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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 philosophy. Burning down the alluring curtain of bad Mishima takes in a trash fire on the Caribbean shores. Richard Wagner. Shitposting. REAL EMOTION: What can I do for you...? Follow James on Twitter: twitter.com/JamesFromTokyo And my eternal goddess + Twin Peaks Log Lady, Amina: twitter.com/TheAminaBanks As well as the I'm So Popular podcast: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E16)

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... This podcast is also uniquely available as a two hour cinematic experience on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJijEaYveI Follow Mikey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KillMikeyMDC And the I'm So Popular podcast: https://twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E15)

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 dumbfounded awe in the presence of total bleakness. Stream PURE OBLIVION on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-767688181 Follow I'M SO POPULAR on Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopular impopular.me (S2E14)

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/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2E13)

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.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2.E12)

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 POPULAR on twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me (S2E10)

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 philosophy journey at GFOTY.com And follow her on Twitter: twitter.com/GFOTY Also the I'M SO POPULAR podcast: twitter.com/impopular.me impopular.me

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 anything at all. S2.E08 Follow Emiliano on Twitter: twitter.com/emilianotweet Along with my my undying muse Amina: twitter.com/itsonlyamina Also I’M SO POPULAR: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me

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 admitting you're just a bad girl who wants to get smacked sometimes, the power of Lana Del Rey. S2.E07 Follow Thot Topics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thottopicspod?s=21: And I'm So Popular too: https://twitter.com/imsopopularpod?s=21 impopular.me

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 country, looking? S2.E06 impopular.me twitter.com/impopularpod

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/paranoidlikes And I'm So Popular: https://twitter.com/imsopopularpod impolular.me S2.E05

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 Brat, the overprotected child ripe with burgeoning fetish, alien gore, Asian diaspora, whip cream sexual violence, finding out your daughter is a porn actress, finding out the Kenyan only loves you for your money, finding out AOC is just another symptom of Roman downfall. S2.E04 impopular.me twitter.com/imsopopularpod

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 activists outside your doorstep, time in reverse, funneling your emotion through unavailable channels. Follow Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/hikkipedia And on Youtube: youtube.com/user/gateauxQ As well as the I'm So Popular Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me

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 Christian on Twitter: twitter.com/lexapr0_ And follow the official I'm So Popular Twitter account: twitter.com/imsopopularpod impopular.me S2.E02

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, what it takes to get in the robot and last one more day in the world. twitter.com/imsopopularpod imsopopular.me S2.E01

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/gayliaronline), Ronald Taylor (https://twitter.com/taylorronald), Thot Topics (https://twitter.com/ThotTopicsPod), Twink Revolution (https://twitter.com/twinkrev), Gustav, David (https://twitter.com/shantytyrelle), Matt Robinson and Justin(https://twitter.com/sunlethwaters). Season Two begins January 2021.

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.com/ And follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessy.lanza/ impopular.me (s1.25)

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 Revolution: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SHHgu1rHpNmrPjUc1xY2B?si=adUwOuoMRRCDvlXP8qNmPA Stream Part Two on Thot Topics: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Z0syLEPx2DS5dkvQXGV5h?si=mMGIeBB-RtqBgoDzmnYHdg impopular.me (s1.E24)

Zach analyzes his life in Japan thus far with his drag sister Gustav, addressing racism, the education system, Brazil and what it means to live in Nihon as a foreigner. impopular.me (s1.23)