You'll live within 100 miles of me. how is that for frightening? On venice beach they have webcams so you can see what it looks like in live action, if you look up venice beach webcams you can find tons but here's one:
http://www.westland.net/beachcam/
LA's pretty cool but annoying because everyone acts cool, but I guess it's like that everywhere they are just extra smug about it because they're in LA and they apparantly created cool.