Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle
- 6 years ago
Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle
Jimmy Buffett — the nibbling on sponge cake, watching the sun bake, getting drunk
and screwing, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere Jimmy Buffett — has been replaced with a well-preserved businessman who is leveraging the Jimmy Buffett of yore in order to keep the Jimmy Buffett of now in the manner to which the old Jimmy Buffett never dreamed he could become accustomed.
“I wanted to be in charge, like a captain of the boat.”
To be Jimmy Buffett is to understand that the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle is one not simply of leisure,
but of a leisure born of resistance to middle-class convention and upward mobility: We work too many long hours, we would rather be at a bar, we would rather be Gone Fishin’, our other car is a surfboard, our other coffee mug is a beer bottle, we would rather be lying on a beach, our skin the texture of Margaritaville® Sweet & Spicy chicken wings (recipe available online!).
“Find me some good writers who are basically Parrotheads who have been raised on this music because that’s important.” Mr. Buffett found
that with Mr. Garcia and Mr. O’Malley, both of whom have written great and believable slackers.
Jimmy calls Warren “Uncle Warren” and Warren, who has been a business mentor to Jimmy, calls him “Cousin Jimmy.”
Uncle Warren gave Cousin Jimmy some advice while he was growing the Margaritaville empire: “Management in place,” he said.
Mr. Buffett and I both saw “Escape to Margaritaville” in New Orleans on Oct. 28, which is a day
that fans have long since designated as Parrothead Day, though Mr. Buffett doesn’t know why.
Sometime around then, Jimmy Buffett entered a point of no return where the lifestyle of the erstwhile Jimmy Buffett became so distant and unrecognizable to the new Jimmy Buffett
that he understood there could be a problem in the making.
Jimmy Buffett — the nibbling on sponge cake, watching the sun bake, getting drunk
and screwing, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere Jimmy Buffett — has been replaced with a well-preserved businessman who is leveraging the Jimmy Buffett of yore in order to keep the Jimmy Buffett of now in the manner to which the old Jimmy Buffett never dreamed he could become accustomed.
“I wanted to be in charge, like a captain of the boat.”
To be Jimmy Buffett is to understand that the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle is one not simply of leisure,
but of a leisure born of resistance to middle-class convention and upward mobility: We work too many long hours, we would rather be at a bar, we would rather be Gone Fishin’, our other car is a surfboard, our other coffee mug is a beer bottle, we would rather be lying on a beach, our skin the texture of Margaritaville® Sweet & Spicy chicken wings (recipe available online!).
“Find me some good writers who are basically Parrotheads who have been raised on this music because that’s important.” Mr. Buffett found
that with Mr. Garcia and Mr. O’Malley, both of whom have written great and believable slackers.
Jimmy calls Warren “Uncle Warren” and Warren, who has been a business mentor to Jimmy, calls him “Cousin Jimmy.”
Uncle Warren gave Cousin Jimmy some advice while he was growing the Margaritaville empire: “Management in place,” he said.
Mr. Buffett and I both saw “Escape to Margaritaville” in New Orleans on Oct. 28, which is a day
that fans have long since designated as Parrothead Day, though Mr. Buffett doesn’t know why.
Sometime around then, Jimmy Buffett entered a point of no return where the lifestyle of the erstwhile Jimmy Buffett became so distant and unrecognizable to the new Jimmy Buffett
that he understood there could be a problem in the making.