PURITY RING

Within the last week Canada has lost an entire city due to wild fire and it is rapidly spreading, and expected to double in size. Fort McMurray has been ablaze all week and the fire is spreading towards Saskatchewan. Attempts to put the fire out have been failing because the fire is so hot water it is evaporating before it can do any good. 

Dry and extremely windy conditions are fueling the blaze, which has already scorched more than 1,560 square kilometers (602 square miles) and displaced tens of thousands of people.

These people are no longer evacuees … They’re refugees. 

Rain is to be expected next week, but a downpour is needed to tame a monstrous fire – which is the size of Hong Kong and is almost 25% bigger than New York City – that has displaced about 88,000 people, wiped out 1,600 structures including homes, schools and hospitals, and sent plumes of smoke as far away as Iowa.

Here is a link if you want to help, please share this, this is a huge tragedy and these people need help. 

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/want-to-help-those-fleeing-fort-mcmurray-heres-how/

accompanied by an incredible interview (below) with her where she goes to great lengths to describe her beautiful process and a particular montreal community that surrounds it.  

it is possible that i just strongly relate to this person because i have since the beginning of our friendship years ago in edmonton, but i feel like she describes here exactly what it takes and how it feels to create music, or anything for that matter.  i get kind of feely reading this, partly because she speaks to me by simply existing, and partly because i am so excited that NENNEN is finally here for everyone to see. 

that night we got drunk & raided some hoops