Music:
Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Billie Idol, Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, CTRL, Hearts Fail, Emilys Gone Mad, Clan of Xymox, Blackbox Recorder, The Smiths, Lamia, Green Day, Sound Garden, Brobdingnagian Bards, Bedlam Bards, Murray Head, Concrete Blonde, Bowling for Soup, Modest Mouse, Lazy Boy, Ministry, Sisters of Mercy, Violent Femmes, Lizard House, etc
Movies:
Grosse Point Blank, Princess Bride, Better Off Dead, Benny & Joon, Goonies, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Toy Soldiers, Cancan, Finnian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, Cinderella (except the recent Disney remake of Rogers & Hammerstein), The Glass Slipper, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Overboard, Magnolia, Bed of Roses, Scream, The Relic (because she takes her high heels off before fleeing), Romeo and Juliet (Zeferelli version), Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh), Fight Club, Incredibles, any Danny Kaye flick, etc.
Television:
crime drama:
CSI, CSI Miami, Law & Order, Law &Order SVU, CSI New York, Law & Order Criminal Intent (in that order)
sitcom:
Coupling, My Family, Red Dwarf, Sex & the City, Smallville
erotica:
the silly softcore porn on HBO
Books:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Fairy Godmother by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Sourcery and Ceceila by Patricia Wrede and Carolyn B. Stevermyer
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Blind Waves by Steve Gould
Emily of New Moon by l.M. Montgomery
etc.