Must have: Grateful Dead & gladiator sandals

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Listening to: The Grateful Dead’s ‘American Beauty’--1970. Try playing ‘Box of Rain’ when you’re feeling grumpy. It’s audio prozac.

Perfect for: Cleaning the house and organizing impertinent kitchen drawers and marinating ahi tuna steaks in lime, ginger and sesame oil.

Inspired to buy: These groovy, beaded gladiator sandals by Jeffrey Campbell, $88 at urbanoutfitters.com. Who can resist an Irish-Navajo hippie girl who serves seared tuna and Pinot Grigio at sunset?

photos: Jim Marshall for Rolling Stone; Urbanoutfitters.com.