THE EVERYDAY
RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
OPEN SUBMISSION CHAPBOOK Released WEDNESDAY.9.APRIL.2010
The Everyday Resistance Movement
OPEN SUBMISSION CHAPBOOK Wednesday.9.April.2010
Who are the Everyday Resistance Movement? We have spent many hours sat in front of screens doing nothing much at all. We have worked in insurance, we have shopped around for the best offer on an external hard drive and now we are ready to really start doing something. We have spent years watching tv in our homes when nothing is on. We have sat day after day laughing out of moral obligation whilst listening to other people’s choice of radio station in our offices and workplaces but now we must act. The erm offer an opportunity for anyone to be published in a monthly chap book in an effort to inspire and instill the value of creativity and for people to stop just consuming culture but actively make it themselves. The movement will produce a monthly broadside and chapbook to be distributed locally and online. We believe self expression and creativity can offer a small break from the rest of life, even if it is just for five minutes. What is a chapbook? Chapbook is a generic term to cover a genre of pocket-sized booklet. It includes many kinds of printed material such as pamphlets, political and religious tracts, nursery rhymes, poetry, folk tales, short stories, children’s literature and almanacs. The term is derived from a variety of peddler chapmen, who circulated such literature as part of their stock. It is printed in black and white because it’s cheaper.
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April 2010 This is not a political party leaflet. We are not a political party or organisation. We have no pledges to make. We have no photographs of ourselves stood outside of a hospital. We will not mention any members of the public we may have spoken to in the past week. We know life can sometimes seem like a bad channel four documentary where we know the outcome long before its conclusion. We don’t want to be stuck padding to fill time until the end. We see self expression and creativity as a small break from the rest of life, even if it just for five minutes. In this month’s call for submissions we feature a transcript from a phone interview with Lynn Tolly. Lynn is the founder of ltpt, the most prestige and bespoke personal training service in the heart of Church Hill South, United Kingdom. Lynn is a regular contributor to our chapbooks offering free monthly fitness advice.
How did you get involved with e .r .m? I just got a leaflet through the door. I’ve been doing this personal trainer stuff for about a year now and it’s going good so I thought I would give something back to the community.
Explain a little about what inspires you to do what you do? Well it would be just over 18 months ago now that my elder sister had to go to hospital. She saw a special doctor and he said she should sort her diet out and suggested maybe looking into getting a personal trainer to get her doing more exercise. Any way she told
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me she was paying this guy 20 an hour to get her running about, I thought I’d give it a go for that money. I’d seen a load of them boot camps and stuff on tv and I was at a loose end so just took it up from there. I applied to Business Link and got a start up payment. The overheads are low because the only real money going out is on petrol money for my Nan’s car. I’ve picked up quite a few clients just hanging around the council gyms and sports halls. It works out best because you get to use their machines and stuff, I just put a name badge on saying personal trainer and the clients come to me.
What is your part in The Everyday Resistance Movement? I’ve been sending in a bit of advice each month. Just trying to get people active and down their local parks, gyms and places I might bump into them. This month I will be focussing on the benefits of sprinting whilst eating your lunch. I personally do three sessions a month in this manner. This will boost your metabolic rate and you will not be able to get as much in your mouth. I find it works really well prior to Loose Women. Nice and light and simple.
Any quick advice before you go? If you are a newcomer to exercise, you may want to begin running full pelt imagining you are holding a crisp between your index finger and your thumb, this will make you go faster and burn more of those calories. When you feel confident doing with this you can
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graduate to jogging whilst eating a snack and then finally the holy grail sprinting with a Toby Carvery. Lynn Tolly ( portrayed on the middle page gatefold) has been a top, inspirational personal trainer for long over six months. Her expertise and experience is far higher than most trainers. Lynn has a passion for helping people achieve great results. Any enquiries on any subject please contact Lynn at ltptenquiries@hotmail.com
Our eyes are aching
Heart Radio’s daytime playlist continues
Suddenly it is summer
Suddenly it is Christmas
This everyday resistance is:
For everyone who is slightly tired
For everyone who has lost track of today’s date
For everyone with disproportionately worn out shoe soles
For everyone who cannot quite remember why
For everyone who cannot quite remember how
To submit any writing, image, drawing or other piece to the fifth erm chapbook send to: everydayresistance@live.com
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Oi If everyone involved in the making of
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was deemed to be employable for their creative skills and talent, why shouldn’t you have a go? * That film/magazine/ TV show/ book or general thing that you thought was not very good
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Sammy Bibrooke Like an Above Average Person I am very happy and my life is going just according to plan;) Check out my Facebook account See my girlfriend from the most optimistic of angles See my leather suite and character filled back garden Did you see? That is a top of the range rotary line Did you see? That is my own car on the drive If I should bump into you on the street you will know that I am doing very well now I’ve got a good sense of humour and an array of outfits I’ve got a diverse music taste and am well regarded in society now Did you see? That’s my stomach I am tensing Did you see? Behind me that is a fully tiled bathroom– and mortice and tenoned fencing You know these clothe’s are expensive right? x2 O’ Lord, O’ Baby, now, now, now, now See I am doing really well See
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All I ever wanted to be was a world famous Data Inputter. I was brought up in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, we didn’t have a pot to piss in. We had a toilet and a bidet. I dreamed of being a Data Inputter from a young age. I started entering local Data Inputter competitions in the early 1990’s. My family were all actors or singers and they did not approve of my ambitions. I fell into the family business and have been stuck there ever since.
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Everyday Resistance Help Line Hello Everyday Resistance help line how may I help you? Hi Hello, are you ok? Ye, yeah. What would you like to talk about? Is there anything I can help with? We’ll I haven’t got a problem, I just want to go back to 1996, could you sort that out for me? We’ll we can’t really do anything like that, can we just talk over things? How about under the proviso I stay there to try to stop 9/11? Why do you want to go back? I don’t know I only just noticed it was 2010 and it has ever so slowly come to my attention that I have spent the last 15 years or so distracted or avoiding the subject. Maybe, you could take this revelation to help you change your life now? No, no you’re missing the point. If you can’t help me get backI suppose I’ll just have to look into building some form of time machine.
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Unknowingly In Between
Reliant Upon Things I Barely Understand
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John Bobbins Semi Annual Breakdown In here in the office I drink lot’s of coffees I get my neck into my business I’m going back to bed To rest my head I’ll sleep right through til it’s Christmas Don’t cry Don’t raise your eye It’s only a semi annual breakdown If work should phone Tell them I’m not home Put out the fire Draw the curtains closed yeah Turn off all the screens I’ll live off baked beans Thought I’d get it together Before I got this old yeah Semi annual breakdown It’s only a semi annual breakdown Semi annual breakdown Oh, oh Semi annual breakdown They’re all broke down!
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Calling all blog watchers, jumped up window dressers, low risk budding artists, vintage shoppers and the other 99.9% of society. My name is Jamie and I run the Inspiramie blog. I collect all the work out there that I like and I copy and paste the image into my blog and put it out there to the world. I am inspired by loads of artists and fffound. We would love for your movement to collaborate with us and be featured on our blog. The way that this usually works is for you to come into our office for a week and we will slowly go through each project you have worked on. I like to really get to the bare bones of the work so will conduct a case study on a few projects culminating in an extended essay on the body of work. From there we strip the work back initially to an a4 page of text and a further a3 sheet of images. We then systematically remove words and images until we end up with somewhere around one to three pictures and a line of text. 17
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Somehow I got into the indie scene I fell in to a vintage shop and came out quirky I worked for a while in the local jd Wetherspoons I wrote the song ‘Piano Man’ for Billy Joel I waited on his table during the aborted 13th Apollo moon landing It was Thursday Curry Club, he ordered the korma and we got talking We wrote the song within an hour on my i-phone Billy gave me a fiver up front and then he went walking I left Derby the following winter and moved on to London I fell asleep one evening in the upstairs toilet inside Victoria Station I woke up to find my keys and wallet stolen I hitchhiked down to Plymouth I worked as a roadie for The Inspiral Carpets I left there after a week and joined Highway Maintenance I met a girl at the Hartley Service Station She bought me new clothes and cut my hair Moved me into her caravan and took my name She worked as a cleaner but made money on the side selling Tupperware on Ebay Times got hard and she got caught in an ongoing debacle with Pay Pal I worked the call centres and made it to manager I fell over in a health and safety class and spent 4 months in hospital I started reading books until my left leg was fixed Picked up Spanish and left the south west
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I enrolled in a night class but I couldn’t stay awake I fell in love with a life model but she didn’t feel the same I got fit again and did the London Marathon I finished in 3 hours 40 and never ran again I left the country and took some time out in the South of France I invented the universal television remote and sold it to Japan I lost all the money at a School fete betting on a the first corner of the 1966 cup final on vhs I hit the bottle and fell in to a deep depression I went back home and found Jesus in my local swimming pool He came to me in the shallow end but I lost him again by the vending machine The receptionist at the pool restored my faith in people Her friend had a farm and got me a job doing manual labour One day I was singing in the field and the local news man heard me I was featured on bbc Point’s West and Brian May was watching He got in touch via fax and wanted me to sign a contract I said no because I didn’t like his music The interest got me onto the local circuit but I was never really into it I swapped my guitar for an old metro with a Milkman from Chissick I drove the car to Kidderminster got a job in an office I have worked there for twenty years I am married and have two children
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The universal answer to all questions on earth ‘Just Google It’
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Addressing questions nobody asks 2:16 pm Apr 4th via web
A wet sherbet dib dab 1:43 pm Mar 19th via web
If you complain to the barman that your pint has no head and he puts his finger in it and stirs it #howwouldyoufeel 2:01pm Mar 18th via web
Everyday Resistance Movement. Believe in something if only for health reasons. 8:59 am Mar 16th via web
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List of Contributors: John Bobbins Tristen Wankwimper and The Charity Wrist Band Ebay Casio’s Checked Shirt Reunion Party Lynn Tolly Craig Stevens Ophelia Sparrow
This is a call for submissions looking for anyone and everyone to contribute, of any age, especially the people who would not usually get the opportunity to do many creative activities. Show us your hidden talent and get involved. To submit any writing, image, drawing, video, monologue, joke or other piece to the second erm chapbook send to: everydayresistance@live.com You can also follow us online at: twitter.com/DailyResistance/ everydayresistance@blogspot.co.uk THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FIRST ERM CHAPBOOK IS MAY 22 2010. We look forward to hearing from you. The Everyday Resistance Movement (We have spent a lot of time and effort doing things that many people may not care about)