ANGEL - Dust THRASHER
Cops, suits, jerks, parents, core-
marketeers so many people have asked
me what it takes to be a skater. I
don't know. I was chosen from
somewhere else to suffer aimlessly on
my little wooden platform. Not to
lecture, not to nurture, but to wash
away all my life. So many want the
juice that skating gives, the
popularity and coolness, but are
not ready for the pain that comes
eternally. People who think skating of
owes them are wrong;
they get wheelbite in
the rain. People who
owe skating will
live forever. You
want to know how
to be a skater?
Taste the
concrete.
Jake →
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