CURRENT MISSION

To go everywhere and meet everyone (or, failing that, to see more places and meet more people...)

ABOUT ME

I live in Monza with my girlfriend Katia and her two cats Napo and Simba, where I work as an English teacher. When I'm not teaching (or playing with the cats) I can generally be found hunched over my computer writing, drawing or writing and drawing children's stories.

PHILOSOPHY

If you wouldn't want someone to do it to you, don't do it to someone else.

Interests

When I'm not earning money I spend my time reading as many books as I can find, playing guitar, writing and drawing children's books/ comics and designing t-shirts! I am working on a children's picture book at the moment that I'm hoping to have published before I die of old age! Oh, and I have an online t-shirt store over at http://en.qstoms.com/mjcTees where you can find some really strange things from my brain.

• cats
• writing
• books
• poetry
• comics
• reading
• drawing
• guitar
• animation
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Wow. Okay; books. Well, I've read 42 books so far this year so there's a lot to choose from! 1984 is usually in the top spot, but I love everything from the Harry Potters to anything by Cormac McCarthy, Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett! Movies... Again, anything really. I love Blade Runner (Director's Cut, thank you) but I am equally comfortable paying my hard-earned pennies to watch Snakes on a Plane. Music: anything with a soul that hits me in the chest. I think Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, Jeff Buckley, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, John Mayer and Radiohead have all helped me get to where I am right now.

Teach, Learn, Share

Right, skills... English, Scottish (I know some auld Robert Burns poems off by heart, though why you'd want to know them I've no idea), guitar, Photoshop/ Illustrator/ computery stuff.

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United Kingdom