I got to dance with Morris Day, Jerome, and the Time (Buster, I can see your envy-green glow from all the way over on this side of the country).

I got to play with Dante, Randal, Willam, Steve-Dave, Walt, Trish, Alyssa, Banky, and Hooper again.

I got to see Shannon Elizabeth take a classic fall.

I watched Will Ferrell and Jay boogie down together.

I did a crane-into-steadicam shot that’s probably one of the most visually impressive moves of my usually visually static career.

And Jay got his first on-screen kiss.

It’s all downhill from here…

Not really – some of the best sequences are yet to come. But good Lord, last night we got some great stuff. And everybody was in top form: great deliveries all around.

If you’re a hardcore VA fan and you hate the movie, you’ll at least love that sequence; that I can promise you.

The two days before that we shot some hillarious stuff with Will, Judd, Jay, the Orang (whose name is Tango), and me. It was flat-out vulgar, comedy gold.

Fuck on a stick, this movie’s looking excellent. Yes, it’s funny (at least to me), but what I think will be most surprising about it is how ‘J&SBSB’ actually looks like a real, honest to God movie.

I mean, heavens – we’ve even got wire work coming up in the next two weeks (flying stunt people through the air and whatnot).

I guess it was inevitable, but I’ve grown up as a filmmaker… while making the most immature, regressive movie of the bunch. Ironic.

Props go out to a phenomenal crew, led by our superb A.D. Tim Bird and our champion D.P. Jamie Anderson. Tim’s keeping things flowing smoothly (with no loss of temper), and Jamie making it all look real purty. These guys are keepers.

Gotta go now. I’ve got a twelve thirty call time for a day in which I finally get to kick back and just direct as opposed to direct and act (a very, very loose definition, that last one).

O-ee-o-ee-o!

Yesterday was the end of the second week on the schedule, but only the end of the first real five day week of the shoot (week one was a three day week with a pre-shoot day). We have forty two shooting days left, which would seem like a long time to go, were we not having such a blast.

Yesterday, I laughed harder than I ever have before while shooting a flick; so loud, in fact, did I laugh, that I almost blew a take. It’s Will Ferrell, man. God, he’s just too funny. And on top of that, he’s a sweetheart and a half. He reminds me of Jason Lee. They both talk about their characters’ behavioral quirks after takes, as if they were real. It’s along the lines of “He’s not a smart guy, is he?” and “He just feels the need to share with strangers,” followed by a short burst of laughter. I can’t wait until those two are working side-by-side. I doubt we’ll be able to get anything done, so violently will I be laughing.

We watch dailies from the El Rey Premiere scene this afternoon, and then edit right afterwards. Can’t wait to get my hands on that Avid mouse again, so we can tame this beast into something watchable.