James A. Reeves

A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mix tapes and writes about faith in the digital age.

Notebook

Notes on God

Notes on God

Instructions for Myself

Instructions for Myself

Favorite Things

Favorite Things

Static Mood /

Heavy Metal Instructions /

Dream Inventory /

An Ongoing Exercise in Accretion /

Taipei/Tokyo Collages /

A Partial Inventory of a Night Market in Taiwan /

Eighteen Levels of Hell /

Naoshima Notes /

Tokyo Notes /

Notes on God /

A Walk in London /

Figure With Meat /

Naming the Snow /

2024 Rotation /

Grey /

Guanyin of Eleven Heads /

A New Dark Age /

Track ID /

A Tale of Judgment and Grace /

A Psychedelic Throb /

They Enter Our Minds Like Bats /

Someday We Will Conjure New Gods to Console Us /

Scene from My Notebook /

A Staggering Kind of Stillness /

Debris /

Altar /

Mysterium /

On a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe /

Instead of Disappearing Completely /

Why Am I in Ohio? /

A Craving for Polar Horror /

Mirrors to Deflect Danger /

Why Does the Brain Torture Itself? /

Starting a New Big Thing /

Loss Response /

Hallucinations and Routines /

2023 Rotation /

Prophets /

Desert Nomenclature /

100 Degrees and Snow /

Lost Lake and Last Chance Mountain /

Orientation /

Seven Years Ago, I Placed a Significant Bet /

The Effects Are Deeper Than the Struggle to Remain Upright /

A Scribble, an Exploded Rocket, and an Oyster Omelet /

Goddammit, I Just Graded a Fucking Robot /

She Reminisced About the Cambrian Period /

What Happens Here Happens Everywhere /

Letting Go of the Maps in My Head /

Technology Might Have Peaked With Magnetic Tape /

Suddenly We Found Ourselves Hiking /

Church Attendance Is Lowest in Nevada /

We Searched for 10,000 Acres of Sand /

My Dithering has Reached Its Vanishing Point /

And Entropy Makes Itself Known to Me /

Towers of Red Rock Loomed Over Us Like a Beautiful Threat /

So Much Civilization Where There Shouldn’t Be /

The Reassuring Cadence of Living in the Sprawl /

A Landscape that Functions Like Memory /

The Games We Play in Museums /

Landscapes Like Scenes from Tomorrow /

Yet the Horizon Never Seems to Draw Closer /

Ten Years Sober Today /

And We Diligently Killed Zombies /

The Sensation of Slippage Continues /

Fever Dreams Enhanced by the American Government /

Algorithms Cannot Compete With the Spectacle of Humans /

The Sudden Lights of Vegas in the Valley Below /

2022 Rotation /

They Say It’s the Future, They Say It’s Useful for Us /

Even if the Rewards Have Diminished /

All the Little Red Bubbles /

There’s Too Much Night Here /

White Line Fever and the Higher Silence Within /

My Screens Reflected the Sprawl /

Vegas Architecture Hides From the Sun /

A Dedicated Place Where I Can Tack Index Cards to the Wall /

Taro Puffs the Size of Your Fist /

Fireworks in the Parking Lot of a Gas Station /

A Fingernail Moon Rose Over the Rockies /

The First Pizza Hut is in Wichita /

Movements Are a Relic of the 20th Century /

Synthetic Tracks for the Motorway /

Faded Graffiti Like a Vanished Wish /

The Spirit of the Information Superhighway /

People Behaving Poorly in Glossy Architecture /

Another Sleepless Night for Reasons Unknown /

Repetition Is Where Things Get Interesting /

A Body of Water Was Named After a Man Who Was Roasted Alive /

There Would Be Less Screaming /

A House Always Made of Freshly Chopped Wood /

Some Faceless Behemoth Purchased It /

The Bare Trees Reveal New Scenery /

Sleep Has a Moral Dimension /

Sometimes You Can’t Find the Door /

It Feels Like a Video Game /

A White Honda with a Crumpled Fender /

If We Can Rearrange Time, We Can Do Anything /

A Bright Daytime Moon Hung in the Sky /

My Brain Has Run Out of Sleeping Juice /