This psychedelic gloom was the authentic Sound of the Suburbs: taking acid in semi-detached box bedrooms in Surrey and "waiting for the death-blow".
"Right off the bat, I was, like, if we have to have a tiny shoe-box bedroom, that's O.K. We don't hang out in the bedroom".
Upstairs in his grandma's box-bedroom, Simon's been having his own Caroline Flack/Harry Styles crisis with a small, unruly superfan, while downstairs his family slag off his writing ability in dizzying meta-plotlines.
As pop gave way to rock, they were joined by Sounds, and by the early 1970s - well before newspapers or TV gave rock much coverage - these three magazines formed a much-coveted line of communication that ran between London and box-bedroom dreamers in the shires and suburbs.
We lit lots of candles to illuminate our box pew "bedroom" and piled duvets and pillows on top of our spartan beds.
To avoid tempting your cat into urinating outside the box: Close bedroom doors so they can't access your room (cats usually urinate/defecate on bedding) Pick up soiled laundry off your floor and place it in a hamper.
The result is a big box of bedrooms on a property meant for something less monolithic.
I had been given what the front desk called a "suite", which turned out to be a box-sized bedroom entirely occupied by a bed that would have accommodated seven or eight sleepers, and a tiny annex that looked like everybody's granny's parlour.
It's easier to access great medical care in a city, of course, but it's also easier to live a mostly-indoors lifestyle, to spend your days going between one tiny box and another: bedroom, train, office; office, bus, bedroom.
I don't have especially large or pendulous balls, so, for me, the bag was a bit too spacious, like a boxed two-bedroom when a studio would have been fine.
Extra bedrooms: I turned one of them into a dark, jewel box of a bedroom.
