And is it relevant, somehow, that Kent's upcoming projects include a film adaptation of a lesbian gothic love story?
Those are the kinds of things that seem more relevant, somehow, when you're talking about death for the first time with your child — even when the death is that of someone else's dog.
And increasingly, that feels more relevant, somehow.
It's a challenging environment in which marketers will struggle to stay positive, seem relevant, and somehow capture the attention of a restless populace.
Two articles caught my attention today and they just go to show the power of language, the dangers of over-simplifying, and this notion today that in order to be relevant you somehow must be provocative.
"I always research how much other companies pay and go into an interview armed with the relevant knowledge, but somehow I always come out with a bad deal.
These words were written in 1969, but, as we are ruled by a government dominated by daddy-bankrolled Etonians, they still seem somehow relevant.
Yet this time next year, after another draft of blown quarterback evaluations, he'll be everywhere, still somehow relevant as ever, as we all sit on our couches – same as Simms, Tebow and Manziel – watching him be wrong all over again.
"Was 'Abby' a) silly in a good way, b) silly in a bad way, c) boring, d) competent," the monitor asks, as if communicating that "Abby"'s "competence" was somehow relevant.
"I was always struck by the need to make photographs that were somehow relevant to our society, to our situation in dealing with apartheid and the opposition to it," he told me.
The X-Files popularised the idea of a TV show having a "mythology", seeding serialised storytelling in standalone episodes to make even the most dashed-off monster of the week seem somehow relevant to the bigger picture.
