Photographers Like William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Francesca Woodman, Alec Soth, Homer Sykes, Anders Peterson, Robert Frank and Cindy Sherman. Comic artists Like Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb, Adrian Tomine, Daniel Clowes, Killoffer and Charles Burns.
These are all fictional characters,if you didn't know, I'm not trying to fool anyone: The Continental Op, Sam Spade, Caspar Gutman, Miss Wonderley (she'd have to stand for a frisk first though), Carmen Sternwood (ditto), Vivian Sternwood (not strictly neccessary but i wouldn't say no), Candy Christian (ditto), Boris Adrian, Tony Sanders, Guy Grand, Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Ignantius J. Reilly.
Alex Chilton, Flaming Stars, Dave Graney, Sandy Dillon, Barry Adamson, Salter Cane, La Frange, Rolling Stones (64-77), The Pretty Things, Stooges, Funkadelic, Serge Gainsbourg, The Seeds, Beasts Of Bourbon, Johnny Dowd, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Flying Burrito Bros, Townes Van Zandt.
Mystery Train, Lost Highway, Short Cuts, Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, Badlands, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Big Lebowski, Touch of Evil, Chinatown, American Splendour, Kings Of The Road, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, The Ages of Lulu,Belle du Jour, Mikey and Nicky, Factotum, Black Cat White Cat, All the Baby Cart Films.
Dashiell Hammett, John O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, David Goodis, Albert Camus, Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Jones, Charles Bukowski, Jean Rhys, Toby Litt, John Fante, Dorothy Parker, John Kennedy Toole, Cathi Unsworth, Richard Brautigan, David L. Hayles, Raymond Carver, Martyn Waites, Jack Kerouac, Matt Thorne, Stewart Home, Lydia Lunch, Barry Gifford, Maxim Jakubowski, Raymond Chandler, Angela Carter, Max Decharne, Kirk Lake, Nikolai Gogol, Terry Southern.