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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Technology Might Have Peaked With Magnetic Tape

Technology Might Have Peaked With Magnetic Tape

A delightful sense of slippage occurs when you can’t decide if something is brilliant or awful.
Suddenly We Found Ourselves Hiking

Suddenly We Found Ourselves Hiking

If starvation was on the table, would you rather eat your own finger or a stranger's?
Church Attendance Is Lowest in Nevada

Church Attendance Is Lowest in Nevada

I had no idea there was so much weather in the desert.
We Searched for 10,000 Acres of Sand

We Searched for 10,000 Acres of Sand

Death Valley is a place where ten thousand acres of scenery can easily go missing.
My Dithering has Reached Its Vanishing Point

My Dithering has Reached Its Vanishing Point

We need to make robots and zombies fun again
And Entropy Makes Itself Known to Me

And Entropy Makes Itself Known to Me

It’s cold in Vegas, and strange material is falling from the sky.
Towers of Red Rock Loomed Over Us Like a Beautiful Threat

Towers of Red Rock Loomed Over Us Like a Beautiful Threat

Yesterday C. and I took a break from our screens and drove into the Valley of Fire.
So Much Civilization Where There Shouldn’t Be

So Much Civilization Where There Shouldn’t Be

I pondered the idea of a Vegas-themed casino until I gave myself a headache.
The Reassuring Cadence of Living in the Sprawl

The Reassuring Cadence of Living in the Sprawl

These are days of shooting down unidentifiable objects in the sky.
A Landscape that Functions Like Memory

A Landscape that Functions Like Memory

We hit the brakes and followed a dusty road past a gigantic fiberglass ice cream sundae.
The Games We Play in Museums

The Games We Play in Museums

After all these years, how well do I know her taste? How well does she know mine?
Landscapes Like Scenes from Tomorrow

Landscapes Like Scenes from Tomorrow

Messiness will be a crucial tool in the footrace against artificial intelligence.

Revelations and mental rearrangements only seem to occur when I’m not paying attention.

Let’s focus on the new.

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.

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Grief 16
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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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