Music and media

I was looking at my iTunes playlist with the 25 most played songs in my collection, and I was a bit surprised at how many of them only are in my playlist at all because of other media (TV, radio, movies); a random sampling:

• Superman, Lazlo Bane: from Scrubs, of course
• the Big Bang Theory theme, Barenaked Ladies: guess
• Avatar, Felicia Day et al.: The Guild, but also because I knew Felicia Day from Dr. Horrible
• Eyes, Rogue Wave: was played in one episode of the first season of Heroes
• Mad World, Gary Jules: was the opening song for one episode of CSI a few years ago
• Don’t Stop Believin’, Journey: well, it is Journey, but the reason I have it is because of Scrubs
• The Dork Anthem, Dave and Brian: this was one of the “intermission” songs between segments of one episode of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, on NPR
• Somewhere Only We Know, Keane: this was on Grey’s Anatomy, of which I watched exactly two episodes
• Baba O’Riley, The Who: closing song of one episode of House
• Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes: from the famous Freedom Dance on My So-Called Life
• New Slang, The Shins: from the soundtrack to Garden State

Either I watch too much TV or I don’t really listen to much music. Or both.