This is a playlist I made one summer ten years ago as I waited for my cosmic new Ford Taurus wagon that would drive me through school. I was so excited to be able to drive around and listen to music that I burned seven CDs of twenty songs each that I called the "Birth of the Wagon" series — this is the first volume.

I had to write a check earlier this week, and while digging through my drawers I came across my old iPod(s)—three black Classics, because each, at one point, I thought I had lost.