Newsflash: Peter Jackson is my hero.

I didn't manage to get The Frighteners special edition DVD today, which had been my plan, but that's okay; I've waited eight years for this "holy grail" of the laserdisc era, so I can certainly wait a few more days. I made up for it by coming home from my job interview and watching the rest of the King Kong special features from the recent DVD, and now I'm in a genuine quandary about where I should file the disk on my shelves - under the K's in "miscellaneous," or right next to The Lord of the Rings. Sure, it's a 1933 film that Peter Jackson had nothing to do with, but in the middle of the 2½-hour documentary, PJ and his Weta team just drop everything on their production of the new Kong movie, and waste a whole bunch of time re-creating the fabled, lost "Spider Pit" sequence from the original movie... just for the hell of it.

I mean, you get me? Just for the sheer love of the art form, they spent countless hundreds of man-hours and goodness only knows how much of PJ's personal fortune, and recreated a deleted scene from a movie from the 1930s. I'm watching the final sequence, effortlessly integrated with the original Kong footage, and I was heard to mutter, "Yeah... there's nerdy, and then there's this."

I am in the wrong line of work. I am on the wrong continent. I am in entirely the wrong lifestyle altogether. Someone book me on a flight to Wellington - there's toe-kissing to be done.