Profile of Janakiraman, Badrinath

Nickname: someone was going to come here to find my high school nicknames which i had posted up in a rare moment of openness. so i pulled them down :)

Link to my personal home page: I have space, but am too lazy to actually go about making a homepage. I'll post the link here when I am done.

Pets: all that take well to petting

Hobbies: music, movies, music, walking, music, reading...oh and did I mention music ?

High School: National Public School, Indiranagar; Bangalore, India

College: PES Institute of Technology; Bangalore, India

Favorite Local Bar: Hydrate, Four Moon Tavern, Danny's...

Favorite Out-of-Town Bar: used to be: I make a fool of myself when I am drunk, so I try my best not to hit bars when I am out of town, and save myself the embarrassment of random people recognizing me on the street the next day in cities that I am unfamiliar with.
now: too many to count

Favorite Band: make that bands/ musicians. U2, Massive Attack, Kate Bush, Jeff Buckley, Tricky, Portishead, Morcheeba, Alison Goldfrapp, Beth Orton, Joy Division, Interpol, Rolling Stones, Primal Scream, Spacemen 3,The Beach Boys, Big Star, 13th Floor Elevators, Robert Wyatt, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Biosphere, Bel Canto, Francoise Hardy, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker, Love, Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, Bark Psychosis, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualised, Galaxie 500, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, PJ Harvey, Led Zeppelin, New Order, The Stone Roses, Depece Mode, The Charlatans (UK), The Beatles, The New Pornographers, Neko Case, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, Bords Of Canada, Plaid, The Black Dog, LFO, Joey Beltram, Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, Derrick May, The Orb, Orbital, Underworld, Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Nico, Duncan Sheik, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones, Tina Turner, Radiohead, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Betty Carter, Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Don Cherry, Charles Mingus, Ornette Colemen, Sun Ra, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, ABBA, Cole Porter, Burt Baccharach, Mozart, Radiohead, Beethoven, Nine Inch Nails, Stravinsky, Bach, John Cage, Phillip Glass, Erik Satie, Terry Riley, Kronos Quartet, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, George Gershwin and I could go on and on...but I guess you are bored by now.

Favorite Song Lyric:

If I am good I could add years to my life
I would rather add some life to my years
And life is really what you make it they say
I can't even make my mind up today
- Spiritualized,

Who'll catch the star when it falls ?
- U2

Favorite Board Game: Don't like them much anymore...

Favorite Web Pages: what more do you need ?

My car: None yet.

Who would play me in "ThoughtWorks: The Movie": I would like to think, (fill in your choice of intelligent, handsome, sauve, well-educated, polite and all round nice guy here). In reality, any 3 year old.

Most embarrassing moment at ThoughtWorks: Try shaming a 3 year old...:D

Document last modified on: 01/08/2008