Sunday, March 14th

Scary Bastard!


This message demonstrates a real skill in making an email look like a ransom note made from letters cut out of a newspaper:

Dear SIR/MADAM,

I HAVE A LIFE TIME DREAM OF BEING AN EXTRA IN A FILM LIKE KING KONG,

IN WHICH DIRECTOR peter jackson

is doing . I have 5 kids , 4 i adopted and all of them would love to see it happen too. I am an extremely hard working man who would be very useful in helping set up movie sets or building sites .

COULD YOU PLEASE HELP MAKE MY DREAM A REALITY

I ALSO BELIEVE IT WOULD BE THE BEST THING FOR MY WONDERFUL KIDS TO ENJOY,REMEMBER,AND TO MAKE THEM TRULY BELIEVE THAT IF YOU WORK HARD ENOUGH ANYTHING CAN BE POSSIBLE

THANKYOU SO MUCH


I was expecting the message to end with something like "LEAVE £20,000 IN UNMARKED NOTES IN A TESCO BAG IN LOCKER 12A AT KINGS CROSS STATION. GO ALONE AND MAKE SURE NOBODY SEES YOU. OR THE HOBBIT GETS IT". Scary.

shocked


Sam on 03.14.04 @ 07:54 PM GMT [link]


In other mail...


You're probably familiar with the Nigerian 419 scam mail, you know, the one that claims to be from the relative of some deceased businessman or diplomat in need of URGENT ASSISTANCE PLEASE. Had one this morning from a chap whose name was Wang Qin. Nice. big grin


Sam on 03.14.04 @ 11:42 AM GMT [link]


Saturday, March 13th

The Language Barrier

music: Sgt. Pepper
mood: Groovy

As PJ continues to conquer the globe, there's a new challenge for us. We need to conquer the language barrier. I'm sorry to say that I didn't reply to this message. It took four attempts to read and a visit to Babelfish to figure out what they wanted, I had no idea how to reply.

"Hello

I have send many nice expensive letter with a International Rückantwortschein (this Document is for send it back to me that YOU NOTHING MUST PAY).


But I have no answer become.


So I hope you can help to make my a little happyer

to become my Autogramm of my favourite star

Peter Jackson

I have lost my work and the little money that I become now to life is from the welfare office/social welfare.

So I hope you can understand my situation that I was very disappointet, when I give my money to become a autogramm of my favourite star and I become nothing !

$

I hope I become the autogramm from

Mister Peter Jackson yet."


My guess is this guy's many nice expensive letters are currently going round Wingnut's office with a post it note saying "WTF?" on it.


Sam on 03.13.04 @ 02:41 PM GMT [link]


Sometimes I wonder...

music: Katie Melua, Call off the Search
mood: Deadline Stress

Sometimes I wonder if anyone reads the webpage before asking us questions. I don't want to bitch too much, because we love helping you guys out. However sometimes the number of mails we get asking for Peter Jackson's mailing address exceeds the number of spam (and believe me, that's quite considerable! crazy ). This is all very well, but the address is ALREADY ON THE SITE! No this isn't his personal address, or his home address (you must think we're nuts!). However this is the address that any fan-mail should be sent to.


Maybe it's our fault, maybe it's not clear enough. But I really don't think it should have been posted on the news section. I think the "The Man" section seems a logical place to put it. Anyways I'm sure this blog entry won't make any difference to the number of mails we get about this, but you can't blame a bastard for trying!




Reno on 03.13.04 @ 02:01 PM GMT [link]


Message for the confused bastards out there...


It seems some TBHL viewers are getting confused, as I discovered the other day when this gem arrived in my inbox:

"hi sean you are my favorite hobbit as sam wise you where the best in the return of the ring."

So, to clarify...

samg (21k image) samg (21k image)

One of these pictures is of Sean Astin, an incredibly gifted American Male Actor, playing the Character of Samwise Gamgee. The other is not. Got that? Good.


Sam on 03.13.04 @ 01:33 PM GMT [link]


Mad World - Not the Tears for Fears song!

music: Listening to Peter Gabriel - Signal to Noise
mood: Slightly Gassy from drinking too many alcopops last night.

I guess its one of the pitfalls of running the website that you constantly get people e-mailing you with their film ideas for PJ. Heres a classic one I recieved.


Hi ,
My name is Esther Byttebier
I come from Belgium and im 15 years
I had a very hectic life so far so hard and so sad i had to whrite everything down
It has come so far my story it became a biography that you schould see atleast thats what my dad says
I would like to have an opinion of Mister jackson caus he's the only director who can now if its good are bad.
The story is called :Mad world
I would like to have the adress of him so I can send him the story
most greetings
Esther


Well if your father recomends your story then im sure we have Oscar material on our hands. Let me just go schedule you a meeting with the mighty one. or perhaps not blush


Lewman on 03.13.04 @ 01:31 PM GMT [link]


Loony of the Week

music: None
mood: Caffe'd up to the eyeballs

Most of the emails that come to TBHL are from normal, intelligent human beings. However, sometimes we get the odd message that appears to have been emailed directly from planet crackpot. Here's a prime example, and the proud winner of the first ever TBHL Loony of The Week. hehe

"Hello

I hope you and your colleagues will be all right.

I have written 20 interesting and exceptional scenarios which
will be a revolutional point in the history of silver screen without
exageration and they will have the chance to win oscar.To name
some of them:Earth invasion,moving drop,third start, fight reflection,
False gangster,Horrifying pictures etc. , which are compeletly fiction
stories and their subjects include politics,police,spacial and illicit drugs
and I have invented two new subject that would be a starting point for
some years in the history of silver screen.The price for each of these
scenarios will be $ 40.000 and I will send them for you by fax if you are
intended to receive them.At the end,I will send some less active parts
of them.If you are interested to cooperate with me please kindly reply
my email as soon as possible.

I hope your continous success.

Earth invasion: Missiles lanced from earth caused to their limited reach
And also Fighters remain unused in Fighting against special

1.special birds because of their Flight in height.

Invasion Reaction:with the order of X all of the sattelites of X country are destroyed and them invasion starts for war and special installations of that country.

Third start: Dip lomatic efforts had no result in reduction of the crisis with the order of the president of the country, the X country encountered with some trans continental Missiles.

2.political

opposite poles: Mr.X Fly over to the aimed place while he himself was directing a Fighter and there a Fight begins in the sky among some Fighters whose pilots come from various continue.

Heroin: Mr.X O rdered his personnel to enter the oimed cars and take some hostages.

3.Drugs False pictwre: With the Order of Mr.X all of the forces are taken in a mission with Mr.X in the Middle of the night the big drugs load in the boarder lines of the clin"


Wow! What a story! What a cliffhanger! 'Boarder' lines of the what? Clinic for the Chronically Delusional? A 'revolutional point in the history of silver screen' you say? Ooh, PJ, put down that ape and come check this out!

crazy
Sam on 03.13.04 @ 01:07 PM GMT [link]