Morning run and already there’s green across the forest floor. Crabgrass, I think.

I always wake up too early on Saturdays because I'm excited it's Saturday.

Woke before dawn and listened to Éliane Radigue’s Trilogie de la Mort in the gloom. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been so spiritually altered by sound. Recommended by @bugpressure.bsky.social in this terrific list.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Developing a new hermeneutic: AI cannot create art or replicate the works of man but it can write code because code is outside the light of God

I love ClaudeCode even more now that it consistently swears.

Why the middle initial? Because I always wanted my name to have three syllables.

Doing my taxes.

Create routines so they can be abandoned. Set an intention but do not allow it to become an expectation. Dig the glorious paradoxes of Richie Hawtin’s Concept series, which turns 30 this year. www.jamesreeves.co/conversation...

They say the desire to believe *is* belief, and this might be true even if it feels like cheating.

Ashes Jeremy Dyer, 2011

Joined a gym yesterday and built a weightlifting app today because I have a lot of deadlines.

Enjoying a splendid pair of Bacons.

God the amount of full-bodied resistence I feel when I need to find an envelope and a stamp...

Scene from the second episode of Middle Western Dim Sum Book Club in which we discussed Susanna Clarke's Piranesi and contemplated labyrinths, madness, and sticky rice.

Seems like everything is always in shuffle mode?

It’s not an ideal spiritual practice, checking the news every few hours to see if he’s dead yet.

On loop for hours now: 48 minutes of cosmic depth charges blurred with childhood memories of a sunny day.

Oskar Kokoschuka said, “We are not born human. We must become human.” Freud said, “The ego is not master in its own house.” And Adolf Loos was convinced that “each kind of tiredness requires a different kind of chair.”

Everybody’s lofi electro has to be Ballardian, never DeLilloic 😕

"This isn’t decline. It’s expansion."

Few things are as fine as springtime in the dead of winter.

An Italian coughed on me at a museum in Vienna and now I have a dumbass cold. And saying “scusi” doesn’t make it right.

I’m still picking up the pieces after Blackest Ever Black shut down seven years ago.

Art, life, and death in a very special episode with Candy Chang. jamesreeves.co/40 1. Bertrand Belin - Choses Nouvelles 2. Füxa - Dirty D 3. Damien Jurado & Richard Swift - Radioactivity 4. A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (620% slower) 5. Peter Schilling - Major Tom 6. Belong - Perfect Life And more!

But fucking hell this track is super-melty good—voluptuous dub techno of the highest-order.

Returned from Vienna thirteen years sober and another year older. Now to make sense of all the art I saw…

The gardens of the Belvedere through a rainy Viennese window.

We've been using James's classy minimalist audio file player exclusively at The Tonearm HQ for the past couple of weeks, and it's possible there's no going back. 👂💥👂

Gather your beloved audio files: Spite has been officially blessed by Apple. apps.apple.com/us/app/spite...

Enjoying art in the 21st century.

The best possible soundtrack for Vienna's February gloom: kompakt-gas.bandcamp.com/album/k-nigs...

My Vienna experience so far.

“The child playing with an inflated bladder is a reference to the brevity of life.”

Here in Vienna, there’s a severe weather alert for “glazed frost”—which sounds very Viennese.

"The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway." —Margaret Atwood Ride this hyperlink. 1. F.U.S.E. - Night Drive 2. My friend Earl - Snowblow 3. A New Line (Related) - Crewe Away 4. Monolake - Cyan 5. Tropic of Cancer - Dive 6. The Field - Leave It

Why does painting move me a little more than sculpture or drawing or photography?

But the real action is in Max Ernst’s flowers (1929).

For having a tablespoon of microplastics in our brains, I think we’re all doing pretty great.

Now more than ever.

Snow day

Just clocked the fax number on an old Chain Reaction record and now I'm nostlagic. Email was a mistake.

Here in the Middle West, we’re expected to get 8” of snow Saturday night and this thing better perform as advertised.

So The Necks are a variant of Bohren & Der Club of Gore?

I can’t reiterate enough what an amazing job @jamesreeves.co did mixing my guest playlist for Midnight Radio. Especially turning A Place to Bury Strangers’ ‘Love Reaches Out’ into an uplifting anthem soaked in reverb.

Branding expert.

Meanwhile, this EP by @anewlinerelated.bsky.social is my new favorite thing and I’ve played it twenty times in a row already. The territory between cozy and spectral is tough to find, but ‘Crewe Away’ lives in the center of it.

Special guest @mikeburnlab.bsky.social delivers the midnight gospel: jamesreeves.co/38 1. Liars - No 1 Against the Rush 2. Cold Cave - Double Lives in Single Beds 3. Telefon Tel Aviv - You are the Worst Thing in the World 4. The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea 5. ERAAS - Fang 6. Adult. - Tonight We Fall

Enjoying Tacita Dean’s Sunset at the Columbus Museum of Art.