Side AMy mixes

remember making these?

Make them a mixtape.

Pick the songs. Write why each one matters. Add the photos it brings back. Then send it — wrapped — as a cassette, a record, or a burned CD.

Side B

road trip '04

for you, always

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don't take our word for it.

open one yourself.

A real mix, right here. Pull the tab, press play, and read why each song earned its place.

from

Max

to

you

4

songs

fragile · contains feelings

golden hour, always

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inside the envelope

  • 4 songs, hand-picked
  • a note for every one of them
  • two photos each, from the phone
  • a reason for the order

we didn't call them playlists.

you made it all night. for one person.

You waited by the radio with a finger on record. You rewound, you labeled, you wrote out every song by hand — then hoped they'd hear it all, in the exact order you meant it.

A bedroom desk covered in cassette tapes, a recorder and a hand-written tracklist
mix tape #3 — good music for a better tomorrow
A kid carrying a boombox down a sidewalk at sunset
volume: all the way up
Two friends in a car at night holding a fan of burned CDs
summer '02. this exact cd, all summer
Hands writing a dedication on a cassette label with a sharpie
for you. obviously.

some things are worth the effort again.

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