This Is 40 Page #6

It's terrifying.

You have got to reverse it.

You have got to show him

as he is now, very briefly,

and then show him in 1977.

You have got to

Benjamin Button it.

I don't know what you're talking about.

All rock stars are older now.

Steven Tyler, David

Bowie, Mick Jagger...

Paul McCartney.

Okay. Stop it.

Everybody that you are mentioning

looks like an old woman now.

You're just mentioning

a bunch of Jessica Tandys.

Keith Richards

gets away with it.

But that's because Keith Richards

looked 70 when he was 40.

And now that he's 70,

he looks 69.

He's regenerating.

I like it, and I think

Graham Parker's sexy.

Well, would you f*** him?

Yes.

You'd...

You'd f*** him and

you won't f*** me?

I mean, I kind of

f***ed you once,

if you could have finished.

Oh. I finished.

Okay, enough of who f***ed

who and who finished what.

I finished.

Look, it's a retro label. That's

our niche, that's our market.

It costs money to break new bands.

I can't do that.

Okay, and also, you're the guy

who turned down Arcade Fire.

Everybody turned

down Arcade Fire.

It's crazy.

There's so many of them.

We don't have the money

to market a new band.

We just need to make

Graham seem relevant.

Who's he talking to?

The Jewish Journal.

The Jewish Journal?

Apparently, old Jews are the only ones

who still buy hard copy of records.

Because they don't

like to download music.

Because they don't know

what "downloading" means.

Why is this album different

from any other album?

It isn't.

What is he wearing?

It's a hat with

the Oreo logo on it.

Why? I don't think

he's being ironic.

I think he just

really likes Oreos.

Look, Paul Westerberg

record did okay.

Frank Black record

did all right.

The Haircut One Hundred,

not so much.

We have to break this record.

Otherwise, we're not here next year.

He's coming, he's coming.

Oreo Man is coming.

Hey, guys, how are you?

Good, man.

Aren't cookies the best?

Yeah.

Jewish Journal guy

loves the record.

Great!

Got a bit of a problem, though.

A touch of gout.

Gout?

My whole family,

they all had gout.

Jesus.

That's very unfortunate.

My auntie Queenie,

she had a foot like this.

It's like a size of a small pig.

I've got a photo of it.

I'd love to see that

photo of that gout foot.

And a couple of

bunions as well.

F***.

I've got to go

to the podiatrist,

and I hope he can

shoot me up with something.

Yeah, well, let's get

you to the podiatrist.

Bye, Graham.

See you later, Graham.

Good luck with your gout.

Rock and roll, baby.

The happiest period in people's

lives is from age 40 to 60.

So, this is it.

We're in it right now.

It's true.

Says who?

Says a lot of people.

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