diff --git a/following b/following
index d134af6..e81299e 100644
--- a/following
+++ b/following
@@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ set -e
 #   editing this script.
 #   downloading a python script.
 #   python 2 or 3.
-#   a web browser
-#   curl
-#   GNU sort
-#   GNU awk
+#   a web browser.
+#   curl.
+#   GNU sort.
+#   GNU awk.
 
 # KNOWN ISSUES:
-#   stops printing at the first = character per field.
-#   this should be an easy fix but i'm lazy.
 #   output is not always sorted by viewer count.
 
 # TODO:
@@ -46,19 +44,23 @@ client_id="client-id: [fill me in!]"
 json2() {
     # download this from https://github.com/vi/json2/blob/master/json2
     # and edit this line accordingly.
-    python ~/src/json2/json2 "$@"
+    ~/python3 ~/src/json2/json2 "$@"
 }
 
 curl -LsS 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/followed?limit=100&stream_type=all' \
     -H 'accept: application/vnd.twitchtv.v5+json' \
     -H "$cookie" \
-    -H "$client_id" | json2 | sort -n | awk -F'=' '
+    -H "$client_id" | json2 | sort -n | awk '
 function trunc(s,L) {
     e = length(s) > L ? "…" : "";
     return (substr(s, 0, L -(e ? 1 : 0)) e);
 }
-$1~/\/game$/{game=$2}
-$1~/\/channel\/status$/{status=$2}
-$1~/\/channel\/name$/{name=$2}
-$1~/\/viewers$/{printf "\x1b[90m%5s\x1b[0m \x1b[97m%-25s\x1b[0m %s\n      \x1b[1m%s\x1b[0m\n",$2,name,trunc(game,48),status}
-'
+$1~/\/game$/{game=substr($2,2)}
+$1~/\/channel\/status$/{status=substr($2,2)}
+$1~/\/channel\/name$/{name=substr($2,2)}
+$1~/\/viewers$/{
+    viewers=substr($2,2);
+    printf "\x1b[90m%5s\x1b[0m \x1b[97m%-25s\x1b[0m %s\n      \x1b[1m%s\x1b[0m\n",
+      viewers, name, trunc(game, 48), status;
+}
+' FPAT='(^[^=]+)|(=.*)'