My whole family. Jeff and Emma, I would die without you.. withered into ten thousand pieces.
Paula Ries. Priscilla Smith and her angel brothers. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Neil Young, Billie Holiday, Lee Tyler Post, Jeff Buckley, Mazzy Star, Nick Drake, Jeff Healey, Drake Jurado, Damien Jurado, Patty Griffin, The White Stripes, Old Crow Medicine Show, Tracy Chapman, Freedy Johnston, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Gillian Welch, Juliana Hatfield, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, The Carter family, The Chipmunks, Pink Floyd, The Allman Bros, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot, Prince, Styx, Def Leppard (I should mention that I was in the Def Lep fan club.. ), Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, PJ Harvey, Jim Morrison and The Doors, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Indigo Girls, Counting Crows, Alison Krauss, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Ryan Adams, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, The Rolling Stones, Collective Soul, Daniel Lane, The Mama's & the Papa's, Paul Simon, Don Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Queen, Alice in Chains, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Live, The Sundays, Don Dilego, The Cure, Eddie Vedder, Peral Jam, Jim Morrison, The Innocence Mission, Smashing Pumpkins, Don Peris, Van Morrison, The Cranberries, Debbie Boone, John Cafferty as Eddie Wilson. Emily Dickinson, Thoreau, Whitman, Richard Bach, Blake, e.e. Cummings. Maya Angelou. Jewel in her very early days. I'm not fond of the new stuff. Faster Pussycat had this song called "House of Pain" which I must have listened to a thousand times in my teen years. I'm newly looking into a lovely harp player with a really unique voice, Joanna Newsom, She's cool. Also, Cat Power.
Hey.. I'm Serena. These are my songs. If you listen to them for longer than 10 seconds, please tell me so. I love knowing when somebody actually listens or relates to the lyrics. I consider myself to be a poet more than a musician... it just so happens that I love to sing my poems and I can play a guitar a little bit - just enough to get by.
I love sharing my songs with folks like you, but I have no interest in being famous. In fact - if you should like to know the truth of the matter, I pretty much do all that I can to avoid it. So if you have great promises of making me famous --then carry your little self on out of here, I have no time for you at all and I really do mean that. You might think I don't mean it, but you're wrong and I'll tell you so if you ask me.
Now that I have told you what I don't want, do you know what I really do want?
I want to sit outside at dusk and listen to the moon breathe. I want to kiss the rain and taste the wind on my face somewhere as I listen to the whales sing. I want to plant both of my feet onto the pavement in Seattle and just say hello to a stranger. I want to photograph forgotten trees and leaves.
I want to make my darling Emma smile. I want to make a difference in this lifetime.. I want to look into my husbands eyes at the end of the day and know that I've made him happy as much as I can.
I want to live in a cottage on the northwest coast and take long quiet walks on the beach every single day. I wait for that moment... when it all starts to happen. I will lie in bed at night and hear the waves splash... I want to die with no regrets in my heart. These are my dreams.
So yes. Fame means nothing to me and money ruins everything anyway, just ask Kurt Cobain. You're better off chasing down your smile. Figure out where your smile lives and go sit down there for awhile.
Drake Jurado. He created my first OFFICIAL video and it is beautiful. Here it is. (Please note: the first 2 minutes are silent. It's a movie. (Don't adjust your settings. When I say silent I mean it.)
If you enjoy the video as much as I do, please say so.
And to hear the music of Drake Jurado and his brother as Hoquiam, click the banner below:
And now for something very serious.
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Sign the Petition. Help Find Helicopters for Darfur! They only need 24 for transport and security! (They have only 4 now. How is this acceptable?? If I had the money, I'd buy them myself!)
Big smiles back at you, Serena! You and the family should really think about moving to northern Nevada (or at least visiting). The skies here are truly something to behold...every day!
Hey Serena Just wanted to let you know that I was here listening to your songs. "Not dead yet" is very beautiful. I hope you had a lovely weekend, and that you're refreshed to face the new week (I am not).
Awww! I use most of the card readers in there. Usually both on Digital 11, mine, and patrick's. On a really busy day it takes me about 4 hours to do it all.
Picture Tigger in full army fatigues, flack jacket and an assault rifle slowly moving through the hundred acre woods with full face paint, dialated eyes, and slurred speach singing ever so quietly to himself "Yeah, I've come to snuff the Roo-ster".
We wish. We're doing the local scene stuff right now, trying to make a name for ourselves. But we're looking for every opportunity to expand and if we do end up in Nashville we'll let you know. Thanks.
