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Last night I had a dream that a bunch of Parrotheads--including myself--started their own town on a quiet island in the Caribbean (not sure where) and named it "Margaritaville", with Jimmy's blessing of course. It was laid back--very much on island time--and was quite literally my interpretation of Margaritaville.

Anyone ever had any dreams like this? I'm sure many of us BNers have daydreamed about something like this. More importantly, does anybody think we could pull this off for real?

There was a time when we were going to buy the Enron building in Houston
People had selected floors, etc.
It was going to be the world headquarters for the PHs

Of course, JB was getting the top floor

Well, if it was something like Key West used to be back when JB "discovered" it, I think I could get behind it. Although, PH's come in all different flavors, which might make a cohesive city govt rather difficult to implement. That doesen't mean that nobody should try though

springparrot wrote:There was a time when we were going to buy the Enron building in Houston
People had selected floors, etc.
It was going to be the world headquarters for the PHs

Of course, JB was getting the top floor

OMG, Molly!!! I forgot all about that!!

Personally, I think that if there were an actual place called "Margaritaville" then it would really get rid of alot of the stigma that the current fictional Margaritaville has. Margaritaville, as JB says in the CDs "You Had to Be There" that M'Ville is "anywhere you want it to be...could be at the bottom of the Quervo Bottle..." with that said, I believe that if you actually created a place, that stigma would be lost and the song, place, and title would lose alot. Now granted, I understand that this will never happen, but just thought I would throw my 2 cents in!

PHINS UP!!!

No reality could ever live up to the Margaritaville in our minds.

phjrsaunt wrote:No reality could ever live up to the Margaritaville in our minds.

I agree...it's kinda like trying to create EVERYONE'S perfect day for them with one formula. A very nice idea... but unfortunately not attainable.

Too many differenct perceptions of Margaritaville (and I think thats a good thing).
for me, a town with a buch of PH's running around, by deffinition, would not be a margaritaville.
I like small fishing/surf villages that havn't seen the light of a hawaian shirted North American.

We lived in Hawaii, and the island ran on island time most of the time.
Island time isn't what its cracked up to be when you are on the waiting end.

CaptainAmerica wrote:

phjrsaunt wrote:No reality could ever live up to the Margaritaville in our minds.

I agree...it's kinda like trying to create EVERYONE'S perfect day for them with one formula. A very nice idea... but unfortunately not attainable.

Kinda reminds me of that movie "Groundhog day". Only switch the setting from Pennsylvania to someplace down island, then just repeat day after day after day.....

phjrsaunt said: No reality could ever live up to the Margaritaville in our minds.

My wife one said that living in LA is not so different from life in a small town. (She grew up in central Illinois) Everybody has their OVERLAY that they superimpose on the map of LA. The overlay contains all the places that you actually go - your grocery store, your gas station, your office, your school, your friend's house, your favorite restaurant, etc. - and that is your LA. Not such a big place really.
I think that's how Margaritaville works. Margaritaville is wherever you go and whatever you do when you're in that Margaritaville state of mind. You can be in Margaritaville during a flare-up at the office or stuck in hellacious traffic. You take the weather with you. Hmmm. That could be a song.
This post doesn't quite make sense Maybe that means I'm in Margaritaville right now! BN is certainly a portal to Mville.

trojan_sixtyone wrote:Last night I had a dream that a bunch of Parrotheads--including myself--started their own town on a quiet island in the Caribbean (not sure where) and named it "Margaritaville", with Jimmy's blessing of course. It was laid back--very much on island time--and was quite literally my interpretation of Margaritaville.

Anyone ever had any dreams like this? I'm sure many of us BNers have daydreamed about something like this.

BNers were going to buy an island last year!

Island dreaming

backbeat wrote:BN is certainly a portal to Mville.

I think there would be more fighting than you could poke a stick at

The book and the movie The Beach is a good example of what happens when people try to claim a "margaritaville." It takes away what "margaritaville" is.

creeky wrote:I think there would be more fighting than you could poke a stick at

but then we'd all get silly drunk and start hugging each other and telling everybody we LLLLLOVVVVE them! And our jaws would hurt from laughing at the shenanigans some people (you know who you are!) would commence to commit. hmm....I may be one of those people...

There is no ONE Margaritaville.

OystersandBeer wrote:The book and the movie The Beach is a good example of what happens when people try to claim a "margaritaville." It takes away what "margaritaville" is.

I thought of The Beach too

Just thinking...

Isn't the real Margaritaville located where the mind meets the heart??

Quiet and Shy wrote:Just thinking...

Isn't the real Margaritaville located where the mind meets the heart??

and somewhere in between indecision and southeast of disorder.