http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog The blogs of RELEVANTmagazine.com Wed, 07 May 2008 18:32:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm tempted to believe that I would make a good Savior. I'm not so brazen as to actually suggest myself a replacement for the true redeemer of the world. However, if my actions belie my convictions, then on most days, I fancy that if Jesus wanted to take a long ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/deeperwalk/the-folly-of-being-a-savior/ More from my journal of the making of my film, "Mountain": We seem to be making bits and pieces of progress here and there. We're currently in discussions with a few different financial options. One big foreign sales company has verbally committed to a $1 million "minimum guarantee," which is something ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/dallas-jenkins/slowly-but-surely/ “The only truly natural things are dreams...” The night before I saw I’m Not There, I dreamt that I met Bob Dylan outside of a concert venue. He was standing against a wall by himself, sporting his little mustache and familiar scowl. I approached him immediately, wanting so badly just ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/music/released-5608-im-not-there/ “Dude, I burned Toby’s first record.” Strange words to speak to the Vice-President of EMI CMG records, home of David Crowder Band, Switchfoot, TobyMac, Edison Glass, and others.  By traditional thinking, these words were, at worst career-killers, and at best, really really stupid.  But I had faith that Grant Hubbard, ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/music/confessions-of-a-former-music-pirate/ Oprah has nothing on us. Okay, well, besides her massive wealth and fame and Stedman and her friendship with both Cruise and Obama and the fact that she has her own glamor shot on the cover of a monthly magazine that bears her name -other than all that, she has nothing ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/deeperwalk/the-book-club/ Well, I've been completely swamped with work and triathlon training lately, and I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping up with my "weekly" blog.  I thought it might help for me to hook you up with five free Death Cab for Cutie songs as a peace offering. Actual ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/music/free-death-cab-ep/ I bid thee Adieu Fast Times sweet kicks nasty beats Farewell RELEVANT RELEVANT, I bid thee, thy sweet, sweet intern page and amiable office space Adieu. Yes, it is what you think is. Today, the 25th of April is my, Ashley Wolpert’s last day as one of RELEVANT’s editorial interns. You will no longer ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/intern-blog-2/i-bid-thee-adieu/ What a day. I am here, in Gnashville at GMA Week, and the Steelehouse team and I had a morning meeting at a downtown hotel with a big muckety-muck (I don't know what this term means, but it has something to do with success). While waiting, we observed a dozen pageantish ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/mark-steele/mark-steele-not-so-live-blogging-from-after-the-dove-awards/ I went without food for 30 hours last weekend and while I believe that I made a difference, what was perhaps most meaningful, was just how much my own perspective was changed. I was hungry, tired and in a little bit of pain. Stomach growling, I drank more glasses of juice than ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/revolution/our-relationship-with-our-food/ Our five-year-old son Wyatt recently saw a few commercials between episodes of Hannah Montana (yes, but that is for another time). Apparently, the ads had his full attention because a bit later, he asked, “Dad, are my shoes Skechers?” He was disturbed when I told him no, and he quickly ... http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/deeperwalk/gorging-on-jesus/