Happy Birthday Penny Marshall!

Today is Tom Petty's 60th birthday. Petty is an odd sort because it's hard to find someone passionate enough to go crazy and flip a table over arguing about how great he is, and it's just as hard to find someone to go crazy and flip a table over arguing how much he sucks. His music is "yeah, that's fine" personified. As I wrote HERE:

I just watched about an hour of a Penny Marshall Tom Petty concert on tv. It's a weird show to watch; it's an endless series of "Hey, I know that song. That's a good song." But there's no GREAT songs, there's no "ohmygod" moments. I mean, at a Bruce show you know you can take a piss break during the 57-minute middle of Mary's Place, but there's no way in hell you're missing the breakdown on Badlands. At the Petty show, every minute could be a piss break or not a piss break, it never seems to matter.

I will say this. You couldn't pay me to sit through a Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers album, but back during the first semester of my senior year of high school, I wore the fuck outta Full Moon Fever in my 1978 Ford Fiesta.