Patrick St Michel - Music/Culture - Tokyo

<p>Patrick St. Michel (<a href='https://twitter.com/mbmelodies'>@mbmelodies</a>) isn’t a professional foreigner, he just plays one on TV. As a freelance music and pop culture journalist, Patrick will take us inside the world of J Pop, K Pop, Japanese baseball and convenience store food. And yes, he’s willing to go see your band play in Thailand on less than 24 hours notice.</p> <p>Countries featured: Japan, USA, Thailand, South Korea</p> <p>Publications featured: The Japan Times, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Make Believe Melodies</p> <p>Patrick discusses growing up in a town with more horses than people (6:13), founding the publication North by Northwestern in college (12:25), moving to Japan to teach English in a small town (22:52), starting a blog about Japanese music and breaking into journalism (31:04), the promise and peril of writing "Weird Japan" articles (43:28), his "story that got away" seeking to profile a Korean musician trying to become a crossover star (49:07), his profile of Japanese music legend Mariya Takeuchi (56:54), and finally the lightning round (1:03:31) featuring an unexpected trip to Thailand (1:09:27) and Japanese baseball (1:19:11).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Make Believe Melodies blog archive - <a href='https://bit.ly/3xgzhDQ'>https://bit.ly/3xgzhDQ</a></p> <p>Bagel heads - <a href='https://bit.ly/3ycgJom'>https://bit.ly/3ycgJom</a></p> <p>Patrick's Atlantic story on "Weird Japan" - <a href='https://bit.ly/3hALRaa'>https://bit.ly/3hALRaa</a></p> <p>New Republic dissection of New Yorker's failed Weird Japan article - <a href='https://bit.ly/3hb6afA'>https://bit.ly/3hb6afA</a></p> <p>Patrick's story on Korean Pop conquering Japan - <a href='https://bit.ly/3AoZWjQ'>https://bit.ly/3AoZWjQ</a></p> <p>CL on wikipedia - <a href='https://bit.ly/2Umto9w%5C'>https://bit.ly/2Umto9w</a></p> <p>Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi - <a href='https://bit.ly/3xfFHmx'>https://bit.ly/3xfFHmx</a></p> <p>Patrick's profile of Takeuchi - <a