jonathan hartbreaker - ProfilesArchive

About Me

dress your best on execution day.

My Interests

alcohol/irony, axiology, black tie, brutal honesty, complex adaptive systems, dispensing with formalities, dressing to a T, last-in/first-out, layered clothing, lost causes, making people feel uncomfortable, manifest destiny, the midwest, momentary lapses in discretion, pareto-optimization, pimm's, the prime directive, racketeering, rational anarchism, reading every great work of fiction, reckless abandon, refusing apologies, saber rattling, screaming at the top of my lungs, speaking perfect standard english, spelling nearly everything incorrectly, steampunk, steady-state economics, techno-utopianism, the vast spoils of america, wielding absolute control over my emotions, waiting until the last possible second to rescue the planet from seemingly inevitable destruction.

and tea.

I'd like to meet:

the stars might lie, but the numbers never do.

Music:

ace of base.
belle + sebastian.
common rider.
counterfit.
clash.
cure.
decemberists.
explosions in the sky.
franz ferdinand.
garth brooks.
george strait.
go! team.
just these dudes.
lucksmiths.
oasis.
orwell.
spacehog.
ted leo + rxs.
tbiapb.
tullycraft.
weakerthans.

Movies:

2001: a space odyssey.
boondock saints.
count of monte christo.
fight club.
hero.
italian job.
josie + the pussycats.
kill bill i/ii.
lock, stock etc.
le voyage dans la lune.
north by northwest.
oceanâ€™s eleven.
primer.
pulp fiction.
reservoir dogs.
snatch.
trainspotting.
v for vendetta.
zoolander.

Television:

daily show.
sifl + olly.
star trek.

Books:

fiction:
pride and prejudice
- jane austen
ender's game
- orson scott card
david copperfield
- charles dicksons
a study in scarlet
- sir arthur conan doyle
the moon is a harsh mistress
- robert heinlein
le morte darthur
- sir thomas mallory
nine princes in amber
- roger zelazny
of human bondage
- w. somerset maugham
his dark materials
- phillip pullman
atlas shrugged
- ayn rand
hamlet
- william shakespeare
war and peace
- leo tolstoy
from the earth to the moon
- jules verne
cat's cradle
- kurt vonnegut jr.
nonfiction:
critical mass
- phillip ball
the origin of wealth
- eric d. beinhocker
the rights of man
- thomas paine
the wisdom of crowds
- james surowiecki

Heroes:

dale earnhardt, joan of arc, ragnar danneskjold and that chinese guy at tiananmen square.

My Blog

in all the places you thought last to look:

for all the things you wanted last to find. and now, at an hour to midnight, you are huddled on the floor in the corner of a public library scouring an anthology for a quote heard in passing and...
Posted by jonathan hartbreaker on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:44:00 PST

of all the things i dreamt when i was younger:

and what had changed between first conceptions and present manifestations, through communications over absent airwaves and failing frequencies, modulating endlessly to the outer boundaries of our...
Posted by jonathan hartbreaker on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:43:00 PST

the first of what will someday be considered the last:

and i realized that in all this time, in all of the existences that had passed between us and the lives we had wasted in indignation of one another, that the adagios, the crescendos and the sud...
Posted by jonathan hartbreaker on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:13:00 PST

fiat accompli:

i awoke from a restless night to plumes of black smoke barraging my window frames. advance, attack, retreat. advance, attack, retreat. crowds had assembled on the street under a light ...
Posted by jonathan hartbreaker on Tue, 02 May 2006 07:56:00 PST

jetsetter:

i wake up at seatac, JFK, hartsfield. i wake up at de gaulle, gare du midi, waterloo. pacific, mountain, central, greenwich.lose an hour, gain an hour. lose a day, gain a day. this is my life and it's...
Posted by jonathan hartbreaker on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:04:00 PST

note to self:

be erect by half-past ten,be strong, be proud, be able, be charmed,be extended, be in motion.
Posted by jonathan hartbreaker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST