Unforgetable art

In a recent post on jaywalking some questions was brought up from Isabella about art that made a difference in your life.

is there a book that you want the whole world to read?
a movie that changed your life?
a piece of music that makes your heart swell every time you hear it?
a special play?
some other creative work that you can’t forget?

I tried to answer them my self, I really did! I went out on side tracks. Do I even want the whole world to be able to read? I like diversity and to force all people to learn how to read, well, I'm not sure. For a while I was sure and I was close to post something about me wanting the whole world to have read the whole Bible. How many wars have not been fought in the name of Jesus by people not even taught well in the Book...? But then, there are quite a few who know every last letter and still don't know the first thing about God and Love so I wont take the Bible, and is it really a book and not books?

Then I started to write about the book I read most recently, Middlesex, and I praised it for quite a while. Then I remembered that I always love the book I have read last and that I have to read another book until I can talk about a book so I abandoned the idea of recommending Middlesex until I have read another book.

Then I hit google and terms like "amazing book" and "wonderful book" and was amazed about what books people likes. So many people thinking that the best book in the world is a cake recipe book with cakes that takes more than 10 hours to do or people that think the most wonderful book is a book on bookbinding in the 20th century.

Now I am caught up with my thoughts about if I even want everyone to be able to read.

Next question: a movie that change your life
The hours is one of many movies that really changed my life. I did not know anything about the movie when I borrowed it. I was alone when I watched it and was just stunned. When it was over I sat with my phone in my hand trying to phone my partner Noa. But I just couldn't dial the numbers. I had no words. I sat in front of my TV for a while and then I watched it again.

I think it was in october 2004 I saw it. I had just began to understand that my life as a stay at home mum was a dead end but I had no idea how to understand what road was the right for me and I had many suicidal thoughts even if I never was near follow them thru. When I saw the Hours and the character Laura Brown played by Julianne Moore I finally understood that I had to change path before I abandoned the family I really love.

A piece of music that makes your heart swell every time you hear it?
K's Choices song Virgin State of Mind. It actually was played in a episode of Buffy and I had to get online and order every album they ever done. It is still one of my biggest favorites and Noa uses that fact and play it when he wants me in a better mood. No matter how angry/sad/frustrated/bitter I am, 10 sec of that song makes me happy and mellow.

Another song that has that effect on me is Hallelujah sang by Rufus Wainwright.

Other art work that makes a difference in my life is often photography and names that comes to mind is Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Gunnel Wåhlstrand and
Brutus Östling