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.

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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.

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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_

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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.

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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/

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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

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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.

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It's the monthly solo episode and I am getting the last word on the #DisruptTexts movement, the destruction of the canon, William Shakespeare, the literary attack on my character, young adult novelists, diversity and every last liberal bluecheck who dared defy me. This is a piece of art: THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS..... rally in the street. 書を捨てよ町へ出よう。　

the violence issue of the i'm so popular zine out now: https://etsy.me/39xvybM

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Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Japanese diva icon, bodybuilder and writer MISHIMA YUKIO, Zach is with Jack of The Perfume Nationalist podcast (@DonnaMillsFan1) to discuss the author's life, books and Paul Schrader film adaptation (MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS). We talk the end of cinema, the end of real gayness, the end of beautiful men and the end of Drag Race as a good TV show.

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