Some time ago, Louise bought me the above book, partly because she knows I'm a fan of the comedian Richard Herring, but mostly (I suspect) because she knows I'm crap at making small talk. The book promises "1001 conversation starters for every occasion" and so I thought I'd use them to encourage a little conversation on this blog, rather than it all just being about me trying to convince you that Huey Lewis deserves more of your respect.
So I'm going to select a question every week or so and give you my answer. Hopefully then you can leave your own answer in the comments box. It'll probably fall flat on its arse as most of these things do, and I'll quietly bury the idea in a couple of weeks, but let's give it a go, eh?
I skipped the first two questions because they were too silly or inappropriate, but question three was right up my avenue of interest...
3. Have you ever seen a ghost?
Now I'm not actually going to bore you all with my answer to this, since I wrote about it in detail some years ago starting here.
I will tell you though that for his part, Richard Herring responds to his own question by saying, "Interesting fact for after the question has been answered: ghosts do not exist. Anyone who says they have seen one is thus mentally imbalanced." But he's a comedian, and comedians often talk bollocks for humorous effect.
I'll throw in the next question for good measure...
4. Have you ever seen a Bigfoot?
Only on film. And as I'm sure I've mentioned before, I wholeheartedly believe the Patterson–Gimlin film was not a fake.
Thank you, Vincent. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
It's Halloween this week, and when I started looking for songs that share their names with horror movies, I hit a bumper bundle. But did you guess them all?
In case you're wondering, Outwood is just down the road from where I work in Leeds. Fortunately, I've never spotted u-two while driving through there...
A tough one this, and probably not one you could guess from the clue alone... but once you worked out the theme... maybe?
Anyway, the photo above is Bernie Nee, the singer on the track below. The rest of the Blobs were session musicians, so no photo exists of the "band" itself...
It's not often you see Damon Gough without his hat on...
Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
Not Number One because it's my favourite song... but it is my favourite horror film.
Such a bounty of horror-film-related songs did I find, that there will be more to share later in the week... and a much less scary Snapshots will be back next Saturday.
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