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And that, my friends, is a little backwards.
Politically, the spark was Dick Cheney's declaration that conservation is not a legitimate energy policy. We know what his energy policy was, despite the secret meetings. Since his hands are bloodied with oil, Cheney's vision is contrasted with images of more renewable sources. There's a shot of Jimmy Carter -- no, he's not part of the problem.He tried to improve things, but his efforts were undone. In his image that briefly appears, Carter stands in front of a bunch of solar panels. Immediately after, the video shows Dick Cheney and everyone's buddy, Donald Rumsfeld. (Carter actually installed solar panels on the roof of the White House, which Reagan removed.)
This song was written during the Bush years, reflecting that feeling that even though time is moving forward, our country is moving backward.
So the images often match the lyrics, in an attempt to clarify my message. In other places it's more confusing, but that mish-mash also supports the overall theme. While a political song, it also expresses personal desperation. I am subject to the actions of politicians and their string-holders, the corporate milkman/fathers who dictate policy. And taken us where?
POST-POST MODERN MAN
Words and music by Billy Dechand
© 2006 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)
I figured it out – up is down
What once was old is young again now
I’m a physical man in a spiritual world
A modern man in a post-modern world
I’m a post-post modernist man
In a post-post-post-modernist world
I’m a post-post-post-modernist man
In a post-post-post-post-modernist world
That is one heck of a gain
One whale of an oil stain
Here comes that coal train!
Over and over .. and over again
A mechanical man in an electrical world
I’m a space age man in a digital world
A windblown man in a static world
I’m a solar-powered man in a nuclear world
I’m a post-post modernist man
In a post-post-post-modernist world
I’m a post-post-post-modernist man
In a post-post-post-post-modernist world
From the album POST, © 2010
available on iTunes, Android Music, etc.
The song's basic idea: black and white keys make harmony -- racial integration adds richness to our lives. Simple idea, been around for a while, got it. The record was a chart topper, had the longest run at #1 for either of their careers, and the video was shot in separate locations in super modern 1980s brave video world spirit. But it was a cheesy song. The metaphor too simple, the words cloyed. Mocked, 'twas irrefutably uncool.
This week I finished an enormous undertaking. I digitized every comic and comic-related sketch that my brother, Clint, and I made when we were kids. We ran our own little comic company called 
I am grateful for my brother's patience and inclusion. He was clearly more talented as an artist, but kept me under his wing, as I gradually learned the skills. No doubt this built a solid foundation for my future endeavors as a composer: the ability to imagine something from nothing, then take the time to shape it into a real finished product. He never said an idea was too stupid or weird, but instead provided a solid foundation of encouragement and support. Creative teamwork was important too. Sometimes I'd write stories that he would then expertly draw. In later years, he'd have me ink his pencil drawings. In the next issue, my own drawings grew so that they had (relatively) more flow to them, and so on.
