The result is a video for what is basically a hidden track on our new e.p. (Coming reallyreally soon!)

“Something Wicked” by Safe Boating is No Accident from Leighton Peterson on Vimeo.

Please stay tuned(?) for announcements RE: new e.p. and listening party for said e.p.

love you!

Leighton

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

Leadbelly 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.

Leadbelly was kind of a bad ass.  Here we go:

Here’s the thing about Leadbelly:  He was one of the only rural folk musicians born pre-20th century to survive long enough to make it onto film.   This one’s from the 40’s.  And not from any lack of trying.  He served 4 different jail sentences, one for murder.  He escaped once and was pardoned twice, ostensibly because his music moved the governors of Texas and Louisiana so greatly that they set him free, though it seems he had pretty good behavior in the joint.  His last sentence was at the age of 51 for stabbing a man in Manhattan.  You can’t make this shit up.

He apparently got through life without crossing anyone so much they poisoned him, like Robert Johnson.  He didn’t die in a snowstorm like Blind Lemon.  He didn’t get run over by a street car like Blind Blake.  Hell, he didn’t even drink himself to death.  He was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease and died at the age of 61.  Pretty damn good for an American musician.  Here’s one more for the road.

Yuzo will bring the love as always. I want to hug his words sometimes.

AND these touring folks are all great!

Check them out:

the Old Believers

This video makes me feel happy inside. I wonder what their inspiration for writing this song was. It would be nice to provide your significant other with literally whatever they want. What a nice sentiment.

Red River

Riverbeds (opening scene) from Mike Turner on Vimeo.

That was awesome, wasn’t it? Fuck yes, french horn.

Wendy Darling

She’s a great voice and the band is tight! I would say something about how good Cori Rush looks in a short skirt, but this is the internet, and that would be creepy.

I hope you can make it! This is going to be SO MUCH FUN.

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.

There is no reason to watch this entire video or really any video on the internet when you think about it but this one is especially pointless.

Except we are attempting to create a reason and meaning now by using it as context for the rest of the post. We all try to create meaning for things that sometimes mean nothing. I am digressing now.

observe:

I never really “got” hardcore music (is this hardcore or is this metal or is this softcore or is this bad jazz?) before, it always seemed to me like a boring, pedestrian way to express the angry caveman id of midwestern males. I especially never ever “got” moshing. I knew someone in high school once who said he did it at shows in order to “accidentally” “grab” a bystander’s “tits.”

Then I saw that aimless, wandering video. Is moshing just tai-chi for aggro midwestern males?

Have you ever “moshed?” Is it a spiritual experience or a softer form of rape?

This is daggering:

This is very hard to watch for someone who was raised in a sexually repressed catholic household. Also sort of arousing, although I would never admit that to anyone besides strangers and friends who read our blog.

It seems to me like daggering just takes all of the subtlety out of dancing. Instead of hinting about the idea of dance as physical metaphor for sexual acts, participants just straight-up dry hump on the floor (pon de floor?). Part of me really respects the idea of just getting to the point of things. Flowery prose and slow dancing are for awkward prom dates.

In the future all dancing will either be daggering or something like this:

just kind of standing, you know? but with rhythm.

Maybe I should take a social studies class about this.

What do you think?

We’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.

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.

1. 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.