Hey, friends, fam, fans of the jams, and subscribers of News to Your Ears, here's a batch of new sessions from my 11-18-25 livestream, "stick figure salaries." Whether you're working one job or many jobs, it sure is fine to make one of them well-to-do stick figure salaries! Grifters gon' gettit! 💸👛🚹🚺

Click the thumbnail to view the VOD. Each jam is split up in the description for convenience. Best listened to in headphones. 🎧

Audio prints from the session are available on:

-Soundcloud

-Bandcamp

Or, find them in an endless buffet of previous jams from this year in the MEGA-PLAYLIST 😸

📽️This stream's sideshow picture features a comedy, Earthworm Tractors, starring Joe E. Brown, June Travis and Guy Kibbee from 1936. I didn't really glean what an earthworm tractor is exactly, but from the details I did catch, it runs on deisel and can tow an entire house 🫣. No doubt one of the weirder ones to appear in a stream. Speaking of, did you know you can view a list of previous films from my Letterboxd at the bottom of my livestreams page? Reading the reviews of Earthworm Tractors provides its own entertainment value 🪱🚜

🖼You may have noticed I experimented again with rearranging the visuals, this time by placing the main front-facing webcam in the bottom-right at a lower opacity. This keeps the movie more legible in the background and slightly better-positioned for continuity while the angles shift around me to show whatever I'm playing in that moment. Overall, I think it lends an interesting balance to the audio-visual field.

🟢Happy to say there were no Content ID takedowns. I am marginally more confident that I've locked in a method for preventing them from happening since writing out my complaints in a Google forum post. It's a science.

🟡There were, however, some issues with the audio processing, which are heard in the stream as ugly tearing textures at regular 30second intervals. I have a good clue as to the setting that caused it to happen. In the meantime, I was able to repair the VOD by patching in the stream audio with clean audio and then re-uploading for quality playback assurance. It's a process.

—I must say, it was a nice feeling to hear from close friends and family who were present during the stream. At the same time, there were some odd comments keeping me company on Twitch. Account kept requesting me to play smooth keyboard?🤷

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Stick figure salaries: they don't come out of pocket.

~Alex