Name: Matthew Ryan Jaworski
Birthdate: 12/27/1975
Instrument: Drums
Equipment: DW Collector's Series drums - burnt toast burst over quilted maple,
Zildjian cymbals, Remo Roto-toms, Pro Mark sticks, miscellaneous debris
Previous bands: Master John Thursday, Sandy Duncan's Glass Eye, Willis,
Rumplemeyer, Dorothy Weaver
Favorite Bands: Phish, Brad Mehldau, Grateful Dead, Rush, Primus, Slayer,
A Halo Called Fred, Joanna Newsom,
Umphrey's McGee, The Flaming Lips, Iron and Wine
E-Mail: > matt@joburocks.com
Born Matthew Anferknee Jaworski on December 27, 1975 in Compton, California, the youngest
of 19 children to prostitute Loquetia Jaworski. Jaworski grew up on the gang-infested streets
of Compton where he quickly learned to fend for himself. Says Jaworski, "Moms was too busy
hittin' da pipe to take care of her seeds, know what I'm sayin'? She be all like slingin'
her nasty self all up and down Crenshaw knockin' dem bootz, day n' night, yo. And hell I
ain't even know who my pops be, ya heard?!" With no parental guidance, Jaworski soon became
swept up in Compton's vicious gang life. "Me an my homeys - Francis-Dogg, Smoothee Buttasquash,
Erratic Lovea, Timothy the Pernicious, and MC Nutty Crackerz - started up our own gang: the
Future Bidness Leaderz of America. We was all bout flossin' n' fightin' back in da day, word
is bond." Throughout much of the nineties, Jaworski continued to "perp da gangsta lifestyle,
yo." Then, in 1998, Jaworski had a life-altering experience that would forever alter his life.
"One day, I was peepin' this phat issue of Reader's Digest when I creeped up on this quote from
my man Geoffrey Chaucer. He said, 'For thou, render thou self unto life's serendipitous countenance.
Be not wanton of living, ere long life be wanton of thee.' Yo, I read me that an' I was all like,
'Oh, snap!' I knew right there that I had to back up off of da gang. When Chaucer come callin',
you gots to accept da charges." By 2000, Jaworski had relocated to the East Coast, married the
love of his life, and joined the up-and-coming New Jersey-based cover-band, Jobu.