Meet Carol Kaye, the Unsung Bassist Behind Your Favorite 60s Hits:

Carol Kaye: you may not recognize her name but chances are you’re familiar with her work.
Now 81, the lady has laid down some deeply iconic bass tracks in a career spanning 55 years and something in the neighborhood of 10,000 recording sessions.
Meet Carol Kaye, the Unsung Bassist Behind Your Favorite 60s Hits | Open Culture

Nick Cave on the Art of Growing Older:

We’re often led to believe that getting older is in itself somehow a betrayal of our idealistic younger self, but sometimes I think it might be the other way around. Maybe the younger self finds it difficult to inhabit its true potential because it has no idea what that potential is. It is a kind of unformed thing running scared most of the time, frantically trying to build its sense of self — This is me! Here I am! — in any way that it can. But then time and life come along, and smash that sense of self into a million pieces.
Nick Cave on the Art of Growing Older – The Marginalian

How to stand up to a dictator:

There is a moment, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa recounts in her new book, when she goes from being an early supporter of the Facebook social media phenomenon as a force for global good to viewing the Internet-based platform as a threat to her media company, her country and the planet.
Resisting Democracy’s Death by a Thousand Cuts | Kyoto Journal

The Oatmeal: You are not going to believe what I’m about to tell you:
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