Recorded in the static between the wailing trains of Tokyo and the airs a midwinter Egypt, Masha joins Chi Chi to initiate his three part exploration into holocaust art, starting off with THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL by Anne Frank and Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 SUSPIRIA. Female bodies pregnant with the weight of genocide, the arrival of period blood marking the first steps into a cosmic understanding of life and death, dances ritualizing the pain of knowledge, the curse of awareness over ignorance, the...
Jan 25, 2023•2 hr 26 min
On the first edition of Chi Chi’s exclusive Patreon bookclub, we discuss “Nightwood” by Djuna Barnes. If you’d like to participate in February’s bookclub, you can subscribe on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E30レズな夜)
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 11 min
The boys of Agitator podcast keep it sticky icky like lipgloss for a traipse through the stinky pajama bottom hyper pop world of CHARLI XCX + two further impressions of contemporary femininity: Evangelion director Anno Hideaki’s 1998 LOVE & POP and his ultra perverted 2004 CUTIE HONEY. How to be cool, how to finish a project, how to eat rice balls, how to set a BDSM court jester on fire, how to fall in love and how to be a girl. Follow the extraordinary AGITATOR PODCAST on Patreon: https://w...
Jan 11, 2023•2 hr 35 min
AVAILABLE ONLY ON PATREON: patreon.com/imsopopular Andrew and Zach close out our trilogy of Okinawa episodes live on the streets of Naha with a melancholic look back on our deeply impactful time together, the beauty of narcissism, the cultivation of a lust for life and what makes true friendship such a moving experience.... NEVER END, never end...
Dec 28, 2022•5 min
Sending my love from Okinawa, the strangest place in the world, with a festive conversation on MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE and the baffling Utada Hikaru album, THIS IS THE ONE. And This Is The One indeed.... newfound friendship, kissing cultures, seppuku, Sephora and humiliation. Follow my beloved Andrew on Twitter: twitter.com/qundrew And be sure to listen to the sound of our screams on the Patreon exclusive SIRENS continuation: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E28 切腹の音）
Dec 25, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Looking towards the art of Italy to save us from the endless plague of sexless nonsense: TITIAN + BRONZINO + CARRACCI + CALL ME BY YOUR NAME + THE WHITE LOTUS (SEASON TWO). Homosexual designers of the universe, Mannerist postmodernism, dulcet bodies of beautiful women, peaches full of ejaculate, duplicitous couples and the secret to unbridled passionate life. Follow I’M SO POPULAR on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E27 ビーナスの誕生)
Dec 20, 2022•2 hr 21 min
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Sitting alone in a Shinjuku park some time after midnight, I give the quintessential rules on how to be an artist. Discussing Murakami Haruki's "Writer as a Vocation" + "The Men Who Made Gundam." https://t.co/b58AV23bJ8
Dec 09, 2022•5 min
Paul Cupo of the revolutionary new ACT BAD podcast and former NOT REALLY fame joins to rip his heart apart in the name of Gay Culture with a discussion on John Waters’ POLYESTER and Harvey Fierstein’s TORCH SONG TRILOGY. Truly knowing oneself, knowing one’s culture, knowing one’s literal mother, real drag, real idols, real pain and realness (generally) — “Sometimes, life just STINKS!” Subscribe to the fabulous ACT BAD podcast on Patreon, Paul promises there will be new episodes: patreon.com/actb...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 35 min
As a special Thanksgiving treat, this episode is unlocked from the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon where you get all sorts of fabulous bonus episodes and the exclusive SIRENS untucked series. patreon.com/imsopopular KIM KARDASHIAN + MISHIMA YUKIO + JAPANESE DRAG QUEENS.... and from within them all, a sparkling and transparent diamond enshrining all beauty and homosexual creation as told by the Amazonian Mother of all podcasting herself: Anna Khachiyan of the seminal Red Scare. Between the ecstasies of Ru...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 55 min
Full seven hour odyssey available only on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular On a colossal odyssey through the streets of Tokyo, Samuel and Chi Chi submerge themselves into a sea of memories from Japan past and future, discussing the music of transcendental girl group PERFUME and the quintessential fragrance MONOCLE 3: SUGI COMME DES GARÇONS. Against a breath of fog settled over Yoyogi Park, hot pink sparkling outfits in Harajuku, the warbling voices of Yakitori staff and, finally, the glimmering ...
Nov 18, 2022•43 min
A very special celebration of I'M SO POPULAR for its one hundredth official episode. Recorded alone in a karaoke booth in Higashi Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. Thank you for listening: patreon.com/imsopopular (S3.E24 百)
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 25 min
ISP all star John of Telepathy Party Inc. returns to contemplate two erotic french novels by desperately horny women: Annie Ernaux's SIMPLE PASSION and Pauline Réage's STORY OF O. New theological and worldly pleasures are realized in the navel gazing clits of polite European women baring all... whipped, strapped to a wall and waiting in a state of suspension for the phone to ring. New religions and richer lives await you in a giallo BDSM dungeon of red carpets, bitter ecstasies and labial rings....
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min
It's the third annual ISP Halloween special and Glen Rockney from The Back Wall & Rare Candy podcasts joins to marvel in fear at the most gruesome, horrid and offensive movies ever screened in the I'M SO POPULAR hellfire with three low budget v-cinema masterpieces directed by Yamanouchi Daisuke: RED ROOM, GIRL HELL 1999 and CELLULOID NIGHTMARES. More sexual violence than you could literally ever ask for, a blow dryer in the mouth, a light bulb in an orifice, a schoolgirl condemned to hell be...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 41 min
WITCH! WITCH! Another legendary Tokyo drag icon enters the Chi Chi School of Dance to talk about a foundational horror icon for halloween: DARIO ARGENTO, and his two films DEEP RED + SUSPIRIA. Stylized Sexualized Sadistic death and the whims of society cast in technicolor, giallo movies, visual kei, goth parties, innocent girls becoming bloody women all wrapped up in wires, the passionate universe of untampered wills.... Follow Nattmara on Instagram: instagram.com/dravarious And the I'M SO POPUL...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Ring ring — Moshi Moshi ! You’re about to get gutted like a FISH! OH, THE HORROR! RUN DREW BARRYMORE, RUN! Tokyo drag superstar Angel Heart joins to crack the mirror of Francisco Goya’s paintings and the postmodern funhouse of Wes Kraven and Kevin Williamson’s legendary SCREAM franchise. Behind the glass is the essence of “True Horror:” being aware of oneself, being aware of one’s medium and being aware of impending DEATH. Sexualized neuroses practiced upon the real world, the real world becomin...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 45 min
In the cosmic scream of the universe there is little more terrifying than a DRAG QUEEN and we have the scariest one of all time, the killer SHARON NEEDLES herself, here to discuss her groundbreaking career plus two of her favorite horror movies: SLEEPAWAY CAMP + SLEEPAWAY CAMP II: UNHAPPY CAMPERS. Discussing the blistering televised charisma of her fight with Phi Phi, winning RuPaul's Drag Race, resurrecting gay sex culture, the mundanity of drag's contemporary homogeneity, homosexual filth and ...
Oct 05, 2022•59 min
FULL TWO HOUR EPISODE EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ONLY ON PATREON: patreon.com/imsopopular Chi Chi is answering all of your questions.... and absolutely anything and EVERYTHING is fair game. Unfortunately, it's mostly just a bunch of gay men asking the same kind of questions. But nonetheless, rising to the surface from the murky sea of the human heart: transgender women and their loving boyfriends, drug use, the quest for art, managing debauchery, screwing your coworkers, coming out of the closet and ...
Sep 29, 2022•36 min
An I'M SO POPULAR SPECIAL: Zach Langley Chi Chi Takes Korea. He meets Brixton and Ronald and the most famous gay man in South Korea, Tony Hong. Discovering the nature of perception, the secret use of idols, Korean pop music, Parasite, gay culture and above all else: an exuberance of overflowing life in all of its threads. Follow Brixton on Twitter: twitter.com/Brixton And Ronald: twitter.com/taylorronald And on a very special SIRENS untucked available only on Patreon, Chi Chi further elucidates ...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Live in Tokyo, Shibuya Ward -- domain of the dreams of idols -- Miho joins Chi Chi to elucidate for the first time ever the truly unbelievable life of nineties one time Japanese pop legend KAHARA TOMOMI and her appearance on DENPA SHŌNEN. You've never heard a horror like this before: lost in love, strung out on pills, suicidal and compelled by nothing but a power of character and thirst for passion, Tomo-chan is humiliated in painstaking abjection beyond all American imaginations. And it's all o...
Sep 14, 2022•2 hr 19 min
Stephen King's CARRIE (1974) + Brian De Palma's CARRIE (1976) + LIFE ライフ (2007). THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU! Revenge, bullying, the spiraling world of torture and sadism, buckets of blood, sexual cars, schoolgirl uniforms, fake rain, Ayn Rand.... Subscribe to FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES on Patreon: www.patreon.com/filthyarmenian And THE PERFUME NATIONALIST: www.patreon.com/perfumenationalist And on this week's SIRENS exclusive untucked continuation: the girls discuss how to be a podcaster, Jo...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 37 min
In the dilapidated deserts of someplace called Hollywood… ancient dreams in a modern land: the outskirts of society suddenly thrust into the eye of the storm as RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE floats into heaven. A portrait of an unraveling world, the most subterranean corners of the psyche made tauntingly real and the torture of screaming liberals turned into manic theatre. Walking through the barren California wastelands and pursued by police, PUNISHMENT PARK, screaming your politick with every thread of y...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 47 min
Desires consuming the world… Zane and Chi Chi ponder the eternal wonders and perils of real love and lust with Oshima Nagisa’s IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES and Utada Hikaru’s seminal DEEP RIVER. Balancing acts of life, relegation of passion, the systems of the world stacking upon, true love and something else... Follow Zane on Twitter: twitter.com/perched_atop And the I’M SO POPULAR Twitter account: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And if you’re not listening to SIRENS on Patreon you’re only getting hal...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 24 min
The internet is real. The internet is a series of circuits connecting human beings. The internet possesses a malicious system of misrepresentation and hatred. The internet will isolate you into an afterlife of eternal loneliness. The internet will become an enormous artifice depicting just how distant our souls are from one another. The internet must be a weapon. We must take it in our hands. 回路 (2001) + SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN (1998) + CAPS LOCK (2013). And an answer to the network's riddle on ...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Chi Chi does her makeup and is joined by a few friends from a public Zoom link... starring some dear friends only on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70243481?pr=true
Aug 08, 2022•5 min
Old friend Natalie joins Chi Chi to celebrate their twenty sixth and twenty seventh birthdays respectively and discuss Alexander Payne's ELECTION (1999) and its source material, ELECTION (1998). Stream a special birthday episode about dead animals on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopoular (S3.E12 誕生日)
Jul 30, 2022•1 hr 21 min
MULHOLLAND DRIVE, NIGHT TIME: two beautiful blonde women emerge from a car accident and style themselves into beautiful goddesses of fame, glamor and violence. Is it a dream or reality? Chi Chi and Samantha’s inability to remember conversations, their peril with alcohol, women with bleached hair and combusting neighbors set the scene as the subterranean depths of these two hearts emerge among palm trees and David Lynch’s 2001 classic feature + Sky Ferreira’s 2013 masterpiece, NIGHT TIME, MY TIME...
Jul 20, 2022•2 hr 25 min
Out from the Thot Topics lounge, through the forest of the gay little monkeys and across the mother sea, Chi Chi Is reunited with Cris and Nick to peddle in ultimate stereotype and delusion: Jean Paul Goude’s JUNGLE FEVER (1981) and Azealea Banks’s BROKE WITH EXPENSIVE TASTE (2014). Fisting, Fire Island, Flamboyance, French Fotography: what real commitment to one’s own bizarre interior illusions and pervasions can manifest in the real world. Follow THOT TOPICS on Twitter: twitter.com/thottopicsp...
Jul 13, 2022•1 hr 46 min
This special episode available now only for Patrons: https://bit.ly/3ajMqpr KIM KARDASHIAN + MISHIMA YUKIO + JAPANESE DRAG QUEENS.... and from within them all, a sparkling and transparent diamond enshrining all beauty and homosexual creation as told by the Amazonian Mother of all podcasting herself: Anna Khachiyan of the seminal Red Scare. Between the ecstasies of Russian bimbos and Russian PHD holders, against the macho misunderstanding of Mishima, into the realm of contemporary fertility godde...
Jul 06, 2022•7 min
I like you a lot... the ecstatic art of watching men, men at the lake, men playing sports, men being twins... the photography of BRUCE WEBER + Richard Linklater's EVERYBODY WANTS SOME. Beauty beyond all measure as an access into the true abyss of lust for life... Follow Vera on Twitter: twitter.com/lovely_2_c_u And I'M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And on this week's extra special extra essential continuation, Madonna, endless sexuality, the tragedy of lesbianism, Barbie dolls: https://...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Between the shapeless curtains of idle chatter and the ripples of water in a bathhouse, two debut novels by English homosexuals: Ronald Firbank's VAINGLORY (1915) + Allen Hollinghurst's THE SWIMMING POOL LIBRARY (1988). Fused together, these two beautifully uppity books communicate a private sublimity in the homosexual shadow over the world through a stained glass window, gay cruising, beautiful men on the train, OnlyFans, real sexuality, porn theaters, blood on the bedsheets... Follow the endle...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 51 min
