The Catcher 2024-1

This song might be moving if it weren't so over the top. Nothing subtle here. The song basically calls for someone, perhaps an overly zealous fan like Mark David Chapman to wait outside the institution and shoot Mark David Chapman. The true irony is all the secret psyop stuff that clouds what might have really happened. Some say actors play the parts in well directed tragedies. Why? There are many reasons. Those in the know call it "dead legends." Take any famous person supposedly cut down in their prime who assume new identities, their records, books, paintings etc. reach an unprecedented level of sales and value. And often when someone is about to be outed for a crime like say, underage mischief, it is a great way to go out on top and get away with what was going to ruin their careers. Many people, record companies, talent execs, etc. have a vested interest in the legend staying a legend.

Now I would like to say I knew all this when I wrote and recorded the song and I was being clever about the mindfuggery, but I wasn't. I was devestated by John Lennon's killing and when I saw Mark David Chapman was on People Magazine cover posing with The Catcher in the Rye I was outraged. This reaction in a psyop world has its reasons. One might be to pass a law regarding crimes making money and then one should ask yes but who is stepping in to better manage the money under an idea that the money should have a better social purpose. Guess who?

But beyond all this, I thought I was being clever to do a political protest when Chapman was possibly going to be paroled. And my hit the nail on the head lyrics aren't really clever and sardonice, they are farcical. I wish it had been my intent but I can claim, 40 years after the December 8 shocker, I know of the mindfuggery and my song does sufficiently blow a hole through that idea on so many levels. In fact, my work frequently finds a way of lampooning the reality that has never been real, and sometimes my work just lucks into that level of social satire. One girlfriend laughed her ass off when I played it for her in 1998. I was surprised she saw it as laughable but now I get the joke.