The horrible side effects of downloading Billy Joel Albums on itunes

Went to plug in myself into my ipod touch at work this morning, only to discover - it had no content. Tried again, and well, it did have content - but only the Billy Joel album that I'd bought and downloaded on Friday, while ipod was attached to computer. That's oh 20 songs out of 1810. All my other albums and songs were gone - 1790 songs and 543 albums disappeared. The last time I attempted to download Billy Joel tunes from itunes (while I was syncing with my computer) - it didn't download to the ipod touch or itunes, and I had to hunt for it in my computer (it went into another file). This round I got the Billy Joel item, everything else just disappeared.

Hmmm...note to self, next time skip Billy Joel and download David Bowie, because apparently my computer freaks out when I download Billy Joel tunes.

Fingers crossed that this is just a fluke, and the 1790 tunes that should be on my ipod touch are still residing on my computer at home and getting them back again, just requires hooking it up. Otherwise I'm screwed.

Moral? Don't download Billy Joel tunes from the internet while your MP3 player is hooked up to your computer.

[ETA: They all came back. Which is a good thing, because I prefer the Beatles White Album and Amanda Palmer to Billy Joel. Would have been bummed to lose them.]

Game of Thrones - Episode 9

At work today, I spoke with a co-worker who had just finished listening to all 26 CDs of Game of Thrones which he'd borrowed from the Library. But they didn't have the next books in the series and asked if I'd loan him Clash of Kings. I said - I have all the books, but haven't read the fourth one yet. I take breaks between them - they are incredibly Grim. He responded - "grim and violent." Yeah, that too. He's decided the hero is Ayra. He also likes Tyrion and Jon Snow.

Saw True Blood S3, second to last episode last night - the S3 finale is next week I think. Game of Thrones is better, or a least more enjoyable, but that's only because it's not a soap opera, and True Blood is such a soap opera. ( where I idiotically decide to compare True Blood to Game of Thrones even though I know full well they aren't comparable )

Just finished watching Game of Thrones. And, hee, certain scenes are unintentionally humorous if you have read Storm of Swords recently and know exactly what is going to happen. I was laughing my not-so-little ass off. This has been true about a lot of scenes, actually. It's sort of like watching Buffy for the fifteenth time and during the whole bit where Spike goes on about Angel being the slayer's lap dog in Surprise/Innocence, you find yourself giggling uncontrollably at the irony of it all. In some respects, being spoiled, makes certain scenes far more enjoyable.

Again, how they are interpreting the books, and what they leave in and leave out is fascinating to me. No worries, I'm not going to spoil you for anything that happens past Game outside of being really vague about it - like I am above.

( Episode 9 - Live by the Sword Die by the Sword...not the title, but it should be )