Key features of Modernist writing include the use of stream of consciousness, interior monologue, distortions in time, and multiple or shifting perspectives.
Processing images or music, participating in inner speech, and recalling memories all require complicated neural pathways that are nowhere close to the linearity of the knee-jerk reflex.
So I thought I'd have the kind of dramatic subject that Alice Cooper might use but then look at kind of an interior monologue the way Randy Newman might do it.