so my friend from a few years ago had the same birthday party he had a few years ago  -   at a movie theater. the 
film was called 32flatbreads. it was a musical and had one of the songs from dr horrible. ther ewere supposed to be 
a lot of people, but i was the only one there - he didn't even show up.

on my way back i found i was in new york city. apparently chet lived there, and so did some other guy. i called 
them both on the phone while walking down coney island, and a large drill tore apart a warehouse.

i then ended up at the bronx zoo, where i saw tally hall guitarist rob taking photos of tourists (like, for the 
zoo. for cashes.) i walked past him into a hallway and something happened.

okay so in the dream, i seemed to have a strange memory in which the previous time my friend had that birthday 
party, tally hall played before the movie started. except zubin was replaced with someone named veronica. in my 
memory, this happened exactly a year ago.

so i called rob on a phone, and talked to him for about five minutes. i called again, but figured he must be 
working. five minutes later, he and joe (another guy from the band) showed up in the hallway. we were talking as 
though we knew each other. there was a remote on the wall that controlled the lighting. it was previously dark, so 
i turned some lights on. i later realized that the remove had rob, joe's, and ross's (also in the band) names on 
them. in the band, each guy has a different color tie he wears, and on the remote, the colors kind of reflected 
that, except they were mixed up.

i then noticed the remote said 'veronica', and two other female-sounding names. i was talking to joe about this, 
and apparently zubin got married and was replaced, and they got the other two for some reason. he didn't talk about 
why the keyboardist quit, and i think he showed me a video of the band playing. the keyboardist was one of the new 
people, as was the drummer, even though ross previously drummed.

so around the room, there was a low ledge that could serve as a bench or counter or something. there were stuffed 
animals on them, and we had moved them around during conversation. we also used the remove to turn all of the 
lights on, like in some sort of escape game. but then someone came through the door (a door to a hallway?) and it 
was a group of three women who worked at the zoo. they wanted to know why we were there and screwing with the 
lights. i showed her that the remote had the names of the guys in the band, and claimed that it was cool. they then 
had us replace the stuffed animals, which apparently previously sat upon books. so we did that. they left.

i then look at the remote again, and it says 'kablamo!' on one button. i don't press it. joe tells me it's the name 
of their next album. i remember seeing a photo of the cover, which was just a close-up of his head - he's smiling 
hilariously and covered in white and gold make-up. it's like some horrible glam rock parody.

i leave to go to the bathroom, but i think i just walked around. i come back a few minutes later and the hallway is 
no longer a dimly lit corridor, it's a big open place that kind of looks like an airport from the 1400s, except 
they've got about ten rows of around 20 seats just sitting in the middle of nowhere. when i come back, joe's off 
talking to someone and rob's sitting in one of the seats. i sit to his right. there's no one around, but then 
people start walking all around. a person in uniform starts standing right in front of us. i remember remarking 
that it was the most open movie theater i'd ever seen, but id on't remember what response it got.

rob is reading a small blue fun fact book about pirates. the remote's still somehow in my hand. i realized that 
something like "Xybilabcdefghijklmnopppppppp" (with alphabet included) has been added, in a rather comical manner 
so that the other buttons had practically no space to exist. i ask rob about this, and he says that part of the 
band's previous appeal was zubin's hilarious and unusual name - they created a character with a similarly unusual 
one.

i think i woke up when i 'went to the bathroom', so my mind's kinda blanked. i ask him about the album, again, and 
he starts talking in a mocking-but-not-slanderously-mocking voice, and says that it's called kablamo!. i then 
remember the photo, and am about to ask him when it comes out, but then he says "oh and i suppose you want to know 
when it comes out? well why don't you check the fan zone of our web site, smart guy?" in the same hilarious voice. 
i'm surprised - "you have a website?!" answer: yeah, he did.

so people are starting to come to all the seats. joe comes back with an ice cream cone, and i think my parents show 
up. rob continues reading the pirate book, and apparently eggs were often pirated from some country in europe. he 
asks me something about them, and i take a wild guess, and "homg how did you know that? OKAY TRY THIS ONE". he 
turns to a table, and puts his hand over one column, but you can still see writing in pencil along other columns. 
he asks me how many cats it would take to eat ten grand pianos. his answer is written on the book.

apparently it takes 48 cats to eat 10 grand pianos.