Tony Weller
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Bookseller |
| Location | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Introduction | I'm an infant boomer, only child, reared in a bookstore. I am a non-practicing Zen Buddhist and a peaceful philosophical anarchist. I threw myself at punk rock in 1979. Later i got into dadaism and enrolled in art school. Did literary industrial performance art, often guerrilla. Now i run the bookstore started by my grandfather in 1929. I run our rare book department and perform appraisals. I teach a course on book collecting. I am very interested in local economies. I doodle. I make decisions with dice. I like spicy ethnic food. Naps. |
| Interests | Books, music, movies, anarchism, zen, progressive politics, dadaism, green politics, pugs, punk, funk, soul, local businesses, Subgenius |
| Favorite Movies | Pulp Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Twin Peaks, Harold and Maud, Crash, Amadeus, Secondhand Lions, Saving Private Ryan |
| Favorite Music | Michael Franti, Spearhead, Amy Winehouse, Cibo Matto, Ozomatli, Smoosh, Mosquitoes, Blackalicious, Sex Mob, Arctic Monkeys, Black Eyed Peas, Modest Mouse, Bongwater, New Age Steppers, 23 Skidoo, Rage Against the Machine, White Stripes, Crass, Glaxo Babies, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, Funkadelic, Lou Reed |
| Favorite Books | Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Dada: Art and Anti-Art by Hans Richter, Off the Wall by Calvin Tomkins, Living My Life by Emma Goldman, Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown, Silence by John Cage, The Book by Alan Watts, A Confederate General From Big Sur by Richard Brautigan, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Suess, The Dark Tower by Stephen King, Allen Ginsberg, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep by Philip K. Dick, Book of the Subgenius, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover, Steppenwolf and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Monk by Mathew Lewis, The Dice man by Luke Rhinehart, The Last Nights of Paris by Philip Soupault, Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan |
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