TV_Vote is an ongoing poll for television viewers aimed at finding the 5 Best TV Shows of All Time. Over 9,000,000 votes cast, so far! (July, 2008) Also billed as chance for fans to get even with Evil Network Executives for canceling their favorite TV shows, TV_Vote is the most popular continuing television poll on the web. TV_Vote encourages all individual fans and fan organizations from Angel to Xena to drop by and help make their favorite TV show #1! The TV_Vote Poll will end at 10 Million Votes ~ Have you voted?
fLAtDiSk has given away free music files since the early 1990s. Absolutely Free Music! and our alternate site wWw.FLAtRich.com offer only Free MP3s and they're legal, so don't fear the reaper. Collect 'em all! No sign-ins, pop-ups, spam, email scams, memberships, bids, credit cards, or bad links! Just lots of weird music you can download for free!
wWw.FLAtRich.Com is a new music listening site offering Absolutely Free Music! The site also features free MP3 downloads and exclusive music videos - you won't have to wade through all that boob junk on UToob to find them!
MODSpeak Live! debuted on the web in 1994. It was a free digital music library, featuring fLAtDiSk mod files and a collection of other artists updated with 30-40 new releases a month. Eventually the monthly updates grew to over 5500 files and fLAtDiSk Mod Archives was born on a separate server in 1999. MODSpeak also continues today with a more limited collection of .MODs, .MP3s, .WMAs, .S3Ms, .XMs, .ITs, and other free music files for you to download. Cool mod links there too. (If you exactly aren't sure what a mod is, think free music! MODSpeak Terms might help too.)
MODs In The Key of X is a child of MODSpeak that grew its own site in 1997. MODs In The Key of X features a collection of absolutely free music and mixes based on composer Mark Snow's theme for Chris Carter's X-Files and related links and general news about Carter projects. Trust No One, but this site is still getting lots of downloads in the 21st Century!
eXoNews is a library of real news stories you won't find on sponsor-controlled news networks or hear from your local lacquered news team. The after seven years online, the eXoNews site became an Archive of aliens, animals, archeology, astronomy, clones, crop circles, genre entertainment news and government misdeeds. While eXoNews was an active weekly publication, we prided ourselves on covering all the whacked and politically incorrect subjects the big news sites fear and eXoNews remains a great online resource for The News Outside The News!
Plug, plug! In 2005, we began to hawk our new line of original genre paperback books, available online at Lulu, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and many online booksellers. Not everything can be free, but we just released some of them as $.99 eBooks for those who prefer a more virtual reading experience. Click on a link to find out more without obligation: Simple Deities eBook, The Greater Future eBook or Many Teeth eBook - Check 'em out for only $.99 apiece!
Peace began as an eXoNews poll site in 2003 to measure visitors' response to the Iraq war. The site has since become a depository for blatantly anti-war clip-art, posters, music and links - all absolutely free, of course. fLAtDiSk respects our military and those who choose to serve but we do not think war is a rational political option in the 21st Century. Most of our visitors prefer Peace to the alternative but all are welcome.
fLAtfiLMs is where you find videos you'll never see on American television. Like the new hit "Life Is A Book" or cult favs "Killer in the Rain" or "Herman Gleib and the Paradigm of Evil" or "Everybody Wants A Bomb" and "Coco Escapes". We also have some unusual FlashToons and odds and many ends we've collected over the years. It's harmless stuff and no porn or violence (unless you count actual atom bombs or Robin Williams.) Mostly good clean fun and Absolutely Free!
geoNovel arrived in 2000, basically to jump on the hype-crazed ebook bandwagon with more freebies. Freeware scares the hell out of the big guys, and keeps them humble. We think that's a good thing - don't you? geoNovel offers a unique selection of free ebooks online in Adobe PDF format. Visitors have downloaded over 30,000 free geoNovel ebooks! (July, 2008)
Hey! We have fansites too!
Dark Boswell is the fLAtDiSk fanfiction site, dedicated to so-called "crossover" fan fiction. (Not to be confused with cross-dressing fanfiction!) Dark Boswell is an evolving series of online mini-screenplays satirizing America's favorite genre TV shows. This site has actually generated flames from fanatics who claimed we were attacking honored American institutions! We prefer to think Dark Boswell is just a silly lampoon! You can download the entire series as an absolutely free eBook at the Dark Boswell site!
darkHollywood, online since 2001, is the artiest fLAtDiSk site. If you want info on the brooding black and white world of Hollywood's great classics, this is the place for you. darkHollywood mixes a vast collection of stills with the resources of the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) to flash you back into the shadows of the Hollywood ghost. Most movie sites are all talk, but darkHollywood is all pictures. Nothing to buy. Just a nice place to roam around for free.
classicActors spun off from darkHollywood in 2003, dedicated to some of the wonderful character actors who populated the Golden Age of Hollywood. Free, of course, so it's a cheap cyberdate. Pop quiz: who was Erik Rhodes? Find out at classicActors - A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating!
fLAtDiSk NeTWoRk also provides famous homes for two Chris Carter shows now vanished from American tubes.
Harsh
Realm was X-Files producer Chris Carter's 1999 attempt to combine
science fiction, virtual reality and military action into a TV series for
Fox. The network didn't get it and yanked HR after three episodes, but the
full set of nine has since played all over the world and garnered a large
audience. The Harsh Realm
site on fLAtDiSk NeTWoRk is the most complete fan site for this show in
the United States - possibly the world. The site continues to enjoy
occasional high peaks as Harsh
Realm runs in other countries. Harsh Realm : The Complete Series is now a Fox DVD release.
MillenniuM
was a more successful Chris Carter effort, featuring the renown film actor
Lance Henriksen as Frank Black, Terry O'Quinn as his nemesis Peter Watts
and a wonderful supporting cast. The fLAtDiSk NeTWoRk MillenniuM
site features a complete three year episode guide, free downloads and
links to Mr. Henriksen's home page and other related MillenniuM
sites. MillenniuM is now out in DVD format from Fox.
There is a lot more to the fLAtDiSk NeTWoRk than all this serious stuff, of course. We've got free music, cartoons, beautiful girls and handsome heroes, and all kinds of links to sites so obscure even Wil Wheaton doesn't list them. So loosen up! Drop by and have some fun!
 FLAtRich (Rich La Bonté) |
Rich La Bonté (FLAtRich) created fLAtDiSk SoftWorks as a freeware company in the late 20th Century. At that time fLAtDiSk was the home of fLAtDiSk Fanzine (a Xeroxed music rag from 1976-1983), and fLAtDiSk Records (a vinyl independent subsidiary of the now tragically defunct Moxie Record Company.)
The original software branch of fLAtDiSk SoftWorks consisted of SIDs and Commodore GEOS stuff. (No longer available and a long time ago, eh?) fLAtDiSk SoftWorks also invented geoNovel in this era, one of the first ebook publishing systems.
Earlier still in the century that gave us the atom bomb and Diet Coke, Rich Played bass and sang in the original New York and Los Angeles cast productions of the almost mythical musical Godspell.
"It was 15 minutes of fame," he says. "I did about 1000 performances of that show. Figured out once that we played it for at least 20 million people in the first year, if you count the TV appearances."
Rich has five published novels. Susan and The Wolf (1989), Useful Humans (1990), Simple Deities (2002), The Greater Future (2003) and Many Teeth (2005). All five and the short story collection Yellowflower (2005) are available in paperback from Lulu, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. We just released some of them as $.99 eBooks for those who prefer a more virtual reading experience. Click on a link to find out more without obligation: Simple Deities eBook, The Greater Future eBook or Many Teeth eBook - Check 'em out for only $.99 apiece! (The books are all Rich actually has for sale, BTW. The rest of fLAtDiSk is free!)
In the early 90s fLAtDiSk was also known for fLAtDiSk VR Dreams - a series of virtual reality worlds for IBM PC compatibles. All of the fLAtDiSk VR Dreams were later published in "Virtual Reality Madness and More!", a Book/CD software package from SAMS Publishing, still available in rare bookstores and at software outlets. fLAtDiSk SoftWorks offers free downloads of the VR series at the VRContinuum web site.
fLAtDiSk Records had several obscure 20th Century releases, the most notable being "Kim Fowley: Son of Frankenstein" for Moxie Records, which Rich co-wrote and co-produced with Mr. Fowley. The record spawned the frequently rediscovered college radio hit "Invasion of the Polaroid People" and was later re-released on CD as Kim Fowley's Bad News From The Underworld, still available through Bomp Records. fLAtDiSk offers three free MP3s online from this masterpiece as the Kim Fowley Polaroid People EP.
Rich's Moxie Records offshoot (CMI Records with then-partner Shari Famous) co-released the classic R. Stevie Moore red vinyl single "New Wave" b/w "Same" for Mr. Moore in 1979. Rich and Stevie met again on the Internet decades later and Rich created several album covers for discs in Mr. Moore's extensive online catalog. Rich also contributed musically to the 2004 R. Stevie Moore CD Conscientious Objector and the 2008 R. Stevie Moore cover of Pere Ubu's classic "Nonalignment Pact" on Stevie's Double CD release "A.W.O.L."
fLAtDiSk SoftWorks has released thousands of free digital music files to the web since 1994 as mods and MP3s. See our Absolutely Free Music MP3 EPs, fLAtDiSk Mod Archives and MODSpeak sites for the complete libraries and collect them all!
