James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mixtapes and writes about faith in the digital age.
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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.
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James A. Reeves

James A. Reeves

A Bright Daytime Moon Hung in the Sky

A Bright Daytime Moon Hung in the Sky

I’d like to live in a world of apologetic gods and talking satellites.
My Brain Has Run Out of Sleeping Juice

My Brain Has Run Out of Sleeping Juice

These summery November days echo my sense of being out of time.
A Mumbled Conspiracy Feels Wholesome These Days

A Mumbled Conspiracy Feels Wholesome These Days

And my mind turns gullible in the small hours, ready to believe anything.
There's a Thin Line Between Vigilance and Neuroticism

There's a Thin Line Between Vigilance and Neuroticism

The leaves have fallen, and we crunched over them while dressed for spring.
Tighter Pores, Fewer Toxins, and a Sharper Mind

Tighter Pores, Fewer Toxins, and a Sharper Mind

C. and I celebrated her birthday at the Largest Korean Sauna in North America.
A Secular Approach to Home Improvement

A Secular Approach to Home Improvement

I took an afternoon drive through Indiana the other day, and it was clear that America is not doing well.
An Urge to Tear Apart the Sky

An Urge to Tear Apart the Sky

I ran from my screen like someone in a zombie movie.
Saturday Night Terrain

Saturday Night Terrain

She hummed with the nervy energy of a talented yet unrecognized mind.
Good Fortune

Good Fortune

I keep this one in my wallet.
Someday We Will Invent Kinder Gods and New Miracles

Someday We Will Invent Kinder Gods and New Miracles

Yesterday in twenty-first-century America, I idled behind a jeep with an InfoWars license plate.
Night Station

Night Station

I stood in line at the Gas ‘n Go behind a man with a pistol tucked into the elastic waistband of his sweatpants.
Hallucinator

Hallucinator

We traded memories through the night, starting with branches of personal history and working backward until we reached the primeval muck that fuels a life.

You can feel the geography shift when you see all that big pine and cold water.

At some point the screen became the world, and now we’re haunting it.

The ghosts of old standards, summoned for whatever comes next.

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

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

Anything worthwhile rests on a knife’s edge like the delicate art of falling asleep.

Slowing down my favorite songs has become a spiritual practice.

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

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

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

God 39
Art 31
Autobiography 29
Midnight Radio 29
Reading 27
Dreams 24
Influences 20
Weather 19
Grief 16
Movies 14
Process 13
Fiction 12
Midnight Radio
Notes on surviving the 21st century and a mixtape delivered 'round midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month.
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