MAKEBA LOVES: God, her big and slightly disorganised family, tap dancing, dancing in general, making/listening to music, chocolate, New Wine Church (www.newwine.co.uk), steam rooms, travelling, theatre, fashion shows in her bedroom, nights out, nights in, being surrounded by friends, solitude.MAKEBA IS FAMOUS FOR: sleeping just about anywhere, at any time: in lectures, in the cinema (even if the film is great), in the car after a night out, in the club!!!!MAKEBA HATES: slugs, snails, people spitting in the street, people vomiting on the bus (I have seen this- EUGH!!!!!), hand dryers in public toilets that take 1000 years to dry your hands
CREATIVE PEOPLE: WHATEVER YOUR THING IS, DO IT AND SHARE IT!
...The food of love...Music is our common thread, wherever we are in the world and whatever beat we dance to. In my collection are (in no particular order) ...Stevie Wonder/Prince/Michael Jackson/Janet Jackson/Fela Kuti/D'Angelo/The Roots/Herbie Hancock/Donald Byrd/Oscar Peterson/John Coltrane/Miles Davis/Pete Rock/A Tribe called Quest/Roy Hargrove/Jeff Bradshaw/TY/Roots Manuva/NERD/Dwele/Raheem Devaughn/John Legend/Van Hunt/Vikter Duplaix/Eric Roberson/Mos Def/J Dilla/ Maxwell/Jill/Erykah/Angie/Tom Jobim/Astrud Gilberto/Marvin Gaye/Al Green/Nas/Jay Z/Dead Prez/Luther Vandross/Red Hot Chilli Peppers...to name but a few...
Um, favourites include Napoleon Dynamite/Leon/Lord of the Rings/Tap/Scarface/City of God/Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon/Strictly Ballroom/Crash/Coming to America/Hotel Rwanda/When we were Kings/Buena Vista Social Club/Love and Basketball/Best Man/Brown Sugar/Anchorman/
Not much...I make sure I catch the news most mornings. HEROES!!!!!
The Bible, The Alchemist, The Prophet (so many levels...), The Lord of the rings, Harry Potter (yes, and what?), 1984, The God of Small things, The time of our singing (by Richard powers), Men are from Mars Women are from Venus (EVERYBODY READ THIS BOOK NOW!!!)
Jesus, my parents