So does a tribe of musicians wearing sombreros, who provide a stream of mood-reflecting melody.
His sense of tone has always been supreme — a sort of cinematic voice that transforms its subjects into living experiences felt from behind the camera and delivered whole to a viewer, a fast stream of moods rising from deep below the dramatic current.
The brackish streams of mood and motive that flowed beneath the work of James M. Cain and David Goodis may not have run deep, but they never ran dry; and the low-lit Los Angeles of Chandler is continents away from the garish, spasmodic town of Tarantino's fancy.
Some sections (Camera Eye) are stream-of-consciousness evocations of mood and place, based on Dos Passos's own experience, and intercut with biographical essays on contemporary American figures, great and small.
It captures his restless intelligence, his quicksilver moods, his stream-of-consciousness thinking, veering from "personal insight or grand analysis to minute statistical detail".
Mr. Tuazon's voice is flatter and higher, and the mood of his stream-of-consciousness narrative swings from vulnerable to fearless: "I want to put something inside my body and carry something in it.
David Bevan of The A.V. Club said that, despite its filler, Cudi's "thick layer of open, intense self-loathing is a clever way of unifying Man On The Moon as pure mood piece, a stream-of-consciousness pop voyage that's more Phil Collins than rap".
A recent stream of defeats has darkened the mood around Citi Field this year.
Oscars host Chris Rock tackled the issue with a stream of gags, but the combative mood was blunted by the appearance of Fox News commentator Stacey Dash – a high profile critic of Black History Month – and a less-than-incendiary speech from musician Quincy Jones.
His story is told in a complicated first-person, stream-of-consciousness style, made trickier by the fact that the voice must shape-shift, taking on new moods and identities every time Abdul does.
