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PODCAST

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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All Episodes

0:05:56

TOO BRIGHT (preview)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/06/17

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

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2:00:35

UNIVERSAL CENTURY with cuteness unit

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/06/15

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 real and punishing they bleed into the post apocalyptic twilight of I'M SO POPULAR. Chi Chi sheds real

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1:45:45

LOVE ANGEL TRAGIC KINGDOM with jo

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/06/08

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, RETURN OF SATURN, LOVE. ANGEL. MUSIC. BABY. Judaism, Japonism, Black Peopleism (?) all thrust into a

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1:40:45

REFLECTIONS ON THE WATERFRONT with monica

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/06/01

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! All the things that make the world beautiful beyond measure as we recreate the new universe with full

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1:32:34

LOST IN JAPAN with meg

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/05/25

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 exterior, Pocari Sweat, reckless collage of stereotype, atomic bombs and -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND! WHY AM I

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1:46:34

SHIN IMSOPOPULAR TENSEI with fella and sasha amato

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/05/18

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 join Chi Chi in melding F.T. Marinetti's THE MANIFEST OF FUTURISM with Atlas's 2021 video game SHIN MEGAMI

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0:05:16

CHI CHI ON THE BEACH (preview)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/05/06

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

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0:04:48

SOMEWHERE NEAR MARSEILLES (preview)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/04/12

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_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

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0:04:02

DIARIES (preview)

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/03/28

Chi Chi gratuitously reads horrific entries from his diary. Subscribe on Patreon to hear the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64373994

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2:17:40

SEASON 2 FINALE: LAST DAY ON EARTH

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/03/16

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'M SO POPULAR returns later this year. For now, keep up with weekly episodes on the SIRENS Patreon. This

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2:07:28

FAME IN THE FACE OF DEATH with jana

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/03/03

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 Draws Near. Available on Youtube as a nightmare makeup video:

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2:05:56

'HEROES/SHOWGIRLS' with barrett avner

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/02/23

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 European Cannon. Follow the Contain Podcast on Twitter; https://twitter.com/con_tain As well as I’M SO

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1:35:15

TRUTH AND ILLUSION with evil thespian

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/02/16

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 to EVIL THESPIAN: https://anchor.fm/evilthespian Follow Josh on Twitter:

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1:48:46

30 HOURS with eddie

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/02/10

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 hop, abrasiveness, insistence, drama, camp, chasing, Kim Kardashian and Julia Fox. Follow Eddie on

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1:23:31

DEATH IN OREGON with blauer geist

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/02/02

Blauer Geist and Chi Chi look back towards their home state of OREGON to unearth the meaning of death, rot, overgrowth, edginess and the true glory of being alive through two novels by Blake Nelson (GIRL + USER) and two films by Gus Van Sant (PARANOID PARK + ELEPHANT). Pioneering, the limits of the American universe, mass violence, skateboarding, gentrification, “Put a Bird On It,” strippers, distance between irony and reality, dirtiness and pure beauty in the monotony and triteness of life. Follow

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1:06:40

LAST NIGHT AT THE CIRCUIT PARTY

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/01/26

James Joyce publishes ULYSSESES and one hundred years later, Zach Langley Chi Chi goes to his first ever gay circuit party, the last ever SHANGRI LA at AGEHA. Somehow, he discovers, these events are one and the same... and between these two moments rests a sea of art struggling against the binds of society to achieve the transcendental and create in our shallow reality:: THE SENSUAL WORLD. Discussing Joyce, Kate Bush and Utada Hikaru -- surfacing from the horrors of our subterranean depths, a

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1:12:49

STRANGE DAYS with leo

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/01/19

Returning to the dilapidated memories of reality TV garbage left in the void (Bob Saget's short lived STRANGE DAYS WITH BOB SAGET) Chi Chi and childhood friend Leo reflect on their appearance on the show and their memories of the late Bob Saget. Possessed by the spirit of narrative, compelled to tears, tied up with ropes and driven into simulacrum, the endless tide between genuine memory and fantasy rips everything apart as we all draw closer towards death. Homosexuality burgeoning in an unbecoming

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2:03:10

WORLD FABRICATION with stephen zerance and fogbrain

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2022/01/12

KYARY PAMYU PAMYU IS DEAD! Her flesh ripped apart by two different nations in a cultural typhoon of noumena and misery — her viscera splattered upon the floor of the world in knots of pink blood and ribbons. Chi Chi, Stephen and Fogbrain witness her resurrection: CANDY RACER, produced by Nakata Yasutaka. Annihilating your simulacrums through pop music, overcoming the temptation of nostalgia, registering yourself as an instrument, shoving French toast in the illusion of the world and forging reality

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1:02:58

A VERY FANNY CHRISTMAS with mom

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2021/12/23

The mother of Chi Chi herself joins to celebrate the Christmas holiday and to discuss FUNNY GIRL + Fanny Flagg’s A REDBIRD CHRISTMAS. Zach realizes he isn’t as Jewish as he thought he was. Wholesome enjoyment of art on the merit of warmth, waves of culture across the world, alcoholism, birds… Life is just a spell, but I don’t care… Follow I’M SO POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And support the show on Patreon for the SIRENS bonus show: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E41)

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1:13:13

VALERIE'S BIG COMEBACK with jack

I"M SO POPULAR ·

2021/12/15

Discussing Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King's THE COMEBACK with Chi Chi's podcasting mother and the original auteur herself, Jack -- just Jack, from The Perfume Nationalist. Getting older and gayer, finding art and meaning through the rituals of torment and humiliation. The homes of old, lonely men. Spider eyes. Follow Jack on Twitter: twitter.com/lotus__point And I'M SO POPUALAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And subscribe to the I'M SO POPULAR Patreon for the bonus show, SIRENS:

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