I'M SO POPULAR

Chi Chi gratuitously reads horrific entries from his diary.

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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 week: Five excruciating hours behind the production of "LAST DAY ON EARTH" featuring trans women and their battle to read lines, karaoke rehearsals and forced vomit.

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STARRING

(in order of appearance)

JACK as ——— “Reality”

PARIAH THE DOLL as ——— “The Regent Kinkou”

JENNY SCOONES ——— “The Lady Merei”

AMINA as ——— “The Madame Konran”

ZACH LANGLEY CHI CHI as ——— “Zach Langley Chi Chi”

NICK FROM TOKYO as ——— “Himself”

featuring as “THE CHORUS OF THE HEART” ::

STEPHEN ZERANCE // ETERNAL FELLA // HIKKIPEDIA // CHRISTIAN // NICK MALONE FROM THOT TOPICS // @URGIRLBLAISE // RED PILL GIRLFRIEND // NATALIE // CHRIS LOPEZ FROM THOT TOPICS // FOGBRAIN // SASHA AMATO // SAM // DANGEROUS PHONEX // JOSH FROM EVIL THESPIAN // HARRY TAFOYA // AVA // QUINN // AIMEE TERESE // LEO // KYLE // MIZOGOOCHIE // BRIELLE // BARRETT AVENER // EMILIANO // EDDIE FROM CAR CRASH // BLAUER GEIST // DANA FROM THE PLEASURE HELMET // MY MOM

w/ original music by

LUCY LIYOU // RYAN FROM CAR CRASH // BERTO FROM GHOST JAIL

“aria of the soul” performed on the piano by PARIAH THE DOLL

promotional painting by ANNE CHOVY // promotional photo, japanese consultation and additional voices by 松村莉央

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.

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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.

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In this week’s exclusive Patreon exclusive SIRENS, Barrett and Chi Chi destroy the notion of “seed oils” and “trad caths for good. If you’re not listening to SIRENS… you’re only getting half the story.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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And on the exclusive Patreon SIRENS bonus show, Blauer and Chi Chi reflect on our college memories at the University of Oregon, the curse of the party boy and the ecstasies of smoking and podcasting: patreon.com/imsopopular

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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 universe of interlocking and terrifying desires. The borders between podcast and reality continue to blur until....

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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 form. Fires that burn down real places. A real murder. First encounters with masturbation. Irony and nothingness and pig sounds. Small animals.

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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 with your own will.

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