Continuing the journey through the orient and YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA, from 1981 - 1984: the sun rises in Shinjuku, drunken bleakness and an inability to describe art film, NAUGHTY BOYS, Asia repeated into nothingness and everything, having been alive to see art and to burn it all down, the trace of a memory, robot whistles pierced through you eternally/ephemerally... Follow Grant on Twitter: twitter.com/basedsodomite And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E29)
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 38 min
Discussing the career of YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA from 1978 - 1981 in the first part of a nearly five hour conversation. Orientalism, death art, manifesting one’s being through cliche, Soul Train, computer noises, Asia, Suzy Wong, life as creative product… Follow Grant on Twitter: twitter.com/basedsodomite And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E28)
Sep 22, 2021•2 hr 20 min
Tokyo drag icon and sister of three years Labianna enters Chi Chiの家 on the seventh floor of somewhere in Shinjuku to discuss the CITY OF TOKYO and the 1969 gay boy classic FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES 薔薇の葬列. Together they stab themselves with the overwhelming beauty of life in a metropolis (so many people on the TRAINS!), terror on the cruising grounds, the perfect female form, uncertainty in your ability to get a gig, they threaten suicide at the edge of your glistening youth and at the unending wal...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Somewhere in Shinjuku... two homosexual Americans in Japan defy state of emergency orders to meet and to wonder before the supreme artlessness of COVID-19 and Anno Hideaki's 2016 masterwork, SHIN GODZILLA. Tortured civilians, atomic breath, the crush of the proletariat, helpless governments, silence in Shibuya Scramble, layers between people, the contemporary condition: who will know tragedy? Follow Ryan on Twitter: twitter.com/tokyohomo And follow I'm So Popular on Twitter too: twitter.com/imso...
Sep 08, 2021•2 hr 12 min
It’s the mid season finale and to celebrate the terror of Chi Chi’s twenty fifth birthday, old friends Quinn and Natalie join the show to discuss no art, the difficulty of aging, saying goodbye to twinkhood, the misery of careers, a half decade of friendship… Follow I’m So Popular on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E25)
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Michel Foucault's THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY as told in three parts over four months of recording with three films by Sono Sion: ANTIPORNO, GUILTY OF ROMANCE and LOVE EXPOSURE. The sound of static and sex. Reframing the world through a discourse of Eros. Follow Pleasure Helmet on Twitter: twitter.com/PleasureHelmet Follow Sam of Twink Revolution on Twitter: twitter.com/twinkrevsam Follow Jenny on Twitter: twitter.com/Jennypopstarxxx And I’m So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E24) PART 3/3...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Michel Foucault's THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY as told in three parts over four months of recording with three films by Sono Sion: ANTIPORNO, GUILTY OF ROMANCE and LOVE EXPOSURE. The sound of static and sex. Reframing the world through a discourse of Eros. Follow Pleasure Helmet on Twitter: twitter.com/PleasureHelmet Follow Sam of Twink Revolution on Twitter: twitter.com/twinkrevsam Follow Jenny on Twitter: twitter.com/Jennypopstarxxx And I’m So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E24) PART 2/3...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr
Michel Foucault's THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY as told in three parts over four months of recording with three films by Sono Sion: ANTIPORNO, GUILTY OF ROMANCE and LOVE EXPOSURE. The sound of static and sex. Reframing the world through a discourse of Eros. Follow Pleasure Helmet on Twitter: twitter.com/PleasureHelmet Follow Sam of Twink Revolution on Twitter: twitter.com/twinkrevsam Follow Jenny on Twitter: twitter.com/Jennypopstarxxx And I’m So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod (S2.E24) PART 1/3...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Possessed by the podcasting black lodge demon and recording live from our favorite bar in Mie Prefecture, Chi Chi and dear friend of three years John battle through TWIN PEAKS, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Wilson produces as he listens to a conversation on a series of television programs and films he’s never seen before. “You haven’t seen The Godfather?!” Chi Chi endlessly berates him. They invite more people and order pizza and tequila. Chi Chi takes all the air out...
Jul 14, 2021•2 hr 59 min
Old internet friend and emerging Tik Tok Brielle enters I’M SO POPULAR at last to explore the boundaries of youth culture in TIK TOK and three albums by the heartthrob metaphysical poet DRAKE. Clips in fast succession: nonstop and relatable. Persecution, mobilization of the zoomer cop class against hot anime boys. Heartless, unemotional identification, finally answered by the hyper feeling love and melancholy of Drake — perhaps the most misunderstood beacon for true, tragic masculinity. Brielle ...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 44 min
A journey through the final questions of homosexuality and the elusive, stolen quality of something called “queerness,” starring TELEPATHY PARTY, his roommate MUSCLE MASTER EL LOBO and also Zach’s friend SAKI. First: YAOI MANGA, what is referred to as boys love, women diffusing their feelings toward the horror of sexual penetration into thin limbed beautiful boys, avatars, idols of safety. Next: blowing it up and activating it in the perverted feces spiral of filth, rape and excess porn: GENGORO...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 59 min
Writer and art critic in exile Harry Tafoya joins to find a new way through discussion on Larry Kramer’s seminal 1978 masterpiece FAGGOTS and his 2005 speech, THE TRAGEDY OF TODAY’S GAYS, in the continuation of Chi Chi’s Pride trilogy. Silence = Death. Scraping narrative from podcasts, mourning the chance to lip-sync, coming close to tears from the blinding light of a dead gay star, moral sexuality, feeling something, Red Scare, Nancy Pelosi and the potential alchemy of a trans party girl into s...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 41 min
Dear friend Kyle returns to join Chi Chi for a very special sequel to GAY PEOPLE AND BRANDING and the first in a trilogy of Pride episodes, discussing homosexual men and Andrew Holleran's DANCER FROM THE DANCE and THE BEAUTY OF MEN, nine months later and further sunken into the silt of bland homosexual misery. Sickness and politics reducing the gay climate to a procedurally generated Tik Tok, the looming fate of a flower doomed to wilt, journals and iPhone notes apps listing every man we've ever...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 14 min
River returns from Whataburger so he can receive mystic instruction in the hell arts of Japanese and Korean pop idols from Chi Chi. Together they trace the complete anthropology of the grimmest and most destructive content to touch I’M SO POPULAR yet: BTS hypnotizing non binary people into shapeless autoandrophilic consumers, Demi Lovato becoming possessed by the Satan of the East, AKB48 members shaving their heads, cultures misplacing desires for beautiful young boys, men dressing as lesbians u...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 49 min
Returning from the bar, wasted and emotional and overfull with heart and truth and slurring fury, Zach and special guest Nadine voyage through makeup, artifice and the cultural role of BRITNEY JEAN SPEARS in the name of having fun and being yourself. Tumultuous, earnest, humiliating podcasting as microphones come unplugged several times, the internet cuts out, frogs scream through the entirety of recording, the audio grows out of sync. Zach reveals the entire oral history of his eyebrows. Nadine...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Nefarious poster James From Tokyo and Chi Chi gather in an act of real male camaraderie to do the impossible and transcend irony... reading Bronze Age Pervert and BRONZE AGE MINDSET without political eye or apology. We find the answer: revealing the lie of heterosexual Nietzschean greatness. Deriving pleasure from self satisfaction, art and penises. Revealing the true joy of ancient Grecian philosophy. Burning down the alluring curtain of bad Mishima takes in a trash fire on the Caribbean shores...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Very cool guy Michael Martin del Campo joins to sing a swan song and eulogy for BEAUTIFUL MALE VIOLENCE with the discussion of four films: SHANE + VIOLENT COP + BULLHEAD + FIRST BLOOD. Chi Chi smokes several cigarettes. Bucket hats, Sylvester Stallone in pain, style, action figures, guns, drugs, the vicious fate of hot guys, a vanishing world in which the stoic icon can be one of beauty and glamor... This podcast is also uniquely available as a two hour cinematic experience on Youtube: https://w...
May 20, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Gwen (twitter.com/rancid0rchid) from the PURE OBLIVION podcast arrives in a cloud of occultism to elucidate BODY HORROR with Ito's Junji's TOMIE + UZUMAKI. Spirals, turning into a snail, sucking the skin of beautiful people, making tornadoes with your arms, spirit photography, learning not to laugh, experiencing art with your soul, cycles of humanity, endless whirlpools, stupefaction and dumbfounded awe in the presence of total bleakness. Stream PURE OBLIVION on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.co...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 14
John of Telepathy Party fame joins Zach in the Dark Void and Ritual of Homosexual Conversation to resurrect gay evil and discuss HOGG by Samuel R. Delany. Perversion, beauty, extreme experience, bathhouses, cruising, scat play, THE HOLE, violence, HBO Girls, lost cultures of time… Follow Telepathy Party on Twitter: twitter.com/telepathy_party And the I’m So Popular Twitter account: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2E13)
May 05, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Discussing identity + SATOSHI KON'S Perfect Blue, Paranoia Agent, Millennium Actress and the rest of his filmography with super hot dude and very cool guy, Eternal Fella (https://twitter.com/swift_zeroes). Attempting to escape the gloop of culture sludge for the cold and sheer terror of art, running away from yourself, victimhood, suffering, existing(?) Follow I'm So Popular on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E12)
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 12
A Lacanian scholar explains masochism to me as we discuss hurting yourself along with Craig Brewer's BLACK SNAKE MOAN. My bisexual ex-boyfriend, putting yourself in harm's way, jouissance, abuse, race, politics and being a loose woman. Follow Blaise on Twitter: twitter.com/urgurlblaise And I'm So Popular: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E11)
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Lindsay (twitter.com/dystopianchilis) hijacks the show in the name of women to discuss feminism, power, violence and her curation of art about girls: Jessie Ware's WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE + Rainer Werner Fassbinder's MARTHA + Alexander McQueen's HIGHLAND RAPE. Disaster, devastation, weakness, tragedy, sex appeal, vulnerability, death, stoicism, wine, the sound of birds, something leaking. I'M SO POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2E10)
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Bottle of wine in hand, Zach slurs through the career of pop auteur and extremely hot girl GFOTY with the dionysian princess herself: Girlfriend of the Year. Fighting with your boyfriend, throwing up ham, oral sex and coffee, brands, labels, PC Music, regret, being hot, hot boys, chads, art, beds without sheets, women and drag queens without any shame whatsoever. (S2.E09) Begin your GFOTYISM philosophy journey at GFOTY.com And follow her on Twitter: twitter.com/GFOTY Also the I'M SO POPULAR podc...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Escaping the stranglehold of anti-film Netflix fog, Zach and dear old friend Emiliano discuss the extremity of emotion in rape on film with THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, IRREVERSIBLE, DOGVILLE and SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM. Apathy, nausea, pain, fascism, failed political states, bluegrass music, torment of white women, cultural neutering and masochistic exposure to art in the name of feeling anything at all. S2.E08 Follow Emiliano on Twitter: twitter.com/emilianotweet Along with my my undying...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Zach fully commits to the topic of GLAMOR and LANA DEL REY'S ULTRAVIOLENCE in a drunken rampage of several whiskey high balls and at least five indoor cigarettes with the returning dolls from the house of THOT TOPICS. Together they ask: what even is glamor anyway? Who is glamorous? Why is it not Beyoncé? False idols, video games, the power of having an actual opinion about something, the power of admitting you're just a bad girl who wants to get smacked sometimes, the power of Lana Del Rey. S2.E...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Zach and Twitter's very best Gaye Stepdad (https://twitter.com/GayeStepdad) look at voyeurism right in the eye along with the filmography of Danish pervert Nicolas Winding Refn. Masculinity in crisis, castration, tops and bottoms, mothers, genitals, subjectivity, expression, beautiful young men, violence, looking at yourself in the mirror, looking at others through a peep hole, looking at your country, looking? S2.E06 impopular.me twitter.com/impopularpod
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Zach and hot art school dropout Jana push the envelope and limits of acceptable commentary with an aesthetic approach to the art of TERRORISM and Bret Easton Ellis's celebrity, GLAMORAMA. Mass violence as art, the waning power of the famous woman, Columbine Americana, Ottessa Moshfegh, maoists, John Waters' Cecil B. Demented, Glee, ISIS, maoists and two glittering towers on fire. Follow Jana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paranoidlikes And I'm So Popular: https://twitter.com/imsopopularpod impo...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Poet Adam Tedesco and Zach approach abjection — what it feels like to lose the boundary between yourself and the other, to shield your ego from the world, to shit and to piss — in contemporary poetry, Julia Kristeva’s seminal POWERS OF HORROR and four films: Paul Schrader’s HARDCORE, Ulrich Seidl’s PARADISE: LOVE, Jonathan Glazer’s UNDER THE SKIN and Bob Guccione + Tinto Brass’s CALIGULA. The Holy Brat, the overprotected child ripe with burgeoning fetish, alien gore, Asian diaspora, whip cream s...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Zach and Emily extract the sublimity and terror of love in Utada Hikaru's perennially misunderstood 2018 masterpiece 初恋 HATSUKOI and Hashiguchi Ryosuke's 1995 gay tragedy 渚のシンドバッド LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. Rape, eroticism in death, romantic crossdressing, mistaking your best friend for your lover, the smell of a man lingering in your bedroom, mourning, grief, locking your love away from the activists outside your doorstep, time in reverse, funneling your emotion through unavailable channels. Follow E...
Feb 24, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Zach and very special guest Christian sift through decades of cyber garbage to uncover the elusive pearl of male beauty and art in GAY PORNOGRAPHY. Channeling Paglia, summoning Sexual Personae, male beauty crystallized in the bodies of men on film, bad acting, penetration, the inevitable rot and decay of an icon, the ballad of Brandon Cody -- shorter than you imagined and beginning to bald. Follow Christian on Twitter: twitter.com/lexapr0_ And follow the official I'm So Popular Twitter account: ...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 2
