The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story Page #3

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F***ing Somalian started talking sh*t

when l was with my daughter.

-You were with Shyne?

-All they see are yuppies down here.

They think there's no more serious

white people in Charlestown.

So they can f***ing talk sh*t?

No.

Well, do you miss it?

F***ing coke and Oxy

and all that sh*t? Yeah, l miss it.

We smoked it to the filter, right?

You know what l miss?

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

There you go.

There you go.

That's what you want, right?

-Yeah.

-ls that what you want?

[MOANING]

-Say you love it.

-Oh, f***.

Good night.

WOMAN:

l'm grateful to be here today.

Growing up in Charlestown in,

you know, a small-knit community...

...we took care of each other,

were protected.

MAN 1:
My friends were really

like my family.

MAN 2:
l'm ashamed of the things l done

when l'm out there.

l don't know

where l learned these things.

WOMAN:
Seven years went by,

and l'd watch Christmas, birthdays

l didn't know what my son looked like.

MAN 1 :

Make a fast buck ifwe had to...

...that progressed

into getting arrested, and....

The struggle that you have within yourself,

the loss, you know what l mean?

The disappointment in yourself. The anger

that turns into disappointment. The despair.

lt's like the guy sitting in the bar,

and a priest walks in.

The guy says, ''Hey, wait a minute.

l hate to tell you this, don't waste your

time, but l happen to know there's no God.''

The priest says, ''Yeah, how's that?''

The guy says,

''l was an explorer in the North Pole.

l got caught in a blinding storm once.

Freezing. l was blinded.

Freezing to death. And l prayed,

'lf there's a God, save me now.'

Now, God didn't come.''

And the priest says, you know, ''How's

that? You're alive. He must've saved you.''

He says, ''God never showed up.

An Eskimo came along.

Took me back to his camp and saved me.''

That's Janice. She's my wife

and she's sitting right there.

She's my Eskimo.

-How you doing?

MAN:
Hey.

CLAIRE:

Excuse me?

Are you doing laundry?

Huh?

l just wondered if you had any change.

The machine is out.

-Can't help you. Sorry.

-Okay.

l can just hang them up

when l get home.

You all right?

l'm fine. l'm just

Are you sure?

You okay?

Yeah, l'm fine. l'm fine, thank you.

l'm fine, yeah.

Well, this is embarrassing.

No, you got nothing

to be embarrassed for.

Do you need help?

l'm just having a bad week.

l understand.

l like to have a good cry

at the nail salon.

[CLAIRE LAUGHS]

Just open right up to the ladies.

They're very understanding.

But, you know,

you like the Laundromat, so that's fine.

Hey, why don't you let me

buy you a drink.

Make up for letting you down

with the quarters.

You know, see if we can turn

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