{"id":890,"date":"2009-07-28T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T00:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jinglicio.us\/?p=890"},"modified":"2009-07-28T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T00:43:04","slug":"apple-iphone-3gs-mr-pitiful-matt-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/commercials\/apple-iphone-3gs-mr-pitiful-matt-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone 3GS &#8211; Mr. Pitiful, Matt Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah the benefits of being  SuperFast &#8211; as in with the new iPhone 3GS.\u00a0 This ad shows how a skateboarder is easily recorded &amp; uploaded onto the Internet by the new device,\u00a0 while <em>Mr. Pitiful<\/em> by Matt Costa chimes along.\u00a0 It&#8217;s ironic that Matt Costa was almost a professional skateboarder&#8230;<code><!--more--><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Check out the full music video, (see below)&#8230;there&#8217;s more to the song than the peppy piano intro used by Apple in their commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Costa is from California.\u00a0 And according to mattcosta.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He may thrive on imagination, but Costa\u2019s real life has never been dull. He grew up next door to a pet cemetery, played trumpet and piano, gave his first impromptu performance on a houseboat, and focused more on skateboarding than school in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California. He was drawn to the freedom and improvisation of skating, and also says, \u201cI discovered a lot of music through skating \u2014 B-sides that nobody else had heard that made me want to find more music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Learn more about Matt:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcosta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mattcosta.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get Mr Pitiful on <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=MRjSEIak1Qo&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D271808420%2526id%253D271808419%2526s%253D143441%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ax.itunes.apple.com\/images\/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif\" alt=\"Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces - Mr. Pitiful\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[youtube UMPPqZ-NqcY]<\/p>\n<p>The music video for Mr. Pitiful:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube XR8ZRfDPosE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah the benefits of being SuperFast &#8211; as in with the new iPhone 3GS.\u00a0 This ad shows how a skateboarder is easily recorded &amp; uploaded onto the Internet by the new device,\u00a0 while Mr. Pitiful by Matt Costa chimes along.\u00a0 It&#8217;s ironic that Matt Costa was almost a professional skateboarder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[34,233,315,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jinglicio.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}