Grands first music video, for his country-tinged rock ballad All-American Boy, was posted on YouTube last Tuesday. By last night, it had exploded, attracting more than 400,000 total views nothing for top-charting videos from big-name recording artists, but an impressive figure for one from a complete unknown whose only promotion has been internet buzz.
The video cost just $7,000, a fraction of the major-names going rate, but it was a fortune to Grand, who came up with the entire budget himself by maxing out his only plastic to tell the videos story.
All-American Boy portrays a young gay man who misreads signals from an apparently straight all-American male friend. On a day hanging out with the gang, the two guys and a girl take off in a car. She drives, as the guys sit together in the back, with the straight man,Now it's possible to create a tiny replica of Fluffy in crystalmosaic form for your office. at one point, falling asleep on the gay mans shoulder. Feeling like a third wheel, the girl eventually, angrily drives off, leaving the two men to pal around in the woods,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an howotruck.This technology allows high volume smartcard production at low cost. where they end up stripping down and going skinny-dipping -- even sharing a quick kiss. Ultimately for the straight guy, it was just all in good fun. But for the gay man, it was something much more significant, and he is left dazed, confused and longing.
I was a 13-year-old boy (at camp), noted the 23-year-old singer-songwriter, speaking by phone from his hometown Chicago. One of my counsellors was warm and strong and he took an interest in me not sexually, but as a friend, and it really moved me. I remember leaving with a horrible ache in my heart.
While All-American Boy is told from the gay mans perspective, Grand said he knew its tale of unrequited love would resonate across lines of sexuality. Hes received hundreds of postings on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook from viewers, both straight and gay, saying they understand such rejection and heartache.
Im not a cryer, noted Grand. But since this all began, since people have been reaching out, Ive been beyond moved, because so many people have felt what I felt, been through what Ive been through.
Grand said that upon discovering he was gay in eighth grade, he told friends, which quickly got back to his parents. They insisted he go to so-called straight therapy, which he endured for five years. But it didnt work.
He logged his full freshman year at Belmont University in Nashville, but, due to the costs, returned to Chicago. His recent employment has run the gamut from modeling to supplying music for Catholic church events, the latter being what he called the food-money gig.
Grand said he has no idea where the YouTube success may take him, though he does admit hes not much of a singer and more of a songwriter. Of course, I want to continue to grow as a man and grow as an artist, he commented.
For now, Grand appears happy just being the moment, immersed in all those postings. Just the hundreds of people who have said, Your story is my story. Thank you for this,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a haha-handbags can authenticate your computer usage and data. is enough for me.
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House Republicans are keeping up a fight against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which turned its sights this year on the auto lending industry. As part of an ongoing drumbeat of opposition to the CFPB, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus introduced legislation to change control of the bureau from a single director to a five-member, bipartisan commission. A lot of the opposition can be chalked up to party politics, but one issue that potentially has legs stems from the fact that the CFPB in March accused auto
lenders of giving dealers too much leeway to set the final interest rates on loans negotiated at the dealership. Dealers earn a cut of the interest rate.
The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee wants a government watchdog to take a long, hard look at the data collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Sen. Mike Crapo asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study on the bureaus data collection efforts and make sure the agency is not improperly collecting personal financial information. The size and scope of this data collection warrant proper government oversight to both guard consumers privacy and ensure that the CFPB is acting within its existing authority, he wrote. Specifically, Crapo wants the GAO to determine exactly what data the CFPB is collecting, and for what purpose and how the bureau protects the privacy of the information collected, and how much it is paying outside parties to gather it.
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The video cost just $7,000, a fraction of the major-names going rate, but it was a fortune to Grand, who came up with the entire budget himself by maxing out his only plastic to tell the videos story.
All-American Boy portrays a young gay man who misreads signals from an apparently straight all-American male friend. On a day hanging out with the gang, the two guys and a girl take off in a car. She drives, as the guys sit together in the back, with the straight man,Now it's possible to create a tiny replica of Fluffy in crystalmosaic form for your office. at one point, falling asleep on the gay mans shoulder. Feeling like a third wheel, the girl eventually, angrily drives off, leaving the two men to pal around in the woods,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an howotruck.This technology allows high volume smartcard production at low cost. where they end up stripping down and going skinny-dipping -- even sharing a quick kiss. Ultimately for the straight guy, it was just all in good fun. But for the gay man, it was something much more significant, and he is left dazed, confused and longing.
I was a 13-year-old boy (at camp), noted the 23-year-old singer-songwriter, speaking by phone from his hometown Chicago. One of my counsellors was warm and strong and he took an interest in me not sexually, but as a friend, and it really moved me. I remember leaving with a horrible ache in my heart.
While All-American Boy is told from the gay mans perspective, Grand said he knew its tale of unrequited love would resonate across lines of sexuality. Hes received hundreds of postings on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook from viewers, both straight and gay, saying they understand such rejection and heartache.
Im not a cryer, noted Grand. But since this all began, since people have been reaching out, Ive been beyond moved, because so many people have felt what I felt, been through what Ive been through.
Grand said that upon discovering he was gay in eighth grade, he told friends, which quickly got back to his parents. They insisted he go to so-called straight therapy, which he endured for five years. But it didnt work.
He logged his full freshman year at Belmont University in Nashville, but, due to the costs, returned to Chicago. His recent employment has run the gamut from modeling to supplying music for Catholic church events, the latter being what he called the food-money gig.
Grand said he has no idea where the YouTube success may take him, though he does admit hes not much of a singer and more of a songwriter. Of course, I want to continue to grow as a man and grow as an artist, he commented.
For now, Grand appears happy just being the moment, immersed in all those postings. Just the hundreds of people who have said, Your story is my story. Thank you for this,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a haha-handbags can authenticate your computer usage and data. is enough for me.
A growing number of American workers are confronting a frustrating predicament on payday: to get their wages, they must first pay a fee. For these largely hourly workers, paper paychecks and even direct deposit have been replaced by prepaid cards issued by their employers. Employees can use these cards, which work like debit cards, at an ATM to withdraw their pay. But in the overwhelming majority of cases, using the card involves a fee. And those fees can quickly add up: one provider, for example, charges $1.75 to make a withdrawal from most ATMs,Did you know that buymosaic chains can be used for more than just business. $2.95 for a paper statement and $6 to replace a card. Some users even have to pay $7 inactivity fees for not using their cards. These fees can take such a big bite out of paychecks that some employees end up making less than the minimum wage once the charges are taken into account.
House Republicans are keeping up a fight against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which turned its sights this year on the auto lending industry. As part of an ongoing drumbeat of opposition to the CFPB, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus introduced legislation to change control of the bureau from a single director to a five-member, bipartisan commission. A lot of the opposition can be chalked up to party politics, but one issue that potentially has legs stems from the fact that the CFPB in March accused auto
lenders of giving dealers too much leeway to set the final interest rates on loans negotiated at the dealership. Dealers earn a cut of the interest rate.
The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee wants a government watchdog to take a long, hard look at the data collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Sen. Mike Crapo asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study on the bureaus data collection efforts and make sure the agency is not improperly collecting personal financial information. The size and scope of this data collection warrant proper government oversight to both guard consumers privacy and ensure that the CFPB is acting within its existing authority, he wrote. Specifically, Crapo wants the GAO to determine exactly what data the CFPB is collecting, and for what purpose and how the bureau protects the privacy of the information collected, and how much it is paying outside parties to gather it.
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