On June 3rd, PREPPY rocked out at The Skybar for a short and sweet set consisting of the following songs:


1) intro 
2) fascinated 
3) second grade 
4) happy 
5) passing notes 
6) new distraction 
7) caroline


Being only Preppy’s second show, as you can see, the set was nearly identical to the M.I.T. show, with the addition of one brand new song called “new distraction”, played live for the first time. It also seemed to be one of the most well received songs on the set. It was a lot of fun to play, and resulted in some unexpected improvisations from all members of the band. Rock.

The Skybar also marked the first time preppy played live as a trio. The set went pretty smooth, and the band was tight with a few difficulties. There definitely could have been more people, but regardless, it was fun, and a good experience. Friends of the band, the broken word and Jonathan Sorge were among the 5 acts that played that night. A special thanks to Jay for getting the show. Here are some pics from the show:




thanks to graham for the pics. i’ll post an mp3 or two from the show when i get a chance.
:: Eric 1:36 PM [+] ::

Well well well, here we are, a month later, and I’m finally deciding to update. Sorry for the delay, but I’ve just been really lazy. So much has happened. Well to start things off, I graduated. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Grammy winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves spoke at our graduation. Pretty neato. My parents came into town for the ceremony and stayed for a few days. So every night i got to eat out at nice restaurants. It was awesome. One night in particular, we were at The Rockbottom in the theater district and i happened to see a couple of basketball players just hanging out. It was Kenyon Martin and Aaron Williams of the New Jersey Nets, and at the time i guess they were in town playing the Celtics. Huge guys. Oddly, it seemed that nobody really noticed them which must have been nice considering that they’re usually surrounded by fans and the media. And hey, did I mention they’re going to the NBA Finals? Craziness. So yeah, parents were in town, and it was fun. One thing that kinda sucked was the fact that I had conjunctivitis (pink eye) for pretty much the entire graduation week. So during the festivities I had this swollen left eye that looked half closed the whole time. Grad pictures are hilarious, in that i look very ogre-esque. Oh well, at least my eye matched our ultra lame PINK TASSLES. Haha..but i’m healed now so it’s all good. The week following graduation was pretty laid back, as Ethan and Joey went home, and Ben had already left for Nashville. Allen and I got to spend some good chill time, as it finally started to settle in that he wouldn’t be here this summer. Trips to the mall, the breakfast club, and writing bubble-gum pop seemed to take up most of our time, but we realized that we had to have at least one cool trip before we went our seperate ways. Allen and I have been huge fans of Silverchair’s new album, “Diorama” since it came out last year. For those that don’t remember them, they were those grungy kids from Australia that had that hit “Tomorrow” when they were 15 years old. “You gonna wait till fat boy, fat boy, wait till tomorrow…” Anyway, now they’re a lot more mature, as they’re fourth and latest release is a very melodic, emotional, and expressive rock album that is compareable to The Beach Boys Pet Sounds in the way that it experiments with music of its time. It has some rock opera elements, a la Queen, and progressive elements, and it’s all tied together with rich orchestrations, 3 of which were arranged by Van Dyke Parks, who has worked with Brian Wilson before. Ok so ANYWAY, the album is a smash in their native Australia, winning many awards including album, and artist of the year etc…but it hasn’t left a big impression here in the states. Consequently, their “Across the Night Tour” was limited to approximately 4 dates in the US, 2 in Los Angeles, and 2 in New York City. Each venue was to be very intimate, no more than 500 people in attendance, to better suit the music. Naturally, the tickets were sold out, but Allen and I were determined to go to NYC and catch these guys. So that’s where ebay came into play. Joey was arriving back the weekend before the show and so we all managed to secure tickets over ebay a couple days before the show. Joey’s seller was flying in from Texas or something to see the show, and our seller was probably just from around the New York area. We decided to just meet them outside the venue the day of for pickup….so on Monday, May 19…it was off to NYC.. Me, Allen and Joey loaded up into Allen’s volvo, said goodbye to the Raj and the Lehman, and we were off. But it wouldn’t be without problems. About an hour into our trip, Allen’s car overheated and had a coolant leak, and so we had to get it back and take Joey’s car. We lost about 2-3 hours, going back and forth, but it was all good, just less chill time in NYC before the show. We arrived in NYC at around 6pm. Parked the car in some garage, took the metro into the village, and hit up Little Italy for a nice little pre-show dinner. We sat outside at this nice little italian restaurant. The weather was perfect. We got to the show at 8pm and it ROCKED. It was definitely one of the best shows that i’ve seen. Daniel Johns, the frontman is such an outstanding vocalist. And the whole band was soo tight. Refreshing in a sense. We even saw some celebrities in the crowd. John Norris of MTV was there watching from the balcony, Tom DeLonge of Blink 182 was there with who appeared to be his wife, and the guitarist of Good Charlotte was just hanging out in the crowd the whole time. Joey and I were pretty much starstruck, but for everyone else, they seemed to be so relaxed about it. We don’t get many celebs here in Boston. Maybe it’s a New Yorker thing.. After the show, we caught up with John Norris and I even took a picture of him and Joey. Then, it was off to my friend’s place of whom i called earlier that day for a place to crash. We got a little lost on the way, but eventually we made it to Gina’s place. It’s a really small studio, but it has a great view that overlooks the river. Really cozy. After careful debate, we decided that we just wanted to drive back that night. Gina had an exam in the morning so we didn’t want to be an inconvenience. So at around 2:30am we left her place to go pick up the car at the garage, only to find that it was CLOSED! Apparently it wasn’t a 24 hour garage and it didn’t open again until 6am. So, instead of just wandering around the streets for hours, we ended up going back to Gina’s to crash. She was really cool about everything. Me, Allen and Joey were sort of forced to share the same bed, while Gina took the couch, but it was funny regardless. Even busted out a bottle of wine, and had some interesting conversations about um…star wars. ;-) We left Gina’s place around 9 or 10am, following a little boxing match between allen and gina’s dog. And that was that… On Tuesday we were back at Imrie, and on Wednesday, Joey and I cleared out a portion of our unfinished basement and setup a rehearsal/chill area. We built a drum platform from scratch and setup rugs, a pool table, a dart board, among other things. It’s really starting to shape up, and makes me wonder why we never took advantage of that free space down there before. Oh well, 3 months left to enjoy. Later, before crashing, Allen and I said our goodbyes, but didn’t really make a big deal about it. It’s crazy though, b/c he was the first friend i made up in boston (4 years ago) and since then we’ve been great friends, so it’s sad to see him go. We’re all gonna miss him. But we’ll be in touch. I caught a flight the following day to DC for my mom’s 50th birthday. My mom had never thrown a birthday party for herself, but for her 50th she wanted to change that. All she wanted was for all her close friends that she’s made over the years, from around the globe, to come for her 50th. And indeed, they all came. Friends from London, Europe, Hong Kong, Philippines etc., and all over the United States were at our house on the evening of the 24th of May. I was really glad to see my mom as happy as she was. It was a blast. While I was home, I also got to hang out a lot with Majeed. It was a awesome, we went to an Irish pub in Old Town the first night, and then spent what seemed to be every night at his sister’s new house. Definitely a really cool place to hang out. Amadeus is cool…(vg) Alex was back from boot camp so it was cool to see him again. Ah yes, and I can still hear the chanting from the Irish pub…”Who the f#c* is alex?!?” Hehe. Got to hang out with Bruce and Mary also. Saw Maricel as well, she was really cool to let me borrow her “junior”. A little bummed that I won’t be around the DC area this summer, but hopefully they’ll be able to come up and visit. In fact, I just moved into my new room (allen’s old room) and it’s sweeet. I’ve got so much space now. Nate arrived in town yesterday, and he has just officially moved into my old room. We all went out last night actually to celebrate his return, and it was off the hook. Me, Shwin, Nate, Ethan and Jesse started out going to Mike’s party, which was okay, but we really wanted to go to a bar. So, minus Ethan and Jesse, we embarked to “Tonic”. It was pretty freakin cool. Saw a LOT of cute girls actually. Shots and bottles of beer for shwin and joey, gin and tonic for me, and beer for nate. There was a group of girls that we ended up following to another bar, where we finally got to talk. There was this really attractive girl in particular, her name was Veronica…really cool, and somehow i managed to get her number…and put it in my CELL PHONE! Holla! That’s right..haha i have a cell phone. Still need to figure out how to use all these features. Anyway, so like when that bar closed @ 2am, we all moved on to Quan’s Kitchen, with our new beer mugs, for a little late night chinese cuisine. The night was definitely good, all i can say is…very goooood. Haha, alright this has definitely been my longest entry ever, and I’m sure there’s a lot of things that i’ve missed, but I’m just blabbing on now, so i’ll cut it here. But, enjoy these pics that chronicle our journey to NYC. Rock and Roll. Picture Credits: Eric: Pictures 1-5, 10-17 Allen: Picture 6 Joey: Pictures 7, 8, 18 Gina: Pictures 19, 20 :: Eric 9:53 PM [+] ::

Yeah, “Blinded” is the name of their new single. Sure, “Blinded” has a subtle reference to the band name. But last night, my eyes were wide open in awe of how many hot girls i saw at the show.

It was Shwin and Christian in one car, and me, Allen, Joey, and Zania blasting Avril Lavigne in another car. We headed out to Worchester to catch Third Eye Blind, live @ Holy Cross. It’s this college about an hour outside of Boston, and it definitely resembled what life would have been like at a smaller state college of sorts. An actual campus existed, and there was an assortment of short-haired, clean-cut guys and perhaps an over abundance (dare i say it?) of really cute college chicks. It was unreal. We were all in awe. 

There was virtually no promotion done for this show, as it was a college gig that was intended pretty much for the students of this particular college. It was a rather intimate show, considering 3eb has played stadiums. AM Radio opened. The concert took place in their gym, called the “Hart Center”. At times it almost felt like a dream. I felt like i was in some sort of alternate dimension, where there were tons of cute girls surrounding us in a school gym and to top it off, you’ve got one of your fav bands playing live music for you.

I remember thinking that my surroundings were seemingly an extension of what high school would have been like had there been a 13th grade. Ah, the mysterious path untaken. Haha, oh well. I suppose after going to school with a bunch of musicians, and living in the city, you forget about the type of crowd you grew up around. It was nostalgic and very refreshing in a way. And the girls…oh man.. I remember we thought to ourselves…”So THIS is where they’ve all been hiding!!”
Who would’ve thought that some of the cutest girls in Massachussetts were actually an hour outside of Boston, at this small and selective school in Worcester? Mind blowing..




Oh, and by the way, the concert was good.



:: Eric 1:21 PM [+] ::

Well, here it is. For your downloading pleasure, the entire set of preppy’s first show @ M.I.T. Please excuse the poor quality, as it was essentially an audience recording *cough*bootleg*cough* ahem, but hey better than nothing, right? Enjoy!


Preppy: Live @ M.I.T. Theta-Chi Fraternity 4/11/03 


fascinated (live) + intro
second grade (live)
happy (live)
passing notes (live)
caroline (live)


Thanks again to all of those that came out for the show!


:: Eric 10:47 PM [+] ::

..”i don’t wanna mess this up
gotta take my time,
just take my time..”

just a little excerpt from an up and coming for reasons unseen song that Allen has been working on. Definitely started running through my head after around 2pm today. Good song. Anyway, all i can say is that I met a beautiful girl today…
..for the second time. She may not have remembered the first time we met, but i doubt she’ll forget me now. We’ll be in touch..

Well classes are finally over, and I’m here in the computer lab killing some time. I wanted to chill in here until the snow subsided, but it looks like it will continue on until tonite. I can’t believe it’s snowing again. I was so sure that we were on the verge of experiencing spring-like weather, as it had become increasingly warmer in recent days. I was really looking forward to playing bball in the park with the rest of the Imrie House crew. I guess it’ll just have to wait. Oh well. Flight @ 8:30am tomorrow. Need to get my rest tonite. Next update will likely be from Northern Virginia. Happy Spring. (if this is what they call spring)


:: Eric 3:54 PM [+] ::

Today after classes I decided to go to Cambridge Side Galleria and get a nice 20 oz. cup of hot chai at Borders. To this day, I still haven’t found a place that makes chai like Borders. Starbucks…yuck. Tealuxe…eh. I seriously think i’m becoming addicted to to this drink because over the past 2 weeks I’ve gone to Borders at least 5 times, not to mention I bought the “borders chai” mix so that you can make it at home. (which by the way i finished last week) I can feel the tea running through my veins…j/k.

Anyway, I’ve got one more day of classes and then i’m home free! I’m excited. It will definitely be nice to be back home and be able to relax, not to mention save $$ on food! There’s nothing like eating as much as you want at home for free. And mom’s cooking..mmm.. (as long as we don’t have adobo) Nevertheless, it should be very pleasant.

Today I made more progress on my music editing project for the three musketeers. My temp score will probably end up consisting primarily of music from the movies “Hook”, and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”. Not to mention pieces of “Robin Hood: Prince of Theives”, and possibly “Willow”. My professor seemed to be pleased with the choices so I’m not stressing. It’ll be all good.

In other news, the Washington Wizards won last night against Orlando! It was a tremendous accomplishment, as the whole team was playing so well. Theyresponded well to MJ’s criticisms, despite the great playing by Orlando. (T-mac had 43 points!) Let’s just hope that they can maintain the focus they had last night, and allow it to carry them to the playoffs. We shall see.

Imrie House is rather quiet tonite. Joey left Tuesday and Allen left today. As for the rest of us, we’re scattered at the moment, until of course later tonite. I’d imagine we’ll all be out of here by Friday. In the meantime, we must enjoy the little time that we have left..to play NBA Live 2003. Shwin’s going down. Well that’s all for now, more later..

:: Eric 6:59 PM [+] ::

Okay, so it’s about 10am as I’m about to get out of bed, when i hear a popping sound. I look at my alarm clock and the numbers are flashing off and on. Then I see smoke coming from my computer, along with the popping sound and the smell of burned plastic and wires. I get up immediately…i see the light of my computer flash on and off, until I see the light fade out. I start to panic. 

I was convinced that my mac was toast, and that a lot of my work had been lost forever. I ran downstairs to the basement where i found an electrical worker with his tools out and our circuits wide open, wires everywhere. I started explaining to him what happened, and he got extremely defensive and insisted that he had nothing to do with what had just occurred. Sparks began to flicker from a large metal wire/rod above my head, and I asked the electrical worker what it was. He acts like he doesn’t see it. The sparks flicker again, and I point it out, but he’s busy looking elsewhere and insists that maybe it’s just a result of people walking around upstairs. I begin to get frustrated as I tell him to stare directly at the metal wire until it sparks when Joey starts to yell from upstairs, and the smoke alarms go off.

We run upstairs, to find the second floor pervaded by smoke. Joey’s coughing up smoke in Allen’s room where the majority of the smoke was coming from, and I begin to open the windows in my smoke filled room. Ethan is walking around in his towel and Christian essentially wakes up and Romans follows. The electrical worker finally begins to take us seriously as he calls the fire department.

Imrie House becomes flooded with firemen and electrical workers walking in and out as they try to examine what exactly went wrong. Eventually, we discover that our equipment is OK, (such a relief) and that the smoke and pops came from overloaded surge protectors. Allen’s and my surge protectors were toasted…sacrificed for the sake of our various prized electrical possesions. Now the question was, what caused our surge protectors to overload? Looking at them, they were toasted, so there obviously was some excessive electrical current coming through our outlets. The sad thing, was that these supposed “electrical experts” were trying to blame it on us, insisting that we had too many pieces of equipment running at the same time. Bullshit, i say.

First of all, the only thing that was actually running while this “excessive surge” took place, was my computer. Everything else was turned off or idle. It was in the freaking morning. These guys can’t tell me that a single computer is gonna make our house go up in flames. Second of all, it’s obvious that the problem was from an external source, because why would both of our rooms get affected simultaneously? Even if just one of the outlets was overloaded, it would have likely just affected that outlet, and that outlet alone. Third of all, the guy was getting so defensive when i inquired about the incident. The guy even had the nerve to swear at me while I was explaining what had happened to my roomates. Stupid locals. Something fishy was going on..

Regardless, everyone is okay, but it’s been a crazy day. Imrie House has definitely fallen victim to Murphy’s Law. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. More on that later… Right now, Allen’s and my room are both smelling like smoke, and we’ve got smoke damage on the wall and floor areas surrounding the outlets.

Anyway, enough venting…now to think of how we’re gonna get new surge protectors. Oh…and Orlando plays at Washington tonite. Very goooood.

:: Eric 2:23 PM [+] ::