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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.

The Everyday Resistance Movement

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 [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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OiIf 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 BibrookeLike an Above Average Person

I am very happy and my life is going just according to plan;)Check out my Facebook accountSee my girlfriend from the most optimistic of anglesSee my leather suite and character filled back gardenDid you see?That is a top of the range rotary lineDid you see?That is my own car on the drive

If I should bump into you on the street you will know thatI am doing very well nowI’ve got a good sense of humour and an array of outfitsI’ve got a diverse music taste and am well regarded in society nowDid you see?That’s my stomach I am tensingDid 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, nowSee I am doing really wellSee


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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.

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 BobbinsSemi Annual Breakdown

In here in the officeI drink lot’s of coffeesI get my neck into my businessI’m going back to bedTo rest my headI’ll sleep right through til it’s Christmas

Don’t cryDon’t raise your eyeIt’s only a semi annual breakdown

If work should phoneTell them I’m not homePut out the fireDraw the curtains closed yeahTurn off all the screensI’ll live off baked beansThought I’d get it togetherBefore I got this old yeah

Semi annual breakdownIt’s only a semi annual breakdownSemi annual breakdownOh, ohSemi annual breakdownThey’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.


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Somehow I got into the indie sceneI fell in to a vintage shop and came out quirkyI worked for a while in the local jd WetherspoonsI wrote the song ‘Piano Man’ for Billy Joel I waited on his table during the aborted 13th Apollo moon landingIt was Thursday Curry Club, he ordered the korma and we got talkingWe wrote the song within an hour on my i-phoneBilly gave me a fiver up front and then he went walkingI left Derby the following winter and moved on to LondonI fell asleep one evening in the upstairs toilet inside Victoria Station I woke up to find my keys and wallet stolenI hitchhiked down to Plymouth I worked as a roadie for The Inspiral CarpetsI left there after a week and joined Highway MaintenanceI met a girl at the Hartley Service Station She bought me new clothes and cut my hairMoved me into her caravan and took my nameShe worked as a cleaner but made money on the side selling Tupperware on EbayTimes got hard and she got caught in an ongoing debacle with Pay PalI worked the call centres and made it to managerI fell over in a health and safety class and spent 4 months in hospitalI started reading books until my left leg was fixedPicked up Spanish and left the south west

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I enrolled in a night class but I couldn’t stay awakeI fell in love with a life model but she didn’t feel the sameI got fit again and did the London MarathonI finished in 3 hours 40 and never ran againI left the country and took some time out in the South of FranceI invented the universal television remote and sold it to JapanI 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 depressionI went back home and found Jesus in my local swimming pool He came to me in the shallow endbut I lost him again by the vending machineThe receptionist at the pool restored my faith in peopleHer friend had a farm and got me a job doing manual labourOne day I was singing in the field and the local news man heard meI was featured on bbc Point’s West and Brian May was watchingHe got in touch via fax and wanted me to sign a contractI said no because I didn’t like his musicThe interest got me onto the local circuit but I was never really into itI swapped my guitar for an old metro with a Milkman from ChissickI drove the car to Kidderminster got a job in an officeI have worked there for twenty yearsI 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


List of Contributors:

John BobbinsTristen Wankwimper and The Charity Wrist BandEbay Casio’s Checked Shirt Reunion PartyLynn TollyCraig StevensOphelia 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: [email protected]

You can also follow us online at: twitter.com/DailyResistance/ [email protected]

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)


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