Life of Illusion

I hate to do things over. I wrote a thing here and it got eaten by the internet and now I am going to do it over. I hate doing that.

Anyway, there is a such thing as the School for the Dead Reference Department, you know. Sort of.

Brian, Ken, and Tony each have frighteningly deep wells of information about music and musicians. The other day, I called Brian to sing him a snippet of a song that I had just heard on the radio. He didn't recognize it, which was probably a symptom of my singing and not symptomatic of a hole in his knowledge. I would have checked with the rest of the Reference Department but I was driving and I hate to drive and talk on the phone at the same time.

The song that I heard was one that I've always been familiar with, I just didn't know who the artist was. I thought it might be a good song for SFTD to cover, you know, if we ever play a show again. The song is, I believe, from the early 70's but I think it has withstood the test of time quite well and I wanted us to reintroduce the world to what seemed to me to be a sort of forgotton great pop song.

So, yesterday, Lesa and I went to see the 40 Year Old Virgin and right there in the opening credits is the song! It's "Life of Illusion" by Joe Walsh. Oh, Mr. Judd Apatow (director/writer) why must you and I always be right on the same page, and why must you always beat me to the punch?

A few weeks back, I can recall joking with someone how funny it would be if SFTD covered The Age of Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In. Sho' enough, there it was during the ending credits. Yikes.

I've had this link with Judd Apatow (Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Anchorman, The Ben Stiller Show) for a while now. Lately, thanks to Netflix, we've been watching the complete series of Undeclared. What a great show!

Anyway, Life of Illusion. Maybe I'll learn it anyway. I think it's a good song. Of course, I've only heard it twice in the last ten years, so who knows