Search Results: Ben Godwin

By Jill Allyn Stafford If you're unemployed or stuck in a dead-end job, there's a lot to be found in the classics. What do you want from life? And how can you get there? If we are able for a moment to glance past all the clichéd rich and famous drivel, for many the precise meaning of "American Dream" is a vague one seen as an inevitably difficult to define concept. But as is inescapably exposed in Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman , F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great [...]

The inexperienced idealist will have learnt to believe that the good will out, and the best rise to the top. An educated concept associated with youthful potential and big ideas simply waiting to happen. From generation to generation, let it be known: "the sky is the limit". However encouraging this notion appears to be, it is the overshadowing of the now predominant version of the American Dream that seduces the prospective individual. The reality presented is, that only through the acquisition of material possessions could one obtain happiness. This is the infamous rags-to-riches story, [...]

I'm traveling overseas for the next couple weeks, and while I'm OTC, I won't be doing any blogging. So I've compiled the rest of my show recommendations for the month into one post. Be sure to hype the shows I've missed in the comment section below and enjoy the rest of Rocktober: Monday, October 11: Screaming Females, Scout Niblett, Untied States @ The Earl Tuesday, October 12: The Vaselines, Jeffrey Lewis @ The Earl [...]