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Our friend Andrew Hearst of Panopticist and Vanity Fair alerts us to a term that should definitely be in the next edition of The Film Snob*s Dictionary: yes, we mean the Wilhelm scream. September 06, 2006 More Film Snobbery »
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Perry, Lee “Scratch.” Mercurial, kooky, formerly forgotten reggae shaman (born in 1936) who has enjoyed new recognition since being pronounced cool by ageless Rock Snob collective the Beastie Boys in the early 1990s. As a producer and as the front man for his own band, the Upsetters, Perry was, in the 1960s and ’70s, a prime exponent of Jamaica’s swashbuckling dub remix genre. Though his gargantuan output is as hard to penetrate as the quasi-mystical pronouncements he gives to interviewers from his home in Switzerland, he now plays to packed houses of young hipsters, few of whom actually know any of his songs. Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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