Here’s another item I’ve bending everyone’s ear IRL about: a couple weeks ago, flipping through the channels, I caught part of Runnin’ Down a Dream, the Peter Bogdanovich documentary about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. You know, most documentaries about rock bands are a self-involved, overblown waste of time; while I like Tom Petty, and I have a glancing personal connection with the band*, my first impulse was to move on to another channel.

But it was riveting—I couldn’t stop watching, I’ve got to see the whole thing now, and I’ve been telling everyone in earshot how good it is. It’s showing on Sundance Channel, and of course you can buy the DVD. There was a piece about the documentary on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday this morning.