But the time between pitches is not the only contributor to Matsuzaka's brain-melting pace.

Burning concrete, brain-melting humidity and the constant fumes of traffic coagulate into one long exhausting throb.

According to music journalist, Andy Turner, their sound was "brain-melting amalgamation of avant-garde jazz and slide guitar".

There will be massive, brain-melting cross-promotion on the Disney-owned American TV networks.

Pondering a creative outlet that didn't provoke brain-melting misery, I tried to remember the times I'd been happiest and most creatively fulfilled.

The fear of failure, the weight of expectation, the indecision that comes from striving for perfection can transform even simple tasks into brain-melting impossibilities.

But what the evening lacked in brain-melting production values was more than compensated for by the untrammelled ferocity of Jay-Z's wordplay.

From the ancient Roman calendar to Facebook's brain-melting new "Timeline" profile layout, most of us are accustomed to visualising history as linear; a middle, book-ended by arbitrary beginnings and ends.

A review in Brooklyn Rocks described the 2LP Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die as a "brain-melting slab of acid rock" similar to Hawkwind and Spacemen 3.

It's been eight years since Daft Punk's last album, seven since its last brain-melting performance at Coachella, and less than a week since the band's advertisement for the forthcoming "Random Access Memories" sent Indio-goers into a collective swoon.

See for instance Baroness Greenfield, a woman so keen to let us all know about the brain-melting dangers of t'internet that she has spent the past couple of years campaigning on the issue instead of, y'know, publishing any research data to show whether her conjectures are true.