And Ellroy Cash is a mashup of author James Ellroy and Eli Cash (from the Royal Tenenbaums, one of my favorite movies). Initially I was just going to quote Eli's book reading("'Vámonos, amigos,' he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight."), or nod to it in some way, but I ended up not wanting to go to cheap and easy with the references. So I threw in some self-written noir and made the character sort of a James Ellroy figure (though much less flamboyant of a speaker).