What madness is this?

Howdy-hey everyone. I know I updated this but a few days ago, and not a great deal has happened in between, but one thing has which is superb.

I. Have. A FORUM!

My own FORUM!!

I didn't even know it was possible for regular joes like me to just get a forum. I thought you had to be one of those big important corporate people who answers their mobile phones by saying their own surname. But oho no - I, some lazy and very tired teenager eating mini rolls and checking his inbox every 20 seconds, have my own forum, which is a superb thing!

You can check it out here: http://makeothershappy.proboards91.com/ . Admittedly, at the moment as I type this, it's shit. I'm the ONLY member. It's not so much a forum at the moment as a place I can write things for me to read later, which is rubbish - I can do that on my fridge. So I really, really do need you to join up and leave a message please, and we can turn this into some fantastic thriving internet community. It'll be excellent. Promise.

As far as the projects concerned, I'm steadily working through requests. I've unleashed the mother of all poster campaigns to advertise a band as the singer who mailed me said he'd write a song about me if I did, I've crept into an office block and sung 'Happy Birthday' to an employee as a surprise from her boyfriend, and I've done some rather dangerous things with some rather dangerous strangers involving fireworks, so enjoy.

If you could keep sending in mails and suggestions, keep spreading the word, and try and pad out the currently quite paltry forum, that'd be much appreciated. For those of you who are spreading the word, you're awesome, each and every one of you.

makingothershappier@gmail.com

Uggh... things are getting harder...

As said previously, I wasn't planning on updating this blog any, but like the project itself this whole thing has gotten out of hand, and now I have to whack a fresh new post in because there's a chance all these gossipy newspapers and magazines are going to come snooping about it.

So, for those newcomers amongst you, I'm Matt Rose, and I'm out to make total random strangers - the generally miserable public we see every day - happy. I got irritated seeing everyone so glum and downtrodden and thus made it my aim for 100 days to cheer people up. I mean... how hard can it be?

The answer, as it happens, is 'massively'.

Since I last posted, I've had to spend a terrible 2 hours with my mouth duct taped together watching people eat and struggling to breathe, I've had to decorate a public toilet to make it look like a 6-year-olds party, and as this picture shows, I've gone round town with a sign that looks like I've stolen it from a homeless person giving out free hugs, as can be seen here. The latter has been the most fun, as it really was nice to see everyone so receptive, and some fantastic people actually recognized me and gave me a free donut! Utterly superb, that lot.

However it's not all badly made signs and free pastries I'll have you know. As per usual I've been up til 6am most nights dredging the weirdest imaginable places of the internet and scoring the kind of odd replies most people have nightmares about. And nasty nightmares at that. The kind of nightmares that Freddy Krueger would crap himself if he found himself in. I've been trying to smear the internet every which way but loose with word of my crazed quest, from facebooks to myspaces to guestbooks to emails to my very own bebo account - http://bebo.com/MattR988

But amongst all the spam and viruses and weird, weird, just really weird suggestions some people have sent, there's still a glimmer of hope that I can come out of this with my head held high and with the masses somewhat happier as a result. But for that to happen, I require your help...

You see.. I need suggestions. Lots of them. Recently my inbox has dried up and you can currently count the amount of emails I'm receiving on one hand, even if you don't have any fingers. So I beg of you, please, PLEASE, mail me ideas as to how I can make you happy to makingothershappier@gmail.com . I WILL go out and do them, no matter how stupid or costly they may be - I am just in dire need of your help. So mail me, please, and spread the word, to friends, family, forums; anyone.

makingothershappier@gmail.com

And now I've gotten serious about this blog business, I'll probably be back with another post sooner or later...

Take care.

A reluctant update

I wasn't planning on updating this blog whatsoever, but I was a bit bored and eager to spread the message so I thought I might as well. So how am I doing, I hear you ask: well not TOO bad actually. I've now made 25 people happy, so I'm a quarter of a way through this chirpily hellish little ride; I've slapped a cow with my arse, juggled with a cactus, had an awkward rap battle with some bemused women, and dressed up as a clown and given out yoyos in a hospital, as you can see from the picture above. That's not me having gone mental, and nor are they my normal clothes; those were the annoyingly costly lengths I went to in order to cheer up a stranger called Candice.

Seriously, a more mentally exhausting 4 weeks you can't have imagined. Whether It's receiving death threats from joke forums, doing cartwheels at a rave gig only to find they don't count as challenges, or receiving at 3am a mail simply reading 'i genuinely just had a wank over your video', this whole thing has totally screwed with my head, and I'm only a quarter of the way through.

And that's why I really, really need your help. You've seen the lengths I'm willing to go to to make you happy. Cost isn't a factor, and I haven't got much dignity left to lose, so I'd desperately like to hear your happy suggestions. Please, I throw the gauntlet out to all those reading this to send me whatever insane or crazy ideas you can concoct. Think of whatever I could do to make you happy, send it to makingothershappier@gmail.com , and watch your suggestion come to life!!!