Sean Ongley

Category: Video

  • All the Stores Are Closed to Open Jason Morales

    All the Stores Are Closed to Open Jason Morales

    10,000 Hours with Jason Morales

    My old friend Jason Morales has been in a bunch of bands, performing 10,000 shows. The time has added up and now he is on a roll.

    His music is being published as All the Stores Are Closed on indie labels and continues to explore new avenues to produce music, not just at shows. Jay has also been published as Abusive Delay aka ABSV.

    We played in bands, and we got to know each other for a year between 2005-06, it was called History of the Future. I wrote about it in my music memoire. In that band, he was the drum set player.

    We also played in Fiasco Free Improvisation countless times, where he would usually toggle between hand drums and electronic bits. I have watched him pivot from full time percussionist to electronics to both.

    It’s great to me to see things get better with time. Neither of us seem to be willing to quit music because it pains us more to let it go than to be obscure players forever. You never know either when you’ll put out a hit.

    So we talk about that, against the crappy internet. I swear, this will get under control for me.

  • The Genesis of Forest Mommy

    The Genesis of Forest Mommy

    It was fun to talk with Forest Mommy, but it was a bit disastrous. At the beginning, I’m fidgeting with my angle because the lighting is off balance — it is too easy to accentuate my nose. After I handle that, her internet gets progressively worse.

    My goal at the beginning was to clear up some general information, maybe take a little mystique out of her character. We got into it, but the internet was such a drag that we agreed to cut it short and try again later.

    After the talk, she tagged me in a yoga demonstration video referencing our conversation, where she called me “O’Grady,” but it’s the thought that counts.

    Then we did a part two. This one was better, but I have to admit, there must be something up with my own streaming service. It is delayed and choppy, but we hold it together.

  • Turning Inside Out with Matchewey and Rasterot

    Turning Inside Out with Matchewey and Rasterot

    My friend Micah asked me to put his nephew on my livestream. He just dropped an album on streaming services with his collaborator Rasterot. It is called Apathy and Irene.

    Meeting online, Matchewey from remote Washington, Rasterot from Oklahoma, they naturally allied over shared values and experiences. They have embarked on producing new albums together and this, they say, is only the tip of the iceberg.

    The music is visionary, non-conforming, and has the feel of young new artists just cutting their teeth. It turns out however that we’re all about the same age.

    They both come from hard rock and metal. That makes sense given the aesthetic of the album cover. Electronic production and rap are new to them, both the result of living in the pandemic.

  • Trucking Through Life with Alpaca Shakur

    Trucking Through Life with Alpaca Shakur

    Livestream talk with Quincy Johnson aka Alpaca Shakur

    Back from hiatus on the livestream front, Quincy Johnson aka Alpaca Shakur joined me for a chat. He stood outside in the cold and talked on his phone, showing the grit of a Colorado trucker.

    We became Twitter mutuals a while back, then I saw him on a couple of my other mutuals livestreams. Then he put out a video of himself doing push-ups naked, so I decided to bring him on, because he is the utmost example of authenticity.

    He’s improving his life. He’s buckling down. We talk about what that means to him, and a lot more.

    I look forward to talking again.

  • Guest Appearance on Aquarian Anarchy

    Guest Appearance on Aquarian Anarchy

    The guys over at Aquarian Anarchy, whose roster of guests include the leaders from the anarchy, hotep, and libertarian communities, were gracious enough to have me on last week.

    Two of the three hosts of the show were guests previously on my livestreams. They are very open people and believe in taking a chance on building relationships.

    Liberty through leftism is what they wanted to focus on. To most of my community, I have become alt-right. To these guys, I am still a lefty.

    I had to concede that I am more of a civil libertarian decentralist. This means that I have not concluded that the federal government is inherently a bad construction, as it can levy power in a decentralized way toward freedom in the fifty state system.

    I believe the federal government should be reduced to where local communities are self-determined, and the federal government is there to protect that.

    We argue about secession, which I find to be a dangerous move.

    We relax and talk about music, stuff like that. For a two-hour podcast, I think this one is compelling and entertaining, and reviews many of the most important issues surrounding us.

    There was a little stuff that I didn’t choose to argue. I am sure that my social justice friends will be appalled by one or two statements here, but I am not defending anybody. My own views are unsettled sometimes anyway.

    As a civil libertarian decentralist, I want everyone’s rights to be respected. I don’t have to understand someone to respect them. Minding my business and taking care of my own, this is the ethic that outlives all liberal and leftist mores.

    Where pure anarchists I believe go wrong is that they forget that we are the world and the world is us i.e. the state. Leftists also play into a victim mentality, forgetting that they have agency over themselves but not others, and so the government isn’t meant to protect and save us. The only people who seem to realize they are the state are the state is them are ones taking advantage of it. The real victory, to me, is flipping this mindset in America.