I'M SO POPULAR

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 an...

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: b...

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 sexualit...

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...

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 s...

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...

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 philos...

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...

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 dumbfound...

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/ims...

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.co...

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)

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 POPU...

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 philo...

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 an...

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...

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 cou...

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 Tw...

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...

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 a...

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...

Fleeing the psychological dregs and parasocial torment of Twitter, Dasha Nekrasova takes shelter on the season premiere of I'M SO POPULAR to discuss the loneliness of the human soul + NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, karaoke bars and the divine work of hostessing. A rejected Japanese schoolgirl look, fascist cleanliness, the emotional world of Asian businessmen, male feeling, the will to act, puberty, wha...

In the final episode of I’M SO POPULAR’s first season, Zach interrogates the purpose of the podcast, gay art, his own ego, what any of this means and what it means to express. Featuring (in order of appearance) Ava, Biracial Angel Miles (twitter.com/MalcoImFleX), Comrade Bjork (https://twitter.com/boyzthere), Amina (https://twitter.com/itsonlyamina), John, River Page (https://twitter.com/gayliaron...

In my final episode of the year, I spoke to one of my favorite musicians JESSY LANZA about her brilliant and moving new album ALL THE TIME along with vulnerability, anger, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Todd Haynes' Safe and the condition of music and human relations in the year 2020. Buy Jessy Lanza's new album, ALL THE TIME, and its accompanying remix EP, 24/7, on Bandcamp: https://jessylanza.bandcamp....

Zach, the girls of Twink Revolution and the divas at Thot Topics are recapping September to December of the worst year on Earth as the third segment of our year end collaboration with Twink Rev (@twinkrev) and Thot Topics (https://twitter.com/ThotTopicsPod). Rihanna's fat models! Anorexia! The election! Death! Podcasting! Cyberpunk 2077! Everything in the entire world. Stream Part One on Twink Rev...