Well, here’s one of those things that feels like an internet algorithm dreamt it up. John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan in order to impress Jodie Foster in 1981, has been trying to get a music career off the ground for years. In 2020, a court ruled he could post music under his own name, and recently he was trying to book a tour — he was meant to play shows in Chicago and Hamden, Connecticut, as well as Brooklyn’s Market Hotel. Each was eventually cancelled, with Market Hotel sharing a lengthy statement behind their decision last week. When Hinckley gives interviews, he only wants to talk about his music, so in a new piece with Input, he digs in at length. And of course Input paired him with Eve 6’s Max Collins, who has built his own strange afterlife as a very online person prone to self-reflexive and self-deprecating humor.