Happy New Year and welcome to the first Liquid Lines of the new decade. Just a warning: I may have a hard time adjusting to the ’20s, being as I’m still stuck in the well, the ’90s in my head.Black Sails in the Sunset is still AFI’s new album. I’ll get there – just bear with me.

I’ve actually been wondering about what this new year and new decade will bring, and I thought I might make a few predictions based on the way things have been trending in the last few years on LBI and in the surf world…