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Metal Fleming

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About Me



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My Interests

Snowboarding; surfing; golf; poker; billiards; culinary creations; records records and more records; telling stories about how I used to turn the party out before I got old; my girlfriend in glasses; Philadelphia Eagles; New York Yankees; Philadelphia Flyers; New York Knickerbockers; Manchester United; Super-awful power ballads.

Music:

From the slums of Shaolin the Wu-Tang Clan strikes again... The Rza, The Gza, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killa and the Method Man; Zombie Apocalypse; Lil Wayne, Mannie Fresh, pretty much anything Cash Money related; The Dillinger Escape Plan; EPMD; Faith No More; Human Remains; DJ Shadow; Nile; Portishead; The Degenerics; Dilated Peoples; Company Flow; A Tribe Called Quest; Mobb Deep; Kyuss; Sonic Youth; the Misfits; Black Flag; Minor Threat; Bad Brains!; The Clash; The Cure; Depeche Mode; Aphex Twin; the Chemical Brothers; the Prodigy; Alchemist; Phobia; His Hero Is Gone; Tragedy; Metallica; Slayer; Sepultura; Burnt By The Sun; Discordance Axis; Beastie Boys; Nails; Ministry; Skinny Puppy; Pigface; Pantera; CR; You and I; U2; The Ratchets; Lifetime; Endeavor; The Bronx; Melt Banana; Sexual Chocolate...

Movies:

Coming to America; Half Baked; The Motorcycle Diaries; 25th Hour; Goodfellas; Raging Bull; Garden State; The Princess Bride; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Goonies; Raising Arizona; Three Amigos; State Your Name; Wild Style; Style Wars; High Fidelity.

Television:

Sopranos, The Wire, Deep Sea Detectives, and of course my boy L.D. doing his thing...

Books:

A People's History of the United States; Manufacturing Consent; Blink; The Tipping Point; Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs; Doyle Brunson's Super Systems; Mass Appeal; Wax Poetics; The Economist; The Wall Street Journal; anything by David McCullough, particularly John Adams and The Great Bridge (highly recommended); On The Road; Naked Lunch; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; the Motley Crue autobiography; Get In The Van...

My Blog

Engaged!

Wooo Hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Metal Fleming on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST

Moving

Moving truck May 30th Flight from SFO June 29th Sayonara West Coast!
Posted by Metal Fleming on Thu, 17 May 2007 02:40:00 PST

The Great Whites are back...

...which means the waves will be following soon thereafter.  Time to get back in, the NorCal surf will be up! Shark sighting reported near Stinson Beach Bay City News Tuesday, September 5, 2006 ...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:05:00 PST

Great article for wine nerds and history nerds...

... which therefore puts it right in my wheelhouse: Sour NoteWine Lover's NoseFor Fakery LeadsTo Famed Bottles Collector of 1780s Bordeaux Says He Was 'Swindled';German Dealer Denies It A Probe Using ...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:40:00 PST

Materazzi is a Gangsta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HblsV-urHg Materazzi said that when Zidane offered to give him his France jersey after the final whistle in response persistent shirt-tugging by the Italian, he had rep...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:52:00 PST

Migrant workers and the increasing class gaps in American society

From today's Wall Street Journal.  Post industrial, post modern America has broken so many promises to so many residents.  The game is rigged. A society that continues down this pa...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:14:00 PST

If you don't know about The Wire, you better ask somebody

Fascinating interview with the creator of The Wire, David Simon.  If you have not yet given this show a chance then you are missing out on the greatest show on television.  Period.  Bri...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:04:00 PST

Elmo is an Evil-Doer

ELMO IS AN EVIL-DOERbyJOEL STEINELMO REFUSED to be interviewed for this column. I consider this to be a supreme act of cowardice. And it doesn't surprise me one bit. Elmo is an annoying tool. Yes, I k...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:31:00 PST

Martinifest at the Milwaukee Art Museum? Excellent (c) Mr. Burns

This museum is already one of my personal favorites, but after reading this it might have to be crowned best museum ever.  I would have loved to have witnessed this debacle: The Guard Dog Ate My ...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:36:00 PST

A-Rod also leads Yanks in Grammatical Errors

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51089 A-Rod Also Leading Yankees In Grammatical Errors July 27, 2006 | Onion Sports NEW YORKAfter an embarrassing post-game interview in which Alex Rodriguez com...
Posted by Metal Fleming on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:01:00 PST