tony

Just a couple of years ago Matt Costa was just another prettyboy stumming an acoustic guitar on a southern California beach.

Now he's finding himself on a #1 soundtrack, supporting his own record, and on tour with Jack Johnson. And of course playing Coachella.

How did it happen? As he was hustling his demo tape, a copy ended up in the hands of No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont who contacted Costa and the two began playing together to work on a better demo. The demo turned into an EP that Dumont and Costa distributed. But way before Matt was traveling europe and asia with Johnson, he was playing the second stage during the No Doubt / Blink 182 tour.

One of my exgirlfriends is obsessed with him. So I asked her to deliver me a quick bulletpoint list of things that you probably wont see next year in Rolling Stone where he's on track to grace its cover.

01. he used to cover the beatles "norweigen wood"

02. he told a much gorier version of the shattering-his-leg-skateboarding story to my friends & i back in july 2004

03. sometimes tom dumont from no doubt can be seen & heard playing onstage with him

04. he makes me think of the color green

05. he has a song called "sweet rose" which makes me happy because rose is my middle name

06. one of his songs was featured on the curious george soundtrack

07. he also plays piano

08. he is equally good live or recorded

09. he's really into the clothing brand rvca

10. he drew a pirate hat & patch over the picture of himself in my cd

11. i think he's excited about his recent success but slightly uncomfortable with it.

12. i first met him at the viper room, where he chased me on my way out to have me join his mailing list

13. i can think of at least 10 people i have converted into matt fans

14. his initals are MAC.

15. he keeps a fortune from a cookie in his wallet