Only lovers left alive

1. Joe Strummer

2. Johann Sebastian Bach

3. Claire Denis

4. Mary Wollstonecraft

5. Aki Kaurism�ki

6. Bo Diddley*

7. Franz Schubert

8. Chrissie Hynde

9. Franz Kafka

10. Edgar Allen Poe

11. Bruce Lee

12. RZA* � Appeared in Jarmusch�s films Coffee and Cigarettes and Ghost Dog: Way of
the Samurai.

13. Screamin� Jay Hawkins � Screamin� Jay appeared in Jim Jarmusch�s film Mystery
Train.

14. Gustav Mahler

15. Henry Purcell

16. Tom Waits � Tom Waits did the music for Jim Jarmusch�s film Night on Earth, and
he appeared in a couple of Jarmusch�s other films (including Coffee and Cigarettes,
in a scene with Iggy Pop, who�s also featured on Adam�s wall). Waits and Jarmusch
are founding members of The Sons of Lee Marvin. Of course, while we�re on the
subject of vampire movies, Tom Waits also played Renfield in Bram Stoker�s Dracula.

17. Charles Baudelaire � Note to self, remember to post about the huge bat-shaped
monument to Baudelaire in Paris� Montparnasse Cemetery.
18. Luis Bu�uel

19. William S. Burroughs*

20. Sitting Bull

21. Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning

22. Robert Johnson

23. Buster Keaton*

24. Nikola Tesla

25. Rumi � Jim Jarmusch mentions Rumi in this interview about Only Lovers Left
Alive.

26. William Blake � Interestingly, Johnny Depp�s character in Jim Jarmusch�s film
Dead Man was named William Blake (unrelated to the poet), and the film has a few
references to the real Blake�s poetry.

27. Arthur Rimbaud

28. Hedy Lamarr

29. Patti Smith

30. Charley Patton

31. Emily Dickinson

32. Jean-Michel Basquiat � Of course, Jeffrey Wright, who appears in Only Lovers
Left Alive as well as Jarmusch�s film Broken Flowers, played Jean-Michel Basquiat
in the film Basquiat.

33. Robby M�ller* � Cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch�s films Down by Law, Mystery
Train, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and the �Twins� segment of
Coffee and Cigarettes.

34. John Coltrane

35. Mark Twain

36. Isaac Newton

37. Marcel Duchamp

38. Fritz Lang

39. Naomi Klein*

40. Frank Zappa

41. Iggy Pop* � Appears in Jarmusch�s film Dead Man, as well as Coffee and
Cigarettes (in a scene with Tom Waits, who�s also featured on Adam�s wall).
According to IMDB, Jim Jarmusch is currently working on a documentary about Iggy
and the Stooges.

42. Thelonious Monk

43. Harpo Marx

44. Susan Sontag

45. Black Elk

46. Rodney Dangerfield*

47. Christopher Marlowe*

48. Geronimo

49. Samuel Beckett

50. Jane Austen

51. John Keats

52. Oscar Wilde

53. Jimi Hendrix

54. Nicholas Ray*

55. Hank Williams

56. Billie Holiday

57. Neil Young � Neil Young did the music for Jim Jarmusch�s film Dead Man, and
Jarmusch also did a concert documentary about Neil Young and Crazy Horse called
Year of the Horse.