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Movember 2011

That’s right, it’s Movember again and you know what that means! Women will swoon when they see upper lips standing up for a great cause across the Earth!

I, along with my fellow comrades in PaLoLa Brewmeisters http://www.movember.com/m/596270 will do our best to make sure men and women know about the Movember mo’vement, and hopefully help contribute to prostate cancer research.

All I ask for is a bit of your time (from time to time) to read my e-mails about the subject, and perhaps donate a few dollars towards my two goals: 1) To raise money towards prostate cancer research and promoting men’s health in general and 2) Beating Mike Losier’s goal of $1,062 last year! I am proud of what Mike accomplished last year, but I take it as a personal challenge!

If you want to donate to myself:
http://ca.movember.com/mospace/596270

or I think there is an option to Donate to Team somewhere and I highly encourage you to do so if you can’t choose who you want to donate to!  It all helps out the worthy cause!

If you donate to the Movember cause, I will also reveal to you the meaning behind the name Palola. Granted, some of you may already know this. 🙂

Finally, PaLoLa Brewmeister’s will be hosting a Movember themed Party near the end of the month and have brewed up a batch of beer specifically for the occasion available to anyone who contributes.  Stay tuned for updates and details.

Thanks for your support in this worthwhile cause!

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Review: Dan Mangan – Bronson Center

While everyone knows my hate for the Bronson Center, nothing is more irritating than arriving a little later than you wanted and having the security guards point you towards the ‘upper deck’ which basically consists of a seat where while seated down, you get a view of a steel bar in your view.  Sigh.

I went to the concert alone which is starting to become a common theme in concert going…I must be starting some eclectic tastes in music!  I scooped up a nice poster and dropped it off at the car and then headed to a seat against the left wall in the upper deck.  Listened to a few of the opening bands (Daredevil Chritopher Wright, The Crackling) which didn’t really do much for me.  I’m pretty sure that one of the opening bands were the members of Dan Mangan’s backing band.

I stuck to searching through notes on my iPod in between sets to keep me occupied.  Thankfully there wasn’t too much time in between sets!

This is my first time to a Dan Mangan show and I was surprised to see the amount of electricity through the instruments.  Granted, I was introduced to him through his second album which is a much lower key album than his first and third which he is touring currently.  The lead guitarist was the highlight of the band…he was all over the place!

The setlist was great…a lot of tracks from Oh Fortune and Nice, Very Nice including some of my faves such as Basket (done solo acoustically…beautiful!) and I would think that he may have played the entire Oh Fortune album.  Too bad I can’t find a setlist online.  This reminds me of how I used to bring a pen with me to mark down the setlist as it happened.  A pen.  Who carries a pen with them in their pocket nowadays?  A lot has changed.

Dan Mangan is a great performer…the band is tight and Dan himself has funny stories in between the songs and enjoys the crowd.  A highlight was when he unplugged everything and had the crowd singing along with ‘So Much for Everyone’ using the acoustics of the Bronson Center.  That was the first time I realized that there are some really great acoustics in that hall compared to a dingy old bars.

Dan Mangan is a Canadian must-see.

I’m going to compile a setlist solely from memory of hearing some tunes played…no idea what order they were in, and if I’m forgetting any!

About As Helpful as you Can Be Without Being Any Help at All
Sold
Oh Fortune
Leaves, Trees, Forest,
Post-War Blues (awesome lead work on this tune)
Basket (solo)
Road Regrets
If I Am Dead
Starts With Them, Ends With Us
Some People
Rows of Houses
How Darwinian
Jeopardy
Indie Queens Are Waiting
In The Aeroplan Over the Sea
Robots (with some awesome crowd members getting up on stage because of their awesome robot costumes!)
So Much for Everyone

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Engaged to be married

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Women in the streets are crying and now you know the reason why.

Vero and I are getting married.

No woman can resist a Palmer.