The English Folk-Metal band, Sabbat, had a concept album "Advent of Insanity" which was based on the book "The Way of Wyrd" by Brian Bates (about a Roman Catholic missionary being sent by the Holy See, to convert the pagan Pictish and other old Brittanics, to Catholicism.

I'll only paste the first 2 verses but the background also had waves lapping sounds and those of a creaking ship.

A sea breeze echoes softly
Its song echoes through your mind
Leaves you thinking of tomorrow
And the life you left behind
Come turn your head to face the
Wind that fills enchanted sails
And drives you to your destiny
As silent sirens wail

A sad lament for travellers
Held in the hands of fate
Your future stands upon the prow
Your past drowns in the wake
What chance is there for sanity
When madness takes the helm
And steers you on a downward
Spiral to his lonely realm?

I think my favourite word is schadenfreude - It's a german expression that describes taking pleasure out of someone else's misfortune.

There's also a Japanese expression: Kuchisabishii, which means lonely mouth - it's used to describe the feeling when you are not hungry, but still wanting to put food in your mouth.

Way back in 1984, Twisted Sister were touring the UK, whilst I was still at secondary school.

One of my fellow students (I think we were in French lessons together) found out about the gig, canvassed a load of us and subsequently got a minibus hired and tickets bought.

When we got to the venue (Ipswich Gaumont Threatre), our seats were all covered by sound mixing desk stuff - we were given the option of either taking a box office set of seats, or standing at the front.

being naive, we chose the box seats and felt e'd made the right choice, until the gig started (support was tygers of pan tang) and everyone just moved to the front :D

Did get a grandstand view of the SMF song being sung at the one person who wasn't standing up...until he raised his crutches showing he'd got a broken leg.

Still on of my top 10 gigs of all time as it was the first one I'd ever been to.

Whilst 'fly without rebuy' is a hard lesson to learn, I think my worst has been flying 250+LY in the unexplored bubble and realising that I had too much damage to my FSD, and not repair limpets on board - this meant I couldn't jump anywhere/escape from current system.

I was lucky enough to find a near-ish fleet carrier commander who diverted his route back and allowed me to board, repair and add repair limpets (for which I also sold a lot of cartographic data)