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Posted: **May 30, 2005 7:32 pm**

HsvParrothead wrote:
Gulfbreeze wrote:Holy crap...Can't say much more than...that was pretty darn good right there now...
Thank You...

Yep, another 1/2 hour of my life wasted on BN in the name of "Entertainment"

Time spent entertaining yourself or others is not wasted time....

Posted: **May 31, 2005 8:23 am**

Wow.

I'm making a playlist on my iPod right now with those tunes. Think about if that was actually a setlist for a concert. One of my favorite tours was the Havana Daydreamin' tour because he told a good story with all the songs and their placement in the setlist.

HsvParrothead wrote:
jonesbeach10 wrote:The thing I was trying to get at was that the songs in the musicals would be the songs Jimmy plays in concerts, not new songs written for teh musical. Don't know if it clarifies anything.
Oohhhhhhhhhh.... well now thats entirely a horse of a different color

so kinda like:
Opener "PL@40" -- cause the guys not content with his present occupation
"Boat Drinks" -- takes a trip to the caribbean and hooks up
"First Look" -- self explanatory
"No Plane On Sunday" -- meets yet another girl cause he cant get home
"Wonder Why We Ever Go Home" -- goes back home to settle affairs
"Frank and Lola" -- tries to patch up his relationship with girl back home
"Whos The Blonde Stranger" -- they both cheat on each other, while on trip
"CILCIA" -- feelin a lil crazy, recalling what he's seen
"FSOTW" -- checkin out even more vantage points, leaves the wife at home
"She's Goin Out Of My Mind" -- wife leaves him
"If The Phone Doesnt Ring It's Me" -- it's a given he's now depressed
"Island" -- he now feels isolated...relates more to the islands he's seen than his peers
"Savannah Fare You Well" -- he hears the road calling
"Changing Channels" -- realizes a new direction in his life
"Boats To Build" -- he's tired of that same old same
"Back To The Island" -- he returns to the tropics
"Last Mango In Paris" -- makes a new friend and receives some advice from a wise ole capn (special cameo by Capn Tony)
"Tonight I Just Need My Guitar" -- reflects on Tony's advice, realize's what he needs, he already possesses
"We Are The People..." -- realizes his new neighbors in KW are just like him as he starts playin his guitar in area bars
"Why Dont We Get Drunk" -- playing the bar scene starts him on a downward spiral of sex and booze
"If I Could Just Get It On Paper" -- the alcohol intake of the Keys begins to affect his songwriting amongst other things
"Southern Cross" -- he's seen it for the very first time, realizes music is all he has left, he dries up and starts successfully writing again
"Fins" -- He has his first hit single with a song about a snowbirding waitress who worked in one of his favorite dives on the island
"This Hotel Room" -- He's now a touring as an opening act
"It's Midnight And I'm Not Famous Yet" -- But unfortunately... true fame and fortune shall not be his
"I Heard I Was In Town" -- He returns to KW... to play the small bars he got his start in...
"There's A Woman Goin Crazy On Caroline Street" -- His ex-wife moves to the KW...and desperately needs true loving
"Hey Good Lookin" -- He reintroduces himself into her life
"All The Ways I Want You" -- He falls in love with her again, and declares his love
"Lil Miss Magic" -- They have a daughter
"Coast Of Carolina" -- After a couple of false starts, they leave the island and head North... to live a "normal" life
"Lovely Cruise" -- The End

yeah... that would be cool

Posted: **May 31, 2005 9:11 am**

SchoonerWharf wrote:
What are you saying.....you did not like ASPOL?........
Yes, I know I am in the minority here, but I hated the book. Whats worse is the more I reflect on it during the months since I read it...I hate it even more!

I wouldn't go so far as to say I hated the book, but it wasn't very good. I've re-read JB's other books a couple of times, I don't know if I'll ever get around to reading this one again.

Posted: **May 31, 2005 6:07 pm**

LIPH wrote:
SchoonerWharf wrote:
What are you saying.....you did not like ASPOL?........
Yes, I know I am in the minority here, but I hated the book. Whats worse is the more I reflect on it during the months since I read it...I hate it even more!
I wouldn't go so far as to say I hated the book, but it wasn't very good. I've re-read JB's other books a couple of times, I don't know if I'll ever get around to reading this one again.

I'm with you LIPH. I didn't hate the book, but I sure didn't love it either...

Posted: **May 31, 2005 6:13 pm**

Ilph wrote:I'm with you LIPH. I didn't hate the book, but I sure didn't love it either...

overall I liked it... I think It started off really sloooooooowwwww compared to his past work.... and those letters to Tully really weighed it down throughout IMHO, especially that one that was like 20 pages long... but Overall, I enjoyed it and it made me wanna migrate further south sooner

Posted: **May 31, 2005 9:39 pm**

<<trying to save post from being hijacked>>

I love the setlist, I would just add Weather is Here. Guy is tired of girlfriend, goes down to tropics. Meets up with new girl. Maybe after No Plane Sunday. Maybe throw Come Monday in there somewhere in there near Hey Good Lookin.

But overall, that was exactly what I was trying to get at.

Posted: **May 31, 2005 10:04 pm**

jonesbeach10 wrote:<<trying to save post from being hijacked>>

I love the setlist, I would just add Weather is Here. Guy is tired of girlfriend, goes down to tropics. Meets up with new girl. Maybe after No Plane Sunday. Maybe throw Come Monday in there somewhere in there near Hey Good Lookin.

But overall, that was exactly what I was trying to get at.

ya know... when I read that I thought to myself, wait Weather is here is at the beginning... BUT... it appears I had a typo... when I typed Boat Drinks as the second song... I was actually thinkin of Weather Is Here

OOPSY

Posted: **May 31, 2005 10:23 pm**

back to the hijacking...
I loved ASPOL. It was all about the the tropics, everything I wanted in a Buffett book.
Sure it gets slow during one long letter to Tully but WIJM has the boring Desdamona parts in it so they kinda equal out.
The one I find hardest to reread is APL@50.

Now as far as a musical goes.....I'd also rather have a movie

Posted: **June 1, 2005 10:21 pm**

It was all about the the tropics, everything I wanted in a Buffett book.

Me thinks that is what Jimmy was banking on. Set it in the tropics and doesnt matter after that. Thats just my opinion but I must say I expect a lot more out of a Buffett book that is awful but is set in the tropics to cover it. Againt that is just my opinion but I expected a lot more from Mr. Jimmy. Maybe I am just at that age where I have lived a lot of this "escapism" and am not mesmorized by the fact Jimmy set a book somewhere down southg. Again, that is not to say anything about those who enjoyed it, because as I have said repeatedly, i know
i am in the minoirty in regards to my feelings on his book....but I will take Tom Corcoran (i am sure I misspelled it) any day of the week.

Posted: **June 2, 2005 9:31 am**

Tried the Mango Opera by Tom and was not impressed, barely made it through it but to each his won.
I'll take Tim Dorsey over any of them.
BTW, Born and raised in Florida, done a little escapism myself and still mesmerized by the tropics

My favorite Buffett songs are also ones about the tropics....it never gets old...to me anyway

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