Things of interest.
Aristrocrats in monocles and top hats that are concerned with the financial outlook of the East India Company. The working class has gotten a bit to big for its britches, eh comrade?
Pretty much everything but country and the bling-bling hip hop garbage. Good hip-hop I enjoy. 40's and dubs, I do not. Rock tops out my list though. Particularly Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead.
American Beauty, American History X, Lord of the Rings, Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone, Usual Suspects, many more...
Simpsons (generally pre-2000), Family Guy, Deadwood, Discovery Channel/History Channel stuff. I don't watch much else.
Fiction: Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein. Read it, live it, love it. Non-fiction: Blank Slate and The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. Should be mandatory reading. In broader terms, I tend to thoroughly enjoy anything related to Norse/Irish/English/Germanic history, language and culture as well as linguistics in general.
I'm not a fan of hero-worship. I feel that tends to breed imitation rather than creation.