#bell tower

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Our Lady of Paris ⛪

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The Bell Tower of Curon, Italy, circa 1960

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[spockvarietyhour]

Don't fuck with the drummer.

[wandering-italy]

Piazza San Marco during Acqua Alta.

Venice, 2019.

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trick or treat, disney |1952|

[useless-catalanfacts]

A slim church in Montesclado, High Pyrenees, Catalonia. Photo by SBA73 on Flickr.

Both the church square and the church’s own façade, in Sant Esteve de Montesclado, are very slim. Even so, they managed to make it fit in the steep streets of this village in Pallars.

[sheltiechicago]

Ivan the Great Bell Tower in Moscow, Russia

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Wooden bell tower in Horokhiv, Ukraine in 1915.

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L’avventura / The Adventure Michelangelo Antonioni. 1960

Bell Tower Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 140, 96017 Noto SR, Italy See in map

See in imdb

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1st Arrondissement of Paris ꉂ𒀭𓂅

[biostatprof]

Campanile di San Marco, Bell Tower of St. Marks Piazza San Marco, Venice Italy.

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[mr-karlheinzstockhatso]

Secondo giorno a Perugia: nonostante i trecento gradi all'ombra, l'importante è partire dall'alto. Perché se c'è una cosa che mi è sempre piaciuta di Perugia, è la facilità con cui puoi guardare da sopra tutto ciò che c'è intorno e il fatto che dove ti giri ti giri, c'è una chiesa a far quadrare tutto.

La prima foto è per simpatia, mi piace l'equilibrio e la nuvola centrale, ma il resto è molto meglio.

La canzone è 7:30 Easter Morning dei By The End Of Tonight

[jake-04]

I did some research on Bauhuas for a history of rock course. The information might not be 100% accurate but I’m kinda proud of how it came out. The performance I mentioned is the 2005 Coachella Performance.

In the 70s there was a specific subset of people, known as “bat cavers”. These people would dress up in messy hair known as the “bats nest” and wear black clothes with black on white makeup. These people were also seemingly obsessed with morbid and spooky topics. Today people like this are known as “goths” and the popularity of this subculture can be attributed to the release of 1979’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by post punk band, Bauhaus.

At the time of release post punk wasn’t related to goth people so much as it is today, so one can imagine the public’s shock after hearing this eerie 10 minute track about a dead actor. What made this song so special was the eerie tone of the guitar, strong drum backbeat, distortion, and the morbid theme of the lyrics. This song can be loosely placed into multiple genres, the most striking of these being the reggae genre. When compared to genres surrounding reggae, like 2-tone ska, it becomes more apparent.

This cemented what the post-punk genre would become over the next 40 years. Post release, the song was described as “gothic”, thus sparking the new genre and subset of music culture.

“Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, on the surface, is a ten minute song about a dead actor, specifically, the actor that played Count Dracula in the 1931 film “Dracula”. However, there are multiple ways to look at the lyrics. The most prominent being the description of Bela Lugosi’s burial. Apart from the repeated “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, there are three lines that outline this exactly. The first line is “the victims have been bled.” This can be seen as the preparation for the burial where the embalmer rids the body of fluids and unnecessary items. “Red velvet lines the black box” is a reference to how Bela’s coffin was lined with red velvet. “The virginal brides file past his tomb” is his visitors walking by his tomb.

However, if you know about goth culture and its origins, there is another meaning to these lyrics. “White on white translucent black capes, back on the rack” can be seen as the commercialization of this sub-culture of people, the same can be said for the line “the victims have been bled” where the victims are the bat cavers who’ve been bled of their culture. “The bats have left the bell tower” is referring to the closing of the old goth club “The Bell Tower” in London and also about the term “bat cavers” “leaving”, or being replaced by the term “goth”.

The performance that I have linked took place at Coachella in 2005. Bauhaus was on stage, shrouded in darkness, and started with the simple drum backbeat. The entire band is dressed in gothic black clothes and the stage is barely lit once the lights come on, adding to the eerienes of the band and its music. The lights come on at the first beat of the drum to reveal Peter Murphy, the vocalist, hanging upside down as if he was a bat. Right off the bat this performance is very gothically inspired. Everyone in the crowd is excited and screaming. At one point the bassist crosses his arms over his chest as if he was Dracula rising out of his coffin. Bauhaus is an excellent example of a post punk band that really took on the gothic themes of the genre.

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Last Lines Challenge

Thank you so much for the tag, @bluemaskedkarma ❤️

I should be finishing up my Bingo fills, but my last few days of work were kind of rough, so instead 😇 I am working on my longfic, giving Rebel / Purge Trooper Cody the sweetest, kindest flashback I can manage:

A memory comes to Cody then – a morning, peaceful and bright, the man he loves warm in his arms. The stillness of daybreak, and how he laid with the soothing tide of their breathing in a quiet room. The scent of Obi-Wan's skin, the softness of the fine hairs at the nape of his neck. The slant of early morning sunlight brightening his lover's eyelashes.  Under Cody's attention, Obi-Wan had woken with a fond curve to his lips, and turned. "It's early, still," he'd rasped, half-awake, "and we've nowhere to be. Sleep, darling. I'll be here when you wake."  And Cody remembers wishing that he could live forever in that golden moment. He remembers pressing a kiss to Obi-Wan's lips, slow and easy, and the contented hum he'd gotten in return, the hand against his jaw while they kissed again and again languidly in the sunlight. He'd been gentled to sleep with Obi-Wan's breath in his mouth, safe and held and cherished.

Tags for @tenderjock (pacix au? 👀) @picktheonesthatlast @ooboowoonkoonooboo @ferretrade @meebles @itsgoldleaf and absolutely anyone else who would like to participate!!

I know it's a rough time of year for a lot of us, so please know there's absolutely pressure! But anything you'd love to share, I'd love to read ❤️