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after being repeatedly shot down in the requests department on dave's radio show (they don't have His Name Is Alive, Architecture In Helsinki, Islands, Panthers, My Bloody Valentine, Voxtrot, Semifinalists, Art Brut, or Liars. what the hell kind of college radio station is this?), i'm working on a list of things i like which are college-rock, current and actually popular and mainstream enough for them to maybe have.
songs i'd like to request on The Mad Spin Zone that they're more likely to have:

Broken Social Scene's "Windsurfing Nation" (track 7 on the new self-titled album)
Of Montreal's "So Begins Our Alabee" (track 5 on last year's The Sunlandic Twins)
the district's own Exit Clov's "MK Ultra" (track 1 on this year's Jolly Roget Sessions EP)
The Futureheads' "Man Ray" (track 15 on 2004's self-titled album)
the district's own Q And Not U's "X-Polynation" (track 10 on 2004's Power)
The Russian Futurists' "Paul Simon" (track 1 on last year's Our Thickness. i figure its popular enough because i heard it playing at the Gap over the summer)
Sufjan Stevens' "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!" (track 16 on last year's Come On! Feel The Illinoise!)
TV On The Radio's "Staring At The Sun" (track 2 on 2003's Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes)
Electric Six's "Future Boys" (track 7 on Senor Smoke, which came out last year in some places and has yet to come out in some places)
Xiu Xiu's "Muppet Face" (track 2 on last year's La Foret)
Bloc Party's "Helicopter" (track 2 on last year's Silent Alarm)
Death From Above 1979's "Blood On Our Hands" (track 5 from 2004's You're A Woman, I'm A Machine)
The Plastic Constellations' "Bring What You Want" (track 10 on this year's Crusades)
We Are Scientists' "It's A Hit" (track 7 on this year's With Love And Squalor)
Tapes 'n Tapes' "Just Drums" (track 1 on last year's The Loon. less likely, but I saw them interviewed on VH1 last month, so maybe?)
Wolf Parade's "Fancy Claps" (track 5 on last year's Apologies To The Queen Mary)
Diamond Nights' "Needle In The Rice" (track 10 on last year's Popsicle)

i think when i get one of the new Intel Macs and pay for higher bandwidth on my website, i'll start doing a bi-weekly podcast mixtape. i make so many mix playlists these days for no one's amusement but my own, and when i actually burn them as cds and give them out every few months i get shockingly positive reactions from people. question is, if i make it a podcast, will anyone actually subscribe? doing that will also inspire me to crank out more original songs to slip in between the illegally shared music, i'm sure.