A Lot About Nothing

I’m sure most of you have seen, or at least heard of, J.J. Abrams’ much-talked-about trailer for the untitled movie that was aired before Transformers last week. The web is swimming with gossip and conspiracy theories on what the film is about.

If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, you can check out the hi-def version on Apple’s trailer site (so forget about trying to search YouTube for those short-lived, cell phone video uploads that were posted the first week of Transformer’s release). Watch it yet? Good. Now tell me that isn’t one of the most intruiging trailers you ever seen. My mouth was agape when I saw that Statue of Liberty head come hurtling at the mob of people in the street (it looked an awful lot larger, proportion-wise, on the big screen though… but, meh!).

The site EthanHaasWasRight.com has been loosely linked to the J.J. Abrams flick, but in an email to Harry from Ain’t It Cool News he denied it:

Regarding the online stuff you posted: yeah, we’re doing some fun stuff on the web. But, obviously, if the movie doesn’t kick some massive ASS, who gives a rat’s about what’s online? So as you can imagine, we’re focusing mostly on THAT. For what it’s worth, the only site of ours that people have even FOUND is the 1-18-08.com site. The others (like the Ethan Haas sites) have nothing to do with us.

Why wouldn’t he deny it? It might all be part of his plan to mind boggle us all! Wait a minute. He said “the only site of ours that people have even found”. That means there’s more 1-18-08-related official sites out there! OMG… why won’t he just tell us what they are!? Ah… you gotta love viral internet marketing. I haven’t seen things like this since Snakes On A Plane. Oh, and if you’re trying to figure out how to crack the Ethan site, but too lazy to follow the instructions, YoPress.com has got all the info on that.

1-18-08.com is the official home of the yet-to-be-released film. The site itself is an enigma: Presently, it’s content is simply three stills from the movie. Now, on the surface they don’t look like anything much, but if you were to look a lot closer (like thousands of new fans are trying to do) you’ll begin to pick away at the visuals, and find clues as to what the film may be about.

Try that one image of the two, scared women staring up at the sky: WHAT DI RASS IS DAT BETWEEN DEM?!?! I swear, that looks a lot like some type of demon to me! Is J.J. Abrams’ film (also going by the name “Cloverfield” and “Slusho” on the web) an apocalypse movie perhaps? In the trailer, the video camera panned up from some sushi before interviewing an Asian guy about Rob’s departure… then came the ‘roar’. Could it be GODZILLA?!!? There’s lots of speculation… but I guess we’ll just have to wait until we get closer to 01-18-08 to find out.

Oh, how I missed it so! After months of weaves, my hair is now in it’s 100% natural state. Okay, so I had to run the pressing iron through it a bit to take out the kinks a little, but that’s the only way I can get my Brillo-pad hair to be easily manageable. Note to my naturally-kinky sistas: The wide-tooth comb and a spray water-bottle are your friends!

I’ve done the hair weave thing since the beginning of the year. It’s something that I swore I’d never do again, (esp. full head weaver) but gotten hooked on it b/c my little sis has become rather good at sewing it in to the cornrowed tracks, and so has my other friend… but she poked my scalp with the needle once, so now I’m not too sure…

I thought about going back to my usual style, two-strand twist extensions, but when I was at the hair store I noticed that the Batik hair weave was on sale for 25% off so I scooped up a couple packs. I got both kinky and straight because I couldn’t decide… Once I do, I’ll put it in sometime this week, after the fro’s gotten a good run and I’ve gotten a bunch of “how do you get your hair like that?” questions from people unfamiliar with the style.

That’s one of the things I love about natural, Black hair: There’s so much room for style! I doubt I’d ever go back to relaxing my hair, though… all those chemicals just made my thick hair fall out when I was younger (”Just For Me” was a load of bull!). Sure relaxing Black hair makes it more manageable, but it can also be manageable in it’s natural state with proper care.

Just to clarify, even though they’re sometimes referred to as the same thing in the Black community, there’s a major difference: Relaxers are used to permanently straighten hair that is tightly coiled or very curly. Perms are used to chemically add curl to hair that’s naturally straight. The process needs to be repeated approximately every 6-8 weeks, applied to the new growth.

Because chemical hair relaxers use such potent ingredients to change the physical structure of the hair, it can cause the hair to become easily susceptible to breakage in it’s weakened state, if it’s not cared for properly. That fact, along with the notion of me not being able to wear natural styles led me to becoming happily nappy and chemical free! Treasuredlocks.com is a very informative site if you’d like to learn more about caring for Black hair.

Now I just need to invest in a small taser to hide in my afro when random people who are struck with awe want to touch it.