Streeter Seidell, Oh Yes!

This may just be too much awesome for one site to hold!

BASICS:

FULL NAME:  Streeter John Seidell

BIRTHDATE: 12/2/82

PLACE OF BIRTH:  New Haven, CT

SIBLINGS: One younger sister, Heidi.

ANY PETS:  I had a dog named Charlie but she went to live with my ex-girlfriend’s siter when we broke up.

SHOE SIZE: 12

FAVORITES:

T.V. SHOW: Oh man, that’s tough.  Maybe The Office (the British one) or The Wire.  Lost has also been amazing lately.  I watch a lot of TV and love a lot of TV so it’s hard to pick.

MOVIE: Uncle Buck.

GENRE OF MUSIC: Rock, though I like most catchy songs.  Country is the only genre that has yet to really resonate with me.

MUSICIAN: Like TV, I can’t really pick one.  I’ve been listening to a lot of Beatles lately.  When we were filming the show I would go home every night and watch The Beatles Anthology.  I watched it 6 times all the way through in the 4 months we were filming.

ACTOR/ACTRESS: John Candy.

CHILDHOOD CARTOON CHARACTER: I was pretty big into The Smurfs when I was little.  It seemed like it was always on.  As I got older I got into Doug (though I always hated Skeeter), Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead and The Simpsons.

COLOR: I think blue?  Yeah, let’s go with blue.

FIRSTS:

CELEBRITY CRUSH:  Claire Danes.  I was HUGE into her during the My So Called Life years. It bordered on creepy.

PET: I had a cat named Jeffers.  My parents got me a kitten and, apparently, I used to name everything Jeff.  So they told me I could name the cat anything besides Jeff.  Being a little shit, I named it Jeffers.

KISS: I was at a wedding in California when I was 10 maybe.  My aunt was getting married and the entire family was out there.  There was this little blonde girl who was all over me the whole time and we started making out at the reception.  Granted, we were much too young to really get what we were doing, but we were still kissing pretty hard.  My dad stopped it and, later, informed me that the girl was a distant cousin of mine.  So I didn’t really get going on a good foot.

CONCERT:  I think it was a Neil Young concert I went to with my friend, Matt, and his dad.  It was horrible. I fell asleep during it.  Incidentally, that was also the first time I was around pot smoke, so that could have been the cause of my drowsiness.  Actually, no, it was definitely Neil Young’s boring music that put my to sleep, not the weed.

CAR:  I had the worst car ever made.  I got it for free from my uncle’s girlfriend.  It was a 1979 Ford Ranchero (worth google image searching if you’ve never seen one).  It was about 300 feet long and didn’t run.  My friend and I rebuilt the engine, put all kinds of time into it and it never moved more than a few feet.  After a few months with that piece of shit, I bought my mom’s 92 Honda Accord just so I had a working car.

SCHOOL:

WHAT WERE YOU CLASSIFIED AS (NERD, JOCK, BULLY, CLOWN, ETC): I’m not really sure.  I think I floated between the cliques fairly well.  I had friends in each little crew but my main friends were the funny ones.  Not really class clowns, as in being obnoxious all the time, but in that they were very casually funny.  They were also the ones who liked to drink a lot.  Needless to say, I really, really enjoyed myself in high school.  I taught myself to cry on command when we started filming because I thought that would be a cool little acting trick to have, and the way I do it is combining a lot of yawning and thinking about how I’ll never be as happy as I was in high school.  Isn’t that depressing?

FAVORITE SUBJECT: History and music.

LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECT: Math and foreign languages.  I have never received higher than a C in any language class I’ve taken.

TEACHER THAT IMPACTED YOUR LIFE THE MOST:  I had 3 teachers that really left a mark on me.  In high school I had a Latin teacher and a history teacher (Ms. Chabot and Mrs. Wheil, respectively) who were both extremely smart and really passionate about their subjects.  I learned to really love history when it went past memorizing dates and even though I was terrible at Latin, her teaching style was so good that I retained most of the information I learned (which was only enough to get me a C, but still).  In college I had a professor named Mark Naison, who taught a class called From Rock n’ Roll to Hip Hop.  He was this crazy character who wore a pimp hat and truly believed he was black (he was not).  Anyway, he really encouraged me to write and I think after that I was more confident putting my stuff out in the ether.

WERE YOU POPULAR OR MORE RESERVED:  I think I was fairly popular in high school, less so in college.  I was never popular in the way you think of the captain of the football team, but I think I was well liked enough by the kids I went to high school with.  In college I spent most of my time writing CollegeHumor articles so I wasn’t too cool there.

RANDOMS:

SHARE SOMETHING EMBARRASSING: I pissed my pants when I was in second grade because I wanted to see if I could hand out tests to everyone in my class before I went to the bathroom.

EVER REALLY BEEN IN LOVE: Yes, twice.

LEAST FAVORITE CHORE GROWING UP: Raking leaves of weeding the garden.  Fucking. Awful.

DID YOU GET AN ALLOWANCE: Maybe for a year or two?  My dad put me to work when I was 12 so I was earning illegal, under-the-table money for most of the years when you’d need an allowance to buy cigarettes off older kids.  I could buy cigarettes off older kids with my OWN money!

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR LAST MEAL ON EARTH TO BE: I think some combination of lobster newburg from my mom, a rib chop from Strip House, fries from Checkers, a burger from Louis Lunch, a pizza from Sally’s and a six pack of Sam Adam’s Octoberfest.

DID YOU HAVE ANY EMBARRASSING NICKNAMES GROWING UP: Yes, my actual name.

WHAT IS YOUR WORST HABIT: I smoke.  I also hit women regularly, but smoking is just so nasty.

WHO IS THE FIRST PERSON YOU CALL WHEN YOU HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM:  My parents.

WHAT IS IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW: A phone, some chapstick, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a wallet and two pens.  Amazing, right?

IF YOU DIDN’T WORK FOR CH, WHAT JOB COULD YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING (MEDIA FIELDS EXCLUDED): I probably would have gone to grad school for history and been a history professor.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A KLONDIKE BAR: Almost nothing.  I don’t think they’re that good.