Miles Mendenhall
Miles Mendenhall favorite Music and Movies…
Songs: Ohia, the magnolia electric company (one whole album about an electric company that employs a small town)
Joanna Newsom, Y’s (I drove 7 hours to see her backed up by a 28 piece orchestra and have no problem admitting I cried)
Windmill, Puddle City Racing (#1 and #3 are just good enough to excuse any other lack luster track)
Leadbelly, Capitol Record Recordings (Leadbelly is just a cool guy)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Good toe tapping)
The Great Escape ( I modeled most of my masculine characteristics after Steve Mcqueen)
Tekkonkinkreet (Great art, brilliant story, cool name).
Oldboy (Has one of the best plot twists)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (It’s the scariest movie I’ve ever been made to watch and 75% of the scary things happen during the day)
Zeitgeist (A brilliant and well researched documentary summing up a scary theory and its future consequences. I wish its sources were illegitimate so I didn’t have to believe it)
Citizen Kane Review
Citizen Kane, cited often as one of the greatest movies of all time, holds little mainstream audience in today’s society. First and foremost, consider the differences in cinematography. Welles stretches out his scenes, sometimes going minutes without any substantial dialogue or emotion, a device that, although commendable, would never hold the attention of a generation who grew up on the ADHD inducing 10 second flashy scenes of MTV and action movies. It preaches patience to a distracted culture, and preaches a message that has become trite. Based around the idea that money can’t buy happiness, Kane fails to identify with a culture who has turned such a statement into a sort of mantra, quoting the phrase to anyone who works too much, buys extravagant things etc, etc. Although a progressive thought in the day it was made in, it becomes lost like anything else of worth in the present day, passed up for Die Hard and whatever Harry Potter installment they are on now.