[5] Blake also created the painted abstract interlude sequences for Paul Thomas Anderson's fourth film Punch-Drunk Love, and contributed images and video for Beck's album Sea Change.

[4] Blake was the boyfriend of filmmaker, cultural critic and video game designer Theresa Duncan.

[8] According to statements by acquaintances of the couple that have appeared in published reports (including an article in the January 2008 Vanity Fair), Blake said that he and Duncan were being followed and harassed by Scientologists prior to his disappearance.

[7] The Law & Order episode "Bogeyman" in season 18 is loosely based on the deaths of Duncan and Blake.

David Berman, a frontman of the band Silver Jews, wrote a song called "My Pillow is the Threshold" for Blake after Duncan's suicide.