Chi Chi sits in the park and contemplates Perfume Genius, Too Bright, his new album, homosexuality and its place in the world, the tragic bond between mother and son, his gay mission to create something worthwhile. Only available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67892318
War and suffering: between the gloom of World War I in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and the laser glare of MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM.... Cuteness Unit and Chi Chi bash their helmets against impossible to talk about soap opera until some kind of meaning pierces through. Long silences. Women floating through space. Newtypes and empathy and the battle between futurism and humanism."Brutal." Tragedies so real and punishing they bleed into the post apocalyptic twilight of I'M SO POPULAR. Chi Chi sheds re...
I'm just a girl... all pretty and petite... discussing the confessional poetry of Anne Sexton and confessional Frankenstein female suffering of Gwen Stefani from the trenches of the Harajuku Holocaust to the frying pan massacre of Orange County: Jo appears with Chi Chi to synthesize the woman's world of micro tragedies into something more luxurious, more unhinged, more archetypal. TRAGIC KINGDOM, RETURN OF SATURN, LOVE. ANGEL. MUSIC. BABY. Judaism, Japonism, Black Peopleism (?) all thrust into a...
Chi Chi and his newest idol Monica join together in a loving embrace to idolize the male form on earth: MARLON BRANDO and two of his greatest films, ON THE WATERFRONT and REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. The unholy fusion of Brando's trash lifestyle (sushi pigouts, promiscuous sexuality, death and murder) with his gilded shimmering art films conjures the Great Spirit of Life: Passion! Lust! Sex Drive! All the things that make the world beautiful beyond measure as we recreate the new universe with fu...
Chi Chi's first friend in Tokyo arrives out of the neon circuits of Harajuku and Shinjuku and Kabukicho, Tokyo, to fuse together three pieces of film concerning beautiful white foreign women in Japan: LOST IN TRANSLATION, HBO GIRLS and THE RAMEN GIRL. The vision they piece together is a lonely trial of the soul, video game texture mexaplexes, cat cafes, a creation of the self via exposure to the exterior, Pocari Sweat, reckless collage of stereotype, atomic bombs and -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND! WHY A...
The Gods have been slain and their world has come to an end. But the new world begins! ZACH LANGLEY CHI CHI ascends to shape this strange and virgin reality to his own vision. He initiates the demonic sacrament: a fusion of high and low art to conceive of new philosophy and new scripture for this unholy landscape. Willing themselves out of the soup, "I'M SO POPULAR" alumni Fella and Sasha Amato join Chi Chi in melding F.T. Marinetti's THE MANIFEST OF FUTURISM with Atlas's 2021 video game SHIN ME...
New on the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon -- selections from Chi Chi's melancholic Golden Week trip to the Izu Peninsula. Staring out at the sea, discussing the Kardashians over dinner, screaming Utada Hikaru lyrics. https://www.patreon.com/posts/sirens-21-chi-on-66089357?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare
Chi Chi takes a walk to through northern Shinjuku to reflect on her recent performance of Kate Bush's "Babooshka" at the infamous Metro Club Party in Nagoya, the art of lip syncing, mediocrity, and the never-ending pursuit of fame through artistic accomplishment. Listen exclusively on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sirens-20-near-65046665?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare
Chi Chi gratuitously reads horrific entries from his diary. Subscribe on Patreon to hear the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64373994
An audio drama in two acts: on the eve of the Earth's destruction, the Three Mothers watch over their creation for the last time, witness two gay men mine life for meaning through a Mishima Yukio novel called "Forbidden Colors" and the podcast "I'M SO POPULAR" in the alleys of the gay district in Tokyo. The world is destroyed, humanity is reduced to its primordial desires and a new god is born. I'M SO POPULAR returns later this year. For now, keep up with weekly episodes on the SIRENS Patreon. T...
Jana and Chi Chi do their makeup in the penultimate episode of season two: within the realm of artifice, from the dregs of “true crime,” the glittering birth and gruesome horror of the MURDER OF NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON + Brady Corbert’s VOX LUX. Makeup videos, lifeless terrorism, building a persona, killing the persona, becoming a star, longing for fame, spinning into nothingness… The Apocalypse Draws Near. Available on Youtube as a nightmare makeup video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0v6e4WHjR...
Barrett Avner of the seminal CONTAIN podcast joins against a black and white steel cast of all trope and great feeling to discuss David Bowie’s YOUNG AMERICANS + ‘HEROES’ with Paul Verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS. American images as seen from a limousine, art and ego, sexual gratification, ejaculating in the Applebees, thrusting your genitals all over another, The Berlin Wall, Adolph Hitler, fascism, the European Cannon. Follow the Contain Podcast on Twitter; https://twitter.com/con_tain As well as I’M SO...
In the bright, hungover dawn, between truth and illusion.... the mystery of something called "LOVE" with the cosmic terrorizer, Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and its Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film adaptation. Uncovering oneself, hating the other, breaking through the boundaries of fantasy to find hatred and hard reality, drama, bad makeup, love and anger and whiskey. Listen to EVIL THESPIAN: https://anchor.fm/evilthespian Follow Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tragic_f...
Eddie of Car Crash podcast fame joins Chi Chi to barrel through the American highway of the soul in a conversation on Kanye West: the nightmare embodied and his two seminal records, YEEZUS + THE LIFE OF PABLO. Recklessly throwing your life to late night Tinder hookups, surrendering to the lust for passion, synchronizing your art into that of your very being, the heterosexual male bonding of hip hop, abrasiveness, insistence, drama, camp, chasing, Kim Kardashian and Julia Fox. Follow Eddie on Twi...
Blauer Geist and Chi Chi look back towards their home state of OREGON to unearth the meaning of death, rot, overgrowth, edginess and the true glory of being alive through two novels by Blake Nelson (GIRL + USER) and two films by Gus Van Sant (PARANOID PARK + ELEPHANT). Pioneering, the limits of the American universe, mass violence, skateboarding, gentrification, “Put a Bird On It,” strippers, distance between irony and reality, dirtiness and pure beauty in the monotony and triteness of life. Fol...
James Joyce publishes ULYSSESES and one hundred years later, Zach Langley Chi Chi goes to his first ever gay circuit party, the last ever SHANGRI LA at AGEHA. Somehow, he discovers, these events are one and the same... and between these two moments rests a sea of art struggling against the binds of society to achieve the transcendental and create in our shallow reality:: THE SENSUAL WORLD. Discussing Joyce, Kate Bush and Utada Hikaru -- surfacing from the horrors of our subterranean depths, a un...
Returning to the dilapidated memories of reality TV garbage left in the void (Bob Saget's short lived STRANGE DAYS WITH BOB SAGET) Chi Chi and childhood friend Leo reflect on their appearance on the show and their memories of the late Bob Saget. Possessed by the spirit of narrative, compelled to tears, tied up with ropes and driven into simulacrum, the endless tide between genuine memory and fantasy rips everything apart as we all draw closer towards death. Homosexuality burgeoning in an unbecom...
KYARY PAMYU PAMYU IS DEAD! Her flesh ripped apart by two different nations in a cultural typhoon of noumena and misery — her viscera splattered upon the floor of the world in knots of pink blood and ribbons. Chi Chi, Stephen and Fogbrain witness her resurrection: CANDY RACER, produced by Nakata Yasutaka. Annihilating your simulacrums through pop music, overcoming the temptation of nostalgia, registering yourself as an instrument, shoving French toast in the illusion of the world and forging real...
The mother of Chi Chi herself joins to celebrate the Christmas holiday and to discuss FUNNY GIRL + Fanny Flagg’s A REDBIRD CHRISTMAS. Zach realizes he isn’t as Jewish as he thought he was. Wholesome enjoyment of art on the merit of warmth, waves of culture across the world, alcoholism, birds… Life is just a spell, but I don’t care… Follow I’M SO POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And support the show on Patreon for the SIRENS bonus show: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E41)
Discussing Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King's THE COMEBACK with Chi Chi's podcasting mother and the original auteur herself, Jack -- just Jack, from The Perfume Nationalist. Getting older and gayer, finding art and meaning through the rituals of torment and humiliation. The homes of old, lonely men. Spider eyes. Follow Jack on Twitter: twitter.com/lotus__point And I'M SO POPUALAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And subscribe to the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon for the bonus show, SIRENS: patreon.com/i...
The sweetest Barbie in the world joins Chi Chi for a session of male worship with three films: PUMPING IRON, RHINESTONE and TRUE LIES. Male communities, bodybuilding, discovering the love of men, cooking steak, Islamic Terrorists, country music, art of autism and art of simplicity... Follow Red Pill GF on Twitter: twitter.com/redpillbelle And I'M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod Subscribe to the Patreon for the (SIRENS) bonus show: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E39)
Christian returns to invoke Paglia and humiliation once again in the pursuit of CAMP and the 1993 nightmare Japanese SMAP sex comedy PRIVATE LESSONS II. Homosexual gazes, gorgeous gorgeous girls love soup, looking the Met Gala right in the eye, heterosexual mystique, cultural layers bashing their elbows into one another, accented speaking, stalkings, erotica, real emotion, death and cheese. Follow Christian on Twitter: twitter.com/lexapr0_ And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod Listen to...
Sinking into the bloodbath of sexual decadence, beastiality, gay desire and beauty with three films by SATO HISAYASU: BONDAGE ECSTASY, HUNTER’S SENSE OF TOUCH and HORSE WOMAN DOG. Unchaining oneself from infatuation, inhabiting a repulsive eye, endless routine and irritation, importation of sex cultures, Japan, America, a sweet looking dog and its capacity for inflicting terror. Follow I’M SO POPULAR on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And Berto: twitter.com/big_boy_berto + Subscribe to I’M S...
ULTIMATE REALITY follows posting starlet + glimmering icon Aimee Terese with Chi Chi as they peril into something called leftism along with John Waters’ 2000 anti cinema epic, CECIL B DEMENTED… dreams of a forgone revolution, transgender bathrooms, Marvel moves in the abyss, Bernie Sanders (what is that), monologuing, perversion, sublimation… Follow Aimee on Twitter: twitter.com/aimeeterese And I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And support I’M SO POPULAR on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopu...
Twitter craftsman and novelist/poet/infuriator extraordinaire LOGO DAEDALUS enters the I’M SO POPULAR apocalypse mall to discuss Asian people, gay people, Karl Marx and, above all else, a thirty second video of a Japanese man on a beach that has touched Chi Chi’s heart and evoked every last mechanism of the social world. Gender transgression (is it real?), the creation of masculinity (very real), protesting pretty boys, reality television, Sun and Steel, ancient poetry, shapely pectoral muscles ...
Discussing the feud between JAMES CHARLES & TATI WESTRBOOK in four videos: BYE SISTER, WHY I DID IT, NO MORE LIES + BREAKING MY SILENCE. The feminine descent to hell on the great human stage of Grecian drama. The conflict between gay man and woman, realization of self and sexuality, Shin Megami Tensei demons as beauty influencers, destruction of life, infertility, jealousy of youth, “Sugar Bear Hair,” the impulse to obliterate and, above all else, the entire gamut of love and pain in brightl...
The official I’M SO POPULAR Halloween special: intoning and monologuing and rambling and cackling and slurring about the three of the most glorious pieces of Japanese as American cheese in the history of gaming: RESIDENT EVIL 2, RESIDENT EVIL: CODE VERONICA and RESIDENT EVIL 5. Death in the dark continent, manifesting the power of blockbuster trope in boulder punching, racist Chinese dresses (hot), tank tops with jeans (not), crossdressing incest twins in the Antarctic, biceps, the everlasting m...
The loudest episode of I’M SO POPULAR ever recorded — screaming for opera + Richard Wagner’s TRISTAN UND ISOLDE. Unstable Zoom connections make up the orchestra of the heart as Pariah and Chi Chi grasp enormous, impossible four hour long art performance in their hands and try to make themselves “artists” with it. Dying as you conduct, shaving bassoon reeds by hand, the genitals of a Brazilian piano performer, perishing before you make yourself real, men calling your name as they drive by you in ...
The human experience in diorama through the genre of survival games... the scourge of Squid Game... Element I: A Student is Not a Tangerine / BATTLE ROYALE / Element II: Destroying Things is Much Easier Than Making Them / THE HUNGER GAMES / Element III: The Will of God / PUBG, FORTNITE, AS THE GODS WILL / Element IV: Piggy Bank / SQUID GAME / Element V: 出口はここ / TAG / impopular.me (S3.E31)
At 7 AM on a Shinjuku Monday, Chi Chi struggles to stay awake while puzzling together his four year friendship with his truest hag, "Big Ava"... What makes a bond between gay man and woman, mothers, cruelty and vindication, reforming and finally: reshaping reality with PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA. Follow I'M SO POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopular impopular.me (S2.E30)
