It's August! I don't know how else to start this post other than by saying, "It's August!", so that's all you'll get from me. I probably should remark on my absence that lasted almost two weeks, it was due to Mamma Mia!, I just couldn't get enough of it! No, no. I don't want to do that one again. I don't want to act again like I saw the movie. The first paragraph I wrote for the last post gave me too many nightmares. If you seriously thought I went to go see that horrible crap, you are out of your freaking mind. But if were brave enough to read the second paragraph (to those who didn't: damn cowards), you would have found out that I was completely joking and that the post turned out to be a discussion about how well The Dark Knight did, and will continue to do. If you did quit reading (damn coward) then stop reading this and go read the other post, and ne'er return. I'm joking, come back!

Anyway, yesterday was day fourteen of The Dark Knight in theatres, and all I can say is, Wow. $351 million. It has broken almost every record possible so far, and it completely deserves it. I went last Wednesday to see it with Ima and Jo, and man, it was amazing – best movie of the year, hands down. But as I said, it's been breaking all the records, the latest being the fastest movie to hit the $350 million mark. The Dark Knight did it in fourteen days; the movie now in second place, Pirates 2, did it in twenty-two. That's more than a week difference! The next milestone The Dark Knight wants to hit is the $400 million mark, a domestic figure only five movies in history can boast. The record for that baby is forty-three days held by Shrek 2. Forty-three days! That means The Dark Knight has a little less than a month to make $50 million more. Are there any doubts that it won't reach that mark the quickest? It could break the record this weekend in fact; getting pulled out of a hundred theatres will hardly do the movie any damage. Last weekend, it broke the record for highest grossing second weekend, originally held by Shrek 2's $72 million, with the new record of $75 million. If it wants to break the highest grossing third weekend, it will have to make more than $45 million, currently held by Spider-Man. If The Dark Knight ends up matching that record, it will be within $4 million of breaking the $400 million mark, and will definitely be breaking the record on Monday, its eighteenth day. But, of course, if The Dark Knight blows Spider-Man's record out of the water, which we all hope it will; we'll be looking at the fastest movie to hit $400 million by day seventeen, a full twenty-six days ahead of Shrek 2. I don't know why I'm rooting for the horribly rich production companies to get more money, but damn, is this exciting or what? It's got a lot of competition this weekend of course, Mummy 3 opens to almost 3,800 theatres, and while it will probably suck, it may push The Dark Knight down to the number two spot in this week's numbers (but not on IMDb!). If I'll have it my way, The Dark Knight will be in first, followed by Step Brothers in second – that movie is damn, damn hilarious. Way better than Batman, right?!

Now, I wasn't going to mention this, as it was only a mild, puny little thing, but because Conan made fun of it, I just have to. If you were in the LA area on Tuesday, the 29th of July, you might have noticed a little shaking going on just before noon. It was an earthquake (ahhh! Run for the hills, just not the ones in Chino!) that registered at a pathetic 5.4 on the richter. And if you turned the TV on right after the quake (because you couldn't call any of your loved ones, the phones went out), you might have noticed how crazy the news was getting, over such a small thing. It was actually rather humorous (we can laugh because no one died, it was no big deal at all) to watch it all unfold on television, hearing random people from the streets crying about how they saw loaves of bread falling from the store shelves. I even heard one lady say she's been living in Los Angeles for twenty years and this is the worst earthquake she has ever experienced. She had to have been registered as clinically stupid because how could she live in LA for twenty years and not remember the freaking Northridge earthquake? I pride myself in knowing that I live just a mile away (but Ima's house lives a few blocks away, lucky!) from the epicenter of the Northridge '94 quake, so I just wanted to yell at that lady. This quake wasn't even in LA! It was in San Bernardino, but no one in the country cares about that crappy place, so we got stuck with title as the place where the earthquake occurred – the same thing happened in '94 (should've been the Reseda earthquake!), but I don't want to go into that again. Now, Adam said it was because we Angelenos are so jaded, maybe, but a 5-pointer is nothing to go bonkers over. When it happened, I actually had a smile on my face and thought "I missed you", seriously. Then I ran under a table like a little girl. Anyway, the night of the quake, Conan made fun of it on his show, saying something like "the earthquake didn't last long, but Kirstie Alley will be jiggling for two weeks". Good stuff, Consey Wonsey. The night after the quake, Wednesday night, he made another joke, and then between his monologue and the first commercial break, he brought Arnold Schewarrtzzhwliennegger (actual spelling) on the show (after a long while, I might add!) to talk about the quake. Well, needless to say, Arnold was hilarious, and Conan complimented him very well. But I couldn't keep the video to myself, so here it is below!

Ah, Conan is too much. If no one else agrees, I know at least Margarita will, right? Okay, now, the reason I started this post... the trailer has come. It was released by AOL Tuesday night (but leaked by MSN an hour before that), and is just... amazing. I hope this post's title, its graphic (which is also my wallpaper), and the huge (huge!) video below tipped you off on what I am talking about. Half-Blood Prince of course! If you are afraid I'm going to spoil the ending for you, you don't have to run away, I'm not an ass. Besides, I forget which one between Hermione and Ron dies at the end, but don't worry! I'm re-reading the book for the movie. Not such a good idea, I know, because I might start yelling at the screen for leaving stuff out, but I really can't remember what's in Book 7 and not in Book 6, because, let's be honest, Book 6 was kind of a filler book – but that doesn't make it any less amazing! (I throw "amazing" around too much, don't I?) I would give you guys a frame-by-frame rundown of the trailer, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone not wanting to watch it. What I will do though is just tell you what it's about. Basically, what the filmmakers are trying to tell us is, this movie's going to be all about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. And let me tell you, the trailer makes this movie look the darkest of all the other movies, combined even. Eleven-year-old Tom Riddle looks... I don't want to talk about it. He just looks scary. But he's the nephew of Ralph Fiennes, so he has to look scary! I had the trailer on my splash page Tuesday afternoon, when MSN leaked it (still do), but I decided it was definitely not big enough so I went ahead and put together the HD version to show you, below. Now, it isn't complete HD, the dimensions I mean (I wanted it to be smaller than this page's 700px width, and 720p has a width of 1280px), but I got it from the 1080p source, so don't worry, it's true HD! And this marks the first time I've ever shown an HD video on my site, so be damn happy! Watch the trailer below, and if still isn't big enough, go catch Mummy 3 this weekend, it'll be one of the movie's trailers. But if you go see Mummy 3, be sure to buy tickets to The Dark Knight too, we want it to win, don't we? And that's August! Football starts this weekend, Sunday night! Oh, and really quick, a late Happy Birthday to both J. K. Rowling and Harry Potter (7.31), Stanley Kubrick and Sonia (7.26, both, tight, eh?), Dan Radcliffe (7.23), Book 7 (7.21), Arnold (the one from above's video, haha) (7.30), and I guess... Sasan (7.27) – I'm behind! Alright, until next time (hopefully sooner than next weekend), take care everyone. see u.