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

Notebook

Snapshots and inspiration about making things and finding a little faith in the twenty-first century.

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
A Mumbled Conspiracy Feels Wholesome These Days
There’s a Thin Line Between Vigilance and Neuroticism
Tighter Pores, Fewer Toxins, and a Sharper Mind
A Secular Approach to Home Improvement
An Urge to Tear Apart the Sky
Saturday Night Terrain
Good Fortune
Someday We Will Invent Kinder Gods and New Miracles
Night Station
Hallucinator
Room in the Air
The Throwback Special
Plaza
The Haunting of Hill House
The Moment Dots Become a Pattern
I Need to Make Mistakes
The Fifth Child
Pictures from a Bad Dream
A Fascinating Little Ailment
Fires
The Corners of the Ceiling
Folk Religion
And Thank God, Soon We’ll Be Making More Night
The Weather Lady Looked a Little Freaked Out
Clichés Are Learned the Hard Way
Acid Camp
More Americans are Unraveling Behind the Wheel
Like trying to retrofit an 8-track player.
Tiny Figures Among the Stones
I Put a Lot of Faith in Office Products to Solve My Existential Problems
Before I Die
A Fleeting Shape Glimpsed From the Corner of the Eye
I Need to Rethink How I Spend My Dwindling Time on This Planet
Greenland
Last Day in London
April 14, 2022
York
Bath
Somnambulist
Violent Light
A Fair Chunk of Our Time Was Spent Pacing and Sighing
Stone
They’re Making Video Poems About the 1990s
Evensong
Feedback Loops
His Faces Melt in the Rain
Gaps and Threads
Midnight in London
We Tuned In to Watch Airplanes
Dark Trees
The Ides of February
Night Flight to London
Slush and Stone
Morning Man
Nine Years Sober Today
January 27, 2022
Middle Path
Midwinter Inventory
Winter Robots
Cusp of Things
Tomorrow’s Gods
A Low Rumble
The Hum of Machinery You Can See
Word Count
17 Minutes Remaining
Dream Language
January 7, 2022
January 6, 2022
An Elderly Man Sighs Over a Dusty Book About Trees
Goodness
January 3, 2022
Broken Scales
January 1, 2022
2021 Rotation
Parameters Are Critical
It dramatizes grief and bends towards science fiction.
The Right Notebook Will Solve All My Problems
Goodbye, New York
Endless
Crossroads
She Swirled Her Ink Across a Massive Canvas
Crosstown
Winter Noises
This Is the Third Time I Will Leave New York
There’s Nothing Sane to Do
Burn yourself completely.
I Went for a Run Because I Didn’t Want to Start Smoking Again
Frictional
Crowd
My Favorite Moment of the Year
I Seem to Remember Less and Less
Writing for Whoever Might Find It
Brain in the Desert
Desert Cadence
Silence and News
Hunter’s Moon
Phoenix Is Impossible, but Its Cacti Are Platonic
An Abandoned Baby Stroller and a Bottle of Champagne
Orbiting the Margins of Vegas
Suspended in a Timeless Non-Space
Ecce Homo
Rituals
Extension
Future Church
A Perfect Crescent Dangled Over the Street
Elderly Couples Held Each Other Steady
Everything Feels Like a Metaphor These Days
A Mystic Allure
Falling in Love With a Moment
Local Artists on the Local News
Respiration
Hardcode
Talking Over a Car Alarm
Shamble and Stride
A Sinful Sun
Finding My Thoughts Has Felt Difficult Lately
Monster
Fireworks
Eastbound
The debris of a falling Chinese rocket.
Mahjong
May 7, 2021
Shadowbahn
April 22, 2021
Some Terrible Paintings
Temptation
Between
Clearing the Decks Before Trying Something New
Clearing the Decks Before Trying Something New
Clocks Only Measure Other Clocks
Unthinkable
Version
December 27, 2020
2020 Rotation
Shambles
Moment
Eve
Banquet
Stimulus
Hibernal
Postmortem
Programming
Fracture
Death
Flurries
Reflection
Mundane
Vaccine
Narrows
Numbers
Worship
December 9, 2020
Alright
Absence
My Father Nodded His Head to Funkadelic on Highway 61
Metal
A Longing Almost Too Painful to Witness
Eat
Language
Writing Through a Uniquely Terrible Year
When a Pounding Headache Fades
Leave Your Children in the Woods
Fully Loaded with Faux Pinecones
Access
Gratitude
November 25, 2020
We Scrolled Down the Aisles in Hunter-Gatherer Mode
Patterns
Stretch
Image
Walk
Post
Forward
Hijack
The Galleries Were Mostly Empty
A New Medieval Age of Faith and Feeling
Lament
Profane
Suffuse
Spirit
Test
Shift
Catharsis
Endless
Goo
Razor
Election
November 2, 2020
Hour
October 31, 2020
Devil
Wind
Mirror
History
Court
Up
Lights
Ocean
We took a night drive through the fog.
Landscape
Monsters
Fatigue
Monument
October 16, 2020
Watching
Simulation
Tabula Rasa
Pictures
Drome
Spare
Silentium
Landfall
Creature
Kite
Dust
Extreme
Oldies
Positive
Ritual
Training
Shame
Dots
Converge
Lull
Homeward
Birds
Shatter
September 22, 2020
Plaza
Closer
Spectrum
Process
Behalf
Encounter
Legs on a Snake
September 14, 2020
September 13, 2020
Superstore
Nineteen
Deer
Smoke
September 8, 2020
September 7, 2020
Kindling
Beauty
Howl
Radioactive
Swerve
Hex
Writing Is a Physical Act
August 30, 2020
I miss the golden days of scrolling through lyrical babble.
Monochrome
Stimuli
Weather
Untethered
Observance
Pegasus
Scan
Sunset
Machine
Signs
Jeremiad
People looking in the wrong direction.
Grind
Tornado
Buzz
Lot
Desk
Puzzle
August 10, 2020
Logs
Cave
Road
Pack
August 5, 2020
Debris
Moon
Normal
July 31, 2020
Ready
Pray
Demon
A list of things that inspired the book I’m writing.
Wave
Feedback
The Potter’s Clay
Give Up on Inspiration
Downpour
Detach
Cover
Echo
Run
Anchors
Soul
Spear
July 14, 2020
Breakup
Each Finger Has Its Own Consciousness
Synthesis
Rain
Embers
Sleepless
Nature
Vivid
Forgetting
Independence
Toll
The Peaceful Rocks Will Revolve Unchanged Until the Sun Explodes
Abandon
The Origin of Shadow Puppets
To Believe in Something Otherworldly in 2020
Humid
Rhythm
Invasion
Grace
You Can See the Gorilla Dust Cloud From Outer Space
June 23, 2020
Phase
Radioland
Solstice
Midnight
Convulsion
Tactile
Reconciliation
Wolf
June 14, 2020
Texture
Liability
Unless people are exploding in the streets.
A Gigantic Trampoline
Otherwhere
The Footprints of a Dying Creature
Hope
Paranoia
Presence
Oblivious
Alert
Curfew
Desecration
Vacant
Dissonance
Pain
Haze
Accretion
May 26, 2020
Memorial
Bell
The Fuzzy Line Between Media Consumption and My Soul
Time
May 21, 2020
Cracks
Dark
Weird
Genre
Symbols
Grass
May 14, 2020
Remember
Scramble
Next
May 10, 2020
Season
A Ghostly Figure Spiraling Up out of Nowhere
Diners With Fritzing Neon That You Can Hear
Options
Coherence
Scold
Saturday
You Can Never See Further Than Your Headlights
Outline
Compound
Smile
Diner
Glum
Avalanche
Drain
Ruins
Flowers
White Thunder
Fugue
Interference
Reverb
Mouth
Slow
Wednesday
The Grammar of Dead Casinos
A Time to Rethink Everything
We’re Born, Then We Die, and What the Fuck
Saturday Night During a Pandemic
The Names of the Lights Overhead
The noise of humanity prevented God from sleeping.
Like I’m about to commit a poorly-planned crime.
Space
Lung
Park
April 4, 2020
Prediction
Doubt
Passing
Shake
A burst of animal noise from a wounded city.
Grid
Days of Conspiracy
The Electrifying Mojo Had the Most Reassuring Voice I Ever Heard
Point
Kneel
The Bad Juju Starts Bouncing Off the Walls
Night
Blank
Always Do Your Best to Wipe Everything Down
Artificial
Hothouse
Quiet
An Echo of the Days and Weeks After Losing My Mother
Vigilance
Distance
Communion
Closed
A Swirly Purple Storm With Tumbling Microbes
Spike
Denial
Pantheon
Countryside
March 7, 2020
Stay Wild and Free
Sanitizer
One of the Finest Things I Own Is a Lamp
Tuesday
Little Failed Utopias
Hills
Leap
The Fragmented Head of a Colossal Boy
Scribble
Cross
Jabs
Salmiakki
Virus
Pattern
Bow
Perfect
Event
Love
Eye
The 45th Parallel
Blue
Future
Ghost
Living among strangers is essential.
Dreams
Powerball
Clutter
I thought we deserved a worthy villain.
Decision
Twilight
Boot
Change
Attending to the World
Birthday
February 1, 2020
To Watch a Fireplace the Way I Watch Television
Static
Light
Glitch
Hidden
Rotation
Turbulence
A Robot Scanned the Fading Canvas of a Rembrandt
Maybe religion and weather are intertwined.
January 22, 2020
Earnest, Curious, and Raw
Past
The Wonder Is Still There
January 18, 2020
Etch these strange times into my memory.
Solitude
Scale
Cabin
The service was purely tonal.
The priest apologized for the warm weather.
Crying
A window left open in the back of the mind.
Intoxicated
Nostalgia
Consolation
Information
Silence
Bookends
Ash
Cathedral
2019 Rotation
Our Broken Sky
2018 Rotation
So Tired
Some Strange Region of the Universe
The Logic of God
The Woman in the Dunes
Hymns for the End of the World
Guilt and Grace
The Story of Philosophy
Decree #1 on the Democratization of Art
Enchanted Desert