- usually not for good reasons though.

Girlfriend is not a piece of entertainment, though, but I'll let it slide. My girlfriend blew my mind constantly -- usually not for good reasons though.

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Home Alone 2

Wow, that's awful. Haha.

the garden of earthly delights - heironymous bosch
the art of mark rothko
the art of toshio saeki
akira (the comic book, not the film)
jimmy corrigan the smartest kid on earth, by chris ware
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch, by philip k dick
the art ensemble of chicago live
melt banana live
no neck blues band live
suicide's first album
In C by Terry Riley
Keiji Haino, the man and the myth
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Adris Hoyos & Bill Orcutt, both as individuals and as Harry Pussy

shot guns
bazookas
C4
High pitched noise
computers
robots
lightning
demons
god
evil old ladies
babies

woman at point zero (book, true story written after a famous Egyptian psychologist met with a former prostitute inmate who killed her pimp and was sentenced to be put to death the next day)

edge of heaven (film)

holy mountain (film)

sonic youth (duh.)

god of small things (book)

sex

that's all i can think of right now...

In no *real* order:

Empire Strikes Back (Film)
Super Nintendo (Video game system) and....
Earthbound (Video game)
You're Living All Over Me (Album)
Pavement (Hip-hop funk group)
Akira (Manga and film)
All things Batman (Holy presence)
Fahrenheit 451 (Book)
Jaguar/Jazzmaster (These can count, right?)
Arrested Development (TV series)

Dr. Pepper consistently blows my mind as well, but obviously that isn't a form of entertainment.

~Jeremy~

sonic youth
pavement
nirvana
john peel
sbhotm
sinclair zx spectrum
commodore amiga 500
secret of monkey island
the big lebowski
up in smoke

Ah fuck, Big Lebowski skipped my mind. Nice one though.

Another game (In the list of many) that really just made me go "Wow!" was Maniac Mansion for the NES. Classic.

~Jeremy~

Karl Marx/ Lenin/Engels/Arrigo Cervetto (communist revolutionaries/writers)
What Is Art? ( Book by Leo Tolstoy)
Francis Bacon (artist)
Sonic Youth ( guess)
Angus Maclise (musician)
Definitive Jux (record label)
After Life (movie directed by Hirokazu Koreeda)
Six Organs of Admittance (band)
Brainbombs(band)
Brian McKenzie (artist, illustrator)

i love the invasion of thunderbolt pagoda soundtrack, but haven't heard much else by him

This song (which has been my ringtone for over a year and I'm still not sick of it)
The writing of Thomas Hardy
Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (not a recording, the actual writing thereof)
Systems other than the Dewey decimal system.
The outfits/ haircuts of the Polish lady I've yet to speak to on our street.
My libido (this isn't a boast so much as 'oh, you're into that now, eh?')
My housemate's timekeeping.
That a certain person I've known 8 years has the best voice of anyone I've ever known, and I only found this out last night.
The food that certain good friends cook.
Radio 3.

The Yoof (band)
my son (child)
my wife (woman)
Dominique A. (musician)
H.Pinter (playwright)
Cocaine (drug)
The God father (saga)
Scarface (movie)
my house (house)
sushi + Californian maki(food)

Sonic
Youth
Sonic youth
Youth. Sonic.
everything.

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski (book)
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (changed my life 20+ years ago)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut (book)
Fear & Loathing in las Vegas - HST (book)
Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson (book)
Pablo Picasso (artist)
Ralph Steadman (artist)
What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard P. Feynman (book)
The Watchmen - Alan Moore (graphic novel)
Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller (graphic novel)

Fuck, a bunch of you guys stole some of my answers...

Anyway, here's the original list with no changes due to browsing back...

Alice in Wonderland (book)
Francis Bacon (artist)
Corto Maltese (a "comic" by Hugo Pratt, guess I' better put Hugo Pratt on the list, actually)
Blu (artist)
cLOUDDEAD (as a collective and some "solo" works too, especially Why?'s stuff)
The Master and Margarita (book)
The Secret of Monkey Island (videogame)
Another World (videogame)
NYC G&F (song and whole album)
The big Lebowski (movie)


guess that's 10.

here's the other nine.



math/science
the lyrics of David Byrne.
the trial(book)
EVOL(album)
Ancient Egypt(civilization)
Bordeoms(band)
myself/life
my nephew
awesome pot.

"Oh" by the breeders
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"Oh" by the breeders
"Oh" by the breeders
"Oh" by the breeders
"Oh" by the breeders
"Oh" by the breeders
"Oh" by the breeders

11, in order of experience.

Paddington Bear

The Prisoner - television series.

Shortwave radio

Gobstopper - song, by the McKenzies

Aphex Twin

God's Englishman - article in my parent's newspaper about Oliver Cromwell. Led me to love all things 17th century.

George Herbert - 17th century poet

The internet.

The Wind Will Carry Us - Iranian film

Philip Jeck - musician, saw him live, love his work.

Recycled Broadcasts EP by a guy called Adan Janota-Bzowski. Awesome.

shakira's ass [ass]
high-fashion models [surreal]
souls of mischief's 93 til infinity [hip-hop album]
the skyline at dusk [god's canvas]
taylor momsen [16 year old]
high-end sushi [taste]
boredoms live [live music]

Yes... I love this movie too. (Can't rep you)


I'm really digging Bill Orcutt's latest vinyl...

The death of my aunt (first personal introduction to death)
David Hume
First real taste of port wine
My first love and the subsequent loss
Discovering "art music"
Kierkegaard/Camus
College life
Reading about developments in contemporary science
Writing music

Reading Sarah Kane for the first time was pretty mindblowing for me too. I've since befriended a playwright who went to drama school with her, and keep in touch with mostly by letter, as she lives in Edinburgh and is not big on the internet. I was going to mention Invasion too, watching it for the first time was really special.

the works of andy warhol
sunburned hand of the man in leeds some years ago
william s. burroughs, especially junky
tape releases
iggy and the stooges at atp
prefuse 73
the year punk broke
bowling
dancing at nightclubs and party's

sonic youth
pink floyd - live in concert
Jimi
Heath Ledger as the Joker
All Charles Dickens novels
Smack
Mash
Shawshank Redemption
Easy Rider
Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2

Galaxy Express 999 (anime)
Entroducing...
Sun City Girls
Secret of Monkey Island
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comics)
X-COM: UFO Defense
Watership Down (book)
Lost
Half-Life 2
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1) post rock
2) post rock
3) post rock
4) post rock
5) post rock
6) post rock
7) post rock
8) post rock
9) post rock
10) having sex to post rock

In no particular order:

Marijuana
Native American Art
Fashion
Akira (DVD)
Silent Shout: An Audivisual Experience (DVD)
Dreampop
The Internet
Keiji Haino (specifically on "percussion")
Fantastic Planet (DVD)
Only Revolutions (Book)

Lots of Akira fans here. Love that anime myself but didn't realize there were so many fans on here!