Zgryz

Zgryz Stole the Graham Keeshka From the Monkey Butcher Shop
Groovski

by Don Allred
October 29 - 4, 2003 Issue 44

Polish jokers
photo: Anna Chudy
Groovski :
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Groovski Records

Hey Body, look alive. At ghostly door of recently concluded elementary school
Halloween carnival, which groan open like G. Washington's wooden teeth. Is
Judge Groovski, moonlighting. He thus intone, "Come und stand next to electric
Poles, Godzilla vould like, to step on your toes."
Grace notes chime, bass notes grind, and we're off. No, not to see the
gizzard; next up on Groovski is grown-up "Glupi Stamos." Translated gist: "John
Stamos, stop with Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, oh her toes!" Bailiff-guitarist Leslie
Blatteau is feminine-sensible: "Who ever heard, of just one sandal."
Nevertheless, in "Social Skills," bassist Adam Malec is ripping his Judge mask off,
getting happy again, with a "faul-ty, sensory device!"

Which cuts no ice in "Mockery of a Mockery," as tight time tilts guilt-edged
graffiti down the gullet of "Propensity to Consume." So by "Eclectic on
Sundays," Ex-Judge compulsively cross-examines: "Do you emancipate monkeys? Do you
anticipate car keys?" But can't stop the music, and soon his head is exploding
("Is this what you call foreiggghhhhn?") into waves of gravity. (Surfing
U.S.A.? You betski.)

Also including guitarist-vocalist Tim Borkowski and drummer Bogdan Chudy,
Pleasant Beach, New Jersey's (all but Leslie) Polish American Groovksi cite Joy
Division/New Order/Cure (/Amon Düül II/Hawkwind?!) as influences. Credo (from
what movie?) might well be: "ALL, is ART! The rest is graham crackers." Yum.

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