I watched the season finale repeat of FX’s drama show Rescue Me last night. It’s an excellent ending to an excellent season. What I like most about this show is the realistic characters and situations. Watching Denis Leary’s character, Tommy Gavin, try to repair his failing marriage and seeing him get angry and make rash, snap judgements is something that I, and a lot of other men can probably identify with. There are spoilers below, so if you don’t want to know what happens in the episode I would stop reading here.

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At the end of the show, after the day just seems to shit on Gavin (again something I can completely identify with), he gets the final blow. He goes over to his wife’s house (they are separated) and finds the entire house empty; no furniture, no appliances, no kids (they have 3), nothing. While looking around in a state of disbelief, he opens a closet and finds a baseball bat and a photo of himself, his cousin (he died at 9/11) and his cousin’s widow (the one that Tommy is having an affair with) with scratch marks over Tommy and Sheila (his cousin’s widow). The reality of his loss sinks in and he starts bashing at the walls, lights, windows, etc. with the baseball bat as Rubyhorse‘s song Fell On Bad Days (from the CD Goodbye to All That) plays in the foreground. Powerful scene. You don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to do that same exact thing after I’ve been pushed to the brink of frustration.

Apparently, the song from Rubyhorse has created quite a buzz on the Internet with people wanting to know where to get it. It’s not on iTunes so I had to get it from MSN’s music store (I’ll get into my experience with that later).