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

Hallucinations and Routines

Hallucinations and Routines

There will always be demands and obligations, but they do not need me before eleven o’clock.
C. Wall Architecture

C. Wall Architecture

A new visual identity and website for this architecture firm.
2023 Rotation

2023 Rotation

We’re deep into the 21st century, yet I still find myself waiting for the future to begin.
After the End

After the End

Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York
Prophets

Prophets

The Joshua tree was named by Mormons who thought they saw their prophet pointing to the promised land.
Desert Nomenclature

Desert Nomenclature

"Virga" is the name for precipitation that does not reach the ground.
Vegas Dust

Vegas Dust

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

100 Degrees and Snow

Every year I feel a little more vertiginous.
The New House by David Leo Rice

The New House by David Leo Rice

Lost Lake and Last Chance Mountain

Lost Lake and Last Chance Mountain

Last night I stayed up late and stitched together my favorite pieces of the Mojave.
Orientation

Orientation

Here I am at last, living in the landscape I’ve craved since the first time I drove across the country.
The Nightly News

The Nightly News

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
Michigan

The American School in London
London

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.

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

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

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

Art

His spirit runs through nearly everything we hear today.

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