Everybody Knows a Little Place like Kokomo

Sometimes you wanna go to a neighborhood establishment full of good cheer and even yummier bites.  Everybody knows a little place like Kokomo, and I'm lucky enough to live down the street from it, just a block away from The Village Idiot, no less.  If I had deeper pockets, that's where I'd wanna go to get away from it all, for at least for an hour once a week.


As I drove past the popular bruncherie among LA's foodie elite, and the new home to 90210's The Peach Pit, on my way to work the other day, I hit a screeching halt upon the sight of this sign (above) realizing that the Beach Boys' hit single "Kokomo" off the Cocktails soundtrack, is (gulp) 20 years old!


I can't believe I'm old enough to remember buying a record, or rather, a cassette, that is TWENTY years old!


I have so many fond childhood memories listening to the Cocktails soundtrack in my parents unfinished basement (before the big screen, bar, pool table and Seinfeld-influenced Native American statue were introduced) with one of my oldest (and still closest friends) Natalie, raving on to John Cougar Mellencamp and imitating Chevy Chase and Robin Williams' Walk Like an Egyptian "Don't Worry, Be Happy" dance moves.


Wow, where has all the time gone? 


For now, I'll enjoy watching Uncle Jesse from Full House bang on the bongos in the official "Kokomo" video (below), now that I'm legal!  Now don't all those Beach Boys guest spots on Full House make sense?

Port au prince, I wanna catch a glimpse.