Andy Warhol Presents: Joe Dallesandro in Trash - Paul Morresey (1970)

Part 2
Part 4

Part 5

Heat - Paul Morrisey (1972)

The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

The Poems of Bonnie Parker

Source.

Bertolt Brecht Sings Mac the Knife (1929)

Source.

Thieves' Alphabet from the Mysteries of London 1845

Penny Dreadfuls: Proto Scandal Sheet Rag and True (-ish) Crime Dreadfuls

Black Bess (1866)
Black Bess; or, the knight of the road : a tale of the good old times by Viles, Edward

A Book of Remarkable Criminals

A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H Irving

A Book of Scoundrels

A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley


The Newgate Calendar 1700-1800

A chronological list of all entries in the Newgate Calendar from 1700 to 1800 A.D. Source.

Some examples.

John Larkin

Who committed so many Forgeries and Cheats that he had not Time to confess them all before he died, on
19th of April, 1700

Michael Van Berghen, Catherine Van Berghen And Dromelius, Their Servant, Publicans

Executed 10th of July, 1700, for the Murder of their Guest, Mr Oliver Norris

George Caddell

Executed for the Cruel Murder of Miss Price, Whom he had Seduced and Promised Marriage

John Holliday or Simpson

Housebreaker and Highwayman, who robbed a King at Hertford, and a Church, and was hanged at Tyburn in 1700

George Griffiths 

Who courted his Master's Daughter and then robbed him. Hanged at Tyburn on 1st of August, 1700 .

John Stanley

An Insolent Puppy who presumed on his Swordsmanship. Executed at Tyburn, 23rd of December, 1723, for murdering his Mistress

Stephen Gardener 

Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of February, 1724, for House-breaking, after being warned that the Bellman would say his Verses over him

Joseph Blake Alias Blueskin 

Made an Unsuccessful Attempt to kill Jonathan Wild by cutting his Throat. Executed in November, 1724, at Newgate

The Terrific Register

The Terrific Register (1825)

The Whitechapel Murders or the mysteries of the East End
The Whitechapel Murders or the mysteries of the East End (1888)

Jack the ripper penny dreadful.


The Wild Boys of London, or Children of the Night

Illustrations from The Wild Boys of London

A Selection of Stories

The Body-Snatchers

Dreadful Account of Cannibalism

Extraordinary Female Duel

Horrid Parricide

The Life of Dick Turpin

Providential Escape

The Pre-Tabloid Art of 19th-Century Crime

Source.

Thanks Allison Meier via Hyperallergic

Genet TV!

Jean Genet (interview 1981)

Un Chant d'amour

Scans of 19th Century Scottish Broadsides, with Murder Ballads

Broadside entitled 'Ann Semple's Confession'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Billy Pattison'
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Confession of James Bryce'
Broadside entitled 'Confessions made by William Burke'
Broadside entitled 'Elegiac Lines On the Tragical Murder of Poor Daft Jamie
Broadside entitled 'Elegie'
Broadside entitled 'Elegie'
Broadside ballad concerning the execution of Captain Thomas Green for piracy and murder
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Fate of Johnny Johnson'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Hare's Dream!'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Jamie Wilson's Mother's Dream'
Broadside entitled 'A Lament for Dr Pritchard's Children'
Broadside entitled 'Lament of Macfarlane, Blackwood and Young'
Broadside entitled 'The Lament of Mr Taylor'
Broadside entitled 'Lament of Peter Mclean, now lying under the Sentence of Death'
Broadside entitled 'Lamentation of Elizabeth Banks'
Broadside entitled 'Lamentation of Mary Braid'
Broadside entitled 'Lamentations As of John Thomson & David Dobie'
Broadside entitled 'The Lamentations of McFarlane, Blackwood and Young
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Last Words of James Mackpherson Murderer'
Broadside entitled 'Lines On The Gilmerton Murder'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Lines Supposed to have Been Written by Mrs Wilson, Daft Jamie's Mother'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Margaret Bell's Lament'
Broadside entitled 'Margaret Dickson's Penetential Confession'
Broadside ballad entitled 'McGorran's Lament'
Broadside entitled 'Murder of Betsy Smith'
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Murder of Maria Marten'
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Recent Murders'
Broadside entitled 'Robert Stirrat's'
Broadside entitled 'The Sorrowful Lamentation'
Broadside entitled 'The Vision'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Widow MacFarlane's Lamentation for Her Son'
Broadside ballad entitled 'William Burke.--A New Song'
Broadside ballad entitled 'William Burke's Confession'
Broadside ballad entitled 'William Burke's Murders in the Westport'
Broadside ballads entitled 'William Burke's Murders in the Westport' and 'Late Murders. A New Song'

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Film.
Script.

Lorca - Ode to Walt Whitman

In full.

Fox and His Friends (1975)

In German, with English subtitles. Source.

Police (1916)

Francois Villon - Poetry in Translation

See Also: Société François Villon

Ballad Of The Gibbet
Les Regrets De La Belle Hëaulmiere
Rondel
The Ballad Of The Ladies Of Yore
Abor Amorris
To Death Of His Lady
The Debate Between Villon And His Heart
Ballade
Le Testament: Ballade: ‘Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere’
Ballade: Epistre
Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d’Estouteville
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Le Testament: Ballade: A S’amye
Rondeau

Five Translations

A Ballad of Francois Villon
Ballads from Francois Villon

Three Translations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I. The Ballad of Dead Ladies

II. To Death, of His Lady
III. His Mother's Service to Our Lady

Ten Translations by Charles Swinburne
I. The Complaint of The Fair Armouress
II. A Double Ballad of Good Counsel
III. Fragment on Death
IV. Ballad of The Lords of Old Times
V. Ballad of The Women of Paris
VI. Ballad Written for a Bridegroom
VII. Ballad against the Enemies of France
VIII. The Dispute of the Heart and Body of Francois Villon
IX. Epistle in Form of a Ballad to His Friends
X. The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad

Seven Translations by John Payne

I. Ballad of Old-Time Lords
II. The Doctrine of The Fair Helm-Maker to The  Light O' Loves
III. Seemly Lesson of Villon to The  Good-for-Noughts
IV. Ballad of Good Doctrine to Those of Ill Life
V. Ballad Crying All Folk Mercy
VI. Ballad, by Way of Ending
VII. Epitaph

Jobelin ballade 6
Jobelin ballade 5
Jobelin ballade 4
Jobelin ballade 3
Jobelin ballade 2
Jobelin ballade

To Death Of His Lady 

Death, of thee do I make my moan, / Who hadst my lady away from me,

Rondel 

Goodbye! the tears are in my eyes; / Farewell, farewell, my prettiest;

Ballad Of The Gibbet 

Brothers and men that shall after us be, / Let not your hearts be hard

Abor Amorris 

I have a tree, a graft of Love, / That in my heart has taken root;

The Debate Between Villon And His Heart

Who's that I hear?—It's me—Who?—Your heart / Hanging on by the thinnest

The Ballad Of The Ladies Of Yore 

Tell me now in what hidden way is / Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
Les Regrets De La Belle Hëaulmiere 

ADVIS m'est que j'oy regreter / La belle qui fut hëaulmiere,

Ballade 

I know flies in milk / I know the man by his clothe
Ballade: Du Concours De Blois

I’m dying of thirst beside the fountain, / Hot as fire, and with chatte

Le Testament: Ballade: ‘Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere’ 

This I give to my poor mother / As a prayer now, to our Mistress

Ballade: Epistre

Have pity now, have pity now on me, / If you at least would, friends of

Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d’Estouteville 

At dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing, / Mainly from pleasure,

Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau 

Epitaph / Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,

Rondeau 

Oh, grant him now eternal peace, / Lord, and everlasting light,

Le Testament: Ballade: A S’amye 

 False beauty that costs me so dear, / Rough indeed, a hypocrite sweet

Victorian Gallows Ballads

Source.

Mary Arnold, The Female Monster
Former prostitute uses carnivorous beetles to blind her own infant child. Hopes to increase its value as a tool for begging, but wins only prison and transportation.

The Execution of Nathaniel Mobbs
Drunken bully cuts his wife's throat in a fit of jealous rage. Bungles his own suicide attempt, and lives long enough to be hanged at Newgate.

Mrs Dyer, The Old Baby-Farmer
Reading woman takes in illegitimate babies for cash. Strangles 40 or more, then dumps their bodies in the Thames.

The Gallows Child
Nine-year old boy is condemned to death for stealing six handkerchiefs from an Oxford Street shop. Shopkeeper had paid five shillings each for them.

The Life and Trial of Palmer
Boozy, gambling doctor poisons family and friends to clear his debts. Hanged at Stafford Gaol, but survives as footnote in the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Silent Grove
Young man gets his girlfriend pregnant, then kills both her and the baby to avoid responsibility. One of many Bloody Miller/ Berkshire Tragedy variants - a combination of which eventually became Knoxville Girl.

The Liverpool Lodger
Evil lodger slaughters family and robs them. Victims include pregnant mother and two very young boys.

The Unnatural Murder
Disguised sailor returns home to his parents, hoping to surprise them with his new-found wealth. They mistake him for a stranger, kill him, and steal his gold.

Murder at Westmill
Nine-year-old boy brutally murders his infant sister. Mother driven mad by the crime.

Streams of Crimson Blood
Burglar breaks into rich old couple's house and kills them both.

The Murdered Maid
Poverty-stricken yokels kill lodger for her savings. But it's really their own daughter.

Cruel Lizzie Vickers
Housekeeper bullies her way into elderly employer's will then beats him to death for the £1,000 involved. That's the ballad's version, but the Old Bailey jury found her not guilty.

Frank Lima's Sacttered Vignettes

Frank Lima's Scattered Vignettes.

One of the few contemporary poems I stumbled across in my adult life and felt it contained a world within that I could inhabit, Frank Lima's Scattered Vignettes remains for me one of the most magical sustained invocations of language (English).

Elsewhere in this quixotic library and toy store, I have collected material of those who address misery by making an aesthetic object of consumption out of it. That is, while enjoyable, often, the trap. One cannot possess meaninglessness (the ultimate ghost of upheaval and trauma) by turning it into a product, buying and consuming it. Meaninglessness is more elusive than, say, delicious candy. In meaninglessness (death, violence, despair), the hunger is not sated by eating more of the same.

The groping towards any space of serenity in this relationship between observer, meaning and world, one that retains not only the images of trauma, violence and beauty but also the meaninglessness of those very things which make our time here storied, would require one to communicate or build something actually transformative.

This is not easy. Misery has stubbornly resisted prognostication and prescriptions, as in Marx, or magical solutions, as in Fascism. Often it hovers just outside the purview of Liberalism, the phantom limits of its ability to act. The nostalgia of religious fanaticism can only hold it at bay for so long. Ignoring it does not dispel it.

Frank Lima, so despairing, so ritually beautiful in his figures, so uncomplicatedly attuned to myth and the ceremonial gestures of magic, in a matter of a few pages, manages to cover a continental scourge of difficult and ambivalent territory. The miracle in these vignettes is how he never drops out of poetic voice. He takes things that are already meaningless (failed lives, the sad household objects that are the props for traditional magic) and uses them to help communicate the ultimate things, which are generally resistant to meaning (violence, ultimate taboos, spirit). Somehow the ineffable--by sheer conjuration of this sensitive but semantically perilous alchemy--manages to pass through.

For More on Frank Lima:
Here is an interview.

Hacks, Hustlers, Charlatans, Liars, Fiction Writers and Thieves

These writers, similar to Laura Albert, blur the line between hoax and reportage. They become actors, game players in their own fictions and grandiloquent memoirs, to a lesser or greater degree.

Laura Albert is more of an enigma, Warhol showman, that shoplifter of persona. The contours of opportunism, financial, careerist, are much more clear in these cases. In most cases because there's less art to the con.

This is reportage through the lens of resentment, coupled with a despairing fascination with the fleetingness of Truth, despite all the mass industries set up to present their spin on it.

Others seem to have worked out a sophisticated theory of how the sentimental potboiler intersects with a culture's trauma, with a view towards commercial success. In the cloyingly sentimental yet disquieted climate of an affluent post industrial landscape, impoverished, hopeless and/or abused youth began to suit the sentimental criteria for privileged subject.

This doomed urchin, upbraiding wealth and material accomplishment by her or his very existence, honour a latent but recurring Rousseau-like theme in America: the corruption of society by virtue of shattered innocence.

This newer genre, obeying the dictates of good showmanship, posits: always better if that abject youth is real than a story.

The prose can be titillating, sensational, excruciating, sadistic, erotic, repugnant, heart-tugging, with borrowed flourishes from the movies.

Certain motifs and conventions abound: Addiction then twelve step programs, unwholesome parents, sexual and physical abuse portrayed graphically, one might say luridly, punishment and enduring, a call for mass-cultural healing.

The redemption sought becomes not coincidentally an economic and professional boon for the writer.

Each of these authors understand journalistic realism with an eagle eye for convincing detail and colourful character. Embarked on a professional thrill ride where real money or status is at stake (one reality consistent to all these stories), charged with the gung-ho, high spirits of gamblers, they remain relatively unapologetic of their actions to the last, self-cast anti-heroes in a morally erratic capitalism gone off the rails.

Psychologically, they are often deferring, evasive, charming. In the last, they are an empty byline.

Often, the permission the author feels he or she needs to invoke begins with that convention, now invisible if  practically everywhere in our culture: I am a survivor. A noteworthy subject should also physically manifest symptoms of worrisome decline in puritanical or Utopian America: poverty, crushed egalitarianism, broken homes, suburban disillusionment, addiction, violence, moral squalor, sexual permissiveness, AIDS.

The villain in this story is unrepentant abuser (abuser both of people but also of substances, physical pleasures, sex, drugs). Heroes are the abused who have admitted their helplessness before destiny, renouncing decadent worldly pleasures, expressed in a way that touches the heart. The view is protestant, religious through and through.

In response to a hunger for such material, material that, in the words of Oprah has a "dramatic impact" on other morally sick, trembling lives, these writers inaugurate the new genre: poverty, abuse porn; tiny exploitation films cast as credible journalism, warbled or barked from the pulpit.

If one wishes to consider the contemporary lie as a naive art, here are some of its masters.

The Dubious Borderline Affair of Mr. Daisey Going to China
Transcript of the original This American Life episode: "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory."
‘This American Life’ Retracts Episode on Apple’s Suppliers in China

Dave Pelzer
Excerpts from a Child Called It.

James Fray
Also: In the New York Times. 
Excerpts from A Million Little Pieces.

Stephen Glass
Also, in Vanity Fair.
Also, in Slate.
Also, the original article which caused the trouble.
Other amusing hatchetjobs:
 "A Day on the Streets", for The Daily Pennsylvanian, June 6, 1991
“Mrs. Colehill Thanks God For Private Social Security”, June 1997, for Policy Review magazine. PDF format.
“Probable Claus”, published January 6 & 13, 1997
"Holy Trinity", published January 27, 1997
“Don't You D.A.R.E.”, published March 3, 1997
“Writing on the Wall”, published March 24, 1997
"Slavery Chic", published July 14 & 21, 1997
“The Young and the Feckless”, published Sept. 15, 1997

Jayson Blair
(April 19, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: VETERANS; In Military Wards, Questions and Fears From the Wounded".
(April 7, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: THE FAMILIES; For One Pastor, the War Hits Home".
(April 3, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: THE HOMETOWN; Rescue in Iraq and a 'Big Stir' in West Virginia". 
(March 27, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: MILITARY FAMILIES; Relatives of Missing Soldiers Dread Hearing Worse News"
(March 3, 2003). "Making Sniper Suspect Talk Puts Detective in Spotlight".  
(February 10, 2003). "Peace and Answers Eluding Victims of the Sniper Attacks".
(October 30, 2002). "Retracing A Trail: The Investigation; U.S. Sniper Case Seen As A Barrier To A Confession". 

Viki Johnson
Excerpts from a Rock and a Hard Place

Jonah Lehrer Charmed Me, Then Blatantly Lied to Me About Science

18th Century and Regency Thieves' Cant

18th Century and Regency Thieves' Cant.

An extensive online vocabulary. 

The Unique Street Language of the Street Gangs and the Prison Gangs of the United States

From The Warriors.

Gang Slang.

"It is becoming more and more essential for law enforcement and corrections personnel to learn terms used by gang members in order to effectively understand and communicate with them. It has been shown that the officers that can speak the lingo are more likely to gather more information about the person or about the gang activity in the area. The link below clearly shows how a knowledge of slang terms could lead to a better field or office interview."