| 2.3-1 The Dream |
Early in the morning, like around five'ish, I awoke from a vivid dream. It was a
dream with an answer to the question posed by Kirk before I left San Diego,
“What will you do for work when you return?” The answer given in the dream was
no new idea for me, for I had thought about it in the past, but I never had any way
or means to follow through with it.
The idea which came in my dream was to put on a concert at my college alma
mater, the University of California, San Diego located in La Jolla. Every year in June, at the end of
classes, the student body association puts on a free concert for all students.
They call the event a TGIO for “Thank God It’s Over” concert, a culmination of a
series of TGIFs (Thank God It’s Friday), a monthly free concert on campus.
During my college days, beside the free concert, the students aged 21 and
above were provided free beer at the events. Recently, however, the college
administration has been attempting to discourage the use of alcohol and so
frowns upon providing free beer anymore.
Following tradition, the concert is always held outside in front of the
intercollegiate gymnasium where the students have room to either dance in front
of the steps that hold the band or stand and sit on “the hump”, a grassy knoll
directly in front of the gymnasium.
Now, anyone can put on a concert... and unfortunately for the students, they
have been receiving just that. The concerts have been bad for the past couple
of years, at least from this alumnus’ perspective. And I should know, since I have
attended the TGIOs regularly since first attending college in La Jolla in 1981.
A sign of the bad concerts in recent years is the fact that no one has been
dancing to the music anymore. Most of the students just stand around and talk
to each other enjoying the free beer and each other, viewing the musicians as an
annoyance more than an enjoyment.
The idea from my dream, simple as it seems, was to provide a band to play
popular music of the time as well as to put on a costume modeling show to once
again attract the interest of the students.
The costumes I had in mind were ones I had seen when I was a senior in high
school in 1978. At that time the movie Star Wars was the "in movie". In my usual
manner, I decided to organize my homeroom class buddies to dress up as Star
Wars characters for Halloween. Since I had already spent over $150 on my
costume, a little bit of self interest did come into play. My costume was
Chewbacca, the hairy Wookie pal of Hans Solo. My classmates dressed up as
Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and several Jawa’s.
A few months later, Marti, a quiet girl in my class, was quite impressed with my
organizational skills, took it upon herself to present me with some drawings she
had made. The drawings were of science-fiction type characters and were very
imaginative, detailed, and of high quality. She showed me her drawings because
she believed someday, just maybe someday, I might be able to put them to good
use.
Well, the time had come. The main part of my dreamed up concert would be to
model the costumes she had designed, working the models into the concert with
the music. As for the music, I planned to contact a high school friend, Dana, who
had a good Seattle based band, as well as other musical friends of mine from
high school. (note to J. - little did I know that Seattle would become the band
haven of the 90’s).
With the design of the concert settling in my mind, I went back to sleep and arose
at 10 a.m., Sunday morning, March 17th, a sunny St. Patrick's Day morning.
dream with an answer to the question posed by Kirk before I left San Diego,
“What will you do for work when you return?” The answer given in the dream was
no new idea for me, for I had thought about it in the past, but I never had any way
or means to follow through with it.
The idea which came in my dream was to put on a concert at my college alma
mater, the University of California, San Diego located in La Jolla. Every year in June, at the end of
classes, the student body association puts on a free concert for all students.
They call the event a TGIO for “Thank God It’s Over” concert, a culmination of a
series of TGIFs (Thank God It’s Friday), a monthly free concert on campus.
During my college days, beside the free concert, the students aged 21 and
above were provided free beer at the events. Recently, however, the college
administration has been attempting to discourage the use of alcohol and so
frowns upon providing free beer anymore.
Following tradition, the concert is always held outside in front of the
intercollegiate gymnasium where the students have room to either dance in front
of the steps that hold the band or stand and sit on “the hump”, a grassy knoll
directly in front of the gymnasium.
Now, anyone can put on a concert... and unfortunately for the students, they
have been receiving just that. The concerts have been bad for the past couple
of years, at least from this alumnus’ perspective. And I should know, since I have
attended the TGIOs regularly since first attending college in La Jolla in 1981.
A sign of the bad concerts in recent years is the fact that no one has been
dancing to the music anymore. Most of the students just stand around and talk
to each other enjoying the free beer and each other, viewing the musicians as an
annoyance more than an enjoyment.
The idea from my dream, simple as it seems, was to provide a band to play
popular music of the time as well as to put on a costume modeling show to once
again attract the interest of the students.
The costumes I had in mind were ones I had seen when I was a senior in high
school in 1978. At that time the movie Star Wars was the "in movie". In my usual
manner, I decided to organize my homeroom class buddies to dress up as Star
Wars characters for Halloween. Since I had already spent over $150 on my
costume, a little bit of self interest did come into play. My costume was
Chewbacca, the hairy Wookie pal of Hans Solo. My classmates dressed up as
Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and several Jawa’s.
A few months later, Marti, a quiet girl in my class, was quite impressed with my
organizational skills, took it upon herself to present me with some drawings she
had made. The drawings were of science-fiction type characters and were very
imaginative, detailed, and of high quality. She showed me her drawings because
she believed someday, just maybe someday, I might be able to put them to good
use.
Well, the time had come. The main part of my dreamed up concert would be to
model the costumes she had designed, working the models into the concert with
the music. As for the music, I planned to contact a high school friend, Dana, who
had a good Seattle based band, as well as other musical friends of mine from
high school. (note to J. - little did I know that Seattle would become the band
haven of the 90’s).
With the design of the concert settling in my mind, I went back to sleep and arose
at 10 a.m., Sunday morning, March 17th, a sunny St. Patrick's Day morning.
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UCSD Gymnasium, La Jolla, California, USA
Jawas
Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker
World Turned Upside Down
Music -Theme
from Star Wars by
John Williams
from Star Wars by
John Williams