Sonic X Sonic Quotes

What matters is that we're here

I can appreciate that,” says Henry. He’s adding to the list. I look over his shoulder. Sex Pistols, the Clash, Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, Dead Kennedys, X, the Mekons, the Raincoats, the Dead Boys, New Order, the Smiths, Lora Logic, the Au Pairs, Big Black, Pil, the Pixies, the Breeders, Sonic Youth… Henry, they’re not going to be able to get any of that up here.” He nods, and jots the phone number and address for Vintage Vinyl at the bottom of the sheet. “You do have a record player, right?” My parents have one,” Bobby says. Henry winces. What do you really like?” I ask Jodie. I feel as though she’s fallen out of the conversation during the male bonding ritual Henry and Bobby are conducting. Prince,” she admits. Henry and I let out a big Whoo! And I start singing “1999” as loud as I can, and Henry jumps up and we’re doing a bump and grind across the kitchen. Laura hears us and runs off to put the actual record on and just like that, it’s a dance party.

Oh<" said American Stepmom, nodding fast, her flying squirrel hoodie nodding one second slower than her head. "Yes, yes, of course. But What if the X factor starts to dance the electric bugaloo with my sonic screwdriver and I get sent back to ancient Egypt?

He had already decided that X rays, sonic probes, neutron beams, and all other nondestructive means of investigation would be brought into play before he called up the heavy artillery of the laser. It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

ideas are more real than physical things, so the part of the line that represents ideas is bigger than the part that represents physical things.44 So the issue here isn’t just the transformation of social relations into ratios but the specific way those ratios are calculated. Plato’s ratios are geometric; they compare relative size or reality (e.g., the length of segments on the divided line is proportional to the “reality” of what that line represents: thoughts, Forms, images, etc.). The biopolitical ratios Mader describes above are frequential: they compare the relative frequency of a phenomenon in a group. For example, the normal curve (the “bell curve”) “is a graphic representation of the distribution of frequencies of values for a given measured property, with the most frequent values being those in the distribution that cluster around a mean or average in a single peak.”45 Normal curves measure a property’s pattern of intensity within a given population—this is what infant height/weight charts do, as do percentile scores on standardized tests. Statistical norms are ratios of ratios: they take individual measurements of the rate at which a given property x appears in a population (this is the first set of ratios) and then aggregates these and finds the most common or “normal” rate, the average rate y at which x rate occurs—again, this is measuring a pattern of intensity. “The

Normalization is the mode of governmentality Foucault attributes to biopolitics: it’s not the juridical punishment of offenders (i.e., taking something away from those who transgress), nor is it the disciplinary normation of subjects (compelling adherence to a prescribed archetype, rendering docile); rather, it’s the normalization of frequencies (remember: the object of this kind of power isn’t people or groups but numbers). Normalization involves (1) determining the range of “normal” distribution of x, and then (2) bringing frequencies outside that normal distribution back in line with it. As