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THE MOST EXCITED I'VE EVER BEEN FOR ANYTHING EVER

I jumped when I first saw the Over the Edge screening was happening. I mean, I physically stood up from my chair, bent my knees, and jumped up into the air. I most likely did some embarrassing shit with my arms. I don't remember. I think I fugue'd out for a second. But, man, was I excited. Since I was six years old, Over the Edge has been my all-time favorite movie. I have watched it, sans hyperbole, over 200 times at least. When I was eight, I remember fighting with my mom because she wouldn't buy me a red t-shirt and light blue button-down so I could duplicate one of Carl's outfits from the movie.

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In college, I would come home from being out and if I still had any left, I would dump it out, throw in my VHS copy of the movie, grab a notebook, and take notes for the massive Over the Edge essay I would never actually write. Does that sound strange? Let's take it to an even stranger level for a second. I adopted a physical gesture from one of the movie's characters. During the scene where they're all shooting at cans with the gun that Cori and Abby stole, Claude Zachary says he doesn't care about getting to shoot the gun and to just give it to Carl. He then throws his arms out and to the side to emphasize his apathy toward the whole shooting-the-gun business. Here, you can see it at about 5:25 below.

Well, this thing Claude does with his body? I do it too. The first time I did it was on purpose, but from then on it was ingrained in me. That is how "into" this movie I was and am.

Matt Dillon wasn't at the screening, but the rest of the core cast was, as were writers Charlie Haas and Tim Hunter, and this more than made up for it. I got them all to sign my copy of the soundtrack, which I've had since I was ten, WHICH I remember saving change I kept in a cigar-box until I had enough to buy it.

Here are my pics from the after party:

Me and Carl: Michael Kramer, was cool as hell. He even noticed that I had on my red shirt and light blue button down. Meeting him was the stuff dreams are made of.

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Me and Cori: Pamela Ludwig was totally fucking hot and was possibly flirting with me. I'm a big fag, so that would have been going nowhere, but my nature is not so easily discernable. And honestly, I totally would have made out with her. I was in love with her as a child and I don't pass up on things like that. She probably wasn't flirting with me to begin with.

Me and Claude: Tom Fergus seems like the kind of guy who sleeps in money these days. But he was awesome and let me take a picture with him.

Me and Doberman: Harry Northup was a very nice man and seemed more excited about the event than anyone else. He's getting pretty old and confessed to not knowing how to do the internet, but he made me promise I'd put these pictures up on the Over The Edge website (which doesn't exist…yet). There is a Facebook page, however. Guess who's the administrator?

Me and Julia: Julia Pomeroy played the middle-ground character in the movie, the woman who ran the rec center which was the only place the kids of the town could go to hang out. She was the only adult that was on the kids' side. She was the bridge.

GIANCARLO DI TRAPANO