Harris has been a successful children’s book author and illustrator and I’ve been collecting all his books to read with my kids. I checked out the book (then went home and ordered it on Amazon), sat on the couch with my kids and told them mommy used to know the author of this book. After we read it, I dug up some video interviews that collect dust on YouTube and showed them. Completely unimpressed, they probably only commented that I don’t look like mommy there because I was wearing contacts and not my signature mom-life glasses.
I’m not as cool as the YouTubers who film themselves playing Mario on Nintendo Switch or post directed drawings. But I’ve taught my son that he can turn his passion into a career and aspire to be a video game designer and have inspired daughter to write and illustrate books of her own. My own journey of content creation is always in motion and freelance lifestyle writing has filled a void.
I might not have gotten my ‘zine sold on newsstands or my web TV show picked up by a major network. And the Matches might not have received the mainstream acclaim they deserve until this documentary about their past is released, but we all made it.
At the end of the Bleeding Audio trailer, someone says, “There’s no level that means you made it. Any artist that gets to create something that changes anyone’s life has made it.” And while we might personally have felt at times that our flame has burnt out, we’re sparking future generations. That’s the life of a Match.