Whether it's people in TV interviews emotionally describing the difficulties they had choosing the right socks/bike/cat, or appearing in a simple Google search, can we stop using the word 'journey' to describe even the most banal actions? Everyday life is not a Homeric epic. This use of 'journey' has made a whole generation of people believe that they are special heroes worthy subjects of epic poems, even though many of those people are about as epic as a shopping list.

Pfft. Can't believe it has taken NASA this long to produce images that prog-rock album cover artists were already doing the 1970s. #gatefold I mean...

Could I be anymore summer 1977? #NowPlaying a 7.5 ips reel-to-reel of Rumours. I haven't listened to this album for decades. I listened to it a lot in my early teens. 1977 always feels like a benchmark year for me. Perhaps it was the first year I started to consciously have my own tastes and interests. I liked stuff when I was younger, apparently, but I don't have a memory of it. I think I started to become 'me' in 1977 (age 5-6)

#NowPlaying The season demands Scriabin's (unfinished) 'Mysterium'. This "cataclysmic opus" was to designed "to end the world and its present race of men" and the 1st and only performance would "annihilate space & melt reality" and replace the human race with "nobler beings". Scriabin planned the multisensory synaesthetic performance to be in a specially-built temple in the Himalayan foothills. "Bells suspended from the clouds in the sky would summon the [many 1000s of] spectators from all over the world" & seat them according to spiritual advancement

Slow cooking a ragu, drinking double IPA and watching The Vikings. I couldn't cope with so much back-slapping, roaring, salivating blokeiness. Oh, and Tony Curtis's pretty little legs seem completely out of place. "Wales? That slag heap? It's not worth one night's raid!"