The BC's Blog

The Next Generation

2006-08-15T02:28:00.000-04:00

The BC came from Joe and Woody's time in Asinine, a sketch comedy group. It would seem that the group is a fertile ground for funny parodies of popular shows. Another Asinine member, Rich Rosario, has made an excellent parody of Curb Your Enthusiasm and has posted the result to YouTube.

Rich is hoping to turn this into a full series, much like what The BC became. Our hat is off to him and we hope that he is as successful with his series as The BC was. Check out the two halves of the parody using this link.

When he gets a full website built for his show, we will make sure to post it here.

Best of Luck Rich!

Also, I have backed up all the videos onto Google Video just in case BC 'reclaims' their server space, so they are there for your enjoyment when you want them.

Adam Shipley
Webmaster, The BC

Joe and Woody's Summer Activities

2006-06-07T21:38:00.000-04:00

Well, the two producers of The BC are keeping themselves busy, and they wanted me to key you in on what they were doing this summer.

Joe Sabia is doing a tour of the countries around the Black Sea. He and his friends are keeping a blog about it, which can be found at: the Black Sea Blog.

Woody Tondorf is keeping himself busy with a couple other Boston College students as they drive from Boston to Miami, FL in a Dodge Caliber to support the Global Music Project and Doctors Without Borders. You can read about their experience at the Dodge High Caliber Challenge.

Adam Shipley
Webmaster, The BC

A parting word from the webmaster

2006-05-24T13:44:00.000-04:00

Some of you have already read this in an e-mail I sent out on the mailing list, but I figure I need to say my farewell to the rest of the people who have supported us and our endeavors.

Joe and Woody have decided that given the loss of direction that may occur if The BC is allowed to continue on with new directors, they have decided to make Episode 5 the series finale. They also hope another group on campus picks up the baton and creates a new parody that garners national attention.

It has been an amazing honor to be the Webmaster for such an auspicious undertaking, and I look forward to whatever parodies are spun off by this talented cast.

Also, the dialog that this show and the commercials have created between students, faculty and administration has been amazing to watch. Not to mention the number of high school students we've had a chance to hear from and their decision that the creativity of The BC helped them chose BC as their college choice.

We want to thank all of our fans, and the news media that got word of our show out to a greater number of people, and the number of alumni who have contacted us sharing their pride in Boston College they felt while watching The BC.

This has been an experience I wouldn't have given up for anything.

I wish Joe and Woody well as they head to LA to work for HBO, and I wait with baited breath for whatever comes from their creative minds.

I have added a couple more commercials to the website today, and I will be adding some more content over the next weeks until BC removes my FTP access.

Adam Shipley
Webmaster, The BC

"All good things..." comes to an end

2006-05-10T15:18:00.000-04:00

Afternoon in Internetland!

Wanted to drop a quick line since we really haven't in forever. As finals and my thesis ends, I'll be sure to post a lot more about the show, my impressions of it, what it meant to me, and where we're going with the future (trust me, it's better than I had ever anticipated).

This is just to freshen things up, so I want to take the opportunity to thank the entire cast and crew for what turned out to be a kick-ass series and some of the best memories I'll ever have. Cheers to you and yours, and THANK YOU SO MUCH to all the fans and viewers who came to the site and watched our stuff. I even hear some of you watched episode one. You are truly special people...even I don't watch episode one anymore. Kidding.

Back to the thesis,
Woody Tondorf

Credit where it's due

2006-03-25T13:21:00.000-05:00

it’s been a while since I’ve taken pen to digital paper in this forum, so let’s rock. Glad to be here.
I’d like to take this moment to give a long list of thanks...I presume I will mess this up and forget some names, at the end of the day, I’m just a man.

The biggest thanks in all the world goes out to Mr. X. For BC students, you know him as a guy who works at BC (we have to censor this because we're not sure how much he'd want us to reveal). We knew him as the guy who knew nothing about us until Disney got in touch with him. He’s remained in the shadows when it comes to our success in Hollywood and LA, but we’re on the verge of something HUGE here (and you’ll know more details later) and without X it just doesn’t happen.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I've been told to hold off on some of the details on how awesome X was to us over spring break, so let's just leave it as he helped us out immensely. Hopefully he'll let me put the stuff up, because honestly this guy deserves to be recognized. I am SUCH a tease.]

I don’t think X will get around to reading this, but it’s important to take some time to recognize the people who have really mattered and taken the effort to help us out. X, thank you from the bottom of my heart, seriously. I didn’t know how important you were going to be, and now it’s clear. You’re the man, buddy. We love you like emo kids love sadness.

And I also want to get at my girl, Tamika Barnes with the Alumni Office. When we move out West, Tamika will be getting my BC donations. She was a makeshift chauffeur and a true friend who gave us wise counsel and was always ready to hit the Easy Button. When she left mid-week, we felt her loss considerably. Tamika, you rock as well. Oh, and she also got us in touch with Bob DeLaurentis’ daughter Francesca, who is BEAUTIFUL. Francesca, if you get this call me. Someday I hope to be a medium-to-big deal.

One more moment to everyone, EVERYONE, who comes to the premieres. You people have better things to do with your time than watch us clown around for 55 minutes, and for that you have my undying loyalty and thanks. If you think that sounds corny, x out this window, because I mean it.

Alex A&S ‘97, because that’s your last name, thank you for following the show and giving your two cents. We talk about you nearly every day...and most of it is complimentary (wink..I kid, I kid).

To all the people who have recently facebook messaged me, Joe, and the others: you take time out of your day to track us down and tell us you love the show. I am constantly in awe of that. Someday I hope to get out of my bedroom when the size of my head shrinks.

Ryan Farnan, without Boston magazine I don’t know where we’d be. You started us off buddy. Congratulations on a great season and a stellar career.

BC Basketball, thanks for all your help. It’s been great working and clowning around with all of you, Byrd and Craig in particular. We owe a lot of our success to you. Great run through the season fellas, that was not traveling. I too hate puns and love dunks.

That’s all for now. The “Behind the Beanmarch” post is forthcoming, as well as even more thanks as episode five comes and goes.

Our Trip to Hollywood

2006-03-22T02:12:00.000-05:00

Wow... spring break was fun

Woody and I ventured on JetBlue to Hollywood to search for jobs. JetBlue was the best choice, did you know they have televisions on the back of the seats? That's pretty friggin cool.

LA is quite possibly the best alternative to current conditions in Boston (those being cold weather, cold weather, and cold weather) It's a cool place... our first night in, the academy awards were on and Woody said that if "Crash" won best picture, he'd jump in a cold swimming pool. 5 minutes later, he's in the deep end of a pool, swimming in utter irony.

Monday we met with some agents, and then monday night we went to the set of The OC... unreal. It's so strange knowing a spoof of a popular show ended up getting you on the set of the actual show you're making fun of... Bob DeLaurentis is a real stand up guy for taking three hours out of his schedule to hang out with, talk, and show us the set. As you can see Woody and I were like lepers in a neutrogena shop - extremely excited. And who would have thought EVERYTHING was filmed in a giant warehouse studio... even the beach scenes! What the hell is that all about?!

The rest of the week was loaded with interviews... we had interviews with Executives with Paramount, Mad TV, Sony, HBO, E Entertainment, Comedy Central, etc etc... I can honestly say I've never learned so much in my entire life than sitting in those offices listening and showing them our ideas. I think they liked our stuff... I was extremely impressed with HBO, it's just a magnificent place. During the day we busted out our suits, and at night we busted out our party hats, checking out the nightlife, going to bars (a BC one, which was cool) and even getting massages (hey might as well pretend I'm living the life). Wednesday night was awesome - Chris O'Donnell (you know, the "robin" in "batman and robin") took us out to dinner... probably the coolest BC alum you'd ever meet... and it's so weird knowing he lived 4 floors below me in my dorm. AWESOME guy. Apparently he's doing some stuff with Grey's Anatomy, which I'm sure he'll do phenomenally in.

The entire trip was pretty surreal and it looks like we'll make some progress (hopefully) down the road. I know all too well that's where I want to be... after all, if the weather's nice, that's one thing I have going for me.... right?

i'm tired.

enjoy episode 4.

Joe

Stale like a piece of bread...

2006-02-19T17:14:00.000-05:00

No ladies and gentlemen... We didn't accidentally forget to post a blog after 20 something days of no blogs.. it was intentional. Actually it wasn't, i just wanted to lie.

So it seems the day has finally come. CBS Evening News Tonight. After 4 months of waiting, we're finally on it! Should be a blast... we scrambled today to do crazy updates on the webpage to make everything look perfect. But perfection is our middle name... (at least thats what our moms tell us)

What else?! BEANMARCH last night was an incredible success... it was a concert put together for scenes in episode 4 featuring live bands, with money and proceeds going to the Pedro Arrupe Service trips. It was a fun time... Exhausting though. We all showed up at like 4pm to go until midnight.

The past month has been very exciting... I've enjoyed every second of it. Episode 4 has a billion scenes in it, so thats going to be fun flying through everything we need to do. But we are praying march 20th will be the day it comes out. (yeah lets hope my stuff doesnt crash this time)

Everyone's doing just great.. Jess seems like she's doing well in Rome... she even got recognized I think. Father Don is still the man... Congrats to our newly selected cast members, Mike Fox and Sarah Williams. They are going to do amazing things with us.

So thats all I really wanted to say.... just to let you know we're alive... Even if it goes out to the one person that reads these! (Alex A&S 97, you are our biggest fan.. even though I still think your name actually, legally is "A&S 97")

Joe

oh and PS: you know you're famous when you're going to be in Ellegirl... to all fourteen year-old girls, yes- I hate being a heart throb.

And still going strong

2006-01-28T23:02:00.000-05:00

We haven't intended to neglect the blog, it's just that we've been very busy, all of us.

We hope that you've downloaded the MP3 of 'St Ignatius Started the Fire' from the site, so you can put it on your iPod and rock out to it on your way to class. Also, we are very excited that Tim Russert has agreed to work with us next week. We are very excited for this opportunity.

In other news, we were very surprised when The OC gave us a nod, and it even made it into their episode synopsis (as Alex (A&S '97)) pointed out. From the synopsis: "Marissa and Julie return to the trailer with take-out Thai. Then Julie pulls out an Armenian menu for Marissa and Kaitlin to order from on Sunday night, while she’s at her “business meeting.” Marissa tries to subtly remind her mother that they have plans Sunday night, but Julie doesn’t know what she’s talking about. “Remember, we were going to order in food, watch The Sound of Music…” Huh? Oh… suddenly she catches on. But it’s too late, Kaitlin’s already lost her taste for Thai"

Our 'Armenian crown price' was thrilled by the nod, as was the rest of the cast.

I hope the other cast members will be posting the progress being made on Episode 4 soon, as I know everyone is excited to see what will happen next, and how the newest characters will affect the plot line. Stay tuned!

Adam Shipley
Webmaster, The BC

A bump in the road

2006-01-05T17:09:00.000-05:00

I almost titled this post 'And now the bad news,' but figured that would have been a bit too negative.... though not too far off.

Firstly, I hope everyone had a wonderful Xmas and New Years. I spent that week in North Carolina with relatives, and my grandparents called from Indiana to tell us that a bunch of pipes burst in my house when it got down to zero - ruining electronics in the affected area, which means that now I don't have a permanent internet connection now that I'm home. The other bit of excitement is that also that same week down in NC, the light inside my laptop screen went out which means I'm using an old monitor next to my laptop to work on the website.

Also, to correct Woody's proclamations about the refreshed website design that is coming online as soon as possible - it will look much the same, there will just be more stuff on the site and a better layout to get to the things already on there. A complete site redesign may be in the works, but for now we're just adding more content to the site and completely changing how it is laid out in pages and folders.

If you want to find out when the new site goes live, sign up for our mailing list on the front page of the site and you will be updated when we add new commercials to the site too.

I wish I had the new site up by now, but those pesky 'technical issues' came up. I'm glad that the producers (Woody and Joe) have been understanding of this delay. We will come up from the ashes of the old site with new content and a new humpday fix... when I get caught up.

I also wish to thank you, the viewer, for your patience.

Adam Shipley
Webmaster, The BC

2006, We've got all kinds of street cred

2006-01-03T09:45:00.000-05:00

A happy near year, one and all! Big things in the mix these days, and I know all of you are breathless to hear it! Let's dish out the goods:

We missed a Humpday Fix or two over this winter break, but gosh darnit, if The OC can take a few weeks off, we feel that we've been granted a mandate to take a breather as well. That said, we're nearing completion of a new video that had me crying laughing in the first 30 seconds. I'll let this spoiler go: there's not a word of english. No word yet on whether or not the phrase "I want to make love to a clown" figures into it. We shall see.

We're also only a few days from bring aboard yet ANOTHER incredible musician. Ladies, gents, and Jesuits, I give you Jeannine Hebb. She'll be joining our already stellar lineup of Brendan Dailey and Kevin Brady as The BC's "Featured Artists." If you can't take the wait already, then you can check out some of her stuff at Myspace, under the name Jeanninehebbband. Yeah, it's one word. Like Pele...minus the Brazilian soccer. This girl's got a TON of talent, we're looking forward to sharing her with you.

Episode Four, episode four, episode four...I want to lock myself in a room like a monk with the 'ol laptop, Big League Chew, Batman Begins (Actually, these days it's Robin Williams Live on Broadway) and just crank this puppy out. Having some trouble with this episode, folks. We've only got two more episodes to go, so everything has to be wrapped up with a bow in just 100 minutes...and then we went and added two new characters. The plotline is mapped out, we just have to get the characters to say the stuff. That, and I'm looking to add some personal touches to the plot. It's both good and bad that some of the plot is similar to actual experiences we go through (at one point, Seth starts talking about Beanmarch in a way that you might as well just swap Beanmarch with The BC), and the personal drama makes for good dialouge, but it's tough to have an actual fight and think to yourself after you deliver a particularly good verbal jab "Hey, that was good. I should write that one down." So this episode is taking considerable time.

If you're going to be auditioning for either of the two parts (it's one girl and one guy), we will be accepting bribes. Stop laughing, we're serious. Ok, we're not...well, depends on the bribe.

If you've been reading the site, you know a major site overhaul is coming. Get ready, the new site will look NOTHING like the one we have now. hahaha, I look back on the days when our site was five character bios, one trailer, one episode, and in Joe's words "the background looked pretty disgustingly similar to vomit." It's 2006. We've come quite a ways. I still can't believe we were named "Webcast of the Year" by Bostonist. Improper Bostonian also says we're "In" for 2006. I got your street cred right 'ere, baby.

Hope your 2006 is happy, safe, and absolutely rockin'.
Cheers to you and yours,
Woody Tondorf

Happy New Year from The Bad Guy

2005-12-31T12:15:00.000-05:00

And what a year 2005 has been.
We really did set the world aflame 2 years after 2003.
Bostonist.com has just rated The BC as the best Webcast of 2005, with "superior entertainment, production value, and Boston content. If you download anything from the web this year this has to be it."
Way to go.

Woody just told me that he's banging his head against the wall with episode 4. I don't think we should start worrying about his head or the script yet. We will of course be back in 2006 with new episodes, new characters, more Wednesday weekly fixes, more creative insanity from Joe and Woody, more celebrity appearances and of course, more puns.

Father Don was very busy with puns over the last week as he and members of the BC Screaming Eagles Marching Band went to Boise to see the MPC Computers Bowl. (As one of the lucky Sousaphone players, I was also there.)
Boise was certainly an interesting experience, the people were very friendly, even if the weather wasn't, and I left news of our website with several members of Boise State's Marching band.

Father Don was invited back to a festival in honor of St. Ignatius that Boise has every year. Boise was settled by Basque shepherds (Ignatius was Basque) in...anyone want to guess when?
1863.
I saw this on a hat in the airport and immediately showed Fr. Don. He began singing, "1863, a bunch of Basque shepherds," then gave up, and said, "I wonder if Joe would run with it."
He probably would, Padre. He probably would.

Anyway, a very happy New Year to all our readers and viewers, may 2006 be as good for you as 2005 was for us.

Merry Christmas

2005-12-23T20:12:00.000-05:00

Just a greeting from Fr. Don of THE BC by Fr.Don of BC: Merry Christmas to all and a healthy New Year. Winter break is upon us but, contrary to popular belief, we don't go into hibernation. Some may even be relaxing in O.C. ???!!! Hmm? There's a thought.

The campus is empty but the great minds are working wherever they are. Here's praying for peace in the world now and forevermore.

Episode 4 will emerge from the snowy plains of winter shortly.

Peace,

Fr. Don MacMillan, SJ

I just heart about this new thing called "sleep"...

2005-12-17T12:21:00.000-05:00

Hey, turns out people DO read this blog! Mr Dunn, this one goes out to you.

The premiere was NUTS. The 10 o'clock show was standing room only, and big ups to Scott McGoohan for emceeing the event. It was a good thing Scott wanted to help out, because final work on Episode three was completed at 9:15pm. To say that we were tired would be an understatement. Strom Thurmond was in better shape than we were...and yes, I do know Strom Thurmond is dead.

It's simply incredible to see hundreds of people, people who you don't know, come and sit quietly for 48 minutes to watch you. Seriously, it's extremely humbling. To all the kids who came out, I am very, very grateful. Thanks so much for making this such a great ride. I feel like Andy at the end of "Shawshank" when he finally breaks out of jail.

Now, on to the bits of the Episode Three that you wouldn't know or see unless we told you. It's The BC: Behind the Episode. "You think you know...and you probably do."

-The song played for the "previously..." is by Kevin Brady, called "Let's Be", off the album Restless Perfection. You will soon be able to check out featured artists and download their stuff off the site. Funny story about the "previously," we had always intended for a character to say the line "previously, on The BC," and several people had fought for that honor...and we completely forgot.

The "Jinkies" line: Apparently Joe's never seen "Scooby Doo, where are you?" It took forever to get "Jinkies" in that Velma way. And the script is plain to see as the only pieces of paper in the shrubbery. Yes, there is a script in every scene.

-In Melissa's plagarism scene, the word "plagarism" is never said. For BC administrators, I guess it's like saying "Valdemort."

-Yes, Father Don is writing "yard boy" in a large relationship chart through all 3 seasons of The OC. That took me a good 7 minutes...and I missed several names. When Father Don turns and says "E-Dubs..." There's several things written covertly on the chalkboard. One is, in Arabic, saying "I love you, Hollywood." The symbols to the left of it say that in Georgian as well, I believe. www.asininecomedy.com is on there, too (our comedy group), as well as a map of California and a "raar." That last one I'm keeping to myself...and yes, Father Erps ring tone is "Gold Digger" by Kanye.

Sean Hanlon's "Illegal Seafood" shirt is his intramural sports team. I think it's softball.

-In the cafeteria, when Melissa goes on about "It's that friend of Ryan's..." look at the newspaper. Somehow, we didn't notice that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's really creepy eyes are staring into your souls. Every time I watch this scene, that is all I see. We're sorry. Also, we filmed this scene at like 8am so the place wouldn't be incredibly crowded. We did not reckon that all the freshmen would we trooping through there around 8:45 and suddenly make the place seem packed. And then they disappaered just as quickly. Who needs closed sets anyway? And Melissa also carries the Boston magazine we were in.

(Also, I love how the smartest, "it" girl of Boston College has no idea what in hell is going on as everyone starts leaving her. Yes, we accidentally make Melissa Hooper incredibly stupid)

We put in the bit about the sisters partially to explain to everyone that, in fact, Woody and Ryan did NOT hook up with the same girl. People thought this was the case. Nope, even better, they're sisters...and gorgeous. God, I love this job.

When Hanlon says in the luxury box, "I told you not to get involved..." we have a shot of the hockey team practicing, then two seconds later in the background a zamboni is driving. Yes, in episode three we killed the hockey team. Outside, we have our first tripod sighting.

- Laura Murphy can't say "Traitorous pseudonym." We don't know why. The script for that scene is in the bag. I think there was an entire post dedicated to this scene.

-Thing we do in every episode: explain why the legendary "Keith" isn't in the room. Keith was the first person to say "I love college." After that, we make up new ways to explain how he disappeared, died, or what have you. Keith:The BC :: Kenny:South Park.

- Laura sounds so damn cute when she says "Fudge chips."

- How in the WORLD does the Dance Ensemble do those spins and leaps? After watching that, The B-ball team kept trying new ways to enter the room with spins and leaps and such. By Episode Five, we're going to need fireworks and an F-14 Flyover.

- Every time I hear Jared Dudley say in slow motion "Hit the weight room a little bit, I mean it," I lose it. Every time.

- If you can do Hinnant's dance at the beginning of the montage, I will buy you lunch. I mean it.

- Times it took Hinnant to hit that behind-the-back shot: over a dozen. Times it took Father Don in "The Rock" montage: one and done.

- I AM BEGGING EVERYONE WHO READS THIS AND GOES TO BC BASKETBALL GAMES TO DO THIS: PLEASE START BRINGING SIGNS THAT SAY EITHER "DO IT!" "I HATE PUNS" OR "PUT IN LUKEWALKER" WE WILL PUT YOU IN AN EPISODE

- The bush scene is one of my all-time favorites. We took forever filming this, since we had new ideas for a) how to hit seth and b)how to get him out of the bush. And yes, second tripod shooting. The script: in the tube at the beginning.

- God, Tim Cameron is a villian. This scene was his screen test back in September, and he got the part for his final, "Some people have sacrificed a lot to get you in here, Mr. Chekezian...I'll make sure they continue to." Of course, that same line landed Dave Bruin the McManus role, so I think we all do ok.

- hahaha, Joe has never looked so scary as he does when he first yells to Mike. I can't watch that, I can only listen. He IS yelling in Armenian, and he yells "Where is the bathroom, Cherkezian!"...I forget was he actually says after that, but the one word said afterwards is "...chicken."

- The McDonald/McManus scene is one of my favorite scenes in the entire series. Small note: McDonald never looks at another Trustee. Check it out again. He never looks at them. Ever. This scene was actually filmed in the Trustee room. It's HUGE.

- You gotta love that Father Don is staring at the wall and oblivious to Melissa's outburst. Nicolle looks really good in that scene.

"She's leaving today! To California!"...hahaha, you can practically read the lines off the script that she's pushing in Joe's face.

- From the four guitar strums to Woody's final walk-out, every second was composed by Brendan Dailey, a featured artist. The kid's got some incredible skills, and he's only a freshman.

- "Seth's going to be really disturbed by this occurance." I almost begged Father Don to just look at me and say "Seth's gonna be pissed."

- "Go get that girl Lohan. You know I'm right." ...and so she walked out of our lives forever...or did she??

- Farnan makes Coldplay so hot. The whiteboard behind him says "Get Lukewalker the ball" "Keep Follansbee out of the paint" "T.J, Norman, and Cedrone are gamers" "Do the little things right" and also has my screen name. If you can find it, IM me and tell me how you got it and you'll be featured on my profile as the biggest BC fan I know. No cheating. Let's keep this fair.

- The gym scene is filmed over the course of two separate days. Everything with Seth and Liz was filmed at a different time (note the socks and how the court itself is never in frame)
...and you should have seen the earlier drafts of this scene...MUCH different.

- the jersey Ryan throws is the one the girl on the side was wearing.

- Woody showing up wearing the hooded sweatshirt (you can hear the jangle of dogtags too if you listen) is supposed to symbolize him turning more back into the tough, streetwise Woody Atryan, but I doubt that got through.

- Father Don's reaction to a cell phone ringing is priceless to me. For the record, he never looks really surprised whenever "we didn't start the fire"plays.

- "Doc says lay off the skateboard for about 5 month though." Improv'd. Hilarious. This scene was supposed to take place in Father Don's office, which in the show is Hanlon's, which would have explained why Heffernan was around and working late. Oh well.

- The Georgian body guard is Jim Unis, one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. He constantly exhaled these long breaths when acting as the guard, which was funny to us beacuse Sean has his character constantly sigh and exhale throughtfully.

- "Translation: I want to make protection." Ummm, no. The actual translation of the Georgian is, well, he wants to do something inappropriate to a clown. Not making that up.

-Everyone wants to know who sent the ninjas, and what they were there for. You'll find out...eventually.

Ok, this is incredibly long. Thanks to everyone for sticking with this, I hope your Christmas breaks are awesome! Episode Four will be even better, and we're going to be having a casting call for one new male and one new female character! These two are going to stir things up in the BC, no doubt about it!

And if you're in Boston, check us out on Fox25 morning news Thursday, Dec. 22nd!!

Cheers to you and yours,
Woody Tondorf

Stocking Stuffers

2005-12-15T15:58:00.000-05:00

No posts?
Obviously, my fellow members of the BC have not discovered the most literally lucrative form of procrastination: blogging. Honestly, it's great. You can bitch about whatever you want and if some one disagrees with you enough to post a comment it only results in more attention from more people centered around you. Or, if you can't find one thing to bitch about, you can always move on to the mundane details of your life, and even play by plays of your dreams. Who's going to stop you? For the more creative types, blogging is a venue in which to experiment, as one has complete freedom of speech ( well, freedom as we define it these days, or confine it..) Basically blogging is one self-satisfying trip into a world where criticism can be deleted, chaos can be spread, and the line between cockiness and confidence blurs in the vast realm of internet society.
That being said, let's get back to the BC.
Yes, it's true, tis finals season! It's a harried part of BC life that this sitcom/web cast has yet to depict. I could tell you all about the lovely hours I've spent in O'Neill typing up outlines and harassing people on AIM in order to quell my boredom, but look! I just did. Not so interesting.
So, in order to pique your interest and remain pertinent to the subject of this blog, The BC, I think it's about time we discussed some on campus celebrity sightings.

Joe Sabia/ Seth Lohan: Haunting the upstairs at lower live. Looks stressed, often surrounded by a concerned bevy of freshmen girls from his orientation groups mostly trying to push fro-yo in exchange for his autograph.

Father Don: Can almost always be easily located in his office in McElroy. I happened to run into him in front of lower, however, and was lucky enough to catch a few moments of his time to chat. As always, he seems delighted by the popularity of the BC, but fears many students may be avoiding him in order to escape his Jesuit mind meld techniques which are eerily reminiscent of those belonging to the Jedis knights depicted in George Lucas' Star Wars Trilogy. I reassured him that students were probably just swamped with finals.
* Celebrity trivia* Joe Sabia has not seen any of the Star Wars films.

Woody Tondorf/ Woody Atryan: Usually sighted in front of his now world famous Mod. Often engaged in various activities like building snow forts with his friends and dressing up as a penguin. While the penguin suit looked rather lovable, my sources agree that the James Bond get-up he was strutting a couple weeks ago takes the cake.

Sean Hanlon: Sean Hanlon sightings have come to an all time low since he arrived at the Shaw Christmas Party as the Grinch. Despite his green tinge, however, he seems to be doing well. Online sources reveal that all he wants for Christmas is the California sun.

Jess Colvita/ Autumn Strebor: Unfortunately, your celebrity insider does not ever see Jess on campus. Various theories may explain this phenomena, but my sources prefer the theory that after being asked out on one too many dinner dates that ultimately resulted in a superficial interest in her beauty, talent and celebrity, rather than her notable aim in beirut and speed shopping skills, Jess Colvita has taken to disguising herself as a nun to go to class.
Or maybe we just have very different schedules, either way, her mother's pillows made a splash at the premier as did her acting and fabulous evening wear.

Mike Cherkezian/ Prince of Armania: Found lurking on the main floor of O'Neil. Claimed to be doing a paper, but looked sufficiently suspicious for there to be serious doubts concerning this alibi. The next day he was spotted at Hillside chugging coffee and looking unquestionably groggy, did he pull an all night study session, or was he up to something more sinister? Last weekend's theater party sorely felt his most noted absence from the community. Perhaps this star has gotten a bit to big for the stage? We shall see.

Nicolle Buckley/Melissa Hooper: Like Jess, Nicolle is also scarce on the BC campus. Word on the street is she never leaves her dorm unaccompanied by a contingent of body guards that are capable of hiding this petite star with a flex of their biceps. Making a fashionably late entrance, she came to the second showing of the premiere of episode three. Dazzlingly decked in fashionable attire, she continues to woo audiences with her dead-on girl-next-door act.

Ryan Farnan/ Ryan Lukewater: This intense superstar was out of town this weekend accompanying BC's basketball team on their trek to Maryland where he had a tete a tete with the insider's roommate, Kate Balch. He has yet to be sighted since his return, but has been gracious enough to grace the Facebook pages with a brand new pic. Check it out.

Tim Cameron: The BC's evil villain can be seen running the cashiers at late night. Though he's always a friendly face to see through the masses of students bearing fried food, your celebrity insider must wonder whether his preparation for malintent on the sitcom stems from dealing with drunken revelers fumbling with their Eagle One Cards.

Stay tuned for the next inside guide to the BC: Hot stuff.

As Finals Come Down Upon Us

2005-12-15T11:10:00.000-05:00

Thank you all for your patience with Episode 3. It was quite stressful to think we nearly lost everything, but we're back on track and everything is up and running smoothly.

However, as much as we'd love to have witty banter all this week on the blog and guestbook, we're all deep in the depths of finals. That means we are focusing on our books and making up for lost time earlier this semester during filming.

We hope the holidays are going well for all you out there in Internet-Land. We'll see you on the other side of finals.

Adam Shipley
Webmaster, The BC

Awesome premiere!

2005-12-08T01:15:00.000-05:00

Wow! What a premiere! We packed Devlin 008 twice. Hope you were able to make it. Otherwise you will be able to download it 12/8 at midnight. Let us know what you think!

In other news, we were in The Metro here in Boston. Lots of great press. Lots of new visitors. Some great e-mails and feedback.

Once again, you'll be able to download Episode 3 at midnight on the 8th. By then we should have all the episode information online too. Let us know if you have any questions.

Adam Shipley
Webmaster, The BC

I think this calls for a huddle

2005-11-27T19:23:00.000-05:00

Why is it after vacations you need another one? I'll tell you this though, after the next 10 days ahead, we're going to need a vacation. We're booked solid through this entire week, not to mention that Saturday is the first Asinine show of the year. We may play a trailer or a commercial during the show, that remains to be seen. We've got shooting dates lined up from Monday at 8:30 am down to Sunday, December 4th all day. I look to the future and shudder.

On the plus side, the premiere will rock for all of you who plan to go. There's going to be some BC trivia with some inticing giveaways. And if you attend the premiere and are not a BC student, you can expect some cool things as well.

On the business side, we've got a soundtrack meeting with Brendan Dailey tomorrow night to get the mod right in the final few scenes. It's always sad to kill off a character, but...um, what? Uh, forget I said anything about that. I mean, this isn't Harry Potter, right? Right?

Get excited. We do all the work, you enjoy the product. Devlin 008 will be packed, so get there early on December 7th. Oh yeah, and we're going to be featured on Fox 25 news again. They're coming here Tuesday. Those cheeky Fox folks, we heart them. Yeah, I just wrote "we heart them." I'm just a man.

Cheers to you and yours,
Woody

An Afternoon with Gene De Filippo

2005-11-22T10:41:00.000-05:00

Well "Sports Therapy" is done.. and it's going to kill! I think it's going to be played at bball games for all eternity.

I arrived at the office at around 3 o clock to a frantic Jerry York saying with a giant grin on his face "I got practice in 25 minutes, what exactly are we doing here?" The other Coaches, Ainslee and Andrea were waiting patiently on the couch, probably having the slightest of an idea of what I was planning on doing. So I explained the premise, and filmed them first. Mr. York took one take on both shots. Specifically, when he finished saying "He's such a good listener", he grabbed his coat and BOLTED out the door. It was an honor meeting such a legend here at BC.

Meanwhile, Baldwin waited patiently during the whole thing, and eventually moved into the office with Gene who was really accomodating and friendly. Cara Feinberg from BC Magazine eventually showed up and sat in on the shoot. I laid out the whole thing for Gene, reading him the whole script that Woody wrote. I honestly had no idea what he was thinking... he probably thought I was the one that should be on the shrink's bed. But he agreed to do it.

Let's play Q & A
Q: How long did the whole thing take?
A: About 40 minutes. We broke things up into pieces to make it easier

Q: G-Unit? Wow that sure is funny!"
A: Originally Woody and I thought he would have just a small idea of what that's about. The minute I said the words "G-Unit" he busts out "G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-unit!!!" like the eloquent 50 cent himself. Apparently all of the athletes call "Coach Flip" by that nomenclature.

Q: Do you think I'm a kook? Wow that sure is funny!"
A: Originally, it was written as, "Can I get a hug?" and Baldwin was going to shake his head no. But Gene insisted we change it to a much funnier "Do you think I'm a kook?"

Q: Is that a REAL picture of him and Coach Skinner?
A: Yes it is. And I had to make sure it was in this commercial.

Q: Was he frustrated or frazzled at all?
A: He was very very calm and patient the whole time. What a blessing

Q: I wanna hear more about Baldwin, golly!
A: Well, we taped glasses to his face.... because they wouldn't fit otherwise. Baldwin was a great sport the whole time, too.

So those are some fun facts... I even got a cool fleece out of it. So enjoy Gene and the coaches. They sure are talented.

Enjoy the day, The BC wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving

Joe

10 Reasons Episode Three will be better than Episode Two

2005-11-18T14:05:00.000-05:00

We're only about 3 weeks from the premiere of Episode Three (Cue Joe running, crying, and screaming), and already I see a marked improvement over what we've done with Episode Two. To add to the hype that we can never hope to top on Dec. 7th, I'm going to present 10 reasons Under New Management will be just as good, if not better than Now, The Hard Part:

- This plot will really suck you in. A lot of storylines are going to be resolved, and whole host of 'em are going to be opened...and someone's not coming back.
- Yes, Virginia, the Jesuits are back and better than ever. Joe laughed out loud in the computer lab and freaked out a lot of people while reading it.
- Better locations. No longer will we be staging scenes in three places only. We're bustin' out, baby.
- A tripod. Sweet mercy, at last.
- The basketball team is better than ever. We just wind up Dudley and let him run.
- Dan McDonald has a padawan learner.
- Woody is put in a situation you would never expect.
- Father Don starts putting it down.
- A soundtrack made specifically for the last scenes of the episode.
- Ninjas.
- I might be lying about that last one.

Cheers to you and yours,
Woody Tondorf

Impassioned Plea

2005-11-16T02:56:00.000-05:00

Here at The BC, I'm always trying to figure out new ways to get people interested in 'The BC.' What has come to my notice is that we rank really really really low on Google for just about any search. I hope to use this post as an impassioned plea that if you have a blog or website of your own, that you put a link to the-bc.com on it to both let other people know what the greatest thing on the web is, as well as make sure that search engines know to give us more respect.

On another note, next week is our Thanksgiving break, and I'll be away from an internet connection for most of next week, so if any updates happen, it'll be on next Tuesday instead of Wednesday. Hope everyone is enjoying their Humpday Fixes. I love putting them up.

Keep up the buzz about The BC. Episode 3 is just around the corner!
Adam Shipley
Webmaster

location, location, location

2005-11-15T12:41:00.000-05:00

First things first. :::RELEASE DATE::: Episode Three: Under New Management will premiere DECEMBER 7th.

Last night we were filming one of the pivotal scenes of episode three and we had two decisions about where to film it. It could have been filmed on the 9th floor of Edmonds dorm, or in the first floor lobby. The 9th floor was ok, but the lighting was so-so, and the ceilings weren't that large. It felt a little too cozy for our liking. The 1st floor lobby had exciting lights, doors, an RA booth, and excellent lighting. Unfortunately, it had three elevators, two main entrances, a laundry room, and every few minutes there were more people milling around in the place than extras in Prison Break.

What will eventually be 1 minute and 30 seconds in the show was filmed in 1 hour and 45 minutes. On the bright side, Father Don was recognized left and right, and a lot of people took a few seconds to tell us how much they liked the show, which was great. The problem wasn't that there were a lot of people, it was just that every time we wanted to film, about three doors would close and open in succession...and then an elevator would deploy it's contents. It was like in the Scooby-doo cartoons when the characters are chasing the bad guy through a hallway. One door opens up, Scooby and Shaggy run through; another opens up down the hall, the bady guy dashes through...another opens up, and Stewie Griffin runs through...you get the idea.

This shot tested the paitience more than any other shot. Father Don is truly a man of peace, I never saw him lose it once. Joe may have had a few facial twitches now and again, but never did he have to apologize for his language in front of Don, as I did...a few times. To that, Father Don replied, "That's the word I use whenever someone cuts me off. God must not mind, because He continues to let me drive." I love this show.

Cheers to you and yours,
Woody Tondorf

The BC on the Jumbo Tron

2005-11-13T18:00:00.000-05:00

At approximately 5 minutes left of halftime at Boston College versus NC State the marching band retreated to the sidelines... Then out of no where you see "The BC" for a full 5 seconds... "St. Ignatius Started the Fire" was played in front of over 40,000 people last night.

So ridiculous... I threw the idea at Peter Olivieri (the jumbo tron guy) and he sent the commercial to Jaime Diloreto. Apparently, it was passed on to DeFillipo and all of them agreed that it was something worth putting on the tron during halftime. Well, I had to change a few things in of course... including kegstands, trouble in the catholic church, and instead of DL Hughley, I think we're going to permanently change it to Father Neenan cuz he's the man.

So the video started with a quote from me in The Chronicle about building community, and then bam, Woody, in true masculine form said "Yay Smallville, Oh I could just die!" When everything started rolling we assumed a lot of people would just be too drunk to really know whats going on... and then...

"1863. A bunch of ignatians made a college invasion"

People started going nuts when they saw FD. By the second chorus, scanning the crowds around, people were singing and dancing to the song. Which truly was one of the coolest things I think I have ever seen. Alumni were probably like "A SINGING PRIEST! COMIC GENIUS!" I was unfazed... it was Father Don in solid form. HE COULDN'T MAKE IT TO THE GAME.. he was doing a wedding in Rochester... But he got like 5 phone calls after the game. Priceless.

But we think we could have started a pretty cool tradition with future events. Boston College is big with ignatians and lighting stuff aflame. So the song ends up being a good match after all... the MARCHING BAND even learned how to play it during plays in the second half.

I feel grateful for athletics to give us that opportunity to make a lot of people laugh last night at the football game... it sucks because our website was cut out at the end, but people know a little bit more about us, and we hope to be on the jumbo tron again. We've had a very very significant increase in number of hits on this page and we hope the alumni continue to follow us.

PS: I'm really sorry to all of those that have threatened to take my life for having that song stuck in their heads. Blame it on Billy Joel, seriously.

In the rap game, they call this "Blowin' up"

2005-11-12T02:54:00.000-05:00

I am absolutely exhausted. The CBS National Evening News was here all of yesterday, which apparently is a HUGE deal. 4 million people watch the program (I don't know how many of them are college students, but I think their BC numbers will jump when they put that on). We won't know when it's airing until they tell us. It could be in a week, it could be in a month. But rest assured we'll let you all know.

We were pretty sure they would film us filming (which sounds really complex...and it is...) and then interview us. So Joe tells me to make up a scene. I am not a fan of making up a scene that we most likely won't use, but a request is a request, and I complied. What resulted was a scene written in 15 minutes about how Jesuits are like Jedis...I know I'm not the first person to think about this, but I should really stop playing Revenge of the Sith on a continuous loop. I just love to see Yoda fight. It's a guilty pleasure.

It was surreal to have these veteran camera and sound technicians paying attention to us, not to mention chatting up the producer and a very well-respected journalist. They were awesome, and they gave us some great advice. Jack Dunn, the spokesman for Boston College, was also there, and he gave us some very kind words. It means a lot hearing all these great things from people who are serious big deals.

They interviewed me in Joe's room (and thank God for that, because in our infinite wisdom, we decided to film outside in the Quad, where it was freezing...but a ton of people saw us, and we crave attention) and that was really surreal. This 50,000 dollar camera on a 15,000 dollar tripod, with all these cool lights and fancy filters...all focused on Joe's bed. If you were looking in from the other building, it looked VERY suspicious. So I jumped on Joe's bed and made the most seductive pose I could. I'm just a man. You would have done it too.

We then moved on to being filmed while watching the OC, so now the entire nation will see 14 dudes and two girls watching The OC. There goes my shot with any woman...ever. But something happened as soon as the camera started rolling during the show...everyone changed. We are notorious for shushing just about anyone who talks during the show, except for Scott McGoohan, whose every outburst is gold and ought to be recorded. Everyone started talking and yelling things out, myself included. This is the same guy who would serve a shorty if they opened their yaps during my OC, Tony Montana style. The dose of reality came from my roommate Dan McDonald (yes, I really did name a character after a roommate...you'd do it too) who took it upon himself to try and shut everyone up. It was odd.

On a different track, did anyone see the bad guy surfer who steals Johnny's girlfriend and immediately say in their minds, "Back off, Warchild, I'm serious." (for those of you who are uncultured, it's a line from Point Break starring Keanu Reeves. It may be the best worst movie ever. Stop wasting your time and see that movie.) If the writers of The OC don't think to put that in some future episode, then they really need me more than I orginally thought.

God, I love long blog posts. To answer a couple questions, we're not having a casting call for episode three, as we have enough characters and no additions, but we are thinking about having one for episode four The Best Beanmarch Ever. And in response to how we're able to get these respected administrators and jesuits to do our commercials...well, we just ask. And we're humbled enough that these people who have a ton of responsibilites and obligations take time out of their day for the show. The men's soccer coach apparently loves the show and wants to be in a commercial, too. What have we created??

CBS at The BC

2005-11-11T01:05:00.000-05:00

Wow... what a day.

This day has been an adventure, much like Harold and Kumar going to White Castle... So we get a call from Carrie, the producer for CBS, saying they arrived to campus. Joie Chen and a couple camera guys from New York and Boston were there, too. There we were in the quad with freezing cold temperatures filming a scene involving us popping Father Don's Fleece collar, and of course, him saying "holler at your boy"

Then they grilled FD with questions, interviewed Jess, and then moved to our room... Mike and I were up to 4am cleaning the room last night.. I can eat dinner off of the floor now. Seriously, i just want to break dance on it. They had so much equipment in here, but I think the interviews did well.

today was a blast overall, and there's a lot more to be excited about... Hafner's been receiving tons of good words on his commercial. I think it was his beautifully rich voice in singing "If I could turn back time"

Interesting Fun Facts:
-I asked the Paul camera guy what his craziest reporting location experience was.. he replied with "Somalia... when I was shot at"
-the camera cost 50,000 dollars and the tripod cost 15,000. I was jealous.
-We conveniently placed the infamous Michael Bolton poster in the backdrop of Woody's interview.
-My grades aren't doing too well... but I found out D is passing, so... that's good news I guess
-The camera crew went into farnan's room to film 16 dudes watching the OC and drinking beer... We thought last minute to put a "www.the-bc.com" poster in the backdrop.
-"ST IGNATIUS STARTED THE FIRE" IS GOING TO BE ON THE JUMBO TRON FOR SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL GAME AGAINST NC STATE

So that's that.... stay tuned baby
joe

Marching Band

2005-11-10T23:17:00.000-05:00

So, I walk into Band practice on Tuesday night and they are rehearsing "1863...a bunch of Ignatians made a college invasion"! The director, Dave Healey, told me Dean Sherwood suggested it for the Saturday night football game. Amazing. I learned today that the St. Ignatius started the fire" will be on the jumbotron during the game. For shizzell! As it turns out I will be in Rochester, NY officiating at a wedding. No! Not Seth and Autumn!

Today was a great day for the crew. CBS came to BC for The BC. Go team.
Saw my second episode of the O.C.! Verrry inttterrresting! said with the old Laugh-in show German accent. Most readers of this blog probably didn't even see that show on Nick-at-Night. Okay time to let you get back to study! People in this school really do go to class.

Peace out!
Fr. Don

Wednesday Excitement

2005-11-09T19:11:00.000-05:00

I love Wednesdays. It means a new commercial and a new poll. I love our new commercial, how informative yet irreverent. I hope you've already checked it out. Also, I've installed weekly polls. Last week the poll was over which commercial was the best yet, and 'St Ignatius Started the Fire' won handily. Current poll: who's your favorite character on 'The BC'. You decide!

Other than that, it's always fun to get reactions from people, so leave a comment on this blog about what you think of the commercials... what you like, what they're missing. We love feedback!

Keep checking back here for more updates about 'The BC' with another episode in the works and new commercials every week, this truly is the new hot spot!
Adam Shipley
Webmaster

Armenians Unite!

2005-11-09T15:33:00.000-05:00

So, basically I sent the www.the-bc.com to AGBU.org (the equivalent of Armenian headquarters of the world) where a sweet lady named Kim said she decided to forward my email internally to all the people working there and to all the young adults on their mailing list which I think includes people from around the US and Europe.

One more step to having this show spiral completely out of control.

ahhh, yes....Armenia...

PS. this is my first blog.

The Artist Formally Known as Prince...of Armenia

Traitorous Pseudonym

2005-11-06T10:07:00.000-05:00

I'm starting to wonder when anyone else on the cast and crew is going to start putting up posts. Until then, I'll throw some tasty tidbits your way...because you've been good and I hear you joined the clean plate club.

The Newbury Street filming was a lot of fun. It's great to get out of campus every now and again and enjoy the life...not to mention the weather was absolutely magnificent. Filming was interesting, I had to get a bag for Laura to start taking items out of, but it turns out that several stores on Newbury won't just GIVE you a bag. Hey, United Colors of Benneton, I'm talking to you. Don't ignore me. And Pottery Barn, you rock. Seriously, we should hang out. Don't tell Benneton.

Things Laura Murphy has problems saying:
-Wilson Park
-Traitorous pseudonym
...Here's the funny thing, We practiced this scene with Joe and Laura like several million times, and she always had problems with those four words. She was a great sport about it, but it occured to us that we were ragging on a girl who had more acting experience and talent than all of us combined...I think she hinted subtlely at that, too. At any rate, it was funny. I will now find a reason to put "traitorous pseudonym" in EVERY script.

Speaking of script, here's a morsel for you to chew on. About halfway through filming episode two, we realized that in all our class scenes, in all our dorm scenes, you could see a script. Not blatantly in your face, but it was there. So, since the day we take ourselves too seriously we'll stop making the show, we put a script in EVERY scene. So now we're going out of our way to put them in every scene in ep. 3. Your challenge: find it in every scene after ep. 3 premieres and email/guestbook/blog us. To the first winning entry, we'll ship you a DVD of ep. 2 and 3 FREE. Maybe even a Wilson Park T-shirt to boot.

Speaking of which, check out www.wilson-park.com. Tell 'em The BC sent you. They make very funny shirts that are great-fitting. The cut is athletic, which rocks when yo think of all the t-shirts that are too boxy looing. We're currently wearing a few. I was wearing one that read "Facebook me" while I played Beruit with Tim Cameron, the whole time quoting "The Godfather" before each shot. I don't think Nelita will be friends with us after that one.

Wow, this was long. Hope your weekends were great, Tondorf out.

Cheers,
Woody

Newbury Madness

2005-11-04T16:01:00.000-05:00

Well, with our pledge to bring filming to new and exciting levels, we decided to shoot a scene on Newbury Street. So Hanlon, Cherkezian, Woody, Laura and myself ventured downtown. It ended up being a good scene... well, we think. We couldn't find a place to park.. Anwar's car (The guy who tells the story of a puppy named sparky in episode 2) almost got towed... And yeah, thats all the excitement at Newbury.

Updates:
All of our mouths dropped when they advertised the "The BC" segment on Fox25 during "The OC"... the segment itself was amazing, three minutes in length, and will eventually get on the website.
We're sending clip reels to Disney... weird saying that aloud. "disney". its fun, very bisyllabic.
With good buddy Brendan Sage, we're working on making MP3's of "St. Ignatius started the fire" for convenient Ipod Usage
I saw Sean Marshall today and I yelled, "I hate puns"
Mike and I hate when before people fight, they hit their fist into their hands really fast

PS sorry for the random picture of us. Sexiness of this quantity cannot be ignored.

Everything on Fire... finally lyrics.

2005-11-03T19:14:00.000-05:00

Ok ok ok enough already. Hold the phone. I'm finally going to put the lyrics up for "St. Ignatius Started the Fire". Guestbook guru Alex (A&S '97)...i seriously think his last name is (A&S '97)...actually wrote out ALL lyrics to the song. I was very impressed... a few mistakes here and there, but overall 99% accuracy! Amazing! I am going to have to change some lyrics if we want this on the jumbo tron... (The BU sucks line...), but other than that, enjoy it.

Quick updates: The "The BC" DVD looks INCREDIBLE! As if Midas himself touched it to gold. the METRO is coming on campus to interview us on Monday... (that's how you know you're big, baby!) And CBS Evening News next thursday. Exciting stuff, you'll here more about it later.
- NELITA, big ups, you rock our world. We'll be visiting you guys soon dont worry

Joe

fun fact of the day: I wrote this song two years ago.... when it was 2003. Hey, I improvised, what do you want from me?!

Doug Flutie, orange bowl, Father Leahy, maroon and gold
Campus Ministry, Cleveland circle, walk around the quad
Craig Smith, Darcel Clark, Kiwanuka, MiddleMarch
Robsham Theater, Corcoran Commons, fence around the Mods

Chris O'Donnell, Gasson Hall, Boston College basketball
Tim Russert, Online Polls, banners in the dust bowl
Hasselback, blue lights, cheese steaks at late night
Sake Bombing, abercrombie, Boston is extremely cold

(Chorus)
1863
A bunch of ignatians, made a collegiate invasion
Two years after 2003
our claim to fame, is setting the world aflame

Conte Forum, Now You Know, Superfans, DeFilippo
DL Hughley, Father Himes, I hate my registration time.
Doug Flutie Likes Girls, Service trips around the world,
Herald, Boston Globe, now we got The New York Times.
Josh Ott, Beanpot, can we have more parking lots?
WebCT and AIM, Jesuits are back again.
Irish Room, job Search, No more coffee at the perch,
Green D Line, Asinine, Trouble in the Catholic Church

chorus

UCONN, gettin' snubbed, why is men's lacrosse a club
pricey food, costly books, I got poked on facebook
OL's and Woods School, Baldwin the eagle ain't no fool
campus schoolAppalachia Trips, we got two Rhodes scholarships!

UPS, FedEX, fight for treadmills at the plex
Chronicle, campus crawl, shop at the chestnut hill mall
Starbucks, Supercuts, city of Newton going nuts
yawkey center, holidays, run on Marathon Monday

chorus

Bluestone Bistro, Domino's, roggies, pinos,
Who's on first, poetry slams, copperfields and final Exams
Beans, Creams, and Dreams, intramural sports teams
Parent's weekends, kegstands, girls on the grass, getting tan,
Copley, Back Bay, graduation's in May
Big East, blown away, What else do I have to say?

chorus

Newton Bus, ride or die, 2 hour line at hillside
St. Mary's, Saint Joe's, college road has its highs and lows
Sexual chocolate, dance teams, white mountain ice cream
North End, theater shows, 40g's a year to go
Homecoming, Boat Cruise, our soccer can never lose
Acoustics and the Heightsmen, core curriculum has no end
New York Yankees, Red Sox Pride, housing lottery suicide
40 acres, new land, victory in South Bend

Filming a villian, signing an artist

2005-11-02T19:24:00.000-05:00

Tim Cameron scares the willies out of me. For those of you who don't know who Tim is, he plays the chairman of the trustee board, Dan McDonald. When this guy speaks, little evil midgets jump around in my stomach. He's just got one of those voices, you know? It's like the time you saw Bill Murray screw over and then ultimately beat Woody Harrelson in Kingpin...I don't care if the guy's funny, I wanted Bill Murray dead for 72 hours after that. Tim is just like that. He's Caleb and Julie Cooper mixed into one. You know he's evil and you know he's going to mess things up. You're going to love to hate him.

So St. Ignatius started the fire is online...and if you haven't seen it, stop wasting our time and go see it. Father Don is now a legitimate rock star, and I need people to start watching the Carlton dance more often so I can get my "mad props."

In more business news, we signed musician Brendan Dailey to do soundtrack work for us. This kid is going to rock you with his stuff. We got a chance to hear some of his earlier work before we signed him, and it's good. He came into our meeting ready to work and we were blown away. So get ready, facebook this kid already so you can say you knew him back when.

On the TV front, if you're in the Massachusetts area check us out tomorrow around 5:10pm on Fox 25 news. Of course Fox will love to lead into the new OC (finally! Schwartz, we gotta talk) with more OC related material, so that works out just dandy for us. Please excuse the fact that I'm hungover for that interview...we had the cast party the night before, and my last memory was Joe with a beer ball box on his head, dancing around. I woke up at 9:35 the next morning to Joe in the common room, yelling "Do you know what TIME it is?!"...our interview was at 9:30.

Hope you enjoy what you've seen so far. We've got new pictures on the way, and we all look like BAMFs in them. You heard it here first.

Cheers,
Woody

Well, the fire is started

2005-11-02T02:53:00.000-05:00

After spending the last two weeks on "St. Ignatius Started the Fire", it's now available for your viewing pleasure. That was more time-taking then a leper flipping through the yellow pages for a dermatologist. (my apologies to all the fans who are lepers)

Hopefully this can be put on a megatron, a devlin admissions presentation, or some dusty shelf in Burns Library... It was a blast making it, and i hope people can see just how awesome this school is.

Fun facts about the filming!
-Father Don memorized that chorus in only 2 minutes.
-Cherkezian recruited all those extras in the final scene in a matter of minutes... half of them were high schoolers with their parents
-the guy with the pumpkin is Rick Rossi with campus ministry
-Scott McGoohan makes another high-profile cameo as the dancer with tourettes
-Tabitha Rosien, Justin Walker, Reena Parikh, Emily J., and others were the happy go lucky high fivers
-A lot of people were staring at father don screaming the chorus in the one in front of Gasson Hall
-Look for the hidden movie next to the DVD player.... ONG BAK, quite possibly the best action movie ive ever seen
-The quote "Doers of the word; not hearers only" is what Father Don writes at the end of every email
-We tried to get FD to wear bling for the video, but he intelligently refused

Joe

Those technical updates

2005-10-31T16:02:00.000-05:00

This is the webmaster, giving an update on the behind-the-scenes stuff going on with The BC. First off, we have moved servers. No longer are we using our student accounts to host the video and webpages. We have been promoted to 'club' status and as such we now have webspace within the speedier connection of Boston College's main pages.

What does this mean for you out there in TV Land? Nothing. Well that's not entirely accurate. Going to www.the-bc.com will still take you to the main page, it'll just load up a tiny bit quicker. The videos will still play the same. But that does bring me to my next point.

As of now, if you head to the 'video' page, you can now download a much higher quality version of Episode 2. This is a major change. We were limited to offering low quality video to ensure it would fit in the limits of student accounts (and spread out over quite a few of them). Now, we can have higher quality video for you to view, so if you were waiting for a high quality version of Episode 2, now it is up and ready to download.

Keep checking back on the main page and the blog for continued updates on 'The BC.'
Adam Shipley
Webmaster

Well, whadda we do NOW?

2005-10-30T23:22:00.000-05:00

What a difference an episode makes.

The faithful will be happy to know that Episode Three "Under New Management" has begun filming. Better news: the script isn't even finished yet. But we found one of the scenes that had to be done, had PERFECT weather for it, and banged it out. I'm excited. You should be, too. As good as episode two was (and it's not all beer and pizza, folks, there were some bits that could have gone better in it) ep. 3 has the possibility to be fantastic. The dialouge is already tighter, the jokes are quicker, and the celebrity guest appearances will have you doing double-takes.

I got to take a look at about half of "St. Ignatius Started the Fire," and I have to say this: Father Don is a rock star. Literally. Without this guy, we're lost. It's unfair to compare Father Don to Peter Gallagher in the OC, because Peter Gallagher could conceivably take a few shows off. Don's presence is mandatory.

Finally, we've been going into the BC community to discover the musicians of the school. We've already signed Kevin Brady onto the show (a great solo artist, you can see him perform at Kinvara, as well as other classy joints) as well as few other talented artists. Look for a "music featured" section as the site gets better and better.

...And word on the street is that Disney wants to talk to us now. That could rock.

Cheers to you and yours,
Woody Tondorf

a Welcome from joe

2005-10-29T21:28:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the blog of Boston College's hit TV show (Or "Soap opera" as Newsweek calls it) "The BC". It's fun for the whole family.

Hopefully these blogs, if planned correctly, will give you a little more insight as to what's going on with filming, what our goals are, and what we're feeling - Because we have feelings, too.

"So when's the next episode coming out?!" We know, we know... episode 3 is coming out in 3-4 weeks. It takes a long time to film an episode, but thank God Woody finished the script.. if you thought one was funny, then you saw two. And if thought two was funny, WAIT 'til you see three.

I'm excited to finish work on "St. Ignatius Started the Fire"... you'll get a kick out of it. We wrapped up filming for it yesterday with Father Don all around campus having fun with it. It's gotten to the point that when people see us around campus filming they have two reactions: 1) Oh, those The BC kids are so silly. 2) Did I just see a priest steal that kid's huffy?!

We've gotten a lot of exciting updates... CBS Evenings News is coming to campus on thursday to film us for a segment which should be a blast. We're going to be coming out with a lot more commercials that feature administrators, jesuits, and faculty alike. The Dean's Playing Video Games commercial was probably some of the most fun I've had this semester. When Paul Chebator pushed me, oh no, that wasn't taken in one shot. Try 4. The guy must've been a linebacker or something in his college days... that or someone really obsessed with The Legend of Zelda... but they're all cool guys, get to know them.

As for now, it's a saturday, and it's snowing. I hate snow. I want to somewhere warm eventually (perhaps orange county) and live in a happy warm climate.. But stay tuned for more updates... oh we know you will.

sorry this was so long.. i'll try to be shorter next time

look for me on the cover of November's issue of Teen Beat
Joe

Welcome from Woody

2005-10-27T23:19:00.000-04:00

Welcome and hello to the millions upon millions who will come to this blog to say, "hey, I wonder what the cast and crew is doing in preparation for The B.C.?"

Well I'm doing a lot of writing. Writing the script for Episode Three, "Under New Management" in particular. I both really love and really hate the creation of a brand-new script, especially since it means I'll be burying myself in the lowest levels of O'Neill library with a package of Big League Chew (swingin' sour apple), the 'ol laptop with the Gray Album playing, and Batman Begins for when I'm stuck...by the way, Batman Begins is the best of the Batman series...and take it from a kid who devoured comic books when he was younger. I used to think the Spiderman franchise would kick the shizzle out of Batman, especially after they made Val Kilmer...VAL KILMER!...Bruce Wayne, but this new movie was dead-on. Brilliant. But I'm getting sidetracked. Not the first time; won't be the last.

So I like making something out of nothing. Creating a good Seth line or a spot-on Father Don exchange is awesome. Making a good, emotional, got-you-by-the-reproductive organs-and-I-know-it scene makes all this worthwhile.

...Then I pitch it to the rest of the cast.

This is not to say that I disagree with what the cast or crew thinks. In fact, if it weren't for Sean Hanlon our plot would have more holes than 50 Cent pre-"Get rich or die tryin'." And Joe has contributed greatly to the Seth lines and in getting even MORE out of Father Don each time. And Farnan is...Farnan. I've been really impressed with how Ryan has gone with the Lukewalker acting. I mean, in real life Ryan is the nicest, most humble, unassuming guy you could meet. In scene, I want to smash the kid. He's that good.

Everyone takes a crack at what they like/don't like and where they think the mood of this character or scene should go. It's a group thing, and in the end, I couldn't be happier with where the episode ends up.

I wish we had put this up earlier so Joe and I could have taken the time to tell you about our Matty in the Morning appearance. We've gotten a lot of press recently, and it's all been incredible, but being on live radio with a guy who's had a hit morning talk show for 25 years was a rush. Add giant microphones and the fact that people were trapped in their cars and had to listen to me...perfect. The best part was Matty asking Joe and I, "What are you guys on?" He also compared me to Ben Affleck before his career went to hell, so I'm looking for someone to "beniffer" with. I should facebook that.

Thank you SO MUCH for checking us out. Every day that someone comments on the guestbook or stops us on campus or messages us...I never know what to say. It's an incredible experience, and I want to thank everyone for their support. We know you have better things to do with your time.

Cheers,
Woody Tondorf (Woody Atryan)

The First Post

2005-10-27T16:38:00.000-04:00

Thank you for coming to The BC's blog. We've got an exciting year ahead of us. We have 3 more episodes in the mix and a whole lot more commercials. Check back here and www.the-bc.com for updates.
Adam Shipley
Webmaster