I was kicking around here in the late-late night, as I tend to do. Another bottle of the grape gone down. I was sitting back watching what YouTube dished my way on the 85 inch and, out of the blue, came up, Interview: The Roller Blade Seven Documentary.
 
Though certainly, I was the one who lived what took place in that doc and I was the one who created the film itself, I hadn’t watch it for a long-long while. As it was there/as YouTube had dished it my way, I took it as a sign and thought, “What the hell,” I gave it a watch. Damn, that’s a good doc. It really captures the moment of what Don and I created and lived in that space in time.
 
It’s always kind of funny to me, the people who talk and talk, write and write, and do whatever it is they do in relation to the negative about The Roller Bade Seven and other films—not just mine but everyone’s. All I have to say is, “Fuck you! What have you created?” And, “They’re the ones talking about me, I’m not the one talking about them.”
 
RB7 and the path of cinema that was created in the process of that film’s creation, and what came after, was and is revolutionary. But, I get it, if you weren’t there, and you didn’t live it, you, most probably, can never truly understand it.
 
I guess it’s like all art. The art is for the artist. Everyone else, all they can do is critique it, talk about it, discuss it, review it, maybe think about it, but they can never truly live it. And, like I suppose I’ve said a million times before, the artist creates art, what does everyone else do? Discuss the art someone else has created.
 
So, if you feel like it, and if you get a chance, take a watch of that film, the first Zen Documentary. If you have already seen it—if it isn’t your first go-round, even you may find some new understanding about, Zen Filmmaking, Donald G. Jackson, and myself. Or, you may not??? In either or any case, it may provide you with some insight into the creation of the first two Zen Films and to the mind of yours truly, Scott Shaw, (at least at that moment of history).