Well hello there, my Misfit Mayhem-makers, how have you been? I hope well, and happy and rested. Did I scare you off with my melt down last week? Was it unsettling for some of us who need a routine for normalcy? Musings posted on Friday and in two parts, concluding on Saturday. Wild, right? *smooths hand over your back to rub comfortingly*. I know. I'm all about thinking outside the box and spontaneity, but even I struggled with the wonky schedule last week, and I want to apologize to you. Between the two family emergencies and Blogger getting salty with me, I may have been ...uncouth. Well, as I've discussed in previous Musings, energy and The Universe has its way of communicating with us. Last Friday as I was wrestling with Blogger and dividing up the Wanderlust Musings post, I also was launching the website for the private practice. Oh and I was not sleeping a lot due being on standby for the family. So, I got sick. Really sick. Like, ask @Buff82 and @Bouffant how I was constantly in tears and nearly catatonic. Yesterday was the first day where I didn't need to roll up in the fetal position to ward off the pain. Though I can't promise to stay away from cold meds today, you all know how I love me my cold meds. . . .
So due to the chaos of last week, I am releasing the first MUSELET MEMO today, because post-fever, I'm a smorgasbord of ideas and it's Thursday, our regular posting day, and I want to show some pretty pictures of Kristen, um, duh. Most importantly, I've missed you guys, so I crave the interaction.
Guidelines for the following Musings Memo
1. It will be shorter than most of previous Musings (I know. You and Blogger are sighing in relief right now).
2. It will consist of announcements regarding upcoming topics and Team Other Happenings.
3. It will encourage Reader participation. (I told you. I crave interaction with you all. You make my life with your feedback and comments.)
4. It will not feature a new Royal Rebel, though it will allude to potential FRR's in the approaching weeks.
5. It will, however, always pay homage to the Reigning Ambassador of Other: The Stew.
Claro? Let's get our Muselet Memo on, kids!!
yessssssssss
Roadtrip Memories
Let's recap some Kristen-related news. After Bouffant's and my Musings last week regarding Rob's Road Trip towards Other Queen Kristen, he arrived safely with his Brit Boys TomStu (#TeamTommy FTW) and Sam Bradley in The Big Easy. Not that anyone saw them, but plenty of folks sure tried to produce manips indicating a sighting, with laughable results. But here's a manip/pic that I giggled over--as was the desired effect--for days upon first learning of the Road Trip, thanks to the brilliant @patronuska:
OICU Jella. Hang on tight, kitty!
Kristen is supposedly within days of wrapping as MarylouStew in on the road, as word on the street has her either finishing today....or working until Sept 26th. Regardless of whether or not she wraps today or in two weeks from now, it has been a pleasure witnessing the journey and transformation of our Other Queen from the Eclipse promo-ing, MTV Movie Award-winning, Oscar-buzz garnering twenty-year-old girl to the professional and esteemed actress portraying the iconic role of Marylou in the Walter Salles-directed film On the Road. The film is already procuring early rave reviews and industry anticipation. Oh, and then there's the communicating. The nonverbal confirmations that I love so so much from our Royal Rebels. You may fondly recall:
media training? I don't think so!
Well. Yeah. Our Royal Rebels sure know how to multitask! *wipes tears of joy*. Communicating their solidarity as a couple, and also expressing exactly how they feel about the privacy-invaders, Vultures and overzealous "fans". . . in the same damn Beastie Boy t-shirt, made legend via Rob earlier this summer...Confirmed by Kristen yesterday, with such clarity and coolness, even the Coke Classic in her hand is envious. Yes, she's wearing his shirt. As in, her man's shirt.
If anyone has a right to wear this shirt, it's KStew
Upcoming Topics for Musings & Featured Royal Rebels
So the news on the Kristen (and Rob) front has been minimal, but that doesn't mean we don't have wonderful topics to contemplate and new Rebels from which we can gain infinite wisdom. While Kristen and Rob blaze trails and role model the very reasons why we adore our Other Warriors, I am constantly surveying the vast sea of candidates for Musings' next Featured Rebel. Some of you have written in and given suggestions, genius suggestions, which I studiously consider. You may have already seen your suggestion featured in previous essays. While I won't highlight a new Rebel today, I assure you, here are the names of a few folks we'll probably be locking smoldering gazes with in the approaching weeks:
JAVIER BARDEM...ZIYI ZHANG...ROBERT DOWNEY Jr...ZOE SALDANA....ELEANOR ROOSEVELT...STEVIE NICKS...JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT...AMERICA FERRERA...EMMA STONE...XENE CERVENKA...DREW BARRYMORE...JAMES FRANCO...MARTIN STARR
Basically, the entire brilliant cast of Adventureland
And upcoming topics for the exceedingly clever Musings Readers to sink their eager teeth into:
THE DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES...SHIFTING FILTERS OF PERCEPTION...JOSEPH CAMPBELL'S ARCHETYPES...DOING YOUR LIFE'S WORK...FAMILY GATHERINGS (INCLUDING EXES)...CREATIVE LIVING...JACK KEROUAC AND ON THE ROAD...
because just 3 years ago...
it was about a boy and a girl.
Near impossible circumstances.
Near impossible circumstances.
We're Moving!
No, we're not going to Hawaii (yet), as I had hoped, but give me time. This still could happen. The move I'm referring to now was alluded to mid-sob in last week's A/N. Because Musings has deadlines, locquacious admins and jawp0rn-happy KJs, it has come to our attention that some hosts simply cannot handle what the Rebel Misfits dish out. Team Other is making preparations to transfer blog-hosts, leaving Blogger behind us. I have started tweaking with files and transferring archived Musings, and have tried to not hassle my beloved Buff anymore than necessary, since she has been off designing and prettifying my business's website along with KSIBTU (who is also exiting Blogger-ville). Hopefully next week, with a brand new Musings, we will be reporting from a brand new crib. Stay tuned, and hang with me, Rabble Rousers, because this is how we roll, and I really would love us to continue Rollin' with the Homies, ok??
K says: Chill out, KJ, you've rolled with me since at least 2007.
The KStew Fandom is made of cool cats. We flow.
Musings' Musical Madness Giveaway
And this is where reader participation is highly encouraged and welcomed. Also alluded to in last week's weepy A/N: The MusingsOnOther Soundtrack!! You all know what a music buff I am, and how it shapes all that I do for Musings. You also know, because I have a bit of a disclosure problem (and this is why I'm reining in giving out the website domain for the Magical Little Practice), I also am a back-burner musician. I have been playing classical piano since I was four years old, singing since I was five, and writing music since I was a pre-pubescent emo kid with frizzy hair and snaggle-teeth. Music informs my mood, beckons The Muse, and expresses beautifully what I can often not. A lot of the Featured Rebel Others on Musings are musicians. And because mix-tapes were the epitome of love-declaring in the nineties and 00's while I grew up, I would like to declare my love to YOU. I am compiling a playlist of songs I've featured on Musings since June...These songs have inspired, provoked, encouraged and soothed me while writing each week's essay, and also have significance with the stories I've shared, and with the bios we've discovered in the Featured Rebels. Kristen and Rob are both musicians and demonstrate their exquisite taste and aptitude in music as often as they can (But why isn't I love Playing with Fire on The Runaways Soundtrack?!). *Oh, plus I'm pretty sure Kristen designed and arranged the soundtrack for Eclipse*
To Review: The Musings On Other Soundtrack is composed of artists including (but not limited to):
TORI AMOS...RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS...INCUBUS...LAMB...JEFF BUCKLEY...EMINEM...THE SWELL SEASON...JENNY LEWIS...JACK JOHNSON...ANI DIFRANCO...MASSIVE ATTACK...FLORENCE + THE MACHINE...ROB PATTINSON...SUBLIME...PIXIES...
music.is.life.
Here's the delio: I wanna hear from you. I know you're there. I receive emails, tweets and some comments from you KStew Lovers and Other Rebels, and they rock my socks off. But there are more LURKERS than anything...Musings enjoys an incredible visitor tally averaging 1800-2000 each week. I know. It freaking BLOWS. MY. MIND. But you don't comment. But some of the hateful folks who actually don't read Musings DO write me. They tell me how awful they think one of our Rebels is or, WORSE, how unworthy our Other Queen is (ah HELL to the NAH). So the haters have taken the time to leave their venom, but I want to hear the balancing Goodness from the OTHER REBELS and KSTEW supporters...
Because there are a gazillion of you. I'm finding you populating all corners of this beautiful planet of ours, and you somehow find me. So find each other here! Next week, I'll take all commenters' names and contact info and enter it into a raffle system that CC and/or Buff are going to have to guide me around, and give away 5 copies of the Musings On Other Queens Soundtrack. And to kick my own ass and remind me of my vow towards Creative Living, I plan to include one of my very own musical recordings on the Musings Soundtrack. (I just need to connect up with the right channels, i.e. ex-boyfriend/musical engineering genius). So dudes? Serio. I'm putting my own voice (literally) on the line here. I want to hear your voices too. You've all been embracing your Otherness with me on this journey...Let's make this a Convention of Otherness, shall we??
So start warming up now...Write me, Comment, Tweet (@MusingsOnOther), and tell me your thoughts on Kristen's Communication Skillz, on future topics of Musings, potential future Royal Rebels, and how you're embracing your Other.. Next week, the playlist will be shown and you're going in the Giveaway Drawing... Thanks for reading this Muselet Memo. I'll see you hopefully, from the new digs, next Thursday! As Always, Embrace your Other. Many thanks & much love ,KJ
can you honestly say "no" to them?
KJ is Other.
Kristen is Other.
Others are excellent Communicators...MoFos.
Embrace Your Other.
