Recently Read

A weekly recap of the articles and posts I’ve read that I think are worth your time. Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Merry Clayton’s Haunting Background Vocals | Open Culture — “We randomly phoned up this poor lady in the middle of the night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked off this rather odd lyric. It’s not the sort of lyric you give anyone–‘Rape, murder/It’s just a shot away’–but she really got into it, as you can hear on the record.” The Facebook Fake-out – Anil Dash — Are META the worst? They might well be. I used to get paid to hang out with famous people — “The celebrity profile is one of the most fascinating of all journalistic forms, capable of wild extremes: profundity and inanity, incisiveness and sycophancy, salaciousness and tedium.” Almost everyone naturally turns left when walking – and we still have no idea why — Humans are wonderfully weird. GitHub –…