Disneyland (used to do GC for parades and Fantasmic!, CM for Indy), cooking shows, reading, pinball.
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Disney music of any kind, 70's Rock, 80's, Country, Easy Listening. If you can sing along, I'd probably like it. I hate that whiny college radio crap. If KROQ or STAR plays it, I won't like it. Hip Hop gives em a headache.
The Color Purple, Steel Magnolias, Speed, Warning Sign, Xanadu, Ms. Congeniality, While You Were Sleeping, Harry Potter et al., Star Wars (original series), Star Trek et al., 80's horror movies and pretty much any animated Disney movie ever made. Wanna see me cry? Show me the movie I Remember Mama and it is guaranteed to happen.
DVR has become my salvation. NO more commercials for me. No more crap TV. I only watch what I like. Iron Chef, Molto Mario, Good Eats (see a theme here?), Scrubs, La Madrastra, Dotch Cooking Show, America's Test Kitchen, Zooboomofoo, MXC, MegaMatch Sensacional, and the local news ..
The Hobbit, Watership Down, Cadillac Desert, DaVinci Code, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pier Anthony's Xanth Series, Incarnations of Immortality series, anything by Robin Cook or Michael Crichton. As a kid, my favorite books were Where the Wild Things Are, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries, anything on mythology