The Aviator

No this message is not about the movie, it's about sunglasses. Not what you had expected, I guess. We have all seen people wearing sunglasses with the large frames and the reflective lenses, like this :

But what about the history behind these sunblockers? Their name comes from the teardrop shape which resembles the design of the Ray-Ban flying goggles that the company sold to the US Army and the Navy some 60 years ago. The Aviator became a well-known style of sunglasses when General Douglas MacArthur landed on the beach of the Philippines in World War II. Photographers snapped several pictures of him wearing these sunglasses for the newspapers. I have my own set of Aviators and I'm really happy with them. The first time I ever saw them was in the movie 'Top Gun' where Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer wear them almost constantly.



Hurts

I don't know if you've heard about a UK band called 'Hurts' yet. The band is composed of a lead singer, Theo Hutchcraft, and a synth player, Adam Anderson. The genre of their music ranges from New Wave to Alternative Rock but I don't know which one is the right one. The band always plays in costume but the ones you would have seen regularly if you would have lived in the 50's. In BBC's 'Sound Of 2010', they finished fourth so we could say that the band is getting quite popular.

First of all, I'm not really into this style of music. Actually I should say that I wasn't really into this style of music. But then I heard this song on the radio and I thought it sounded rather good. Then I searched on YouTube for the music video of the song and I found out that there is something about the band that speaks to me. Is it the fact that they make their music by just the two of them, is it the way they dress or is it the way they sing in such a sincere way? Or maybe all of these aspects together? I wouldn't know.