"Ice Cream Kimono" was a musical project that writer/director Jude Rawlins had with former Associates singer Billy Mackenzie in the early 1990s.
When Ivy asks Birdy if he has the Brenda Lee album from the movie "Out of Blue" the record he hands her is the actual one from that film. It was gifted to Jude Rawlins by "Out of Blue" director Carol Morley, and her written message to him on the cover can be briefly glimpsed in the scene.
Pearl's Vive Le Rock t-shirt and "Rabbit" padlock and chain necklace are a homage to punk legend Sid vicious.
The hit and run victim in the TV news report is named Paulene Manzarek in homage to The Doors' keyboard player Ray Manzarek and the X song "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene" which Manzarek produced. The report also references a line from the X song "Los Angeles." The pictures of Ms. Manzarek are actually of Rawlins' close friend and former bandmate Val Gwyther.
Molly's t-shirt bears the logo of Marshalltown newspaper the Times Republican, and is a homage to Marshalltown actress Jean Seberg's performance in Jean-Luc Godard's legendary movie Breathless (1960).