.
What
is that? Do you smell it? It's kind of... fruity. A wafting of sweetness through the air. Colors seem a little brighter - yellows more golden, greens more verdant, reds all of a deeper cherry... I don't think I'm having a stroke... no... why, I think it might be a
Daisies sort of day!
The last episode of
Pushing Daisies, Bryan Fuller & Co.'s brilliant ode to human contact, murder, songbirds and pies, aired in the US coming up on two years ago,
burned off by ABC on June 13th, 2009. Twenty-two episodes are all we got but in those twenty-two hours there's more life than television's been able to muster in all the time since. So the spark still shines, the happy memories remain...
... and finally,
the second season soundtrack
comes out! Today in fact. Thirty-one yes thirty-one tracks of previously unreleased loveliness straight from composer Jim Dooley - whom
we got to interview once upon a time. You can, you should,
go and buy it at this link. (And then buy the first season's soundtrack
here
. Oh, and
all the DVDs
.) And then if all of us buy it The Powers That Be will see all the money
Pushing Daisies is still making these almost-two-years later and they'll order seventeen thousand more episodes. Hooray! Alright, I dare to dream. But still, dream with me. If ever there were a show that dared us to dream,
Pushing Daisies was it.
All this talk and I've delayed the prize. It didn't make it onto either of the soundtracks, but in honor of today's soundtrack release
I've got Kristin Chenoweth's beyond-lovely cover of "Eternal Flame" (from the episode called "Comfort Food") for y'all.
.
.
Tell Bryan Fuller thank you, y'all.
And if you missed them before, you can still download a couple of
previously only-released-here-at-MNPP tracks at the below links.
Two different versions of Kristin Chenoweth
covering Lionel Ritchie's
"Hello" are
here
Her cover of
"Candle on the Water" is
here.
