For example, I still enjoy starting a Saturday morning with cartoons and a big bowl of cereal. And I think that 70’s rock music is best enjoyed blaring through the radio of an old car/truck riding down a gravel highway. I ordered one of those long wizardry Gandalf pipes and Lord of the Rings themed tobacco to enjoy reading Tolkien under the tree in my backyard. I also think gothic horror stories are best enjoyed through in a leather chair (before a fireplace if possible), read from a big leather book, with a mug of hot cocoa.

There are a bunch of silly little ways to enhance media experiences by bundling them with other things that ultimately add up to something greater than the sum of its parts. Sometime they’re difficult to attain (I always wanted to watch Mad Max: Fury Road at a drive-in while lying on the hood of the car), but others are simple and surprisingly effective.