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Vijay

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

A quick message for BANDS that want to add me as their "friend": Don't do it. Go to myspace.com/chaibaba and put a request there instead. I check that one more frequently than this page. The main reason I had for getting into myspace was to promote my band, Chaibaba (myspace.com/chaibaba), but it's been nice to catch up with old friends as well as keep in touch with new ones(I'm on facebook too).I've been living in Pittsburgh since 1998. I lived in the south side (Sahside) for eight years. I've been a bike messenger, car washer/detailer, done office work, electrical work, installed cable, and taught English.This past August, I moved to Highland Park(also Pittsburgh).Currently I am a member of AmeriCorps KEYS, and I tutor ninth graders at Peabody High School. I'm also involved with renovating an old convent in Braddock, which will eventually become a youth hostel.I actually play in two bands now: Chaibaba (myspace.com/chaibaba) and Machete(myspace.com/kisumontao)Occasionally I do sound at the Shadow Lounge and at the Smiling Moose.I like to help people and I love to create and perform music.I think religion is good only when it doesn't divide people from one another. The power of belief should not be underestimated... make
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My Interests

teaching, performing and recording music, nature...

I'd like to meet:

those who can upgrade my perception of the world

Music:

Variety is the key. There's a ton of bands I left out:A Tribe Called Quest, Afghan Whigs(Up in it), Beastie Boys, Benevento Russo Duo, Black Sabbath, Blind Melon, Brand New Heavies, Brand-X, Burning Airlines, Creta Bourzia, Crumbsuckers, Deee-Lite, Death, Dianogah, Dixie Dregs, DJ Food, Don Caballero, Francis Dunnery, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Fates Warning, The Fucking Champs, Fugazi, Genesis(the old shit with Peter Gabriel), Groove Collective, Heart, Michael Hedges, Jimi Hendrix, Lauryn Hill (First Album and First Fugees Album), Th' Inbred(Old WV Hardcore), Iron Maiden, Jane's Addiction (also Deconstruction and Polar Bear), Jawbox, Jethro Tull, Judas Priest(Unleashed in the East), Kansas, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Ludichrist, Luscious Jackson, Mary's Danish, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Mercyful Fate and King Diamond, Metallica(first four albums), Minor Threat, Mr. Bungle, Nine Inch Nails, Nomeansno, Ozric Tentacles, Phish, Pink Floyd, Primus, Public Enemy, Rasputina, Red Hot Chili Peppers (first five albums), Vernon Reid, Randy Rhoads, Rhythm Pigs, Rush, Schleigho, Scorpions, Shadowfax, Ravi Shankar, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins(first two albums), Steely Dan, Soundgarden, U2(First five albums especially), Steve Vai, The Victims Family, Voivod, We're Wolves, Stevie Wonder, Zappa,

Television:

The Colbert Report

Books:

Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personality also by Jane Roberts Marriage of the Sun and Moon by Andrew Weil, The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot, The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest, Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda, Raga Mala by Ravi Shankar, anything by Richard Rose...

Heroes:

Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Galileo(rebels)

My Blog

From before birth to Pittsburgh

This is my first blog. Back in the time when my dad met my mom, India and Uganda where both under British rule. My dad was born in 1931 in India, in a village close to Jamnagar, Gujarat(Northwest In...
Posted by Vijay on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:39:00 PST

The Background Pic(Glen Onoko Falls)

      This background pic I actually found on the net. I have been there though. It's a place called Glen Onoko Falls. It's located in Jim Thorpe, PA(formerly know as Mauch Ch...
Posted by Vijay on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:14:00 PST

Music

Theres something to be said about artists that are truly ahead of their time. Listen to Castles Made of Sand from Jimi Hendrix, and you know that it came out in the 60s. But really, this could have co...
Posted by Vijay on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:27:00 PST

My musical career

I started playing guitar at age nine. After spending a boring summer at my aunt's in Chicago, where all they had to play with was a toy piano. I couldn't wait to get home and try that little guitar i...
Posted by Vijay on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:31:00 PST