whoa! that was a long winter’s nap. We’re still a little groggy, but here’s something to wake everyone up.
what just happened?
Written by Neizy on February 24th, 2010We (definitely) still exist.
Written by Leighton on November 12th, 2009So we’re playing a show at our favorite DIY venue and we are stoked about it.
duuuuuuuuude.... youshouldgo
We hope you can make it. This is a new era in SBINA history. It’s electrifying.
I’m sorry it’s taken us so long to write. It’s just.. well… things happen, life happens and all the sudden you have to seize the day and as a result you haven’t blogged in three months. It doesn’t mean we don’t still love you.
Abi and SBINA inc have parted ways. We are currently re-tooling our corporate infrastructure to compensate for her absence. We’re pleased to announce that we’re making headway. Our shareholders will be pleased.
Love you,
Leighton J Peterson
CEO/COO/Consultant/Chief Pornographer
Safe Boating is No Accident Industries
This is a song we like to play.
Written by Neizy on September 14th, 2009Leadbelly popularized it. Nirvana re-popularized it. Great song. Check out our youtube channel, SafeBoatingify. We are desperately in need of your validation. More on our healthy admiration for Leadbelly after the jump.
Stoked on playing the Meadowlark with these dudes (and ettes)
Written by Leighton on September 7th, 2009We’re playing again this Thursday at our favorite intimate venue! Things are going to get.. intimate. Check out these other guys!
Yuzo will bring the love as always. I want to hug his words sometimes.
AND these touring folks are all great!
Check them out:
Not sure how to feel about other cultures sometimes.
Written by Leighton on August 31st, 2009Feeling kind of conflicted about my opinions on other cultures lately. Can you help? Group discussion questions are highlighted in bold.
This is a short documentary about Juggalos. It’s pretty fascinating.
This is like Woodstock for dudes who just want to get “really fucked up” and spit really trite rhymes about violence and wear tank tops in public. I can’t help but feel kind of jealous that I don’t belong to a real “community.” I’m a member of a scene. I think. Am I? I should have received my card by now.
Do you think Juggalos should be immune from prosecution for “honor killings?” Liking a Daft Punk song is an offense punishable by death in some conservative Juggalo households. Should cultures be able to police themselves?
More subcultures after the jump.
We are so Phucking Phamous right (Ph)Now
Written by Neizy on August 10th, 2009We’ve always shared a friendly link with our pal Lance over at theflatresponse.com , but we’re going to link him again for general and specific reasons.
Generally- Lance is a fucking cool guy. Buy him a beer.
Specifically- Lance recorded an event called Denver Does Denver that Safe Boating Is No Accident performed at in May, and he has recently put enough editing time in to get our set posted among the other bands’ sets. Follow this link to here us covering our favorite electronica act, Picture Plane. As usual, we kick a substantial amount of ass.
love,
(authentic signature)
Neizy
PS- the video up top is us performing at Denver Does Denver; please don’t hate me for wearing a Members Only jacket.
OK, Guys, listen: We’re in the movies.
Written by Neizy on August 3rd, 2009
Abi, Neil. Doooin' stuff
This weekend Safe Boating Is No Accident Industries, Inc. allocated the labor of their REALLY FAST MUSIC department to the 48 hour film project. The score was written and recorded quick and from the hip, as was the drinking of mimosas.
Luckily, our team’s assigned genre was “sci-fi”, which is of course the natural habitat of folk music. We’ve seen the final product, but you can’t until the screening on Sunday, August 9th at the Gothic Theatre. We assure you that it is of the utmost 48-hour quality. I’m sure the boys in the back room will get the video up on this website sooner or later as well. Until then, boat safely.
What is hotter than Buffy Sainte-Marie and a mouth bow?
Written by Neizy on July 23rd, 20091. This is Buffy Sainte-Marie. She’s playing the mouth bow. There isn’t much else to say about it, except that rest of this list.
2. The mouth bow is longer than it is wide, but we’re all going to avoid discussion of the phallus here, thankyouverymuch.
3. Pete Seeger is in top form in this video. Look how happy he is when he makes up a verse about the mouth bow towards the end. You can’t fake that kind of folksy enthusiasm for your own jokes.
4. Buffy is pretty hott, with or without the mouth bow.
5. Buffy is really hot, even when she kisses a horse puppet thusly:
6. I wish I had a mouth bow, mouth harp, singing saw, etc. and then I would go see Buffy and say “Look at me play my mouth bow, mouth harp, singing saw, etc.” or something like that and she would be impressed by a member of my generation’s interest in mouth bows, mouth harps, singing saws etc and she would shake my hand in a kind of masculine but still really hott feminine way like a mature woman who knows what’s up and she’d invite me in for herbal tea and I’d tell her about my trip to the east coast or wherever she lives and I’d ask her about her First Nation outreach and education projects and be really interesting when I talk about Native issues and maybe she’d let me lay my head in her lap and she’ll stroke my hair and tell me she likes my long beard.
7. I wonder why Pete Seeger’s banjo looks so long. It is a really long banjo. His right hand technique is also really interesting to me. It looks like a kind of cross between scruggs and frailin’ styles of playing.
8. Sometimes I wish it were forty years ago.
Is our “local music scene” really just a bunch of ‘D’s getting ‘S’-ed?
Written by Leighton on July 19th, 2009
we're all having a great time.
The Westword Showcase Awards Wrap-up blog post, dudes
Wow.
This just proves the old adage/children’s book title-
“If you nominate a mouse for an arbitrary award based on a ballot system passed around between a bunch of bars that also have music sometimes and then have a really fun all day festival where they play alongside their peers and then like a month later award the bands (also mice) that brought the most people to fill out another set of ballots, then some of the other mice that didn’t win the award and their under-age mice girlfriends will bitch on your message board about the entire system being somehow fellatio based and also they will want some milk.”
Guys ok So what about these other guys “Natural Selection”
Written by Neizy on July 15th, 2009I play the bass. I often dance about while I play the bass. At least I thought I could dance about while playing the bass.
But then I saw these dudes Natural Selection at the Hi-Dive on friday. Consider myself humbled.
They get down.
I didn’t take that photo, i just wanted u guys to know what they look like. They look kind of like this but the bassist’s hair is [much prettier] shorter now, and they have a different [hipster] drummer.
As a [professional] side man, I generally discourage pre-recorded tracks during live shows. I feel icky putting players out of work, but (seeing as how this group carries a [bad-ass] bassist) I’m going to chill out on that discussion.
You do have to do what you have to do [have to do], after all.
The set was rockin’ in a way that only [white] people playing dance music from two decades ago only semi-ironically can rock. Which is not to say these guys don’t have soul. They have plenty, and they work that soul up to a pretty cathartic boil underneath their thin veil of postmodern-ironic-shiny-panted-shirtlessness. So would the music be as awesome without the P-I-S-P-S? That’s a good question, [team]. I’m not entirely convinced that Natural Selection’s P-I-S-P-S is actually meta or ironic in anyway. I certainly perceived it that way, though.
Were the new-wavers postmodern? Was the Flock of Seagull’s haircut a meta-haircut? Someone consciouss for that decade should let me know.
TRL shoutouts to [Josephine and the Mouse People] and [The Pirate Signal] for excellent sets that night as well.
