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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4I was born in BogotÃ¡, Colombia to two sociology professors that somehow managed to bring two musical kids to the world.From my outgoing and practical mom who has a beautiful voice and sang to me since I was in the womb, I learned a love for singing and for the artistic, the sensuous.From my introverted, highly intellectual but very unpractical dad I learned a love for philosophy, theology, ideas. The abstract.Two worlds that seemed very separate, even sometimes incompatible for a long time. Music's emotional, intuitive. Philosophy is logical.So that's where songwriting has come in for me. As a way to put my three biggest passions, poetry, philosophy and singing in a blender and see what comes out. As a way to reconcile the sensuousness of poetry and music with the cerebral quality of philosophy.As the canvas where I can throw in all my colors, even the ones that clash in other areas of life. In songwriting, somehow they seem to work together.So that's a little about my music. Personally, these days I'm very into meditation and I'm heavily influenced by eastern philosophy. These two things combined have really changed my perception of everything in the last couple of years.Starting to become more aware and active about some political issues, mainly related to anti-globalization, free trade, etc. And yes, I am becoming more and more part of the whole organic eating thing. As a political statement and as a health choice. I don't really like to not know what weird, unknown substances Im putting into my body when I eat my veggies and fruits :)So thats sort of who I am in a couple of paragraphs. Soon I will have some more music, more recent, to upload.Thanks for stopping by. :)

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Music:

Member Since: 12/25/2005
Band Website: Poems/essays:geocities.com/lina_mj/index.html
Band Members: Playing on "Kaleidoscope": Iva Valent: piano. Craig Halliday: Drums Graham Campbell: Guitar Chris Kettlewell: BassOn "Where the souls go" live: Graham Campbell: guitar Craig Halliday: Drums. Chris Kettlewell: Bass Iva Valent: Piano."telus jingle": written by Julio Rodriguez and me and produced by J. Rodriguez.On "Love Song" (The Cure): Craig Halliday: drums, Iva Valent: Piano. Trane Studio, Toronto, 2006.
Type of Label: Indie

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About Facebook (link corrected)

Please watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT322GiT5lw&feature=related.. .
Posted by Lina Quesada on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:09:00 PST

Rules are for breaking

Letters spell the word but don't create the concept. Notes contain but don't create music, And are of insignificant size compared to it. Rules replace inherent balance. And keep us blind to th...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:34:00 PST

Thoughts

How to remain an artist Words used to pair together almost on their own. To form their own ideas.They don't anymore. You dry out anything you put your self-esteem into.Art wants to be left al...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:59:00 PST

More thoughts

Ego*: It's not feeling full of oneself. It's the subjectivity given by conditioning that makes you avoid seeing some sides of yourself while liking to see others. The contrary of Ego would then be Obj...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:22:00 PST

Noticing what we have.

If you're in the habit of noticing what you don't have, the lacks, you're doomed because there's always something missing. Always something to complain about. Nothing's ever complete. And we ...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:03:00 PST

Sign the petition for a universal declaration on animal welfare

Go to http://www.wspaanimalsmatter.org/ca/?action=signup
Posted by Lina Quesada on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:06:00 PST

Short Poems

Watching as life recolors my little painting. Sneaks in and messes up my little theories... Unties what I thought was tied and reopens what I though was complete. Undoes my puzzles and giv...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:42:00 PST

BiTs Of pHyLoSopHY

"The unimaginable joy of immersing yourself in the present continuous" Purpose Statement Of Religion: Create religion so they CANNOT find God The world's never perfect until...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:54:00 PST

Please read

Here are some hard facts on water, hunger, and poverty, as well as HIV and AIDS. WaterNumber of people who die each year of water-related diseases: 5 million Average distance African and Asian wo...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:48:00 PST

If you have mice...

How would you like to die stuck to a glue surface where you're not able to move or eat until you just die? Fun, eh? Inspired by the totally inhumane ways in which the place where ...
Posted by Lina Quesada on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:41:00 PST