Man I've always wanted to visit Santa Monica Pier. Its just a weird thing from when I was a teenager. I randomly stumbled across Everclear on late night MTV. They were basically unheard of in Europe at the time and had that song Santa Monica out. I fell in love with it, and really got into the band for a while (they really suck now). I made some weird promise to myself I'd visit the pier one day. I'm not sure how practical that is but you never know.