James Reeves
@jamesreeves.co
The home of Midnight Radio, broadcasting from the Middle West. Public notebook and dream journal. Oftentimes unintelligible. jamesreeves.co
I keep thinking about the strange days in New York after a lawyer in Westchester contracted a virus that was circulating in China and Italy. We kept laughing and coughing on each other, waiting for someone to tell us what to do. In terms of AI, this feels like the Days of the Westchester Lawyer.
But while we're on the subject of Dark Matter, my favorite metaversish show of all time is The Lazarus Project.
But sometimes firing up the red Pole record is the best life choice a person can make.
Fahren, by pole
from the album 1 2 3
pole-stefanbetke.bandcamp.com
Current fixations: watercolors, the endles of hum of Eleh, vaporwave, event horizons, Eve MacDonald’s history of Carthage, and the bananas sci-fi of Dark Matter.
Finally, a somewhat cool drizzly day with the promise of Octember.
"The very fact that things of any kind exist at all should be enough science fiction for most people." – @fadesingh.bsky.social
Bought book yesterday. Play the System – parametric approaches in graphic design, edited by Heike Grebin (HAW Hamburg, Slanted). Design as rule-making rather than one-off layouts. The book is the website in paper form. 320 pages of rules, variation and what comes out of them www.play-the-system.xyz
Play the System
play-the-system.xyz
"Potential Scam" is a pretty good slogan for the 21st century.
Let us start a practice called Leaf Petting. Drop your robots and pet a leaf. Feel it like a palm reading. Hear its folk tales on suppleness, death, embodiment, basics. Thank it for this moment of private devotion. Seize the chance to train with a leaf!
A very special episode with Oliver Farshi that was built for long nights on county roads: www.jamesreeves.co/american-twi... Featuring songs from Grouper, Chuck Johnson, The Dead Texan, Rameses III, Old Saw, Dirty Three, Harold Budd, Damien Jurado, and selections from the KLF's Chill Out album.
Meanwhile on a stage in 1916, Hugo Ball's words echo into our time: “This humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect."
Anybody else getting harassed with email from robots offering editing advice for the things you've written? How do we kill this stupid stupid world?
Why won’t this summer ever end? I want cool grey drizzle hot coffee fireplace sweater weather.
An exercise in accretion: each time C. and I go running in the park, we collect a stone for our balcony. Hopefully we’ll have a zen garden by the end of the year.
not much frightened me as a small child except for this planter my parents hung just outside my bedroom window that had a lion’s face on each of its four sides I once had a dream it was talking to me and from then on I was terrified but too embarrassed to ask my parents to take it down
But sweet Christ the glory of this new Maxime Denuc.
Club Imperiale, by Maxime Denuc
10 track album
maximedenuc.bandcamp.com
I got to hold a cartoon check with @jamesreeves.co! First place for our Nightly News film. It features people’s dreams and will play in the Columbus Convention Center for years, weirding out people on their way to conferences.
“Apple is introducing A.I. features that tell a wearer what was said in conversation 15 seconds ago.” This is one of the most depressing sentences I’ve ever read about the state of our species.
We should create new seasons. Seventy-degree blizzards. Sunny days filled with fog.
Some songs that patiently unwind themselves: www.jamesreeves.co/53 1. cv313 - Forever in the Sky 2. Katsurada + Nash - Anone None 3. Fennesz - In My Room 4. Donato Dozzy - Vaporware 1 5. Windy & Carl - Coast Starlight 6. Sisters of Mercy - Neverland 7. Donato Dozzy - Velluto 8. Variant - Flux
Perfect holiday evening: in bed at a ridiculously early hour so I can read about Carthage.
Some songs that patiently unwind themselves: www.jamesreeves.co/53 1. cv313 - Forever in the Sky 2. Katsurada + Nash - Anone None 3. Fennesz - In My Room 4. Donato Dozzy - Vaporware 1 5. Windy & Carl - Coast Starlight 6. Sisters of Mercy - Neverland 7. Donato Dozzy - Velluto 8. Variant - Flux