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I should find something I can watch in binge chunks so that I can get my knitting done, but it's so hard for me to focus on watching video input right now. The last thing I managed was Schitt's Creek, and that was in January or February I think. Sometimes I go through periods where I find it hard to pay attention to new-to-me fictional content in video format, and the more serious or depressing it is the harder.
So if I could get a new season of a comedy I already follow (Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, BBC Ghosts, Derry Girls) I'd watch that, but I probably couldn't manage, say, a new sitcom that looked just as good or even binge-rewatching all of a drama I've seen before. In fact, somewhere in February I think I tried to rewatch Hustle from the beginning, and it's a light-hearted show I've seen all the way through at least twice over the years, more like three times for some of the episodes, but it was still too plotty (or too unfamiliar since I can't remember the twists) and kept exceeding my attention span so I had to stop it and go do something else in mid-episode. I don't have anything long enough to binge and familiar enough and good enough to keep watching except Poirot, and the need to keep switching the discs in and out upsets the rhythm and distracts me too much.
For some months the only things I've really managed to keep watching for a good chunk of time are eclectic assortments of YouTube videos, but I've watched everything from the channels I like a lot now and the algorithm is scraping the bottom of the barrel with its recommendations.
Generally audiobooks and podcasts are even worse, because the speed of talking is so much slower than the speed I can read. I did start to wonder lately if audio plays with sound effects would work better, but I don't have any experience with them to draw on and that makes the idea of searching for them rather intimidating. You'd think maybe just listening to music then, but unless the knitting is super-complicated (more complicated than anything I've got to do now), it isn't visually engaging enough.
I have no trouble finding reading and other things to fill the time instead, but at that rate my knitting's never going to get finished and I am rather impatient for at least four or five projects that I have to make for myself! Maybe if I combine the exactly right music with a muted slideshow of nature imagery or a muted playlist of like those videos where they just knock over elaborate dominos and play with magnetized colored ball bearings? Orrrrr like Planet Earth on mute? Maybe if I listened to an audiobook at triple speed? (I saw someone comment on a Twitter thread that they do that the other day and laughed out loud. At worst it would sound like chipmunks, which should make it more entertaining, right?)
So if I could get a new season of a comedy I already follow (Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, BBC Ghosts, Derry Girls) I'd watch that, but I probably couldn't manage, say, a new sitcom that looked just as good or even binge-rewatching all of a drama I've seen before. In fact, somewhere in February I think I tried to rewatch Hustle from the beginning, and it's a light-hearted show I've seen all the way through at least twice over the years, more like three times for some of the episodes, but it was still too plotty (or too unfamiliar since I can't remember the twists) and kept exceeding my attention span so I had to stop it and go do something else in mid-episode. I don't have anything long enough to binge and familiar enough and good enough to keep watching except Poirot, and the need to keep switching the discs in and out upsets the rhythm and distracts me too much.
For some months the only things I've really managed to keep watching for a good chunk of time are eclectic assortments of YouTube videos, but I've watched everything from the channels I like a lot now and the algorithm is scraping the bottom of the barrel with its recommendations.
Generally audiobooks and podcasts are even worse, because the speed of talking is so much slower than the speed I can read. I did start to wonder lately if audio plays with sound effects would work better, but I don't have any experience with them to draw on and that makes the idea of searching for them rather intimidating. You'd think maybe just listening to music then, but unless the knitting is super-complicated (more complicated than anything I've got to do now), it isn't visually engaging enough.
I have no trouble finding reading and other things to fill the time instead, but at that rate my knitting's never going to get finished and I am rather impatient for at least four or five projects that I have to make for myself! Maybe if I combine the exactly right music with a muted slideshow of nature imagery or a muted playlist of like those videos where they just knock over elaborate dominos and play with magnetized colored ball bearings? Orrrrr like Planet Earth on mute? Maybe if I listened to an audiobook at triple speed? (I saw someone comment on a Twitter thread that they do that the other day and laughed out loud. At worst it would sound like chipmunks, which should make it more entertaining, right?)
