Reading and Listening

Funny how a blog written back in April will find me in June still listening to a Moby Grape collection. My condition is usually labeled Musical Attention Deficit Disorder, or MADD, a few seconds of sound and if it doesn't grab me, next track, next cd, next artist.Even friends will affectionately refer to me as "the musical snob", not for my ability to play music but rather for my tastes in music.
So had did a Moby Grape collection stay on my cd player for so long? Easy. A recent flood in my basement caused me to perform many manual duties in the dark dingy space. Clean up took two weeks,then repairs, then paint, the walls, ceiling, floors, trim. One portable cd player plugged in, and five Moby Grape albums. Plenty of time. I know all the tunes by heart. I did expand my taste this week by adding Love, the Arthur Lee fronted band of the Sixties, then threw in The Dead, and a smoking 3 cd collection from The Allman Brothers Beacon run of 2003.I didn't tempt fate by bringing down any jazz records, knowing the bride might beg me to put the radio on, and a sloppy painter am I, I didn't want to spoil one Coltrane cd jacket.
Spare time reading has been SuperFreak Economics, which I will eventually finish, and of course continuing on with the Vince Flynn series.