Begin Again Page #3

Have a talk with God.

Right, man.

OK.

I'm gonna have a little talk

with God, all right.

Thank you. Thank you.

What if he doesn't answer?

Attention,

due to a signal malfunction

at Jay Street,

the next uptown train...

- F***.

- ...will arrive in 20 minutes.

Hey.

Give me a bourbon. Hurry up.

- What kind of bourbon you want?

- Well, I don't care.

...and I was wondering

if it might be OK if she came

up here and sang a song.

Is that OK? Yeah?

Gretta, would you

come up here, please?

H i.

So, this is a new song,

so it might be kind of rough. Um...

it's for anyone who's ever

been alone in the city.

Thanks.

- I'm in.

- What?

I want to make records with you.

I want to...

I want to produce you.

I want to sign you.

We're meant to work together.

Sorry, didn't you see

what just happened up there?

Yeah, what? Are you

feeling sorry for yourself?

No, I like my music. Who cares

if they don't get it, right?

You just need to work on

your performance a bit.

I'm not a performer,

I write songs from time to time.

Are all the songs

as good as that one?

Are you really an A&R man?

You look more like a homeless man.

I've been celebrating all weekend,

I signed a band and we got carried away.

That's some song you got there.

I promise you it could be a big hit.

Plus, you're beautiful.

Sorry, what's beauty

got to do with anything?

- Jesus, you're tricky, aren't you?

- No, I actuallyjust think

that music is about ears,

not eyes.

And I'm not Judy Garland

just off a Greyhound bus

looking for stardom,

but really, thank you.

- OK, bye.

- Bye.

OK, here's the truth.

I couldn't have signed you

if I wanted to, all right?

OK.

I didn't come from a signing tonight.

I haven't signed anybody in seven years.

My label's completely lost

all faith in me.

So why did you give me your card?

Force of habit. If I look homeless,

it's because I practically am.

I left my home about a year or so ago.

I'm sleeping on a shitty mattress

in some shitty apartment,

and I wasn't celebrating tonight.

I was drinking my ass off

standing on a subway platform

ready to kill myself,

and then I heard your song.

- Want to get a beer?

- Sure.

OK, come on.

"Dan Mulligan. Born 1966.

Headed A&R department

at Island Records for two years.

Left to cofound indie label

Distressed Records

with Harvard classmate Saul Byron."

So you own Distressed Records?

I sold all my interests

due to emotional difficulties.

- What emotional difficulties?

- I was too emotional. Read on.

"Very active on the hip-hop scene

in New York in the early '90s,

the pair were responsible

for discovering

numerous breakthrough artists.

Won two Grammys as producer.

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