I'M BACK! (update & rambles)

hey-o.

I've been gone as frick. So, let's do some update-y things, I guess.

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I was in Chicago a few months ago. I spoke in the ACA PCA conference. It was my second year with that particular conference.



I did some Chicago videos, I'll link them in the caption of the bean on the right.

 I've been playing a lot of shows lately.

Working on a split EP with my friends in Heavy Boots.


I'm stoked on what I'm doing, so here's a few places you can find my stuff:


YouTube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Mn0oMy-78xRwEz0yu79H5B-R-giIKpL

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/accidentalmusicc

-noralee

13 pretty okay moments of 2013.

1. In March I lost someone to a stupid too soon death, I failed some school, and I went to Washington DC to talk about rape culture. I had the time of my life, even through the shit.

2. My whole summer consisted of fun-time-hangs, and in August, Alex booked me for my first show. It was tight. And I’ve come a pretty long way since then.

3. The night before school started I went to the last night of Blotto Fest. I met Kyndall, I met Ryan, I met Scarlett, and also had a hangover first day back to classes.

4. September, I turned 21, got wasted with every person I love.. And not to sound narcissistic but reflecting on this year with Ethan the other night, we concluded that that was the best party of the whole year.

5. I recorded my music this year.. and am beyond stoked to get it out to everyone who wants to hear it.

6. I met Meghan Tonjes & Mike Falzone this year. ALSO, I met Modern Baseball!

7. I got accepted to speak in Chicago this coming fucking year.

8. After going to a million house shows, I finally played my first one.. and yall, I got to fucking plug in.

9. I still have Stephen & Erik. We’re the three bestfriends that sometimes don’t answer our phones, but it’s okay.

10. I finally actually won a dang diddly doo giveaway on YouTube.. I felt like I caught myself a unicorn. (Thank you, Victoria!)

11. My dog has almost died 3 times this year, and he’s bounced back every single time. I’m thanking the dog gods hella.

12. I met Lexy and Boone this year, and without them I dunno what I’d be doing. They’re the kindest people I’ve ever met.. OH AND I witnessed Lexy Mendoza piss off of a roof. I also witnessed her pee in my neighbors yard at 3am because I made her laugh too hard in the car. I love you, Lexy. You are my best friend.

13. I’ve met some of the best people this year.. Shouts outs to Matt, Gefen, Thomas, Kevin, Dale, Grace!, Caitlin, Alex, Louis, Renae, Torry, Austin, Zakk (& whoever I’ve missed). And it’s just so wild to me cos I’d felt like I’d already met the people I needed a year ago. Anyway.. Hail Satan.

Going away parties, back to school, mostly a lot of feelings in one post.

Hey. Hi. Hello.

I went back to school on August 26th, and y'know, no matter the fact that I've spent the bulk of my life "going back to school," it's always, and I mean always, a weird sensation.

I've come to realize that I genuinely enjoy having a routine. I love feeling balanced, and hell, I even love homework. So, though the first week was rocky, the second week went smoothly. I'm officially back in the swing of it, I think.

A few weeks before back to school, I went to a going away party for my friend Louis. He's moving away to university, (legit like 30 minutes away but I'm not going to disclose his information by saying where). Here's a video I made of that night, I think it's nifty and fun.

I really love my friends, and though it was sad to see Louis go, and everything, I know it is for the best. We all have to get ready to go out and do "better" things in "better" places. (Even if we fall on our asses.)

I recently decided on where I will be transferring to next Fall, and it was one of the biggest and easiest decisions I've made in a long time. I'm stoked on finishing out this year at my CC. But, I'm also super stoked to go on to university and grow with my two majors.

On the list of unstoked things is having to have a party like this. This was an amazing party as someone who wasn't leaving. But, Louis cried a lot throughout the whole night. It's going to be hard to do that with everyone again. However, I, like Louis, am only going to be going about 30-35 minutes away as well. So, it's not the END of the world. It's just the end of a familiar city, I guess.

Sappy shit aside. I hope ya'll enjoy this video.

Love, Noralee

denton good times. :)

Hey, hi, hello.

I went to a show on Wednesday. I saw some local bands, Two Knights and Special Guest. And some touring bands, Football etc, Tiny Moving Parts, and Modern Baseball.

Truthfully I was super stoked for Modern Baseball. Beyond stoked honestly. The photo above is pretty much the only actual "photo" I took and it was during Modern Baseball. This is one of my very old point and shoot cameras, so the quality isn't great. Oh well.

Afterwards I was at the merch table and I got to meet two of the guys from Modern Baseball! :) It was amazing. I love shows like this.

Here is a video of the night I made on that shitty point and shoot camera. I hope ya'll enjoy it. The song playing is a Modern Baseball song, so if yall haven't heard them, I hope you enjoy it as well.

ALSO, by the way, I may start making video two days a week now, because I was recently contacted by YouTube on being a partner. I'm still talking to them and somewhat to my parents as well. I'll keep ya'll updated on that. :) Let me know if you like my videos and stuff.

Love, Noralee

Shows, shows, shows.

And holy shit, did I mention shows? Hahah.

Hey ya'll. I've been so dang ass busy working shows, playing shows, being at shows, it's been wild lately. I worked every show last month, played two. And same goes for this month. I thought I'd just do a huge photo post of people at shows. :)

ALSO: here is the summer#3 video:

This last one is probably my favorite photo.. I love all of them so much, they're the best friends ever. (:


Sorry about the lack of posts, I'll work on that. <3 p="">

Love, Noralee.

5 Things: SUMMER EDITION.

Hey ya'll :)

I've made these "five things" post for most seasons already, but I thought it'd be kind of cool to do this "summer edition" with a bit of a twist.

FIVE THINGS I'M UP TO THIS SUMMER:

1. READING! I've been keeping track of all the books I've been reading in a draft on here, with mini reviews as well. I'll post it once the summer is up.

2. Hanging out with my friends every chance I get. :)

3. Stressing over what I'm going to take in the Fall. I know that's a really nerdy thing to say, but ugh, I am. I've been constructing my "preferred list" for a few months now. ugh.

4. Working shows at 1919. I will say the best one this month was the Pity Sex//The World is...//Cat People//Two Knights//Dads show. It kicked ass.

5. ALSO, playing shows!

ME! (Olivia took this awesome photo)

And here's where the twist comes in!

FIVE THINGS I MISS ABOUT LAST SUMMER:

1. How much more relaxed I was! I don't know why, but this summer has been a huge stressful ball of fucking stress. I guess this comes along with growing up and having more responsibilities.

2. The fact that I wasn't completely broke. (Yeah, little known fact to my internet frandz, but I am completely and utterly so broke. I am lucky I still live with my parents.)

3. My brother coming to visit! That made last Summer amazing, and I'm sad he's not coming this summer.

4. How much I got together with my old friends from high school. So far we haven't planned a get together this summer, which kinda sucks. I've seen some of them separately, but I hope we all get together sometime before this summer is over..

5. ALSO, my hair. Early on in summer I had this pink dip dye hair, before I did the blonde stuff in the photo above. I don't miss my undercut, but I miss this coloring:

It'd be cool if some of ya'll did this post too, if you do you should totally tell me! I'd love to read each of your five things.

Love, Noralee

Summer #2! :)

Hey ya'll. :)

Here's the second episode of my shitty cellular documented summer!

Enjoy! :)

ALSO, just a quick update. My Sony DSLR is in the shop. It's been out of use for a few weeks now which really sucks. I was doing a really awesome photoshoot of some of my friends, when the wind came out of nowhere and knocked my tripod over. It cracked the LCD screen completely, and knocked loose a part inside my kit lens. So, that's why I've been making these shitty cellphone videos. And that's why I haven't had any really nice quality posts lately. It's going to take awhile, so I've been brainstorming ways around this to keep the content going and I've finally planned out some posts that are do-able. Sorry I've been gone the past week. I love ya'll. :)

Love, Noralee

Snippets Sunday #13

Hey ya'll. :)

Honestly I haven't done anything today. I just woke up and it's 3PM. But, I saw a really awesome show last night, and the lineup went a little like this:

Ya’ll should really check out The Buzzkills. (so perf.)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Buzzkills/185871108225620

And, Signalman. (THESE GUYS FUCKING RULE, BY THE WAY.)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Signalman/128253213975978?fref=ts

American Swine (Also super fucking cool.)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Swine/143797145660621?fref=ts

The Ancient Gods. (pretttty sweeeeet.)
https://www.facebook.com/adamandtheancientgods?fref=ts

I got tacos with the above fuckers. They were all really sweet people, who play kickass music.

AND, OF COURSE. NOT HALF BAD. Which I’ve made probably a million zillion posts about them on Tumblr, and I don’t give a shit. Their music is awesome. And, I legitimately love each and every one of them on a personal fucking level. So, hey, as if I haven’t said this enough times.. Give them a fucking listen, pls & thnk.
https://www.facebook.com/nothalfbadmusic
http://nothalfbadpunk.tumblr.com/
http://nothalfbad.bandcamp.com/album/good-people

okay, cool night, cool people, cool times.

For the rest of today I intend to probably lay in bed, and watch the new season of Arrested Development. Then maybe go to a vegan cook out later this evening at a friends place.

I hope ya'll've had a great weekend and a great Sunday. :)
Let me know if you check out any of those bands!

Love, Noralee

LATE POST: Friday Favorites #2 + Snippets Sunday #10

HEY YA'LL. This is just a late as poop Snippets Sunday/Friday Favorites post. I've been busy all dang weekend what with studying and going to shows. But, I did want to make this post just cos I know I'll be busy this week and next week with finals. Today is really my only day to chill out and queue up some posts.

So here's a few things that would've been in my Friday Favorites this week:

This Vogue photoshoot of Florence Welch's house.

The fact that AD is coming back soon.

this Turtle Cookies recipe from rockrecipes.blogspot.com
Definitely going to attempt making these someday.

This Recess cosplay of Spinelli from tumblr user: kencamara

THESE NAILS. I found this on Tumblr and when I looked at the source I was pretty sure it'd been tampered with.. so sorry I don't have a source on this. But, seriously, these nails are magical looking. UGH.

AND, I'll throw all my Snippets Sunday story time stuff under the cut, soooo...

Snippets Sunday #9

Hey ya'll. Happy Sunday. :) This is super late because of how crazy my Friday and Saturday were, haha. So, here's a story:

Friday night: Erik and Ali called me telling me about a house show in Denton. Honestly the first thing I thought of was Dave's. But then I get the invite on Facebook and it's totally definitely not there, so I am skeptical as hell about it. Anyhow, they tell me they're already on their way, so I should call Torry because he hadn't left yet. I call Torry, he's stoked to have someone make the drive with him. He picks me up around 10, and his band The Nitch Pickens were on the set list to play around 11pm or 11:30pm. Denton is like a 30 minute drive, depending on traffic. The problem we had was that Torry and I are BOTH THE WORST WITH DIRECTIONS. So, we take the wrong exit because Torry is gungho set on the fact that it must be a different exit since it's not at Dave's house. He calls a few people once we've drifted through like five neighborhoods not resembling the makings of a house show in sight. No one can give him decent directions until one person mentions it's the same exit you take for Dave's. Sooooo, long "we're lost" story short, we get back on the highway, take the right exit. We're literally a block away, it is 11 on the dot pm, when I get a phone call from Ali. I answer and she says, "wherever you are, don't come to the house yet, it just got busted by the police." I tell Torry, we make a right, park the car, and Torry gets on the phone with Chris (the host). Torry basically just gives him advice on how to handle the cop, and literally five minutes later the cop was gone. Only issue was, no more music. So, the Nitch Pickens and Cat People and another band I can't remember the name of, all didn't get to play the show. It was bummer. But, we went for food, and talked a lot. Torry dropped me off at my place around 5AM.

Saturday night: Granted I was still sleepy from the previous night, I woke up around 1 in the afternoon. Erik got to my house at about 6pm to pick me up because we were on schedule to work the 420 show at 1919. We walked around the Fort Worth Arts Festival for a little while waiting for Stephen to get off work. Then finally made it over to 1919. Fiending Flesh, Mountains of Smoke, Collick, Bitch Teeth, Spacebeach, & Elesh Norn, all played. It was a really good show. I had a pretty bad headache by the end though. Then there was an after party at pizzahaus next door. It was a hip hop show. DarkCloud went on first, which I'm really glad Torry gave that kid the opportunity. He flows so fucking clean, I swear. Then there was supposed to be some other artists, but we ended up having to cut the night short just cos residents and tech difficulties. But anyhow, last people to go on were Black Problems. And damn, when I say they tore it up, they seriously tore that shit up. It was amazing. I love those guys. Anyhow, I got home around 5:45AM. And I slept all of my Sunday away, haha.

I think I've posted this before, but I made a music video for Black Problems. But, here's the link if you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUi4zaNx6g


How was ya'lls weekend? :)

Love, Noralee

 

Christmas Eve!

Hey ya'll,

just wanted to share the stop motion film I made of the christmas party I went to last night. :)

Sadly I forgot to take photos with my ugly christmas sweater, but I still have it, so I'll post a good photo of it tomorrow or the day after that. :)

I hope everyone has an AMAZING christmas holiday tomorrow! :)

And, here's the video:

Love, Noralee

Snippets Sunday #7

On Friday night I had a gift exchange with my closest friends, Stephen, Erik, Manuel, & Ivan. :)

I made a stop motion, so here's that:

And the silly photos we took in stephen's apartment if you don't want to watch all the to the end in the stop motion or watch it at all:

Stephen & I. :)

These boys. :)
Erik, Stephen, Manuel, & Ivan.

E, S, N, M, I

 I really don't know why they took of their shirts.


I just don't question their lives anymore, I guess. Hahah. :)

Christmasssss. :)

 Stephen got me the new book on Kurt Vonnegut that has all of his letters and old photos in it. I'm beyond stoked about that.
I adore these guys. :)
I really couldn't ask for better friends. They're all equally important to me. I've known all of them since the start. I've been friends with them since I moved here four years ago, and they're honestly the few people I've really kept in contact with and kept being friends with since graduation. I love these guys to bits, seriously.

I'm headed to an "ugly christmas sweater" themed party tonight. So, I'll try to include some photos of that in my Christmas post or some other random post. It'll be super fun. I've been documenting christmas around our house all month, so I'll have a nice collective christmas stop motion to do after actual Christmas Day is over and done with. :)

Happy Sunday! :)

Love, Noralee

non-beauty related post, #2

I swear normal posting will resume once I take my last midterm this week. College is stressful this time of the year. Maybe I'll do a college-y post about how I get prepared for midterms or something to that effect. Hahah.

The other night I went to dinner with my friend Erik at Waffle House like always. We were doodling on the napkins while we waited for our food, when Erik popped his head up and said, "you want to paint?" I didn't quite comprehend, so he further went on to say, "like.. you and I? collaborate. let's paint together. seriously." So, after we got our food, ate, talked, we stopped by my place, I grabbed my tackle box of art supplies, and my ukulele for good tune-age, and we went over to his place.

Here are the photos:

and here is what we created.

Erik did the background with oil paint and watercolor.
And I did the female body.. I based it off another drawing I'd done in one of my sketchbooks. It is green paint, and then charcoal built up a pretty ridiculous amount. It turned out pretty awesome, I think.

Anddd, below are a few photos of Erik & I:

 Mr. Erik-pants. ;p

 annnd, my dirty charcoal hands. ;p

Love, Noralee

Adventures with Elva. :)

I met Elva in high school. We didn't really start hanging out until after we both had graduated high school. She's really awesome. She's going to cosmetology school now. Anddddd, she's like my makeup bfffffff. I think every time we hang out, we're either going through each others makeup, talking about it, looking at it online, or at the store buying it. No lie.

Anyway, I made this stop motion last time we hung out.

The song is: Technicolor Dreams by A Toys Orchestra

Love, Noralee

Snippets Sunday! *late

Late! I can't even with myself! I totally had this all ready, I just had to insert the photos, and I totally spaced it. I've been doing that a lot lately. School is going by so quickly.

I've  been working on homework and watching Rules of Engagement all day. (multitasking :p)

I got a text around 8PM. My friend Erik came and picked me up. :)

Here's what I wore to dinner with him:

vest - goodwill

belt - goodwill

tights - ross

boots - goodwill

dress - target

And, I took this polaroid of him: 

If you'd like to see other polaroid and film photos of mine, you can find them, here.

Anyway, besides that, I found this necklace on eBay.. and I want it so dang bad.. I can't even. 

  I was going to get it.. but, instead... I am purchasing a pair of Creepers. No lie. 

Anyhow, I know that's a short Snippets Sunday, but literally all I did all day was read and study ):

I hope everyone's had an amazing weekend!

Love, Noralee

Good days, good nights.

Hi everyone!

 Here is a stop motion from my Monday. :) Sorry this post is so dang late, but there was some construction stuff going on at my place and stuff like that.

I had a pretty good Monday. I don't have classes on Mondays, so I went out with my friend Robert, then picked up our friend Keren later, and eventually switched cars to ride around with our friend Garrett.

Robert and I hit up the dollar store first.

He got this gun, Star Wars hand sanitizer, and a batman towel. Haha. :)

I got some googly eye sunglasses, batteries for my video camera, and a princess Belle towel.

We got lunch together,

then hit up the park at the lake.








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Anyhow, then we picked up some people, ran into some people, went some stores, and eventually ended up at the mall. Which was pretty empty since it was a Monday night. Haha.

 I bought this book.

I stocked up on the Cinnamon incense at Earthbound. I like all of their incense, but recently I tried the cinnamon and fell in love with the way it made my room smell. It's like getting like fifty autumn scented candles and lighting all of them at once. It is so great. :)

 I got this Kudi shirt from HT.

Keren and I went to Claire's while Garrett was filing out an application to GameStop with Robert.
Annnnd, I got these Katy Perry eyelashes and these nails. :) I'll review the lashes if anyone is interested? I've been wanting to try them out for awhile. 

Anyhow, that's what I got. :) I also recently went to the TX State Fair, so I might do a post on that. I also have a review on a natural soap line coming soon.

Love, Noralee