HIGH SCHOOL MEMORIES COURTESY THE FILTER’S BLACK LIPS COVER STORY

“But at the end of the day, if you don’t give 110 percent, someone else will. And you know who that is? Us.”

“Yeah, us,” echoes [Joe] Bradley. 

“We’re gonna take it from you. We’re gonna take them all back,” [Ian] St. Pé continues. “Oh, you’re not giving your girlfriend enough attention? We’ll take that, too.”

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take,” adds [Cole] Alexander.

“It’s not if but when and how bad,” St. Pé goes on. “These are No Fear quotes. Remember the shirts the jocks wore in school?” 

—- this is worth reading. i really like “arabia mountain.” i also had totally forgotten about those shirts… all the jocks had them in my middle school. they would wear them with basketball shorts.