former US Marine, retired police
anything by Akira Kurosawa, and all the Godzilla movies (except for the crappy American remake); other than that, numerous favorites in most genres. . .with a preference for mythological themes. . .
when i had a tv, it was the Cartoon Network (especially "Adult Swim"), Comedy Central (especially "The Daily Show" and "the Colbert Report"), and C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. . .after the C-SPAN channels got to be like everything else, i didn't see paying so much for only two channels of worth. . .
numerous favorites in numerous genres, and favorite SERIES of books as well as individual favorites. . .my library ranges from the ancient Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh" to Stephen Colbert's "I Am America (And So Can You)!"