{"id":985,"date":"2008-07-06T23:07:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2008-07-06T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T07:07:02","slug":"seduced-by-the-devil-and-pvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/seduced-by-the-devil-and-pvc\/","title":{"rendered":"Seduced by the Devil, and PVC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rakes_thumbnail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-987\" title=\"The Rake\\'s Progress\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rakes_thumbnail-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m embarrassed that I didn&#8217;t know anything about The Rake&#8217;s Progress until I read an article about the fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/theatre\/features\/robert-lepage-im-fascinated-by-the-devil-859660.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lepage<\/a>. I googled around to learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rake's_Progress\" target=\"_blank\">opera<\/a>, composed by Stravinsky in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a three act opera featuring several elements that I count among my many obsessions.<\/p>\n<p>A man is tempted by The Devil to leave his country-bred sweetheart to seek fortune in the big city. There, he is seduced into marrying a Bearded Lady and invests all his money in an invention that proves to be a sham. He wins a final bet with the Devil, who then curses him with Insanity. The hero dies in Bedlam.<\/p>\n<p>What more could one ask for in an opera? I need to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlepage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lepage&#8217;s production<\/a> of it, recorded in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in mental asylums, I wrote about Cane Hill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2006\/08\/26\/cane-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested in Bearded Ladies, you can go<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehumanmarvels.com\/labels\/bearded.html\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not interested in any of that, how about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todiefordesigns.com\/Shop\/Product\/product.php5?g=5&amp;p=123\" target=\"_blank\">Pvc Bustle Skirt<\/a>? It&#8217;s only $150 and with the matching top, it looks like something Vivienne Westwood might have designed, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pvc-bustle-skirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-986\" title=\"pvc-bustle-skirt\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pvc-bustle-skirt.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pvc-bustle-skirt.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pvc-bustle-skirt.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m embarrassed that I didn&#8217;t know anything about The Rake&#8217;s Progress until I read an article about the fascinating Robert Lepage. I googled around to learn more about the opera, composed by Stravinsky in 1947. It&#8217;s a three act opera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/seduced-by-the-devil-and-pvc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[286,285,284,168],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-fT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}