box

»Take your TV tube and eat it, […] You know I watch that rot­ten box / Until my head beg­ins to hurt.«
The Mothers of Inven­ti­on, »Trou­ble Every Day«
Frank Zap­pa © 196??

“LG says Brits ‘glued to the box’. Brits sin­gled out as sport­ing couch pota­toes. The most sports-obses­sed nati­on in Euro­pe? That’s the UK, accor­ding to new gogg­le-box rese­arch from LG. ” Dan Grab­ham April 30, 2008 http://www.techradar . com

An Evening In Front Of The Box. Gerald Smith. 2011. An Evening In Front Of The Box was first shown at DOCu­ment (ECA, Edin­burgh 2011) and later included in the I Am Not A Poet text fes­ti­val at the Total­kunst Gal­lery (Edin­burgh, 2011). It … offers ins­truc­tions on how to watch television…”
https://elmcip . net

»Once we got to the car, we sat in the seat, / And then the box was rockin’ to the fun­ky beat.«
Spoo­nie Gee, »Spoo­nin Rap«
G. Jack­son © 1980

»if you don’t pay me some of my money, I ain’t gon­na put in your box no more«
Tom Archia, »Ice Man Blues«
Tom Archia © 1947

»Like a DC-10: gua­ran­teed to go down / But, baby, your black box is the one that I found«
Blood­hound Gang, »Kiss Me Whe­re It Smells Funny«
Jim­my Pop © 1996

“I knew a girl at school cal­led Pan­do­ra … never got to see her box though.”
Richard Cur­tis, Not­ting Hill

»Take a box, / One that rocks, / Take a blue horn New Orleans-born.«
Bing Crosby / Lou­is Arm­strong, »Now You Has Jazz«
Cole Por­ter © 1955

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