Watching the Beauty and the Beast 2 DVD made me wanna run back Chris Senn’s Emerica Part. “I wish I could do one of these tricks.”

We are taking a small break to do what we do best, eat, drink, acquire illegal fireworks, and bum out the neighbors. We will be back in a week or so with new shirts and a whole bunch of cool unorthodox shit. Be safe, be well, and happy holidays! See you in 2010! A hui ho!

Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase “It’s not fair” 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.

Rule No. 2: The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It’ll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it’s not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won’t make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won’t be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a Gap label.

Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he’s not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren’t embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule No. 6: It’s not your parents’ fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of “It’s my life,” and “You’re not the boss of me,” and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it’s on your dime. Don’t whine about it, or you’ll sound like a baby boomer.

Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.

Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn’t. In some schools, they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone’s feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)

Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don’t get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don’t get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we’re at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)

Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.

Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school’s a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you’ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You’re welcome.

lazer beams. balloons. rave. leis. smiles. jumpflash.

3:40 = optimal shredzone

Where ever you want it to its your shit. Life, get some.

Fresh Cafe last night was a blast. Best time I’ve had in a minute. 2009 is almost over, LET’S BLOW IT OUT!! 3 Parties going on in Chinatown tonight. The first 100 people through the door will recieve FREE copy of Fiero x Olde Ivory’s Yacht Traffic Mixtape and we will be throwing out swag all night. Get there.

http://www.mediafire.com/?wjiz5kdwznk

Taken By Trees - Watch the Waves (Memory Tapes Version)
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Keenhouse - Ari-es (Hemingway’s Starlight Yacht Remix)
Daft Punk - Something About Us
Weird Tapes - Christmas Break
Blue Boy - Remember Me
The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (Emynd Honkey Breaks Edit)
Emil and Friends - Up to Speed
Allure - Dandy
Christov - Estella’s Invitation (Hemingway’s RSVP)
Geyster - Still in Love
Glass Candy - Rolling Down the Hills
Grand Popo Football Club - Men Are Not Nice Guys
The Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle (team9 Remix)
Roman Salzger - Alpha Centauri
DATA - California Special
Linkwood - Falling
Q-Tip - Breathe (The Revenge Remix)
Mylo - Zenophile
MJ vs Private - Rock With Strangers (Fiero Mashup)
Sepalot - Go Get It (Sepalot Remix)
Jupiter - Chip (Shook Remix)
Alicia Keys - No One (St. Pierce Remix)
Pierce - Good Friends
Sneaky Sound System - When We Were Young (Breakbot Remix)
Jack Tennis - Chicas and Rebels
Basement Jaxxx vs Funkacise Gang - Romeo Workout (Fiero Mashup)
William Devaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got

http://www.myspace.com/fieromusic

I don’t even know who this kid is. Does it matter? Peep the opening kickflip. Hahrng?

“I don’t wanna know I’m gonna land something or else I don’t wanna try it.” Savor the danger. If you seen this dude even roll down the street you know his trucks are basically falling off. I’ve tried to skate loose trucks and couldn’t even kickflip without getting wheel bite. Insane craze.