Art Bell

[Da_Brain]

Da_Brain
I can not figure out how to get this to quite bugging me.

http://coastgab.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=613;type=avatar

Smack your Screen real Hard to squish the bug!

[GalacticDude]

Reporting for duty.

Welcome back Mr. Bell

[Larkin]

Found this on a thread on Reddit and thought it was interesting. It's in reply to the person, Oryx, who thinks that Art should do a podcast (the replyer, VirSaturnA, is completely right on, I feel):

"[â€"]Oryx --- "DO A PODCAST. The '90s are over. Who the hell listens to the radio?"

[â€"]VirSaturnA --- "Art Bell is all about the mystique of the invisible radio waves. If you are too young to have lived through the magic of Art Bell in the 90's just believe me when I say that you want him live on the radio, taking unscreened calls in the moment. You could feel the hair on the back of your neck standing up as each night unfolded for everyone together. His old shows are still great to listen to. They were just that good. But live it was a real phenomenon. A dead, pre-recorded podcast could never come close. I'll be happy to hear anything new that he's involved in though, either way."

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

As inspired by Georgie for President .. my lame attempt at photoshop

Thanks, HorrorReporter, I'm honoured.  I see you chose Wells' 'shocked' face, or at least that's what I imagine it to look like.

[Sardondi]

Almost exactly 300 posts in this topic in the last hour. In one hour. Good Lord, at this rate nothing but a broadcast schedule for Art of 7 nights and 30 hours for the week will satisfy many here.

[FightTheFuture]

Xfiles Fight the Future

Budget    $66,000,000
Box office    $189,176,423


Xfiles I want to believe

Budget    $30,000,000
Box office    $68,369,434

The second movie wasn't as successful as the first. But it did make a profit. I am not a movie biz guy. So this is just my opinion, but there were many factors that led to a less than stellar showing.


What the second movie didn't do was follow the core story the way Fight the Future did. Even so, criticism of the film was mostly favorable. Although word of mouth loudly spoke of "slow".

Probably more important, unlike 10 years prior when Fight the Future was the big blockbuster coming out, 10 years later, the lesser budgeted I Want to Believe was in the shadow of the blockbuster The Dark Knight.

The studio made huge mistakes (imo) not following the core story, not having a bigger budget, and not paying attention to the competition.

All that being said, perhaps the argument is really about the popularity of the paranormal. There are so many TV shows about the paranormal, including:
Stranded, Alien Mysteries Killer, Contact, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and more than 20 in development. There are several paranormal podcasts and radio shows.

I think Art will have no problem rebooting.

The second film barely eeked out $20 million domestically -- a huge disappointment -- despite a, seemingly, large and vocal contingent of X-Files fans in this country pleading for a second film. Luckily for TCF and Chris Carter, the series still enjoyed some international favor.


My overall point in comparing the release of IWTB to a potential return of Art to the microphone  was to point out that sometimes the audience seems like its still there, when in reality, not so much.

[MV/Liberace!]

So what's the incoming message?


"Drink more Ovaltine!"

Haha

[RealCool Daddio]

Almost exactly 300 posts in this topic in the last hour. In one hour. Good Lord, at this rate nothing but a broadcast schedule for Art of 7 nights and 30 hours for the week will satisfy many here.

And so many new folks, as well.  It seems like our semi-private club is throwing open the doors, and heading for the big time.

With all the ad revenue, MV will be able to spring for the stroller equivalent of a Lexus for his little girl:

http://www.amazon.com/Orbit-Baby-Stroller-Travel-System/dp/B00328LR22/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374990019&sr=8-1&keywords=Most+Expensive+Stroller

[jazmunda]

Almost exactly 300 posts in this topic in the last hour. In one hour. Good Lord, at this rate nothing but a broadcast schedule for Art of 7 nights and 30 hours for the week will satisfy many here.

Is 24/7 too much to ask for?

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Almost exactly 300 posts in this topic in the last hour. In one hour. Good Lord, at this rate nothing but a broadcast schedule for Art of 7 nights and 30 hours for the week will satisfy many here.

Erm, I counted five... maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing.  I see 300 posts in the past day, which still goes to your point.

[popple]

I absolutely love what VirSaturnA said. Listening LIVE and knowing millions of other people were on the same journey through the night with you put this special tingle in the air. At any moment an iconic art/c2c moment could unfold or a potential guest could rise from open lines to send chills down our spine. Even if the night ended with more questions than answers it was extremely fulfilling, and you just couldn't wait to tune in next night for the same exciting ride into the unknown with the master as our guide 

[General Johnson Jameson]

I bet that PremRad Command is telling Pvt Fort Rock that his Capt is going to take a BIG Crap his pants. Pvt Fort Rock Capt is Captain Noory. Ensign Alex Jones is going to try to jam the airwaves but he will fail.

Huh?
Since when did the Scorpion Army start serving Georje Noari?
FortRock, report in

[General Johnson Jameson]

"DO A PODCAST. The '90s are over. Who the hell listens to the radio?"

That person evidently missed the Phoenix lights show among many, many others.

[nooryisawesome]

Sad listening to art stream. Bell was talking about Ramona had recovered from asthma attack. Said it scared the hell out of him and if something happened to her he wouldn't want to be around.

[Heather Wade]

I absolutely love what VirSaturnA said. Listening LIVE and knowing millions of other people were on the same journey through the night with you put this special tingle in the air. At any moment an iconic art/c2c moment could unfold or a potential guest could rise from open lines to send chills down our spine. Even if the night ended with more questions than answers it was extremely fulfilling, and you just couldn't wait to tune in next night for the same exciting ride into the unknown with the master as our guide 

Yes.  There was something magical about listening to Art while driving down a lonely highway deep in the night on a long trip.  When I got home or to whatever destination, I would park, wait for a commercial break, and run inside to turn the radio on in time to continue the show.   

Knowing I was one of millions listening live felt like hanging out with friends.  Creatures of the night like me.

[lonevoice]

The meter moved!!

[Shockwave]

Art should do a live webcam of the show. He'd make a killing off the subscriptions...

[TheGrimCreeper1]

That person evidently missed the Phoenix lights show among many, many others.

I could see making a podcast of the radio program available, but doing a podcast alone would never fly. Most podcasts generate little or no revenue for their hosts. I suspect Art wants to generate maximum revenue and compete with Snoory on his home turf -- the radio.

[TheGrimCreeper1]

Art should do a live webcam of the show. He'd make a killing off the subscriptions...

Maybe if he focused the camera on Airyn.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

The meter moved!!

You're right.  I had to clear my cache to see it.

btw awesome emoti-gif.

[Elinor]

Yes.  There was something magical about listening to Art while driving down a lonely highway deep in the night on a long trip.  When I got home or to whatever destination, I would park, wait for a commercial break, and run inside to turn the radio on in time to continue the show.   

Knowing I was one of millions listening live felt like hanging out with friends.  Creatures of the night like me.

There truly was a sense of belonging.

I used to love listening to Art while sitting in the dark on the back porch in the summer, especially when there was a steady rain. 

[Ravenna]

The green bar meter thingy moved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It moved!!!!!!!!!

It really moved !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rarlsatan]

Art should do a live webcam of the show. He'd make a killing off the subscriptions...

YES. So easy these days with ustream and all of the other alternatives. Leo LaPorte's twitch network is incredibly successfull with that model. I'd love to see Art do that.

[lonevoice]

You're right.  I had to clear my cache to see it.

btw awesome emoti-gif.

[TheGrimCreeper1]

YES. So easy these days with ustream and all of the other alternatives. Leo LaPorte's twitch network is incredibly successfull with that model. I'd love to see Art do that.

Hate to bust your chops, but Leo LaPorte's network is called Twit, not Twitch.

[jazmunda]

It doesn't look like it's moved to me.

We might need official confirmation from the post it note.

[MV/Liberace!]

Hate to bust your chops, but Leo LaPorte's network is called Twit, not Twitch.

I thought it was Twink.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Okay, the original 'incoming message' post was at 5:55 pm.  Yours was at 1:12 am.  Let's call that seven hours.  In that time I estimate with a rough measurement that the bar moved by 10 percent.  There is 65 percent of the bar remaining. 

If the progress is being accurately metered out, that means the official announcement should be in just under two full days (45 hours by my estimate, but I doubt we can be that precise).

[popple]

IT REALLY MOVED!!!

[jazmunda]

Yes.  There was something magical about listening to Art while driving down a lonely highway deep in the night on a long trip.  When I got home or to whatever destination, I would park, wait for a commercial break, and run inside to turn the radio on in time to continue the show.   

Knowing I was one of millions listening live felt like hanging out with friends.  Creatures of the night like me.

I know what you mean.

Below is my story of first hearing Art from another thread.

I first heard Art whilst driving late at night on my first of many trips from LA to San Fran in May 1996. It was an episode about the Philadelphia Experiment and the guest was a guy called Marshall Barnes. I was hooked right away and the hours that I was listening just flew by and so did the road trip. A week later I made sure that my trip back to LA coincided with Art's show. I believe that the show on the way back was about Chupacabras, which at the time I had never heard of, and if I wasn't already hooked I surely was then. I made a point of listening every night after that much to the detriment of my need for sleep.

The show opened me up to so many topics, fields and ideas that I had never heard of before in any other medium (at the time). Some of these topics have since made their way into pop culture and some have even been exposed to the mainstream through TV and Movies. Sure there were many frauds, charlatans and bs artists on the show but it was all fascinating listening and even if some of the stories tuned out to be fiction I am reminded of a quote from a Stephen King book that goes something like, "It is the tale not he who tells it".

I often found that when I was listening in the car just driving home from the movies or a friends place I would often get home and still be sitting in the car listening because I didn't want to stop listening. I once took a leak in my garden so I could still listen to the radio until there was a commercial break and I could finally go inside and turn on the radio in the house.

Ah. I love trips down memory lane. No other host or radio show has ever had that effect on me.