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

Clichés Are Learned the Hard Way

Clichés Are Learned the Hard Way

Acid Camp

Acid Camp

"Only in a rerun."

"Only in a rerun."

More Americans are Unraveling Behind the Wheel

More Americans are Unraveling Behind the Wheel

The sun went down at 8:49pm, the moon is in its last quarter, and tonight I'm wondering if the health of a society can be pegged to the nerves of its motorists.
Like trying to retrofit an 8-track player.

Like trying to retrofit an 8-track player.

Tiny Figures Among the Stones

Tiny Figures Among the Stones

A floppy-eared dog gnawed a bone while a clown smiled above the bed.
I Put a Lot of Faith in Office Products to Solve My Existential Problems

I Put a Lot of Faith in Office Products to Solve My Existential Problems

My map is upside down, inscrutable, and probably for a different planet.
Before I Die

Before I Die

A soundtrack to accompany the exhibition of Candy Chang’s Before I Die project.
Can't Kill the World

Can't Kill the World

The Night of the Hunter opens with the disembodied heads of five children floating in the cosmos and gets weirder from there.
A Fleeting Shape Glimpsed From the Corner of the Eye

A Fleeting Shape Glimpsed From the Corner of the Eye

My first memory of God: I was five or six years old and feverishly rubbing a white crayon into a dark blue piece of construction paper.
I Need to Rethink How I Spend My Dwindling Time on This Planet

I Need to Rethink How I Spend My Dwindling Time on This Planet

Greenland

Greenland

I’m always in a heavy state whenever I see Greenland, usually red-eyed and emotionally shredded.

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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Notes on surviving the 21st century and a mixtape delivered 'round midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month.
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