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I"M SO POPULAR

Zach Langley Chi Chi

I’M SO POPULAR is an audio program from the end of the world by American drag queen in Japan, Zach Langley Chi Chi. Scream into the abyss, find another way: discussing with anyone and everyone homosexual beauty, art, culture, Madonna, Marxism, J-Pop, James Joyce, drag, death, all of it, none of it. What can be salvaged.

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1:37:46

UTOPIAS with vera

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2023/04/24

Beyond the sixteenth century, beyond the twentieth and the twenty-first, there looms in the sky an unreachable dream of the so-called utopia…. I’M SO POPULAR all star lesbian genius Vera joins to discuss Thomas More’s UTOPIA (1516), Björk’s UTOPIA (2017) and John Boorman’s ZARDOZ (1974). The foolishness of utopian dreams, the asexual safety of morality and religion, a need for the phallic will, the heinous screeching of birds and “Arca,” Marxism as death cult, psychic group think and the garden of

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0:43:19

PRECIOUS TURMOIL

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2023/04/16

“PRECIOUS TURMOIL” is the first EP by Zach Langley Chi Chi: an impression of one year, three months and some days. There are lots of things I want to say at the moment, but sometimes saying them in words is too painful. Featuring samples from Okada Yukiko, Madonna, Yano Akiko, Globe, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Togawa Jun, AKB48, Lana Del Rey, Utada Hikaru, Fuji Keiko, Frederic Chopin, Sergei Prokofiev, Sakamoto Ryuichi and Cliff Martinez. Recorded in April, 2023. A high quality file with separated

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1:43:25

PANOPTICON AND PUNISH with bayou

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2023/03/29

A survey of the state of justice, discipline, incarceration and education with Michel Foucault’s all seeing masterpiece DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH + Japanese soap opera classic THE QUEEN’S CLASSROOM. Imagine a society around you governed by nothing but the innate fear of human touch, a senseless leakage of vengeance into order and murderer-children, train abortion suicides and demon teachers. Can’t you see it?! イメージできる？！OPEN YOUR EYES, it’s right before you! But there are inexplicable mysteries, an

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0:17:03

WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG (preview)

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2023/03/22

ONLY FOR PATRONS: https://t.co/642yMQ9Swk Thinking about youth and death, old age and beauty, with two novels by gay men -- Bret Easton Ellis's LESS THAN ZERO and Andrew Holleran's new novel THE KINGDOM OF SAND. (I'M SO POPULAR S3.E38)

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1:08:28

CHI CHIのBOOK CLUB第2: THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2023/03/15

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/imsopopular (I’M SO POPULAR S3.E37)

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1:41:17

CAITLYN JENNER'S AMERICAN BANISTERS with jenny scoones

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2023/03/01

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 to not fit into a bathing suit, eternal tragedy, gender politics, the struggle to pick out a pair of

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1:13:50

OBSERVERS OF A WILTING FLOWER with ronald

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2023/02/22

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 Visconti’s 1991 DEATH IN VENICE. Homo and hetero sexualities colliding, age melting from one’s hair, the

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1:57:42

SILENT MAJORITY with jacques peterson

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2023/02/15

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 things begin to happen. Sixteen year old girls faint en masse in fits of hyperventilating passion, they are

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0:07:41

VÖLKERMORD 3: MY STRUGGLE with jack (PREVIEW)

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2023/02/08

[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 reveals the true face of evil: monotony, artless rage, weakness and antipathy towards the world. What it

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1:42:37

VÖLKERMORD 2: TOMORROW BELONGS TO HITLER with evil...

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2023/02/01

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 accelerates at the breakneck speed of Dionysian abandon. Within the rush forward to fame and beauty and

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2:25:35

VÖLKERMORD 1: I REMEMBER ANNE FRANK with masha

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2023/01/25

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

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1:10:51

CHI CHIのBOOK CLUB第1: NIGHTWOOD

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2023/01/18

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)

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2:35:01

LOVE XCX HONEY FLASH with agitator

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2023/01/11

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:

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THE END OF OKINAWA (preview)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/12/28

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...

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1:07:34

MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE with andrew

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2022/12/25

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）

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2:21:08

AN ITALIAN LOTUS

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/12/20

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)

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0:05:13

HOW TO MAKE GREAT ART (preview)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/12/09

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

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1:34:39

POLYESTER TORCH SONGS with paul cupo

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/11/30

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:

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1:55:15

SELFISH DIAMONDS with anna khachiyan (unlocked)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/11/24

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

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0:42:36

GOODBYE, PLASTIC WORLD with samuel (preview)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/11/18

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

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