Foo Fighters, Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, The Flaming Lips, Sam and Dave, Spoon, Silversun Pickups, Al Green, Switchfoot, Cracker, Skillet,The Strokes, Solomon Burke, The White Stripes, Jars of Clay, Flyleaf, Blonde Redhead, Joss Stone, The Ramones, Dinosaur Jr., Wilco, The Jayhawks, Gomez, etc.
comedy mainly
24, House MD, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, the Office, Monk.
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne, all books by Donald Miller, Rob Bell, and Brian Mclaren. My favorite American classics are by John Steinbeck: East of Eden, Cannery Row, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Winter of Our Discontent.
Jesus Christ, may sound weird but have you really truly read his teachings? Or have you just formed an opinion on the way Christians act - if so, sorry, we're trying.