the Dalaverse

I've been meaning to do this for awhile now, and the night before my summer final seems like the perfect opportunity. It's mostly for my own amusement, but if anybody else wanted to try it, I'd be really interested to read theirs...

Anyway, the point: if you're spent much time around this LJ, you've probably noticed that I pilfer lots of lines for my fic titles. I'm curious about just how the titles break down, so I'm organizing them (and, being far too lazy to make scads of links, rest assured that all fics are accessible from my Memories. In no particular order, either.

So where'd that title come from?

Music...
U2: the North and South of the River series (NaSotR, Three Sunrises, Your Time, Your Place, These Winds and Tides, Dream Beneath a Desert Sky, Wrap the Night Around Me, In Return for Grace, Set Fire to the Sky); most of the Brothers in Arms series (individual: Stories for Boys, Where We Were Still, A Second to Say Goodbye, Pride); One Step Closer; Crumbs From Your Table; Treasure Just to Look Upon It; A Harbor In the Tempest; Up With the Sun; All the Riches

Bob Dylan: A Simple Twist of Fate; The Highway Is for Gamblers; Whatever You Wish to Keep

Ryan Adams: Firecracker; Rescue Blues; Answering Bell; Touch, Feel, and Lose

Indigo Girls: Season of Peace; World Falls

Flogging Molly: Within a Mile of Home; The Son Never Shines; These Exiled Years

Christmas Carols: Here We Come A-Wandering; Noel; Midnight Clear; All I Want for Christmas (Is You)

Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet

The Doors: Back Door Man

Patty Griffin: Be Careful How You Bend Me

Blondie: Color Me Your Color

Great Big Sea: Feel It Turn

Led Zeppelin: What Is and What Should Never Be

Melissa Etheridge: Sleep While I Drive

Bruce Springsteen: Brilliant Disguise

Heather Nova: Make You Mine

Simon and Garfunke: Bookends

Rod Stewart: Where the Ocean Meets to Sky

Cake: The Bootheels of Your Prime

Fleetwood Mac: Monday Morning

Carbon Leaf: A Life Less Ordinary

Bif Naked: Moment of Weakness

The Killers: Jealousy Turning Saints Into the Sea

Joseph Arthur: Honey and the Moon

Tom Petty: The Waiting (Is the Hardest Part)

Howie Day: Collide

CCR: Fortunate Son


Film and TV...
PotC: Closer to the Vest; Not All Treasure; Change In the Wind; By Blood Undone

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: As You Were; Bewigged, Bothered and Bewildered

Fiddler on the Roof: chapters of Catch of the Day (Somebody Has to Arrange the Matches, Well I Do the Best I Can, It's Not that I'm Sentimental)

The Princess Bride: An Overdeveloped Sense of Vengeance; Waking Jack Sparrow (What the Storybooks Say)

The Wizard of Oz: A Wig of a Different Color

Clarissa Explains It All: Anamaria Explains It All

An Officer and a Gentleman: An Officer and a Gentleman

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: A Penitent Man


Poetry/Literature...
Burning Bright; Road Less Traveled; Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man; Comfort Me With Apples; His Banner Over Me; As the Tide Wears the Dove-grey Sands; Before the World Was Made; The key to all strange things is in thy heart


Phrases/Sayings/Cliches...
For Want of a Nail; 'Tis Better to Give; Blow Ye Winds; Company and a Crowd; Nothing New Under the Sun; Too Many Cooks In the Kitchen; Things That Go Bump in the Night; Hair of the Dog; Everything Old Is New Again; The Truth Shall Set You Free; A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words; By the Light of Dawn


From fic prompts...
Just Catting Around; Regarding Cowrie Shells and Rum; Midnight Sun; Waiting (Bound to Meet You)


Original... Detente; Foundation; Acquaintance; Sneaky, Lying...; Burn; Absolution; Rescue; Daybreak; Respite; Gentleman or Pirate; Maiden Voyage; Lifetime in Moments; First Light; Sidhe; Lookout; Challenge; Caught by the Shore; Slake; Continental Drift; Legacy; Settling; Kinship; Caught; Habit; Refrain; Linger; Bargaining Chip; Proposition; Last Rites; A Fowl Truce; Wax and Wane; Discontent; Low Tide; No Rest for the Wicked; Kindling for the Flame; Vigil; Patience; Experience; After the Storm; Regarding Back Alleys and Amnesty; Last Request; Flights of Fancy; Masquerade; Raja; For All Our Sakes; Navy Blues; Brokering the Peace; Worth Beyond Measure; Working Out the Kinks; Over, Under; Negotiations; Five Ways to Wear a Green Ribbon; Ships In the Night; Collection; Reflection; Adaptation; Regarding Late Suppers and Solace; A Bit of Luck; By Nature Moved; The Haunting of Fort Charles; Likeness; Share and Share Alike


Other...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T (prompt and, I assume, Aretha); Moon to the Tide, What the Tide Dragged In, Closing Davy Jones' Locker (all somewhere between original and cliche); Delicious Ambiguity (Gilda Radner quote); Burn Your Bridges Down (written by Nick Cave, but inspired by Heather Nova's cover); A Square Deal (American history ::cringes::)

That was fun! And a terrific waster of time! I had more original titles than I'd thought, but they're mostly one-word. Interesting.