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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...

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 Californ...

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:...

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...

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

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)

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...

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 a...

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 ho...

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 e...

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 m...

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...

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,...

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!...

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 e...

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 jo...

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_clipbo...

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'...

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 Draw...

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 Eu...

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 t...

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 ho...