(For the curious, my top 5: Nichole Nordeman, Sleeping At Last, Andrew Peterson, Josh Garrels, The Oh Hellos; probably the most mainstream artist I really like and listen to is Florence + The Machine, though I don't think her other two albums really compare well to Ceremonials.)
And DS9. Just a shame he got stuck with Keiko, the true source of every "O'Brien must suffer" episode.I also like Colm Meaney on STNG.
Star Trek drives me crazy with their casting. Four out of five Japanese characters on the show are played by Korean actors, but the one Korean on the show is played by a Malay. My preference in reading is either 16th-19th century English literature (Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Jane Austen...), Medieval literature of any origin, and Tolkien. I write sci-fi and fantasy but oddly enough I don't read a lot of it; most of what I do read has an anthropological bent like Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness is by far my favorite of her works) or a literary bent like A Canticle for Leibowitz. I also have an amateur interest in linguistics and spend waaaaaaaaay too much time constructing languages for my books. In researching for my books, I read whatever my world-building needs demand, most recently a dry as dust history of Sumer, an ethnography on daily life in Biblical Israel, an ethnobotany on aboriginal uses of "cedar" trees (redcedar and yellow-cedar--not true cedars) in the Pacific Northwest, a field guide of every major plant found in the Pacific Northwest, De Laguna's ethnography on the Yakutat Tlingit (60 pages in and I still haven't gotten to the actual ethnographyMy reading is omnivorous. I read anything and everything except erotica and saccharine romances. They bore me to tears. I like action, fantasy, scifi, thrillers, crime, whodunnits, Sherlock Holmes and his pastiches, historical, maritime, regency, science, biographies, memoirs, essays, journalism, travel, history, cookbooks, natural history, geography, poetry, prose, Shakespeare, dictionaries, linguistics, the English language and its entomology. Plus other stuff. Hello, my name is Lorraine and I am a bookworm
), and a collection of Haida poetry in translation. If this sounds like a weird assortment, it's actually for two different projects.
I've read both LotR and The Silmarillion both 20+ times. I've read all of Jane Austen's books at least three times; Pride & Prejudice and Northanger Abbey I've read at least five or six times. I've read the The Hobbit and The Children of Hurin at least five times. I've probably read Macbeth ten times, even though Antony and Cleopatra is my favorite Shakespeare play (though I've only read it twice--I discovered it later). My parents came to dread reading to me as a baby because I had the books memorized and wouldn't late them change the story or skip pages, and I wanted the same books over and over again.Oh hell YEAH! And I'm considered weird for this! I read, reread, read again and then read some more. That's why I was so devastated by my boat murdering my books. I CAN'T READ THEM ANYMORE
Oh, that reminds me, I also read the complete collection of Calvin & Hobbes at least once and sometimes twice a year for the past ten years. I always cry at the last page; there are few words as poignant to me as, "It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy. Let's go exploring!" 
You left out product labels. When I first learned to read, mom quit taking me to the store cause I would stop and read every label.My reading is omnivorous. I read anything and everything except erotica and saccharine romances. They bore me to tears. I like action, fantasy, scifi, thrillers, crime, whodunnits, Sherlock Holmes and his pastiches, historical, maritime, regency, science, biographies, memoirs, essays, journalism, travel, history, cookbooks, natural history, geography, poetry, prose, Shakespeare, dictionaries, linguistics, the English language and its entomology. Plus other stuff. Hello, my name is Lorraine and I am a bookworm
Guilty!
1) Depends. I can't say I've seen this with a television show, but hearing so many familiar voices (especially that of Ben Kingsley) in the trailer for Disney's upcoming live action The Jungle Book was extremely jarring for me. Also, I'm pretty certain that Johnny Depp stopped existing years ago; he's Jack Sparrow and every role he plays is Jack Sparrow. Sadly, I seem to be among the small group of people that didn't like Jack Sparrow...
"Deadpool" the superhero really does this a lot. I like it in certain circumstances. Can't really define what those are, but I like it sometimes, and sometimes not. In RPG games we call it "metagaming" when the character acts on information that the player knows but the character shouldn't. When it breaks immersion, it isn't good.
Yeah, that's the funny thing about fourth wall breaks--when done right it can be brilliant, but it's really difficult to quantify what those right circumstances are. Deponia breaks the fourth wall all the time and it's hilarious; the humor of the Homestar Runner cartoons are about two-thirds non sequiters and about a third fourth wall breaks and they too are hilarious; The Book of Unwritten Tales is flooded with fourth wall breaks and they do not work. I think one thing, as I alluded to above, is that fourth wall breaks should never be acknowledged; that's like, I dunno, a fifth wall break and should just never happen. When breaking the fourth wall, the characters should act like nothing out of place just happened; pointing out a fourth wall break is like a comedian laughing at their own routine.
