Doghouse Riley

"There are two kinds a folks in this here world, me and everbody else"

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My shovel's too small. . .Or is it?
Where can I get me a big enough shovel to make a dang difference here in the total manure spreadin music bidness?  I went down to the hardware store and they just laughed at me.  But ever time I git on the internets thang it's plain ta see that ifn ya don't got one as big as a backhoe you aint' goin nowheres.  Any ideas?  I mean I'm willin to hyperbolize as much as the next fella or gal.  Scruples, have I none.  So, I got that goin fer me at least.  How do you folks handle it?
I have relented. . .

. . .and went an got me one a them MySpace Music thangs.

 http://www.myspace.com/doghouserileyhisownself  

There's lots a foolishness and my own bucolic visage to stare lovinly at, ifn ya got a mind to.  Although why you would I could not say.  Or could I?

Ok, ifn ya don't wanna talk. . .
Then ya can just listen to my latest ol magnum opus ifn ya want.  Seein's how philsophy and music history ain't yor cup a tea. 
My Interior needs decoratin. . .

. . .cause as any dunderhead knows, and thank gawd almighty for it, science keeps strippin away the layers of myth and mysticism where we're almost to the point that even a "big-selfed" entity such as my ownself won't, with any confidence whatsoever be able to even think about thankin gawd almighty, let alone sayin it.  But folks is still comin up to me on an almost daily basis and sayin, "Hey, Doghouse Riley,  I understand all that but what about your "such-ness"  or your "thus-ness"??  Explain that away with a smart-alek comment or somethin.  Ain't ya even in touch with yor own interiority??  Hell, I bet ya are and don't even know it.  Or, more likely, won't admit it.  Why are ya such a dang contrarian all the damn time?  What good does it do ya?  To which I usually reply, wail my interiority is as shabby as the next fellers which means a good vaccumin wouldn't hurt but my "such-ness" is the same as yors. . .non-existent, you numbnuts!!  Listen (I usually go on), I ain't got a shovel big enough to dig out from under that pile of bull.  And neither do you.  And don't go startin any tangential shit about captive synapse energy fields neither or I'm liable ta kick ya in the nuts.  Course, I say that with love.

OK, Let's say you could wish in one hand and shit in the other...
...which do ya thank would fill up the fastest?  I mean what in the wide-wide-world-a-sports are ya in this for?  What motivates ya?  What keeps ya goin?  Are you lookin for world wide supra stardomhood?  Let me tell ya, it ain't all it's cracked up ta be.  But I know ya won't take my word for it.  Although I could tell ya stories that'd make ya want to sell yor dang computer loopin machine and move outta yor momma's house and go back to high school or at least get yor GED or whatever they call it in whatever country you might live in.  More's the pity.  Ya cain't be doin this fer fun alone or else ya wouldn't even bother puttin it up on the world wide yawn thang.  You'd just do it in the privacy of yor bedroom, listen back to it a few thousand times, masturbate and move on to the next project.  Or would ya?  I thank ya must be seekin peer acceptance.  But ya don't even know who yor peers are.  Like me they may be nothin more than jabbernows, mooncalfs or pee-diddles.   Ya don't want that do ya?  Well do ya?  Maybe it's more like the modern equivalent of buildin model airplanes or paintin by numbers.  A nice hobby.  But again, why do that in public?  Surely ya got a story ta tell.  Hell, maybe it's actually interestin.  So, what the hell is it?
Was George Martin really the "fifth" Beatle?

Discuss. . .

Do You Like Bug Spray?
No, me neither.  Lessn we're overrun by fleas or redbugs or somethin.  But I mean the taste of bug spray.  Not that I've ever tasted it.  But when ya spray it ya sorta do taste it.  Or do ya?  Anyways ya'll knowin my proclivity for that sweet elixer known simply as "Gin" ya might be surprised to hear that I've found one that I simply cain't drank.  At all.  No way.  And it's high dollar too.  Made in small batches over here in the bad (formerly good) ol USofA.  The name sucks too but I could live with that.  Couldn't you?  What?  Oh hell, sorry, didn't mean ta hold ya up. . .it's "Aviation Gin".  And maybe my palate ain't developed enough (although lord gawd almighty I don't see how that can be as I been "developin" it my whole dang life) but no matter how I took it. . .neat, martini, gin rickey, gimlet, on frainch fries. . . it was only bug spray that showed up for the party in my mouth and nose (Oh yea, it's a party, junior).  Maybe it won't for you.  But why take the chance?  A course ya don't gotta thank me for this little tid-bit.  Lessn ya want to.
If I said you had a beautiful body. . .
. . .would you hold it against me or somethin?  Wail, how about ifn I said yor ol eyes was like two limpid pools, maybe?  Hey, what is a limpid pool anyways?  I tell ya right here and now it don't sound like somethin a feller'd want ta have anythang ta do with if he was spoonin some gal.  Does it?  I mean, just between you and me and the doorstop, it's got the word "limp" right in it.  Dang.  How about ifn I said I'd take ya dancin first?  No?  OK, hows about, for the sake a argument, I'd got ya ta drank about three of my Plymouth gin martinis before I asked ya?  Yea, I thought so.  And don't that Plymouth gin go down smooth?  Alot like my ownself, really.  Honest.  So put on yor red dress baby, we're steppin out tonite.  In other words I just put up a new song over at my dang profile thing.  Be sure and brang a rose to hold in yor teeth.  Ya got a rose, don't ya??!!
Enui is boring. . .
But I'm sufferin from it anyways.  And, yea, I know I got to get some more new stuff up (and will) so shut up, will ya.  And those of ya that knows me is already aware of Ol Cholly's tough nut to crack.  So today, as a educational method of procrastination, I'm gonna do all of ya a huge favor and let ya in on a little secret I bet most of ya don't know.  Lenny Breau.  Never heard of him, you say?  Uh huh, I know.  It's pitiful, ain't it.  Possibly the greatest guitarist of our age and you never heard of him.  Or have ya?  Google and YouTube away children.  Ya won't be disappointed.  And get this (just to whet yor appetite) he's a CANADIAN!!  Lord- Gawd-Almighty-on-a-Soda-Cracker!!  Plus, even better, he was found dead as a nit in the swimmin pool of his apartment from. . .no, not drownin. . .but bein strangled!  How cool is that?  Anyways, like always, no need to thank me lessen ya want to. 
You've badgered me enough I guess. . .

. . .so I've put a dang song up on my "profile thang".  Yea, it's surreal as always.  What'd ya expect?  So listen if ya must, I cain't help what you'll thank.  Dont' say I didn't warn ya.  And just to keep this here blog thang honest my daily golden orb of wisdom is:  if ya ever hear it, don't be alarmed by the phrase,"nine foot up a bulls behind".  That there means it's about the best. . .and richest. . .food you may ever eat in yor entire life.  So, eat it!  Ya won't be sorry.  Honest.

How about Doghouse Riley is Yor Pal?
That there would be way better.  Or even better "You are in Doghouse Riley's Circle of Champions".  I'd even take "Enter, Dark Raven" or somethin.  But, hell, you fellers know I like ya and all. . .course I'm kinda worried about ol Labcoat. . .I thank the battery on his drum box is runnin low.  But, listen now, I know I'm not spposed to use this here Blog thang just for personal missives and all.  I'm supposed to spout off deep thoughts and re-conform universal truths so's that any dang fool kin understand 'em.  So, here's today's golden orb of wisdom:  Don't trust Earl Dean Krepwich any further than you can throw him.  Never.  Nu uh.  No Way.  And shame on you ifn ya do.  Now you might say, "Hey, Doghouse Riley, I don't even know Earl Dean Krepwich".  Good.  That'll make it way easier never to trust him about nothin.  So consider yorself warned.  And, a course, no need to thank me.  Lessen ya want to, a course.
Go Ahead Tell Me, I Kin Take It. . .
When you look at my profile thang. . .ifn you are one of those folks that I've known before and who I've said I'll "accept" as my "friend", does it really say on my own profile, when you look at it that "Doghouse Riley is your friend"???  Cause ifn it does I thank I'm gonna be sick or somethin.  That's almost as bad as sayin "Doghouse Riley likes you. . .do you like him?. . .answer yes or no in this here note passed to ya by Shirley Johnson who is the best friend of Sherrie Norris who really likes you but don't want to say nothin for fear you. . . like ya done so many times before. . .will break her heart, or somethin.  I mean do you like it when I look at yor ol pitiful profile and it says "Loveshadow, or Spinmeister, or Mccello or whoever is yor friend"??  Well, do ya??  How could ya?  It don't seem right.  Does it?
Right about now I know exactly what yor thankin. . .

. . .ain't skeeters awful!  I mean plain unadulterated ugly awful.  No excuse awful.  Proof there ain't no such a thang as god or nothin awful.  Unless, a course, he or she is one extremely tortured ol jokester.  But, listen, I got a heads up fer ya.  Are ya ready?  Well, are ya?  OK, here goes.  SKINTASTIC!  I know, it sounds more like somethin I'd say about a mix or somethin (only I'd say DANG instead of SKIN) but what it is is a spray bottle of what I'm sure is cancer causin toxic sludge that smells real purty and ain't oily or greasy or nothin that. . .they say . . .(and you know as well as I do what and who they are) will flat drive the skeeters away.  As they used to say (another they not the they I was talkin about in that last sentence) "they (now we're referin to the skeeters not either one of the theys we was talkin about earlier) don't bite. . .they won't even lite".  And you know what?  It's absolutely true.  At least as far as I'm concerned.  And that comes direct from someone (me, Doghouse Riley) that (apparently) is the exact temperature of a cow.  That's right, I said a cow!  That's what them skeeters love to bite.  And I guess I'm the next best thang.  I ain't been able to sit out on my deck come the evenin and enjoy a martini (or three) since it got hot over here in the bad (formerly good) ol USofA.  But now I can.  And now you can too!!  No need ta thank me.  Thank SKINTASTIC!!  But, hey, don't go askin what's in it. . .ya don't want to know.

If Ya Lay Down With A Dog. . .

. . .ya probly don't mind gettin dirty or nothin.  And fleas, a course.  But listen, you invited me over here so I cain't be held responsible for any worry-wartin I might do.  Like what is the rattyassed deal with the "gear" button thang?  I mean I'm perfectly willin ta leave some sort of look-see at my stuff but all I get is this cockamamie list ta pick from.  And that ain't happenin, junior.  And there ain't even one Swinette or Swinette manufacturer listed!!!  Nowhere!!!  I got more gear than you can shake a stick at.  Not that you'd want to or nothin, that's just an expression.  Hell, I'm tryin as hard as I can to get shut a most of it.  Cause although I thank outside the box I like to produce in it.  And that there "tag" thang.  Lord, don't get me started on that.  That there's about as useless as tits on a boar hog.  And it didn't even come out like I typed it.  And who cares anyway.  Not you, that's for sure.  But ta end on an up note, (That there is what they call a literary device.  Honest.) I been crusin and perusin a lot of the music by the folks here at MI7 and guess what?  No really, guess?  Well, OK, I'll tell ya;  a whole lot of it is purty dang good!!  Not all of it, mind.  But a purty good chunk.  In fact my hat would be off to many of the talented ol fellers and gals here, ceptin I don't wear a hat.  I guess you'll just have ta do with an ol tail wag instead.

Warmin up to a dimbulb
Hey, listen now, I cain't tell ya how much I appreeeciate the mutlitudes of wonderful folks that are beatin down my door and tramplin all over my yard wantin me to be their friend or whatever.  Or at least requestin to.  Or somethin.  And I'm almost (but not quite) humbled by the love that's in the air.  And, a course, I already know'd a bunch a folks from over at the RealWorld an all so I "accepted" them.  And while I'm on the subject, how come the way you go about makin a friend here is to "accept" or "deny"?  That sounds so cold and rattyassed.  Don't it?  How about "Wail, I'll thank on it and get back to ya after I seen ya at the grocery store or the post office a few times or downtown at the Wal-Mart with yor kids so's I can see how ya treat em or maybe hear what other folks in town is sayin about ya, tho ya really cain't put too much stock in that as look what they say about me!" On the plus side and, "Listen, right now my social calendars purty dang full but should somethin change I'll get back to ya (only nothin ever changes around here, does it?)."  On the negative side.  Just a thought.  But anyways to all those folks that I really don't know (and who really don't know me. . .yet) who wanta be ol Doghouse's buddy right now I'll just say thanks for the offer.  Honest.  But I got ta study on ya a little first.  And, a course, you might want to try a warm up to me too.  That right there should keep ya purty busy.
Hey, I don't have ta talk in the second person afterall
Hey, everbody.  My name's Doghouse and I'm pleased as punch ta join whatever in hell ya'll do over here at MI7.  Ifn yor sorry ta see me or my handsome visage over to the left you've got nobody to blame but the numbnuts over at ol Pete Gabriel's RealWorldRemixed site.  They actually  asked me ta come over here and join.  Can you imagine such mooncalfishness?  Well, can ya?  But anyways, I'm happy ta be here and will be glad to help lower the discourse and general angst and enui as much as I can but don't expect too much cause I'm only human (tho after a while you might thank differently).  I generally don't study somebody else unless they're studyin me too closely so we should get along jes fine.  But just in case ya got any sort a problem, question or concern, why hell, just ask.  I ain't bashful. 
Hello Doghouse, welcome to your blog thang!!
Hey Doghouse Riley, welcome to your blog thang whatever.  I know yor gonna like it.  I bet.  At least I'm purty sure.  Wail, thanks Doghouse, ol pal.  I appreeeeeciate it.  Honest.  What is a blog thang?  Danged ifn I know, Doghouse.  Well, listen now, I'm gonna find out what it is and I bet before you know it I'll be kickin some major blog ass over here at MI7.  Oh I know you will, Doghouse.  That'd be just like you.  No more'n stumble over somethin and the next day yor gettin calls from all overf the dang world to explain it ta everbody else.  Right, Doghouse, that's just my style.  Why I got ta big-league everbody all the dang time I don't know.  It's a curse, Doghouse.  Or a blessin, Doghouse, it's hard ta say.  Anyways I thank this here blog thang has somethin ta do with writin.  Wail, hell, Doghouse what in the wide-wide-world-a-sports you thank I been doin here for the last five or six minutes?  See, Doghouse, that wadn't hard at all.  Yea, not bad for a first go, I guess.  Well, we'll see, Doghouse.  Right, Doghouse, we'll see.  I done said that.  Hell, I know.