Happy New Year’s Music

There’s about 2 hours left of 2007 — at least, if you live in the Northwest like I do. I have some people over but did want to take a quick break to get a New Year’s post up here. Can’t forget about my Offbeat readers.

Since it’s a holiday I thought we should have some music. This is a video I just recently saw at a fellow bloggers home base, The Production Side. It goes along with Into the Wild — which I haven’t seen but have read a multitude of times. The book is great (actually all of Jon Krakauer books are good) but the movie looks like a visual wonder. Anyway the video got me thinking; here at Offbeat we talk a lot about the trouble with McMansions, saving space when we can, and leaving a smaller footprint. Now we have a new year arriving and with it new chances to make a difference with how we live, build and occupy the land.

You know, if we don’t use these chances there won’t be movies like this with beautiful scenery to see. We won’t have forests and wide spaces to visit in person because they’ll be replaced with miles of structures. Obviously I love a good structure but I think we can have both; structures and land preservation we just need to plan and think carefully about our actual needs vs. wants. That’s manageable for 2008.

Wishing everyone a beautiful and peaceful New Year.