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.

Mess it up and now I’m ready to work.

My Midnight Radio mix just dropped. Listening to it for the first time with you. www.jamesreeves.co/darkly-eupho...

Just pressed play on Tony Scott’s The Hunger (1983) and I’m already smitten by the first minutes of Bela Lugosi’s Dead cut with ponderous brooding, cigarette lighting, and . . . an exploded monkey. Anyway: David Bowie! Catherine Deneuve!

Holy Christ I’m excited for the next episode of Midnight Radio, which features ten tracks selected by @mikeburnlab.bsky.social. It’s going to be so sleek and lovelorn.

But *why* does the sight of a Tesla Truck make me so irrationally angry? Or is it rational?

Snow again here!!! But the big news is that my vocals are on the single “Signals From A Distant Afterglow” by @blackknoll.bsky.social Find it here: linktr.ee/PointsOfInac... Big thanks to Rafael for inviting me to try some vocals for this. Hope you all enjoy! Can’t wait for the vinyl to arrive!

A blank grey January day happily spent fine-tuning my Platonic music player that puts album artwork front-and-center. (If you might be interested in alpha-testing it for macOS, let me know!)

Scenes from the elaborate six-month plan I taped to my wall. We'll see how long it remains it relevant.

A blank grey January day happily spent fine-tuning my Platonic music player that puts album artwork front-and-center. (If you might be interested in alpha-testing it for macOS, let me know!)

Three songs that possess the spiritualized energy I fantasize about cultivating in the first minutes of a new year: www.jamesreeves.co/first-things/ 1. Kali Malone - Spectacle of Ritual 2. Abul Mogard - Desires Are Reminiscences By Now 3. Autechre - VLetrmx21 (65% slower)

I accidentally shaved off my beard this morning and now my head looks too small. But that’s okay because we welcomed 2026 with Black Mirror and a Dream Zine session. M brought over a breakfast casserole and C made a wild carbonara.

My new year's resolution—from the best fortune cookie I've ever opened.

My favorite encounters with music in 2025, including: - the album that challenged me until I learned how to love it - most transcendent experience while running - the song that got stuck in my head the most And so on: www.jamesreeves.co/2025-rotation/

She said I was “ensconced in an ensorcelled world.” So I learned a new word today.

A holiday sountracked by Hiroshi Yoshimura’s precision harmonics and righteous calm circa 1986.

Midwestern holiday scene.

This Christmas, C. gave me the most wondrous gift I’ve ever received: a plaster replica of the Fragmented Head of Colossal Boy (Hellenistic Greek, 2nd century B.C). Over the past few years, this figure has become my avatar and website icon because it captures the psychic shred of the 21st century.

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January → Pale steel blue February → Cold rose March → Aquamarine April → Mint green May → Coral pink June → Crayola green July → Screaming yellow August → Burnt sunshine September → Crocodile green October → Golden brown November → Cornflower blue December → Warm white

Robot love and the glory of reverb. 1. Julianna Barwick - Prizewinning 2. Matchess - Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes 3. Vril - Infinitum Eternis Anime 4. Air - Le Soleil Est Près de Moi (28% slower) 5. Eagles - I Can’t Tell You Why (20% slower) 6. Voices From the Lake - Max 7. Me-Sheen - Sonic Lullaby

But I’m pretty sure the circumference of your head equals the length of your thigh.

December 2025

I was put on this planet to destroy Spotify and Apple Music.

Periodontists should be illegal.

My favorite encounters with music in 2025, including: - the album that challenged me until I learned how to love it - most transcendent experience while running - the song that got stuck in my head the most And so on: www.jamesreeves.co/2025-rotation/

Even though there have been occasional blips of vaporwave, goblincore, or whatever, I'm more and more convinced that movements and styles (in all of the arts) are a relic of the 20th-century.

Robot love and the glory of reverb. 1. Julianna Barwick - Prizewinning 2. Matchess - Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes 3. Vril - Infinitum Eternis Anime 4. Air - Le Soleil Est Près de Moi (28% slower) 5. Eagles - I Can’t Tell You Why (20% slower) 6. Voices From the Lake - Max 7. Me-Sheen - Sonic Lullaby

Today I learned "solstice" is derived from sol (sun) + sistere (to stop) and essentially means "the sun stands still."

Super fun-time Sympathy Tower Tokyo book club. Next up is Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.

All the greatest hits at a slower speed—guaranteed. Plus some egg foo young. 1. Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me 2. Will Web - Spacewalk 3. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe 4. Vladislav Delay - Huone 5. Swans - Leaving Meaning 6. Pole - Hafen 7. Aphex Twin - #1 8. The Cars - Jacki

Yay!

Kicking off this holiday season with a double-feature of Eyes Wide Shut and Michael Clayton while we work on a zine about our strangest dreams.

"With the internet, we cross a threshold into an otherworld. A.I. is like a creature from the otherworld who crosses into ours." I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.

Last night I dreamt I was rummaging through a junkyard in Burbank, California, hunting for the refrigerator in which a beloved character from Punky Brewster nearly suffocated.

Trying to wrap up my Midnight Radio guest mix today. I think I have to cut this song. I love it so much, but it’s 13 minutes. So much real estate. youtu.be/zRjJQBAbDAk?...

These slow-motion boleros are a perfect soundtrack for the November gloom.

"What makes this feel good is that I don’t know where this goes." An ode to Michael Clayton and the giddy renewal before death. 1. Thomas Brinkmann - 96:12/24 VR 2. HTRK - Poison 3. TM404 - 202/303/303/303/606/606 4. Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering 5. µ-Ziq - Peppermint Aero + Tom Wilkinson

Reflection of C. on a Copenhagen train.

"ontology" is the study of placing one thing on top of, or onto, another thing

The last items on my punchlist for tonight’s episode of Midnight Radio: - Bump up the Brinkmann - Make George Clooney sound weirder - Loop the HTRK - Turn down the shouting - More reverb

Every time I check the news, I think "We're all too old for this shit."

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

"I let the tapes do their thing, because I realized it wasn’t about me." William Basinski gets the NY Times treatment.

There are very few perfect things in this fallen world. But this is one of them.

Yay snow!

Exquisite Corpse Club with @candychang.com and @martinessig.bsky.social.

“God is an experience,” an old man said as he reached for another cookie. “Not a thing or a concept. God is an event.”

A delightful piece about Wittgenstein’s “left-handed pages.” (Which would be right-handed pages for me, but I’ve learned to accept that we live in an anti-leftist society.)