I'M SO POPULAR

The second edition of Chi Chi’s book club. This time, discussing Kawabata Yasunari’s THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN. If you’d like to participate in the book club and join us next month for our discussion of Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD, subscribe to I’M SO POPULAR on Patreon for access along with paywalled episodes of ISP, the entire SIRENS untucked phenomena, exclusive photos and more: patreon.com...

Discussing the towering work of American art CAITLYN JENNER, her life, memoir, documentary tv show, Vanity Fair interview and Fox News appearances in conversation with Lana Del Rey’s poetic masterpiece, BLUE BANISTERS. Pop star in the making Jenny Scoones joins Chi Chi to stare directly into the transgender heart, the ability to make narrative out of one’s own turmoil and perversion, what it means...

What is the most brutal sight in the world: a hydrangea petal found rotten and decayed on the cement of an unfeeling civilization. J-pop provocateur and host of the Nante Japan podcast Ronald returns to reflect on the nature of stagnating beauty and castrated Instagram sexuality through the figure of one of the most gorgeous boys in the world, Japanese water popular player Arai Atsushi, and Viscon...

Tabloid superstar and host of the UNPOPULAR podcast Jacques Peterson joins to dive into the furthest extremities of Chi Chi ethos known to man with a complete oral history of the calamitously ill failed Japanese idol group, KEYAKIZAKA46. When a fascist militia of twenty-one Japanese high school girls are charged with the artistic duty of diffusing an entire nation’s cultural malaise, terrible thin...

[AVAILABLE ONLY ON PATREON] On the final installment of the Volkermord trilogy discussing art from and concerning the holocaust, the paths of the past and future converge as Jack Mason from The Perfume Nationalist slips into the muck with Chi Chi to find the faintest critical trace of meaning in the bleakest text ever written: Adolph Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF. A hurtling force sent directly from Hell re...

The second entry in Chi Chi's VÖLKERMORD trilogy discussing the shadow of the holocaust. This week , the stars of the Evil Thespian podcast join to delve into Mishima Yukio's 1969 stage play MY FRIEND HITLER + Bob Fosse's 1971 CABARET. You start by admitting from cradle to tomb... it isn't that long a stay. It is shorter in Europe and shorter still in our recollection, it is shorter when your life...

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...

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)

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 fa...

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...

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 Patr...

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: patr...

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

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...

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 Mo...

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 pin...

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)

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 an...

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 a...

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...

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...

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, r...

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...

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/taylo...

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 passio...