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 Fascinating Little Ailment

A Fascinating Little Ailment

I sneeze whenever I glance at the sun, which I’ve always taken as proof I am a night owl.
Passage

Passage

Maps of the Arctic give me vertigo. All that blank bright land feels like leaping off a rooftop.
Radioactivity

Radioactivity

Cut to commercial, and I hum along with a jingle for a machine that controls your brainwaves while you sleep.
Fires

Fires

The Rockies appeared through the gloom, slow beasts moving across the continent at the speed of time.
Summer of Muslimgauze

Summer of Muslimgauze

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

The Comfort Lounge

It was a run-down joint where time stood still and probably slid backward.
A Matter of Degrees

A Matter of Degrees

Dangling Shoes

Dangling Shoes

Some Americans like to tie a pair of shoes together and toss them at a power line.
The Corners of the Ceiling

The Corners of the Ceiling

“Science shouldn’t explain everything,” she told me.
Folk Religion

Folk Religion

Maybe you’ve heard the soliloquies of sunburnt men who mutter at the traffic.
And Thank God, Soon We’ll Be Making More Night

And Thank God, Soon We’ll Be Making More Night

A heat dome has settled over the Middle West, the moon was extra bright last night, and I saw a rainbow in the parking lot yesterday.
The Weather Lady Looked a Little Freaked Out

The Weather Lady Looked a Little Freaked Out

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.

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