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The Reverend Tom Swiss

About Me


The Right Reverend Tom Swiss: dilettante, loudmouth, jackanapes, adventurer; singer and songwriter ; poet ; Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian ; minstrel, jester, and spiritual adviser to the court of Emperor Norton I .

Check out sample songs at infamous.net/music and poems at infamous.net/poems . A CD is in the works, look for it later this summer.
Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead.
See my blog at unreasonable.org (headlines via the RSS feed below) or my main website at infamous.net for more about me and my wacky adventures.
Oh, and my other MySpace page: www.myspace.com/tom_swiss .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/02/2006
Band Website: infamous.net
Band Members: Tom Swiss performs as a poet and as a solo singer/songwriter (and does a lot of other stuff too).
Influences: Creative people whose stuff I like, in no particular order...
Musical: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Ramones, the Grateful Dead, Jim Morrison, Peter Paul & Mary, Violent Femmes, Pete Seeger, Randolphe Harris, Spearhead, the Police, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon. Bob Pyle, Telesma...
Poetic: Alan Ginsburg, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alan Reese, Chris Chandler, Charles Bukowski, Robin Gunkel...
Prose: Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Raymond Chandler, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. LeGuin...
Life: Camden Benares, Bill Hicks, Kerry Thornley and Gregory Hill (Hail Eris!), Lao Tzu, Bugs Bunny, Rev. Ivan Stang (Praise "Bob"!), Siddhartha Gautama, Chuck Jones, Chuang Tzu, Bodhidharma, Hui Neng, Tex Avery, George Carlin, Thich Nhat Hahn, Robert Pirsig...
Sounds Like: Tom Swiss's eclectic music was once described by a bystander as sounding like "a combination of Jim Morrison and Jello Biafra". Check out sample songs at infamous.net/music and poems at infamous.net/poems
Type of Label: Unsigned

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