I don't even have my TV plugged in because I so rarely watch it. However, I grew up in front of a moving screen like most every other American kid in the '90s and early '00s, and when I do watch, I enjoy Scrubs and just about anything on Discovery or old-school Animal Planet (before they started with the pet stuff
). I think watching Discovery so much as a kid really reinforced my love of knowledge and learning, so I doubt I'd be who I am now without that.
I don't watch a whole lot of movies either, but some of my favorites are the original Star Wars trilogy, Willow, Cool Runnings, Impostor, and What Dreams May Come. My all-time favorite movie, though, is a Chinese film titled "Gwai Wik", a.k.a. "Re-cycle". I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind subtitles (or who speaks Cantonese).
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odPMBMCuWT0As far as books go, I read so few of them it's ridiculous. I have read only two novels since 2004, and both were very short. The first was "Anthem" by Ayn Rand (great book) and the second was the book one of my friends wrote for
NaNoWriMo. I used to be a much more avid reader when I was a kid, and some of my old favorites are "Where the Red Fern Grows", The Prydain Chronicles, The Chronicles of Narnia (I've only read a few of them and I don't remember which ones), and "The Three Musketeers".
When I read "The Sword of Shannara", all I could think of is how derivative it was. The group is even pretty much the same layout as The Fellowship of the Ring: warrior, ranger, dwarf, elf, two regular guys (humans instead of hobbits, but still
), all under the leadership of a wise old magic guy.
