Best vocalist ever? Probably. Best vocalist I've ever heard? Definitely. Not that my quest to get other people to appreciate The Gathering has been going well at all, although I do understand - the length and/or complexity of their tracks makes them exhausting and even unpleasant to listen to them for the first few weeks, and you really have to force yourself. Still, good music shouldn't have to be catchy, and it's incredible once you get there. For anyone who's interested:

Like Fountains: [link]
Herbal Movement: [link]

You should go for the first if you feel you need to like a band the first time you hear them, and the second if you're more likely to be interested by good music that's complicated and grows on you slowly - the second is also a better showcase of Anneke's vocals. Anyhow, feel free to tell me your thoughts, negative or positive, if you listened to either.

Shockingly enough, I actually did some vectoring a couple of days ago. About twenty minutes of it. I dug up my eternal Yagami Light vector which I had pretty much consigned to never ever being finished, and did about 50 layers. This doesn't mean that it will definitely now get finished, but things look slightly more hopeful (it is, at this stage, perhaps 80% done).

In other news, Saimoe has been satisfactory so far. I was outraged by the fact that Yumi was knocked out in the first round, but pacified by the fact that Mio was also knocked out in the first round, while Yui got through comfortably.

I suppose I'm really just posting these things up out of obligation, since this will have been largely gibberish to most people reading it. More people need to follow Japanese anime character tournaments and Dutch metal/trip-rock bands.