Soon we'll have The Hobbit, shot by Peter Jackson at a "controversial" 48 frames per second, everything in pin-sharp focus with colours burning deep into the greedy, light-drunk film stock.
If butterflies and bees are the A-list celebrities of pollinators, moths and their nocturnal propensity to blunder about in the light like drunks mean they're often disregarded as such.
5 20 p.m.: The Grammy Awards begin with a look to 2015, as the husband-and-wife pairing of Beyoncé and Jay Z open the show, complete with epileptic-inducing lighting, with "Drunk in Love".
"It's a strange feeling that it's out there and people see me in this light, crying and drunk.
'If you go to any coroner's court in Britain you will find plenty of examples where a wet road or a missed red light or a drunk driver has caused loss of life.
But as the Spanish debate over breathalyzing pedestrians brings to light, walking home drunk presents its own set of risks.
The Shirt Tales are really alien friends, the amyl nitrate is the voice of trapped souls trying to get to the light, and the drunk texts are, of course, the chatty-type demon visitor.
After photographing incidents in what he referred to as "Rembrandt lighting" ("Even a drunk must be a masterpiece," he once said of his approach), he would develop the film in a makeshift darkroom in the trunk of his car.
As I travel these here United States, earning a crust as a pool shark, rodeo clown, soccer coach, fairground boxer and freelance blogger, I often find myself in dimly lit sports bars, drunk and arguing bitterly with my humourless, mulleted, and pool cue gripping fellow drinkers about just who is the greatest ever American sportsperson.
When he's not talking about fist fights he got in, a dog he illegally ate and stapling his sister's head, or making light of a drunk-driving incident when he rear-ended a car, Gibson at least admits that he has a "self-destructive tendency" and can't seem to keep his mouth shut.
Besides being drunk on light, I was moved by the persistent integrity of Andean Aymara culture, with its stubbornness, its playfulness, its adaptability and dignity.
