NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community.

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With Patrick Macias, recorded live on December 9th, 2006.

This week we talked with Patrick Macias; a japan based journalist. Who gave us insight to the music, social and dress culture in Japan. Plus he shared his experiences as an interviewer for the many books he's published in Japan over the years. Listen and find out what kind of insight he provided, and hear about some of the best places to go while you're in Japan!

Check out his books (on amazon.com)! ...his blog, the Japanese Amazon.com page for his latest book OTAKU IN USA and the homepage for Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo-Tokyo!

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Okay to Sean's (da wiki master's) suggestion, so we've started this creative contest. So the deal is... take audio from the show... and create your own music, or whatever (that you own the copyright too), and make a OG mash-up using audio from the show. Just like the wiki master did a while back, when he did that Jefferson Techno remix, and when Killer Penguin sent in a Jefferson Mash-Up as well...

By next week, we are likely to have a clean sound clips, recorded just for this contest. Come on! Submit your entires! NO ONE has submitted! Why?

We will run this contest to the end of the year, and play back the entries during the New Years show... if everyone needs more time, email us, maybe we'll extend the contest... either way, send us your OG mash-up / remixes in! Do it! Do it NOW!

As usual, email your entries to: [email protected], and use the subject line of: OG MASH-UP CONTEST; stereo MP3s are preffered. Right now there's no limit on how many entries you can send; but please don't clog our email.

Listen to the show for more details.

The OG LamePoll by Alan

This is an application Alan built long ago... so we're going to put it to use... Take this weeks new LamePoll!!! (the poll ends on the Monday of the recording, will we mention the results on the new show. If you're interested, you can see last week's poll results here.

Otaku News (2.0) by Aaron :: ([email protected])

Weekly Reviews (2.0) by Dan :: ([email protected])

Nickname ME! by Alan :: ([email protected])

No nicknames this week, but don't let that stop you asking for one, and please tell us something about yourself... than we'll give you a nick! This way you can be uniquely identifiable among the other OG listners!

Video Shares of the Week by Alan :: ([email protected])