Not really. Most crime that happens is purely because the person that committed it has psychiatric issues or had negligent parents. There are a few people out there who aren't pushed to do better in school by their teachers and parents, and are left to form their own ideas of right and wrong and success and failure. It's these people that are sometimes swayed by external media, and as many of these people are livingi ni an urban neighborhood, rap music is usually the culprit.
Alot of the symbolism deals with the fate of its characters. For instance, watch the movie again and you'll notice that the three main characters are never onscreen at the same time, yet are very closely tied together. The last lines of the movie (Tommy Lee Jones talking about his dreams) are his subconscious feelings about the choices he made and what he thinks is coming to him. Llewelynn knows he's getting into this mess ("Tell my mom I love her" "She's dead", etc) but still keeps trying to avoid what's coming to him. In the end, it's not Chigurh that gets him (as he believes), but cohorts of the thirsty man in the truck. There's a lot of that kind of thing going on, and that's what makes it so good.
And the title, I believe, is taken from a W.B. Yeats poem "Sailing to Byzantium".
I don't know if Dvorak was mentioned, but him too. And Scherezehade (I can never spell that right) by Rimsky-Korsakov, and also get the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack by Basil Poledouris. It's a very good adaptation and variation of Scherezehade.
Vivaldi also has some excellent concertos. And I definitely second the Brahms.
I've heard it way too many times before. Friend of mine keeps trying to shove Satch in my ears, but the guy can't write songs very well. He's pretty handy with a whammy bar, though.
Napalm Death - You Suffer, it's like 1.3 seconds long and I believe it's officially the shortest song in the world.SinkO
It's officially the shortest music video, actually. The shortest song is probably by A.n.a.l (C)Kunt they have a 22-minute EP that has something like 1243 songs in it. Man I had to mess with that to get it past the censor...
Billy Cob and Buddy Rich, obviously. And this guy I can't remember the last name of, Vinny...
And a couple metal drummers who play (some) very jazz-inspired sets: Sean Reinert and Etienne Gallo. Tomas Corn ain't bad either. And while Danny Carey is pretty good, I have to agree that he doesn't do a whole lot of actual jazz drumming in Tool.
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