Dave Mandl
@dmandl.bsky.social
WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: dmandl.tumblr.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Web: dmandl.tumblr.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Leaf jambalaya, Park Slope.
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Leaf jambalaya, Park Slope.
Thanksgiving playlist negotiations.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thanksgiving playlist negotiations.
Bushwick, rainy day.
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bushwick, rainy day.
#NowPlaying JJ Whitefield, "Off the Grid." Filmic, library music–ic. Nice mellow grooves for a gray fall morning. From the Italian label Sonor Music Editions. jjwhitefield.bandcamp.com/album/off-th...
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#NowPlaying JJ Whitefield, "Off the Grid." Filmic, library music–ic. Nice mellow grooves for a gray fall morning. From the Italian label Sonor Music Editions. jjwhitefield.bandcamp.com/album/off-th...
...Perfect restoration of the original:
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
...Perfect restoration of the original:
Join me tonight at 7 p.m. ET for this week's installment of "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), broadcast live from WFMU's Studio A in Jersey City. Listen anywhere in the universe at wfmu.org or via the free @wfmu.bsky.social app. (Pictured: Shonen Bat.)
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Join me tonight at 7 p.m. ET for this week's installment of "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), broadcast live from WFMU's Studio A in Jersey City. Listen anywhere in the universe at wfmu.org or via the free @wfmu.bsky.social app. (Pictured: Shonen Bat.)
You know AI poses no dangers at all when insurance companies start excluding it from their coverage.
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
You know AI poses no dangers at all when insurance companies start excluding it from their coverage.
On "Quiet, piggy": The words were bad, obviously, but they're a lot more ominous when you see a video showing how they were spoken. It's easy to picture how this man reportedly told a girl that he was capable of having her whole family killed if she revealed what he'd done.
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
On "Quiet, piggy": The words were bad, obviously, but they're a lot more ominous when you see a video showing how they were spoken. It's easy to picture how this man reportedly told a girl that he was capable of having her whole family killed if she revealed what he'd done.
Delighted to learn that Keyboards, one of my favorite accounts on Mastodon, is here on Bsky also. @keyboards.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Delighted to learn that Keyboards, one of my favorite accounts on Mastodon, is here on Bsky also. @keyboards.bsky.social
#NowReading Ryan H Walsh, "Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968." Walsh goes way beyond that album and even Van Morrison himself to chronicle the bizarre music scene around Boston in the late '60s (some of it involving a hippie cult). Obsessively researched and thrill-packed, a real page-turner.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#NowReading Ryan H Walsh, "Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968." Walsh goes way beyond that album and even Van Morrison himself to chronicle the bizarre music scene around Boston in the late '60s (some of it involving a hippie cult). Obsessively researched and thrill-packed, a real page-turner.
I've been to Floyd Bennett Field many times, but I never knew about the H.A.R.P. (Historic Aircraft Restoration Project) in Hangar B. Lots of reconstructed old airplanes and helicopters, and we were even able to climb inside some of them. Thanks Paul Lukas for enlightening me.
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I've been to Floyd Bennett Field many times, but I never knew about the H.A.R.P. (Historic Aircraft Restoration Project) in Hangar B. Lots of reconstructed old airplanes and helicopters, and we were even able to climb inside some of them. Thanks Paul Lukas for enlightening me.
This reminds me of the old Robert Klein routine where he describes Borscht Belt comedians who tell jokes with a punch line in Yiddish (the point being that the joke is ruined for you if you don't know the Yiddish expression).
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This reminds me of the old Robert Klein routine where he describes Borscht Belt comedians who tell jokes with a punch line in Yiddish (the point being that the joke is ruined for you if you don't know the Yiddish expression).
I've always been intrigued by this building on Ave. T. I don't know of any other buildings in Brooklyn with lettering like this. Kind of a Miami vibe IMO.
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I've always been intrigued by this building on Ave. T. I don't know of any other buildings in Brooklyn with lettering like this. Kind of a Miami vibe IMO.
The interesting thing about the plastic sign letters used here is that there are ligatures for "is," "co," and "un." How typical is that? And how many other ligatures are there in this set?
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The interesting thing about the plastic sign letters used here is that there are ligatures for "is," "co," and "un." How typical is that? And how many other ligatures are there in this set?
V.F.W. Post 107 & Auxiliary, Gerritsen Beach.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
V.F.W. Post 107 & Auxiliary, Gerritsen Beach.
Spent some time adjusting the action (string height) on one of my bass guitars this week. Action is important. If it's too high it slows your playing down; too low and your frets buzz. The ideal for me is lowlowlow with just the tiniest bit of fret noise, and it's hard to get this exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Spent some time adjusting the action (string height) on one of my bass guitars this week. Action is important. If it's too high it slows your playing down; too low and your frets buzz. The ideal for me is lowlowlow with just the tiniest bit of fret noise, and it's hard to get this exactly right.
Really good talk last night by Joseph Nechvatal (third in photo) and Nicholas Ballet (second) about Nechvatal's music and art, Ballet's book "Shock Factory," the origins of industrial music, no wave, etc, etc. The number of important art and music scenes Nechvatal has been involved in defies belief.
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Really good talk last night by Joseph Nechvatal (third in photo) and Nicholas Ballet (second) about Nechvatal's music and art, Ballet's book "Shock Factory," the origins of industrial music, no wave, etc, etc. The number of important art and music scenes Nechvatal has been involved in defies belief.
