How did this happen? Who is responsible? I'll let you guess. (No, it's not you, moody bitch. At least not this time!) I suppose I'm mostly responsible for this myself, but I did have a bit of help. Recall that back in January I received an e-mail which very clearly stated that the release date for Unbreakable was to be in April. With April drawing ever so near, I decided to check the official site to see if the exact release date was available. It was. May 3, 2004! Excuse me, but did I miss something here? Did they make the first week of May a part of April without informing me? That really wasn't very nice of them. But all is not lost. I see a link that promises me the opportunity to listen to some samples from the album. I quiver in anticipation as I click on the link. I am taken to (Are you ready for this?) a page on Amazon.com, the freaking German site! Now, I ask myself, "Why would anyone link visitors from the English version of the website to a German web page?" Unless... oh, please say it isn't so...that May 3 release date is only good for Germany. ARRRGH! I try to console myself by listening to the samples. Please note the word "try." I am able to decipher enough of the page to figure out how to play the samples. The files won't open. It seems that they are in some weird format that can only be opened by a program that I lost in a system crash a while back, Real One player. I saved them to my machine anyway. I suppose I'll download that program sometime before May 3, but it is such a time consuming project when all you've got is a miserable dial-up connection! If you would like to experience this frustration for yourself Klick Hier! Oops, the second part of my brain fry is rearing its ugly little head. I've been surfing WAY too many German websites recently! The words are floating around in my head, whether I know what they mean or not! Perhaps a piece of silly but beautiful fluff will help me to clear my mind.
No, Rudolf did not forget to put on his pants for this picture. Those are not boxers. They're the ugliest damned pair of pants that I've ever seen! They really should be thrown into the incinerator along with Klaus' striped zebra shirt!
