1. Go and see the Brion Gysin show at the New Museum. Many of his collaborations with William Burroughs –– including a sheaf of endearing letters signed with "Love" –– are on display, alongside multi-disciplinary forays into creative expression, from music to poetry to film to paintings to collage in his "Cut-Up Method" to the centerpiece kinetic sculpture, Dreamachine. The black cube with its spinning luminous core is as cool as it gets this summer. The last show there I loved as much was Daria Martin's "Minotaur." With regards to BG, see also the documentary, The Beat Hotel, about the Paris scene at 9 Rue Git le Coeur.
2. Share dessert with someone you like, e.g. these profiteroles with my favorite long-limbed abstract guitarist at Balthazar.
3. Indulge your senses, beyond sensibility, every once in a while.
4. Keep a bowl of chilled fruit in the ice box, William Carlos Williams-style, at all times. The rewards are ample, aren't they?
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