Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991. The band consists of Adam Duritz (lead vocals, piano), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (accordion, keyboards), Dan Vickrey (lead guitar), David Immerglück (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Jim Bogios (drums) and Millard Powers (bass).

Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its debut album, August and Everything After (1993), which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones". They have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song "Accidentally in Love", which was included in the film Shrek 2.

The band's influences include Van Morrison, R.E.M., Mike + The Mechanics, Bob Dylan, and The Band.

Origin of band name

Singer Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson began playing San Francisco coffeehouses together, performing under the name Counting Crows. The name was taken from One for Sorrow, a British divination nursery rhyme about the superstitious counting of magpies, a member of the crow family. Duritz heard the rhyme in the film Signs of Life, which starred his close friend, actress Mary-Louise Parker. Developing a following in the Bay Area and deciding to expand the band, Duritz and Bryson kept the name as they added members.

A Long December

"A Long December" is a song by American alternative rock band Counting Crows. It is the second single and thirteenth track from their second album, Recovering The Satellites (1996). The song peaked at number five on the U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks and #1 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

Corvus (genus)

Corvus is a widely distributed genus of birds in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-sized jackdaws (Eurasian and Daurian) to the common raven of the Holarctic region and thick-billed raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents except South America, and several islands. In Europe, the word "crow" is used to refer to the carrion crow or the hooded crow, while in North America, it is used for the American crow, fish crow, or the northwestern crow.

The crow genus makes up a third of the species in the family Corvidae. The members appear to have evolved in Asia from the corvid stock, which had evolved in Australia. The collective name for a group of crows is a 'flock' or a 'murder'.

Recent research has found some crow species capable of not only tool use, but also tool construction. Crows are now considered to be among the world's most intelligent animals with an encephalization quotient equal to that of many non-human primates.

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Twenty Years Later

Twenty Years Later (Portuguese: Cabra Marcado para Morrer) is a 1984 Brazilian documentary film directed by Eduardo Coutinho. One of the most known films by Coutinho, it started to be produced in 1964. However, due to the theme it dealt part of crew and cast were arrested and the police tried to take their footage. In 1984, Coutinho concluded the story of João Pedro Teixeira, a leader of the Peasant leagues from Paraíba, murdered by local landowners' order in 1962. Upon its release, it gained a cult following as well as received awards at film festivals and praise by film critics.

Overview

It tells the story of João Pedro Teixeira, a peasant leader from Sapé, Paraíba, who was murdered in 1962 on the order of local landowners.

In 1962, Coutinho, replacing a cameraman of Centro Popular de Cultura (CPC), shot a protest over the death of Teixeira in Paraíba and met for the first time Elizabeth, Teixeira's widow. When he returned to Rio de Janeiro, he received the proposal of directing a film for CPC. Initially he wanted to adapt the João Cabral de Melo Neto's poems "Cão sem plumas", "O rio" and "Vida e morte Severina" but after the refusal of the poet he decided to film the life of Texeira. In 1963, he went to Paraíba and Pernambuco and within three days he wrote a screenplay based on Mrs. Teixeira's accounts.