Day 1 January 30, 2021 and 2022-2024 Updates

 Welcome to SeetherGeezer.  I'm a relatively new follower of the band Seether. 

Yes, these guys, and although I quite like the two Seether Facebook pages and the comments, about the time I read another response to the question, "How long have you been a fan?" answered with something like, "I started listening when I was 10 and that was six years ago."  I was feeling sort of old and a little bit, um, sketchy.  Hence, SeetherGeezer.  So, I was aware of the band from the song Broken that was played on the radio, but didn't really get hooked until I was poking around YouTube and somehow stumbled on the post of the band playing Words As Weapons [it's the one from Live 5-24-14 River City Rockfest.  I could insert a link to the YouTube video if I knew how to do it].  [Ta-Da! Words as Weapons] I thought, "Wow, I know people that use their verbal ability as a weapon.  Who is that band?"  An obsession was born.  You have to understand, by profession and personal inclination, I research the shit out of stuff I am interested in.  

So this was around July.  I found I knew Fine Again and Rise Above this, probably heard them on the radio, but there was more!  More songs, more video, CD's to buy.  Watching a Netflix movie in Afrikaans.  Reading a book about South Africa.  O.K., it's a kids book but still.  So if you want to join me I'll share my Seether obsession hunting with you.  Bear with me while I figure out how to do a blog.  At least I had four years of typing in high school.  Em

PS. I spent a half an hour figuring out how to do an emoji of myself and I don't know how to edit my blog picture.  Holy crap.

PSS. August 22 update. I started reading the book, The History of Southern Africa by J. D. Omer-Cooper in January (a very dense read), partly for background on the area Shaun and Dale were born and because of an interview where Shaun mentioned Dale's house was built on a concentration camp. I had hear about the Boer War but not about the camps. I also watched the bio documentary of Trevor Noah that is very interesting and listened to his biography called "Born a Crime". He talks about the complexities of race and racism in South Africa when he was growing up.  Definitions of Black, White, and Colored and laws of race that are vastly different than what I am familiar with.

November 2022.  There are a few more Seether fan Facebook pages, some with 16 members, some with over 40,000.   There is some overlap in posts.  Lots of fun shares of memories and memorabilia.

December 2024.  You can learn Afrikaans yourself. There are books, Audible books and websites such as Mondly-Learn Languages Online for Free at mondly.com, one of the few that have more languages than English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, etc.  I started reading all the Deon Meyer books, in English of course, which are mystery/police procedurals originally in Afrikaans. I am impatiently awaiting the newest Benny Griessel novel which is not out, in English until February 2025.  The "G" in Griessel is not pronounced like an English "G" which is why I went to Audible to hear a sample of one of the Benny Griessel books in Afrikaans.  You can also hear this sound in a You Tube video of Shaun pronouncing his last name, Welgemoed.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvSdMNPEQIk  

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