“Gimme an Aretha”

I heard him say to his friend on the CTA:

“You gimme one of those stories of fate, like Rodriguez, and I can feel it in my stomache.

You gimme one a preacher like at [indistinct church name,] I can feel that in my chest.

But you gimme an Aretha, a young Aretha Franklin… You changin’ the game. You givin’ me wings.”

I ‘ve watched Searching for Sugerman; got no further than Dr. King’s Mountaintop; and now young Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace on youtube really is changing the game.

Dude was right.