The deleted scenes of a movie are sometimes, and incomprehensibly, the best ones! I haven’t seen Judd Apatow’s movie ‘This Is 40’, but this deleted scene with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is hilarious. Why it didn’t make the cut is a mystery to me as Armstrong shows he can actually makes fun of himself, when he reveals to Paul Rudd, who plays a record label executive, his new (and fantastic) side project combining Norwegian death metal and Belle and Sebastian, no less! Billie Joe describes it as a ‘sort of music you can cry to but also maybe burn a church down at the same time!!’
And he doesn’t care if there is no market for this insane combination, which will be ‘impossible to play live and too dangerous’… but at the end, this is the point, as Billie Joe admits that the main frustration of his career is that he has sold too many records!
Whoever came up with these lines was onto something, and Billie Joe Armstrong should definitively start this side project now.