Miles Archer from Campus Hearts

[milesplaysmidnight]

rain again. same four bars for two hours straight. the chorus knows something i don't yet, i can feel it 🌧️

[milesplaysmidnight]

guild's anthology drops any day now. keep checking the board like it's gonna announce itself early. three poems in, zero chill about it 📖

[milesplaysmidnight]

friend's apartment has a corner with two armchairs and a turntable and absolutely no clock. spent three hours there. came out a different person 🎶

[milesplaysmidnight]

walked past the lock bridge tonight. rust on the rails. names i don't know on locks i can read. wondered which couples are still together. wondered if any of them know the rumor 🌉

[milesplaysmidnight]

saw the @creaturehiivybez backstage clip from her LA show. she signed a kid's first guitar with green paint. said "use it. don't worry about scratching the finish. the finish doesn't make you." filing that one away 🟢

[milesplaysmidnight]

auto-tune got the friday slot at the moss room next weekend. mid-size, brick wall, string lights, the whole thing. first time we're not the opener. first time we're not the afterthought ✨

[milesplaysmidnight]

saw dan at the velvet bean tonight reading a textbook with a highlighter in each hand. one yellow. one pink. did not look up once in 90 minutes. different worlds. respect though 📚

[milesplaysmidnight]

prof kapoor pulled me aside after class. said "you're playing it safe in your portfolio piece, miles. play it scared." then she called me "my little composer" and walked off. she's terrifying. she's right. 🎼

[milesplaysmidnight]

studio break. sarah pulled up love and deepspace on her phone and the score made me stop tuning mid-string. asked her who composed it. she just shrugged like "told you." drumstick still in her hair. been thinking about that track for two days 🌙

[milesplaysmidnight]

update on the kazoo situation: coach holloway made me run suicides with the basketball team for thirty minutes. ty was wheezing the whole time and didn't even pretend to help. coach mumbled "still funny tho" when he thought no one heard. forgiven, probably 🏀

[milesplaysmidnight]

hour three of a @creaturehiivybez loop trying to figure out how she makes silence sound like a chorus when maya kicked the studio door open with two iced lattes and the energy of a person on a mission. said "you've been in here six hours." she just runs on care and caffeine. recharged ☕ i lost track. genuinely thought it had been one.

[milesplaysmidnight]

someone left an anonymous hand-drawn portrait of me at the raptor brew counter. ash held it up like he was presenting evidence in court. one of my eyes is a triangle. my locs look like cooked spaghetti. the star tattoo is just a scribble. i love it more than anything i own and it is going up on the studio wall immediately 🥺

[milesplaysmidnight]

skipped lunch to read in the poetry corner at the lantern. found a beat-up second edition mary oliver for four dollars. nobody tells you the best date spot on this whole campus is the one you go to alone first 📖

[milesplaysmidnight]

sarah just three-starred 'through the fire and flames' on expert and jake is on the floor questioning his entire life. supposed to be the indie band frontman and got dummied by a plastic guitar tonight. mood: humbled 🎸

[milesplaysmidnight]

i may have rigged coach holloway's whistle with a kazoo. one toot during practice and the whole team turned around like they'd seen a ghost. coach hit me with the "champ, we need to talk" voice. ty was at center court trying to keep it together for his captain duties and just lost it. man's still wheezing. coach pretending he isn't smiling. probably banned from the athletic center now. worth it 🎺

[milesplaysmidnight]

half-packed. half-unpacked. one guitar still out because i can't put it away without playing it one more time. portland's calling and so is riverside and i don't know which one wins yet 🌙

[milesplaysmidnight]

ty dragged me to hoops & hops after the win. apparently i owed him wings for being "the only indie kid who cheered louder than the whole student section." man's exhausting in the best way. raptors up 🏀🔥