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If you are going to be extreme, be smart about it

By Logan Short | November 30, 2010

You know the song from Empire of the Sun, "Walking on a Dream?" Or the Wiz Khalifa remix, "Thrill of It?" If not, the chorus sings, "We are always running for the thrill of it, thrill of it / Always pushing up that hill, searching for the thrill of it."...