I listen to a lot of soundtracks and show stuff, they help with the writing. I have, for example, Gladiator, LOTR, Smallville, Roswell, Kingdom of Heaven, Charmed, Les Miserables, FF games, Phantom of the Opera... the list goes on.

Music taste? Fairly eclectic. I'll listen to music depending on my mood. Prefer stuff I can sing to, and actually prefer individual songs rather than "bands". I also like instrumental music. Give me a good cello piece and I'm yours for supper. CDs that end up in the stacker a lot include:

1927
Amici Forever
Breaking Benjamin
Clannad
Dead Can Dance
Disturbed
Enya
Evanescence
Jewel
Linkin Park
Loreena McKennitt
Muse
Seether
Tears For Fears
The Corrs
Three Day's Grace
Van Halen
Vivaldi
Within Temptation

Really. I'm too mature to be obssessive. But aren't they lover-ly?

Well, most of the stuff I watch, TV-wise, is on DVD. TV irks me, but I'll watch a few of the current ones. I call them "Wentworth", "Jensen", "Chris" and "Rob". I should probably call them Prison Break, Supernatural, Oz/L&O:SVU and Numbers. Whatever. I'm regressing. It's about time. :)

Very fond of most British comedy (Benny Hill being the exception to that rule). Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey--frippin' brilliant.

Black Books
Cadfael
Charmed
Cold Case
CSI (I like the original best, but the others'll do, too)
Firefly
Ghost Whisperer
Law & Order - CI and SVU in particular
Michael Wood docos -- chose one, I'll watch 'em all
Numb3rs
Oz
Prison Break
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk
Scrubs
Sliders
Smallville
Spaced
Supernatural
The A-Team
The Goodies
The Unit
Twin Peaks
Xena

Film is so subjective, that some films I like one day I won't like another day (most "chick flicks" fall into this category). Buuut... there are always some I will never dislike, and never seem to be not in the "mood" to watch:

12 Angry Men (the original)
Adaptation
Advent Children -- okay, you have to be a FF fan, but Reno, Rude, Vinnie? Yeah. 'Nuff said.
Anime -- I just like it.
Batman Begins (Bale is the best Batman ever. No contest)
Bill and Ted (both films)
Crash (f'ing disturbing but so close to truth it's scary)
Ferris Bueller
Gladiator (yeah. I don't know either)
Hayao Miyazaki Films (He made such films as Nausica and Howl's Moving Castle, among others. Just...brilliant)
High Fidelity (or anything with John Cusack, really. Funny man)
Last of the Mohicans
Napoleon Dynamite
Phantom of the Opera (Gerry Butler, of course)
POTC (all, but I think the writers cheated a lot with 2 & 3)
Practical Magic
Rear Window (the original)
Serenity (okay, I can say "bandwagon" :-P)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (all dancing with axes. Oh, yes)
The Human Stain
The Lake House (I do have exceptions ;-) )
The Muppets--any of them
The Notebook (beautiful story. Just watch it)
The Outsiders (don't... ask...)
The Princess Bride
Underworld
Velvet Goldmine

I'm not kidding when I say that Bale is one of the more brilliant actors around. The word is "versatility", folks. Gerry is nice to watch and has the whole Glaswegian accent going on, but Bale... even Reign of Fire is aaaaalmost bearable because... well... actually Bale and Butler. Hm. And again... hm. British eye candy. Accept no substitutes.

Oh. I hate, detest, cannot stand one film, which I will not name. But if "William Wallace" gives you a clue.... I love William Wallace. He lived in the era I love and studied, in a country I feel deeply about. Which is why I hate the film. The man was infinitely more brilliant than he was portrayed. And the historical inaacuracies... lost me in the first five minutes and went steadily downhill from there. There was no Wallace in that film. At all. And as for the hackjob done on Rob Bruce... and the events of the day... and... actually, it didn't get one single detail correct. No, wait... there was one. Wallace was, in fact, hung, drawn and quartered. That is all. Geebus fracking Fluffy. What the fuck, Gibson?

Oh, and will people stop demonising/magician-ifying the Knights Templar? For pity's sake, these boys were monks, not sorcerers, and the last gen died under the most horrific tortures imaginable. And only less than 10% of them were fighting force, the rest were farmers, clerics, the guy who mucked out the horses' stables and shore the sheep, accountants... and desptie the capitulation of their last GM, stood under the Inquisition, illegally ordered to death by the church they spent 200 years protecting. Leave them alone.

Think it's about time storytellers found themselves some new stereotypes, wot?