HEROES

For my First post, Let me introduce myself by way of name checking the people, places, and things that helped mold the The Rev Lou Cifer into the mess that I am in no particular order and certain to expand.

Guaranteed Thrills, Chills, Sorrow, Pain, Torment, and Joy to follow in various forms. Bear with me while I figure this whole blogging thing out.

Praise must be given to the blog that inspired me: Mojo Repair Shop.

Iggy Pop, THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS, Charles Bukowski, Johnny Thunders, My Muse's Karen Johnson and La Diva Sophia, Sid Vicious, Jah, Jack Lambert, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash, Mojo Repair Shop, James Brown, Ganesha, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Ziptye, Napalm Beach, Public Enemy, The Wipers, The Portland Trail Blazers, Dennis Hopper, Rockets Redglare, Richard Pryor, Stiv Bators, The Dead Boys, Lenny Bruce, Lemmy, Motorhead, Robert Gordon, Robert Nesta Marley, The Killer: Jerry Lee Lewis, FEAR, Elvis, Peter Tosh, Lux Interior, The Cramps, Ric Flair & Four Horsemen, The Original Club Satyricon, Fellini, The Beat Writes, Andy Warhol,Sublime, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Redd Foxx, The Dead Kennedys, The Virgin Of Guadalupe, Hot Rods, Old Motorcycles, Skateboarding, 9 1/2 Weeks, The Pittsburgh Penguins, Bali, Mickey Rourke, Frank Sinatra, George Carlin, Dean Martin,The Wanderers, Old Guitars, Betty Page, CBGBs, Marilyn Monroe, Pirate Bay, Jane Mansfield, The Boy Wonders, Los Jackals, The Rolling Stones: Some Girls ad prior, Keith Richards, Demonoid, Joe Coleman, DIY, Pin-Up Girls, Mondo Video, Italia, Miles Davis, The Violent Femmes, All Original Music, Sophia Loren, Black Flag, Gore, Serial Killers, The Cynics, Submachine, The Pittsburgh Pirates, P2P, Andy Kaufman, Poison Idea, John Paul Sartre, Humphrey Bogart, Gnarly Love, Old Guitars, Pre-80's Smut, People who hate starbucks, Social Workers, Dive Bars, PBR, Laugh-In, Drive-In Theaters, Tony Alva, The X Games, Creem Magazine, Boy Howdy Beer, Legs McNeil, Matt Dillon, Gus Van Zandt, The IFC, Cheap Cigarettes, The UFC, Old School Wrasslin, Drag Queens, 1% MC's, Wandering, Live Dead: Pre 1990, Hinduism, Lord Nrsimhadeva, Govinda, Hiranyakasipu, Antique Beads, Shiva, Fernando Botero, The Nomads, Salvador Dali, The Dali llama, Taschen, Gil Elvgren, Vargas, B-Movies, Southern Culture On The Skids, Bear Family Records, Redrum, Jack Nicholson,Nuggets, Pebbles, The CLASH, Beastie Boys, Tom Waits, Joe Bob Briggs, Edgar Alan Poe, Dr. Seuss, Aldous Huxley, RE/SEARCH, Ernest Hemmingway, Anton LaVey, Brion Gysin, Walt Disney, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, Nabokov, Arthur Miller, Benny Hill, John Fante, Allen Ginsberg, The Road Less Traveled, Chuck Berry, Abbie Hoffman, Bad Brains, Ann Rice, Black Sparrow Press, Betty Blue, Harold and Maude, Francis Ford Coppola, Myron Cope, Maurice Sendak, Carlos Castaneda, Target Video, Stax Records, Motown Records, The Temptations, Dead Moon, Marvin Gaye, Tattoos / Piercings, Hieronymus Bosch, My Mother The Whore, Dante, The Velvet Underground, John Belushi, Charles Darwin, Hunter S. Thompson, A.N. Roquelaure, Voodoo, Ralph Stedman, Georges Batille, Tom Wolfe, Patty Smith, John Doe, Bauhaus, X, Paul Bowles, Kiss, John Steinbeck, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds, Charles Manson, Al Capone, Joh Dillinger, Albert Camus, Jim Carroll, Alleister Crowley, The Fuzztones, J.D. Sallinger, Jim Jarmusch, Caligula, Jim Thompson, A Clockwork Orange, Langlitz Leathers, Parliament, Funkadellic, Brides Of Funkenstein, Rick James, Prince, Roy Orbison, Highway 13, Crispin Glover, Sun Records, Enrico Caruso, City Lights Book Store, The Beat Book Store, Lockjaw, New York Dolls, 999, Leadbelly, KBOO 90.7fm, Townes Van Zandt, Backyard Babies, John Cassavetes, Green River, Northwest Passage, HANK WILLIAMS I,II,&III, Ken Burns, Bon Scott, Thin Lizzy, MC5, Billie Holliday, Joe Strummer, William F. Burroughs, Neil Young, Lou Reed, The(orig) Misfits, The Hellacopters, Social Distortion, The Addicts, The Pixies, Reid Paley, Ray Campi, Mae West, Ilsa, Henry & June, Mojo Nixon, Black Sabbath, Howard Stern, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddly, Dusty Springfield, The Runaways, Wynonie Harrie, Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown, Big Mama Thornton, Moms Mabley, Hanoi Rocks, Flip Wilson, Imogene Heap, Son House, Van Morrison, The Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Drive Like Jehu, Free Tibet, Zap Mama, Leonard Peltier, Pinball, Foosball, Darts, Bocci, Jarts, Air Hockey, B/W Films, Horror Flicks, Iron City Beer, Absolute, Mono, Stereo, AM/FM, Hasil Adkins, Hot Wheels, Howlin' Wolf, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, T-Rex, Sun Ra, The Blasters, The Church Of The Sub Genius, Thrasher, Bob Dobbs, Alien Sex Fiend, Universal Life Church, 13th Floor Elevators, Krsna, Muscle Cars, Biker Flicks, Roller Derby, Sno Bud & Flower People, Puddle stompiN', Coastal storms, Large Dogs and Fat Cats, DIVERSITY,

Well, if you like most of this, you will likely enjoy what is to come.
Thanxxx, The Rev.