Favourite Visual Artist
Classical? Van Gogh. On deviantArt I'm a pretty hardcore efleck fangirl, this is well known. ^^
Favourite Movies
The Lion in Winter, 12 Angry Men, Rope, The Usual Suspects, Boondock Saints, Most anything Disney or Pixar animated, mostly the older stuff for the later. Gah, too many to list!
Favourite TV Shows
The West Wing, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Game of Thrones... now that I have kids it's hard to keep up with much of anything new.
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
My tastes in music are eclectic and catholic (not as in the religion, ahem) so, eh, too hard to list. I dunno, the last couple of bands/artists that came up at random on iTunes: Florence + the Machine, RHCP, Gorillaz, Elgar, Greg Laswell and Static X.
Favourite Books
Can't list them all! To Kill a Mockingbird, a LOT of classics, a lot of fantasy, a little sci-fi.. big fan of Laurie R. King's Mary Russel series.
Favourite Writers
Urmph, I give up. I read voraciously. Biggest influences? Harper Lee, Jane Austen, C.S. Friedman, Laurie R. King, Diana Gabaldon's earlier books.
Favourite Games
Video games? Mass Effect and Dragon Age. TT? oWoD, Mage. Board games? Trivial Pursuit, Risk and Clue. ^^
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC!
Tools of the Trade
A really good thesaurus, spell check and Paint.Net on occasion!
Other Interests
Free range hamsters. Seriously: Did you know they stampede in the wild? I will call my life well lived and complete when I start, witness and wrangle a hamster stampede. XD