Archive for March, 2008

Health & Social Care in the Community, 15, 4

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Barring ‘inappropriate people’? The operation of a barring list of social care workers: an analysis of the first referrals to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults list
Organisation and features of hospital, intermediate care and social services in English sites with low rates of delayed discharge
User involvement, research and health inequalities: developing new directions
The community pharmacy and discursive complexity: a qualitative study of interaction between counter assistants and customers
Using older home care user experiences in performance monitoring
Patient views of social service provision for older people with advanced heart failure
Offloading social care responsibilities: recent experiences of local voluntary organisations in a remote urban centre in British Columbia, Canada
A sense of security for cancer patients at home: the role of community nurses
Listening to people with intellectual disabilities who misuse alcohol and drugs
Community readiness to promote Latinas’ participation in breast cancer prevention clinical trials
The perceptions of statutory service providers of a local Sure Start programme: a shared agenda?

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administratio…

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the DOT reading room is being downsized and threatened with closure.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the Department of Transportation reading room located at 400 7th St. SW in Washington, D.C. is being downsized and threatened with closure. Regular researchers report that documents that they have used for years are suddenly not there. They have been told that older material is being sent to NARA storage center in Suitland even though that information is not available on the NHTSA web site. Access at Suitland is difficult for the public.
The reading room includes the following kinds of information in its collection: 1) Technical Information Services (TIS) information, 2) dockets and NHTSA comments to dockets, 3) research note books that help users find Federal Register notices and identify dockets relevant to their research, 4) papers from the Society of Automotive Engineers, 5) service bulletins for vehicles, 6) NHTSA news releases, 7) motor vehicle recalls, defects investigations, 8) NHTSA sponsored research, 9) presentations to 1988-89 series of meetings on roll over prevention and much more.

Please let the Department of Transportation know about the value of this reading room.

Nokia and University of Technology, Helsinki, to partner on research in nanotechnology

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Helsinki, Finland - Nokia and the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, today announced an agreement to work together on a key strategic collaboration in nanotechnology research. The two organisations will work together on selecting and progressing research into this exciting area of technology. Nokia Research Center (NRC) will base a number of its researchers at the university’s premises in Otaniemi, Espoo, for the duration of these projects. The collaboration is also part of The Finnish national FinNano program of TEKES (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation). This is the second university collaboration around nanotechnologies to be established by Nokia in recent weeks: a collaboration with the University of Cambridge, UK, was announced early in March.

The joint research activities are expected to focus on areas including: - New computing and information storage methods - Functional nanomaterials for mobile and ambient intelligence devices - Carbon based nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes and graphene) Commenting on the announcement, Professor Risto Nieminen of the Helsinki University of Technology, said: “Working with an acknowledged world-leader in research, such as Nokia, will help the university to extend its international reputation in science and technology. Nanotechnology offers huge potential for organisations in areas as diverse as energy, environment - for example, low energy manufacturing and recyclability - and new materials.” Dr Bob Iannucci, Nokia Senior Vice President and head of Nokia Research Center, said, “Open collaboration with leading research institutions in our fields of interest is central to NRC’s strategy because it enables us to maintain the widest possible base for our research. By combining our approach with that of the university research team, we are able to benefit from the different approaches and areas of interest of both organisations. There is obviously a strong affinity between a leading Finnish research institution, such as Helsinki University of Technology, and a major Finnish company like Nokia and we are proud to be helping to promote science and technology research in Finland, with the assistance of TEKES.” The collaboration with Helsinki University of Technology was announced at the 2007 Nanotechnology Northern Europe (NTNE) conference by Dr. Tapani Ryhänen, who heads global research into nanotechnology for Nokia Research Center. Speaking at the conference, Tapani Ryhänen said that developments in nano materials and related fields have a wide range of potential applicability for the future in areas as diverse as lower energy manufacture and low cost materials. About Nokia Research Center Interacting closely with all Nokia business groups and Technology Platforms, Nokia Research Center is responsible for the strategic and long-term research in Nokia. Looking beyond current product development, the Research Center challenges current strategies and drives Nokia’s renewal through long-term technology exploration. Nokia Research Center participates in the standardization work and various international R&D projects in cooperation with universities and research institutes. Nokia Research Center employs about 950 people and has activities in Finland, USA, Germany, Hungary, China and Japan. For more information on Nokia Research Center, see the website www.research.nokia.com About Nokia Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations. Media enquiries: Nokia Technology Communications Tel. +358 504 867 374 Nokia Communications Tel. +358 7180 34900 E-mail: press.office@nokia.com www.nokia.com

Victorian State budget

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I didn’t have strong views on the Victorian State Budget but would be interested to hear those of readers. The $3.6 billion expenditure on infrastructure (schools, hospitals, transport) is welcome as is the decision to provide more public housing and the cuts to payroll tax, WorkCover premiums and land tax – the latter a consequence of the property boom. These are achievable because, despite the drought and bushfires, there is a strong, growing Victorian economy – doing much better than NSW.

The expected budget surplus will be $300-$400 million over each of the next few years.

Some in the press and the Liberal Party described the budget as ‘unexciting’ – that has never seemed much of a criticism to me. Spending only $280 million on water projects – and deferring decisions on new water supply technologies until 2008 has come under criticism but rushing to judgement on these important issues might not be sensible in the midst of a drought.

QotD: Rubbing Elbows

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Have you ever met any celebrities? Any interesting stories? Submitted by Tasha. yes… and yes… I hung out with MANY comedians in the San Francisco Bay Area when I was in my mid 20’s. It was the comedy boom and I was drawn to them all. Some …
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History will repeat

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Perhaps Sean McCormick needs a history lesson.
Last year, the Sabres had the Senators down 3-0 in their series. Ottawa won Game 4 by a score of 2-1 and were headed back to home ice with a small amount of confidence.

You could have argued that Ottawa had lost their three games by a one-goal margin and that the Game 4 win was going to give them all the momentum they needed to turn the series around.

So what happened in Game 5?

Jason Pominville OT winner. We don’t need to elaborate.

So why does The Big Dude think that the Buffalo Sabres are going to be any different than last year’s Ottawa team?

I’m not sure, but I’d love to be smoking whatever they are inhaling at the Sportsnet Connected Lounge these days.

So here’s an open memo to Sean McCormick and the rest of the gang who have an area code of 416, 905 or 647: The Buffalo Sabres have lost this series.

It’s fantastic that they came out and gave their fans a shred of hope. And Buffalo’s Game 4 win has given Leafs Nation another 48 hours to call Ottawa chokers.

Enjoy it while it lasts, because Ottawa is going to the Stanley Cup Final. I said it before this series and I’ll say it again now.

Does anyone else think it was odd that Buffalo mustered only 15 shots on goal in a ‘must-win’ Game 3 in this series? Teams on the verge of losing series have that type of performance.

And let’s analyze their Game 4 victory a little closer, shall we?

They get a goal in the opening 10 seconds of the game. Then they score a goal with a 5-on-3 advantage. And their last goal was a weak one allowed by Ray Emery from Chris Drury. And then Buffalo had to rely solely on goalie Ryan Miller to bail them out.

This was hardly an inspiring performance from a team with their season on the line. They were out-shot and out-played for a good chunk of the game.

The Sabres have yet to play a magnificent game in the playoffs. What makes you think they are going to start on Saturday afternoon?

(P.S. - McCormick: Stick to writing about the Oilers. Isn’t it about time you wrote a blog about how important it is for them to re-sign Ryan Smyth?)

A Decent Bit of Gossip

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Aaah. Friday morning. There’s nothing like getting into the office, knowing there’s only one day to go until the blessed weekend.

As I relaxed, checked my emails and supped some coffee, I engaged in the obligatory ‘get to anything interesting last night’ conversation with my colleague (I had been to see Frost Nixon, and was very much looking forward to showing off about it).

My colleague had been to a do at Frankie’s restaurant in Knightsbridge. They were having an invite-only bash, in order to drum up a bit more trade. There were complimentary drinks, and a special turn by magician du jour Fay Presto. (I was already feeling a bit jealous by this stage. I haven’t been invited anywhere fancy for ages)

But it turned out Fay Presto was not to be the star of the show. Frankie’s is co-owned by Marco Pierre White, and he was there last night with his wife and five year old daughter. According to my colleague, the evening was going along swimmingly, when all of a sudden there was a huge commotion. MWP’s wife had chucked a whole table of drinks over her husband, in full view of everyone. The room went silent as everyone craned their necks to check out the disturbance. Then MWP’s wife got onto the stage, turned off the music, and picked up the in-house microphone.

‘Wife no 3 here’, she bellowed. ‘No doubt Wife No 4 is in here somewhere!’. She then announced to the room at large that she was divorcing MWP.

Good lord. That’s what I call an eventful night out.

What Is Real?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

"I think Silicon Valley will never happen in Europe. People [in Europe] care too much about their family and friends" [Forbes] (via Siona via Valleywag)

"We are on our way back to a city [Dan and Margaret live in Boulder, CO] full of high-achieving software
engineers and real-estate brokers who have built a fabulously
well-organized community, with excellent schools, thriving businesses,
and immaculate parks, but who can’t find the time to sit a spell on the
porch, let alone enjoy a second beer." - Dan Baum, last post on the New Yorker blog after a six-month stint in New Orleans (they lived in the Bywater, upper Ninth ward)The first time I met Dan, he was in line ahead of me at Caffea (btw, the best coffeehouse on the planet, and I travel lots). I mistook him for a ukulele player I'd met at a bacchanalian end-o-the-world party, street fashion show, and improvisational movie filming at Cafe Brasil. But I digress.

I stumbled onto Dan's New Yorker blog again (stumbled may not be right word, it's not like I didn't know of it already) while researching the history of troubadours, Fedeli d'Amore, street performance collectives, and busking. (Why is another story related to this story.) Specifically, "stumbled" again via Google searching for the awesome street jazz band I'd heard in New Orleans called, "Loose Marbles."

From there it was a short skip and jump to Dan's front page. Reading Dan's last dispatch filed from Houston just after they'd left New Orleans, I broke down and cried.

A friend I met in New Orleans texts me this morning to ask me how I'm doing. (BTW, I don't just blurt the default "fine", unless I actually am flying high as kite.)

wish could say better…feelin blue

me 2 a little. i wondr why? u know. at least you have a B&N ther [He's just driven with his mom for two days from the Hamptons to a new town I'll decline to identify that she's checking out for possible relocation.]

ha ha. It is not the strip malls. It is mass delusion here that gets 2 me. Everyone goin 100 miles an hour…off a cliff. Suppose shall make it easier 2 find our clan.

Not 100% sure. Read energy intens w full moon, merc retro, but think [myself] has 2 do with getting harder 4 indigos to just be fine with world as is…may be moving us to DO something

Abundance 2.0 has been on my mind lately. Not only because I've committed to a beyond "The Secret" themed series. Because it has been on my own mind personally. I'm not sure we can even discuss the law of attraction if we're unclear about what we'd truly wish to attract into our lives, and what we desire for our lives to be. "It’s the American way to focus on the future—we are dreamers and
schemers, always chasing the horizon. Looking forward has made us
great, but it comes at a price. (Mexican immigrants often describe life
in the United States as puro reloj, or “nothing but the clock.”) New Orleanians, on the other hand, are excellent at the lost art of living in the moment. Étienne
stopped at our house one afternoon to drop off some papers he wanted me
to see. No, he said, he couldn’t stay; someone was waiting for him
downtown. But we got to talking, and gradually moved to the chairs on
the porch. We had a beer. The shadows lengthened as the day cooled, the
jasmine across the street smelled sweet, and a few houses away someone
was practicing the saxophone. Margaret brought out a dish of almonds.
We all had another beer. It was dark by the time Étienne left. And
here’s the true miracle of New Orleans: the person waiting for him
downtown no doubt had an equally pleasant couple of hours, and Étienne
surely paid no social penalty for being late." - Dan BaumWhat is Abundance?, to me, feels intimately related to What is Real?

I wrote this What is Real? post well over two years ago: March 29, 2005. And for some unknown reason it has kept fluttering into my mind this past week, whispering: re-post me, re-post me. (I don't repost.) Unlike a lot of my posts from 2005, it still feels relevant. And after the crying bout, I decided okay, yes, I'm reposting.

So bear with me on this post if it's been 'too' real, but I've dropped my fascination with What is Read? to live the question What is Real?

What Is Real? (originally posted, March 29, 2005)

I'm against the overhead of maintaining a persona, as an individual. - Alan Gutierrez, comments in Hugh's "Greatness" postI've
noticed an interesting phenomena. When I stay on the surface and write
from what writer Natalie Goldberg says is that hip, glib place my
nervousous about being real pervades the post. I stay on the surface. I definitely get more trackbacks and that's the point, right? But no email. When I'm real, I receive a flurry of personal and very heartfelt email - and barely any public comments, or trackbacks.

A friend asks if I am lonely. "Having an audience, a readership, isn't the same thing as one-on-one real conversation."
So true. Emerson once said he would walk a hundred miles through a
snowstorm for a good conversation. I'd do the same for a real conversation.

We are aching for the real.''People aren't looking for the elevated holy man who's got all of the answers,'' he told me one afternoon. ''They want someone to be real with them.'' - Pastor McFarland of the Radiant Church, a megachurch growing faster than weeds, from New York Times, "The Soul of the New Exurb," March 27, 2005Seth Godin gives his two cents on the marketing efforts of the Radiant megachurch. And Tom Guarriello asks: "My question is, if Seth's right, and all marketers are liars, then what lie is this church telling?  Let's see if we can figure it out."

If you dig below the superficials - the mall
complex, the billboard ads, the Krispy Kremes and Starbucks - what this
church is ultimately "selling" is realness: "When you ask
people how Radiant has changed their lives, they will almost invariably
talk about how it helped open their hearts."Most
Christians who say they have been changed by their church attribute it
not to their pastors' sermons but to their small groups, where people can share, in the words of Dave Travis, who runs the megachurch consultancy, ''their deepest hopes and hurts.''
This was, after all, the model of Jesus and his disciples: What I've
done with you, you now do with other people. - New York Times, "The Soul of the New Exurb", March 27, 2005I'm
no biblical scholar, but I believe the last line refers to the tender
act in the last supper where Jesus carefully and lovingly washes each
disciples feet before the meal is brought in - a task that one would
think would be "beneath" a guru, a master and is usually relegated to
servants and hastily performed. Silently he kneels and washes their
feet circling one by one around the table. When he is done, he says:I
give you a new commandment: that you love one another. Just as I have
loved you, you should also love one another. - John 13:34
I'd rather be real than great.
I have never gained anything I truly wanted from a pure pursuit of
greatness. I'm not saying these two are mutually exclusive, but the focus
can lead one astray. Nothing kills relationships - personal and
professional - quicker than when I stop being real. It's costly in the
tangible cash realm too.Some time when the river is ice ask me

mistakes I have made. Ask me whether

what I have done is my life. - from William Stafford's poem "Ask Me"Being real in a customer service relationship may have saved me from totally losing every bit of the three grand I plopped down to reserve rooms and meeting space for the Dwelve "advance".
Customers don't usually admit THEY are the idiots. Of course I wasn't
real quite early enough… I didn't want to cancel earlier because
"EVERYONE" knows you stick to your commitments. Scaling back to an
intimate gathering because your heart isn't into doing a big to-do -
now, what kind of lame excuse is that? But it was the truth. I knew it
six weeks ago. But I couldn't fess up to it until last week. Oh, I've
mastered grand failures - but mastery of real
- and small - experiments is next. A small experiment is not a timid
experiment, but it's not striving for greatness above all else either.I'd say greatness exists in all of us. Kind of like the way treeness exists in an acorn. Perhaps every acorn doesn't become a tree but the potential to grow is ALWAYS there. - my comment on Hugh's "Greatness" postFunny thing, being real usually lead to being great - on your own terms. It's questionable if it works the other way around. For
a long time I defined "greatness" by other people's measures until one
day I read something that stuck with me. It said something to the
effect that I should accentuate my weaknesses - in other words, perhaps my "weakness" was actually a differentiator. And a hidden strength. "Different" from what other's categorize as a "strength" doesn't make it a "weakness." Who's the judge? We
use the word original as if it means new, or innovative, or different.
But what about thinking of it as "from the origin"…i.e. true to us,
being ourselves and NOT trying to be something else. - Johnnie Moore, comment on post "Natural Not Imitative"I see no point in waiting until I'm 69 to be original. An interview with the former GE CEO Jack Welch
shows that his quest for greatness has now been tempered with an ache
for realness. Better late than never. Here's what one reviewer thought
of his memoir a few years back:"When confronted with a topic that might have actually made his memoir interesting, Welch runs in the other direction," wrote The New York Times. - "Jack on Jack: His Next Chapter", Newsweek, March 27, 2005I worked at GE during Neutron Jack's reign and was (thank god in retrospect) laid off. Maybe Mr. Soft and Fuzzy is a still a stretch. But I'm not convinced this smacks of being purely a re-branding effort alone. Personal growth, integrating both yin and yang,
and transformation are real too. You would not believe who I was five
years ago, however I am certain "real" would be the last word that
would pop into your mind.

I know Jerry. He's real. He was
a venture capitalist and now teaches a leadership course at Queens
College when he's not in zazen. He says:

Last week, in class, we read from Warren Bennis’ On Becoming A Leader. Bennis
talks about his belief that all leaders pass through some sort of
crucible before emerging more whole, more fully-actualized.
And so I told the class about my suicide attempt, my crucible. I don’t
think they’ve ever had a teacher admit to having tried to kill
themselves.

They were all a little stunned.

But I knew they’d grown to admire me and I knew that by being open I could make myself more real. And
ideally I’d decrease the distance between who I am and who they are now
so they could feel more confident about becoming who they want to become. - Jerry Colonna, at his Madeleine's blog
Don't
be fooled. Leaders and teachers surround us - rarely will they be in
the guise of pastors, masters, CEOs and venture capitalists. Real
conversations can happen anywhere - between anyone. Treeness exists in every acorn, and realness resides in each of us.
Here's a most real and deeply philosophical conversation - and yet it's
amongst two children's toys - a hobbyhorse and a stuffed rabbit - in
the classic children's story, The Velveteen Rabbit.

"What is real?"
asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the
nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having
things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin
Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are real you don't mind
being hurt." - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbitp.s. Funny, I cite a post from a friend (ex-VC, ex-blogger) in this post above.
I'd just dropped him a note on Father's Day wishing him a Happy Father's Day
and thank you: "I was just thinking about three years ago, I wrote a Father's Day piece
on my blog after reading a very heartfelt blog post you wrote about
your grandfather. My blog at that time was the self-conscious
businessperson trying to dip her toe into weaving more human, more
soulful, themes."

Art: Mother and Child (Cherries), by Lord Frederic Leighton; Favorite Poet, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; A Coign of Vantage, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Music Lesson, by Lord Frederic Leighton; The Painter's Honeymoon, by Lord Frederic Leighton

COM: Jacob’s Story

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Today’s San Antonio Express News featured a story about Jacob Favela, his music and where it’s taken him. I did his first film Forgiven, and Carol Priour did his second For the Kids. Both can be seen below.

Young songwriter hoping to beat odds
Nancy Martinez, Express-News, Web Posted: 09/02/2007 11:03 PM CDT
http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/visualarts/stories/MYSA090307.01B.Jacob.3431543.html

When smooth-talking Cuitlahuac “Jacob” Favela raps about child abuse and neglect at a local fundraising event Tuesday night, he will be telling his own story. His raps are testimony of growing up in the state’s child welfare system.

“I write about what life has taken me through,” he said.

Between the ages of 6 and 18, Favela, who now lives at Hill Country Youth Ranch in Ingram, has lived in an emergency shelter, one foster home and four group foster homes.

In the past few years, Favela, whose videos featuring other foster children can be found on YouTube.com, has performed at so many festivals, schools and social service agencies across the city that it’s evolved into a part-time job of sorts for him.

His is a story of success.

In Bexar County last year, Child Protective Services was legally responsible for 5,197 local children. Most of those children were in foster care; others lived with relatives.

Research has shown that youths who age out of foster care at 18 are likely to be incarcerated, unemployed or homeless, suffer mental illness and drug addiction, become young parents and become violent crime victims.

But Favela plans to break that cycle for himself. He is a senior in high school this year, and he plans to go to college using the state’s free college tuition program for foster children.

“I want to study architecture,” he said. “Since I was real young, I always liked putting things together. I’d tell my mom that I wanted to build a house for her.”

The key to his success has been music. He’s realized that there’s something therapeutic about sharing his story and helping others — young people identify with him, and adults learn about young people’s struggles.

“I’ve always been good with words, so I put it all down on paper. It’s self-therapy. Little by little, I’m overcoming what I went through. Each time I turn a page, each time I perform, I’m getting over it a little more.”

The fundraiser is the 12th annual “Justice is Served” event for Child Advocates San Antonio, a group of volunteers who serve as court advocates for abused and neglected children. The event will include dinner and an auction. In keeping with the “Justice is Served” tradition, local judges will serve dessert.

Last year, the group raised $81,000. This year, its goal is $120,000.

Jessica Muñoz, spokeswoman for CASA, said Favela gives a unique insight into the reality of being a child in the system. “This young man is incredibly talented. He deserves for his story to be told so that others can appreciate what it truly means to be a survivor.”

Favela, 18, says his mother abandoned him when he was 6. “She left me standing outside across the street from a bar.”

Favela, a kindergartner at the time, was taken — along with his two younger brothers — from that bar and placed at an emergency shelter. From there, the boys were placed by CPS caseworkers in a foster home.

“For those two years, my mom worked real hard to get us back. She did the plan of service and everything they asked. For the first time, she was sober — she was on top of her game.”

Favela says he and his siblings were placed back with their mother for five years.

But CPS would step in again. He was 13 and his mom was pregnant.

“We didn’t have food or a place to stay; we were living in some pretty bad conditions,” he said. “I hadn’t been to school in a while.”

He stayed at Boysville, a group foster home in Converse, for a couple of years, then moved to Boys and Girls Town, where he stayed for several months before moving to a foster home for a year. But Favela, then 16, ran away from the home.

Eventually, he called the runaway hotline number. “I want to turn myself in,” he said.

So far, Favela has written 11 rap songs.

He said he wrote his first song when he was living at Boysville. Titled “Forgiven,” the song won first place at a few talent shows. The video, which was produced at Hill Country Youth Ranch, had more than 7,400 online hits. It is one of two songs about his mother:

“Hey mom, it’s your older son talking to you. I want to do what’s right, mom. I’m trying to reach out to you. I love you, mom. But your love hurts. Said you’d give me the best but you put me through the worst.”

Favela said he’s forgiven his mother, with whom he’s lost touch.

“I love my mom. She’s gonna be my mother no matter what. All I can do is forgive her, have faith and pray. But I also forgive her for me. I don’t want that weighing me down.”

When Favela writes his songs, he also wants to teach people about the CPS system.

“The children in CPS (custody) have an amazing struggle. Some handle it better than others, yes, but automatically when people hear I’m a foster child, they put that bad-kid label on me. But no, I am not a trouble child; I am a troubled child. But I don’t let that change me. I keep my head up, and I encourage others to do the same.”

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Retarded Mouse - Everybody Take Drugs (mp3)

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Here's a track, I just *found* it lying around here, I swear honest to god, it's not really my work at all, I have no idea how it came to be on my hard disk officer. It's by some obviously fucked-up artist called "Retarded Mouse" and the song is "Everybody Take Drugs".

Apparently the lyrics go something like this;

Everybody take drugs,
Lots more drugs.
Everyone take drugs,
Take more drugs.
Everyone take drugs,
Take more drugs.
Acid, horse, Blow, of course.
Acid, horse, Ecstasy, of course.
Acid, horse, Blow, of course.
Acid, horse, Ecstasy, of course.

Well, you get the picture. It's a very bouncy 112 bpm 303 driven track with a samba 3-3-2 rhythm. On drugs.

Download Retarded Mouse - Everybody Take Drugs (mp3)

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