Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Investigation 1: Wikipedia

Eventually, this blog will curate your mindfuck experiences, but to achieve a full understanding of the mindfuck experience, we must first investigate the mindfuck-related ponderances of others.

So investigation 1, naturally is wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfuck

We are offered this tasty morsel:

A mindfuck is a
slang term which describes a work that uses literary devices such as nonlinear storytelling and plot twists in order to present convoluted, yet not conflicting, themes. A creation is usually considered a mindfuck when a casual observer is not able to discern the true meaning of a work without making a serious attempt to unravel the themes presented or when the plot is incredibly difficult to follow. Special examples of mindfucks involve a single plot twist which completely changes the viewer's understanding of the events in a film or novel as well as the ideas it presents.Notable examples of mindfucks include the The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Fight Club, and several of the works of Philip K. Dick.

... which is fairly useless. I am interested in the feeling that you get at the end of those movies- that tickling of then neurons, however, I really want our mindfuck experiences to be a little bit deeper and longer lasting and relative than anything a movie could ever offer. Did you feel fucked up after Fight Club? Did you have a spiritual crisis after seeing Pi? Great, so did I, so did the others hundreds of millions of people who saw those movies. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.

So movies are banned from The Mindfuck Experience. If you'd like a list of movies that are mindfucking, visit the mindfuck wiki link above. There's a list. Fuck you, The Sixth Sense.

It is important to note that TV isn't banned, because if you can come up with a legitimate television-induced mindfuck, mad props to you. Not all at once now, kids.

Wiki also covers: Mindfuck films of anime, S+M Mindfucks (fooling the submissive by doing something they actually didn't consent to, ie using ice instead of burning since (and i quote) "it can be hard to distinguish hot from cold," and mindfucks as an analogy for scientology, as referenced by Steve Martin in the movie.... Bowfinger.

Wiki, baby, why do you have to do be like this? So many hours we have sweetly lingered reading about Phantom Islands, Jack the Ripper, and Jimson Weed, and now this? How could you?

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Welcome!

Welcome to the Mindfuck Experiment. Here, I shall investigate what turns you mind upside out and inside down, meditate on the factors and features that unite diverse mindfucks, and generally study and share the experiences that totally fuck the way you percieve/interpret everything. Renovate your metacognition, constantly. (That is both my mission and your order.) Tell me your stories, share your writings and readings and your art and your soul. Read, and feel fucked, i should certainly hope. Meditations, rules, missions, etc. to follow. Can you feel your brain? Is it ready to be tickled? Is it ready to cum all over itself?