James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mix tapes and writes about faith in the digital age. More.
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James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mix tapes and writes about faith in the digital age.
Midnight Radio
Ruminations, reverberations, and a five-track mixtape delivered 'round midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month.
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James A. Reeves

James A. Reeves

An Ongoing Exercise in Accretion

An ongoing exercise in accretion.
Taipei/Tokyo Collages

Taipei/Tokyo Collages

Collages of the Taipei+Tokyo ephemera in my suitcase.
Destroyer of Obstacles

Destroyer of Obstacles

An offering of static and fire.
Dead Trees Bloom Flowers

Dead Trees Bloom Flowers

Bad fortunes are tied to a rack while a Buddhist chant bleeds through my favorite song of the year.
A Partial Inventory of a Night Market in Taiwan

A Partial Inventory of a Night Market in Taiwan

Fresh meat, blouses, and turnip cakes.
Exit the Tiger

Exit the Tiger

She waved a stick of burning incense at my face and puffed and sighed.
Eighteen Levels of Hell

Eighteen Levels of Hell

Those who cut corners shall be eaten by predators and snakes.
The Obsidian Turtle Governs the North

The Obsidian Turtle Governs the North

Broadcasting from somewhere between the bells of a temple and the heat of a night market.
Naoshima Notes

Naoshima Notes

I believe the function of art is to create a situation where language falls apart.
The Red Curtain

The Red Curtain

A tribute to David Lynch that roams through the ruins of vintage ballads and slow-motion noir.
Tokyo Notes

Tokyo Notes

Landed in Tokyo. I do not know the day of the week or why it’s still dark outside.
Saccharine

Saccharine

Hell can be described in a thousand ways, but heaven remains impossible to grasp.

Broadcasting from somewhere between the bells of a temple and the heat of a night market.

Midnight Radio

Anything worthwhile rests on a knife’s edge, balanced by a paradox that I can only compare to the delicate act of falling asleep.

Midnight Radio

Slowing down my favorite songs has become a spiritual practice.

Midnight Radio

This man was the antichrist. Yes, he was what the end of civilization looked and sounded like.

Philosophy Notebook

It’s tempting to classify Death Prom as mere nostalgia, but it is a complicated haunting.

Midnight Radio

A few minutes after midnight in the Mojave desert, a preacher appears on a dead radio channel.

Albums

The artist’s obsession becomes the listener’s obsession.

Essays Influences

Maybe you’ve heard the stories, the baroque theories on late-night radio or the soliloquies of sunburnt men who mutter at the traffic.

Conspiracy Fiction Notebook

Art Notebook

His spirit runs through nearly everything we hear today.

Autobiography Influences Notebook
God 36
Art 31
Autobiography 28
Reading 26
Dreams 23
Midnight Radio 21
Weather 19
Influences 19
Grief 16
Fiction 12
Process 12
Movies 12
Midnight Radio
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