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Faith Dwight

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Faith Dwight's parents knew she was a strange one when, at the age of five, she asked for "a book with no words." 21 years later, her heart still races at the sight of a blank page. After traveling the world for five years, she's decided (for now) to settle not-too-far from the tiny North Carolina t...

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I don't wanna go til I'm good and ready

~faith

Last night, I rocked out at the R.E.M. show at Hardee’sAlltel Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek.  They sounded great, which was exciting.  I pretty much hate it when you go see a band you love on CD and they’re bad live.  Sounding good on an album is not hard if you’ve got a good producer, so the real litmus test for a band is their live show – and R.E.M. passed with flying colors. 

Personally, I was a little disappointed they didn’t play some of the crowd favorites like Night Swimming, and It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).  But Losing My Religion made a welcome appearance, as did Orange Crush, and the band was – understandably – promoting their new album, Accelerate (which is worth buying, if you haven’t yet).

On the cool people front, I ran into Allison Beale of george pr and Ashley Christensen of Poole’s Downtown Diner.  If you haven’t been to Poole’s for the slap-yo’-mama-it’s-so-good Mac ‘n’ Cheese, you need to do that.  Now.