What’s Wild Inside
There is something in the past
Must be felt to be released
Something in the present
Just won’t let you sleep
J Oscar Bittinger
Posts by J Oscar Bittinger:
- Aboutness
- Audio
- Bands and Mile Markers
- Bio
- Blarney & Bloggery
- Lyrics
- News
- October Quotes
- Shows & Events
A Winter’s Trio – Songs of Love and Snow
Saturday, February 1, 2013 – 6:oo pm Richard App Gallery 910 Cherry Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506
Whatcha Wanna Do Tonight?
Get dressed up
Go to the club
Dance, dance, dance
To the thump, thump, thump
How about a night cap
At the local pub?
On a Wonderful Night
Come on, come on; let’s go downtown
We can see a movie or talk about your mom
ON A WONDERFUL NIGHT
Summer don’t last long
Octoberday 10 – Eudora Welty
They went on and suddenly the woods opened upon light, and they had reached the river. Everyone stopped, but Doc talked on ahead as though nothing had happened. ‘Only today,’ he said, ‘today, in October sun, it’s all gold—sky and tree and water. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold.’ – […]
Octoberday 09 – Carol Bishop Hipps
“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” – Carol Bishop Hipps
Octoberday 08 – Thomas Merton
“October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.” – Thomas Merton
OctoberDay 07 – Thomas Wolfe
“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” – Thomas Wolfe
OctoberDay 06 – L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”
OctoberDay 05 – Peggy Toney Horton
“What could be more exciting than an October day? It’s your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.” ― Peggy Toney Horton
OctoberDay 04- Author Hal Borland
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.” – Author Hal Borland
OctoberDay 03 – Henry Ward Beecher
“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. ” – Henry Ward Beecher
OctoberDay 02 – Joy Fielding
“October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows.” – Joy Fielding
OctoberDay 01- Sarah Guillory, Reclaimed
“October had the tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised the world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” – Sarah Guillory, Reclaimed
Fiction of a Real Life
Fiction of a Real Life
© 2017 J Oscar Bittinger
Everybody knows something you don’t know
Everybody’s been places – you’d like to go
Dream up drama ‘bout people in a
Café line
Create a Fiction from a Real Life
Pretty Nice Day
Are you looking for something?
Waiting for someone
Who isn’t coming…
In life’s big mystery
Maybe a clue
Is what you choose to do
And how you do it makes today
CHORUS A Pretty Nice Day….
Down in Our Hometown
Known her just a while and I think she’s fineBut everybody says she the “troubled kind”Ain’t a “bad girl” just faraway and moodyNot satisfied with roses and a movie (cause) CHORUSShe don’t fit inA small town sinLoves her kinBut she ain’t like themThere’s no do doubtShe’s a diamond foundBut she’ll get ground down in our […]
Hot Night
© 2014 J Oscar Bittinger
High Summer
Too warm in the kitchen
To sit and listen to the radio
Night comin’ – You wipe the sweat from your neck
That you get – Even when you’re moving slow
On a hot night – A hot night – A hot night like this
Open Mic Tour – Cowpie – Bio Update
Cowpie MUSIC Festival, in it’s new Michigan-music-focused direction, debuts August 10-11, 2012. This month is also the debut, and possibly the last performance by “The Arrowheads.” The name may phase out, but hopefully not the band…. (The “and the” band name worked fine for the songs we sang at last year’s Founder’s Bob Dylan Fest, […]
Bio
J Oscar Bittinger writes & plays modern folk that pops J Oscar Bittinger arrives at the show with a beat guitar case full of innocence and experience, glittered up in folk-rock grooves and plain spoken poetry. With a carnival spin and a scamp’s grin, J Oscar songs explore places where headlong meets heartache, “drunk with joy” and […]
My Mother and Music
Eleanore Rose Dottore Bittinger gave music to my brother Roy and I. She sang to us while cooking, driving, doing laundry, when we were bathed in the oversized bathroom sink and at bedtime. Music came to us on the kitchen radio, the console stereo, the jukebox in the Cloverleaf diner, parades, and concerts at the […]
Snow Day
© 2011 J Oscar Bittinger It came down heavy about twilightCaught in a snake of red taillightsEvery thing starts to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n n – o – wHeat on high, the wipers work hardIt’s a whiteout! Can barely see the very next carMakes you wish you were behind a big snowplowBut once you’re home, it’s beautifulStarry […]
Here Comes the Rain
Sometimes you’ll feel the storm
Before it hits you
But the sky is going to fall
On creature’s great and small
Things you planned on
All get abandoned and they
Wash away
HERE COMES THE RAIN
March 2012 – A recap and then lets move on
“March was a blur, a race against time. And we won, so now on to April! Wait, a short recap. Big props and thanks to the two lovely lasses to the right, singers and songwriters Karisa Wilson and Susan Picking who asked me to join them for a couple St. Patrick’s Day shows as Skirl […]
January 2012 – Happy New Year!
Never too late to toast with friends! IN FRAME: Michael Crittenden, Drew Nelson, Glen Danles, Tara Cleveland, and Nicole Lucas Nelson – NEARBY: Brant Satala, Josh Rose, Sarah Rose, Louie Baney, Katie Baney, Aris Hampers.