Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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are there any pairs of words or names that you always confuse with one another?

New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I always confuse

Caravaggio - sixteenth century Italian painter

with

Carluccio - an Italian café an deli chain (the interior of the Oxford one was designed by my cousin)

New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Arpeggio (sequence of notes)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Barry Andrews - KBd man w/ XTC
Barry Adamson - wrote pseudo soundtracks for so long, they asked him to do it for real.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The names Emma and Claire

The MS Excel icon and the MS Outlook icon

The order of the alphabet between H and M

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

My very elderly grandmother used to confuse "pelmet" and "pelvis", causing hilarity in the curtain shop.

C J (C J), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up

RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The and Teh

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 19th, 2007.

i just say "psychoanalysts-psychiatrists-phychologists" cos i never know what i mean.

the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Shrinks covers it

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, that's easy for me. There's the one-that-gives-me-pills (psychiatrist) and the one that just talks-a-lot-of-bollocks (psychologist) - but if you've never had either, I can understand the confusion.

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Juoda and syödä! They mean TO DRINK and TO EAT in Finnish but I always get them confused and thus told my teacher that I drink a lot of meat. This is the sort of thing we learn in class. Hmm.

In English I confuse Brighton and Bristol more than I should.

Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Paediatrics and the feet one... or is paediatrics the feet one?

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought they were psychopaths?

vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

psychopathologist: studies diseases, so he can give them to you

vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

That's areas set aside for the riding of bicycles (xp)

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

John Updike }{ John Irving

Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I did describe someone as behaving as though they were suffering from Stockhausen Syndrome.

Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, that's great

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

arse
elbow

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

ethics/morals

the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the numbers 4 and 7 in sequences of numbers, for instance a padlock or a memorable date.

wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX
work

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

when i was a kid:
bagels-donuts
muffins-cupcakes

but even more recently
jar-bottle

AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Shetty

Poppadom

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman
Until recently: Cormac McCarthy and Carson McCullers
Red and green, apparently

g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Will Ferrell
Colin Ferrell
Colin Firth

...are all the same person, as far as I'm concerned.

Also Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson, as discussed before.

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

YES.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

me too.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and also!

(and this is distressing, because I love MLP)

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Swamp Thing
Man Thing

This is the only pair in the list that I confuse too.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

paxton/pullman is SO true!

the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathans Lethem and Franzen, although as so much now that I've actually read some Lethem.

A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I sometimes get the Dimbleby brothers mixed up.

The Attenboroughs as well, come to think of it.

But never the McWhirters, despite them being twins.

onimo (onimo), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

having a final exam in a course i've been blowing off all term and don't even know the location of : dreaming

mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I've got one of my own now: Ted Nugent & Todd Rundgren. I had to google to check that the guy who's a racist is not the same person as the guy who had a feud with the Lennons, and in the time it took me to write this I have already forgotten which is which.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

For years thought Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis were the same person, and I still don't know which is which.

chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

well done

RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, thanks?

chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Not in terms of what/who they are, but when attempting to speak:

Wittgenstein/Wittenberg
Flann O'Brien/Flannery O'Connor

And more that I've forgotten...

emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You're just fucking with me now.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

somehow, the letter K and the number 5

69 (plsmith), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Diet Coca Cola
Piss

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Martin Luther
Luther Martin
Martin Luther King

(and there is no Luther Martin King as far as I'm aware, though there probably should be.)

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't the Paxton/Pullman thing kind of a cliche by now, even if true?

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up -- RJG (RJ...), January 19th,

I was once in a car with RJG when he very decisively mixed up left and right.

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Freddie King / Albert King
Albert King / Albert Collins

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis XIII, Louis XIV

i know!!

geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't always mix up left and right!

perhaps that was the one and only time, even

RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenwood Dennard/Durward Kirby/Kirkwood Smith

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

epistemology - epidemiology
tv/movies/interent - life
a bunch of continental philosophers
music - noise
uh - hm

rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The words for the study of insects and the study of word origins - etymology and entymology, maybe? Fucked if I know which goes with which.

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

aubergine and courgette. no sense.

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't tell you how many people get Dr and Mr Spock confused.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Olivia Newton John Travolta

Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Picadilly / Picalilly (but not Picaninny)

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I know people who think Peter Sellers is alive and well because he's in Last Of The Summer Wine every Sunday.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Marcello Carlin and George Carlin.

God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Kelly Brook/Kelly le Brock/Kele le Roc

chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Daniel and Ryan.

jimn (jimnaseum), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

a schooldays classic:
sanguine/sanguinary

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

thomas tallis and timmy tannin

tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

don't look now and don't look back.

emsk ( emsk), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish we could combine those! And have Bob Dylan murdered by a psychotic midget in Venice! Excellent!

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link


What a totally random place to wish for Bob Dylan's death!

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon Cowell's just booked a ticket!

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Lloyd Cole and the Coconuts to thread.

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Also:
Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson
West Ham, Aston Villa and Arsenal
Nick Owen and Nik Cohen

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Right and Left

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Right and Wrong

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Blow-Up and Blow-Out

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

jude law and ethan hawke (thanks a lot, gattaca)

Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yo momma and a bowling ball

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost to self: obviously this is not due to similarity of names, but I still mix them up so I say it counts)

Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Enrique and Esteban

g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Rebound Man and Transition Man

Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Like all of them.

Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

If you think my typing is bad you should hear me TALK. I am a sentence mangling Spoonerism making free association confusion machine, to both myself and others.

Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

High five!

Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Hopkins / Tim Ellison / Tim Finney

Same here.

The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Just to clarify: I mean which name goes with which poster; it's not like they write the same way or anything. It's like I used to mix up the names Felt and The Fall.

The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't the Paxton/Pullman thing kind of a cliche by now, even if true?

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), January 19th, 2007 10:05 AM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Yes. I was justabout to post that this has been covered by "Third Rock from the Sun". Lithgow: "One's a little beefier."

Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link

This is something every Duran fanbeing does at least once: Accidentally say "I'll cross that bridge when I find it," instead of "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it." Confusing to little girl me: Donald Regan and Ronald Reagan. Confusing to preteen me: Roger Taylor of Queen and Roger Taylor of, oh, you know. Can't think of anything else.

Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

He-man and Fabio

Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood.

Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Are they not the same person?

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

That's Jake Gyllenhall you're thinking of.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

vahid & fezaffe

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Juoda and syödä! They mean TO DRINK and TO EAT in Finnish but I always get them confused and thus told my teacher that I drink a lot of meat. This is the sort of thing we learn in class. Hmm.

You study Finnish? Dare I ask the reason for this?

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link

don juan & don knotts

estela (estela), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

jeremy piven and all the other piven-like douches

tom mix-a-lot (get bent), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

rip torn and rip taylor

tom mix-a-lot (get bent), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link

rip van winkel and r.i.p.

estela (estela), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link

joanna newsom & regina spektor

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Van Halen & Van Morrison & Los Van Van

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeff Goldblum & Michael Keaton
Burt Reynolds & Tom Selleck

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Patrick Swayze & Kurt Russell

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Which of them was in Stargate and which in Donnie Darko?

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Burt Reynolds & Tom Selleck

OMG, I used to get those two mixed up as well! The thing that helps me out is knowing that Reynolds is a nobody now and Selleck is the guy who played "Magnum P.I.", as well as helped Kevin Kline's character get out of the closet in In & Out (so Selleck obv wins). OH, nearly forgot when he was Monica's older boyfriend in "Friends", too! So the '90s obv made Selleck stand out a bit more, thankfully....

And Patrick Swayze is the dude in "Donnie Darko". Kurt Russell I remember as being the guy who started out as a child actor.

I used to be confused by Dorothy Hamill and Mary Lou Retton when I was a little kid, too. Just remembered. And the names of the two families on "Charles In Charge" -- the Powells and the, gee, can't remember the other one. I used to, though, and eventually figured out the Powells were from the latter part of the series and that other family were the first ones, the one without the grandfather.

Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges

nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

More serious answers:

Brian Dennehy and Charles Durning
Kevin Kline and Kevin Spacey
Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton (when they were just getting known)

nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Chris Tucker & Chris Rock. Were they both in Bad Boys, or just one of them?

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Chris Tucker & Chris Rock

OTM

You study Finnish? Dare I ask the reason for this?

I am willing to bet that the word 'Moomin' is involved somewhere.

joanna newsom & regina spektor

I call bullshit on this, no-one in the history of the world sounds like Joanna Newsom.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always mixed Tobey McGuire and Jake Gyllenhaal too, maybe because they've both played angsty teenagers.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

but jake's such much cuter!

I always confuse "nausated" and "nauseous"

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think he's cuter, a bit too clear-cut and masculine for my tastes.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

The way to tell rip torn and rip taylor apart is that the names go to the opposite of who you'd expect- the serious actor is torn and the comedian is taylor.

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

joanna newsom & regina spektor

I call bullshit on this, no-one in the history of the world sounds like Joanna Newsom.

insofar as they are (a) contemporary female musicians i haven't listened to (b) whose names have the same rhythmic scansion (amphibrach trochee), you can keep that bullshit call. nyah.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Rip Taylor is obviously the more comedic name. "Rip Tailor" -- get it??

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah. Then THAT's the way to tell them apart.

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, I had been mixing those guys up and didn't even realize it.

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to get these guys confused
Louis Hayes and Roy Haynes

Then I got these guys confused for a second
Jason Mraz and Jason Lindner

And I still haven't got these guys straight
Avishai Cohen (Trumpet) and Avishai Cohen (Bass)

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Also
Sam Rivers and Sam Jones

(apparently there is also a Sam Rivers in miccio's favorite band)

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I confuse lots of things (mainly people). Por ejemplo:

Ed Begley Jr. / Gary Busey

Kiefer Sutherland / Kenneth Branagh

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Chris Tucker & Chris Rock

Oooh, that reminds me: Chris Rock/Kid Rock/Kid out of Kid 'n Play.

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and Rumsfeld/Cheney

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, the two Rips have been a source of confusion for me as well.

So the '90s obv made Selleck stand out a bit more, thankfully....

What about Reynolds's much-heralded "comeback" circa Boogie Nights?

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Sheldon Leonard/Sidney Sheldon

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay LOL at confusing Chris Rock and Chris Tucker.

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I always confuse Matt Damon and Matt Dillon.

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Because they're both WHITE GUYS NAMED MATT! IT CONFUSES ME!

http://www.epa.gov/sab/sge_course/images_sge/confused.jpg

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

All white guys named Matt look alike.

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Where's that adorable ghost jpg when when I need it?

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

No

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

;_;

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to think Fred Savage was the Boy Meets World kid for like 2 years once upon a time.

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Also in the late 90s I couldn't remember which British actress named Kate was which: Winslet, Blanchett, Beckinsale. Then I saw them in movies and that changed REALLY quickly.

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Which do you beat off over?

It says a lot about a man, I think.

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to think Fred Savage was the Boy Meets World kid for like 2 years once upon a time.

Isn't that because the Boy Meets World kid was his brother?

emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep!

(I'm boggling at Mark, that's fucking hardcore.)

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how FB worked in that Ruby Red photo right before Mark's wanking post. It made my day.

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

If ever any of them at all, it was probably Winslet.

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't that because the Boy Meets World kid was his brother?

hahahahaha wow! That's kind of cool.

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that Mark's post is sandwiched between Chris Tucker and Fred Savage. That's hardcore!

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I always thought Jerry O'Connell was the Boy Who Could Fly but apparently it was Jay Underwood.

Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Pleasant Plains & Forest Pines.

chap (chap), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Blanchett spells her name wrong, setting herself apart from all the other British Kates.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

She's Australian, besides.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

all the hollywood actors called ben.

emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

What about Reynolds's much-heralded "comeback" circa Boogie Nights?

That was just the one film, and it wasn't even something I paid much attention to. I still haven't gotten around to seeing that movie. This may sound dysfunctional but I'm not really interested in anything porn-related, because the thought of it bores me. Anyway.

Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I confuse Chris Rock and Chris Tucker because they're both called Chris, they're both comedians, they both broke through in the movies around the same, and I'm not too familiar with their acts to know what differentiates them. There's no hidden racism there, I confuse white people with similar names and backgrounds too, like the aforementioned Bills Pullman and Paxton.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 January 2007 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Admittedly, I wouldn't confuse Chris Rock or Chris Tucker with a white comedian, but unfortunately skin colour is one of those traits we tend to notice about people.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 January 2007 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Jingle All the Way
Last Action Hero

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

noodle vague / dog latin

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

weird... we are not the same.

wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

people
shit

vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

confusing chris rock with chris tucker seems slightly less dumb than confusing bills paxton and pullman

vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Joe E Lewis/Joe E Brown

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Joe Besser/Joe DeRita

do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

While watching Little Miss Sunshine last night, I realized:

Alan Arkin / Adam Arkin. I can never remember which is which. The father/son combo is just a cruel joke.

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

molly, you forgot the third man in this situation, Allan Arbus.

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Alan Alda

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

And Alan Alda. xpost!

g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Because they're both WHITE GUYS NAMED MATT! IT CONFUSES ME!

I once dated two white guys named Matt, at the same time. total confusion hilarity.

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I dated two blond Polish girls called Anna who were in the same class at school one after the other.

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm cool with Alan Alda! Every other A-- A-- name makes my brain hurt, though.

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

confusing chris rock with chris tucker seems slightly less dumb than confusing bills paxton and pullman

i think just the opposite.

chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

John Fante and John Fahey

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i think just the opposite.

because Paxton and Pullman are both kinda 'forgettable' as actors?

vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess, i only vaguely recall either and i wouldn't know either if they standing next to me. i think i know which one paxton is but i may be mistaking him for pullman. was one of them the president in men in black?

chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

or no, idependance day.

chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

It's hard for me to confuse Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman because I keep forgetting Bill Paxton exists.

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The star of Aliens!

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

(unless it's the other one)

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Kirsten and Kristen.

barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

bill paxton is the star of nothing

RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

apart from Twister

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

and Predator 2

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

and Terminator

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

and Aliens

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

and Big Love

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

And One False Move, no? Which guy was in The Rapture?

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, that was Will Patton

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

And Club Dread.

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I basically think of Bill Paxton as Coconut Pete in everything he's in now, whereas I think of Bill Pullman as Lone Star (which made Lost Highway freaking AWESOME).

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Bill Pullman
Boring President

vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Julia Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't confuse
Monet
Manet

Have sometimes confused
Goya
El Greco

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Y'all also forgot
Allan Arkush

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was a kid I used to confuse Martin Luther and Martin Luther King.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Adam Clayton

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Larry Mullen, Jr.

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Austria and Australia

When this happened (5th grade), my teacher chewed me out for making such a dumb mistake.

do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i remember hesitantly answering a question in 8th grade with "ottoman...arabs?" at which point mr aie11o punched the chalkboard and bellowed "TURKS!"

mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I usually hesitate before using 'metaphor' or 'simile'.

M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

George Clinton
George S. Clinton

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Les Claypool the musician.
Les Claypool the sound engineer.

blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersen

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Agnès Varda
Agnès B

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Margaret Atwood
Margaret Drabble
(cf Jernigan, by David Gates)

But I never confuse
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Duras

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Jones

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Bill Plympton/Bill Morrsion. I have no idea why.

C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

soulful strut/cissy strut/sophisticated cissy/cissy houston

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Amy Sedaris
Amy Poehler

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

shit/shinola

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

my ass/a hole in the ground

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

person/person with similar name

sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

my ass and my elbow.

chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

oh damn, i suppose i should have read this thread before posting.

chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

as an 11-year-old i confused exotic and erotic to the great amusement of my mom and grandma.

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember in 6 grade science class some kid was reading aloud from a text about amoeba and kept using the phrase "micro orgasm" in a bit of freudian fun.

chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

don't look now and don't look back.

-- emsk (vomit.quif...), January 22nd, 2007 9:39 AM. ( emsk) (later) (link)

I wish we could combine those! And have Bob Dylan murdered by a psychotic midget in Venice! Excellent!

"Something is happening and you don't know what it is- the phone call from the killer dwarf is coming from your own gondola!

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Barbara Harris +
Barbara Rhoades *


+was in a movie with Alan Alda
*was on a TV program with Adam Arkin

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently (+) also did some famous improv scenes with Alan Arkin.

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

rosie o'donell and the ass-end of an incontinent moose.

chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Bergman

but only when talking.

Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux (Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

also, my grandmother once did the micro orgasm thing when reading out a crossword clue. I think the great discomfort I felt probably says more about my (secretly uptight) Freudian unconscious than her slip said of hers.

Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux (Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Kato (Green Hornet sidekick) and Cato (Pink Panther sidekick)

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember Bill Paxton because he was the guy with a Secret New Wave Past and Bill Pullman because he appeared in some Sandra Bullock romantic comedy from the '90s. And Paxton has a tougher, more macho appearance to me (which makes his Secret New Wave Past all the more hilarious IMO). Pullman looks more like he comes from the North.

Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

cavalry
calvary

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, good one Elmo.

Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link

George Formby
George Foreman

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Casey Kasem/Kato Kaelin

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I confused villified and vindicated for a long time.

I always, still, get Mike Ness and Mike Watt mixed up. To my boyfriends everlasting dismay.

aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Bellini and Donizetti

Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I always call Bellini, Boldoni.

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

MSN
M&S

wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought Belle and Sebastian were Tuck 'n Patty for a long time, which made me dismissive of Belle and Sebastian. (I had only heard Tuck 'n Patty). So I said they sucked, and people were surprised that I didn't like Belle and Sebastian, but I didn't know I liked them!

I get Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino confused sometimes. Much to everyone on ILX's dismay, these two confessions, I'm guessing! (The boyfriend is especially dismayed about the DeNiro/Pacino confusion.)

aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Jimmy Webb/Mike Batt

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

John Howard and Louie the Fly

Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Wayne Arthurs and Chris de Burgh

Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"When I was a kid I used to confuse Martin Luther and Martin Luther King."

As an adult playing Trivial Pursuit, two other players almost came to fisticuffs (alcohol-fuelled, which partially explains without excusing) because the dimmer and drunker of the two swore blind ML and MLK were indeed one and the same person.

Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, when speaking, I always say "Billy Colony" (for the Big Yin)

S- (sgh), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

the dimmer and drunker of the two swore blind ML and MLK were indeed one and the same person

I think drunkenness helps, but dimness is a stone-solid requirement for this argument.

Thumpy Screamy (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

My mum always used to tell us she was ravished. I think she meant famished.

Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Ravished/famished is hilarious! Is ravenous the culprit?

aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

cavalry
calvary

don't confuse those, but *do* confuse Calvary and Calgary sometimes.

New Mark H (New MarkH), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

katie holmes and kate richie

gem (trisk), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

lampooned
pilloried

do they mean the same thing?

vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Bronson Arroyo/Bronson Pinchot

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

cavalry
calvary

my new mnemonic for this is the word "chevalier," but it doesn't always work

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

lampoon (n.)
1645, from Fr. lampon, of unknown origin, said by Fr. etymologists to be from lampons "let us drink," popular refrain for scurrilous 17c. songs, from lamper "to drink, guzzle," a nasalized form of laper "to lap." The verb is first attested 1657.

1. a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
–verb (used with object) 2. to mock or ridicule in a lampoon: to lampoon important leaders in the government.


pillory (n.)
1274 (attested in Anglo-L. from c.1189), from O.Fr. pellori (1168), from M.L. pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a dim of L. pila "pillar, stone barrier." The verb is first attested 1600.

1. a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
–verb (used with object) 2. to set in the pillory.
3. to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse: The candidate mercilessly pilloried his opponent.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

also 'lambast'

vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Cavalry is originally from vulgar latin 'caballus', horse.

Calvary is the Latin name for Golgotha and derives from 'calvus', bald, which is essentially what the name Calvin means.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Arturo Bandini/Alberto Beddini

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://whttp://www.mbrem.com/images/calvin.gif

My college newspaper ran a photoshopped version with JC throwing devil horns. Ahhh religion, always good for a laugh.

Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I typo or is that url not functional? I can never tell these things.

http://www.mbrem.com/images/calvin.gif

Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that a painting of jaXon? or his forebearer olde-jaXon? Where's olde-Britney?

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that portrait was taken right after Jaxon was nailed to the door by a papal bull.

Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Benny/Björn

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Curt Boettcher
Budd Boetticher

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Weatherspoons and McCauleys

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

backslash and forwardslash.

Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish we said foreslash instead of forwardslash.

Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Keter Betts
Skeeter Davis

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Booker Little
Walter Booker
Booker Ervin

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

calumny and contumely

Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Alberto Beddini

"For the woman, the kiss. For the man, the sword." That guy? Am I remembering the right movie?

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian Richardson and Robert Stephens.

Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
Agnetha and Frida

craven, Monday, 2 April 2007 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Macy Gray and Angie Stone.

Tuomas, Monday, 2 April 2007 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

brainstorming and barnstorming

rows and columns

Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Alberto Beddini

"For the woman, the kiss. For the man, the sword." That guy? Am I remembering the right movie?

-- M. White (Miguelito)

Yeah, that's right.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

best thread ever

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Productive and entertaining ILX posters/oh I can't be bothered

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

flammable and inflammable

StanM, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Edmund Wilson and E.O. Wilson. And sometimes Edmund Wilson and Edmund White.

jaymc, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Sandy Dennis/Sandy Denny.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Paul Rodgers/Paul Jones

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Edmund Wilson and Edmund White

yah me too

n/a, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup. And sometimes

"Bunny" Wilson/"Bunny" Manders

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(that's mira sorvino and mena suvari)

http://www.trinitysitesoftware.com/images/older_stuff/heroes/dale_big.jpg

"Speak English man!"

C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Gary Oldman/Gary Numan

Huey Lewis and the News/Juliette (Lewis) and the Licks/ Juliette Morris from Newsround = Juliette Lewis and the News

Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

OTM, and also sometimes Naomi Watts. Because I am apparently awful with one-syllable-preceded-by-Naomi names.

Will M., Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Darryl Jones/Busta "Cherry" Jones/Percy Jones/Percy Heath

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

ian johnson and jon williams

bell_labs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

shirley maclaine/shelley winters

impudent harlot, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I ALWAYS say dishwasher when I mean washing machine. I know the difference between the objects and do not put plates through the permanent press cycle, yet you couldn't tell be listening to me talk.

Nubbelverbrennung, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

This may have been covered in skipped posts, but when I open that in this thread, it kills my browser.

Gary Cole is not the same person as Gary Coleman.

Oilyrags, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Bob Mosley/Bob Moses

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

For no good reason at all - Daniel Day Lewis and Gary Oldman.

Oilyrags, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C Reilly

wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, when this thread came out the first time I meant to put
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Baker Hall

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Cutty and Chaki.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Jorge Luis Borges and Victor Borge

snoball, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

That reminds me that I also meant to post
Victor Borge/Victor Buono

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't tell you why, but Rafa Benitez and Jose Mourinho, for a while...

Will M., Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Clap & Clapton (Eric)

...O wait, wasn't the latter named initially as the former? Or am I confusing them both with syphilis?

t**t, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Al Pacino/Robert DeNiro

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenni Murray
Libby Purves

But I know they don't look like each other.

Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Edward Stourton
James Naughtie

(Very British! I have the excuse that they are only ever on radio and I don't see their faces and I listen to them all very early in the morning)

Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

williamsburg
central park west

wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Madame Bovary, Mata Hari and Madame Blavatsky. I always mix them up. Mostly I want to refer to the spiritualist fraud and say Madame Bovary instead.

Heave Ho, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

the earrings of madame bovary

wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

otm

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm mildly dyslexic and always read "applause" as "applesauce". usually the context is a dead giveaway that i have to read that passage again.

chicago kevin, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Ben Franklin and Benedict Arnold. It's a breakfast thing.

I was eating Eggs Benedict one day and said to my husband, "Benedict Arnold flew the kite, right?" To this day Eggs Benedict is now Eggs Ben Franklin.

Philadelphia & Pennsylvania - I always forget which is the city and which is the state.

Yes and Bread - no idea why, but these two bands are completely interchangeable in my mind.

Red/Brown, and Blue/Purple - cos I'm colourblind...

VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 15 November 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

hint: when daryl hannah sings she doesn't go "hey!" at the end of every second line

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 15 November 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ben Franklin and Benedict Arnold.

A pedant writes: Of course you are aware that Eggs Benedict are not named after Benedict Arnold but various other people?

Curiously my friend confuses Eggs Benedict with Eggs Florentine. Which really should be easy to tall apart as one is delicious and the other has spinach.

Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 15 November 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Bob Mosley/Bob Moses

You mean the belligerent blonde bellowing bassist Bob Mosley from Moby Grape??!?

Tom D., Thursday, 15 November 2007 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Man confuses wife with bicycle

blueski, Thursday, 15 November 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean the belligerent blonde bellowing bassist Bob Mosley from Moby Grape??!?
Yes, I can affirm what you have acutely and astutely asserted.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Akim Tamiroff / Nehemiah Persoff

Tom D., Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Good one!

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"Yes and Bread - no idea why, but these two bands are completely interchangeable in my mind."

I have no idea either. They couldn't be more different.

Bill Magill, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

mira sorvino / mena suvari

CharlieNo4, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

keijo / keiji haino

Mark Clemente, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think there are several threads based on that last one.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Alyssa Milano / Mena suvari :(

Heave Ho, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Alyssa Milano/Vanessa Minnillo

Heave Ho, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the letter K and the number 5

SO WEIRD RIGHT??

69, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i kind of hate how handsome matthew dear is

chaki, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

one way crush/requited love

ken c, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hugh Jackman
Gene Hackman

o-ess, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

right
wrong

HI DERE, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

pinot gris/piss

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

another good one

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

David Keith/Keith David OTM, and I raise you:
http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/img/252x190/episodes/season05/ep52_david_keith_252x190.jpg I often mix one or both of these dudes up with them! FRUSTRATING!!

Will M., Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

GOD, DAVID KEITH EVNE KIND OF LOOKS LIKE MICHAEL C. HALL, AND ALSO KEITH DAVID IS A BALD BLACK GOATEED MAN LIKE MATT ST PATRICK! SIX FEET UNDER MUST HAVE DONE THIS ON PURPOSE TO RUIN MY LIFE.

Will M., Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Mick Ronson and Mark Ronson. For months I had no idea why Mick Ronson had returned as a hip new producer.

Merdeyeux, Thursday, 15 November 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, Mick Ronson's dead? That would have been an even more impressive return than I thought it was.

Merdeyeux, Thursday, 15 November 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Sinclair Lewis/Upton Sinclair

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

chi mcbride and that other guy

remy bean, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

the one who looks like him, and plays the same roles

remy bean, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

the letter K and the number 5

SO WEIRD RIGHT??

-- 69, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:52 (1 week ago) Link

http://www.surfnetkids.com/images/scrabble-k.gif ?

aaron d.g., Monday, 26 November 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

it was chi mcbride and charles dutton i always got mixed up. then i saw a picture of them both next to each other, and realized they are not very similar at all.

remy bean, Sunday, 23 December 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link

modest mouse on mars.

not anymore. but i used to.

grebtesthit, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link

matt helm/matt scudder

not anymore. but i used to.
this is true for most of mine

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link

clem snide
nels cline

Z S, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Joe Matt and Joe Sacco

Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Göring and Goebbels

Øystein, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Goddamnit, I'm always getting Action Jackson and Lando Calrisian confused.

-- nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:06 PM (Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:06 PM) Bookmark Link

HI DERE, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Marc Johnson/Mark Egan

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Although I guess that should go on this thread Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link

ron paul and sean paul

bell_labs, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link

a) ^^^ yes
b) the letter K and the number 5

SO WEIRD RIGHT??

-- 69, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:52 (1 week ago) Link

?

-- aaron d.g., Monday, November 26, 2007 7:38 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

probably right too

69, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link

whoops include this
http://www.surfnetkids.com/images/scrabble-k.gif

69, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

gigolo aunts / geraldine fibbers

(cue like half an hour wasted trying to remember-name-of / find-youtube-video for "california tuffy")

nabisco, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link

as i demonstrated on the funk-rock drumming thread, i confuse mani and reni of stone roses.

tipsy mothra, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link

gigolo aunts / geraldine fibbers

(cue like half an hour wasted trying to remember-name-of / find-youtube-video for "california tuffy")

gigolo aunts were boston power pop, that bloom single was a huge local hit when i was in high school. i think they had chloe sevigny on the cover of their major label album?

was california tuffy that "oh palm trees, sway in the breeze, i'll be alone forever" song? that had a pretty good hook if i remember. dammit, now i'm going to have to search for that too.

chicago kevin, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link

wow, that video looks REALLY dated now.

chicago kevin, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link

that video is awesome though, kevin! it was giving me more of a "90s were pretty cool" thing than a "dated" thing.

but yes, rock band members in shorts and whatnot

nabisco, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Def Leppard, Deep Purple, and Jethro Tull.

Motley Crüe and Husker Dü.

It's just because of the names, I don't know any of these bands' music.

Tuomas, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link

An opposite example: The Smiths and The Cure. Obviously I know that these are different bands with different images, but if just hear their music without any other information, I often mix them up.

Tuomas, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link

what

Just got offed, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Well, they're both sort of dangly, wailing indie bands with whiny vocalists. Of course if I see their videos I can tell them apart, because one is lead by a goth and the other one by a mod. But there isn't that much difference in the music.

Tuomas, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link

hmmmm

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link

William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
William Goldman (Princess Bride)

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Judy Henske/Carolyn Hester

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 11 January 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Horton Foote and Shelby Foote

Rock Hardy, Monday, 14 January 2008 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Keith Carradine/David Carradine
David Carradine/David Cassidy

Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 14 January 2008 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link

http://blog.bourneultimatum.it/wp-content/uploads/the-bourne-ultimatum-albert-finney.jpghttp://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0258463/15020.jpg

Albert Finney / Brian Cox - who don't really look that similar to me, but I often get them confused. Particularly after watching the 2nd and 3rd Bourne movies over the past two days where they played similar-ish roles.

joygoat, Monday, 14 January 2008 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link

charles durning / fred thompson

remy bean, Monday, 14 January 2008 07:32 (sixteen years ago) link

steve guttenberg, tom hanks

actually not any more, this was more when i was a kid.

Ste, Monday, 14 January 2008 09:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Michael Jacksons Beat It & Billy Jean

Ste, Monday, 14 January 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link

But they're easy to tell apart: "Beat It" begins with a guitar riff and "Billy Jean" with a synth riff.

Tuomas, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link

it's not so much when i'm listening to them, it's more when i'm talking about them to someone else. Or if Beat It comes on the radio I say "oh i think this is my fave jacko tune" and then realise its not, it's billy jean.

Ste, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I can get that. I always mix "We Are the World" and Jacko's "Heal the World" in my head, to the extent of singing the lyrics of the latter to the tune of the former.

Tuomas, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Susan Sontag and Suzanne Somers
Guided by Voices and His Name is Alive
Recently: Deerhoof and Deerhunter

Paul in Santa Cruz, Monday, 14 January 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Susan Sontag and Valerie Solanos

Mark C, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link

my ass & a hole in the ground

gff, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link

A-plus shinola

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Surprised no one put
Leon Russell/Leon Redbone/Redbone

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Iain Banks/Ian Rankin

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Shoulder/Elbow
Yesterday/Tomorrow
Mick Ronson/Mark Ronson

Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link

William Blake and Robert Blake, unfortunately.

polyphonic, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link

You and David Lynch both.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 17 January 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Maria Muldaur- Midnight At The Oasis/Melissa Manchester- Midnight Blue

James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 19 January 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link

The bands Client, Clinic, and Metric.

naus, Monday, 21 January 2008 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Ricky Lee Jones / Tommy Lee Jones / Tommy Lee

S-, Monday, 21 January 2008 05:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Artie Butler/Artie Ripp/Artie Resnick/Steve Sesnick/Artie Wayne/Artie Fufkin

James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 27 January 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Jeff Barry/Barry Mann

James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 27 January 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

I guess I should have put Artie Kaplan up there too.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 28 January 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Kathy Moffat/Kathy Selden

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link

the bands The 1900s and The 1990s

Simon H., Friday, 8 February 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I used to always mix up Woodward and Bernstein. Never knew who was who.

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link

(I was very happy when people started saying Woodstein, obv.)

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link

robert palmer and robert plant

the sir weeze, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link

although it wouldve been pretty sweet to see robert palmer sing for led zeppelin

the sir weeze, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Jimmie Haskell/Jimmy Haslip

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link

derek jarman and derek jeter

bell_labs, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Paul Krassner/Paul Kantner

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 1 March 2008 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Jeanette Winterson and Marilynne Robinson

Øystein, Saturday, 1 March 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link

I have no idea why, but Schopenhauer and Scriabin.

roxymuzak, Saturday, 1 March 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Taxi and Taxi Driver. Not too much, though. "Time to stick on Taxi Driver and have a few laughs before bed."

Merdeyeux, Sunday, 2 March 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Quentin Crip/Crispin Glover/Crispian Mills. I'm not even sure totally sure who these people are, but I still mix them up.

Tuomas, Sunday, 2 March 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Just the names, I mean. I'm quite sure the actual people are very different.

Tuomas, Sunday, 2 March 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I just realized I've always mixed up Steely Dan and Steeleye Span. Then again, I don't know much about either except that they were 70s rock bands.

Tuomas, Thursday, 3 April 2008 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Steeleye Span was a folkish band whereas Steely Dan was R&B and jazz inflected. To help you out.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 3 April 2008 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Sasha Frere-Jones and Sasha Baron-Cohen.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 3 April 2008 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link

John Updike }{ John Irving

Nothing to do with their names, but I'm always stumbling and getting Cheever in my Updike. And vice versa.

briania, Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

deej and deeznuts
jordan s and big hoos
aimurchie and accentmonkey
tombot and el tomboto
editors and elbow and errors and engineers and envelopes

mookieproof, Saturday, 31 May 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link

thought tombot and el tomboto were the same account. one for admin, one for shootin the breeze like a civilian.

jeremy waters, Saturday, 31 May 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link

same guy, two accounts, i mean.

jeremy waters, Saturday, 31 May 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link

James Caan/Woods

William/John Hurt

Sometimes I get all four of them mixed up.

Pillbox, Saturday, 31 May 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Raymond Chandler / Raymond Carver
Luke Wilson / Owen Wilson
Brian Dennehy / every actor that looks like Brian Dennehy

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 31 May 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link

black metal and death metal

mookieproof, Saturday, 31 May 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Alvin Stardust and Ziggy Stardust.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I mean, what's the point of having two glam rock singers named "Stardust"? Which one of them came first?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link

The legendary Stardust Cowboy.

(ten points to me)

Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link

What's that?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_Stardust_Cowboy

Check it out!

Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Ah, thank you!

Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link

tuomas and doubting thomas

estela, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link

The Spaghetti Incident/The Linguini Incident

Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 November 2008 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link

refute/repudiate

ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Liev Schrieber / Liv Tyler / Liv Ullman
Alvin Curran / Alvin Lucier
Philip Corner / Phill Niblock

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link

david hockney/alan bennett

schlump, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Dennis Quaid and Jeff Bridges

redmond, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't get them confused, per se, but I always seem to forget that Jeff Bridges' name isn't "Jeff Daniels". It takes me a second before I think, "Oh, wait. Jeff Daniels is that other guy."

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link

john barth/roland barthes/donald barthelme

william gaddis/william gass/john gardner

I think I might also get johns barth gardner confused sometimes but there's so much other shit going on that I don't even notice

With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link

john barth/roland barthes/donald barthelme

Don't forget Frederick Barthelme.

jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Andrews AFB

Edwards AFB

she is living in an auto tune (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link

I never thought about that before, but yeah. Me too.

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Gang of Four/Mission of Burma
This is fucked up.

kate78, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Roddy McDowell
Rowdy Roddy Piper

she is living in an auto tune (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link

well done
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007

the pinefox, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Frank Bruni/Franklin Bruno

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link

There's this guy too: Frank Bruno to fight again.

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Borders/Barnes and Noble, ie I cannot tell you which of the two I walk past every day on the way to and from work.

atty at LOL (Jenny), Thursday, 1 January 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Anthony Trollope/Anthony Powell

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link

John Pizzarelli/John Petrucci/John Patitucci

(but not Michel Petrucciani)

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Ron Silver/Ron Perlman

xhuxk e. xheese (jaymc), Thursday, 8 January 2009 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's good. I think there's another Ron in there too.

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Or maybe I'm thinking of when Ron Silver plays himself in "Heat Vision and Jack."

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link

other Rons: Ron Leibman and Ron Rifkin

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 9 January 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, thanks rosemary, it was the first of those guys, the one who played "Kaz."

Ha, Ron Rifkin's imdb page says he is sometimes confused with Joel Grey.

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Mink Deville/Bebop Deluxe

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Gary Oldman (in his third appearance on this list!) and Gary Sinese

okamax, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Gene Orloff/Carl Orff

lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 January 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link

Christopher Walken/Christopher Hitchens

Sarah Jessica Parkour (Batty), Thursday, 15 January 2009 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

James Surowiecki and James Poniewozik

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 19 February 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't get them confused, per se, but I always seem to forget that Jeff Bridges' name isn't "Jeff Daniels". It takes me a second before I think, "Oh, wait. Jeff Daniels is that other guy."

I often mix Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels too. They even look a bit like each other:

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Jeff_Bridges/jeff_bridges.jpg http://www.aolcdn.com/getty/E/2007-04-10/73818115PK009_jeff-daniels-actor-broadway-blackbird.jpg

Tuomas, Friday, 20 February 2009 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Matos/Matmos

RIP Ron, um, Silver.

moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Carl Saff/Carl Orff

moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Robert Patrick/Jason Patric

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Pere Ubu/Yo La Tengo

and

Pere Ubu/NRBQ

Basically, I just don't know who Pere Ubu are.

My Neighbor Toronto (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Ned Sherrin and Peregrine Worsethorne

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Dave Brubeck and Bix Beiderbecke.

Madchen, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Clint Boon (from Inspiral Carpets)
Clint Mansell (from PWEI)

the next grozart, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link

osteopath/homeopath

photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Ben Franklin, Benedict Arnold
I know who they are and what they did, but sometimes when I eat Eggs Benedict I start thinking about Ben Franklin with the kite getting over with the key, and then having to clear my mind and think of traitors.

VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Superchunk/Supergrass

moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link

The various wolf bands, with the exception of Wolf Eyes and AIDS Wolf, the latter being the only one I've actually listened to.

photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Don't forget Peanut Butter Wolf.

moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link

They're one of the wolf bands I get mixed up with the wolf bands that aren't Wolf Eyes or AIDS Wolf. I'm clear on those two.

photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link

For a while it was just Peanut Butter Wolf and Guitar Wolf, and I'd forget which one was Japanese.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Superchunk/Supergrass

on this note, Superchunk / Superdrag / Supertramp. I know who they all are, but still have to think for a second whenever I see any of their names.

Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I always get this, and I have no idea why because they don't look similar and I'm aware of what films they are respectively in so should never really get them confused.

http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/eon/images/defoe1.jpg

http://www.motleycrow.com/imagehost/christopher_walken22.jpg

Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link

I heard a song by Steaming Wolf Penis on Paper Thin Walls. The review did an excellent job of describing it. I miss that site.

photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Pee Wee Ellis/Pee Wee Russell

moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Ca. 1987, all these TV shows were on the air, none of which I've actually seen:

Cagney and Lacey
Kate and Allie
The Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Jake and the Fatman

Somehow the 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman also gets mixed up in there.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link

take over
overtake

despite having gone to school and everything

Zoe Espera, Monday, 4 May 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link

I think you have those mixed up not_goodwin, but maybe that was the point.

homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 May 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link

paul weller/paul westerberg

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 4 May 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Cascada and Kaskade

if, Monday, 4 May 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Ozric Tentacles
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Ned's Atomic Dustbin

(Never heard anything by these bands, but I mix up the names.)

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Lunch/Dinner (I'll say I'm having dinner when I mean I'm having lunch and vice versa. Incredibly annoying.

DJ Khaled El-Amin (dyao), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 08:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Jethro Tull/Uriah Heep
John Martyn/Roy Harper

woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 09:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Used to have serious trouble with Jean Claude Van Damme and errr, the other guy. I just spent five minutes on Google trying to figure out his name, but whenever I think of a movie he's in, it turns out it's Van Damme!

I will not yield!

He was in something with Henry Ford, I think. Wait, no, that guy's not named Henry Ford... Henry... He was in the Fugitive! Harrison Ford!

Oh for crying out loud, I just clicked through a whole lotta Ford titles on IMDB and still didn't find m... OH WAIT It's Steven Seagal!

That was not worth it at all.

Øystein, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link

I think you have those mixed up not_goodwin, but maybe that was the point.

― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 May 2009 16:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark

twas the point :)

not_goodwin, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link

The Kinks
The Jam

I know one of these is from the 60s and one from the 80s, but I can't remember which one is which.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link

The Kinks were from the 80s. They had that song called "Come Dancing".

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Tuomas
Fake Tuomas

Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link

peter sarsgaard & stellen skarsgaard

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Lindsay Duncan and Lesley Manville

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 10 May 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link

lonnie liston smith & dr. lonnie smith. i just found out they're not the same guy.

m coleman, Monday, 11 May 2009 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link

burt reynolds and tom sellacks

chip dumstorf, Monday, 11 May 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link

jeremy london and jason london

i'll get me mountain goat (omar little), Monday, 11 May 2009 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Reynolds and Selleck, me too!

Madchen, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Haha, I didn't THINK I mixed those two up, until I looked them up now and uhm, Tom Selleck looked like I expected Burt Reynolds to look and vice versa!

Øystein, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link

I've been mixing up Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck ever since I was a kid.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Thomas Mann/Hermann Hesse

Marco Pierre White/whoever the other chef I always think is Marco Pierre White is.

Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link

I had to break it to the s.o. the other night that John Oates of Hall and Oates and Warren Oates were not the same person.

giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

lonnie liston smith & dr. lonnie smith. i just found out they're not the same guy.

― m coleman, Monday, May 11, 2009 8:30 AM (1 week ago)

This common phenomenon was mentioned over here: TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Limp Bizkit
Linkin' Park

Two nu metal bands with two-word names which both begin with "Li", I have absolutely no idea which is which. Nor could I name any songs from either.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka.

Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link

emily watson and emily mortimer.

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link

joss whedon and will wheaton - two people whose names appear on the internet a lot who don't do anything i care about.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen. And their families.

Madchen, Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Milton Keynes and Milton Freeman
John Maynard Keynes in there somewhere

xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Frightened Rabbit and the Twilight Sad

Glasvegas and the View

krakow, Saturday, 30 May 2009 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Only realized just now:
Ivy Compton-Burnett and Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Perhaps all those people recommending Compton-Burnett weren't mad after all -- I will have to find out soon! If anyone happens to have advice on where to begin, I'd appreciate it.

Øystein, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Simon Callow and Simon Cowell. I don't get the people mixed up, but I have to think hard before saying either of their names to make sure I get the right one.

Madchen, Thursday, 4 June 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Sean Kinney
Sean Yseult

"Gin And Juice," the baddest groove in years (kingkongvsgodzilla), Monday, 8 June 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Budapest / Bucharest
Borromini / Bernini
Michelle Branch / Vanessa Carlton

henry s, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link

David Brenner and Bruce Jenner

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Ha!

barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Billy Jean and Dirty Diana.

Madchen, Sunday, 28 June 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry, I believe that should have been Billie.

Madchen, Sunday, 28 June 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Project Runway personality Tim Gunn, British poet Thom Gunn, and film scholar Tom Gunning.

sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 13 July 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I have no idea what the difference between minivans and SUVs is. (But I don't know shit about cars in general; haven't had a valid driver's license since '97 and hadn't driven anything at all since June of '94 - two days before OJ's Bronco chase, in fact.)

Holy shit, I'd never registered Elias Koteas was Casey Jones in the TMNT movie!

In that pic he looks like a younger version of Dharma's dad in "Dharma & Greg":

http://www.wchstv.com/abc/dharmagreg/alanrachins.jpg

Tuomas, Monday, 13 July 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Danny Goldberg/Danny Fields

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 July 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Melatonin and Melanoma

naus, Thursday, 13 August 2009 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Mikhail Bakhtin and Mikhail Bakunin

Øystein, Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Jeff Tweedy and Jack Tweed.

Madchen, Monday, 17 August 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Alyssa Milano and Dana Plato. Each time I read the AM thread I say, "Wait, isn't she dead? Why are they talking about her as if she's alive?" Then I go "OK, who am I thinking of?"

nickn, Monday, 17 August 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Saskatchewan and Saskatoon.

Josefa, Monday, 17 August 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I have only just realised (from the remixes thread) that Carl Craig is not Carl Cox.

(That said, I did think that Calvin Harris was Calvin Johnson for about a year, and really wondered what on earth had happened to Dub Narcotic Sound System.)

I can be really dumb sometimes.

Evren Kader (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Daniel Johnson / Calvin Johnson.

Safe to say, no relation....

Mark G, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link

the Avalanches
the Arctic Monkeys

Mistook the former for the latter until the "Your favorite album of the 00's - PICK ONLY ONE " thread.

Shakim O'Collier (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Biloxi Blues
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Torch Song Trilogy

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link

(They all just turn into this amorphous award-winning alliterative semi-autobiographical 1980s Broadway blob.)

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Daniel Johnson / Calvin Johnson.

Safe to say, no relation....

― Mark G, Wednesday, August 26, 2009 10:45 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

especially because you're probably thinking of Daniel Johnston

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link

or maybe not, i don't know

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link

I always get those t's mixed up.

Mark G, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link

August Kleinzahler
Augusten Burroughs

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link

(I'm good on August Wilson, though.)

jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell.

Madchen, Saturday, 29 August 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Impetigo and Vitiligo

naus, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Sophie B. Hawkins and Sophie Ellis-Bextor

naus, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 06:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Roger Clemens / Roberto Clemente / Bob Clemens. Which is sort of ridiculous apart from all being baseball players. Also, the third played for like one season almost a hundred years ago and I don't know how I know who he is.

oing oing oing (╓abies), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 06:36 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to mix up Roger Clemens and Wade Boggs!

naus, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 07:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Haha. Maybe just try to remember that Wade Boggs did those hair loss commercials.

oing oing oing (╓abies), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link

emily watson and emily mortimer.

i opened the thread to post this, with the addition of emily blount.

smitty (get bent), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 07:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Gene Loves Jezebel
Gorky Park

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 3 September 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Isabella Rossellini
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Hugh Manatee (WmC), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

William Goldman
William Golding
William Gibson
William Gibson

jaymc, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link

(Oh, I see the first two were already posted. I don't really get the sci-fi writer William Gibson confused with anyone else, but it's confusing that there's a playwright also named William Gibson, along with writers Goldman and Golding.)

jaymc, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link

The Junior Boys are *NOT* Junior Senior.

girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 12 September 2009 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Fat City/Stay Hungry

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Simon Oakland/Claude Akins

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Douglas Brinkley/Alan Brinkley
Jack Williamson/Jack Vance
Nostromo/Norstrilia
Ric Ocasek/Karen O

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2009 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Joe Higgs/Joe Gibbs

toast alien, remember barbecue!! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 October 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

for some reason

actors marshall bell (kuato!)

http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsB/1276-20175.gif

and geoffrey lewis (known best maybe for playing the outlaw leader in high plains drifter)

http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsL/10294-2541.gif

they're not even really of the same era, i guess they just always showed up in various interesting roles and kinda looked slightly similar.

jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 07:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Laurell K Hamilton/Peter F Hamilton
The Separation/The Alteration

BIG STROON aka the santaclara drug (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 November 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link

John Wyndham/John Christopher
Triffids/Tripods

Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Ford Madox Ford/Ford Madox Brown

Raggett Out Of Denver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 November 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Richard Karn/Richard Kind

Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Greg Bear/Gregory Benford

steenship HOOSiers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Spike Lee / Spike Jonze (funnily not Spike Jones)

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Val Wilmer/Hal Willner/Spike Wilner

the embed's too big without you (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Andy Garcia and Mark Strong. Seriously, I thought these two were the same person until very recently.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/images/bank/programmes_tv/drama/300longfirm_strong3.jpg http://www.boston.com/ae/sidekick/blog/Andy_Garcia_XX.gif

Madchen, Saturday, 2 January 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Gogol Bordello/Dresden Dolls

I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 January 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Ballad/Silence

Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Saturday, 2 January 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Taylor Swift / Hanna Montana

Dinosauciers (los blue jeans), Saturday, 2 January 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Rikki Fataar/Rikky Rooksby

nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2010 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Americans have heard of Rikky Rooksby?

(I know he's written a couple of books but they're in a pretty over-crowded field and I know the name mostly for him writing for many years for a magazine that was handed out free in music equipment shops across the UK)

(PS seems a good guy and have probably learnt a few things from him, so this is not intended as an insult)
(PPS Kompakt act The Field's real name is Axel Willner, if you want to add anyone else to the confusion whirlpool)

brett favre vs bernard fevre, fite (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 4 January 2010 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Lightning Bolt
Lightning Seed

I sb'ed your mum (ken c), Monday, 4 January 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link

for a sec I thought you meant Val Kilmer, so Val Wilmer/Kilmer

=皿= (dyao), Monday, 4 January 2010 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link

Axl Rose
Hulk Hogan

I sb'ed your mum (ken c), Monday, 4 January 2010 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link

mitchell and webb, mitchell and ness

=皿= (dyao), Monday, 4 January 2010 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link

Cardiacs ≠ Cardigans

Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Lilith
Judith

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Probably not the thread for this, but
the "h" that seems to have gone missing from John Entwistle's name and appeared in Pete Townshend's.

lex submerge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 January 2010 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Sean Wilentz (historian)
Sean Wilsey (memoirist, friend of Alex in NYC)

Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link

B'nai B'rith / Baha'i

Dinosauciers (los blue jeans), Friday, 15 January 2010 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Key Cars
K-Cars

kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 25 January 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Clan of Xymox
Xmal Deutschland

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 13 February 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Roger Williams / Roger Miller

we like the cars. the cars that go burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb. (los blue jeans), Sunday, 14 February 2010 07:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Michael Alig
Michael Azerrad

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 18 February 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Wheatus and Weezer. Both were punkish American rock bands that had a novelty hit song in the 90s, never could remember which was which.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Ween and Weezer for me.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Sheila E / Sheena Easton

in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Lucinda Williams / Victoria Williams

xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 29 April 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Gil Evans (Miles Davis arranger) vs. Bill Evans (Miles Davis pianist) vs. Bill Evans (Miles Davis saxophonist)

Bill Magill, Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Jeremy Vine and Jeremy Kyle.

Madchen, Thursday, 6 May 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Jeremy Vine and Jeremy Kyle.

are brothers, by different father.

not_goodwin, Thursday, 6 May 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Noel Coward / Cole Porter

alimosina, Thursday, 6 May 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Boyz 2 Men / They Might Be Giants

I have no explanation for this, but I do mix them up. I'm not sure if I've ever heard either one's music though.

Tuomas, Thursday, 6 May 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link

Fiona Apple / Jewel

alimosina, Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link

François Bayle / Frankie Boyle.

Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Monday, 10 May 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Cymande / Mandré / Mandrill

Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link

andres malraux, gide and brink

henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link

haha jim

nakhchivan, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Scissor Sisters
Switchblade Symphony

kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Boyz 2 Men / They Might Be Giants

I have no explanation for this, but I do mix them up. I'm not sure if I've ever heard either one's music though.

this is amazing.

peacocks, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link

for years I wondered how this dude had time to come up with so much stuff considering he was only famous for being tall and died pretty young

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow

I was confusing him with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

A Picture Where Dorian's Gay (S-), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Irving Azoff/Samuel Z. Arkoff

flintstones in my passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Warren Ellis/Garth Ennis

My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link

It has only recently come to my attention that Evan Parker and Andrea Parker are not the same person. o_0

let me mansplain that to you (Masonic Boom), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Warren Ellis/Warren Ellis

Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Ha. That's like
Christopher Priest/Christopher Priest

flintstones in my passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link

It's an easy mistake to make!

Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Sons of Adam/Children of Men
tempera/tempura

Poldark City (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Tony Moreno/Tony Marino (drums/bass respectively)

Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Frank Rich
Frank Bruni

jaymc, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Dean Jagger/Dean Jones/Dean Stockwell

Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Neil Morrissey and David Morrissey.

Madchen, Monday, 11 October 2010 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Kenneth Fearing/Kenneth Anger
Roy Ward-Baker/Roy Thomas Baker/George Roy Hill

buffalo stence (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 October 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Record labels Matador and Matinee

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 14 October 2010 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't get these mixed up, but watching Licensed to Kill last night I was amazed at how not only does he sound like Julian Barratt, Dalton also had very similar eyes.

F-Unit (Ste), Thursday, 14 October 2010 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link

Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck

A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 14 October 2010 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link

kenneth tynan and kenneth anger

henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 14 October 2010 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Kenneth Tynan and Kenneth Turan

jaymc, Thursday, 14 October 2010 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Death Cab For Cutie
Dismemberment Plan

kkvgz, Monday, 7 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I mean, I realize that neither of these are trending topics anymore, but on the jimi hendrix vs nirvana thread:

I thought Geir's random comment had something to do with the Postal Service being a Seattle band or something but Postal service: Tamborello - California, Giddard - Washington. So I guess it was just one of his trademark inflammatory comments.

― Moka, Monday, February 7, 2011 11:16 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Seattle is in Washington as well, Moka. Gibbard is from Bremerton, which is a 55-min ferry ride away from Seattle.

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Monday, February 7, 2011 11:22 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I thought Drugs A. Money had the wrong Washington.

kkvgz, Monday, 7 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman.

http://www.wildsound-filmmaking-feedback-events.com/images/keira_knightley_natalie_portman.jpg even now i'm not certain looking at that.
it's really only Black Swan that's helped me seperate the 2 in my head.

also i read an article in Premiere in about 1987 once about people getting Charles Durning and Brian Dennehy mixed up and have been doing it ever since.

piscesx, Monday, 7 February 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Wow, do they have the same surgeon or something?

Madchen, Monday, 7 February 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Knightley was in fact the decoy Queen Amidala in The Phantom Menace.

Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Monday, 7 February 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Angry Samoans/Tragic Mulatto

Groovy Goulet (pixel farmer), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

FBS/FCS

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Sha Na Na sax player Lennie Baker/SNL sax player Lenny Pickett

The 33 1/3 Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Kirsty Wark and Kirsty Young.

Madchen, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link

Middle names of:
Robert Anton Wilson/Robert Anson Heinlein

Lullaby of Boradland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link

The Straits Times and the New Straits Times.

Madchen, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Albert Finney / Brian Cox

Myers and the Obese Olympics triceratops climbing event (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Kat Dennings / Katt Williams

Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 19 February 2011 06:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Add Kat von D to that one.

kkvgz, Saturday, 19 February 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Frank Rich
Frank Bruni

― jaymc, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 2:06 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark

^^^

mary quantized (get bent), Saturday, 19 February 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link

adele
estelle
amerie

sleepingbag, Sunday, 20 February 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Carlos Castaneda, Cornelius Castoriadis (but never confused with Cornelius Cardew, although for some reason I used to always say the wrong one out of him and Christian Marclay, even though I knew full well who each one was).

emil.y, Saturday, 26 February 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Anthony Bourdain
Andrew Zimern

kkvgz, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The existence of Milton Friedman may be what makes me mix up the composers Milton Babbitt and Morton Feldman.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link

+ morton subotnick

69, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Death Cab For Cutie
Dismemberment Plan

― kkvgz, Monday, February 7, 2011 4:25 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

2003's "death and dismemberment tour" would have been a real shitshow for u

(i know it was for me)

69, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link

Also, Broken Social Scene.

kkvgz, Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link

Karen Allen, Margot Kidder, Debra Winger.

Lee Marvin and James Coburn.

Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels.

Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton.

Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link

(And yes I know Pullman/Paxton is an oldie - just being completist about the inventory of my head.)

Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link

James Toback/James Komack
Goober/Jughead

Suspicious Hive Minds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link

i'll echo all on ye mad puffin's list. Weird.

the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link

CVS and CSV

due to CVS' proximity to my work and CSV's applicability to my work, they come up pretty often, and i always have to stall for a second while i figure out which is which. wish the cvs was a walgreen's tbh

larry buttz (Z S), Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link

farrah fawcett and that other one

the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels.

for many years my distinct visual memory of Tron had Jeff Daniels's face on the lead character.

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 20 March 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Horst Buchholz and Maximilian Schell

Josefa, Sunday, 20 March 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm still not convinced that Jeff Daniels wasn't a co-star in Tron. I can vividly picture him in the costume with the blue face and everything.

Also at times get Jeff Bridges mixed up with Kurt Russell.

http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 20 March 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah

Faye dunaway, that's farrah fawcett's confusion twin in my head

the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 March 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link

otoh i always think jesse eisenberg is several different ppl but no it's just him.

the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 March 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Visual mix-up:

Lately, when I see a tabloid at the supermarket with Rob Pattinson on the cover, I mistake him for Pete Doherty and wonder what the fuck he's doing on a magazine.

kkvgz, Monday, 21 March 2011 12:06 (thirteen years ago) link

It's kinda unfair to say this but Jesse Eisenberg has become the guy you call when Michael Cera's busy.

Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

or that other guy i always think jesse eisenberg isn't
is there a guy on SNL that could be a physical eisenberg? was in hot rod?

the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link

You may be thinking of Andy Samberg.

I think on second thought that what I just said is prolly no longer true post-Social Network

Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Joyce Carol Oates / Ruth Bader Ginsburg

harrumph. (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Lee Marvin and James Coburn.

^these are the same guy.

Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton.

yes x1000

ENBB, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link

fye hmv

kkvgz, Monday, 4 April 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link

FCS and FBS. I can't ever remember which one is for BCS teams and which one is for the former D-1AA football teams.

ᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᕕᒃ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 4 April 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Karen Allen, Margot Kidder

haha yes

if you wanna gamble, take that shit to vegas (Ste), Monday, 4 April 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Richard Ford
Richard Powers
Richard Price
Richard Russo

jaymc, Thursday, 7 April 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Ha, that's great. I would add:
Richard Yates

POLL Along The Watchtower (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link

I guess I don't think of Yates in that cluster because he's from an earlier era.

New one:

Matt Bai
Matt Taibbi

jaymc, Sunday, 10 April 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link

lee marvin/james coburn otm.

and total cosign on this:

The existence of Milton Friedman may be what makes me mix up the composers Milton Babbitt and Morton Feldman.

butterfield earth (get bent), Sunday, 10 April 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

just had the timely realisation that there is no distinction in my head between The Black Crowes and Counting Crows.

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 29 May 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link

karl malden & karl malone

a thong of ice and fire (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 29 May 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link

don juan & don knotts
― estela (estela), Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:02 AM (4 years ago)

Don Revie/Don Bradman

Spirit of the Me Hive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 May 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Richard Lloyd
Richard Hell

kkvgz, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's a good one because they both appeared in the same story at different points, like a Dick Sargent/Dick York mix-up.

The Narcissism of POLL Differences (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link

The Levellers; New Model Army.

anatol_merklich, Friday, 24 June 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Bevis Frond
Bardo Pond
Ozric Tentacles

kkvgz, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Still, after all these years, Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood.

Madchen, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link

The Levellers; New Model Army.

Duh, I just realized why. Stage name of singer of NMA, etc.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Penis
Penalize

coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link

Pickaxe
Pick Acts

coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Struggling with alliterative band names of the last very few years: Cut Copy, Crystal Castles, Friendly Fires...

anatol_merklich, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Arcade Fire and Friendly Fires.

Madchen, Friday, 1 July 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Friendly Fires and Fiery Furnaces

kinder, Friday, 1 July 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link

If you are of a certain age you might also add to the confusion with
After The Fire

Bevis Frond
Bardo Pond
Ozric Tentacles

― kkvgz, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:28 AM (3 days ago)


^this

Hairdresser on FIOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 July 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Laura Ingalls Wilder / Louisa May Alcott

los blue jeans, Sunday, 10 July 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Sheldon Leonard/Sidney Sheldon

This should also have had Sherwood Schwartz, RIP

Let Me Rickroll It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link

kim gordon / kim deal

Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link

YES.

Madchen, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link

kelley deal / kim deal

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link

INDEED YES.

Madchen, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Used to mix up Kim Fowley and Kim Wilde for some reason.

Kim Thayil has managed to stay above the fray.

Let Me Rickroll It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Keith Urban
Keith Sweat

kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Marti Caine
Marti Webb

brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Marty Feldman
Morton Feldman

brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Tony James
Brian James

naus, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Know perfectly well who they are but still sometimes mix up
Jonathan Rosenbaum/Jonathan Schwartz

All Hopped Up and Ready To POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link

James Brooks (Broadcast News, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), James Bridges (The Paper Chase, The China Syndrome).

clemenza, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh yeah.

All Hopped Up and Ready To POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link

James Brooks / Albert Brooks

*sails away* (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link

If I only catch very brief glimpses of them in a preview or trailer, I always get Rob Corddry and Paul Scheer mixed up.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 22 July 2011 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link

In spite of the recent palaver, I still confuse Robert Maxwell with Rupert Murdoch.

Madchen, Friday, 22 July 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link

single twin, twin sister, twin shadow

Who? Well, I've never heard of Mogwai. (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link

rong thread j1m

Paul Scheer's a different height, different head shape and always distinguishable by his gappy grin, but I'm still not entirely certain Corddry and David Koechner are separate people.

naked hdsl (sic), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Matt Tilley, Justin Hamilton and the bloke who plays Wilfred

½ Louise Mensch (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link

(oh i always get those ~three~ mixed up)

½ Louise Mensch (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Crazy Harry/Harry Hippie/Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

(Anarchist Muppet/Jim Ford song about Bobby Womack's brother/1974 car chase movie starring Peter Fonda and Susan George)

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link

c sharp major
a passing spacecadet
(plus occasional drew d aliases)

sorry!

mookieproof, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link

I just realized I have been confusing Derek Jakobi and Ian Holm, don't know why.

MrDasher, Saturday, 30 July 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

uh, Jacobi, that is.

MrDasher, Saturday, 30 July 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Hot Dog the Movie and
Hamburger the Motion Picture

MrDasher, Saturday, 30 July 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Should know better but

Marimba/Kalimba

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link

robert palmer and robert plant

― the sir weeze, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Came here to post this.

naus, Monday, 1 August 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link

I just realized I have been confusing Derek Jakobi and Ian Holm, don't know why.

For me, it's Derek Jacobi and Derek Jarman.

jaymc, Monday, 1 August 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Ira Robbins (Trouser Press) and Ira Kaplan (New York Rocker, some band).

clemenza, Monday, 1 August 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Byron Coley (Forced Exposure) and Gerard Cosloy (Conflict, some record label).

clemenza, Monday, 1 August 2011 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Frank Owen and Frank Kogan. (At least in 1988 I'd get them confused.)

clemenza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Ira Robbins (Trouser Press) and Ira Kaplan (New York Rocker, some band).

― clemenza, Monday, August 1, 2011 7:56 PM (27 minutes ago)


Yes! I'd also throw in Andy Schwartz (New York Rocker) and Wayne Robins (Newsday)

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link

How about Andy Schwartz (New York Rocker) and Andy Shernoff (New York rock guy)? I used to get them mixed up all the time.

clemenza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, them two too. Doesn't the latter guy, from the Dictators, misspell his name Adny? He was misspelling long before the internet, he was way ahead of his time.

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link

My first search was "Adny Shernoff," just to double-check, and all I got back was "Andy." But I guess we're right.

clemenza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Achewood and Torchwood

bentelec, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link

That's what I remember from Please Kill Me, phil.

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Throw in Fernwood, too, bentelec.

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Just checked the first three albums right off the shelf--Adny on every one. (Underscoring something the aforementioned Frank Kogan pointed out recently: it would have taken me two seconds to reach over to my left and check the albums, but I instinctively checked Google first.)

clemenza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Also underscores that he is not famous enough/that fact is not important enough to insure that somebody would undo the spell-checkers hypercorrection so it ends up gets drowned out in the ethernet.

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Eileen Brennan and Ellen Burnstyn

Veronica Cartwright and Angela Cartwright

The Haunting of Hill House and The House on Haunted Hill-I know which is which, it's just the titles that momentarily get me.

MrDasher, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Eileen Brennan and Ellen Burstyn

and then Ellen Barkin had to come along...

Michelangelo Matos and Marcello Carlin

Josefa, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link

László Kovács (Hungarian-born cinematographer, key to "new Hollywood" films of the '70s) and Vilmos Zsigmond (Hungarian-born cinematographer, key to "new Hollywood" films of the '70s).

clemenza, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Yes. Also add Victor Laszlo, the character in Casablanca, and László Kovács, the alias Jean-Paul Belmondo uses in Breathless. Apparently the name László Kovács is like the John Smith of Hungary so there are probably a few more of them, but I don't know them so I don't mix them up.

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Marvin Hamlisch and Engelbert Humperdinck

it is a nine-dimensional exposure-based ** "fairy" faction (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I got Ian Holm confused with another Brit TV drama actor bloke for years but I can't remember who, now. It may have been Jacobi!

Crazy Harry/Harry Hippie/Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

Dirty Mary / Crazy Larry / on the run from Dirty Harry / Stash the cash in the dash but my gun I did carry

generous loller at dollies (sic), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Marvin Hamlisch and Engelbert Humperdinck

Marvin Hamlisch and Marvelous Marvin Hagler

Barney Greengrass/Barney Google/Barney Fife

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Dirty Mary / Crazy Larry / on the run from Dirty Harry / Stash the cash in the dash but my gun I did carry

forgot about this. thanks

Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link

raymond carver and chandler. i always figure it out before saying anything, but it often takes a second to double-check

future events are now current events (Z S), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Also add Victor Laszlo, the character in Casablanca, and László Kovács, the alias Jean-Paul Belmondo uses in Breathless.

You could also probably throw in Ernest Laszlo, a cinematographer who was nominated eight times for an Academy Award through the '60s and '70s (winning for Ship of Fools). Truthfully, I wasn't even aware of him till I started checking into László Kovács earlier.

clemenza, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link

DL and DG (posters to this very board, for those of you have no clue what I am on about)

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 8 August 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

NRBQ Classic or Dud

Viriconium Island Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Should be:
NYRB Publishing
NRBQ Classic or Dud

Viriconium Island Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link

eden ahbez/ebn-ozn

Zingling Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link

William Morris and William Blake.

jel --, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link

DJ AM
DJ A-Trak

naus, Saturday, 27 August 2011 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

chupacabra/capybara

Agent Double O POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 September 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Pierre Boulez (composer)/Pierre Boulle (author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes)/Pierre Boileau (co-author of novels made into Diabolique,Vertigo and Eyes Without a Face)

An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

john woo and john yoo

mark s, Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Adlai Stevenson and Steven Adler

manic pixie fream girl (rip van wanko), Sunday, 9 October 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Armenia
Serbia

(specifically owing to Serj Tankian, who I just discovered is actually Lebanese, rather than Armenian)

rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Born in Lebanon but of Armenian heritage. (The "-ian" ending is a common feature of Armenian surnames.)

jaymc, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Thank you for the clarification! The gas station man was listening to one of their albums this morning. I'm probably 12 years late, but I'm thinking about checking them out.

rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Thomas Wolfe and Tobias Wolff.

glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link

I once wanted to make a crossword puzzle with

VIRGINIAWOOLF
THOMASWOLFE
TOBIASWOLFF
NAOMIWOLF

But the symmetry was off.

jaymc, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/913/Focke-Wulf_FW-190F-2.jpg

mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

They don't look anything alike, but for obvious reasons I'll mix up Kathy Bates and Kathy Baker--if I see either name anywhere, I'll have to stop for a couple of seconds to remember which is which.

clemenza, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Kathy Bates and Kathy Burke!

mark s, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link

trying to recall the canon of silent comedians, i repeatedly found myself reaching for ben nicholson when i meant ben turpin <-- this is actual senility kicking in though

mark s, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Mike Leigh / Spike Lee.

dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link

I've had the same Kathy Bates/Baker problem as Clemenza. I've never seen Misery, so for a long time I thought the doctor from Picket Fences plays the lead in it.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link

Patricia Richardson / Patricia Clarkson / the woman who died after skiing into a tree.

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Dylan McDermott Mulroney

billy, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Patricia Richardson / Patricia Clarkson / the woman who died after skiing into a tree.

Skiing victim Natasha Richardson and Miranda Richardson, for me.

Ice Old Bee (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Kenneth Lonergan and Lodge Kerrigan

buzza, Thursday, 13 October 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Dangerous Liaisons / Steel Magnolias

heavy vibes at the estate sale (los blue jeans), Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link

cheese and fonts

koogs, Friday, 14 October 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Kirsty Young and Kirsty Wark.

Madchen, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Nicole Scherzinger / Kim Kardashian

LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Kay Thompson/Kay Kendall

An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Gordon Parks/Gordon Willis

Christopher Lee/Christopher Plummer

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link

George Orwell
Orson Welles

(think a lot of people get these mixed up).

dog latin, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Dangerous Liaisons \ Fatal Attraction

dog latin, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Chuck Wepner/Jerry Quarry

You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link

When people talk about Hal Hartley, I have, prior to today, thought they were talking about Hal Sparks.

rustic italian flatbread, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Gary Matthews, Garry Maddox. (At least I did in 1973.)

clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link

Classics IV's "Spooky," Classic IV's "Stormy." They're easy to tell apart when you actually hear them.

clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Atlanta Rhythm Section and the Townsend Sanford Band

pplains, Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Connelly (they both have the dark hair and the bangs and they were in kidd-ish movies)

Andy Kindler and Andy Milonakis (only because their names are both Andy. Kindler was on a podcast & I started it thinking ugh I hate this guy and then I heard him talk and I was like, wait, that's not the guy I hate.)

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Atlanta Rhythm Section and the Townsend Sanford Band

omg

band of uitsmijters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I can only speak for lecherous old men: we don't mix up Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Connelly.

clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah I got almost angry looks from husband when Moving In Stereo played on the radio and I started prattering about Jennifer Connelly...he cut me off and was like DUDE. YOU MEAN PHOEBE CATES.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Man, Phoebe Cates! I had a huge preteen crush on her because of the Gremlins movies, but I haven't thought of her for years! Whatever happened to her?

I had to Google image search Jennifer Connelly to get Clemenza's comment, but I think I know what he means now.

Tuomas, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link

I think I used to kind of-but not entirely- mix up Phoebe Cates and Jami Gertz

Angela Baddeley and Hermione Baddeley

MrDasher, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, APPARENTLY!

(I was sorting out mum's and dad's books several months ago -- gathering them into piles from bookcases all over the house* -- and I just started boxing them up, and noticed that I had two completely piles, ostensibly an Austen and a Bronte, but each pile was an equal mix of both.)

mark s, Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Jane Austen/Jane Eyre

Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^Yes haha I worked out as I sorted the piles out that THAT was the actual confusion I was making, plus JA's Emma w/Emily Bronte (the Bronte pile was all three Brontes, tho obv that's minly Charlotte).

mark s, Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link

The films of Wuthering Heights/Jane Eyre/Rebecca. One has Joan Fontaine, one has Laurence Olivier, one has both.

Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 November 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Sometimes a Great Notion/Something Happened

Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Heidi Julavits/Judith Shulevitz

Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 November 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Annie Leibovitz / Fran Lebowitz

...options. (Ówen P.), Sunday, 13 November 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Some of the cohorts I posted here I didn't really mix up at all at the time of posting but now upon re-reading I do mix them up. Feel like either the very act of posting somehow upset some delicate equilibrium or maybe I knew that eventually time's arrow and fortune's wheel would grind me down so that I would mix them up.

Mayne ... Or Astro-Mayne? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link

The French Kicks / Les Savy Fav

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Ahh. (los blue jeans), Sunday, 15 January 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link

Julian Lage/Lage Lund

What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link

Elizabeth McGovern/Elizabeth Perkins

Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link

Wow, that wasn't already on here?

What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link

By weird real life imitates virtual reality coincidence- or is it? - my last Mixed Up pair, Julian Lage/Lage Lund, was brought up in conversation tonight.

The Koozebane Kronikles (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 January 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Vinnie Appice
Apple Cider Vinegar

beachville, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link

Every time I see Richard Riehle, I think it's Brian Doyle-Murray.

http://content6.flixster.com/photo/91/98/92/9198924_ori.jpg
http://web.me.com/havensfoot/www.eyeofthehurricanemovie.com/CAST_files/154701_177681392245735_125639677449907_682622_4761036_n.jpg

But never the other way around.

pplains, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link

hmmm.... maybe

The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link

Soup Dragons/Spin Doctors

Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link

Charleston / Charlotte

^ Not Medical Advice (los blue jeans), Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

John Milius and Walter Hill. I say one, I mean the other. AND I KNOW WHO THEY ARE. It's so dumb.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

Charleston / Charlotte

I get Charleston and Columbia, SC, mixed up because of Charleston, WV, and Columbia, Mo.

pplains, Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link

Soup Dragons
Stone Roses

getting good with gulags (beachville), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link

Phyllida Lloyd / Phyllida Law.

Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link

Phyllida Law, Phyllida Barlow.

Madchen, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link

Charleston / Charlotte

I constantly mix up Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA. Both being moderate-sized, exceptionally pretty, colonial era, coastal Southern cities with more good restaurants than their size would warrant.

Josefa, Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

Apparently:

Roger Kimball
Roger Scruton

Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link

Savannah and Augusta. One has an art school, one has a golf course.

pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link

Heard someone at a party the other day mix up Sri Lanka and Shangri La. Thought that was cute.

Josefa, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

Natalie "Sonia in EastEnders" Cassidy

and

Natalie "Carol in Hollyoaks" Casey

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

Saul Friedlander
Shalom Auslander

Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Court and Spark
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

fruitsbs (beachville), Monday, 23 April 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link

Canary Wharf and Canada Water.

Madchen, Monday, 23 April 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link

I took this grainy photo of my son in the streetlight and it came out all green. The pose kinda looked like Joni Mitchell's on the cover of Blue, so of course I made the pun based on Kind of Blue by Miles Davis.

Lucky I guess I didn't call it Some Kind of Green.

pplains, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link

Kathleen Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan
Anna Quindlen

Josefa, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link

Syria
Sudan

fruitsbs (beachville), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

rob delaney
rob huebel

meek mill
mac miller

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link

Lee Tracy & Lee Patrick

MrDasher, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link

Until 5 minutes ago I thought Karen Allen and Margot Kidder were the same actress

poxen, Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Alain Badiou
+ Pierre Bourdieu
= Anthony Bourdain

???

emil.y, Friday, 25 May 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link

john frankenheimer
john schlesinger

Ward Fowler, Friday, 25 May 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

John B Anderson/John Anderson/Bill Anderson
(presidential candidate/country singer/country songwriter and game show host)

ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

Albert Lee/Alvin Lee/Arthur Lee

ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 June 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

^ a lot of times I'm joking in this thread, but in all seriousness I always see lance ito's face when alito's name comes up.

goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link

a lot of times I think I am joking on this thread and then I look at a little while later only to find that I am mixing them up.

ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link

David Lowery & David Lovering

MrDasher, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

Roy Hodgson
Ray Haughton

anatol_merklich, Friday, 31 August 2012 12:01 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

It took me a while before I realized that Purity Ring was not the emo band

los blue jeans, Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link

Il Posto
Il Postino

The first is one of my favourite films, the second I haven't seen; I always have to think for a few seconds to remember which one's which.

clemenza, Saturday, 22 September 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Dan Chaon
Dan Chiasson

Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link

I saw Richard Madeline the other day and said to my friend "hey look isn't that Tony Wilson?"

always get those mixed, even though one of them is dead.

PSOD (Ste), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Almost went got a ticket to see Ed Kowalczyk before I realized he wasn't Mark Kozelek

a pizza-based environment (los blue jeans), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link

Bruno Mars/Jason Miraz/Olly Murs

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 19 November 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link

Denys Arcand
Jacques Audiard

Jake Roo (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Daisy von Furth

tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link

Bangor/Bangor/Bangalore

Never knew whether The Beatles, Mike Love and the weirdos were in Maine, Wales or India.

Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

St3ve Go1db3rg
Steve Hoffman

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 6 December 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link

Bangor/Bangor/Bangalore

Never knew whether The Beatles, Mike Love and the weirdos were in Maine, Wales or India.

― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:00 (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or Northern Ireland

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 6 December 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link

Mowgli & mogwai

MrDasher, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link

Mike Cooper / Michael Chapman

(convinced there's another 60s folk/blues maverick who also gets mixed up ... and I don't mean Michael Hurley)

Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link

Natalie Portman and Keira Knightly. i cant tell them apart.

One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link

Chris de Burgh
Chris Rhea
Chris Isaak

emil.y, Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

Vision of Trees
Voices From The Lake
Vessel

besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 17 December 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link

Jimmy Page
Robert Plant

:/

anatol_merklich, Friday, 21 December 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link

Whaaaaaat...

pplains, Friday, 21 December 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

ik,r...

Not total mixuppage, but usually I have to hesitate for a second to make sure I'm not thinking of the other one:
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne Sofie von Otter

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 22 December 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link

The Residents
The Replacements

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 23 December 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link

^ oh I always get those two mixed up too!

Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link

If that is indeed the case, I think you should remove the Eyeball from your screenname

Rastaquouere Vibration (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link

Dolph Lundgren
Rutger Hauer

epistantophus, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link

^^^^

Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link

Black Heart Procession
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

how's life, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link

Watching Dr. No the other night, I realized that Ursula Andress, Elke Sommer, and Britt Ekland kind of merge into one person for me.

clemenza, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link

Apparently I get Kenny Loggins mixed up with Kenny Rogers. Perfectly understandable, really.

Aimless, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link

when I finally got around to separating Britt Ekland and Bo Derek I realised that I don't really know who Bo Derek is.

Merdeyeux, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link

Pauline Oliveros
Iannis Xenakis

1.5GB of audio-destroying fluff (los blue jeans), Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link

nilmar honorato da silva
nakhchivan

mookieproof, Sunday, 6 January 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link

yeah

things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link

i used to get djmartian and dj mencap confused

not the posters as such cuz there is more than a rizla between those two, but yeah definitely the names

things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link

man this weekend i got concupiscence and callipygous mixed up; i told my friend "there is totally a word for a big great ass, it's con... cahhhh.... concupiscence, look it up!" she did and it just means "kind of slutty." i wasn't trying to be mean!

ehkarl, Monday, 7 January 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://i48.tinypic.com/hwctnl.jpg

naadje draadje (unregistered), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link

Mika Vainio
Mykki Blanco

Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 26 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

Petraeus
Pistorius

how's life, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link

Conclaves and enclaves.

Madchen, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:57 (eleven years ago) link

Enclaves and exclaves.

Especially since one of those can also be the other.

pplains, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link

Whenever I see the name Townes Van Zandt - whose music I have never consciously listened to - I have to remind myself that it's not Captain Beefheart.

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link

just remembered a while back I used to confuse Dirty Projectors and New Pornographers

space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 11 March 2013 01:51 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Joan Bakewell, Polly Toynbee and Nancy Banks-Smith.

Madchen, Saturday, 6 April 2013 09:47 (eleven years ago) link

Hinge & Bracket and the Hairy Bikers

OutdoorFish, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link

Rebecca West & Rose West - this is quite a bad one.

Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link

don weiner/bill magill

What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 April 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

neon indian/fuck buttons

huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 May 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link

hilary spurling/francis spufford

Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link

Jimmy Ienner/Jimmy Iovine

Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

Jen Kirkman / Julie Klausner

ZOT (los blue jeans), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link

Until 2 minutes ago, I thought that Jeff Lynne was famous for, in reverse chronological order, producing The Beatles' Anthology singles in the 1990s, being part of the Traveling Wilburys in the 1980s, and in the 1970s recording a musical version of War of the Worlds.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

For some reason today I mixed up Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Fassbender.

epistantophus, Thursday, 13 June 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link

On behalf of Barack Obama, George Osborne and Jeffrey Osborne
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10131363/Obama-confuses-George-Osborne-with-RandB-singer.html

Madchen, Thursday, 20 June 2013 07:18 (eleven years ago) link

well this is embarrassing

gene siskel and gene shallit

I know who they are, but I find myself picturing one when I'm thinking of the other. :(

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

Young Marble Giants/Stone Temple Pilots

click here to start exploding (ledge), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 11:07 (eleven years ago) link

Walt Whitman / Henry David Thoreau

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link

yuka osawa and fareeza terunuma

dylannn, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link

james holden / jon hopkins / maybe another producer dude too?

precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link

Keith Tippett/Keith Jarrett

schlock corridor (WilliamC), Friday, 26 July 2013 13:25 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Brown noise and brown note.

Madchen, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 12:08 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Eberhard Weber / Eberhard Schoener

Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 2 September 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

Bruno Mars and Ollie Murs

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 2 September 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link

Michael Bay and Michael Mann.

franny glass, Monday, 2 September 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link

cher lloyd, charles lloyd

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link

The 5th Dimension and the First Edition

Brad C., Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

Joan Cusak
Rosemary Clooney

how's life, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Simon May
Simon Park

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 September 2013 11:05 (eleven years ago) link

lalo schiffrin and labi schiffre

thomasintrouble, Thursday, 19 September 2013 12:15 (eleven years ago) link

Kenny Loggins and Kenny Rogers.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 19 September 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link

julian fellowes and julian barnes for a moment

conrad, Thursday, 19 September 2013 12:34 (eleven years ago) link

Percival Lowell/Robert Lowell

Cuz, y'know, Percy is a poet's name.

I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 September 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link

I still get Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell mixed up. Makes no sense. Especially since I want to call Jeff Bridges "Jeff Daniels" half the time.

The kids were watching a talking dog movie the other night that starred both Beau Bridges and Kurt Russell and my brain did a quarter-flip.

pplains, Thursday, 19 September 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link

Hottentots
Huguenots

click here to start exploding (ledge), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link

Just today: Pentangle and Pentagram.

Liquid Plejades, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link

Geometry fail :)

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 October 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link

or Satanism fail

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 October 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link

Ususally when someone is talking about music, and I'm trying to determine if they love/hate metal/folk music. Also thought for awhile that both bands were called Pentagram, which doesn't help with my confusion at all. nb My geometry is stronger than my satanism.

Liquid Plejades, Friday, 18 October 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link

The Oak Ridge Boys / Black Oak Arkansas

a loving tribute to coworkers without personalities (los blue jeans), Monday, 21 October 2013 07:01 (eleven years ago) link

/ Blackfoot Sue

Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 21 October 2013 10:04 (eleven years ago) link

Just sorta realized Jessica Biel and Michelle Williams are two different people.

pplains, Saturday, 2 November 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link

i confuse michelle williams with carey mulligan.

Treeship, Saturday, 2 November 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link

craig breslow/jeremy blevins

brimstead, Saturday, 2 November 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link

Kenny Loggins and Kenny Rogers.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:30 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dan Hartman and Dan Fogelberg is sort of an alternate dimension version of this.

brimstead, Saturday, 2 November 2013 02:41 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Rick Ross
Rick Rubin

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 22 November 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link

ilxor.com and www.ilxor.com

pplains, Friday, 22 November 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Marchant

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 26 December 2013 03:25 (ten years ago) link

Tim Hardin
Tim Buckley

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 26 December 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link

They don't look anything alike, but for obvious reasons I'll mix up Kathy Bates and Kathy Baker
Kathy Bates and opera singer Stephanie Blythe, because they do look something alike.

Timi Yuro & Kiri Te Kanawa

a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:12 (ten years ago) link

Short Circuit and Batteries Not Included.

Madchen, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 11:09 (ten years ago) link

Scott Aukerman and Jesse Thorn

a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link

10cc and XTC

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link

Charlie Weaver/Grandpa Jones
Whispering Jack Smith/Whistling Jack Smith
Steve Almaas/Steve Alaimo

Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link

I thought George Maharis and George Chakiris were the same person until just recently.

They were actors from the 1960s that none of you care about.

Josefa, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 06:59 (ten years ago) link

I CARE

a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link

Until the Top 77 Tracks of 2013 thread, I now realise, I thought that Paramore and Rolo Tomassi were the same band. I was surprised by how poppy those Paramore tracks were, given their screamo past.

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 27 January 2014 10:24 (ten years ago) link

Paul Newman's voice
Richard Dreyfuss' voice

pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 27 January 2014 10:29 (ten years ago) link

So that's Chakiris up there in the orange shirt... who's the other guy?

Josefa, Monday, 27 January 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link

Not sure. Always get them mixed up.

Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link

At any rate he is the only one in don't know in that still.

Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link

I don't know

Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link

The still is from The Young Girls of Rochefort, so Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac.

nickn, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link

Ah. Grover Dale.

Josefa, Monday, 27 January 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"Associate Professor" vs "Assistant Professor" -- I can never remember which is tenure track

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link

plusnet and yorkshire tea adverts

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link

Kate Winslet
Cate Blanchett

still not sure.

pplains, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link

I don't remember if I already mentioned Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper. It's come up again with the death of Shirley Temple.
I used to confuse Sam Sheppard and Jeffrey MacDonald; Ruth Snyder and Winnie Ruth Judd; and Dr. Pritchard and Dr. Crippen.

MrDasher, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link

Shia LaBeouf and Sleepy LaBeef.

clemenza, Thursday, 13 February 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link

Tim Hardin
Tim Buckley

― Iago Galdston, Thursday, December 26, 2013 6:40 AM (1 month ago)

Throw in Tim Rose, too--the Late-'60s Folksingers-Named-Tim Rule.

clemenza, Thursday, 13 February 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link

and Tiny Tim!

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 13 February 2014 00:45 (ten years ago) link

Not an "always" but I just remembered that I bought my first Depeche Mode cassingle because I was trying to hunt down "Plastic Jesus".

how's life, Saturday, 15 February 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link

This is ridiculous but...
Willem Dafoe
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Day Lewis
(I'm serious)

doglato dozzy (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 09:41 (ten years ago) link

Peppadews and Papadums.

nickn, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Mercator Projection
Maillard Reaction

how's life, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Kelly LeBrock
Kelly Brook
Kele Le Roc

It's as if these three women are conspiring to confuse us!

Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Phil Manzanera
Ray Manzarek

emil.y, Sunday, 29 June 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link

me too!!

La Lechera, Sunday, 29 June 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Galaxie 500 and Guided By Voices

Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link

Chris Hardwick / Will Wheaton

model nguyen (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link

James Brolin / James Garner :(

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link

Tejay Van Garderen and Andrew Talansky.

Madchen, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link

Mike Carey
Joe Casey

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

neil young's pono
miyazaki's ponyo

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

bernie sanders
barry sanders

Treeship, Monday, 15 September 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link

Arianna Grande
Azealia Banks

how's life, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:43 (ten years ago) link

the numbers 4 and 7. Like, in sequences or whatever.

zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:50 (ten years ago) link

Barry Andrews
Barry Adamson

Mark G, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:55 (ten years ago) link

Pharoah Sanders
Colonel Sanders

zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link

jking

zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link

jking/jsavile

Mark G, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:04 (ten years ago) link

Arianna Grande
Azealia Banks

me too

Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:16 (ten years ago) link

Arthur Russell
Arthur Baker

Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:18 (ten years ago) link

Arianna Grande
Azealia Banks

add Iggy Azalea to this list too.

zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:21 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

James Ellroy & Elmore Leonard

los blue jeans, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link

Richard Metzger
Tom Metzger

how's life, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link

ongoing prog rock confusion:

Anthony Phillips
Anthony Moore

john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 11 October 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link

KC & The Sunshine Band
Katrina & The Waves

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 17 October 2014 09:20 (ten years ago) link

katrina is the one who has the song about walking on the sunshine band

john wahey (NickB), Friday, 17 October 2014 09:42 (ten years ago) link

I get KC & Sunshine Band mixed up with Kool & the Gang quite a lot.

Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Friday, 17 October 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link

LFO and LFO

Iain Mew (if), Friday, 17 October 2014 10:20 (ten years ago) link

Scopus - online database
and
Sophos - anti-virus software

Ocado - a website from which I sometimes buy groceries

and

Opodo - a website where I book flights and hotels

Grandpont Genie, Friday, 17 October 2014 12:21 (ten years ago) link

richard metzger
richard meltzer

I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link

Tatsuya Yoshida
Toshiya Tsunoda

𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𠁢 (+ +), Friday, 17 October 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link

b cumberbatch and z quinto

Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Monday, 27 October 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link

Tarkovsky
Tartakovsky

koogs, Monday, 27 October 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link

margo martindale & ann dowd

slam dunk, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 08:45 (ten years ago) link

xp: yes!

how's life, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 08:46 (ten years ago) link

donald glover
danny glover

example (crüt), Monday, 3 November 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link

robert enke and tim wiese, two german reserve goalkeepers of the mid 2000s, one known for having committed suicide and the other for retiring early and training to become a wwe star

disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Saturday, 15 November 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Gary Burton / Gary Peacock
Larry Coryell / Larry Carlton (who at least play the same instrument!)

Root It Oot (Tom D.), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link

Sean Young/Debra Winger

some sort of mental block with me

Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link

Robert Morris / Robert Smithson

read tonnes about them over the last couple of years but still they blend together

Merdeyeux, Friday, 12 December 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link

Adam Goldberg
Jason Reitman
Jason Schwartzman

how's life, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link

russell haswell bill laswell

tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link

bill frisell, too

fgti, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link

Amy Adams
Amy Ryan
though I think I've finally got it.

nickn, Thursday, 25 December 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link

Alan Parsons
Alan partridge

dont even ask

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 December 2014 06:12 (nine years ago) link

Tate Donovan
Martin Donovan

fgti, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link

Sid Caesar
Cesar Romero

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link

Maui Jim and Panama Jack

los blue jeans, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link

Robert McCammon, Michael McDowell, David Morrell (horror novelists)
Nezval and Nerval (writers)

I somehow get William Sloane and John Blackburn mixed up because some of their book titles have a similar feel.

Dino Buzzati and Guido Buzzelli

Writer John Blackburn and director Richard Blackburn

Used to mix up Judy Collins and Shirley Collins

H Rider Haggard, R Chetwynd Hayes, H Russell Wakefield

Porn/glamour models are the worst for this. There are several women called Suzy Q and Brooklyn Jade.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link

bellinis / blinis

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 1 January 2015 13:18 (nine years ago) link

lands' end and l.l. bean

man alive, Sunday, 4 January 2015 05:57 (nine years ago) link

Judy Greer & Kathryn Hahn

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:52 (nine years ago) link

Land's End and Cotton Traders (parental favourites both).

Madchen, Thursday, 15 January 2015 09:38 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Dwight Garner
Dwight Macdonald

Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Friday, 30 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link

On my TV that is -- specifically on the ballstreams app

walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 03:01 (nine years ago) link

Whenever I hear "Mark Ronson" I momentarily think "Mick Ronson" -- which is usually hilarious

walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link

Same thing as the previous post (which gives me a chance to say how gruesome "Uptown Funk" is). Weird one: every time I watch Heat, I initially think Ted Levine--who I know is in the film--is the Waingro character. But Waingro is played by Kevin Gage; Levine's character, Detective Bosko, doesn't show up until after the opening robbery.

clemenza, Saturday, 21 February 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link

Anthony Bourdain and Guy Bourdain.

Madchen, Thursday, 26 February 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link

That momentary excitement when I think someone wants to talk about Buster Keaton.

Dave fischer, Thursday, 26 February 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link

david schneider and david graeber

cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link

uvula and urethra. be glad I am not a urologist or a otolaryngologist.

Aimless, Monday, 9 March 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link

Adam Goldberg
Jason Reitman
Jason Schwartzman

― how's life, Thursday, December 18, 2014 12:42 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Schwartzman was on WTF in mid-January and Maron suggested that he start a band with Goldberg.

how's life, Monday, 9 March 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link

I once saw Mildred Pierce and Double Indemnity a few weeks apart, and I was convinced that Joan Crawford's husband (Bruce Bennett) and Fred MacMurray's boss (Richard Gaines) were played by the same actor.

http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/hbrix7h3.jpg http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsG/105377-5249-0.jpg

I checked, and they were only born two years apart.

clemenza, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

hurling (sport) and curling (sport)

I keep thinking hurling is the one with the broom. I'll have to come up with a mnemonic to get these straight.

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link

courtney barnett
courtney tidwell

cgi bubka (NickB), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link

bruce haack
ron geesin

cgi bubka (NickB), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:01 (nine years ago) link

chris paul and cliff paul

dynamicinterface, Friday, 27 March 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Young Thug
YG

louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Friday, 17 April 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link

Ted Templeman
Russ Titelman

brimstead, Saturday, 18 April 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link

Jeff Goldblum
Orlando Jones

brimstead, Saturday, 18 April 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link

Ralph Maccio
Scott Baio

brimstead, Saturday, 18 April 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link

Dokken
Kix

brimstead, Saturday, 18 April 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link

lee desmond
lee konitz

brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link

lots of jazz ppl, tbh

brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link

dianne reeves
diane schurr

brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link

Until 2 minutes ago, I thought that Jeff Lynne was famous for, in reverse chronological order, producing The Beatles' Anthology singles in the 1990s, being part of the Traveling Wilburys in the 1980s, and in the 1970s recording a musical version of War of the Worlds.

― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, June 7, 2013 2:51 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still getting mixed up. I thought that the War of the Worlds guy got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He certainly deserves one.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link

Ben E King and Percy Sledge. And to make matters worse, they've gone and died within a couple of weeks of each other!

:(

Madchen, Friday, 1 May 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link

I may struggle with telling Hailee Steinfeld from Shailene Woodley, Dermot Mulroney from Dylan McDermot, and possibly Djimon Honsou from Chiwetel Ejiofor.

But I don't have trouble telling Ben E King from Percy Sledge. I could better understand Ben E. King being conflated with Sam Cooke, or Percy Sledge being conflated with Otis Redding.

Conflatable: Joey Lauren Adams / Renee Zellweger.

Conflatable: James Coburn / Lee Marvin.

Somewhat conflatable: Lorrie Moore / Ann Beattie.

Somewhat conflatable: Karen Allen / Margot Kidder / Debra Winger.

Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 1 May 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link

Do NOT get me started on Bob Hoskins/Phil Collins.

https://emeraldreprobates.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/bob-hoskins.jpg

Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 1 May 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link

Do you really get them mixed up or do you think they just look very much alike each other.

pplains, Friday, 1 May 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link

warner baxter
ronald colman
george brent

drash, Friday, 1 May 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link

Ben E King and Percy Sledge had re-issued singles in the charts at more or less the same in 1987. Stand By Me got to number 1 and When A Man Loves a Woman to number 2. So the confusion has been there since I was 12.

Madchen, Friday, 1 May 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

RIchard Deacon/Roger Bowen

Maria Felix Kept On Walking (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2015 12:49 (nine years ago) link

Good one.

clemenza, Sunday, 7 June 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link

Thanks.

Richard Schaal/Richard Stahl

Maria Felix Kept On Walking (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Bernie Sanders/Barney Frank

example (crüt), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link

Florence and the Machine
St. Vincent

how's life, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

John Lackey and Jon Lester.

clemenza, Friday, 24 July 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link

Ohio Express and Ohio Players, but usually just for a few seconds.

nickn, Friday, 24 July 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link

Would make a great oldies double bill.

Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Friday, 24 July 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link

Theodore Bikel
Ted V. Mikels

Josefa, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link

Pete Shelly > Peter Schilling > Planet P

pplains, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link

Ted Templeman
Russ Titelman

Yes, and coincidentally both worked with Beefheart (separately).

Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link

aramis ramirez, asdrubal cabrera

brimstead, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood.
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I've always mixed Tobey McGuire and Jake Gyllenhaal too, maybe because they've both played angsty teenagers.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, January 24, 2007

I'm watching some of Spiderman 3 on TV, so let me add Tobey Maguire and Topher Grace.

clemenza, Saturday, 22 August 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link

i still get tobey maguire & elijah wood mixed up

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 August 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sasha Frere-Jones

Sharia Law and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 22 August 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link

not 'always' but a current mental muddle between:

spongebob squarepants
sufjan stevens

Merdeyeux, Saturday, 5 September 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link

Michael Ball/Michael Bublé

soref, Saturday, 5 September 2015 00:27 (nine years ago) link

only realised this recently because there's a 20-something girl I work with who occasionally talks about how much she fancies Michael Bublé, and I always thought this was odd and was not the kind of guy I thought she would go for, and then I found out that the man I was picturing was actually Michael Ball

soref, Saturday, 5 September 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link

Jonathan Franzen
Jonathon Letham

Aimless, Saturday, 5 September 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link

Last night:
Juan-Carlos Formell
Juan Diego Flórez

Bon Iver Meets G.I. Joe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 September 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link

Bikini Kill
Babes in Toyland

:(

i know who they are, i love them, but everytime i say one I mean the other ;_;

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 September 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link

carver coover cheever

no lime tangier, Saturday, 5 September 2015 02:38 (nine years ago) link

frogs and toads

Jeff, Saturday, 5 September 2015 09:51 (nine years ago) link

Beck, Bogert & Appice and Betts, Bogaerts & Ortiz.

clemenza, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Lester Del Rey
Lana Del Rey

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 25 September 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link

mike read
mike reid

(actually, i don't, i just can't remember which is spelt what)

koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

U.S. Maple
U.S. Bombs

how's life, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link

Andy Samberg
Andy Zaltzman

soref, Monday, 26 October 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link

collegehumor.com
funnyordie.com

naus, Monday, 9 November 2015 08:39 (nine years ago) link

amy schumer
amy poehler

naus, Monday, 9 November 2015 08:40 (nine years ago) link

amy schumer
amy poehler

― naus, Monday, November 9, 2015 8:40 AM

niels, Monday, 9 November 2015 08:49 (nine years ago) link

Amy Sedaris
Amy Poehler

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Thursday, 25 January 2007

koogs, Monday, 9 November 2015 09:45 (nine years ago) link

Sarah Cracknell
Sarah Vowell

how's life, Monday, 16 November 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link

No I.D.
Oh No

expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Monday, 16 November 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Gotye and goatse.cx

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 14 December 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link

Patrick Dempsey / Patrick Duffy

los blue jeans, Saturday, 19 December 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link

Sabotage and Saboteur. I just did, today, on a Hitchcock thread.

clemenza, Sunday, 20 December 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Carole Schneeman
Charlotte Moorman

Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 January 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link

Carolee

nickn, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link

Two musical acts next to each other on my phone:

Zamilska
Zammuto

I know what each sounds like. I have no idea which is which.

canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 12:15 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Strictly old school:

Robert Culp/Robert Webber

The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 January 2016 12:45 (eight years ago) link

^ One way to tell them apart:

Webber appeared on most of the "NBC Mystery Movie" shows, including Banacek, Tenafly, McCloud, McMillan and Wife, McCoy, and Quincy M.E., but never on Columbo
Culp appeared on Columbo several times but never on the other "NBC Mystery Movie" shows

Josefa, Sunday, 31 January 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link

Ryans Reynolds and Gosling. I know who they both are, but show me a picture of one of them and I can never remember which one it is.

ailsa, Sunday, 31 January 2016 23:33 (eight years ago) link

Oh shit, I didn't even know they were different people. One of them was supposed to be the handsomest man in the world a few years back, right? What is the official organization for measuring that type of thing?

how's life, Monday, 1 February 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link

I do that with phillippe and gosling

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Learned_behavior (los blue jeans), Saturday, 6 February 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link

Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Goo Goo Dolls

Tuomas, Sunday, 7 February 2016 07:42 (eight years ago) link

Pooh Sticks/Tindersticks

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 February 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link

Pete Namlook
Phil Niblock

ogmor, Saturday, 13 February 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link

Philip Corner / Phill Niblock

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:51 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Poor old Phill :(

Demeraray & Essequebo (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 February 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link

michael kidd-gilchrist
michael carter-williams

lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link

Angry Samoans / Tragic Mulatto

if thou gaz long into the coombs, the coombs will also gaz into thee (WilliamC), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link

Jan Patočka
Jan Potocki

Again, I know the difference between them but if you say one it's going to take me some time to filter in my head which one it is.

emil.y, Saturday, 20 February 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link

Marissa Marchant / Marissa Nadler

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link

Rod Dreher/Ross Douthat

Mars Capone (WilliamC), Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link

Harry Dean Stanton
Dean Stockwell

For some reason until today I thought the same guy who was in Alien was also in Battlestar Galactica.

Tuomas, Friday, 26 February 2016 11:45 (eight years ago) link

Alison Brie
Brie Larson

Madchen, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, I've been doing that, with a periodic diversion into trying to remember which was the one in Desperate Housewives before realising that Bree van den Kamp isn't even a real person.

ailsa, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 09:07 (eight years ago) link

Madchen OTM

tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Max

^^I don't really have a handle on who either of these two are but was vaguely aware of them as objects of scorn for American ilxors, only realised today that they are two different people. (I think I just pictured Tucker Jenkins whenever I saw either of their names tbh)

soref, Saturday, 5 March 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link

Slint / Sloan

los blue jeans, Monday, 7 March 2016 02:07 (eight years ago) link

For the longest time I was extremely confused about the simultaneous existence of the bands Golden, Smog, and Golden Smog. Not to mention that Golden had a record called "Golden Summer," which made me think there might have been a separate band called "Golden Summer"

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 14 March 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link

And don't get me started on Gordon Sumner...

nickn, Monday, 14 March 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link

Laura Mvula
Laura Mulvey

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 17 March 2016 13:25 (eight years ago) link

Recently embarrassed to realize that my mind had, over time, not only conflated Edward Snowden with Julian Assange, but that I had thought that the leaker for wikileaks was named Bradley Beal.

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 20 March 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link

Flowers in the Attic
Flowers for Algernon

I have read neither of these, so that's probably why.

emil.y, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link

DJ Mencap / DJ Martian.... they might be the same person, for all I know.

A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Monday, 21 March 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link

Flowers for Algernon
All Summer in a Day

makes no sense, h8 my brane

los blue jeans, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link

This one is completely weird and I have no idea why, but:

Heath Ledger
Brendan Fraser

emil.y, Saturday, 26 March 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link

CNN's Kate Bolduan and Brianna Keilar, about five times a day.

clemenza, Saturday, 26 March 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link

Monte Hellman
Monte Markham

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link

EQUAL TEMPERAMENT
JUST INTONATION

lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 8 April 2016 05:07 (eight years ago) link

Not anymore, though, beginning today

lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 8 April 2016 05:09 (eight years ago) link

Rachel McAdams
Amy Adams

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 21 April 2016 10:02 (eight years ago) link

And sometimes I realise it's actually Jessica Chastaine.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 21 April 2016 10:03 (eight years ago) link

Zizzi
Zavvi

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:15 (eight years ago) link

A Single Man
A Serious Man

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:44 (eight years ago) link

Carly Simon
Carole King

and it's a shame because I really like Carole King!

JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link

Just remember that she was the one who sang "You've Got a Friend".

pplains, Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link

I used to consistently confuse Carole King and Carol Kaye, but I think the fact that I made that mistake in public a few times drilled the correct signifier-signified connections into my head.

emil.y, Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link

I have often muddled them, no more Carol Ks please

ogmor, Thursday, 28 April 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link

I knew there was another one.

(Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link

for me it's Carole King and Carole Bayer Sager

los blue jeans, Friday, 29 April 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link

Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Lawrence

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 29 April 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link

upcoming gigs here by both white fang and white lung, is this a conspiracy to befuddle me?

real orgone kid (NickB), Monday, 2 May 2016 11:55 (eight years ago) link

Yesterday, pit bulls and bull terriers.

Liquid Plejades, Monday, 2 May 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link

Anthony Nolan and Leonard Cheshire.

Madchen, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:27 (eight years ago) link

John Cena and someone else, a singer maybe?

I want to say John Mayer, but I don't know. Can't google the other guy since I keep thinking his name is John Cena and that's the wrestler.

pplains, Thursday, 5 May 2016 13:15 (eight years ago) link

I can never remember which one is Jesse Eisenberg and which one is Michael Cera.

Camberwicker Man (onimo), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link

Henry Darger (outsider artist)
Harvey Danger (flagpole sitta)
Henry Danger (tv series)

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link

This article is about the television series. For the writer, see Henry Darger. For the explorer, see Henry Dangar.

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link

jonathan taylor thomas
joseph gordon levitt

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Bob Crewe/Bob Gaudio

The Wally Funk Bible (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 May 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link

When I was a kid, Sheena Easton and Sheila E. No such problem now, though.

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link

Marissa Nadler
Marissa Wompler
Marissa Mayer

how's life, Monday, 23 May 2016 09:29 (eight years ago) link

Marissa's are a minefield.

Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Monday, 23 May 2016 09:47 (eight years ago) link

Just mentally mixed up
Vince Van Patten/Jan-Michael Vincent

Abotheroverpollnyothread (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link

Used to get Jan-Michael Vincent mixed up with Claude Van Damme.

pplains, Thursday, 26 May 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link

Ha, yes indeed

Abotheroverpollnyothread (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 May 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link

Martin Freeman
John Simm
think I can tell them apart but do momentarily think one is the other on seeing them.

Stevolende, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:24 (eight years ago) link

In that vein, I tend to confuse Martin Clunes (from Men Behaving Badly) and the guy who plays the main characters' teacher in The Inbetweeners. Though I guess I wouldn't confuse them if I saw them in real life, because the Inbetweeners guy appears to be a giant.

Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:34 (eight years ago) link

^ Greg Davies, 6ft 8

koogs, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:36 (eight years ago) link

A giant twat.

Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:54 (eight years ago) link

tim cahill
kim thayil

real orgone kid (NickB), Friday, 27 May 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link

When I was a kid, tax preparer H&R Block and cartoonist Herblock. This confused the hell out of me.

a man a plan alive (man alive), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link

Bowles
Fowles

mario vargis loosa (wins), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link

shane black
shane meadows

Simon Park
Simon May

Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link

Toby Jones
Toby Young

I genuinely have a mental block on Toby Young's name and keep thinking he's called Toby Jones. I totally know who Toby Jones is, and that he's not Toby Young. I know who Toby Young is but I can never remember that he's not called Jones.

ailsa, Thursday, 2 June 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link

palate and palette.

but weirdly, never pallet and either of the other two.

Grandpont Genie, Monday, 6 June 2016 10:45 (eight years ago) link

Bourdain, Badiou and someone else - Alain de Botton, I think.

inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Monday, 6 June 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link

Peter Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer

Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Monday, 6 June 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link

Bourdain, Badiou and someone else - Alain de Botton, I think.

― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Monday, June 6, 2016 3:33 PM (47 minutes ago)

Argh, Badiou and Bourdieu were always the ones I got mixed up. Every time.

emil.y, Monday, 6 June 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

Citizen Cope
Citizen King
Citizen Fish

how's life, Monday, 6 June 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link

Citizen smith?

inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Monday, 6 June 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link

dow
dowd

Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, me too. I don't know which of us was first (I was just watching Harvey when. I registered, have had other usernames before)

inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link

Raymond Chandler and John Cheever

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link

jj cale
john cale
boz scaggs

somehow they're all blobbed together as one person in my head & i have to stop & think ok no john cale didnt sing "cocaine" etc

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link

jj cale - cocaine
john cale - heroin
boz scaggs - lido

pplains, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link

thx

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link

I definitely mix up John and JJ.

Madchen, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link

John wrote a song about it! First line: I never wrote a song called "cocaine"

He liked cocaine tho. and skagg too so there's your link

oh, amazonaws (wins), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link

lol

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link

y'all should hang out on the bass boards more:

http://i.imgur.com/pHlRreJ.png

pplains, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link

Two 80s bands:

Breathe
Breathless

real orgone kid (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link

Grand Street
Granta

Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 June 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link

upton sinclair lewis

no lime tangier, Monday, 20 June 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link

also: melvyn bragg/malcolm bradbury

no lime tangier, Monday, 20 June 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link

Morgan Stanley
The Michael Stanley Band

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 24 June 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link

The Rich Kids
The Real Kids

Secondary Modern Prometheus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Stone Creamery

how's life, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link

Ira Gitler
Todd Gitlin

Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 July 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link

Uk politics posters that want corbyn out and blairites

poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 1 July 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link

Raymond Chandler and John Cheever

i mix up raymond carver and john cheever, but also raymond carver and raymond chandler, so my mix-up may intersect with yours somewhere

i also for some reason get so confused between aubrey beardsley and cy twombly that i just spent ten minutes trying to remember cy twombly's name

Jared Kushner and Jared from Subway

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 7 July 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link

The latter and Jared Leto.

Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 July 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link

Jared Leto and JATO

how's life, Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link

Lol, that too.

Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link

Cimino's death reminded me that I used to confuse him with Terrence Malick.

nickn, Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link

Todd Rundgren
Peter Frampton

Sharia Laws and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 8 July 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link

Cimino's death reminded me that I used to confuse him with Terrence Malick.

I can kind of see this

Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 July 2016 01:40 (eight years ago) link

Both had "heaven" movies, and relatively fallow periods.

nickn, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:47 (eight years ago) link

ScarJo and Scar Gel

(joke)

Josefa, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link

Medium Medium/Liquid Liquid

The Rite of Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link

I just confused Jackie Weaver with Noni Hazelhurst when discussing the film Animal Kingdom. Dunno why really.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 11 July 2016 08:38 (eight years ago) link

i used to mix them up too!

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 July 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link

nes clone
nels cline

Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link

Mack Gordon/Max Gordon/Maxine Gordon/Lorraine Gordon
(Old school songwriter/Village Vanguard proprietor/Widow and manager of Dexter Gordon/Current Village Vanguard proprietor, widow of the prior proprietor)

The Professor of Hard Rain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 July 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link

The Hated/The Used

The Professor of Hard Rain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 July 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link

Jeff Beck
Jeff Buckley

Sharia Laws and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 25 July 2016 01:31 (eight years ago) link

The Vaselines/The Vaccines

two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Monday, 25 July 2016 03:48 (eight years ago) link

Literally should get these things sorted

poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link

a little tidying of the mental office you mean?

dotting your i's
crossing your t's

filing beck under be and buckley under bu
vas
vac?

F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link

Booker Little
Walter Booker
Booker Ervin
― The Redd And The Blecch

Will now add:
Wilbur Little

But not:
Wilbur Ware

Zing Ad Hoc (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2016 12:05 (eight years ago) link

iggy azalea
azalia snail

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 23:16 (eight years ago) link

Eugene McCarthy
Joe McCarthy

Henry Wallace
George Wallace

Every time I hear one of their names I'm like "Which one's the good guy again?"

National Review
National Journal

Howard Keel/Howard Duff

The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 August 2016 01:25 (eight years ago) link

Peter Butterworth / Peter Barkworth

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link

i didn't realize today that otis g johnson was not the handless organist.

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link

Ben Whishaw / Richard Ayoade

Yes, I know.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 12 August 2016 09:40 (eight years ago) link

For a long time I mashed up two models from The Price Is Right in the 1970s) - Janice Pennington and Dian Parkinson - into the person of Janice Dickinson, a fashion model of the 1970s (now TV star)

Josefa, Friday, 12 August 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link

Thanks.

Richard Schaal/Richard Stahl

― Maria Felix Kept On Walking (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:14 PM (1 year ago)


add Richard Jenkins/Herb Edelman

Wavy Gravy Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 August 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link

songs from "Bat out of Hell"
songs from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

"Stop researching my life" (Ste), Saturday, 13 August 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link

^nice

Wavy Gravy Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 August 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link

alex jones
howard jones

bagging area (map), Saturday, 13 August 2016 23:54 (eight years ago) link

Kevin Hart
Kevin James

how's life, Monday, 15 August 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link

Without ever having seen any of them, for years I thought the Ernest Goes to... series starred Ernest Borgnine for some reason.

chap, Monday, 15 August 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link

Charles Williams/Charles Williams
(US writer of crime fiction/UK writer of a a theological bent, member of the Inklings)

Wavy Gravy Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link

Forgot to mention Charles "Hungry" Williams (New Orleans drummer)

Wavy Gravy Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link

thought dr luke was the guy with the long hair and beard but it's max martin

brimstead, Saturday, 20 August 2016 05:12 (eight years ago) link

Curt Schilling
Kurt Elling

Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

see, for me it's Curt Schilling, Lenny Dykstra, and Darren Daulton
all in Gary Papa's voice

an expired coupon for 50¢ off a moon pie (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link

Katy B.
K. Michelle

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 25 August 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link

John Mahoney (Martin from Fraiser)
John Maloney (British stand up comedian)

soref, Sunday, 28 August 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link

Scallions
Scallops

Sharia Laws and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 28 August 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link

Homer Banks/Darrell Banks

Hop on Pop. 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 August 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link

Warren Oates
Warren Beatty

very real concern-trolling (Mr Andy M), Monday, 29 August 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link

Homer Banks/Darrell Banks

^^^^^^

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:35 (eight years ago) link

Patti Deutsch/Louise Lasser

Dov Charney
Dev Hynes

how's life, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link

Under the Sun of Satan/Under the Sign of Saturn

Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link

10cc
.38 Special

Sharia Laws and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 3 September 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link

Canada Water and Canary Wharf.

Madchen, Saturday, 3 September 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link

Gary Collins/Gary Seven
(television actor/Star Trek TOS character)

Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 September 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link

(Should also post Anne Briggs/Robyn Hitchcock as text in case the images ever go away)

Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 September 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link

For a while it was just Peanut Butter Wolf and Guitar Wolf, and I'd forget which one was Japanese.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:24 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just made this mistake in an IRL conversation the other day. Coworker said she'd seen Peanut Butter Wolf, and I was like, "Japanese, right?"

Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Monday, 5 September 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link

I keep getting Owen Jones and Owen Smith mixed up. Hardly surprising really when they have are both called Owen and have the two most common surnames in the country -- I'll just have to remember by thinking "the one with the Welsh surname isn't Welsh"

It was compounded when a friend who is also a Labour party activist announced on Facebook "Off to collect Owen Jones! Beyond nervous!" where it was quite plausible that she was actually collecting Owen Smith (apart from the fact he probably has someone to ferry him around I suppose).

Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 10 September 2016 09:59 (eight years ago) link

Clay Shaw
Clayton Kershaw

clemenza, Sunday, 11 September 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link

Haneke's The White Ribbon
Voerhoeven's Black Book

Just a momentary "really?" when anyone speaks highly of the former.

dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Sunday, 11 September 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link

john greaves and john wetton

(not so much mixed up as i don't think i've ever consciously distinguished between them)

mark s, Friday, 16 September 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link

I've just confused John Terry with Terry Butcher, which was a bit embarrassing and further evidence that I am turning into my mother.

Madchen, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 10:45 (eight years ago) link

palmer luckey
palmer rockey (of "rockey's style" fame)

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Friday, 23 September 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link

john greaves and john wetton

(not so much mixed up as i don't think i've ever consciously distinguished between them)

― mark s, Friday, September 16, 2016 3:46 PM (one week ago)


^This kind of thing. Sometimes I post with this in mind and then later start mixing them up. Still not sure whether the posting is actually somehow the cause of the later mixing up or merely a leading indicator.

Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 September 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link

would pay to hear john greaves sing "heat of the moment"

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Friday, 23 September 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link

"Byzantium"/"Sailing to Byzantium"

Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:08 (eight years ago) link

Thomas Ligotti/György Ligeti

Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link

Recently realised that William Blake and William Morris are not the same person.

Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 24 September 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link

had to look up william morris bc i was sure you couldn't mean the hollywood talent agency

Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Saturday, 24 September 2016 04:54 (eight years ago) link

Jean Shepard/Jean Shepherd/Jean Stafford
(Country Singer (RIP) /Radio Personality/Author)

Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 September 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link

david denby and david remnick

mark s, Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link

Sometimes slip and mix up
Allan Clarke/Alan Price but not Alan Clarke
(Hollies/Animals but not director)

Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 September 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link

As well as
Bobby Elliott/Bobby Gregg
(Hollies drummer/Dylan drummer)

Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 September 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link

Bill Laswell
Bill Frisell

Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 26 September 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link

^ Likewise for those two.

nickn, Monday, 26 September 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link

Ronald Harwood / Ronald Hayman / Christopher Hampton / Christopher Frayling

... all squished together in a indistinguishable mush... and that's without including Chris Grayling...

(SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Friday, 30 September 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link

In the same ballpark: Howard Brenton / Howard Barker

(SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Friday, 30 September 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link

Hans Hofmann/Hans Haacke

Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link

Jaume Collet-Serra/Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Stupor Fly, Thursday, 13 October 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link

Extremely longstanding, probably mentioned already:

Robert Culp / Robert Webber

(SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Friday, 14 October 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link

Whenever Marlee Matlin comes up in conversation I have to stop and think about whether she's married to James Carville (no, that's Mary Matalin).

go get your winebox (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 October 2016 13:30 (eight years ago) link

I had her mixed up with Marla Maples, which made that Trump article a bit of an odd read.

Tuomas, Friday, 14 October 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link

xx-post I used to always mix up Robert Culp and Robert Ryan (Wild Bunch etc.). I know Ryan was a lot older but it's something about their faces

Josefa, Friday, 14 October 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link

That's a good one but please throw in Robert Stack and maybe Robert Conrad as well into the mix.

Digable Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 October 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link

If not Robert Wagner.

But not William Conrad.

Digable Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 October 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link

Don't try to throw William Conrad anywhere

Josefa, Friday, 14 October 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link

Lol

Digable Planet Waves (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 October 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link

today: Flying Nun and Flying Dutchman Records.

Liquid Plejades, Monday, 17 October 2016 02:58 (eight years ago) link

flying nun fish/flying dutchman

no lime tangier, Monday, 17 October 2016 09:24 (eight years ago) link

Wait for it:
Denis O'Dell/Denis O'Brien

Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link

Jimmy Witherspoon/Jimmy Rushing

Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 October 2016 00:49 (eight years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(journalist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(journalist,_born_1944)

I'm still occasionally surprised when I see this byline photo above a guardian article by Duncan Campbell (1944), until I remember that he's a different guy from the the other one

http://assets.andrewlownie.co.uk/images/duncan-campbell.jpg

soref, Friday, 21 October 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link

also, even when I do remember that they are two separate people, I can never remember which one is married to Julie Christie

soref, Friday, 21 October 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link

Realized a few days ago that I'd been conflating Emily Blunt and Rose Byrne.

wingless yurp (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 October 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link

presumably the crime DC^^^ is married to julie christie, the surveillance DC is gay

mark s, Friday, 21 October 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link

sliver, shivers and slither

always takes me a sec

2 of them being set in high rises and the other being in part a parody of one of them

did we ever get wizz sorted (wins), Sunday, 23 October 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link

I need to keep reminding myself that Vanessa Williams, serious Washington Post reporter =/= Vanessa Williams, former Miss America.

wingless yurp (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 24 October 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link

Gerry Conway and Gene Colan: one of them is a comic book writer who made his name in Bronze Age Marvel comics, another one a comic book artist who made his name in Bronze Age Marvel comics.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link

Bobbies Vee (RIP), Vinton, and Rydell

MC5, M83, and MX-80 Sound

hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link

keef hartley and les harvey

mark s, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 13:03 (eight years ago) link

Gene Colan made his name in Silver Age Marvel comics ffs

Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link

Wendy Craig/Rachel Roberts

From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link

Realized a few days ago that I'd been conflating Emily Blunt and Rose Byrne.

I only realized this was two different people when I watched one of them host Saturday Night Live recently

Sharia Laws and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 31 October 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link

Chad Everett/Richard Long

From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link

James Rado/Gerome Ragni

From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2016 08:56 (eight years ago) link

From John Colville's diary:

"After lunch the PM forestalled Irving Berlin asking leading questions by himself addressing them to his potential interlocutor (e.g. "When do you think the war will end, Mr Berlin?"), this I thought was an ingenious technique. Berlin said he thought Roosevelt would get in at the coming presidential election, and in this his name should help him because in all Republican systems human nature triumphed over constitutional principle and the hereditary system came into its own. This also applied to our own Labour Party in which the wife or son of a well known MP was always in demand as a parliamentary candidate.

It later transpired that the reason Mr Berlin had bee bidden to lunch was a comic misunderstanding. There are sprightly, if somewhat over-vivid, political summaries telegraphed home every week from the Washington Embassy. The PM inquiring who wrote them, had been told by me "Mr Isaiah Berlin, Fellow of All Souls and Tutor of New College." When Irving Berlin came over to entertain the troops with his songs, the PM confused him with Isaiah and invited him to lunch - and conversed with him, to his embarrassment, as if he had been Isaiah.

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Monday, 31 October 2016 09:14 (eight years ago) link

I don't get the two mixed up but when I'm trying to think of Isaiah's name I always think of Irving first.

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Monday, 31 October 2016 09:31 (eight years ago) link

Had a somewhat confusing conversation with somebody over the weekend and today I finally figured out the I was talking about "Hair" and he must have been talking about "Hairspray."

From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

When I was in college I conflated the American comic novelist Thomas Berger with the serious British novelist John Berger. I still haven't quite separated the authors of Being Invisible and Lilac and Flag in my head.

marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 November 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link

Florence Henderson and Barbra Billingsley. When my husband told me that Henderson died yesterday, my response was that she must've been like 100 years old.

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 25 November 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link

edmund white edmund wilson

diary of a mod how's life (wins), Friday, 25 November 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link

^^^^

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 25 November 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link

^thirded

Y Kant Jamie Reid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 November 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link

Mildred Pierce and Mrs. Miniver (I haven't seen either)

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 November 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link

Brock Lesnar, Brock Turner

Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Sunday, 27 November 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link

Brock Samson. Actually, is the name Brock a uniquely American name?

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Monday, 28 November 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link

Klaatu
I Am Kloot
Klute

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 28 November 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link

Moonbeam Levels/Moonage Daydream

Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link

Sausage companies: Bobak's in Chicago, Patak's near Atlanta

aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link

Robert Romanus/Vincent Spano

Wall of Def Jam (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 December 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link

Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh

The boy who cried 'wolf' in a crowded theatre (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 11 December 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link

Yesterday made me realize--when I thought, "Suzanne Somers' husband"--that I always had to take a few seconds to remember which was Alan Thicke and which was Alan Hamel (Canadian talk-show host).

clemenza, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 12:46 (eight years ago) link

Thinking the IT crowd girl Katherine Parkinson had graduated to cohosting baking shows with Sue Perkins though somehow doubiting it a bit when I saw she still had red hair in Humans. But they do look very similar don't they?

Stevolende, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link

Subrosa/SubCulture
(Two music venues of relevant recently vintage)

I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 December 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link

Jerry Livingston/Jay Livingston
or even
Jerry Livingston and Mack David/Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link

Actually, is the name Brock a uniquely American name?

nah, it's derived from the Old English word for badger

Number None, Sunday, 18 December 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link

Similarly, Tod means fox.

Madchen, Sunday, 18 December 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link

Thought it meant "death."

Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:02 (eight years ago) link

Ah, okay, looked it up, I see.

Also means or meant "bush," as in Coleridge's "The ivy tod is heavy with snow."

Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link

Actually it says tod also means brock, so someone called Tod Brock , would be one of those "double namers" or whatever they are called.

Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link

Norton Records/Emperor Norton Records
*ducks*

Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link

Alun Owen/Allan Williams (RIP)

The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 December 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link

Roman Polanski and Francis Ford Coppola. Kind of bad for Coppola because I keep getting it in my head that he's a scumbag rapist which, as far as I know, he's not.

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link

Bitchen Bajas
The Four Bitchin' Babes

how's life, Friday, 6 January 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link

The iTunes and Photos icons in the macOS dock. They're not even very similar. Ditto Contacts and Calendar.

attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 6 January 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link

Mayberry/Hooterville

The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link

The Three Sounds/The Three Suns

The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link

Maureen O'Sullivan and Margaret Sullavan

MrDasher, Sunday, 8 January 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link

Wow. Is that not on here already?

The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link

Also Margaret O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill (who was married to George O'Brien)

The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link

Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

wrinkled sweater guy (los blue jeans), Sunday, 8 January 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link

Erdogan / Ertegun

maccabeelzebubbly (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 9 January 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link

Waiting for someone to say R.D. Laing and k.d. lang

Josefa, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:07 (seven years ago) link

Which one did "Crazy"?

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link

I guess both in their own way

Josefa, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link

green gartside and grant green

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link

Green Gartside and Greer Garson.

Madchen, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link

Colombia and Cambodia. I know they're completely different but when they come up it always takes me a couple of seconds to remember which one's in S. America and which one's in Asia

ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link

Helen Shaver and Helen Slater. (Started watching 1984's Supergirl last night. "That's Helen Shaver? Can't be her...")

clemenza, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link

I'm able to keep most bands named after geographic locations straight but I tend to confuse Boston with Kansas and vice versa.

Gorvernment Stoodge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link

(xp) Good one.

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link

xpost I am dreadful in pub quizzes when they play a clip of a song which is either by Foreigner, Chicago or REO Speedwagon in a music round. I pretty much always choose the wrong one.

ailsa, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link

I always confused Foreigner and Journey.

nickn, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link

Kurt Eichenwald
David Fahrenthold

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 19 January 2017 08:16 (seven years ago) link

Parsley/Cilantro

In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 January 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link

Eddy Grant
Eddie Money

The boy who cried 'wolf' in a crowded theatre (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 22 January 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link

Eddie Rabbitt
Eddie Money

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 January 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link

Kurt Eichenwald
Adolf Eichmann

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 22 January 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link

Zersetzung
Zugzwang

The boy who cried 'wolf' in a crowded theatre (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 22 January 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link

Dan Rather
Dan Savage

Tbh at the moment I seem to spend most of my waking life getting things/people/concepts mixed up.

The boy who cried 'wolf' in a crowded theatre (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 22 January 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link

Jessy Lanza
Jessie Ware

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link

Dundee and Dunoon.

Madchen, Thursday, 26 January 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link

Kreator
Krokus

how's life, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 12:44 (seven years ago) link

The Byrds
The Yardbirds

(yes, really)

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link

"The Witch's Promise" / "The Weaver's Answer"

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 February 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link

Steve Bannon
a human yeast infection

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 4 February 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link

:D

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 February 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link

Lene Lovich / Lydia Lunch

I know nothing about the former though, except I always see her name and she has a quote in this book about Roedelius I'm currently reading

Wimmels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link

oh and when I was a kid:

Lizzy Borden / Thin Lizzy

Wimmels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link

I Capture the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link

The Descendants
The Damned
The Vandals

MarkoP, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link

That reminds me-
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Late Chrysanthemums

MrDasher, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link

Cate Blanchett
Tilda Swinton

MarkoP, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link

Kieron Gillen
Weird and Gilly (and the Spiders from Mars)

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 9 February 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link

Karen Gillan? Seems like someone I would get mixed up there if I knew who those people were...

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link

I mean, I know who weird and gilly are - because of surname stuff I was often called gilly at school.

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link

I don't know who Kieron Gillen is either really, so I guess I don't mix them up as such. But infrequently I hear the name and Ziggy Stardust comes on in my head.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link

Carmen Miranda and Ethel Merman.

Madchen, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link

lol

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link

Surprised there's no mention on here of novelists Richard Wright and Richard B. Wright. Anyway, the second one, the Canadian Richard B. Wright, died yesterday.

clemenza, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link

Gone to that Great Sprig in the Sky

pplains, Friday, 10 February 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link

Ginger Rogers
Gracie Allen

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 10 February 2017 03:21 (seven years ago) link

Stewart Brand
Stewart Home

Never been able to tell these apart and never will.

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link

Lol

Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

Lol

Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel

Was not aware that these were two different people (I am from UK, never been to USA) until I watched the Oscars and tried to work out why people were letting the host get away with having done such shit to normalise Trump with his cute interview last year and was now joining in with the (perfectly valid) criticism like none of that ever happened.

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 27 February 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link

Al Franken
Al Sharpton

MarkoP, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link

The films a serious man, a single man and a simple plan

OK not really that last one but the first two, I have no idea which is which

wins, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link

mulholland drive
mulholland falls

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:49 (seven years ago) link

Yes.

pplains, Friday, 3 March 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link

Barry Andrews - KBd man w/ XTC
Barry Adamson - wrote pseudo soundtracks for so long, they asked him to do it for real.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (ten years ago)

Barry Andrews
Barry Adamson

― Mark G, Tuesday, September 23, 2014 9:55 AM (two years ago)


Thirded.

Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link

The Chameleons / The Charlatans.
Very similar-looking names, plus both have a Burgess for a singer.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link

G.K. Chesterton's 'Father Brown'
Tom Bosley's 'Father Dowling'

soref, Saturday, 25 March 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link

Sparks
Spoons

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 25 March 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link

Spoon?

And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link

G.K. Chesterton's 'Father Brown'
Tom Bosley's 'Father Dowling'

Lol

And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link

xpost

Nah, this band:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoons_(band)

Though oddly enough I've never confused Spoon and Spoons.

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link

Classix Nouveaux
Club Nouveau

“Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:30 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Emma Chambers & Claudie Blakely. They even sound the same.

http://lostinbritishtv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/emma-chambers-looks-like-claudie.html

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link

Bill Moyers and Bill Bryson

Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 April 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link

Apparently The 'Burbs and Nothing But Trouble are two separate movies, and not this horrible monster they've merged into in my memory.

Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Øystein), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link

Nothing But Trouble had Jackie Gleason.

The 'Burbs was the one where he and Shelly Long buy a house together.

pplains, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/WUs9ySd.gif

pplains, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link

Thank u 4 excellent tips — I will never be confused ever again.

The 'Burbs was some movie I knew nothing about, so it was a weird reversed Fight Club moment for me just now when I read the synopsis and kept reading about all these scenes that I was sure were from Nothing But Trouble. OMG, they were two movies all along! Two awfully upsetting movies that I blame for a significant portion of my childhood nightmares.

Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Øystein), Monday, 10 April 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link

Compton
Trumpton

ledge, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link

Every time I read 'Richard Dawkins' these days it takes me a while to get the image of Richard Dawson out of my head.

Also I always used to have trouble with Julie Andrews and Julie Walters (I may have said this another time upthread but if so it's hidden behind the cut).

emil.y, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link

Me too

I mix up Rob Reiner and Ron Howard

briscall stool chart (wins), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link

Michael Ritchie's Smile
Robert Altman's HealtH

(I haven't seen either)

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 15 April 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link

Max Brooks
Max Landis

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 15 April 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link

Haha pplains you're getting The Burbs confused with The Money Pit!

Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 15 April 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link

Robin S. - 'Show Me Love' and Robyn - 'Show Me Love'. I mean, come on, guys.

Lipbra Geraldoman (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link

Thunderclap Newman and Badfinger.

nickn, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link

Humble Pie
Bad Company

off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Friday, 28 April 2017 09:38 (seven years ago) link

Hmm that actually followed on quite nicely from Nick's mix-up.

off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Friday, 28 April 2017 09:42 (seven years ago) link

Akiva Goldsman
Avi Arad

MarkoP, Friday, 28 April 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link

The Church
The Call

MarkoP, Friday, 28 April 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link

one of the girls in my youth group (ugh) in high school used to confuse Savage Garden for Soundgarden.

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 May 2017 11:43 (seven years ago) link

Gleason was in Nothing But Trouble? Wasn't he also in Nothing In Common?? With...Tom Hanks??

The 80s were confusing

Wimmels, Sunday, 7 May 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link

Harry Patch
Harry Partch

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 7 May 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link

Vulcan
Vulva

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 May 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link

Estelle Parsons
Estelle Winwood

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link

Russell Simmons
Richard Simmons
Ron Simmons
'Run' Simmons

why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 03:59 (seven years ago) link

Rob Chapman, author of "Syd Barrett : A Very Irregular Head"
Rob Young, author of "Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music"

Not so much that I mixed them up as I assumed they were the same person.

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 May 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link

Thread is missing
Matt Chamberlain/Matt Cameron
which reminds me to also include
Joe English/Geoff Britton

The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link

Might as well add
Jimmy McCulloch/Henry McCullough

The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link

But really came to say was watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and confused
Peter Riegert/Paul Reiser

The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link

Lol i see it

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 May 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link

I think I have done this one before but

Carey Mulligan
Michelle Williams

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 May 2017 01:28 (seven years ago) link

Lol yes

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 May 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link

like i know who they are & what movies they are in but both have that fragile luminescent thing where i have to stop & think which is which

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 May 2017 04:13 (seven years ago) link

The Angry Video Game Nerd / The Nostalgia Critic

“Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Sunday, 28 May 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link

Weirdly I once confused Sydney Pollack and David Straitharn in one of the trailers

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 May 2017 11:57 (seven years ago) link

geoff barrow (portishead)
geoff bastow (music to varnish owls by)

Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 May 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link

neil tennant
neil kinnock

Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 11:23 (seven years ago) link

From the Trump thread,

Kathy Griffin
Vicki Lewis
and I'll add Clea Lewis, who was on a sitcom or two in the 90s.

nickn, Thursday, 1 June 2017 06:39 (seven years ago) link

whenever i read the name of rick bayless i think they are talking about tim bayliss, and get very confused and angry that people are spending so much time discussing a fictional character from a '90s cop show.

Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Friday, 2 June 2017 04:16 (seven years ago) link

<3

this may be my favorite post itt

ty for justifying my bookmark

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 June 2017 06:25 (seven years ago) link

Jim Thome and James Comey.

clemenza, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link

Graham Swift/Graham Joyce
Robert Carlock/Robert Carlyle

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 June 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link

Paul Giamatti and that actor who looks like him I just saw on an episode of Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt who is... John Lutz.

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 June 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link

Kimmy

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 June 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link

Travis Porter / Travis Scott

layda be cry (los blue jeans), Sunday, 11 June 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link

The Spectator and the New Statesman.

Madchen, Monday, 12 June 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link

to my embarrassment i realized yesterday that i was under the impression that scott bakula and scott baio were the same person.

Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Monday, 12 June 2017 12:14 (seven years ago) link

I used to get Ray Romano and Joe Mantegna confused. i had some movie on in the 90s with Mantegna and said "wow Raymond suddenly learned how to act!"

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 June 2017 12:49 (seven years ago) link

to my embarrassment i realized yesterday that i was under the impression that scott bakula and scott baio were the same person.

― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Monday, June 12, 2017 7:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're thinking of that episode where Sam leaps back to 1982 and discovers he can strip co-eds with his mind.

pplains, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link

Walkabout and The Go Between

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link

^interesting

Bloomsday/Flag Day

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link

Finest Worksong

The Working Hour

how's life, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link

L.H. Meyers/L.P. Hartley

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link

Aargh:
L.H. Myers/L.P. Hartley

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link

had to resort to google recently after spending way too long trying to recall myers' name.

dj enright/dj taylor

also there's a contributor to lrb which i keep reading as diana trilling!

no lime tangier, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link

Diana Ross and Donna Summers

the former is doing a show here and I keep getting excited and then forgetting that as much as I like Diana, it's Donna that I woulda wanted to see and she's dead now

(obv I don't mistake their voices just for some reason my initial reaction to the name is always wrong)

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link

Aargh:
L.H. Myers/L.P. Hartley

Maybe should have added
G.H. Hardy

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 June 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link

John Ashbery/John Berryman

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link

Rachel Weisz / Rachel Ward

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 16 June 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link

Ruth Davidson/Ruth Davenport

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 June 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link

The Moral Maze
The Crystal Maze

Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 22 June 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link

They do need to be merged.

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link

Gary Busey
a kitchen floor that's been belt-sanded

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 June 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link

David Brenner and Bruce Jenner

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:42 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha!

― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:23 PM


David Brenner and David Hartman
David Brenner and Richard Belzer

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link

but really came to post
John Scofield/John Abercrombie

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link

Which maybe I should post on rolling Jazz thread

Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link

I have that same problem.

how's life, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 08:44 (seven years ago) link

Just found out that C. P. Scott and C. P. Snow are not the same person, mind = very mildly blown

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 2 July 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link

Jonathan Ive
Jimmy Iovine

http://i.imgur.com/BTC1Cs0.jpg

pplains, Friday, 14 July 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link

Donald J Trump
A putrefying pumpkin

Neanderthal, Friday, 14 July 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link

Love seeing that guy's name, just over and over again. All over Facebook. All over Twitter. All over ILX. Thanks.

pplains, Saturday, 15 July 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link

Well, the guy dated stevie nicks and was on American Idol, so a certain level of ubiquity is to be expected.

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 15 July 2017 07:30 (seven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/RvucTKU.gif

pplains, Saturday, 15 July 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Bloody Birthday
Happy Birthday To Me

the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 August 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link

tony curtis
tony randall

i know who they are & what they look like but whenever i hear someone talk about one tony i catch myself picturing the other tony

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 August 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link

Todd Haynes
Todd Solondz

Greg Mottola
Gregg Araki

I don't always get them mixed up--I know who made the Dylan film, and know who made Adventureland--but I do sometimes have to stop for a few seconds to make sure I'm referring to the right one.

clemenza, Friday, 4 August 2017 23:22 (seven years ago) link

Those Todds always catch me out too.

Madchen, Saturday, 5 August 2017 09:20 (seven years ago) link

Trevor Watts
Trevor Wishart

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link

Aoste (France) and Aosta (Northern Italy). They both have meat products.

Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link

Dyess, Arkansas/Delight, Arkansas

Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link

If it helps any, GC was really from Billstown.

pplains, Thursday, 10 August 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link

Maidstone and Maidenhead.

Madchen, Thursday, 10 August 2017 08:38 (seven years ago) link

Wendy Crewson
Wendie Malick

the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Sunday, 13 August 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link

If it helps any, GC was really from Billstown.

Does help, thanks!

Lucas With The Lydian F (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 August 2017 03:12 (seven years ago) link

don't get me wrong, it is part of the Delight Metroplex.

http://i.imgur.com/Q61KA7f.png

pplains, Sunday, 13 August 2017 03:46 (seven years ago) link

Lol

Lucas With The Lydian F (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 August 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, January 19, 2007 8:45 AM (ten years ago)

Mary-Louise Parker and Molly Parker. I'm rewatching Six Feet Under right now, and I'm looking at Rabbi Ari and wondering if it was the same actress in Angels in America.

clemenza, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link

Ween
Weezer
Wheatus

They were all "alternative" rock bands of the 90s that got some play on MTV, I guess? But hell if I can remember which is which.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link

You could try listening to the music

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link

No thanks! Can't really stand that stuff.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link

Agree with Tuomas about those W bands. Have no idea which is which.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link

Wheatus and Weezer. Both were punkish American rock bands that had a novelty hit song in the 90s, never could remember which was which.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:06 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ween and Weezer for me.

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:47 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how's life, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link

fp'd Anatol for accidentally adding Ween to Tuomas' confusion tally

shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 24 August 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link

Clint Mansell and Clint Boon.

Madchen, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link

Dennis Perrin
Dennis Pennis

Bobbins The Mule (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Phoebe Snow
Libby Titus

Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link

i love michael b jordan but it always takes me at least 2 or 3 passes to remember his name correctly

anthony c hall
nope
michael b anthony
nope
etc

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link

His father's name is ... Michael A. Jordan.

pplains, Saturday, 16 September 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link

(xposts) I get Phoebe Snow and Minnie Ripperton mixed up--"Poetry Man" and "Lovin' You" were released within a couple of weeks of each other and, I'm guessing, climbed the charts at the same time.

clemenza, Saturday, 16 September 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link

I also get Minnie Ripperton and Minnie Riperton mixed up.

clemenza, Saturday, 16 September 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link

Joe Higgs/Joe Gibbs

― toast alien, remember barbecue!! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:04 PM (seven years ago)


Just thought of this one again. Have no idea what that screenname was going for.

Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link

Maybe should add
Sugar Minott/Jackie Mittoo

Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link

Joe Higgs/Joe Gibbs definitely.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link

That John Cale song where he sings "I never wrote a song named 'cocaine'" should include an extra verse just for me that says "I never recorded an album with Bob Newhart"

streeps of range (wins), Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link

idgi

Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link

My way of saying I confuse Bob Newhart and bob neuwirth

streeps of range (wins), Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link

Why would you get Bob Newhart confused with Lilith from "Cheers"?

pplains, Sunday, 17 September 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link

I've always thought he was a real "ice queen"

streeps of range (wins), Sunday, 17 September 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

I know who Michael B Jordan is, but I do often confuse Michael C Hall with Anthony Michael Hall.

MarkoP, Sunday, 17 September 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link

This is more like an Oh! I Know I'll Always Get Those Two Mixed Up post. I've seen both My Cousin Rachel and Lady Macbeth the past month, and they've already merged in my mind.

clemenza, Monday, 18 September 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link

Ed Walsh/Eddie Plank/Ed Reulbach

Their careers were almost simultaneous. The first two are in the HOF; Walsh had the ridiculously low ERA, Plank 300+ wins. Reulbach's not in there, but his ERA fell between the two, and his W-L record was very similar to Walsh's.

Rube Waddell/Rube Marquard

These two are easier to sort out. They're both in the HOF, but Marquard got started just as Waddell's career was winding down. Marquard looks like a really specious HOF pick; Waddell was the better pitcher, though he did have a short career. No stories that I know of about Marquard; Waddell, according to one of the first baseball books I ever read, liked to chase trains--he was, depending upon what era was describing him, either eccentric or crazy or, according to Bill James, most likely developmentally challenged.

Reading Jay Jaffe's HOF book right now.

clemenza, Friday, 22 September 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link

waddell also liked to chase firetrucks iirc :D

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 September 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link

Checked his Wikipedia page soon after I posted, and yeah, I evidently had him mixed up with Superman there. And the much simpler explanation for his behaviour seems to have been alcoholism.

clemenza, Saturday, 23 September 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link

the dollop podcast devoted an episode to him & it’s very good & bizarre & funny if you are ever inclined to listen

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 September 2017 05:57 (seven years ago) link

23andMe and Theranos. Always have to look up which one is legit and which is fraudulent.

Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 12:13 (seven years ago) link

Alison Brie
Brie Larson

henry s, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:12 (seven years ago) link

Richard Price/Richard Powers kinda

good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link

Frankie Rose
Frankie Cosmos

MarkoP, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link

Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Schlichter

Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link

Mission of Burma
Minor Threat

MarkoP, Thursday, 28 September 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link

I used to confuse Mission of Burma and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. I'm not sure I've ever even heard anything by the latter.

nickn, Thursday, 28 September 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link

And I see from wiki that Roger Miller of BotM went on the form MoB.

nickn, Thursday, 28 September 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link

House of Cards
House of Games
Game of Thrones

I've watched all three, so obviously I don't mix up the actual content, but whenever I'm supposed to say the name of one of them, I often mix it up with the other two, leaving my spouse confused... "Can't wait to watch the next episode of House of Cards and seen who the zombies will kill this time!"

Tuomas, Friday, 29 September 2017 06:46 (seven years ago) link

Paul Schrader
Paul Scheer
Paul Rust

There might be another Paul in there as well.

MarkoP, Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link

Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Fierstein

Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link

lol just came here to post that ^

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link

I was like "wait, he harassed women?"

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link

I was legit thinking “are ppl saying ‘Ashley Judd’ when they mean… I don’t know, I guess Paul Rudd?” for a while

Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link

The Cars and Gary Numan

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 03:02 (seven years ago) link

Gary Numan and Thomas Dolby (may have listed this one before).

nickn, Monday, 9 October 2017 05:52 (seven years ago) link

Caroline Flint and Caroline Flack. One's a Labour MP and the other does TV stuff (I think).

Grandpont Genie, Monday, 9 October 2017 07:36 (seven years ago) link

Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Fierstein

― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:37 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

how's life, Monday, 9 October 2017 10:18 (seven years ago) link

Tim Pope and Tim Burton who I thought were the same person (named Burton) until I was reading the Lol Tolhurst book.

Stevolende, Monday, 9 October 2017 10:55 (seven years ago) link

Gk Chesterton and Kingsley Amis, for some weird reason.

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 October 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link

Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Fierstein

― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:37 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

― how's life, Monday, October 9, 2017 5:18 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just forgot which one was which AGAIN

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link

prosecco, prosciutto

maffew12, Monday, 9 October 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link

Tubeway Army and New Model Army

los blue jeans, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link

drummers Matt Chamberlain, Jimmy Chamberlin and Matt Cameron

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link

Made more difficult by the fact that the Matts have both played in both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden!

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link

andrew gold
gilbert o sullivan

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link

Gilbert O’Sullivan
Leo Sayer

Madchen, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link

you make me feel alone again naturally

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link

you make me feel like a lonely boy again naturally

pplains, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link

I get Andrew Gold mixed up with John Stewart, for the stupidest, most obvious reason.

pplains, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link

But funny enough, never John Stewart and Jon Stewart!

pplains, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link

Kehlani
Kaleida
Kelela

maybe others...

Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link

shallots
scallions

MarkoP, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link

Kelis and Steve Scalise

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link

jared leto and jaron lanier

mark s, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link

If I think about it for more than five seconds, I can figure it out, but I still get James Franco and Jared Leto confused.

pplains, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link

Jessy Lanza
Jessie Ware

― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, January 25, 2017 12:33 PM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

add Katy B to this group

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Symone Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (neither of whom are related to Bernie Sanders, even though the former worked for his campaign!)

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link

Rose McGowan
Rose McDowell

crüt, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:13 (seven years ago) link

Carl Sagan
Carl Andre

Tim, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:19 (seven years ago) link

Bradley Walsh
Brian Conley

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 November 2017 12:04 (seven years ago) link

Conley married Anne-Marie on 4 August 1996, in a ceremony at a Stoke Poges chapel, Buckinghamshire.[6] Conley had proposed eight months earlier, while wearing a suit of armour.[6] The wedding day itself also had comic elements, causing celebrity guest Linda Lusardi to remark that it was "the funniest wedding I've been to" — Conley made several memorable quips during the event, and the couple left the church in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.[6] The couple have two daughters.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 November 2017 12:20 (seven years ago) link

Rose McGowan
Rose McDowell

otm

naus, Saturday, 18 November 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link

The sleazeball Hollywood director / the robot from Star Trek

pplains, Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link

Recently: Deerhoof and Deerhunter
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Monday, January 14, 2008

You can add Deer Tick to the list now. (Deerhunter is the one I know and like, but I still have to pause for a couple of seconds to remind myself which one they are; have never heard the other two.)

clemenza, Monday, 27 November 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link

dash mihok and michael rapaport

flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 27 November 2017 05:21 (seven years ago) link

Jem Finer and Jem Cohen

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link

I was at a math workshop today, and one of the presenters looked uncannily like Jonah Hill--a few pounds lighter, hair a little shorter, otherwise a physical lookalike, and his voice and mannerisms were dead-on. Everyone at my table was in complete agreement. When we called him over to look at something related to the workshop, I had to ask if anyone had ever told him he looked like a famous actor. I expected him to groan and say, "Yeah, I know, Jonah Hill." He said yes, but not Hill: "I get Richard Gere sometimes." It wasn't meant as a joke--he was absolutely serious.

Jonah Hill and Richard Gere: I always get those two mixed up.

clemenza, Friday, 1 December 2017 04:05 (seven years ago) link

Nicolas Slonimsky/Joseph Schillinger

Anne Git Yorgun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 December 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Jonathan Chait / Jonathan Haidt

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 December 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link

Ted Solotaroff/Saul Maloff

Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 January 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link

Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Daisy von Furth

tokyo rosemary, Monday, 1 January 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link

Pierrot le fou/Pierrot mon ami

Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 January 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link

Dominic Frontiere, musician associated with the LA studio scene (recently deceased)

Domenic Priore, journalist who writes about the LA studio scene

Josefa, Monday, 1 January 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link

(...of the 1960s in both cases)

Josefa, Monday, 1 January 2018 08:10 (six years ago) link

Javier Bardem and Benicio del Toro

MarkoP, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link

Silver Apples and Apples in Stereo

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link

Just realised after a comment by the latter about The Presidents Club dinner that I have been conflating Harvey Weinstein and Harvey Goldsmith.

lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 25 January 2018 09:12 (six years ago) link

I keep thinking Sarah Greene is the racist alcoholic 80s TV presenter instead of Sarah Kennedy.

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link

just realised that 2017 sex-scandal tory David Meller is not the same person as early-90s sex-scandal tory David Mellor

soref, Monday, 29 January 2018 10:47 (six years ago) link

sorry, *2018* sex-scandal tory David Meller

soref, Monday, 29 January 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link

Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo. Every time I see the name Jean Renoir I think it's the guy who made L'Atalante

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link

Alison Brie
Brie Larson

― Madchen, Monday, February 29, 2016 9:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link

same
they are both only "Brie" in my head

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 5 February 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link

Thomas Jane
James Purefoy

i saw Purefoy in the trailer for Altered Carbon and I'm still not convinced it wasn't Jane.

omar little, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link

Purefoy much hotter.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link

Dylan McDermott Mulroney

― billy, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:27 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THIS ^^^

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link

The 1975
Death From Above 1979
At the Drive In
Death Cab for Cutie

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link

This is just none person whose name I can never get right but I honestly don't know if the guy's name is Tatum Channing or Channing Tatum.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link

Dylan McDermott Mulroney

― billy, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:27 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THIS ^^^

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 2:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

GUys, didja hear?

https://i.imgur.com/Ym9qALz.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link

the quickening!!!

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link

hahaha ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link

Josie Long
Josie Lawrence

soref, Thursday, 15 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link

Dan Fogelberg
Dan Hill

Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 February 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link

Dan Fogelberg
Dan Fogelman
Dan Fogler

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 February 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link

Mark Ronson
Mick Ralphs

how's life, Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:24 (six years ago) link

I don't get the people confused, but whenever I hear "Mark Ronson" it takes a few seconds to switch from "Mick Ronson?" to "Oh, that guy I keep hearing the name of."

nickn, Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:57 (six years ago) link

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Richardson

pplains, Thursday, 22 February 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link

Aaaaand I repeat myself.

Patricia Richardson / Patricia Clarkson / the woman who died after skiing into a tree.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:18 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do think I've got the whole Jeff Bridges/Daniels thing finally worked out though.

pplains, Thursday, 22 February 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link

Lee Greenwood/Lee Hazlewood

Whenever I see the credit for God Bless the USA I think for a split second, "Wait, the guy who wrote 'Some Velvet Morning'?!"

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 5 March 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link

Stormy Davis and Storm Davis.

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/204/204-34TFr.jpg

clemenza, Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link

there's a pitcher/catcher joke there but I'm not gonna make it

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link

Just noticed what I did...Stormy Daniels, not Davis. Not intentional. Kind of kills the joke.

clemenza, Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Evan Rachel Wood

MarkoP, Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link

*67
*82

One of them obscures my cellphone number, the other reveals it. I keep fucking it up in my professional life, but luckily it hasn't yet led to any awkwardness.

sueñx latinx (naus), Thursday, 15 March 2018 07:50 (six years ago) link

Hardly "always," but today I caught a bit of the 80s Canadian flick Hockey Night on TV and briefly mistook Maury Chaykin for M. Emmet Walsh.

Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 March 2018 03:26 (six years ago) link

Thomas “Broken Hand” Fitzpatrick/Ranald Slidell “Bad Hand” Mackenzie

Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link

Bob Cunningham/Bill Cunningham/Bill Cunningham
(Jazz bassist/Original Box Top turned classical bassist/fashion photographer)

Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link

Kate McGarry/Kate McCarrigle

Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link

Flood
Youth

i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link

Ben Sandmel/Ben Sidran

Leslie “POLLS” Hartley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link

@notch
@dril

Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Monday, 26 March 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Angie Stone and Jill Scott

MarkoP, Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link

The Descendants, The Residents, The Replacements, The Rentals, The Smithereens

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 14 April 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link

Lol.

Has somebody already mentioned
The Suburbs/The Suburban Lawns

Made in the Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link

J.T. Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh
R. Lee Ermey

pplains, Friday, 20 April 2018 09:18 (six years ago) link

Gordon Jenkins/Gordon Stoker

We’ll Take Chanhassen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 April 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link

Ummm so it's taken me this long to realise that Keith Chegwin and Les Dennis are/were actually different people

brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link

I mean, you're technically right..

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/heat-uk/20160823/283150018107936

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 30 April 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link

That's amazing.

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 30 April 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link

Fran Lebowitz / Annie Leibovitz

mahb, Monday, 30 April 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link

I can't read /see the link Andrew posted

loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link

It's a photo of them in their latter days when they are turning into each other (as noticed by Heat!)

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 30 April 2018 10:05 (six years ago) link

people starting to look like other people they didn't previously look like as they get older is interesting to me (also terrifying because it makes me worry about who I might start looking like as I get older) - I remember Greg Davies saying that he didn't look like Rik Mayall when he was younger and the resemblance only kicked in when he was in his mid-30s? Also, someone pointing out that Kevin Keegan is starting to look increasingly like Peter Lorre, which you might not have predicted when he was younger.

soref, Monday, 30 April 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link

Although I know who they all are, I can't get Connor McIntyre, Connor McPherson and Connor McGregor's names straight in my head at all.

ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link

Connan Mockasin and Cass McCombs

MarkoP, Monday, 30 April 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link

French Montana and French Stewart

mick signals, Monday, 30 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link

Stephen King and King Stephen

Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 30 April 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link

Nels Cline and Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren and Todd Rundgren

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link

Rose Byrne / Rose Macgowan

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link

Nels Cline and Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren and Todd Rundgren

Been meaning to post those first two. And now throw in Nir Felder for the triptych

Nashville #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link

George MacDonald/George MacDonald Fraser

Nashville #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 May 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link

Muhammad and Muhammad Ali

.b derf (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 May 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link

Deems...

pplains, Sunday, 6 May 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link

what everyone else was doing it

.b derf (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 May 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link

Gardena and Glendora (Los Angeles area towns).

nickn, Sunday, 6 May 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link

Joey Alexander/Joey DeFrancesco

Nashville #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link

That's funny, I was just thinking:

Tony DeFranco/Joey DeFrancesco

and wondering how much more interesting a Tony DeFranco/Van Morrison collaboration would be...

henry s, Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:41 (six years ago) link

Dennis Nilsen
Denis Norden

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link

I also mix up The Rentals and The Specials

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 13 May 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link

Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Paul Reiser (?!)

challops trap house (Will M.), Monday, 14 May 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link

Unless there is a version of the former that reference the latter, My Boy Lollipop (any version) and Lollipop by the Chordettes

lana del boy (ledge), Sunday, 20 May 2018 09:14 (six years ago) link

*references

lana del boy (ledge), Sunday, 20 May 2018 09:14 (six years ago) link

Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick and Lieutenant Dan

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 20 May 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link

Lollipop/My Boy Lollipop seconded.

omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link

The Dictators / The Dickies

los blue jeans, Thursday, 24 May 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link

Moira Shearer
Moira Lister
Norma Shearer

Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link

^this

omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 May 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link

Sam Harris and documentarian Sam Green. For the longest time I was like, "What, the guy who made Five Utopias and Weather Underground is an islamophobe?"

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 1 June 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link

They're also slightly similar looking

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 1 June 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link

Bill Nye
Bill Nighy
Bill Maher

cosign

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 2 June 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link

Thirded

omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 June 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link

Beth Orton
Beth Gibbons

MarkoP, Saturday, 2 June 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link

^was recently thinking of putting this, can’t believe it’s not already here

omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 June 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link

only realised last week that matt zarb-cousin and aaron bastani are two different people

ogmor, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 09:25 (six years ago) link

Sia
Sza

how's life, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 09:44 (six years ago) link

Alex Chilton and Dan Penn

more generally I just forget sometimes who Alex Chilton was

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link

Bands:

Earth / Earthless / Rare Earth

akm, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link

... Rare Bird

We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link

Hermann Weyl/André Weil

And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 June 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link

this is a photograph of Martin Donovan

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Martin_Donovan.jpg

Jeff Bridges is a completely different person

http://paperlief.com/images/jeff-bridges-movies-wallpaper-3.jpg

also I recently had to forcibly separate Mick Ronson and Mark Ronson in my head (but that's just me being dumb)

too gashly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link

Holly Hunter & Jennifer Jason Leigh

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link

Whoa, Puffin. I think you've discovered the missing link.

https://i.imgur.com/0hr7eaZ.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/HEcsdEi.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/o9gnIkw.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link

used to confuse Amy Madigan and Holly Hunter

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

St. Francis Prep/Francis Lewis High School/Francis Lewis Boulevard

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link

Perhaps should have posted on the Queens thread.

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link

Since things are taking a local turn, I confuse all the streets on the grid between Argyle Street and Sauchiehall Street in central Glasgow.

Madchen, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link

not mixed up but in my head Clive Myrie and Celia Imrie are relatives

thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link

Ali Wentworth
Ali Wong

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link

Since things are taking a local turn, I confuse all the streets on the grid between Argyle Street and Sauchiehall Street in central Glasgow.

The short part of the Waverly Place fork that hits Grove Street/The long part of the Waverly Place fork that bends and hits Christopher Street, where it changes traffic direction

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link

whit

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link

Do u see?

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link

You all ever meet in my town sometime, we'll just get together at the corner of Broadway and Broadway. And Broadway. And Broadway.

pplains, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link

Every town I go in
There is a street

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 July 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link

the late power pop godfather Tommy Hoehn
the late power pop godfather Tommy Keene

the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link

Craig Sheffer
Craig Wasson

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link

Bob Welch
Bob Weir

Jason Schwartzman
Jason Bateman

MarkoP, Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link

^ otm on the Jasons.

Chase Knobbe? Have you Courtney Cox? (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link

Jason Sudekis

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 21 July 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link

Damrosch Bandshell/Naumburg Bandshell

3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 July 2018 03:03 (six years ago) link

Tim Hecker
Tim Heidecker

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link

Hal Roach
Max Roach

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link

wtf

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link

No joke. Whenever I see one of their names, I have to pause for a second to remember which is being referred to.

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link

Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (had to google her name, forgot she was actually called Bridge!)

Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Monday, 6 August 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Jim Jeffries
Jeff Dunham

incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link

Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen

Dr. Goldfood and the Grill Bombs (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link

Nina Hagen
Nina Paley

incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link

Nina Flowers
Brandon Flowers

vanjie wail (qiqing), Thursday, 23 August 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link

seriously though

Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

vanjie wail (qiqing), Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:40 (six years ago) link

Drugstore Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy

flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:45 (six years ago) link

Yes to both of those

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:37 (six years ago) link

seriously though

Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

― vanjie wail (qiqing), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

- Haha, who could get these confused?

- All right. Which actress starred in The Abyss?

-

-

- You know what? To hell with all of you....

pplains, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link

I saw the names and had to google mary elizabeth winstead to remember that she wasn't either of these people, so add her to the list

challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link

Me a few minutes ago "Oh wow Leonora Carrington wrote feminist books about mythology (takes another look at name), no it's Carolyne Larrington"

I wont get them mixed up but I used to get Carrington mixed up with Leonor Fini.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link

Air Supply
Art of Noise

how's life, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link

lol
no way

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link

today apparently, i did:

Burt Reynolds
Tom Selleck

Also today:

1) william morris, arts and crafts
2) william morris, talent agency
3) phillip morris, tobacconist
4) phillip morris, fictional man in jim carrey movie

I had all four of these people mixed up in incredibly confusing ways in my head. especially 2-3-4

challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link

Emily Mortimer
Emily Blunt

Nag Reddit (Leee), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link

ha I used to get Burt and Tom mixed up when I was a kid

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link

Will you are not alone re the morrises (although I don’t think the last Philip is fictional)

coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link

John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer

WmC, Friday, 7 September 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link

Which one of those guys played Cliff Clavin?

pplains, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link

Lol

The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link

Will you are not alone re the morrises (although I don’t think the last Philip is fictional)

― coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even more confusing! ALL REAL PEOPLE

challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link

Emily Mortimer
Emily Blunt

― Nag Reddit (Leee), Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for real, I cannot tell Emily Mortimer and Emily Watson apart.

flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link

Britishes stop naming your daughters Emily!

Nag Reddit (Leee), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link

Karen Bradley
Karen Brady

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link

Brendan O'Neill
Brendan O'Carroll

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 September 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link

The Little Friend
The Little Stranger

Madchen, Friday, 14 September 2018 06:05 (six years ago) link

are the two used as euphemisms?

Stevolende, Friday, 14 September 2018 08:25 (six years ago) link

Julia Hartley Brewer and Kirstie Allsop

thomasintrouble, Friday, 14 September 2018 09:00 (six years ago) link

The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaiden (Korean film)
The Housemaid (another Korean film)

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 September 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link

Have only just realised that Alex Jones who was all over the news for being banned from Twitter share a name with Alex Jones, "one show" host

koogs, Saturday, 15 September 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link

David Icke
David Fricke

Has this been done idk

vanjie wail (qiqing), Monday, 17 September 2018 05:57 (six years ago) link

Elizabeth Moss
Elizabeth Olsen

because of Peggy Olson

silverfish, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link

same, AND same reason

vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link

In Time
About Time

MarkoP, Monday, 17 September 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link

A.A. Milne
J.M. Barrie

Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link

flopson
flappy bird

faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link

^^^^

Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link

Jonathan Chait / Jonathan Haidt

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, December 29, 2017 10:45 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ftb they are both chumps iirc

mark s, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link

Kiehl’s/Kohl’s

Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Kenny Loggins/Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers Roasters/Roy Rogers

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 25 October 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link

Well done!

Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 October 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link

Marie Colvin
Marie Helvin

Madchen, Saturday, 3 November 2018 07:56 (six years ago) link

used to confuse George Soros and Peter Angelos

louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 3 November 2018 08:23 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Charles Brackett/Charles MacArthur

Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link

James Dillon / James MacMillan

Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 November 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link

Gina McKee/Gina Bellman

Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 06:08 (six years ago) link

The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaiden (Korean film)
The Housemaid (another Korean film)

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, September 14, 2018 11:44 PM

The Housemaid (Vietnamese film)

forgotten to add.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 November 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link

shane ritchie/bradley walsh

woof, Sunday, 25 November 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link

The second Korean film there is a remake of the first and is sometimes given the same title in English, but yeah, confusing.;

Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link

Actually slightly annoyed I forgot to watch another film with the titular star of the that second film before it expired from Mubi.

Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link

Justin Moorhouse / Jason Manford

Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 November 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link

James - the first Korean film I listed was Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden. I take it you mean The Housemaid (2010, Sang-soo Im) is a remake of The Housemaid (1960, Ki-young Kim)?

So make that 5 film/television pieces to get mixed up.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 November 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link

Wow

Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link

Thanks. Forgot about the Korean Handmaiden, obviously, and the extra confusion it was contributing

Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link

William Goldman
William Golding

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link

^a classic

Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link

oops

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 25 November 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link

No worries

Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link

Phil Hartman and Phil Harris

Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Saturday, 8 December 2018 09:21 (six years ago) link

David Goodhart
Matthew Goodwin

also

Dave Rubin
Rick Rubin

The Village Defibrillator (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 9 December 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link

R.D. Burman/S. D. Burman

Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 December 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link

i was a little surprised when teddy riley was nominated the most influential recording artist of the last 30 years because i didn't think the palmian chord ryddle was _that_ influential

errang (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 December 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link

Paul Oakemfold / Andy Weatherall

... I am surely not the first.

Once in Rahul Dravid's City (Tom D.), Monday, 24 December 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link

Tessie O’Shea/Dorothy Shay

Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link

Alex Pareene
Dennis Perrin

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 28 December 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link

Thomas S Wilson and Anthony Michael Hall (in recent stuff0

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 28 December 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link

bernard sumner was the guy from chic who wasn't nile rodgers, right?

errang (rushomancy), Monday, 31 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link

Lol

Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link

unperson
unregistered

macropuente (map), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 06:12 (five years ago) link

What about curmudgeon?

Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link

Beast With Five Fingers and Blood On Satan's Claw

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 4 January 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link

Six By Seven
Five Or Six

Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Friday, 11 January 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link

James Blake
James Blunt

Not confused exactly, but always takes me a few seconds to remember which one

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 January 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link

In the last week I’ve confused:

Keir Hardie
Keir Starmer

Lenny Bruce
Andy Kaufman

Madchen, Friday, 18 January 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link

A few I used to get mixed up all the time

Cordwainer Smith and Clifford Simak
Genevieve Valentine and Catherynne M Valente
Pohl and Pournelle

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 January 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link

Bill Evans / Gil Evans

fetter, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link

^^ gah, same!!

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link

Gary Wright/Gary Wright
(“Dream Weaver”/“Mirror of Ice”)

Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 January 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link

today i realized that for all this time i had been confusing the genres of powerviolence and power electronics

gasp's "drome triler of puzzle zoo people" is actually quite good

The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 January 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link

I wish there was more music that sounded like that one yeah

don't let's be beastly to the gammons (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 26 January 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link

Parker Posey and Posie Parker (a TERF apparently)

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link

I don't always get them mixed up, I only just heard of the latter person and thought she was the former for a few minutes.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link

Gary Wright/Gary Wright
(“Dream Weaver”/“Mirror of Ice”)

― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, January 26, 2019 3:54 PM

Best mangled request I ever got at the classic rock station was for "Dream On" by Gary Weaver.

― pplains, Friday, December 30, 2016 11:01 PM

pplains, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link

Roffle

Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link

Blossom Rock
Blossom Dearie

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 January 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link

The Pianist
The Piano

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link

Bill Evans / Gil Evans

― fetter, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:23 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ gah, same!!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 00:42 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gil Evans (Miles Davis arranger) vs. Bill Evans (Miles Davis pianist) vs. Bill Evans (Miles Davis saxophonist)

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 29 April 2010 21:08 (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link

I don't ever even think much about Bill Evans - saxophonist. It's Bill Evans the pianist who also played in an earlier Miles group who is top Bill!

calzino, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link

oops, didn't catch all of last paste.

calzino, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link

Yusuf Lateef also a former Bill Evans (and I think recorded under that name early on)!

Ward Fowler, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link

In my experience lots of ppl also get Coleman Hawkins and Ornette Coleman mixed up

Ward Fowler, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link

I wouldn't, but am a subnormal freak!
xp
bloody hell, didn't know that. Even record shop headz might have been confused by that one.

calzino, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link

yusef lateef's name was BILL EVANS? are you serious?

a lady i used to work with was related to yusef lateef

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1373435027l/1154825.jpg

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link

Jack Warden and Jack Weston.

I don't actually get the people confused, but their names (and timelines) are close enough that I started a movie tonight waiting for Jack Warden to show up until Jack Weston did, and I thought "Right--Jack Weston."

clemenza, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link

Nezval and Nerval
Calzino and Clemenza

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link

michael oliver
lord haw-haw

ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link

dtla
dtlr

peace, man, Monday, 11 February 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link

soap operas
prestige dramas

brimstead, Monday, 11 February 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link

Nick Tosches is the worst of the first generation of rock critics (though Richard Meltzer gives him a serious run for it).

― grawlix (unperson)

meltzer's performance as det. munch on "homicide: life on the street" makes up for the shittiness of his rock criticism imo

the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link

Halsey
Alessia Cara

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link

Ha, one time saw that guy walking down Broadway with his twin.
(XP)

Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link

deerhunter
deafheaven

they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link

(feel like this one says more about the way my brain stores words/names -- two words stuck together, 10 letters, words are 4 & 6 length, D.H.)

they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link

I always confuse deafheaven with deafhaven, a group who exist solely in the bit of my brain responsible for typing words

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link

deerhunter and deerhoof for sure
not deafheaven

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link

weirdly i don't have that problem because the length of the band name is different? i might be a robot

they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link

no that makes sense -- some people latch onto the syllabic rhythm of something

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link

^^ I got teased by my family this morning for confusing dandelions with daffodils.

pplains, Monday, 18 February 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link

Terence Blanchard/Terell Stafford

Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 February 2019 11:15 (five years ago) link

Anne Carson, Anne Sexton

similarly but separately: Anne Tyler, Ann Beattie, Ann Patchett

John Ashberry, John Berryman

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link

^all of this

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link

Bernie Maupin / Bennie Taupin

Or is it...

*there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link

Took me a while but I see what you did there.

Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:04 (five years ago) link

Jan Michael Vincent and Don Johnson

nickn, Friday, 8 March 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link

Jan Michael Vincent and the "Voyagers" guy who got shot on a production set.

pplains, Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link

Jon-Erik Hexum - glad to hear I'm not the only one!

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 9 March 2019 08:04 (five years ago) link

Jan-Michael Vincent and Michael Des Barres (who, I now find out, is the 26th Marquis Des Barres, which should clear up the confusion if I think of him as that).

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 March 2019 09:33 (five years ago) link

phlebotomy and phrenology

mick signals, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link

ferberization and fletcherization

mick signals, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link

Fitzroy Maclean
Sorley Maclean
Compton Mackenzie

The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link

Casino Royale/On Her Majesty's Secret Service (haven't seen either. answered the wrong one in a quiz to 'which bond film starred george lazenby'.)

what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link

Assault on Precinct 13
The Taking of Pelham 123

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link

Lol yes

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 11:04 (five years ago) link

Paul Rudolph/Paul Rodgers
Herbie Flowers/Humphrey Ocean

rudolph and flowers each feature in (different) projects i am currently subbing and fact-checking so this mild double disorientation is salutory

mark s, Monday, 1 April 2019 11:57 (five years ago) link

Bonnie Prince Billy
Billy Childish
Billie Eilish

☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link

all those and Bill Callahan

thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link

The Day of the Jackal
Three Days of the Condor

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link

xp: true!

Three Days of the Condor
Condorman

☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link

Also I always know who Roy Scheider is but if I ever try to remember Rod Steiger's name, all I can think of is Scheider's.

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link

(I had to look up In the Heat of the Night to remember Steiger's to write that post)

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Marie Kondo/María Kodama

Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 April 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link

I wouldn't say I get them mixed up but I can't see Dunhill Records (home of the Mamas & the Papas et al) without thinking of HP Lovecraft (the author of 'The Dunwich Horror', not the band who were roughly contemporaneous with the Mamas & the Papas).

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 April 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link

I’m going to Korea today. For the past few weeks I’ve had to train myself to say “Korea” or “South Korea” rather than “North Korea.” I have no idea why. 🤷‍♂️

Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 21 April 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link

Levon Vincent/Leon Vynehall

brimstead, Monday, 22 April 2019 00:59 (five years ago) link

Chuba Akpom / Chuks Aneke. Both trainee Arsenal strikers, both hung around the fringes of the first team squad a few years ago before being eased out the door into a career of lower-league mediocrity.

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 22 April 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link

thought this was Paul Sorvino

http://img4.bdbphotos.com/images/700x350/0/f/0fio4br4rpfabar0.jpg?skj2io4l

Olmütz human (brownie), Monday, 22 April 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link

Magic Mike / Killer Mike

fetter, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:47 (five years ago) link

antibes
antilles

mark s, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link

The eclectic multi-instrumentalist sideman with the ridiculous hair and sideburns who plays live with Jackson Browne is named David Lindley.

The eclectic multi-instrumentalist sideman with the ridiculous hair and sideburns who plays live with Paul Simon is named Mark Stewart.

For a while I thought there was only one eclectic multi-instrumentalist sideman with ridiculous hair and sideburns who plays live with various well-known folk-rock singer-songwriters from bygone eras.

Turns out there are at least two.

moist owlette (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link

Poland
Hungary

naus, Sunday, 5 May 2019 05:17 (five years ago) link

Huh?

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:11 (five years ago) link

Chalk and cheese them two, you find any Ottoman influences in Poland i don't think.

calzino, Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:22 (five years ago) link

although both countries seem to have serious holocaust revisionism issues.

calzino, Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:28 (five years ago) link

Romania / Bulgaria while we're confessing geographical blindspots

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:33 (five years ago) link

I was going to say they don't have very much in common at all - language, culture, religion (Hungary is largely Catholic but nowhere to same extent as Poland) - but hush my mouth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_and_Hungarian_brothers_be

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link

what i found amazing was how massive the Polish/Lithuanian commonwealth was at the peak of it's power. it was a huge territory.

calzino, Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:44 (five years ago) link

And famously religious tolerant.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:48 (five years ago) link

Religiously tolerant, thiat is. No worries though, the Catholic Church put a stop to that eventually.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:49 (five years ago) link

cant be having people experimenting with soft power/secular tolerance when going on genocidal rampages is obv what jesus would have done.

calzino, Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:53 (five years ago) link

Kid went to a birthday party a few weeks ago, and I wound up hanging out with the dad of the house for a couple of hours.

It wasn't until a half hour into the conversation that he told me No, he wasn't from Turkey, he was from Turkmenistan. I thought he gave me a funny look when I asked how far away his village was from Istanbul.

A little while later, he was telling me how the government is corrupt and is basically ruled like a dictatorship. I said, Ha yeah, reminds me of Uzbekistan where no one's allowed to drive a black car.

And he kinda goes Heh, no, um, that's in my country, Turkmenistan.

So I guess in my mind, Turkey and Uzbekistan are the same country, home to the Portal to Hell.

pplains, Sunday, 5 May 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link

Romania / Bulgaria while we're confessing geographical blindspots

Heh, I was only familiar with the classic Budapest/Bucharest conflation, but I suppose this one should be expected as well. We both joined the EU in 2007, so that might be why.

pomenitul, Sunday, 5 May 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link

I was going to post a ho-ho comment about confusing Moldova and Romania but, actually, I sometimes have to think twice about Moldova and Belarus.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link

That's kind of fair, though, since Moldova is also the name of a region in Romania. Not to mention the Republic of Moldova is basically a Russian colony.

pomenitul, Sunday, 5 May 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link

In Romania you'll commonly see graffitis that say 'Bessarabia is Romania', Bessarabia being the name of the Republic of Moldova (minus Transnistria) prior to its indirect annexation by the USSR.

pomenitul, Sunday, 5 May 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link

I'm aware that Moldova basically is Romanian and is nowhere near Belarus but, yes, ex-Soviet republics which are still bit too Soviet for comfort.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link

It's not an unfair comparison! All that's missing in the Republic of Moldova is a Lukashenko-style dictatorial figure.

pomenitul, Sunday, 5 May 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link

Call of Duty
Line of Duty

Jeff W, Monday, 6 May 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link

Game of Thrones
House of Cards
House of Games

fetter, Monday, 6 May 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:39 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^

mark s, Friday, 24 May 2019 09:10 (five years ago) link

Oh yes.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 24 May 2019 09:24 (five years ago) link

yep

daenerys baker (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link

Yeah :/

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 May 2019 10:06 (five years ago) link

Thus one's ridiculous but still...

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I know which is which but I keep forgetting @AOC's family name and calling her Oxlade-Chamberlain

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link

Alexandria in NYC

pplains, Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link

Betsy Woodruff and Natasha Bertrand

Young reporters and recurring panelists on CNN or MSNBC RussiaGate shows. One writes for the Daily Beast, the other for the New Yorker, I think? Both are brunette and pretty cute, but I think it's Betsy who has kind of a crooked Brian Williams jaw I can't stop staring at.

punning display, Thursday, 30 May 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link

(I'm sure I've done this before but) Patrick Hamilton / Patrick White

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 May 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link

^good one

TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 May 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link

Peter O'Toole
Peter Steele

☮ (peace, man), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link

yahoo serious
yakov smirnoff

mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link

granulated sugar
confectioners sugar

I'll read a recipe that calls for granulated, and I'll think "not regular sugar" and reach for confectioners. Fuckers should stick to calling them either "sugar" or "powdered sugar".

punning display, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link

Peter Barkworth / Tony Britton (appearance)
Peter Barkworth / Peter Butterworth (name)

John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link

Kevin Coyne
Kevin Ayers

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 10 June 2019 09:34 (five years ago) link

Kevin Coyne even ended up inheriting Kevin Ayers' backing band, at one point.

John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link

Edmund Wilson
Edmund White

also

Angus Wilson
A. N. Wilson

fetter, Monday, 10 June 2019 12:19 (five years ago) link

last week's commemorations reminded me that for a long time the following was true:

Dunkirk
Normandy

(BBC2 unhelpfully showed Dunkirk on 6th June this year as well)

koogs, Monday, 10 June 2019 12:25 (five years ago) link

^So fortunate the Allies didn't have that same confusion. "Now remind me again. We're supposed to take as many as we can back to England, or establish a beachhead? Dunno why I can't keep that bit straight."

punning display, Monday, 10 June 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link

See, I've always been the guy who goes "Omaha Beach? I thought they landed at Normandy?"

pplains, Monday, 10 June 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link

4Hero
Four Tet

i mean lol ok i am old

mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link

4Hero
2 Bad Mice

☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link

Sylvia Miles
Sara Miles
Vera Miles

punning display, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link

(Sarah)

punning display, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link

Arthur Ransome
Arthur Rackham

John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link

Arthur Rackham
Alan Rickman

punning display, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Wylie Watson/Wiley Wiggins

Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 July 2019 09:59 (five years ago) link

1970s Swedish psych-proggers Älgarnas Trädgård (aka Garden of the Elks)
1970s Swedish psych-proggers Trettioåriga Kriget (aka Thirty Years War)

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 1 July 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link

Paul Theroux
Paul Auster

emil.y, Monday, 1 July 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link

I always think "Golden Years" is a Frank Zappa song for the first few bars

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 July 2019 10:37 (five years ago) link

Jessica Pratt
Natalie Prass

punning display, Thursday, 4 July 2019 12:57 (five years ago) link

John Adams

John Luther Adams

calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link

^this one is classic

Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 July 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link

General Jackson
General Jackson

Harry Truman apparently used to exclaim, "Jesus Christ and General Jackson!" I don't know if he's referring to Andrew or Stonewall.

I also get Stonewall Jackson and General Sherman mixed up, which is completely mixed up in itself. (It's one of those that I can figure out after two seconds, but damn, why does it always take me two seconds?)

pplains, Friday, 5 July 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link

What about this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWWCdadcM3c

Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 July 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link

Hang on Sloopy
Sloop John B

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 6 July 2019 06:39 (five years ago) link

Pretty sure when 19th century doodz said "Jackson" unqualified, they would have meant Andrew. A symbol of audacious courage, elan, and not giving a fuck.

Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 6 July 2019 10:36 (five years ago) link

Ultimate proof of how much of a bandwagon-hopper I was with the Raptors this year: Paul George and Chris Paul.

clemenza, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link

Hang on Sloopy
Snoopy vs the Red Baron

8 year old me was often disappointed.

nickn, Saturday, 6 July 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link

Lol

Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 July 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link

"Gin and Juice" must have further complicated the situation.

clemenza, Sunday, 7 July 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link

I was just old enough when Snoop came on the scene to differentiate.

nickn, Sunday, 7 July 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link

Lucky it wasn’t Vanilla Ice.

Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 7 July 2019 03:25 (five years ago) link

Hilarity in the Curtain Shoppe is my new noise combo.

Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 7 July 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William J. Crowe Jr
Candidate for Vice President of the United States James Bond Stockdale

"Who am I? Why am I here?"
"The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff STOLE MY EARRINGS!"

mark s, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link

Maxwell
Rockwell

Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link

^good one

Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link

James Ellroy & Elmore Leonard

― los blue jeans, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:56 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 13 July 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link

That is a very common one.

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link

Yesterday I learned that Kate Mara (full name Kate Rooney Mara) and Rooney Mara (full name Patricia Rooney Mara) are two different people, and I've seen either/both of them in loads of things and considered the-two-people-I-thought-was-one-person to be an excellent actor

flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 July 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link

Kate O'Mara was also an excellent actor. She was on Dynasty as Caress Morell, also was in The Vampire Lovers (1970).

Josefa, Sunday, 14 July 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link

James Atlas/James Wolcott
(And I see that one blurbed the other's recent book so...)

Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 July 2019 04:39 (five years ago) link

Charles Atlas (filmmaker) / Charles Atlas (Archie Comics bodybuilder standby entrepreneur)

flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 July 2019 05:47 (five years ago) link

Funny that when I google “atlas filmmaker gay” I get The Wachowskis

flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 July 2019 05:48 (five years ago) link

The Rooney Maras are the union of two Baseball clans - the Rooneys founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Maras founded the New York Giants!

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 14 July 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link

I always get this thread mixed up with this one:

Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

van dyke parks generator (anagram), Sunday, 14 July 2019 10:33 (five years ago) link

Great one.

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 14 July 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link

Jed Mercurio / Jez Butterworth

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:43 (five years ago) link

Up the Academy
Up the Creek

Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 22 July 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link

Lee Arthur Smith (possibly should not be in the baseball HOF)
Arthur Leigh Allen (possibly the Zodiac killer)

clemenza, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:33 (five years ago) link

Starship Troopers
Space Cowboys

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link

Max Faget/Max Factor

U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link

The Amazing Rhythm Aces
The Atlanta Rhythm Section

Both of whom turned out to be shitty soft/country rock, to my disappointment.

crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link

Good one. They were slightly later and British, but I'd almost throw Ace in there.

clemenza, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link

I'd also add
Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces

U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link

Oh! I Always Get Those Three Mixed Up!

Dominic Grieve
Dominic Cummings
Dominic Raab

crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Monday, 29 July 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link

I witnessed my wife confusing the latter two earlier!

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 01:58 (five years ago) link

Dominic Raab
Broccoli Rabe
Boston Rob

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link

Eric Newby / Eric Ambler; maybe because Newby was an ambler.

fetter, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link

Dominic Grieve / Dominic Cummings / Dominic Raab

For me I think it is

category: Tory MPs who might be not completely evil or insane (obv still a little as Tories)
Dominic Grieve / Nick Boles / maybe Philip Lee a bit now Boles is no longer a Tory
(while Googling, surprised to learn Lee is younger than Boles, which I would not have guessed - sorry Dr Lee)

category: dangerous unelected mendacious loons
Dominic Cummings / Daniel Hannan

category: please let me never hear about these terrible embarrassing people again
Dominic Raab / Gavin Williamson

a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link

Hannan is elected btw.

Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link

Oops, you're quite right - and in the region I vote in too.

Well then.

a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:24 (five years ago) link

I shall try and remember them like this:
Grieve - grim
Cummings - cunt
Raab - r*pist (probably)

crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link

Parry Sound
Perry Stern

clemenza, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link

John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer

― WmC, Friday, September 7, 2018 12:52 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Variant on this:
John Frankenheimer
John Boorman

crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Friday, 2 August 2019 09:57 (five years ago) link

Stephen Dubner
Steven Pinker (whom I kept remembering as Pinkner)

Coelacanth Green (Leee), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link

Paul Rudd/Paul Simms

U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link

(That one has really been persistent)

U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link

Not to be confused with

Phil Rudd
Phil Simms

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link

Correct

U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link

Anna Kavan/Ann Quin

This is maybe linked to my confusion about literary Annes upthread, plus one write ice and the other wrote berg, and I’ve read neither

YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 5 August 2019 08:19 (five years ago) link

Anna Paquin
Anna Chlumsky

Madchen, Monday, 5 August 2019 09:57 (five years ago) link

ONUKA / ODESZA.

Bob Lefsetz has seen the future of music and it’s a Ukrainian EDM act? Oh, wait...

breastcrawl, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link

Hailee Steinfeld
Shailene Woodley

Maura Tierney
Moira Kelly

Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 9 August 2019 02:39 (five years ago) link

I've spent 3 years or so thinking that the white-nationalist podcaster and youtuber Stefan Molyneux had created the computer game Populous, but found out today that it was Peter Molyneux (I think I was getting Stefan Molyneux mixed up with Scott Adams here as well, as in the trajectory from creating innocuous thing I liked as a kid in the 90s to reappearing circa 2016 as an insane advocate for crypto-fascism)

soref, Sunday, 11 August 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link

Marina Warner
Marina Wheeler

Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 11 August 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link

Just realized this one, UK electronic producers:

Rusko
Roska

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link

I mean, c'mon

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

Rustie doesn't help either

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link

Kim Stanley
Kim Hunter

Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link

80s Meryl Streep film Silkwood
80s Meryl Streep film Ironweed

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 07:45 (five years ago) link

i never got those muddled but i do now want to find out ironweed is silkwood's secret sequel

mark s, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.

TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:52 (five years ago) link

See also:

Jane Fonda film Comes a Horseman (1978)
Jane Fonda film Electric Horseman (1979)

Josefa, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link

Anna Paquin
Anna Chlumsky

Wow I think I just scrompfed both actors into a single entity, along with Kristen Johnston

flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link

Speaking of which, I did this the other day:

3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock

flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.

Think it was more often referred to as The Albany Trilogy.

TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link

Frances O'Grady
Frances Ryan

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 August 2019 07:21 (five years ago) link

Recent Woodstock anniversary articles have reminded me that I have never properly mentally separated Ritchie Valens and Richie Havens.

fetter, Thursday, 22 August 2019 08:09 (five years ago) link

Both famous for their covers!

pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link

Speaking of which, I did this the other day:

3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, August 20, 2019 1:46 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I will never not think of 3rd Rock when 30 Rock is brought up.

☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link

The Silvercup sign/The Swingline sign RIP

TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link

another sunny day
and
sunny day real estate

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link

somehow I can never remember who J.J. Cale is and he winds up becoming this amalgam of John Cale and Cass McCombs in my mind.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link

Chris Hayes
Chris Hanson

Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 24 August 2019 02:50 (five years ago) link

Bret Stephens
Bret Weinstein

☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link

gerard butler
gerard way

mark s, Thursday, 29 August 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link

spatula
scalpel

My brain always wants to momentarily forget which of these I want to say, even though they are quite different implements and I use one of them all the time in different contexts while I’ve used the other maybe twice in my life

YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link

Calvary
cavalry

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link

I think people keep mixing up the 2 when it comes to the title of the long jam on side 2 of QMS' Happy Trails.

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link

Just found out that Golgotha was another name for Calvary. I thought I'd heard it was the location of the residue of the human waste that came off the crucified or the residue pile itself. Not sure where i got atht from, some horror type media, comic, book or film I think. Maybe they were just being poetic.

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link

“I Never Will Marry”/“Never Will I Marry”

The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 September 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link

i used to have problems distinguishing
pederast and
pedophile

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 1 September 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link

I'm not sure I know the difference, but I am not googling to find out.

Hideous Lump, Monday, 2 September 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

the former can colloquially overlap with the latter, but is not a subset: specifically an adult male in a continuing intimate relationship with an adolescent boy. a paedophile is someone of either biological sex, physically attracted to pre-pubescents, whether or not they act on those desires.

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 2 September 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link

“I Never Will Marry”/“Never Will I Marry”

Adding to the confusion is Linda Ronstadt singing both.

The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 September 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link

Diamanda Galás
Marina Diamandis

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link

Mike Post
Mike Curb

The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 September 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link

Good one

Our Borad Could Be Your Trife (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 September 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link

There's a Devon-based guitar teacher called M1ke B0llard if you want to add him to the fray (yes I googled the name)

funnel spider ESA (Matt #2), Saturday, 14 September 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link

Carol White/Carol Wayne

Our Borad Could Be Your Trife (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 September 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link

Can I broaden the topic to "Oh!, my dad always got those two mixed up"? If so:

Jim Morrison / Morrissey

Mike Leigh / Spike Lee

fetter, Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:59 (five years ago) link

Would watch Nuts In May as directed by Spike Lee

funnel spider ESA (Matt #2), Sunday, 15 September 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link

BFF
2FA

mick signals, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link

Sean O'Hagan (of High Llamas/Stereolab)
Sean O'Hagan (Guardian journo)

In fact I've only recently realised they're two different people.

funnel spider ESA (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link

Wait, didn't Sean O'Hagan of
the Llamas also do some music writing?

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

Yeah I'm even more confused now

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link

No, that was Sean O'Hagan of the Guardian.

Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link

Wild

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link

Norbert Putnam/Curly Putman

The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 04:00 (five years ago) link

Capybara
Coypu

Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link

Danny Hutton/Danny Huston

I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link

Rocketman
The Rocketeer

☮ (peace, man), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link

Little Rocketeer

now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link

Christopher Timothy
Christopher Beeny

Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Friday, 27 September 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link

Richard Serra
Richard Long

The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 4 October 2019 09:20 (five years ago) link

Milwaukee
Zilwaukee

mick signals, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link

this one's easy for me because I take the steamer to Zilwaukee for all my timber milling

The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link

Looked up Kilwaukee last night, hoping to join in on the metric fun...

... but apparently, Milwaukee has its fair share of violent problems!

pplains, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link

Theodore Bikel
Severn Darden

(Admittedly, I don't think about either of them that often to always get them mixed up, but there's no "Oh! I Once Got Those Two Mixed Up" thread.)

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 5 October 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link

Brandi Carlile
Belinda Carlisle

blows with the wind donors (crüt), Saturday, 5 October 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link

Tod Machover
Tod Dockstader

Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Monday, 7 October 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link

Brandi Carlile
Belinda Carlisle

― blows with the wind donors (crüt)

oh, good, it's not just me - i did eventually get it sorted but it was very confusing for a bit.

i'm particularly bad with actors. most recently i can't differentiate james woods and james spader.

Calpico Girlfriend (rushomancy), Monday, 7 October 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link

Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Safran Foer

fetter, Monday, 7 October 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link

xp I'd like to thank Woods for going very loudly Trump-nuts there, it helped a lot.

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 7 October 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link

escolar and escarole

WmC, Monday, 7 October 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link

Robert Forster (actor)
Robert Blake

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 12 October 2019 10:55 (five years ago) link

Me too, I try and remember them as Go-Betweens guy / go-to-prison guy but it still doesn't work

living in the heart of the beat (Matt #2), Saturday, 12 October 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link

red pill
blue pill

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 17 October 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link

SCIF
Schiff

Lucky Pierre Delecto (crüt), Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link

cypro and cipro

Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link

I'm always thinking Sam Smith is Bon Iver for some reason.

☮ (peace, man), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link

i keep confusing sam smith with sam sanders and/or sam amidon

i'm probably the only person on earth who does this

Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 October 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link

DMBQ
NRBQ

Lucky Pierre Delecto (crüt), Saturday, 26 October 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link

Lol

Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link

Cymande
Mandrill

... and you would think Mandré, but not so much really. I might have posted this before.

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link

... just noticed Mandré was from Shreveport, La, birthplace of the Residents!

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link

Norma Winstone
Norma Waterson

fetter, Sunday, 27 October 2019 08:57 (five years ago) link

Neil Diamond
Neil Sedaka
Paul Anka

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link

I used to get Neil Sedaka and Barry Manilow confused.

nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link

I know one of them did 'Diana' and one of them did 'Oh Carol' but no idea which.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link

Owen Smith
Owen Jones
If there's an Owen Brown then him too

Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link

Owen Brown was a son of the abolitionist John Brown.

nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link

Josh Allen
Josh Rosen
Sam Darnold

brimstead, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link

Dorian Lynskey
Rhodri Marsden

Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Saturday, 2 November 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link

George Crumb
Robert Crumb
tbh until 1 minute ago i didn't know george crumb existed and thought he was the comic author.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 3 November 2019 09:57 (five years ago) link

Now you can listen to George Crumb's music, good stuff!

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 November 2019 10:03 (five years ago) link

Marisol
Maripol

tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link

Ha, yes!

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

☮ (peace, man), Monday, 4 November 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link

Svartsinn
Svarte Greiner

(Norwegian ambient dudes who want you to know that their music is, like, super dark)

chips moomin (unregistered), Monday, 4 November 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link

Gary Pettis and Gary Redus. Both outfielders: Pettis played from 1982-1992, Redus from 1982-1994.
Pettis was a much better defender, Redus a much better hitter. They just missed playing together in Texas towards the end of their careers.

clemenza, Monday, 4 November 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link

Dua Lipa
Duolingo

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link

Baudrillard
Baudelaire

tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link

EPMD/EMDR

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link

Charles Perrault
Charles Kuralt

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link

^this

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 November 2019 03:25 (five years ago) link

Richard Ford
Richard Russo
Richard Powers
Richard Price

rob, Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link

^this too
Throw in Richard Yates for the quincunx.

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link

Joe Pesci
Joe Piscopo

A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link

I saw Joe Piscopo in something for the first time ever last week and now I don't know how anyone ever thought of him enough to confuse with anybody

now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link

Alvin Curran
Alvin Lucier

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link

^ pretty sure I did that one upthread, along with Philip Corner and Phill Niblock.

'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link

Apologies for the duplication - Curran is playing in Glasgow this month and I couldn’t remember if I’d seen him before - but no, it was Lucier I’d seen previously.

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link

the plot of taken 3

deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link

(xp) No apologies necessary, just noting someone else has the same problem distinguishing avant-Alvins!

'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link

Jaco Pastorius
Jacob Sartorius

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link

Weyes Blood
Wye Oak

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link

Lee Greenwood/Lee Hazlewood

Whenever I see the credit for God Bless the USA I think for a split second, "Wait, the guy who wrote 'Some Velvet Morning'?!"

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, March 5, 2018 9:28 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^ this for me but in reverse — whenever I hear people singing the praises of Lee Hazlewood I'm like "Wait, the guy who wrote 'God Bless The USA'?!"

esempio (crüt), Saturday, 16 November 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link

Catherine Bach
Barbara Bach

And don't even ask me who's married to Joe Walsh.

pplains, Saturday, 16 November 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link

Matmos
Momus

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 16 November 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link

today i learned that bill callahan and mark kozelek are separate people.

treeship., Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link

now i know why i like smog and not sun kil moon

treeship., Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link

Jena and Erfurt. Going from Berlin to Frankfurt/Main it is Jena first and then Erfurt. I always mix them up.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 17 November 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link

I think I wouldn't confuse them anymore if I would visit at least one of them but I always drive past.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 17 November 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link

Ponderosa Steakhouse
Bonanza Steakhouse

Sam Weller, Monday, 18 November 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link

Cage the Elephant
Elephant 6
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Ella Fitzgerald

maffew12, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link

The Turner Diaries
The Basketball Diaries

💠 (crüt), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link

David Cronenberg
Steven Soderbergh

punning display, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link

John Mayer
Rectangles

maffew12, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link

Just confused Talosians and Thessalonians

MrDasher, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link

hearsay
heresy

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link

why be confused? it’s so pure... and simple

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Pure_and_Simple_single_cover_-_2001.jpg

breastcrawl, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link

Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Cherubini

punning display, Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link

the song "Amanda"
the song "Rosanna"

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 22 November 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link

the song ramona

deems of internment (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 November 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link

Chris Wilder
Dean Smith

'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 November 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link

Can't Stop the Music
The Music Never Stopped

Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 November 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link

Michael Feingold/Michael Feinstein

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 November 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link

Mortimer Snerd/Knucklehead Smiff

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 November 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link

just had the devil of a time remembering that Morcheeba and Kosheen were two separate entities

éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 December 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link

Joan Greenwood
Joan Littlewood

'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 2 December 2019 07:52 (five years ago) link

Escape to Witch Mountain
The Watcher in the Woods

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link

Stevan Stationers
Fake Stevdan Stationers across the street at their old location, I think

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link

they even changed their name to STEVEN STATIONERS

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link

they have a permanent sale of 50% off on everything, only it is 50% of a grossly inflated retail price. It is the Sam Goody’s of Stationery.

Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link

Ode to Billie Joe
Billy Jack
Billy, Don't Be a Hero
One Tin Soldier

^ all a vague mush of overlapping 70s detritus in my brain

Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 December 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link

Species
Mimic
The Relic

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link

Mubi (film streaming service)
.mobi (eBook file format)

punning display, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link

Tom Hooper
Tobe Hooper

Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 December 2019 00:52 (five years ago) link

^These last two posts

Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 December 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link

Tom’s latest looks way scarier than anything Tobe made.

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:47 (five years ago) link

William Peter Blatty
William Friedkin

One wrote The Exorcist, one directed it, can never remember which is which as they're both called William. Now Bill Blatty I could have differentiated, but it was not to be.

AMM stands for Axe-Murdering Motherfuckers (Matt #2), Saturday, 21 December 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link

Jonathan King
Christopher Biggins

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 21 December 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link

Palmolive (Slits)
Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)

I also can't keep straight whether Ari Up was the one who sang "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"

punning display, Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link

Arnold Bennett and Alan Bennett

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 2 January 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link

Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link

Gene Clark and Guy Clark. I'm sure that makes no sense to anyone familiar with both. But I've never heard Guy Clark, so whenever I see him mentioned, I always have to remind myself that he's a different guy than Gene Clark.

clemenza, Friday, 10 January 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link

(xp) Yes.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link

Steve Swell + Steve Swallow.

calzino, Sunday, 12 January 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link

Inner Circle
Third World

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link

michelle williams
carey mulligan

El Tomboto, Sunday, 12 January 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link

Jonathan King
Christopher Biggins

I can see this, but it took me several decades to fully apprehend that the English bespectacled actor and talk show presence and panto star Christopher Biggins was not the Sydney bespectacled actor and talk show presence and revue director/performer Jonathan Biggins

don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link

KOKOKO!
KOKOROKO

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link

Lowestoft
Felixstowe

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link

Today I mixed up Dark Souls and Dead Souls. I won't say I "always" do that though.

revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 January 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link

999 (singer, Nick Cash)
The Members (singer, Nicky Tesco)

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link

international anthem
imaginational anthem

revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Friday, 24 January 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link

Gavin McInnes
Gavin Newsom

uncrut gems (crüt), Saturday, 25 January 2020 07:50 (four years ago) link

Paice, Ashton & Lord
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Saturday, 25 January 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link

Estee Lauder
Elizabeth Arden

Madchen, Saturday, 25 January 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link

Leonard Rossiter
Norman Rossington

TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link

... both Scousers btw.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link

Errol Graham
Herol Graham

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 30 January 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link

Peter Hall
Peter Brook

fetter, Thursday, 30 January 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link

Champion Jack Dupree
Champion Doug Veitch

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Friday, 31 January 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link

Mike Curb
Mike Post

(includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link

Andy Gill (musician) / Andy Gill (music journalist)

and similarly the Sean O'Hagans

fetter, Sunday, 2 February 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link

Alison Brie
Brie Larson

― Madchen, Monday, February 29, 2016 9:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:24 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also, it turns out, Alison "We are sex bob-omb" Pill

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link

Brie Larson did that Neil Young cover back in the 70s.

pplains, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link

Saw what you did there, plains

TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 February 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link

Autocorrect removed the extra leading ‘p’ sorry

TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 February 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link

thanks for looking in my direction anyway.

pplains, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link

Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Perpetua

uncrut gems (crüt), Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link

Realised that using BJH as a shorthand for both Bojack Horseman and Bong Joon-Ho has lead to some misconceptions for the persons I was talking to.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 8 February 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link

Well, Todd is kind of a parasite...

nickn, Saturday, 8 February 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link

Ted Lewis
Norman Lewis

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 9 February 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link

Rudolf Steiner
George Steiner

fetter, Sunday, 9 February 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link

Champion Doug Veitch

― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2)

he took over Swamp Thing after Alan Moore left, right?

you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Sunday, 9 February 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link

Glenne Headley
Lena Headey

(includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 February 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link

joss ackland
jess yates

mark s, Sunday, 9 February 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link

i used to mix Joss Ackland's name up with Joss out of Tenko

Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 February 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link

It's not that I don't know the difference really but Bill Callahan (Smog), Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon), Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and David Berman (Purple Mountains) all occupy this space of 'elder US indie statesman with the deep voice who writes wry, lyrical songs'

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 10 February 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link

- Guy from Lambchop
- Guy who won Super Bowl with the St. Louis Rams.

pplains, Monday, 10 February 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link

mamie van doren
carl van vechten

mark s, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link

Tame Impala
Local Natives
Unknown Mortal Orchestra

(not names exactly, just sound, and which is which)

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link

Eduard Artemyev
Vyacheslav Artyomov

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link

Sam Sheppard
Sam Elliott

Really, I always combined them into Sam Sheppard, actor and famous playwright. A double threat!

Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Saturday, 15 February 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link

I used to combine Karen Ann Quinlan and Kathleen Quinlan, subconsciously thinking how nice that .the "girlfriend in a coma" survived and then had such success in Hollywood.

Then the columnist Anna Quindlen emerged and that broke my brain so I knew I had to get them all sorted.

Josefa, Saturday, 15 February 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link

Tame Impala
Local Natives
Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Yes to these and also Surfer Blood

flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 15 February 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link

I used to combine Karen Ann Quinlan and Kathleen Quinlan, subconsciously thinking how nice that .the "girlfriend in a coma" survived and then had such success in Hollywood.

Then the columnist Anna Quindlen emerged and that broke my brain so I knew I had to get them all sorted.

Don’t forget novelists Ann Quin and Anna Kavan and throw in actress Anna Paquin for good measure.

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 February 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link

Orbital and The Orb

Deflatormouse, Saturday, 15 February 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link

Which one is William Orbit in?

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 15 February 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link

Pat Irwin/Pat Place/Pat Smear

Will Rigby/Will Birch

Eden Ahbez/Ēbn-Ōzn

John Cena
Michael Cera

who couldn't be more different really

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 17 February 2020 09:14 (four years ago) link

Orbital and The Orb

To make matters more confusing, some early remixes by The Orb are titled "Orbital Mix". Took me a while to figure out it wasn't Orbital who'd done them.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 07:18 (four years ago) link

I've never read Tolkien or seen the LOTR movies, and whenever I see a reference to Smeagol, my mind goes to Robert Smigel.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link

Liz Truss
Lynne Truss

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link

gollum the insult comic hobbit

mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link

Somebody at the Times doesn’t know their Money Supermarket from their Money Saving Expert.

.@thetimes have incorrectly used my picture in the story that moneysupermarket group chief exec Mark Lewis is leaving.

To clarify I am not going anywhere and will continue as executive chair of MoneySavingExpert.

(now back to my self imposed half term Twitter exile) https://t.co/1gAFKRU7gh

— Martin Lewis (@MartinSLewis) February 20, 2020

Madchen, Thursday, 20 February 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link

Christopher George
Dennis Christopher

Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link

-xp

Bet I know what else makes that guy angry.

https://i.imgur.com/YO8hY9Q.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link

Sy Sperling
Sy Syms

Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 February 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link

Inexplicably, and I know one of them is dayed

Sam Mendes
Anthony Minghella

flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link

^I get those mixed up as well

Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link

Ditto.

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 February 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link

Yeah, same.

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 23 February 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link

at least Minghella did a decent Highsmith adaptation (among a load of shite!) although it wasn't a patch on the 1960 one with Delon. Less said about Mendes the better.

calzino, Sunday, 23 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link

Me too!

Also Lewis Capaldi and Paolo Nutini.

Madchen, Sunday, 23 February 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link

Sy Sperling
Sy Syms

which one sang with the Max Rebo Band?

Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Sunday, 23 February 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link

Micheal Howard (late historian who died last year)
Micheal Howard (former Tory leader)

I only got them mixed up once tbh but was thinking Baron Howard had sneaked off to the invisible choir without telling anybody!

calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 08:10 (four years ago) link

Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Fierstein

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 08:21 (four years ago) link

I used to mix them up too, but not so much in recent years, for obvious reasons.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 08:51 (four years ago) link

Dervla Kirwan
Sharon Horgan

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link

Minghella's "Ripley" is amazing. *googles* ohhhhh Mendes did Skyfall and Spectre? yuck. I don't know why they didn't let Martin Campbell do several

flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link

Plein Soleil is my fave version, but I think they both fine tbh but let's be honest young alain delon>>>matt bloody damon!

calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link

I think both movies are good in different ways, the French one is sexier, while the Minghella one is more sociological. Plein soleil suffers from the forced "moral" ending though, which the newer one obviously doesn't have.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link

aye some bits of it didn't age well, but overall and I suppose aesthetically it is much more of an indelibly cool movie in my memory!

calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link

Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Arthur Burnett

Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 February 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link

Brigitte Nielsen
Bridget Fonda

☮️ (peace, man), Monday, 2 March 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Lazare Carnot (father of the above)

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link

WFH/WTF

Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 March 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link

John Torode
John Tordoff

God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 March 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link

Soccer Mommy
Snail Mail

nickn, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link

^^^^

God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link

Gavin McInnes
Gavin Newsom

― uncrut gems (crüt), Saturday, January 25, 2020 1:50 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

happened again today

rusted (crüt), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 08:53 (four years ago) link

"Lee" Liberace
William Campbell

Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 02:01 (four years ago) link

shallots
scallions

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:52 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:02 (four years ago) link

I grew up calling scallions 'spring onions' and have avoided that mix up.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link

"Did you get the onion from the supermarket?"
"Yeah, here it is"
"It's a bit on the small side isn't it?"
"Well, that's shallot"

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link

Yeah nobody in the uk says scallions ime

felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link

My mum called them sybees (no idea if that's how you spell it)

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link

Scallions may be an Irish thing?

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link

scallions
scallops

mark s, Sunday, 22 March 2020 10:26 (four years ago) link

I was an adult when I found out that scallops aren't always sliced potato

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 March 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link

they call them collops in my local chippy (rip)

calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link

My mum called them sybees (no idea if that's how you spell it)

Same here. Spelled 'syboe'. From the French, 'ciboule'. The Auld Alliance at work again?

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link

I was an adult when I found out that scallops aren't always sliced potato

Ditto.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:34 (four years ago) link

Yes, like how we have ashet pies, from 'assiete'

xp

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 22 March 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link

Oh, is that why it’s called an ashet? I never realised!

Madchen, Sunday, 22 March 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link

shallots
scallions

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:52 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I call the latter "grunions" to nobody's amusement but my own

meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 22 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link

Arthur Conley
Arthur Alexander

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 23 March 2020 09:38 (four years ago) link

Joe Meek
Joe Boyd

punning display, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link

jackson browne
warren zevon

mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link

Tarriers banjoist Eric Weissberg (RIP)
Tarriers banjoist Erik Darling (RIP)

unregistered, Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link

Sean Bean
Sean Pertwee

akb23 (Matt #2), Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:53 (four years ago) link

Stanley Baker
Stanley Baxter

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link

Max Miller (comedian)
Mick Miller (comedian)

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link

Mick the Miller (greyhound)

fetter, Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link

Kevin Rowland
Rowland S. Howard

☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 26 March 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link

I call the latter "grunions" to nobody's amusement but my own

― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, March 22, 2020 4:10 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm imagining scallions all flopping around fucking on the beach?

☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 26 March 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link

Barre Phillips
Barry Guy

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link

I'd never heard of Bobi Wine before today but now plan to confuse him with Toni Wine

Josefa, Thursday, 26 March 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link

The philadelphia story
The philadelphia experiment

closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 27 March 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link

I was just saying this yesterday!

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 27 March 2020 09:51 (four years ago) link

Mick Ronson
Mick Karn

epistantophus, Sunday, 29 March 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link

Murray Head
Anthony Head

Although I looked them up and it turns out they're brothers. Still, I always just considered them as one composite being.

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link

Although I looked them up and it turns out they're brothers.

0_o

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link

Yeah, that was new information to me too!

Tuomas, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:30 (four years ago) link

Murray - One Night in Bangkok
Anthony - Gold Blend ads

Got it now I think

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFw7K5-MV8I

^^^^

mark s, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link

important good art itt

mark s, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link

The Four Tops
The Spinners

Thank goodness there wasn't another r&b combo from that era called The Dervishes or something.

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link

I get all of those old vocal groups mixed up - I usually recognise Platters songs as my dad played them a lot.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link

the thin red line
the thin blue line

budo jeru, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link

The Spinners
The Weavers

who are in an entirely different genre but I still can never remember which is which

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link

... aren't they in the same genre? There's another one:

The Peddlers

... a mystery of a band, nobody has ever listened to them since ca. 1972.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link

i used to have that with

the seekers
the searchers

and still have that problem sometimes with

the new lost city ramblers
the new christy minstrels

budo jeru, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link

... aren't they in the same genre?

I meant The Detroit Spinners, who were called that in the UK to differentiate them from the folky Spinners. At least I think I meant them. I'm just confusing myself further with all this, I give up.

threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link

Midsommar
Midsomer Murders

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 April 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link

Thank You for Smoking
I Love You Phillip Morris

punning display, Friday, 17 April 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link

Velvet Buzzsaw (movie)
Velvet Revolver (rock band)

punning display, Friday, 17 April 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link

(Things You Just Don't Care About Getting Mixed Up)

punning display, Friday, 17 April 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link

Velvet Goldmine (song and movie) conspicuously absent

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link

Brian Dennehy and Charles Durning

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:55 AM

Brian Dennehy / every actor that looks like Brian Dennehy

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, May 31, 2008 4:34 PM

also i read an article in Premiere in about 1987 once about people getting Charles Durning and Brian Dennehy mixed up and have been doing it ever since.

― piscesx, Monday, February 7, 2011 12:07 PM

Just one more round, indulge me.

pplains, Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link

As posted on RIP thread:
Arnold Stang/Danny Goldman

Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link

Ha! I remember writing Dennehy in here but couldn't remember who I mixed him up with.

nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link

All I could think of was Charles Grodin, but thought that couldn't be right. (Too lazy to "show all" and search.)

nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link

Dennehy / Brian Cox (not that one)

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 18 April 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link

Nora Ephron
Nora Roberts

☮️ (peace, man), Monday, 20 April 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link

Lynne Truss
Liz Truss

emil.y, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link

Brian Stableford
Brian Evenson

Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 April 2020 06:17 (four years ago) link

Beatrice Dillon
Beatrice Dalle

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 23 April 2020 07:05 (four years ago) link

Cate Blanchett
Kate Winslet

Have never knowingly seen either in a movie tbf, just remember when both were peak famous at around the same time

Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link

That's impressive, they've both been in a ton of films.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link

gwen mcrae
gwen guthrie

mark s, Monday, 27 April 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link

^^^^

Jeff Chandler
Jeffey Hunter

... not very similar but both called Jeff and both died young.

The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link

... Jeffrey Hunter, of course.

The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link

unexpectedly sad when i discovered a couple of weeks ago gwen guthrie was no longer with us

(she died in 1999 so i've had ample time to discover this)

mark s, Monday, 27 April 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link

There's also Gwen Dickey, to add to the confusion.

The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link

everyone having different first names to help diminish mark and tom's befuddlement 2020 challenge

mark s, Monday, 27 April 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link

Indeed, when it comes to Jeff Chandler and Jeffrey Hunter, I always have to stop and ask myself which one was Jesus, and that would be Hunter - Chandler was too Jewish and looked like he'd wouldn't merely throw the money lenders out of the temple but give them a good doing in the process.

The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link

Finn Wittrock
Finn Wolfhard

MarkoP, Monday, 27 April 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link

Too Jewish to be Jeuus? xp

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 27 April 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link

Worzel Gummidge
Catweazle

Probably because I never watched either of them when I was a kid, so they kind of blend into one in my non-memory of them.

archangel's thunderpants (Matt #2), Monday, 27 April 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link

(xp) Of course! Can't have a Jewish Jesus!

The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

This, on like a monthly basis.

Sam Weller, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link

Seeing Maj Sjöwall (R.I.P.) in the obituary thread gave rise to...

The Laughing Policeman
The Singing Detective

punning display, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link

Might as well throw in "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" by Whistling Jack Smith

Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link

This is very niche, in my world of underground electronic music, but:

Bassbear
Bearcat

Every single time.

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link

Chaki
Lulu Gainsbourg

Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 May 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link

Frankie Valli / Frankie Avalon

Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 3 May 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link

Nathan Robinson
Nathan Fielder

trapped out the barndo (crüt), Monday, 4 May 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link

This is a weird one but:

Amanda Palmer
Laura Palmer

I guess I only kind of barely know who Amanda Palmer is so whenever I see her name pop up somewhere I immediately think of Twin Peaks

silverfish, Monday, 4 May 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link

The Eyes of Laura Palmer is one where I quickly shake my head and go, wait, that's not right.

pplains, Monday, 4 May 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link

Jeez, as if being brutally murdered and wrapped in plastic weren't bad enough

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 4 May 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link

PPE
PPP

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link

Daryl Hannah
Darrell Hammond

trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link

James Nesbitt
John Hannah

YES

Madchen, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:32 (four years ago) link

My "who's that guy who's not John Hannah?" guy is Alan Cumming.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 11 May 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link

never even heard of John Hannah before, just thought James Nesbitt was in Four Weddings etc.

thomasintrouble, Monday, 11 May 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link

Yeah, and I've forever thought it was Hannah in Cold Feet.

yeah I've done Nesbitt / Hannah

they don't even look alike, they just both have foreheads that are wider at the top

Elon's musk (sic), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link

Twinkly Celt alert.

Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link

yeah I've done Nesbitt / Hannah

they don't even look alike, they just both have foreheads that are wider at the top


Yes this is why they are the same person in my head but Bosch only looks like one of them

Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link

they became famous at moreorless the same time, iirc. I had a similar thing with John Simm and Simon Pegg.

fetter, Monday, 11 May 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link

(xp) Dark hair, receding hairline, accent.

Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link

+ prominent eyebrows.

Tuomas, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link

furlough
curfew

fetter, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link

Huntington's disease
Parkinson's disease

punning display, Thursday, 14 May 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link

Parkinson's
Alzheimer's

Leonard Cheshire
Anthony Nolan

Madchen, Thursday, 14 May 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link

Also...
muscular dystrophy / multiple sclerosis
cystic fibrosis / cerebral palsy
rickets / shingles

punning display, Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link

Matt Healy
Fran Healy

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Saturday, 16 May 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link

muscular dystrophy / multiple sclerosis / cystic fibrosis

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 May 2020 09:25 (four years ago) link

Rock and roller / cola wars / I can't take it anymore

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:21 (four years ago) link

lol

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 16 May 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link

Angelina Jolie
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Not sure why, but I can never remember which is which.

zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Saturday, 16 May 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link

Fred Ward
Fred Willard

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 08:55 (four years ago) link

^I never had that mix up, but I did often confuse Fred Willard's real name with that of his Fernwood 2 Night character. As in, "You should see Best in Show if only for Jerry Hubbard's performance. He steals the picture."

punning display, Monday, 18 May 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link

None of that stuff ever got shown over here, so he was really not well known at all in the UK. As for Fred Ward, as well as getting his name mixed up with Fred Willard, I get his face mixed up with Robert Forster (the late actor, not the guy from the Go-Betweens).

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link

Grace Blakely
Grace Lavery

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link

Robert Forster (late actor)
Robert Forster (guy from the Go-Betweens)

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link

Doncha know your hoover max extracts from your dysons either?

calzino, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link

Last scene of Live and Let Die
Last scene of The Spy Who Loved Me

Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link

phoebe bridgers
phoebe waller-bridge

c'mon

mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link

wait until she releases a pink floyd cover album and Phoebe Bridgers' Wall is on all of the year end lists

Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link

Henry James
Henry Miller

zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link

Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Cancer

pplains, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link

Capricorn One
Ice Station Zebra

pplains, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link

Anne of Green Gables
House of the Seven Gables

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link

Good stuff

Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:14 (four years ago) link

skeet ulrich
dash mihok

brimstead, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link

Russ Kunkel
Russ Titelman
Ted Templeman

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link

Otm

Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link

Amy Grant
Mary Chapin Carpenter

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 24 May 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link

The 1975
Death From Above 1979
At the Drive In
Death Cab for Cutie

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 3:40 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Add Panic! at the Disco to this list

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link

ah that’s a good one, Tom d

brimstead, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link

Oh! I always get those four Ozu films mixed up:
Late Spring
Early Summer
Early Spring
Late Autumn (that one less so because it's in colour)

while the city bleeps (Matt #2), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link

Marty Stuart
Marty Robbins

peace, man, Monday, 25 May 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link

totally !

budo jeru, Monday, 25 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link

xxp Plus, I mistake Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring for an Ozu title, not Korean.

punning display, Monday, 25 May 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link

Des Lynam
Dickie Davies

some infected evening (Matt #2), Friday, 29 May 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link

Marty Stuart
Marty Robbins

I can totally tell these guys apart, for the time being at least, but sense the approaching pull of the Chaotic Mix-Up Attractor.

Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 May 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link

lol

peace, man, Friday, 29 May 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link

Sheila Sim
Sylvia Syms

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 31 May 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link

Dan I.
DJI

all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link

Dan I
Dan S

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 07:39 (four years ago) link

John Maus / John Mayer / John Maus (of the Walker Brothers)
John Mayer / John Mayer (Indo-Jazz Fusion guy)

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link

How about John Maus (of the Walker Brothers) and John Mayer (Indo-Jazz Fusion guy), or have you got those two sorted in your head?

dominance and transmission (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link

Yes, they're entirely separate.

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link

latitude
longitude

convex
concave

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 07:46 (four years ago) link

just for a moment, every time -
The Gun Club
LA Guns

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link

Hot Press
Trouser Press

(music magz, in case of confusion)

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link

Ira robbins
ira kaplan

Also:
ira robbins
Everett true

Stalactite
Stalagmite

Deflatormouse, Friday, 5 June 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link

flotsam
Duane Allman

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 June 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link

cumulonimbus
John Quincy Adams

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 June 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link

Stalactite
Stalagmite

In case you don't know this verbal mnemonic: Stalactites cling tight to the ceiling, and stalagmites might one day reach them and form a column.

an, uh, razor of love (sic), Friday, 5 June 2020 06:21 (four years ago) link

Alternatively:

stalaCtite - ceiling
stalaGmite - ground

Madchen, Friday, 5 June 2020 06:32 (four years ago) link

Madchen otm, wtf sic

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 5 June 2020 08:19 (four years ago) link

take it up with the guides at Jenolan Caves when I was seven

Madchen's is good but does not allow for columns tbf

an, uh, razor of love (sic), Friday, 5 June 2020 08:29 (four years ago) link

Blame my Dad.

Madchen, Friday, 5 June 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link

Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel

I don't actually know what either of them look like as I've never seen them in anything but I see the names mentioned and they're interchangeable.

Captain Beeftweet (Tom D.), Friday, 5 June 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link

Things I'd buy at a pinch: coffee table book of all the people Tom D has got confused about.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 June 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link

SAHB/SATB/SatB

How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link

Doug SAHM

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link

ilxors get a lot of pairings of people and things I've never heard of mixed up

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 7 June 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link

ACAB
Abacab

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link

Abscam
Abba
ASCAP
Capybara

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 8 June 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link

Tom Selleck's mustache
Burt Reynolds's mustache

By extension:
Tom Selleck
Burt Reynolds

Deflatormouse, Saturday, 13 June 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link

Rachel Reeves
Rachel Riley

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 June 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link

Moira Lister
Moira Shearer

Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link

... and Norma Shearer

Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link

singing the last few posts to the tune of Hello by The Beloved in my head

an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link

Aaltra
Ad Astra

punning display, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link

Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel

ok it's only reading this that I've realised that there's more than one "that american talkshow host called Jimmy-something"

thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link

It always confuses me that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher interested in the concepts of the "primitive" and the "savage" and that Henry Rousseau was a "primitivist" painter who painted jungles

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link

Basil Dearden
Joseph Losey

A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link

Val Kilmer
Guy Pearce

tired of waiting for icu (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link

ok it's only reading this that I've realised that there's more than one "that american talkshow host called Jimmy-something"

Last year, there were late-night American talk shows hosted by a Jimmy, another Jimmy, a James, and a Geoff who uses Jim as a stage name.

an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link

Raffi’s “Down by the Bay” and the theme from Bubble Bobble

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link

Swervedriver
Skrewdriver

pomenitul, Friday, 26 June 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link

I have also confused those too, wonder whether Swervedriver would've had more success with a different name.

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link

Always have to stop a moment when I see the initials:

LRB
RLB

I don't actually get the London Review of Books and Rebecca Long-Bailey confused, mind you.

emil.y, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/trzpSkC.jpg

pplains, Friday, 26 June 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link

Ha, indeed.

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link

brb, changing my name to Beeb Birtles

Gin and Juice Newton (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link

Honestly thought for a second that was an AI generator for names of members of rock bands, my brain just couldn't handle Graham Goble and Beeb Birtles.

emil.y, Friday, 26 June 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link

"rock"

Gin and Juice Newton (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link

I don't know who Little River Band are! I'm still not sure that they exist!

emil.y, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link

me neither. also that looks more like the faculty page from a middle school yearbook 1976

dip to dup (rob), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link

brb lrb rlb

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link

Bringing it all together, a choice cut from Bangladeshi rock band LRB's Screw Drivers (1995):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEH2Jc7jtjE

pomenitul, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link

RL Burnside (is 'burnside' Scots for 'little river bank'?)

Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link

It's A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, not Whisky.

pomenitul, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link

R.L.s of note

Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link

Kelly Brook
Kelly LeBrock

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link

I've spent 3 years or so thinking that the white-nationalist podcaster and youtuber Stefan Molyneux had created the computer game Populous, but found out today that it was Peter Molyneux (I think I was getting Stefan Molyneux mixed up with Scott Adams here as well, as in the trajectory from creating innocuous thing I liked as a kid in the 90s to reappearing circa 2016 as an insane advocate for crypto-fascism)

― soref, Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:51 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I just today found out these were two different people - I always thought it was sad that the game designer had gone crazy like that!

Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 05:32 (four years ago) link

Alan Zweibel
Alan Zweig

punning display, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link

Got Madeline Kahn and Carol Kane confused so much as a kid that I still think of both of them nearly every time I see either one. Realised the other day that I may have also had Bernadette Peters mixed up in there, too.

this luxury Avenue (sic), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link

LOL yes I was about to mention Bernadette Peters.

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link

me too those three!

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link

:D

bat ain't Thad (sic), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link

italo svevo
primo levi

budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link

I recently did a Madeline Kahn/Bernadette Peters mixup as well, although I don't think I'd confuse Carol Kane for either.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link

A friend who is an experimental poet compiled a book titled Supergroup that compiles names of session players on LPs of the 1970s, it is 400 pages long and actually rather fun to spend time reading through. The Little River Band post reminded me of it. https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/42592642431/gpdf064gpdfe001-andy-sterling-supergroup

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link

Occasionally, and embarrassingly (being a jazz dude), Dave Holland and Charlie Haden. I know the difference, but I sometimes catch myself thinking Dave Holland is the guy who did Liberation Music Orchestra, or that Charlie Haden was in Circle.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link

Jason Isaacs
Sam Neill

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 4 July 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link

Mina
Milva
(RIP Ennio Morricone)

Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link

OTM

The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link

Matt Taibbi
Massimo Taibi

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link

Fly into the Mystery/Fly into the Sun/Ride into the Sun

Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link

scrimshaws and rickshaws

℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 12 July 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link

Bari Weiss
Tomi Lahren

It's been a ... confusing week.

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 08:06 (four years ago) link

Julianna Barwick
Julia Holter

MarkoP, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link

“I Never Will Marry”/“Never Will I Marry”

Adding to the confusion is Linda Ronstadt singing both.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 September 2019 21:45 (ten months ago)

One of which just popped up on shuffle, which made me happy.

Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link

Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper (but only in their child actor forms, as their adult actor forms are pretty easily distinguishable)

Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Sunday, 19 July 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link

Ditto.

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 July 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link

Thirded

Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link

Gertrude Stein
Gloria Steinem

Madchen, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link

ron davies
mac davis

budo jeru, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:55 (four years ago) link

Mercury Prize 2020 Shortlist – The Poll
polaris prize shortlist 2020 (also poll)

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link

things I hardly ever mix up (unlike some others):

Mercury Prize 2019 Shortlist
Mercury Prize 2020 Shortlist

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link

Cardew Robinson
Lance Percival

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link

actually three here:

momus (noted former ilxor)
matmos (noted washing machine players)
mormos (noted for being frequently confused with both momus and matmos despite preceding them both)

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link

also former ilxor m matos

オニモ (onimo), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link

John Derek
John Saxon (RIP)

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link

also former ilxor m matos

― オニモ (onimo)

nah if i get him mixed up with anyone it's buonarotti

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link

omni trio
om unit
obie trice

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 26 July 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link

Ken Klippenstein
Ken Cuccinelli

peace, man, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link

omni trio
om unit
obie trice

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, July 26, 2020 2:24 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this sort of mixup really has the potential for hilarity to ensue

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link

actually I guess not that much -- I mistakenly assumed omni trio was some kind of classical or modern music trio and not a dj

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link

fwiw I often mix up metal band Om with jam band Om Trio

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link

Will Rigby/Will Birch/Martin Birch/Martin Rushent/Martin Hannett

Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link

/Sean Hannity

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link

omni trio, real DJ no trio

Steppin' RZA (sic), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link

The zing thread
The Zing threads

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link

(posting for a friend)

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link

cassava
cachaça

budo jeru, Monday, 10 August 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link

harissa
haloumi

vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 August 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link

./~ Let's call the whole thing off... ./~

vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 August 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link

cassava
cachaça

Otm

Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link

Meg Whitman
Christine Whitman

and now the DNC has booked them back to back, when neither of them has any reason to speak at all. This will not help my problem

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 17 August 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link

frederick wiseman
william klein

budo jeru, Monday, 17 August 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link

"this afternoon" rather than "always" but a shameful, if somewhat understandable, mix-up nonetheless

budo jeru, Monday, 17 August 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link

Meg Whitman
Christine Whitman

and now the DNC has booked them back to back, when neither of them has any reason to speak at all. This will not help my problem

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, August 17, 2020 3:21 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This one -- and I even lived in Jersey while Christine Whitman was governor. But when I hear Meg Whitman at first I always think they're talking about her.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link

Is Whitman a popular name in Jersey?

pplains, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link

idk but the bard of democracy finished life as a Garden Stater

singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link

Bill Withers
Lou Rawls

Like I know the difference between the two, but somehow they sometimes gets mixed up in my head when trying to remember things they did.

MarkoP, Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link

idk but the bard of democracy finished life as a Garden Stater

― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, August 18, 2020 7:31 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

indeed, he came to his final rest stop there

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 20 August 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link

a Pizza Hut in recognition

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 20 August 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link

(I am large, I contain a Nathan's Famous)

℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 21 August 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link

James Marsden
James Marsters

peace, man, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link

Lester Bangs
Lance Bangs

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link

Bud Spencer and Paul L. Smith

the secret of sucess is to know all rules ...and brake them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link

Alan Warner
Alan Garner
Alasdair Gray

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link

Jo Jorgensen
Jóhann Jóhannsson

MarkoP, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link

The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Long Goodbye
The Long Good Friday

closed beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link

no long day's journey into night?

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link

Lush
Luna

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link

Eugene Mirman
Patton Oswalt

uncle samsung (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link

The M4
The M40

I really hate that bit of the M25, I can never remember which is which

\\\\\\\\0||||0//////// (Matt #2), Friday, 28 August 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link

One of the best things my old man's family do (they're sarf London, to the core) is drop the 'M' or 'A' from any discussion of car journeys (B roads don't get a mention). 'Yeah, yeah, well, I had to come up the free, join the twenny five and straight onto the facking fore - always get mixed up between that and the facking forety'.
I could listen all day.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link

I also confuse the M40 and M4, related to this last month I dropped my wife off in Basingstoke, which I thought somehow was "on the way" from Cambridge to Stratford-upon-Avon, an overdue look at a map afterwards revealed the three places form an equilateral triangle.

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link

Beware the Basingrad Triangle.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link

Glynis Johns / Glyn Johns

...is messing with my head rn

uncle samsung (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 31 August 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link

Ed Davey / Ed Vaizey

fetter, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link

Alma Colgan
Ruby Murray

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link

Big Little Lies
Pretty Little Liars

trishyb, Thursday, 3 September 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link

^

Add to that Dirty Sexy Money and Little Fires Everywhere

tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link

Normal People
Ordinary People

Madchen, Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link

Marc Bolan
Tommy Bolin

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 4 September 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link

Alma Colgan
Ruby Murray

no-one goes out for an alma

fetter, Friday, 4 September 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link

Which one did the "dreamboat" song though? which one was on panel shows in the mid 60s and chummy with the beatles? which one died tragically early from cancer? I can find out these things, I cannot retain them.

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link

I can identify them in the context of their respective work but if they were part of a lineup I'm not sure I could tell the difference between Russell Hitchcock and Leo Sayer and John Panozzo and Ron Palillo and Richard Simmons and Slim Goodbody.

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link

(Their '70s/'80s iterations, obvs.)

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link

galt macdermot
mort garson

budo jeru, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link

Aldi
Lidl

velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link

Hans Sloane
John Soane

fetter, Thursday, 17 September 2020 07:55 (four years ago) link

Aldi
Lidl

Oh man. This is one that's so ingrained in me, I didn't even realize I was mixing the two up.

pplains, Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link

Yeah they are both new to my area and I haven't been to either one.

I vaguely know that one of them has hilariously on-point mimic packaging for its store-brand knockoffs. Like Mr. Pepper soda and Ireo cookies and Kepler Gnome cookies - I just can never remember which one that is.

velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link

Aldi used to sell biscuits called Disco Biscuits, but they have sadly been renamed.

Madchen, Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link

They have been renamed Groovy Biscuits.
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/bogof/aldi-down-on-disco-biscuits/230835.article

Madchen, Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link

Karen Allen
Karen Black

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link

Matthew Williams
Matthew Williamson

Madchen, Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link

Karen Allen
Karen Black

That has never been done before? Also please add
Nancy Allen
if needed

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link

kimchi
kombucha
chimichurri

brain (krakow), Friday, 18 September 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link

did anyone say chuchichäschtli?

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link

The Dream Academy
The Dream Syndicate

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 18 September 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link

Jazz critic Stanley Crouch
Jazz pianist Stanley Cowell

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 24 September 2020 02:49 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Sanjaya, from American Idol
Zandaya, from Dancing with the Stars

wasdnous (abanana), Monday, 12 October 2020 01:35 (four years ago) link

her name is Z*e*ndaya, if it helps

Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link

Jan & Dean and Chad & Jeremy

OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link

Chad & Jeremy
Peter & Gordon ("A World Without Love")

nickn, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link

^ this led me to ask myself, "did jan & dean ever make a psychedelic record?" sort of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Sound

xp

budo jeru, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link

The other day a friend mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughan in a context that really confused me until I realized I was actually thinking of Steve Vai.

Deflatormouse, Thursday, 15 October 2020 07:30 (four years ago) link

Also The Jesus Lizard and Half Japanese, apparently.

Deflatormouse, Thursday, 15 October 2020 07:32 (four years ago) link

Uh. Yngwie Malmsteen and Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

Deflatormouse, Thursday, 15 October 2020 07:41 (four years ago) link

Yeah I think I've been making the Stevie Ray Vaughn / Steve Vai mistake in my head for a long time

Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 15 October 2020 07:43 (four years ago) link

This is a wild one to me, but I was immersed in the world of guitar heroics as a youth.

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 15 October 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link

greta gerwig
greta thunberg

closed beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 22 October 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link

Adam Mars-Jones
Andrew O'Hagan

fetter, Thursday, 22 October 2020 10:58 (four years ago) link

Jan And Dean and Ben And Jerry. Obviously I know the difference but subconsciously they're the same , the association goes:

Jan and Dean -> Pearl and Dean -> going to "the cinemas" as a kid -> buying icecream in tubs -> Ben and Jerry

thomasintrouble, Thursday, 22 October 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link

Stuart Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

peace, man, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link

Tough on Rupert.

Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link

recently realised I've been confusing Jandek and Daniel Johnson for years.

fetter, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link

Handel
Haydn

Madchen, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link

Labi Siffre
Salif keita
tthink I do know them apart but I seem to have Labi Siffre's name stuck in my head and can't think Salif keita

Stevolende, Sunday, 1 November 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link

Schubert
Schumann

logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Sunday, 1 November 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link

Dwight Twilley
Greg Kihn

Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 November 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link

madeline (ludwig bemelmans)
matilda (roald dahl)

budo jeru, Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link

Yes!

Madchen, Sunday, 1 November 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link

Stephen Graham - some fucken very melty history podcast type who talks a lot of shite.
Stephen Graham - scouse actor who I mistaken for ^^^ a few times despite him lacking a blue tick!

calzino, Monday, 2 November 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Ray Harryhausen

TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Monday, 2 November 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link

I confess I had until this moment not separated Nate Cohn and Nate Silver in my mind.

Alba, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link

Budd Dwyer
Larry "Bud" Melman

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 8 November 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link

Dana Loesch
Dana Bash

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 9 November 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link

embarrassing reveal of musical blind spots, but

Steam
Squeeze
Suede

as in, wait, that band that did "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" or wait, was it "Tempted," idg how they were britpop rivals of Blur and Oasis

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 9 November 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link

I used to mix up Patrice Rushen and Patrick Moraz because one of the former’s early solo albums has proggy cover art so I thought “oh yeah, keyboardist from Relayer

brimstead, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link

Blootered, waiting for the late night bus on a Friday night in George Square:

Faifley
Paisley

Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link

Reminded by a question on Pointless today: every time I try to think of the name of the US flagmaker Betsy Ross, I come up with the name of the actress Fannie Flagg, and cannot get any further than that. Not exactly "getting them mixed up", just an incredibly stupid quirk of my brain.

emil.y, Monday, 16 November 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link

Marisa Tomei
Minnie Driver

peace, man, Thursday, 19 November 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link

Imogen Heap/Poots

onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Thursday, 19 November 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link

Mackenzie Crook
Mackenzie Davis

Sam Weller, Friday, 20 November 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link

Kit Harington (Jon Snow)
Christopher Abbott (Charlie from "Girls")

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 20 November 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

skinny puppy
snarky puppy

budo jeru, Saturday, 21 November 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link

“Big” Don Abernathy
Dandy Don Weiner

Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link

conlon nancarrow
nuno canavarro

budo jeru, Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link

Mark Helprin
Mark Haddon

Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link

Graham Parker
Graham Bond

the latter is long gone and was an absolute headcase, it's ridic to get them mixed really but I do.

calzino, Monday, 23 November 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link

Thaddeus McCotter
Trey Gowdy
Tom Cotton

I start out vaguely aware that these are different guys with different career trajectories but then I remember I don't fucking care

release the turkraken (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link

Hal Ketchum (RIP yesterday)
Hal Needham (RIP 2013)

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link

^
Hank Ketchum (RIP 2001)

peace, man, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link

Heinz Ketchup (long live)

Alba, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link

Matthew Sweet
Matthew Dear

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link

When I see them I'm easily able to identify them, but for some reason when I try to mentally picture which of them was in what movie, I often confuse Martin Landau and Frank Langella.

Like just this moment, when I checked to confirm my certainty that Langella played Lugosi in Ed Wood. Nope. They don't even look that much alike, ffs. I don't know what my problem is.

You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link

I used to get Raul Julia and Frank Langella mixed up, don't know if I ever posted that.

You guys forgot author Jack Ketchum.

Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link

Olivia Newton-John and Sheena Easton

Alba, Thursday, 26 November 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link

turns out I've been mixing Scott Glenn and David Carradine up a lot.

Two Meter Peter (Ste), Thursday, 26 November 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link

Maxine Waters
Crystal Waters

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 26 November 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link

The Sundays
The Runaways
The Go-Betweens
The Smithereens

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link

George Plimpton
Bill Plympton

soref, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link

Daniel Kitson
David Kitson

Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Friday, 4 December 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link

I don’t get them mixed up exactly but I want to suggest that clemenza is the Canadian WmC

is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link

OK I was temporarily going out of my mind thinking I was mixing up Rashida Jones and Rashida Jones but it turns out there are two Rashida Joneses, who knew?

Alba, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 05:14 (four years ago) link

how could you mix one Rashida Jones up for another if there weren't two?

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link

Are there?

is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link

yea one's a tv executive

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link

I knew there must be two people when I saw the news about the MSNBC appointment but I thought I must have got the actor’s name wrong. Mixing up two names. But I hadn’t mixed up two names as there was only one name.

It strikes me that this thread is half for cases of people mixing up similar names and half for mixing up similar people.

Alba, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link

It's usually both in my case. To wit:

Paul Anka
Neil Sedaka

You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link

Neil Sedaka
Neil Diamond

sinewave boogie (Matt #2), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link

Yes - was actually thinking about posting that same one recently. I throw Barry Manilow in there as a third

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link

Darren Hanlon
Darren Hayman

Alba, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link

The indiest mix-up of all time?

emil.y, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link

East and west

sinewave boogie (Matt #2), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link

gary burton
burton green

budo jeru, Saturday, 12 December 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link

greene*

budo jeru, Saturday, 12 December 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link

"the wild magnolias" (1975)
"the wild tchoupitoulas" (1976)

budo jeru, Monday, 14 December 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link

Freddie Hubbard
Bobby Hutcherson
Joe Henderson

mahb, Monday, 14 December 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link

Anthony Shaffer
Peter Shaffer

Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 December 2020 09:40 (four years ago) link

Adam Corolla
Adam Conover

MarkoP, Monday, 14 December 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link

Judy Collins
Shirley Collins

Made this mistake while interviewing a Big Name Recording Artist recently, but he politely pretended not to notice.

Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 14 December 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link

The Birthday Party
The Wedding Present

peace, man, Monday, 14 December 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link

^^ yes!

A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link

Anthony Shaffer
Peter Shaffer

^this

Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Heaton

idk why. they aren't the same age, they don't look alike, they're very diff pepole, yet for years I kept hearing one's name and expecting to see the other.

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link

Really sometimes it is just about the similarity of the names, isn't it?

Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link

mint condition
new edition

budo jeru, Monday, 21 December 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link

Lolleatta Holloway
Lalah Hathaway

Briania, Monday, 21 December 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link

See it has been mentioned before, but:

Rooney Mara
Sally Rooney

(and Wayne Rooney)

A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 December 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link

Rooney Mara / Kate Mara, another perennial

coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 December 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link

Kate O'Mara

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Monday, 21 December 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link

Dan I
Dan S

But not dan m.

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link

Oof, yeah

Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link

Lol yes

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link

Adam Corolla
Adam Conover

booo

huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link

Sponge
Spoon
Sugar

Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link

the bands or the objects?

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link

quidditch
water polo

Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link

One has brooms

coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link

quidditch
curling

that heat (Matt #2), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link

Trolling
Punning

spruce springclean (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link

curling
hurling
bobsled
the other insane ice sled thing

brimstead, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link

you talkin' bout de luge?

Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link

Moses
supposes

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link

First, legit lolz for Matt #2

Second, skeleton may be insaner than luge

Two-man luge is the silliest tho

coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link

AMG (All Music Guide)
AMG (Angry Metal Guy)

pomenitul, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link

Dan I
Dan S

But not dan m.

There's a Dan.S. now too

huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link

Anton Fier
Anton Fig

why can't they dance to Holdsworth? (Matt #2), Friday, 25 December 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link

That wasn't done already?

And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link

Guess not. Good on ya.

And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link

Ctrl-f said no

why can't they dance to Holdsworth? (Matt #2), Friday, 25 December 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link

Ben Sasse
Josh Hawley

Sam Weller, Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link

Every GOP congressman under the age of 55

, Friday, 1 January 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link

Every GOP congressman over the age of 55

, Friday, 1 January 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link

(Don) Dokken
(Kip) Winger

Telly Salivas (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link

Nathan Lane
Anthony Lane

I'm surprised I haven't already posted that

cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link

And a close relative is

Wallace Shawn
William Shawn

cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link

Yes, they are close relatives.

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link

yeah i know!

doesn't make it easier when I'm trying to figure out which of those four is which

in both pairs, one is mainly a writer and the other mainly an actor, but there are exceptions

cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link

Wallace Shawn would probably tell you he’s a writer who acts for money.

is right unfortunately (silby), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link

Robert Downey Jr.
Morton Downey Jr.

real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link

Baby Please Don't Go
Baby What You Want Me to Do

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link

Lost in Your Eyes
Eternal Flame

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link

Wilfred Bramble
Wilford Brimley

Noel Emits, Friday, 8 January 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link

from the semi-obscure octogenarian actress dept:

Antoinette Bower
Anjanette Comer

Josefa, Friday, 8 January 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

Wilfrid Brambell in The Thing would have been something to see.

fish quits shock (Matt #2), Friday, 8 January 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link

Fran Lebowitz
Annie Liebovitz

In fact, I think I am only just now putting together that these are two different people, seeing the thread about the former at the top of SNA. in as much as I thought about it at all, I always thought the famous photographer happened to dabble in cultural criticism on the side.

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 8 January 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link

not 100% on all fours with this thread, but I just realized that all these years I thought the members of the KLF (a group I never paid much attention to) were black, and that the people I had been picturing were actually PM Dawn

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 January 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link

Erick and Parish making dawn are gonna rock ya

shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 11 January 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link

Peter Riegert/Paul Reiser

― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, May 27, 2017 4:54 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link

Dr Harold Shipman
Professor David Kelly

Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:20 (three years ago) link

did not realize until this very day that David Johansen and Buster Poindexter in fact ARE the same person

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 18 January 2021 04:50 (three years ago) link

In soundalike name division:

genderqueer geopolitics journo and New Yorker writer Masha Gessen
genderqueer music journo and Pitchfork writer Sasha Geffen

In non-soundalike division:

Stan Brakhage
Kenneth Anger (also eligible for the surprised to see he's still alive thread)

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 25 January 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link

Robert Mulligan
Richard Mulligan

... brothers!

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Monday, 25 January 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link

Hot, Cool & Vicious
CrazySexyCool

peace, man, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link

oh that reminds me:

CrazySexyCool
SweetSexySavage

anatol_merklich, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link

but I actually came here to post:

Bad Bunny
Burna Boy

anatol_merklich, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link

because both words have appeared today on different threads:

tulips
turnips

only ever for a second or two but still!

budo jeru, Monday, 1 February 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link

two lips on a turnip

https://i.imgur.com/0qp4Wzt.jpg

shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link

or is it a tulip bulb, hmmm?

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link

mike starr and danny aiello

I guess it's easier now that one is dead

Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 01:55 (three years ago) link

Bernie Taupin (Elton John's Lyricist)
Bennie Maupin (reed man for Headhunters)

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link

xp: I don't know how to break this to you, but

peace, man, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link

Homefront
Homeland
Homecoming

Three American TV series. I've only seen the third.

clemenza, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link

James Morrison
morrisp
thomp

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 February 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link

just realized i have been mixing this one up for a while

egyptian lover
pharoahe monch

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link

gtfo

shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link

lol

peace, man, Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link

La cartera
La maleta

(I’m learning Spanish)

Madchen, Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link

:)

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link

Roald Dahl
Rudyard Kipling

I know who they are and all, but their collective works just merge into one in my mind.

faramir otm (Matt #2), Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link

Toss up who was more racist I guess

Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link

mike starr and danny aiello

I guess it's easier now that one is dead

― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Monday, February 1, 2021 8:55 PM bookmarkflaglink

xp: I don't know how to break this to you, but

― peace, man, Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:52 AM bookmarkflaglink

lol different Mike Starr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Starr_(actor)

he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 February 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link

lily james/lily collins

woof, Friday, 5 February 2021 11:11 (three years ago) link

Yes!

Madchen, Friday, 5 February 2021 11:33 (three years ago) link

Indeed!

anatol_merklich, Friday, 5 February 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link

kung pao chicken
general Tso chicken

But it doesn’t really matter because both are delicious

Kim, Friday, 5 February 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link

Gareth Thomas
Gareth Hunt

The Vaselines
The Vaccines

MarkoP, Monday, 8 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link

Surprised this one hasn't been listed:

Elliot Mazer
Elliot Roberts

clemenza, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link

omg

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link

Toss up who was more racist I guess

Oh, Roald Dahl, no question. Kipling gets judged by his worst poem (which tbf is his own damn fault), but most of his work is anti-racist by Victorian standards. Dahl was born 50 years later and still managed to be a piece of shit.

Lily Dale, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link

I thought the easiest thing in the world would be finding a photo on the internet of Elliot Mazer and Elliot Roberts together, with or without Neil, but not so.

clemenza, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link

joss whedon and will wheaton - two people whose names appear on the internet a lot who don't do anything i care about.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, woensdag 27 mei 2009 15:18 (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link

Si Spencer and Si Spurrier, apparently

The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link

Count yourself lucky that Simon Guerrier has only written two short stories in comics.

shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link

Earth
Hell

if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link

oh

Trying and failing to process the death of Si Spencer. There wasn't a week that someone didn't confuse us for each other -- always to my gain. There was no better fellow for whom to be confused.

As clever and warm-hearted a mensch as I ever knew. And a cracking quizmaster.

— Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier (@sispurrier) February 17, 2021

stilt in the wings (sic), Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:19 (three years ago) link

Journey to the end of the night
Long day’s journey into night
Dark night of the soul

jammy mcnullity (wins), Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:44 (three years ago) link

Oh absolutely, esp the two first ones!

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 18 February 2021 09:37 (three years ago) link

Ed Banger / Ed Hardy

lord of the ting tings (map), Monday, 22 February 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link

Todd Solondz
Neil LaBute

Can never remember who directed what.

my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link

that's funny I mix up Solondz with Harmony Korine sometimes.

I guess he exists somewhere between Korine and LaBute in the landscape of cringy/hard-to-watch?

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link

Steve Hilliage
Steve Hackett

Less reasonably:
Drive Like Jehu
Jeru the Damaja

Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link

How about Steve Howe and Steve Harley?

my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link

not quite always getting them mixed up but for some reason whenever i see the actor scott glenn i think he's a member of the carradine family

himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link

he's in nashville with keith carradine and my head thinks "ah the carradine brothers together"

himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link

Omg, homework and discovery!! Been getting those two mixed up for 20 years

Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 25 February 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link

sarahell and i were chatting offline, as we do, and we both confused Gary Busey with Nick Nolte, which is not the first occasion that's happened with either of us. (It was in reference to the tropical bro on GHB mugshot of Nolte from 2002)

it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link

they do have similar facial features and Nolte's mugshot is the spitting image of how Busey looks regularly.

Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 February 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link

Warren Ellis (Both of them)
Warren Oates
Warren Buffett

MarkoP, Saturday, 27 February 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link

Got Madeline Kahn and Carol Kane confused so much as a kid that I still think of both of them nearly every time I see either one. Realised the other day that I may have also had Bernadette Peters mixed up in there, too.

― this luxury Avenue (sic), Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:52 AM (seven months ago)

LOL yes I was about to mention Bernadette Peters.

― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:56 AM (seven months ago)

me too those three!

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:59 AM (seven months ago)

Being compelled to watch the 1982 Annie adap rn, can confirm the above.

grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Sunday, 28 February 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link

Jason Sudekis
Jason Mantzoukas

I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link

Marc Maron
Marc Moulin

I confess I don't know who Marc Maron is and every time I see the WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast) thread, I have to stop and think, "What was the name of that guy who was in Telex... the one who's dead?" Well, the guy who was in Telex... the one who's dead is Marc Moulin.

Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link

heinrich von kleist
hugo von hofmannstahl

budo jeru, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link

Tom Hardy
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Holland
Tom Huddlestone

Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link

Hiddlestone and Hardy are both actors who I don't know how they don't die of embarrassment at how bad they are. Holland is pretty good at times and Huddlestone looked like a right prospect playing for Derby against us in the league cup when he was like 18 or something for Derby, not followed his career since but I'm sure he never embarrassed himself as much at Spurs as Hiddlestone did playing Hank Williams or Hardy playing Al Capone recently.

calzino, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link

Hiddlestone and Hardy. I have to google to make sure I'm not mixing them up. Wouldn't recognize Holland. Had all but forgotten Huddlestone but sometimes have to stop and think whether Hiddleston is called Huddlestone or not. Also I keep thinking there's another acting Tom I've omitted.

Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link

Revised list:

Tom Hardy
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Holland
Tom Hollander
Tom Huddleston

Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link

I WENT into a public 'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, " We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, go away "

calzino, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link

I thought ILB FAPs were bad with their three Toms!

Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link

Cathal Coughlan and Katell keineg

akm, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link

There are two Tom Hollands.

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link

xxp
It's Hollander I meant not that little spider-shit Holland. He's a useless little shit as well and I used to know his uncle!

calzino, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link

A surfeit of Toms.

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link

It wasn't even his uncle I knew it was his second cousin and he was a complete cock as well. his dad Dominic Holland is a "comedian" of the British comedy scene who also is a published author btw.

calzino, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link

Hiddleston
Huddleston
Hiddlestone
Huddlestone

Let's call the while thing off

wake me up before you cuomo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link

Michael Sheen
Michael Shannon

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link

the latter is the one who sounds like he has a toothpick in his mouth

Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 04:42 (three years ago) link

If somebody mentions Sheen or Shannon, I just ask "Is that the elfin one?"

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 04:47 (three years ago) link

Regina King and Regina Hall (the names, not the persons, obv), and then sometimes Rebecca Hall comes to muddy things up, such as when she decides to make her feature-film directorial debut at the same time as Regina King's.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 11 March 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link

Just realized I was conflating Dick van Patten with Jerry van Dyke. Subsequently realized that I have no actual reason to be thinking about either of these people.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 05:48 (three years ago) link

how about Dick Shawn, are you thinking about Dick Shawn?

armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 06:46 (three years ago) link

Is that the New Yorker editor or the guy from The Princess Bride?

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link

Sarah Champion, music journalist
Sarah Champion, MP

I've just this minute checked Wiki to check if they aren't the same person.

Woke For Luck (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link

Phil Elverum
Phil Ek
Daniel Ek

peace, man, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link

Just realized I was conflating Dick van Patten with Jerry van Dyke.

And I would have blithely continued doing the same if I hadn't read this.

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 08:34 (three years ago) link

Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gaskill

mahb, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 08:56 (three years ago) link

can I suggest Mary Gaitskill

we should be striving for equity in current times

armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link

Curtis Hanson
Curtis Harrington

This thread is so hard to load.

clemenza, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link

Jessica Walter
Katherine Helmond

Arthur, Thursday, 25 March 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link

Gorilla Biscuits
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

emil.y, Sunday, 28 March 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link

(Boomer age actresses):

Lisa Eichhorn
Lisa Eilbacher
Jill Eikenberry

Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley-Anne Down

Josefa, Thursday, 1 April 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link

Mr. Brightside
Mr. Sandman
Enter Sandman

I think those are all songs but I don’t know if I have ever heard any of them. At least one of them is a meme of some kind that I don’t understand. Anyway I hope they’re all fine.

Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 3 April 2021 06:02 (three years ago) link

they are all fun pop songs that I've heard on TV

armoured van, Holden (sic), Saturday, 3 April 2021 07:44 (three years ago) link

Rod Steiger
Roy Scheider

I do know which is which, but when one is mentioned it takes me a moment to remember which name goes with which face.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 9 April 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link

Not an "always" situation but when I heard on the radio that Prince Phillip had died for a second or two I was thinking Prince Charles.

nickn, Friday, 9 April 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link

If only

you've seen 'em given on a rainy tuesday night in stoke (Matt #2), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link

No, Charles has to survive to fuck up the monarchy once and for all.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link

Bermuda
The Bahamas

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link

I don't really get them mixed up , but whenever I picture Jack Antonoff in my mind I imagine him looking more like Antony Fantano.

peace, man, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link

Doris Day
Dinah Shore

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link

Bhad Bhabie
Bad Bunny

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link

Stevolende
Robert Adam Gilmour

It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 April 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link

Rozz Williams
Rick Rozz

brimstead, Thursday, 15 April 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link

Willy Russell
Willie Rushton

calumerio, Thursday, 15 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link

Todd Rundgren
Tedd Nugent

Alba, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link

Sorry, I've slipped an extra t into Ted to try to cover my shame

Alba, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link

Day of the Tribbles
Trouble with Triffids

Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link

+ The Tripods

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link

Surely Tripods/Triffids has been done already

Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link

Shaun Derry
Sean Dyche

Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Monday, 26 April 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link

Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Abbott

MarkoP, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link

Grilled cheese
The Constitution

Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link

Richard Marx
Curtis Stigers

Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 April 2021 07:26 (three years ago) link

The Drifters
The Coasters

Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 29 April 2021 07:44 (three years ago) link

^^^this, also The Platters

irked at the fact I know who Jordan Rudess is (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 April 2021 08:35 (three years ago) link

Gerry Rafferty
Ralph McTell

Lots of Rs in their names and both have signature songs about London. Also one's Scottish and the other has a Scottish name.

irked at the fact I know who Jordan Rudess is (Matt #2), Friday, 30 April 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link

Mina
Milva
(RIP Ennio Morricone)

And now RIP Milva

A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 May 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link

Ira robbins
ira kaplan

Also:
ira robbins
Everett true

Stalactite
Stalagmite

clemenza and I had a discussion about the first two and others upthread starting here: Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 May 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link

Lee Dorsey
Lloyd Price

Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link

flannery o'connor/flann o'brien

i mean i know who both of them are but i might say the name of 1 when i mean the other

unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link

In that case, consider posting on this other thread, created for pretty much exactly that purpose: Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link

Oh wait, you've already been there.

Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link

And done that!

Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link

Merisms
Legal doublets

Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link

Steves Roach and Reich

Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 17 May 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link

E.G. Marshall
R.G. Armstrong

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 20 May 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link

Army of Darkness
Army of Shadows

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 21 May 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link

Nick Cave
Nick Drake

sorry

balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 May 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link

Have always been mixing these up, bands/artists that are kind of on the periphery of stuff I listen to:

Pylon
Pole

also

Doobie Brothers
Allman Brothers

silverfish, Friday, 21 May 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link

The Avalanches
2ManyDJs

(not similar names, but described similarly and I never really listened to either)

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 May 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link

drifters
coasters
platters
spinners

I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Monday, 24 May 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link

David Folkenflik - NPR media correspondent
David Fahrenthold - Washington Post & MSNBC reporter who won Pulitzer for exposing Trump's charity scams

Displaced Intimacy Coordinator (punning display), Monday, 24 May 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link

Pamela Smart
Elizabeth Smart
Kristen Smart

But not Jean Smart

Displaced Intimacy Coordinator (punning display), Monday, 24 May 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link

Jesus Jones
Jesus Christ

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 May 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link

Red Skelton
Red Buttons

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 24 May 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link

^painfully otm

Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 May 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link

^^^painfully on the cross

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link

Tona de Brett
Tony Di Bart

(not really, just wanted to see them side by side)

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 06:23 (three years ago) link

Emily's list
Angie's list

Seriously thought it was for woman friendly carpenters

los blue jeans, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link

Kiese Laymon
Kasi Lemmons

jaymc, Monday, 31 May 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link

Dan Castellaneta
Dan Hedaya

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 31 May 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link

Heh

AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 May 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link

Wondering how Dan Castellaneta’s back hair, um, stands up.

AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 May 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link

Arnold Schoenberg
Armand Schaubroeck

They are quite different

Mark G, Saturday, 5 June 2021 08:53 (three years ago) link

Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer

MarkoP, Saturday, 5 June 2021 11:10 (three years ago) link

Sleater-Kinney
Luscious Jackson

mahb, Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link

Rachel Cusk
Rachel Kushner

The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link

^good one

AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link

James Brolin
Charles Grodin

visiting, Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link

10000 Maniacs
Fine Young Cannibals

Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 5 June 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link

The fussy hologram doctor on Star Trek whatever who looks like David Cross
David Cross

AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link

Polly Scattergood
Holly Humberstone

deepfake chopra (unregistered), Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link

Peter Cetera
Jon Secada
cicadas

Alba, Monday, 7 June 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link

May as well throw Neil Sedaka into the mix, actually.

Alba, Monday, 7 June 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link

Neil Sedaka
A grapefruit

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link

I always think Neil Sedaka is the guy who did Cherry Cherry.

I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Monday, 7 June 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link

for some reason I often get Peter Cetera and Paul Carrack confused

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link

one sounds like he swallowed a flute, one sounds like Alan Thicke

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link

yeah, they're singing styles are nothing alike, but I often catch myself thinking about that time Peter Cetera joined Squeeze or something like that. It's a haze of journeyman singer-songwriters from the 80s.

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link

The Clientele
Clinic

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 07:05 (three years ago) link

Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Peter Hammill - Fool’s Mate

nickn, Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link

The fussy hologram doctor on Star Trek whatever who looks like David Cross

Joe Dante rep company stalwart Robert Picardo

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link

William Golding
William Goldman

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 10 June 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link

I don't really get them mixed up, but whenever I come across Olivia Rodrigo's name in print, I have to focus for a second to tell myself it's not Oingo Boingo.

peace, man, Friday, 11 June 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link

I'm always confusing the names of various ominous organizations so I made a handy chart to keep track pic.twitter.com/A12DozNKNs

— (ac)Reddited Investor (@chelounger) June 10, 2021

silverfish, Friday, 11 June 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link

From the list of voters in the all-time movie poll:

Thermo Farrell
Andrew Thinwall

clemenza, Monday, 14 June 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link

John Giorno
Jean Giono

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 17 June 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link

Vali Myers
Valie Export

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Thursday, 17 June 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link

W.G Sebald
W.S. Merwin

Modernanist (doo dah), Thursday, 17 June 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link

Mousa Dembélé
Moussa Dembélé
Ousmane Dembélé

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 June 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link

Goofy
Pluto

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 11:49 (three years ago) link

Royal Blue
Navy Blue

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link

^Haha that would be a UK-specific one I suppose. Although where royal ends and navy begins I could see being a contentious point.

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link

Yes, I was wondering what those were called outside the UK, if they have specific names at all.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link

I mean, sky blue is pretty obvious ... and universal.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link

They’re called the same things in the US but there’s not the natural link between the words ‘royal’ and ‘navy’

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link

Oh right, like 1776 never happened.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link

the word "royal" in the US usually makes people think of RC cola

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link

Does it? I would think of the Kansas City baseball team first and then maybe the old typewriter brand.

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link

Wrt to 1776 I think that in the American imagination the British will always be associated with the color red, because of the coats they wore at that time. It’s also why the New England Patriots changed their dominant uniform color from red to blue back in the 1990s. People thought it was incongruous that they would wear red jerseys given the historical connotations.

Josefa, Sunday, 20 June 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link

Navy blue is darker than royal blue. I associate that color with pea coats.

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Sunday, 20 June 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link

Mark Kozelek
Mark Lanegan

esp likely to mix up when discussing the oddball/asshole humans as opposed to their music (as recently in Covidiots thread)

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link

Sparklehorse
Lambchop

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link

Warren Ellis the shitty comic book guy vs. Warren Ellis the Bad Seed and Dirty Three guy

The former has been all over Twitter this week for shitty behavior and more than once I've gotten bummed thinking it was the latter before I remembered the other guy exists.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link

I suspect the bad Warren Ellis attempted to return from cancellation just 49 weeks after https://www.somanyofus.com/ because he saw outpouring of support and good press for the other Warren Ellis launching an animal sanctuary in Sumatra, and thought he might be able to trend positively

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link

What about the bed Warren Evans?

https://warrenevans.com/beds/

Alba, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link

The Abominable Dr. Phibes
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

peace, man, Sunday, 27 June 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link

Glenn Greenwald
Glenn McDonald
(only because I keep wondering why ILX keeps calling Glenn McD "indefensible")

assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 27 June 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link

James Franciscus
Tony Franciosa

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link

^Wow

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link

Gregg Araki
Jon Moritsugu

(may have listed this before)

nickn, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link

Coulda sworn I did Franciscus/Franciosa before on this thread but evidently not. One thing that helps me tell them apart is I can easily imagine Tony Franciosa saying “That’s sensational!” but James Franciscus I can’t

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link

Which one was Longstreet, the blind(ed) detective? Believe it is the second one.

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link

Which one was married to Shelley Winters? Less sure of that.

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link

Longstreet = James
Mr Winters = Tony

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link

By the second one I meant James Franciscus. Who did indeed play Longstreet and the other one was married to Shelley Winters, as I suspected but couldn’t be sure of.
xp

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link

Huh… Franciosa rebounded from Shelley and married the daughter of director William Wellman

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link

Before Tony Franciosa, Shelley Winters was married to Vittorio Gassman for two years!

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link

Huh… Franciosa rebounded from Shelley and married the daughter of director William Wellman

Wait, I don’t see this.

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link

They're nothing alike of course, Franciscus was a bland blond and Franciosa was a scenery chewing NY Italian with a Kirk Douglas chin.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link

Shelley Winters stayed single for 45 years after the Franciosa thing and then remarried one day before she died

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link

Actually it was James Franciscus who married William Wellman’s daughter! The confusion continues!

Josefa, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link

Whenever I see a reference to The Thompson Twins, I picture Linda and Richard

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link

Shelley Winters was with Gerry De Ford for 19 years and they married the day before she died. Unmarried /= single.

Madchen, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link

Josh Brolin
Charles Grodin

BABA BUOY (Leee), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link

G.E. Stinson (ambient zen guitarist)
G.E. Smith (Hall & Oates guitarist)

the kim variant (Matt #2), Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:08 (three years ago) link

The Hamburglar
H. R. Puffnstuff

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:53 (three years ago) link

Aargh, Pufnstuf.

Probably already mentioned by Morbius or somebody:

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link

I sure hope so...

Mark G, Thursday, 1 July 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link

Oumou Sangare
Onuma Singsiri

Deflatormouse, Saturday, 3 July 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link

Nothing to do with their names, but I was watching Warning Shot with Stephanie Powers, and I realized I've always mixed her up with Jill St. John--which is not hard to figure out with the connecting thread of Robert Wagner.

clemenza, Sunday, 4 July 2021 06:18 (three years ago) link

ivory and bamboo

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 4 July 2021 09:13 (three years ago) link

How many ounces in a pound.
How many pounds in a stone.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 July 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link

... also I've just found Americans don't use stones at all, only pounds. Something to do with stones being an Imperial measurement and the US being out of the Empire when Imperial measurements were quantified.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 July 2021 09:28 (three years ago) link

I just experienced about 60-90 seconds of Heaven 17/East 17 confusion

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 5 July 2021 06:27 (three years ago) link

Everybody in the house of Temptation

Mark G, Monday, 5 July 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link

add in some Zapp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J7AOS_7_uk

(to Tom D.’s issue)

ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 5 July 2021 07:25 (three years ago) link

There is no doubt a different amount of bounce in a UK/Imperial ounce than a US ounce.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 5 July 2021 07:35 (three years ago) link

And when in the Southern Hemisphere, remember that the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat.

trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 July 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link

I'm another who mixes up Carey Mulligan with Michelle Williams. However, I also get those two confused with Emily Watson, even though she's considerably older.

TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Monday, 5 July 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 5 July 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link

Otm

Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link

I know who paul giamatti is but i always think paul rudd is also paul giamatti.

Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link

Lol

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 02:09 (three years ago) link

Michael Innes
Helen MacInnes

Lily Dale, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link

Richard Lester
Richard Donner

...probably because they both directed parts of Superman II - at that point in their careers they converged into one person for me, a super-director who made everything from Beatles cash-in films, segments of the Banana Splits and Lethal Weapon.

maybe you just don't need to comment on that (Matt #2), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 08:58 (three years ago) link

And Goonies/Goons!

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 10:50 (three years ago) link

Rodri
Jorginho

SPaDs (Matt #2), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link

Harry Kane
Prince Harry

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link

The Internet and Reality

treeship., Wednesday, 7 July 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link

George Benson
George Winston

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 18 July 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link

Dom Littlewood
Greg Wallace

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 July 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link

Carmine Appice
Vinny Appice

...are somewhat tricky to keep straight, but I really came here to say it has recently come to my attention that in the professional realm, Carmine Appice pronounces his surname a-PIECE, whereas his younger brother Vinny Appice pronounces it APP-a-cee.

Josefa, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link

I always pronounced it a-PEE-chay, maybe they could compromise on my version? Beck Bogert Appice must have endured some interesting pronounciations in their short-lived time.

cryptkeepers are different (Matt #2), Sunday, 18 July 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link

apiche?

ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Sunday, 18 July 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link

Stillwater
Sweetwater

Mark G, Monday, 19 July 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link

I guess I always thought Tcheky Karyo and Elias Koteas were the same actor, for no other reason than they both have Ks in their names

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:16 (three years ago) link

Can this thread be locked since there is a new one now? Or is the new one serving some other function that I haven't grasped?

Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

jaymc, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link

this thread is barely even that long

Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link

Yeah I thought the new thread was some twist I didn’t get

Alba, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link

Ahem. The new thread was started to post things that one doesn’t mix up but might mix up in a future perhaps stressful moment because they are next to one another but currently still separate in the mind. This was to prevent *joke* posting in this thread that might later actually come true. I guess something posted in that thread could graduate to this thread. Please feel free to ignore it if it irks you.

Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link

sorry still dgi

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link

There are some things or people I don’t really don’t know the difference between, which therefore belong on this thread, such as the classic
Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton
(there’s also a Bill Putnam, but I know he is i different)
Then there are some that I currently do know the difference between, but due to some internal bit rot ( perhaps silby can explain) I might not in the future, so they belong on the other thread, such as
Janet Maslin and Janet Malcolm

Maybe others are already using this thread for both purposes but I got spooked when I saw some things I posted here as a joke and that I couldn’t actually tell the difference between anymore so I started the other one for safety’s sake

Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link

I now g but it’s a bit too speciality for me

Alba, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link

due to some internal bit rot ( perhaps silby can explain)

cosmic rays iirc

Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link

If I started worrying too much about which posts are made in earnest and which for lolz I’d have to leave ILX for my own sanity

Alba, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link

The other thread is a James Redd special, bless him, which I've never really got my head around.

Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:00 (three years ago) link

All my threads can’t be classics, now, can they?

Oh wait.

Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link

They are very distinctive. This is a good thing.

Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link

Ari Aster
Robert Eggers

MarkoP, Thursday, 22 July 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link

I saw a picture of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani together - I already mix them up, and I thought they looked like two different version of the same guy.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 July 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link

in the young longhaired days of course, not the current bald satriani days

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 July 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link

This isn't the one but it basically captures it
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ee/0f/24/ee0f24e046619c906f5e2a58d3934cd1.jpg

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 July 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link

This isn't exactly what this thread is about but it occurred to me that as a pretty big fan of autechre for 20 something years at this point:

- I know that autechre is Sean Booth and Rob Brown
- I know what Sean Booth and Rob Brown look like
- I have no idea which one is Sean Booth and which one is Rob Brown

silverfish, Friday, 30 July 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Anna Richardson
Anna Ryder Richardson

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 August 2021 10:19 (three years ago) link

oh yeah I thought they were one and the same person or at least that the one that is Anna Richardson was definitely the Ryder one

but only the former had a Legal dispute with Arnold Schwarzenegger

and only the latter has daughters called Dixie Dot and Bibi Belle

nashwan, Thursday, 19 August 2021 10:48 (three years ago) link

only the former was married to Sue Perkins - can you imagine being married to Sue Perkins?

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 August 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link

No, because I don’t know who that is.

Roffle Tolhurst (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 August 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link

Lucky you.

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 August 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link

I googled for a second, learned a bit then gave it up as not worth knowing.

Roffle Tolhurst (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 August 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link

Dora Carrington
Leonora Carrington

mahb, Thursday, 19 August 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link

OK, now that I get that "Future Edition" is a spin-off rather than a sequel to this thread, I'll repost what I posted there:

Lauren Oyler
Laura Olin

― jaymc, Monday, July 5, 2021 11:20 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

jaymc, Thursday, 19 August 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link

Carl Craig
Carl Cox

keeping myself to myself (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link

Ahem. The new thread was started to post things that one doesn’t mix up but might mix up in a future perhaps stressful moment because they are next to one another but currently still separate in the mind. This was to prevent *joke* posting in this thread that might later actually come true. I guess something posted in that thread could graduate to this thread. Please feel free to ignore it if it irks you.

― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs),

There are some things or people I don’t really don’t know the difference between, which therefore belong on this thread, such as the classic
Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton
(there’s also a Bill Putnam, but I know he is i different)
Then there are some that I currently do know the difference between, but due to some internal bit rot ( perhaps silby can explain) I might not in the future, so they belong on the other thread, such as
Janet Maslin and Janet Malcolm

Maybe others are already using this thread for both purposes but I got spooked when I saw some things I posted here as a joke and that I couldn’t actually tell the difference between anymore so I started the other one for safety’s sake

― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs)

OMG!! Love this so much. The best part is I never would have figured it out in a million years.

Marcos Marcos-Valle (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link

Been using both threads for things i already get mixed up :(

Marcos Marcos-Valle (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

(Hope no one else has already made this joke.)

nickn, Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, July 5, 2021 12:20 PM

Ah, well...

nickn, Thursday, 19 August 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link

Shed Seven
S Club 7

peace, man, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link

Phil Ochs
Burl Ives

peace, man, Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:18 (three years ago) link

lol

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link

Seconded

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link

Baron Corvo
Gregory Corso

mahb, Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link

^Excellent!

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link

Lee J Cobb
Rod Steiger

I think I have a real Rod Steiger problem - I am sure I posted Rod Steiger/Roy Scheider upthread

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link

Starting Over (1979: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen), It's My Turn (1980: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin), Best Friends (1982: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn).

clemenza, Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link

Joe McPhee
Joe Henderson

Eddie Henderson somewhat but not as much as the two Joes.

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link

Lorde
Grimes

Alba, Sunday, 29 August 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link

Robert McNamara
Donald Rumsfeld

calzino, Sunday, 29 August 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link

More of a visual thing than a person, but people on my FB timeline keep posting the new album by The Bug ('Fire').

It turns out, when scrolling past it quickly, that the artwork is virtually identical to late 90s hard house banger 'Yomanda - Synth & Strings' on Manifesto.

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link

Diadochi
Dioscuri

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 2 September 2021 07:21 (three years ago) link

Paul Johnson (Get Get Down)
Paul Simpson (Musical Freedom)

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 2 September 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link

Drivin N Cryin
Sniff 'n' the Tears

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 September 2021 03:47 (three years ago) link

Dave Simpson
Dave Haslam

Alba, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link

Lucian Freud
Francis Bacon

Madchen, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link

you couldn't get their work mixed up though: Bacon the nightmare distorted face man and Freud the pubic hair and skin specialist!

calzino, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link

I looked at the Bacon on this week’s University Challenge and said “Freud” at my TV. Can’t explain it, it happens all the time.

Madchen, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link

I think they were acquaintances in the 40's/50's bohemian set in London

calzino, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:55 (three years ago) link

That’s right - they painted pictures of each other too.

Tim, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link

I can't remember what the Bacon one looked like. but I recall the Freud one as very stylised and quite unlike intense painterly flesh that became his signature style.

calzino, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link

Nick Nolte
Gary Busey

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link

omg yea

siffleur’s mom (wins), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link

As it turns out:

Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Pierre Leaud

jaymc, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link

fiber broadband
fibre broadband

calzino, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 12:15 (three years ago) link

Elizabeth Holmes
Katie Holmes

Alba, Thursday, 9 September 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link

^Good one

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link

Randy Newman
Randy Crawford

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link

Spoon
Sponge

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link

Jason Isaacs
Sam Neill

papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Mort Garson
Mort Walker

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link

What about Mort Shuman?

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link

so recently whenever i've read the name "abel ferrara" i've thought in my head "that is the weeknd"

he is not.

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link

Trevor Horn
Trevor Rabin

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link

megan fox
olivia munn

mookieproof, Sunday, 17 October 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link

I know this is absurd, but I just confused KMD, Young Black Teenagers, and Urban Dance Squad

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link

it's weird to me that there are two famous blonde New Yorkers named Lindsay Crouse

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link

Tompkins Square Records
Chatham Square Productions

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link

xp and to make it even more confusing, the one who's a journalist is not the one who's the sister of journalist Timothy Crouse.

Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 October 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link

Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Sayers

Cost me a question on University Challenge the other day...

Sam Weller, Thursday, 21 October 2021 08:18 (three years ago) link

RADA
PRADA
PRAVDA

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:06 (three years ago) link

I don't really confuse these, just trying to pitch some lyrics to Plastic Fantastic if they're still going.

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:17 (three years ago) link

Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sudden

Alba, Friday, 22 October 2021 08:58 (three years ago) link

Black Beauty
The Black Stallion

peace, man, Friday, 22 October 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link

John Hughes
John Cusack

aegis philbin (crüt), Saturday, 23 October 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link

Norman Lewis
Ted Lewis

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 23 October 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link

Rachel Reeves
Rachel Riley

The Speak Of The Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link

The Castle of Otranto
The Mysteries of Udolpho

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link

pretty sure both of these books were covered in a college class I took that dealt with gothic horror

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link

Peter Scolari
Peter Riegert
Peter Coyote

The Speak Of The Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Monday, 25 October 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link

Lebanon Hanover
Telefon Tel Aviv

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 25 October 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link

Don Fardon
Don Partridge

Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link

Meatloaf
that actor guy who looks like Meatloaf

Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 5 November 2021 10:05 (three years ago) link

steven erikson and neal stephenson

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link

^

Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link

Edwin Hubble
Fred Hoyle

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 November 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link

Fred Hoyle
Geoffrey Hoyle

Collaborated on bad SF novels, can never remember which is the father and which the son.

foley track out of sync (Matt #2), Sunday, 14 November 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link

Which one wrote the bridge book?

Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link

The movie Drugstore Cowboy and the band Cowboy Junkies

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:06 (three years ago) link

Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Express

weregoats of boston (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link

Bradley Walsh & Brian Conley are on the same show right now. That's breaking my brain somewhat.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 November 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link

Tales to Astonish
Tales of Suspense

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 20 November 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link

i always have to take a beat to remember that elizabeth holmes and former teen abductee elizabeth smart are different people

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 22 November 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link

Sir John Soane, Englishman of long ago, known for his collection of items now in a museum;
Sir Hans Sloane, Englishman of long ago, known for his collection of items now in several museums.

anatol_merklich, Monday, 22 November 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link

OTM

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 08:08 (three years ago) link

second appearance here for John & Hans, there.

fetter, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 12:35 (three years ago) link

Rob Reiner
Ron Howard

siffleur’s mom (wins), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link

Lauren Laverne
Stella Creasy

Alba, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 07:35 (three years ago) link

Wendy
Lisa

In fact most musical duos/trios, I still don't even know which one's Ant and which one's Dec.

procter and gamble and huff (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link

Ant's the drunk one.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 10:06 (three years ago) link

calstars
calzino
clemenza

Not helped that they are all lower case.

A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link

Having not seen, and having little interest, in Game of Thrones, but wanting to know a certain minimum for quizzes/trivia, where GoT stuff pops up all too regularly, I struggle with remembering whether

the White King is the leader of the Night Walkers
or
the Night King is the leader of the White Walkers

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:20 (three years ago) link

Maurice Fulton
Maurice Deebank

Alba, Saturday, 27 November 2021 07:38 (three years ago) link

Niche 'Get Back' related example:

Just realised that from the Beatles film world, I've seen mixing up Dennis O'Dell (head of Films at Apple) and Denis O'Brien (Handmade Films with George Harrison).

Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 27 November 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link

Extending my earlier confusion of Marinas in the thread:

Marina Hyde (semi-aristocratic Oxford-educated journalist)
Marina Warner (semi-aristocratic Oxford educated historian and novelist)
Marina Wheeler (semi-aristocratic Cambridge-educated barrister and former spouse of Boris Johnson)

Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 27 November 2021 11:34 (three years ago) link

Yes.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 November 2021 11:36 (three years ago) link

Classical edition:

Christian Lindberg
Magnus Lindberg

A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 29 November 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link

Jackie Bradley Jr.
Jackie Rogers Jr.

clemenza, Thursday, 2 December 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link

"Jackie Rogers Jr. has withdrawn from the race. Now let's hope he withdraws from the human race".

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 December 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link

Mr Twin Sister
Men I Trust

ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 3 December 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link

Hohner (Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG), iconic manufacturer of musical instruments including at least some of the harmonicas and mouth-organs famously used by famous John of the famous English skiffle group the Beatles

Höfner (Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG), iconic manufacturer of musical instruments including the violin bass famously used by famous Paul of the famous English skiffle group the Beatles

Also the very lovely Jazzica guitar, a one-pickup archtop used occasionally by famous English singer/organist Paul Carrack of Squeeze, Roxy Music, Ace, Mike + the Mechanics

Ennui de Toulouse-Lautrec (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 December 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link

Oh very nice and true, actually I've totally conflated these until this moment!

anatol_merklich, Monday, 6 December 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link

Malcolm Muggeridge
Magnus Magnusson

Alba, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link

Ray Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury

Alba, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link

John Oswald and John Duncan

Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy

Douglas Rushkoff and David Rakoff

Derrick Carter and Derrick May

Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 11 December 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link

Good ones all.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 December 2021 12:00 (three years ago) link

Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy

I did this one several months ago, so I sat my self down and listened to a few songs from each, and decided which one I liked better. Now I can't remember which one that was (I think Snail Mail).

nickn, Saturday, 11 December 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link

The Japanese House
Japanese Breakfast

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 13 December 2021 03:11 (three years ago) link

I know this is supposed to be based on names, so: Sandy Dennis and Sandy Duncan.

Truthfully, you wouldn't get those two mixed up. I do get Sandy Dennis and Elizabeth Hartman mixed up, though, as to the kind of actresses they are.

clemenza, Monday, 13 December 2021 03:34 (three years ago) link

This thread should have more of people you get mixed up for reasons other than their name, imo.

Alba, Monday, 13 December 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link

On that note, if you were to mix up Sandy Duncan with anyone, it would probably be Karen Valentine.

clemenza, Monday, 13 December 2021 03:46 (three years ago) link

Peter Stefanovic
Peter Serafinowicz

Alba, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 08:35 (three years ago) link

the 63 MILLION VIEWS man!

calzino, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 08:55 (three years ago) link

Tamarind
Turmeric

the fifth housemate (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link

Clematis
Cyclamen

Madchen, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link

George Sanders, British actor 1906-1972
George Saunders, American writer 1952-

Jeremy Ironist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link

LFTs
NFTs

, Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link

LFF at the NFT

Alba, Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link

Yes!

Non-fungible Token
National Film Theatre

Every blasted time I read NFT, I think cinema.

Madchen, Thursday, 23 December 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link

Well it's the BFI Southbank nowadays, so unless someone invents block-fungible ingots you shouldn't need to worry.

bash street tempel (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 December 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link

In SoCal (and other US areas) BFI means Browning Ferris Industries, a trash collecting service.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/BFI_logo.svg/250px-BFI_logo.svg.png

nickn, Friday, 24 December 2021 06:14 (two years ago) link

Every time I see SoCal I have to remember it’s not a low-calorie brand

Alba, Friday, 24 December 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link

ILB (I Love Books)
ILB (I Love Baseball)

The Weather Prophets
The Wedding Present

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 25 December 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link

Comedian and latterday novelist Richard Osman
Suede member and latterday novelist Mat Osman plus a bit of Suede member Richard Oakes, specifically the Richard bit

they must have what you'd call some kind of 'arrangement' (Matt #2), Sunday, 26 December 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link

You know the two Osmans are brothers, yeah?

Madchen, Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link

No! That explains it then.

they must have what you'd call some kind of 'arrangement' (Matt #2), Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link

Gillian McKeith
Gillian Keegan

Alba, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link

I was trying to picture Richard Mulligan in my mind’s eye but all my brain could come up with was George Gaynes.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 2 January 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link

Simon Like
Simon King
Simon Phillips

I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link

Oops, spellchecker:

Simon Kirke
Simon King
Simon Phillips

I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link

Johnny Saint
Johnny Sins

, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link

Robert Durst
Robert Forster

peace, man, Monday, 10 January 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link

John C. Reilly
Michael Rooker

the great replacement bus service (Matt #2), Monday, 10 January 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link

Yes...let me reshuffle that a bit: name, obviously, but also the actors:

John C. Reilly
John C. McGinley

(McGinley is Marvin in Wall Street, the guy who works at the brokerage with Charlie Sheen.)

clemenza, Monday, 10 January 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link

Dave Berry
Mike Berry
Nick Berry

There's even another Dave Berry.

I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Monday, 10 January 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link

Dave Barry too.

The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 January 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link

Calliope (muse)
Callisto (nymph)

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link

Robert Durst
Robert Forster

― peace, man

o_O

emil.y, Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link

Might have mentioned this one before, but:

Sydney Pollack
Sidney Poitier

emil.y, Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link

Sydney Pollack
Sidney Lumet

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 January 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link

Ethan Hawke
Ewan McGregor

It doesn't happen often, but the recent Moon Knight trailer had me thinking "Oh. So he gets to be a villain in a DC and a Marvel property" for a brief second.

MarkoP, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link

Dundee F.C.
Dundee United F.C.

the great replacement bus service (Matt #2), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link

This is kind of the opposite? Someone who is the same person who I always think of as two people:

Cat Power
Chan Marshall

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link

Clark Kent
Superman

umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link

Absurd! They look NOTHING like each other! Clark even wears spectacles for christsake

Ste, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link

The Azores
The Ozarks

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 11:03 (two years ago) link

Steve Harley
Alex Harvey

Of their combined work, I've only heard "Make Me Smile".

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link

Seek out the Sensational Alex Harvey Band performing "Next" on YouTube, should be easy to find.

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link

Anna von Hausswolff
Chelsea Wolfe

the great replacement bus service (Matt #2), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link

Luca Guglielmi
Lorenzo Ghielmi

(Both harpsichordists)

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 22 January 2022 05:51 (two years ago) link

Sam Cutler
Sam Hutt

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Saturday, 29 January 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link

The Wedding Present
Weddings Parties Anything

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 7 February 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link

an attempt at watching Pam & Tommy made me realize I'd never distinguished between Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx, at least as far a gossip fodder and rockstar escapades. They were just a singular tall, tattooed, black haired dude married to Pamela Anderson and/or other models.

bendy, Monday, 7 February 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link

Chris marker
Chris morris

, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 11:51 (two years ago) link

Barbara Bach
Barbara Bain

Alba, Saturday, 12 February 2022 10:55 (two years ago) link

barbara babcock

mookieproof, Saturday, 12 February 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link

Stacey Dooley
Stacey Solomon

Madchen, Saturday, 19 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link

Love Me Love My Dog
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

since dozzell was a fixture (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link

Luka Doncic
Nikola Jokic

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link

Steve Reid
Steve Roach

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 20 February 2022 05:00 (two years ago) link

travis wammack
lonnie mack

budo jeru, Monday, 28 February 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link

Jim Seals
Phil Collins

i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link

Jon Hassell
Bill Frisell

fetter, Monday, 7 March 2022 11:57 (two years ago) link

And Bill Laswell

fetter, Monday, 7 March 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link

Kate St John
Bridget St John

only just realised they're two different people

fetter, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link

Add in Susan St James

nickn, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link

Eva Marie Saint
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Alba, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 07:04 (two years ago) link

It pains me to say this, but:

John Hurt
William Hurt

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:46 (two years ago) link

Donald Glover
Danny Glover

Madchen, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 11:08 (two years ago) link

Averroës
Avicenna

I believe this is a not entirely uncommon quizzing predicament.

anatol_merklich, Friday, 18 March 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link

I am much more familiar with the former but from now in I will start mixing them I guess.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link

From now on in

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 March 2022 12:26 (two years ago) link

Averroës
Avicenna

i can't explain exactly why, but this is the kind of post that keeps me coming back to this thread. good stuff!

budo jeru, Friday, 18 March 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link

Top of the Pop
TopPop

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link

do you mean Top of the Pop*s*?
or am I just adding to the mixing up now?

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link

Ugh, sorry, was typing too fast, yes, you are correct.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link

Top of the Pops = TOTP = BBC original
TopPop / Toppop = what the Dutch did with the concept

https://media.s-bol.com/1GRXj3MrmBKR/849x1200.jpg

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link

Blew out my flipflop
Stepped on a TopPop

imagine flagons (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 19 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link

Lol

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link

Barefoot in the Park
The Panic in Needle Park

there's only so far you can go with a jazz tuba solo (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 08:45 (two years ago) link

"alouette"
"frère jacques"

budo jeru, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link

^good one!

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link

And the one before it too

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link

"alouette"
"frère jacques"

Oh hell right:

Traditional, famously variantizationized by Mozart: "Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman"
Haydn: Symphony #94 ("Paukenschlag"/"Surprise"), movement 2

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link

Less excusable:

Alt-J
Jlin

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link

Mackenzie Davis
MacKenzie Scott
Mackenzie Crook

It seems my brain files names thinking Mackenzie is enough of an identifier and then I get confused when I see a headline about MacKenzie Scott giving $436m to charity and momentarily wonder how much money he made from The Detectorists.

Alba, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link

Add Ranald Slidell "Bad Hand" Mackenzie

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link

It pains me to say this, but:

John Hurt
William Hurt

― Sam Weller, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:46 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oof, had that last week too.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link

was the "pains me to say" part a pun or

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link

Velocipede, a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels
Velociraptor, a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur

the nwa list (Matt #2), Friday, 25 March 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link

xpost

Haha yes, but I've been mixing them up for decades.

Sam Weller, Friday, 25 March 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
Fun With Dick and Jane

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 March 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link

George Segal in both, I think.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link

No, Bob & Ted were Robert Culp and Elliott Gould.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 27 March 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link

Oh right, thanks. George Segal was in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, had to look up who played his wife though.

The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link

David Sancious
David Sanborn

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 April 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link

That never got mentioned before?

Julian Assange
Edward Snowden

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 3 April 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link

Me and Bobby McGee
Ode to Billie Joe

... probably not helped by the latter being by Bobbie Gentry.

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link

Ode to Bobbie McGentry

Mark G, Thursday, 7 April 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link

...and Me

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 7 April 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link

Me Keep On Dancing.

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link

Tony Levin
Tony Levin

Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 April 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link

Lyle Lovett
Kyle MacLachlan

jel--, Thursday, 7 April 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link

Dave Chapelle / David Lachapelle

fetter, Thursday, 7 April 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link

Tim Hardin
Tim Buckley

nickn, Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link

...Tim Rose

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link

Chris Hedges/Hayes

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link

Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link

house remixer edition

Mark Knight
Mark Kinchen

the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 7 April 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link

Having never had a great interest in Santana, I'm not sure I've actively processed before that these are entirely different covers they've made:

Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
Gypsy Woman

anatol_merklich, Friday, 8 April 2022 08:18 (two years ago) link

Sailin' Shoes
Flyin' Shoes

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 9 April 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link

Patricia Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood*

(*Who coincidentally I sometimes confuse with Patricia Roc and vice versa)

Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 April 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link

Joan Hackett
Jessica Walter

Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link

Luke Wilson
Martin Henderson

in the film X only

Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link

Catherine Spaak (RIP)
Camilla Sparv

Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 April 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link

Zapotek - Czech athlete
Zamenhof - Polish ophthamologist, invented Esperanto

Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link

Gordon Sumner, alias Sting
Gordon Shumway, alias ALF

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link

it's the classic 80s hairstyle that really makes this one confusing for me

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link

Tim Booth
Tim Burgess

Both frontmen of indie bands. Do I know the difference between them? No, I do not.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 21 April 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link

Tim Burgess
Mark Burgess

Charlatans, Chameleons. I see I mentioned this five years ago, the other way around.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 21 April 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link

Barclay James Harvest
Bachman Turner Overdrive

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 21 April 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link

BJH - went to Earth
BTO - took care of business

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 April 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link

Important input. I shall consider.

anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 April 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link

Black Thought
Gift of Gab

MarkoP, Friday, 29 April 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link

Little Simz
Little Mix

Alba, Friday, 29 April 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link

Rita sue and Bob too
Bob and carol and ted and Alice

gop on ya gingrich (wins), Friday, 29 April 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link

Marvin Barnes and Marvin Webster.

I'm halfway through Bad News: The Turbulent Life Marvin Barnes, Pro Basketball's Original Renegade. When I bought it a year or two ago, I suspect I thought I was buying a book about Marvin Webster: longer career, easy to remember because of his nickname "The Human Eraser."

Their rookie seasons were separated by only a year, both began in the ABA, and--although Webster had the nickname that celebrated his shot-making prowess--Barnes was also a proficient shot-blocker. Because of his drug addiction and other issues, Barnes was out of the NBA by 1980; Webster played until 1987.

Barnes was Philly's #2 pick in the '74 NBA draft, after Bill Walton. Denver held his ABA rights, and an agreement was reached whereby if he signed with any ABA team other than Denver, they'd get the #1 pick in the '75 draft. St. Louis signed Barnes, Denver got the consolation draft pick, and they took...Marvin Webster.

clemenza, Friday, 29 April 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link

"his shot-making prowess"--should say "shot-blocking prowess"

clemenza, Friday, 29 April 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link

Denver took David Thompson in the '75 draft. They seemed to have a knack in those days for picking potential superstars who flamed out.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 April 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link

Thompson was drafted #2 by the Squires.

https://www.prosportstransactions.com/basketball/DraftTrades/Years/1975-aba.htm

clemenza, Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link

I guess you could say he was picked #2 because Denver had the "bonus" pick that year. Thompson in fact was the #1 pick of both Virginia (ABA) and Atlanta (NBA). He never played for either team. I was a 10-year-old kid living in Denver at the time, and I don't remember exactly how Thompson ended up signing with Denver, but it was a big deal.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link

Yeah, it seems like a semantic issue--Wikipedia says Thompson was #1...Thompson's career was short, and I guess that's what you mean by flaming out, but he did average 22.7 PPG and shoot over 50% from the floor, and he was inducted into the HOF in 1996 (obviously his college career figured heavily into that).

clemenza, Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link

He could legitimately have been the GOAT if not for a combination of injuries and drug use. Sadly, one of the things he is best remembered for is ending his career by being pushed down the stairs at Studio 54 and injuring his knee. That said, I remember being at a Nuggets game in the late 80s-early 90s at which he was in attendance. When his presence was announced, he got a standing ovation.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl) wrote this on thread Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up! on board I Love Everything on Feb 18, 2012

John Milius and Walter Hill. I say one, I mean the other. AND I KNOW WHO THEY ARE. It's so dumb.

Me too.

peace, man, Saturday, 30 April 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link

Mildred Natwick
Mildred Dunnock

The even looked a lot alike.

Tubesocks Secure (punning display), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link

Bojan Bogdanović
Boban Marjanović

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 6 May 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link

Are you aware there is also a Bogdan Bogdanovic? More obvious to mix up with Bojan than Boban is!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 6 May 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link

Lebanon Hanover
Telefon Tel Aviv

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 May 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link

Adrian Lyne
Alan Parker

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 6 May 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link

My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Career

Tubesocks Secure (punning display), Sunday, 8 May 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link

Dennis Waterman
Pete Waterman

... write-in vote by Nadhim Zahawi

Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 May 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link

Samuel Alito
Antonin Scalia

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 8 May 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link

Robert Morris
Morris Louis

anatol_merklich, Monday, 9 May 2022 05:53 (two years ago) link

Dengue Dengue Dengue
Dengue Fever

middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Monday, 9 May 2022 06:21 (two years ago) link

oh, never mind, that was meant for the other thread. I always get those two mixed up!

middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Monday, 9 May 2022 06:23 (two years ago) link

The Spectator
The New Statesman

One of these political magazines is a fascist rag run by Andrew Neil, one is a supposedly centre-left Guardian-style melt thing, but which is which? I can never remember without looking it up.

Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 May 2022 07:42 (two years ago) link

Ditto.

Madchen, Monday, 9 May 2022 08:37 (two years ago) link

there's always a ph34r of accidental mixing-up when I need to mention any of

Boccherini
Botticelli
Boccaccio

those three easily-mixed-up Italians of long ago who, um, excelled in entirely different arts and together span half a millennium between the birth of the first and death of the last :-/

anatol_merklich, Monday, 9 May 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link

The Clientele
Clinic

Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 06:37 (two years ago) link

Friday the 13th
Halloween

Ste, Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link

So many bands

And also the trees
A minor forest

brimstead, Thursday, 12 May 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link

Friday the 13th
Halloween

oh yeah

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 12 May 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link

Ty Segall
Thee Oh Sees

peace, man, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link

Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet
Man…or Astroman?

DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 19 May 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link

Man…or Astroman?
The Aquabats

peace, man, Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:10 (two years ago) link

Lygia Clark
Lygia Pape

rob, Thursday, 19 May 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link

Modest Mouse
Mouse on Mars

Madchen, Thursday, 19 May 2022 14:13 (two years ago) link

Man... or Astroman?
Spacemen 3

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link

(xp) ditto

Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link

Robert Kirby
Blue Weaver

Probably because both played keyboards for the Strawbs but are better known elsewhere. Can never remember which one of them worked with the Bee Gees and which with Nick Drake without looking it up.

the road by tarmac mccarthy (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link

Lou Reed never went on a foul-mouthed rant about Robert Kirby.

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 20 May 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link

Parker Posey and Posie Parker (a TERF apparently)

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:54 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean ffs someone here is aiming for confusion (of course it's the terf)

mark s, Sunday, 22 May 2022 09:23 (two years ago) link

a bit rough on the actor Posey if someone might get you mixed up with the nutjob who suggested armed men should start entering women's toilet to "protect" them.

calzino, Sunday, 22 May 2022 10:05 (two years ago) link

Bob Lind
Bob Hund

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 22 May 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link

Steely Dan
Duran Duran

papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link

Oh, many years ago, Steeleye Span and Steely Dan.

Mark G, Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link

Yeah, kind of for me too, though it more falls into the realm of “I can’t help one name making me think of this other” than actual mixing up. See also: Fairport Convention, who I was aware of after Fairground Attraction.

Alba, Monday, 23 May 2022 07:10 (two years ago) link

tennis players:
(Hubert) Hurkacz
(Márton) Fucsovics

butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, 26 May 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link

Melissa Leo
Maria Bello

Tubesocks Secure (punning display), Friday, 27 May 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link

Holly Hunter
Meg Ryan

peace, man, Friday, 27 May 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link

The Move
The Nice

Ward Fowler, Monday, 30 May 2022 12:02 (two years ago) link

Leonard Cohen
Nick Cave
Lloyd Cole
Nick Lowe

It took me many years to straighten these guys out.

tobo73, Monday, 30 May 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link

I watched the whole first season of The Boys thinking Karl Urban was Keith Urban.

Alba, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link

they are both kiwis!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:00 (two years ago) link

From a Buick 6 (Bob Dylan song)
From a Buick 8 (Stephen King novel)

(I mean I don't confuse a song with a book, I just can't remember the cylinder count in the Dylan title since it doesn't appear in the song anywhere).

Lee626, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link

Paul Kolderie, audio engineer
Paul Kolaj, owner of Famous Famiglia (a chain of pizzerias in NYC)

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:37 (two years ago) link

Immortal Technique

Idiosyncratic Routine

Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 June 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link

Charlie Rich

Charlie Pride

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link

let me solve this for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqDyytuRvo

mookieproof, Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link

if you really need strings, they can be provided

mookieproof, Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:09 (two years ago) link

graham sutherland

paul nash

confusion was actually brought on by a graham nash thread revive!

calzino, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link

Damon and Naomi
Dean and Britta

the world really isn't big enough for two male/female Galaxie 500 side projects called 'D__n and [someone]'. p sure one of them covered an Opal song one time.

f.m. corndog (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link

Wait, they are not the same?

Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link

apparently not! I just sampled a few songs by each duo, and it seems as if one of them might be 'sadcore' and the other might be 'slowcore'. not sure which is which, though. further investigation is needed

f.m. corndog (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link

This is why I have my other similarly named thread that seemed to have caused a bit of confusion. I know that they both exist and don't really Always Get Them Mixed Up, but yet.

Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link

David Hyde Pierce
Neil Patrick Harris

Alba, Monday, 13 June 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link

Neil Patrick Harris

Anthony Michael Hall

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 June 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link

Definitely been guilty of mixing up these two Bills in the past.

For years, Pullman was in the odd position of being a household name who was forever mistaken for the late Bill Paxton, star of Apollo 13, Twister and A Simple Plan. Even now, Pullman’s Wikipedia page has a slightly impertinent note at the top: “Not to be confused with Bill Paxton.” Pullman blames the confusion on the plosives in their names, though I suspect it’s more to do with their everyman personas.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jun/21/bill-pullman-mad-house-interview

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 08:30 (two years ago) link

Thought those two guys were basically the raison d’être of this thread.

Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 12:47 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Hobo Johnson
Homeboy Sandman

MarkoP, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link

Ed Davey
Ed Vaizey

Alba, Friday, 8 July 2022 07:53 (two years ago) link

Strother Martin
L.Q. Jones (RIP)

L.M.N.O.P.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link

FM Einheit
NU Unruh

and who is not flawed? (Matt #2), Sunday, 10 July 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link

IUDs
IEDs

Alba, Sunday, 10 July 2022 05:20 (two years ago) link

You are hereby barred for life from being employed in either the military or medical fields.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 10 July 2022 06:44 (two years ago) link

Modern English
Modern Romance

Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 July 2022 08:05 (two years ago) link

Modern English
Bad English

and who is not flawed? (Matt #2), Sunday, 10 July 2022 09:14 (two years ago) link

Modern Talking is the only one you need anyway, so you’re fine.

xp

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 July 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link

Jane Weaver / Jelly Cleaver
Spotify pushing both of them on me

fetter, Monday, 11 July 2022 09:17 (two years ago) link

Vanilla Fudge
The Lovin' Spoonful

peace, man, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link

don't forget Humble Pie

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link

earth
hell

Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link

They're both Vangelis records, true.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link

I hear you now

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link

don't forget Humble Pie

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, July 13, 2022 2:33 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

See, those guys I get mixed up with Foghat.

peace, man, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link

the only thing i know about humble pie is that their drummer jerry shirley played on syd barrett's solo records

Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 23:37 (two years ago) link

Sure, you know Shirley, but surely you also know Small Faces and Frampton?

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 July 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link

Frank Whaley
Justin Whalin

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 15 July 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link

Steph Curry
Tim Curry

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 July 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link

Having a peroneal rupture is very, very different from having a perineal rupture.

That's an easy mistake to make.

Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 16 July 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link

It turns out that Sting's and Jeffrey Archers faces share the same image in my mind's eye

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 16 July 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link

I had the exact same thought today weirdly enough

https://i.postimg.cc/8FDwtHGv/DDF78-A8-B-7-CB4-4463-A46-B-FCCD1-C02-AF9-A.png

Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 16 July 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link

Achim Wollscheid
Akira Rabelais
Asmus Tietchens

...not helped by the fact they all seem to have collaborated with each other on various glitchy experimental electronic albums.

they remade tetsuo the iron man as a romcom (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 July 2022 16:05 (two years ago) link

In fact bottle of Peroni beer could cause a perineal rupture! And possibly a peroneal rupture if you stepped on it wrong.

Or is it the other way around? I will never look at the Peroni women and her jaunty hat in the same way again.

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 17 July 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link

apparently now my brain takes a few seconds to calibrate if i hear

Michael Sheen
Martin Sheen
Martin Freeman

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 17 July 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link

Barry Sheene
Michael Sheen
Martin Sheen
Martin Short
Martin Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Fairchild

Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 July 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link

london-based, shaven-headed, electronic music producers

leon vynehall
levon vincent

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 22 July 2022 07:15 (two years ago) link

One percenters (rich people)
One percenters (Hells Angels)

Josefa, Sunday, 24 July 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link

Joey Molland
Jody Stephens

(and maybe another "last man standing" who doesn't come to mind atm?)

f.m. corndog (unregistered), Monday, 25 July 2022 00:40 (two years ago) link

Yes. Whenever someone says "Flying Lizards" I think "monkey banana kitchen" but unfortunately that is pretty seldom what they mean, usually it's "Money" which is obv the case in this case

― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, July 26, 2022 8:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Flying Lizards
Family Fodder
😳

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link

Or really,

Fourth Wall
Monkey Banana Kitchen

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link

I did wonder...

Mark G, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link

haha, it's really just the cover image of Fourth Wall that I also associate with Monkey Banana Kitchen (because of the similar color schemes and because I got into those 2 records right around the same time). That causes me to refer to one when I'm thinking of the other all the damn time.

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link

Not anymore but once upon a time:

Incredible String Band
String Driven Thing

Let's Get Ready to Trimble (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link

comfortably numb
dazed & confused

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link

Gabby Logan
Gaby Roslin

Madchen, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link

Calvin Trillin
Calvin Tomkins

budo jeru, Thursday, 28 July 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link

Good one, but surely it’s been posted before by someone like me.

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link

Oh sorry, I posted that on my other thread, next one over in the multiverse.

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link

heh - i never did understand the Future Edition. so i just end up posting about sci fi mix-ups on that one

budo jeru, Thursday, 28 July 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link

David Keith
Keith David

Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 July 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link

Joseph Stella
Frank Stella
Richard Serra

Are U down with the BVM (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 31 July 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link

^word

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 July 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link

Was just thinking of that exact trio when we left the museum yesterday.
https://carnegiemnh.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Fig.-5-Serra-sculpture-CMOA-962x1024.jpg

Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Monday, 1 August 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link

Me too but I add Frank Langella

your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 August 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link

I mistagged that exact Serra in a snap I posted on instagram, I think as Stella

Jaqueline Kasabian Oasis (bendy), Monday, 1 August 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link

From the still alive thread, I realized I'm always crossing wires on

Dion
Bobby Darin
Frankie Valli

Jaqueline Kasabian Oasis (bendy), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link

Alex James
Alex Jones
Aled Jones

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link

^^^ this.

Also cartoonists Searle, Scarfe and Steadman, not helped by the fact that the last two (both born in mid-'36) are stylisticaly so similar!

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 4 August 2022 08:49 (two years ago) link

Searle/Scarfe/Steadman, yes!

Also Alex Jones and Christine Lampard. Show me a picture and I couldn’t tell you which was which.

Madchen, Thursday, 4 August 2022 09:11 (two years ago) link

... that's going to confuse North American ILXors.

Apologies to any lip readers (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2022 09:12 (two years ago) link

Also Alex Jones and Christine Lampard. Show me a picture and I couldn’t tell you which was which.

And one replaced the other on the One Show. I'm convinced the BBC do this deliberately with presenters. They have a very narrow view of what an aesthetically pleasing presenter should look like and deliberately go for one who matches their predecessors much as possible. Happens with the blokes too. Mike Bushell is just a less chubby Chris Hollins, amirite?

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 4 August 2022 09:17 (two years ago) link

Mike Bushell
Chris Hollins

There's a lot of dark haired youngish, well, thirty something, men who are often Welsh too.

Apologies to any lip readers (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2022 10:04 (two years ago) link

Also tall fair haired youngish men, they've just replaced Dan Walker with someone who looks much the same.

Apologies to any lip readers (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2022 10:06 (two years ago) link

Marko Arnautovic
Aleksandar Mitrovic

terry and june as hauntological relic (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 August 2022 12:51 (two years ago) link

Tony Aitken and Lee Cornes, and sometimes Tony Robinson a bit

soref, Sunday, 7 August 2022 13:17 (two years ago) link

^ not a single one of those guys was in Whoops Apocalypse, something I would have bet money against before checking

soref, Sunday, 7 August 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link

Harry Crews
Harry Mathews

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link

(cleveland) guardians
(washington) commanders

mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link

Also cartoonists Searle, Scarfe and Steadman

Oh damn, there are three! That explains why I'm sometimes extra confused, thinking I'm mixing up two but still something not right.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 09:24 (two years ago) link

whatd u learn abt on wikipedia today [Started by ice cr?m in December 2009, last updated three seconds ago by budo jeru on 7Curtis's 7borad] 2 new answers
This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles. [Started by Curt1s St3ph3ns in May 2005, last updated thirty-three seconds ago by budo jeru on I Love Everything] 1 new answer

budo jeru, Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link

Cookies and Cream
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

peace, man, Saturday, 13 August 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link

Raul Ruiz
Manoel de Oliveira

I know who they both are, I just can't remember which one directed which turn-of-the-millennium-Euro-art-film-featuring-John-Malkovich.

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 15 August 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link

Wolf Alice
The Joy Formidable

MarkoP, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link

Tim Lott
Toby Litt

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link

Les Claypool
Wes Borland

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link

doing nothing
doing whatever i feel like

maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link

Jonah Hill
Seth Rogan

Alba, Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:24 (two years ago) link

Bahamas
Bermuda
Barbados

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link

come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go?

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:57 (two years ago) link

slowsquatch i see your list and raise you one (1) Barbuda

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 19 August 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link

Licensed to Ill
Ill Communication

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 19 August 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link

Hillaire Belloc
Honoré de Balzac

Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 20 August 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link

Marisol
Maripol

Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Sunday, 21 August 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link

Superchunk
Spacehog

Midlake
Clearlake

School of Seven Bells
Sleigh Bells
Howling Bells

Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 21 August 2022 11:15 (two years ago) link

come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go?

Mike Love
Evil bitter man crapping on his band's legacy

Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 21 August 2022 11:18 (two years ago) link

It occurs to me that I mostly mix up names of people in the same profession

Don Cheadle
Don Ameche

Gary Burton
Burton Greene

Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link

Hillaire Belloc
Honoré de Balzac

― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, August 20, 2022 3:06 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

for me it's:

hilaire belloc
evelyn waugh

budo jeru, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link

both catholic englishman "men of letters" writing in the '40s who nobody in america gives a shit about or even knows who they are, with girl names

budo jeru, Thursday, 25 August 2022 01:06 (two years ago) link

richard austin freeman/freeman wills croft

no lime tangier, Thursday, 25 August 2022 07:54 (two years ago) link

I keep thinking the "where harry met sally" sign in katz's deli is in cafe lalo (because it's where meg ryan met tom hanks in 'you've got mail' and this is somehow commemorated- i think it's just noted on their menu).

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 26 August 2022 02:31 (two years ago) link

Chris Woakes
Ben Foakes

... but not Ben Stokes

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 26 August 2022 14:27 (two years ago) link

Autreche
Aphex Twin

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 August 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link

‘tis the 2010s Album rollout that made me realise this

heresy, I know

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 August 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link

Fishbone

Firehose

gin and tonic the hedgehog (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 August 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Manford Mann's Earth Band

BrianB, Sunday, 28 August 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link

Glen Ballard
Desmond Child

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 29 August 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link

Martha Graham
Twyla Tharp

Probably a third modern choreographer I'm forgetting.

we talkin bout praxis (Leee), Monday, 29 August 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link

Golden Earring
Shocking Blue

budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 02:27 (two years ago) link

Kenny Burrell
Dave Burrell

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 22:02 (two years ago) link

Tom Bihn, backpack manufacturer
Tom Beghin, fortepianist
Thom Bargen, coffee roaster

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 05:29 (two years ago) link

Shelley Long
Shelley Duvall
Shelley Winters

clouds, Sunday, 4 September 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link

Yes!

Alba, Sunday, 4 September 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link

St Etienne
St Vincent

silverfish, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link

Kenneth Clark
James Burke

budo jeru, Saturday, 10 September 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link

Judd Hirsch
Judd Nelson

Alba, Sunday, 11 September 2022 06:50 (two years ago) link

Denis Lawson
Leigh Lawson

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 September 2022 10:04 (two years ago) link

Puy
Pau

(as in French cities/towns)

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link

for me it's Gau / Pau

budo jeru, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link

Modigliani
Giacometti

Madchen, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link

Ken Loach
Mike Leigh

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link

ned doheny
ned beatty

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 16 September 2022 04:30 (two years ago) link

Englebert Humperdinck
Buster Poindexter

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 16 September 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link

…b-b-but Englebert Humperdinck : Buster Poindexter = Lavator Shemmelpennick, no???

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 September 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

Ya got me!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 16 September 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link

Abe Froman
Abe Vigoda

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 September 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link

Nina Nastasia
Nina Nesbitt

In that I will see posters for or mentions of the latter in the press and feel momentarily confused that Nina Nastasia is now a mainstream pop star or something, before realising.

brain (krakow), Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:20 (two years ago) link

Mark Ryden
Mark Rydell

jaymc, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 13:31 (two years ago) link

Simon Callow
Simon Cadell
Simon Cowell

Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link

The Emirates
The Etihad

Madchen, Saturday, 1 October 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link

The Golden Palominos
Golden Smog

peace, man, Monday, 3 October 2022 12:58 (two years ago) link

Kitten Natividad
Lolita Davidovich

punning display, Friday, 7 October 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link

Mark Ryden
Mark Rydell

Mark Rypien
Mark Rylance

(Well not really, but I couldn't pass up the chance.)

Kim Wipers - Youth in America (Leee), Friday, 7 October 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link

Extremely local DC version:

Bailey's Crossroads
Seven Corners

Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link

I can understand their conflatability, but they are adjacent to one another, mushing into one area at points.

A Maryland equivalent is the Bethesda-White Flint-Rockville axis.

Woe betide the person who gets mixed up on Bethesda vs. Chevy Chase vs. Silver Spring, because those really are in very different places.

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link

the alarm
the call

mookieproof, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link

Dawn Richard
Richard Dawson

willem, Friday, 14 October 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link

otm

budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link

Capybara
Coypu

Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link

+ Coati

blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 October 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link

Stonehouse
Stonehaven
Strathaven

Madchen, Sunday, 30 October 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link

Junior Boys
Junior Senior

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 30 October 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link

Chersonesus
Chaeronea

anatol_merklich, Sunday, 30 October 2022 22:08 (two years ago) link

Blood Brothers
Scissor Sisters

poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Monday, 31 October 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link

Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred North Whitehead

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link

Cracker Barrel
Golden Corral

lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 00:00 (two years ago) link

Leo Records recording artist Valentina Goncharova
Leo Records recording artist Valentina Ponomareva

zeuhl's forgotten man (Matt #2), Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link

Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

brain (krakow), Friday, 11 November 2022 08:45 (two years ago) link

TMT
TMNT

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link

I always get W.A.S.P. mixed up with Ted Cruz’s old band band Stryper.

The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 24 November 2022 08:11 (two years ago) link

For kinda obvious reasons.

The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 24 November 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link

Alex Horne
Matthew Horne

Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 25 November 2022 08:03 (two years ago) link

Dennis Smalley
Roger Smalley

Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link

keir dullea
udo keir

i mean i think i've just never bothered to distinguish them, i was going to make a joek abt the star child in 2001 and the freaky udo-baby in the kingdom but it very much depends on them being one person not two

mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link

It Ain't Me Babe
I Got You Babe

peace, man, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link

The latter was a conscious re-write (rip-off) of the former!

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link

That would make sense. I just realized this morning that I'd been skipping over the Turtles' cover of Dylan's song because I assumed it was the Sonny & Cher one.

peace, man, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link

OMG

Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link

Unlike my other contributions to this thread, this pair (who will mean nothing to people outside the British Isles) have actually lived in my head as the same person, said head troubled only by the fact that they seem to have two very different faces. I'd put this down to one being a jokey avatar on social media that I didn't get.

Paul Lewis, financial journalist
Martin Lewis, financial journalist

Alba, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:32 (two years ago) link

In the mid 80s I was just learning about the world and the people in it, and was very confused about why two of the most famous people had almost the same name, even though they were completely different people.

Madonna
Maradona

Managed to remember which was which by the age of 8, so all worked out fine.

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link

The Asphalt Jungle
Blackboard Jungle

Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Monday, 12 December 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link

Wet Leg
Dry Cleaning

Not sure why exactly, but on seeing them both appear on the same end of year list I've realized that I mentally classified these two names as being the same band. Now I'm not sure if I've actually heard both of them.

silverfish, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link

you’re not missing much

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:42 (two years ago) link

Mint Condition
New Edition

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link

Tom Lehrer
Allan Sherman

budo jeru, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link

Steve Khan
Steve Kuhn

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link

Steve Kroon as well

Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 December 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link

the roches
the mcgarrigles

mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link

the roches
the mcgarrigles

I'll bet Loudon Wainwright gets them mixed up sometimes

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 04:18 (two years ago) link

Oof!

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link

well, yeah

mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 05:48 (two years ago) link

Probably a song or two about it

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 08:07 (two years ago) link

I Got Their Names Wrong Again

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 08:07 (two years ago) link

Add the Nields

Cirque de Soleil Moon Frye (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link

Don Bluth
Dom Deluise

peace, man, Thursday, 22 December 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link

Until recently:

Bill Callahan
Bill Orcutt

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 23 December 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link

reticent vs reluctance really has to stop

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link

How about nonparallel construction?

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link

Nonparallel
Nonpareil

Kiss Me, Dudley (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link

I have this theory that The Beatles sing the word "nonpareil" with a weird accent in their version of "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" but I stand kind of alone with this theory. Maybe someone else even presented it to me long ago, but they are not around to comment.

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link

Bruce Campbell
Kyle MacLachlan

no jaki liebezeit required (Matt #2), Friday, 23 December 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link

'80s chin men.

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Saturday, 24 December 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link

Elvis Costello albums I haven't heard:

Brutal Youth
When I Was Cruel

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 December 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link

Fine Young Cannibals
10,000 Maniacs

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 January 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link

Chutes Too Narrow
Oh, Inverted World

Paul Ponzi, Monday, 2 January 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link

Trix
Kix
Nesquik
Tang

Immodest Moose (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link

Millie Small
Little Eva

Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link

Charlie Rich
Buddy Rich

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link

Anchises
Ascanius
Achates

(father, son and best buddy of Aeneas, respectively)

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 07:36 (one year ago) link

The Pink Fairies
The Pretty Things

this country's had enough of exports (Matt #2), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link

Puddle of Mudd
Mudvayne

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link

Puddle of Mudd
POD (Payable On Death?)

I thought both were "Christian Rock" but PoM's wiki doesn't mention it.

nickn, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link

Nils Lofgren
Nels Cline

New York Review of Wooks (swim), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link

Sunny Sweeney
Sydney Sweeney

peace, man, Friday, 6 January 2023 01:44 (one year ago) link

the killing of a sacred deer
dragging a dead deer up a hill

budo jeru, Monday, 9 January 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link

Hoboken
Hackensack

budo jeru, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 02:01 (one year ago) link

The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 02:53 (one year ago) link

Nels Cline
Nils Frahm

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 05:49 (one year ago) link

Helen Andrews
Helen Lewis

jaymc, Saturday, 14 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link

https://mltshp-cdn.com/r/ZTGH

mookieproof, Saturday, 14 January 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link

Rose McGowan
Rose McDowall

ian, Sunday, 15 January 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link

Connie Francis (b. Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, December 12, 1937)
Connie Stevens (b. Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingolia, August 8, 1938)

A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 16 January 2023 10:48 (one year ago) link

Also these two:
Connie Smith
Conny Van Dyke

The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link

Gérard de Nerval, French poet
Nadar, French photographer

budo jeru, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link

George Santos
George Soros

obviously they are quite different aside from their names

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link

Same

Alba, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link

Al Capp

Andy Capp

everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link

Zoe Chao
Chloe Zhao

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link

mac demarco
mac miller
post malone

mookieproof, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link

Suetonius
Sallustius

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 21 January 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link

Rilo Kiley
Riley Keough

Alba, Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link

Roy Thomas Baker
Roy Ward Baker

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 23 January 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link

Good one.

A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link

Yeah three-named people can trip one up at times

Paul Thomas Anderson
Philip Baker Hall
Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Myth of Sisyspacek (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 January 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link

Bobby Elliott (drummer for the Hollies, turned down the chance to join Wings)
Bobby Graham (session drummer, turned down the chance to join the Beatles)
Bobby Harrison (original drummer for Procol Harum)

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link

B-b-but you left out Bobby Gregg!

Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link

I don't get him mixed up with the other three.

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link

Washington Times
Washington Examiner

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link

Interesting! Started as very different publications and somehow converged into the same space.

For a while I _almost_ respected the Washington Times, because it understood the assignment: a moderately right wing counterpoint to the (allegedly) left leaning Post. It kept getting weirder as the Moonie influence intensified, but no one cared. When they stopped trying to compete in the print space, it just spiraled off into the conservaspace.

The Examiner, at first, had a goal of occupying the quick-read tabloid commuter market. In print, it competed with the _Express_. (Disclosure: my beloved wife worked for the Examiner when it was still kinda legit. Then it followed the same weird trajectory into the dextrosphere and was never seen again by normal humans.)

The moral of both stories is that for the last 20 years, ad-supported print journalism was just barely sustainable outside a few legacy institutions. As long as the ostensible "left" flank was held by a duopoly (WaPo/NYT), there was no room for a center or enter-left publication. Hence, both the Times and Examiner knew where to go: the loony conservative fringe.

is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link

Cate Blanchett / Tilda Swinton

fetter, Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link

Washington Post headline: Biden Signs Infrastructure Bill

Washington Times headline: Biden Signs Bill Allowing the Eating of Puppies

Washington Express headline: Biden Eats Puppies

is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link

xp Washington Examnier headline: Biden Eats Puppies and Stomps on Kittens

is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link

The Necks
No-Neck Blues Band

(must have been done already?)

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link

!

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link

!!!

John Mayer McCheese (Leee), Sunday, 29 January 2023 07:17 (one year ago) link

Just had some mental problems with Tony Williams and Tony Allen

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 07:23 (one year ago) link

Pennies from Heaven
Heaven Can Wait

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 09:00 (one year ago) link

Harriet Walter
Fiona Shaw

Alba, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link

... Juliet Stevenson

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link

Feel like Juliet Stevenson would be the same casting conversation as the other two (and Kristin Scott Thomas) but I wouldn't actually mistake her for them.

Alba, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 11:11 (one year ago) link

Nia Archives
Sudan Archives

Alba, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 11:11 (one year ago) link

my 30s
my 40s
my 50s

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link

Tommy Tutone
Tommy Tune

clemenza, Friday, 3 February 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link

Opera edition:

Janai Brugger
J’Nai Bridges

Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:04 (one year ago) link

The Addams Family
The Munsters

Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 February 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link

Medes
Persians

... though I was right to apparently.

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link

Return to Forever
Weather Report

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 10 February 2023 13:30 (one year ago) link

Ariadne
Arachne

peace, man, Friday, 10 February 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link

20 years ago
30 years ago

MarkoP, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link

The Necks
The Nails

MarkoP, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link

Trey Songz
Tory Lanez

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 10 February 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link

+ Tre Cool

Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 February 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link

Trey Lorenz tho

i saw mommy kissing twink henry kissinger (breastcrawl), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link

Deerhunter
Deer Tick
Deerhoof

Liz D. (Eliza D.), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link

20 years ago
30 years ago

― MarkoP, Friday, February 10, 2023 11:05 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg this

Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 February 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link

Yes, ^this

The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 February 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link

Deerhunter
Deer Tick
Deerhoof

Deerfrance

The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link

Tom Hiddleston
Michael Fassbender

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link

Nicole Scherzinger
Iliza Shlesinger

peace, man, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link

Because of the proximity of Close Encounters and E.T., I get Melinda Dillon and Dee Wallace a little bit confused.

clemenza, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link

Azimuth - 1970s British jazz trio
Azymuth - 1970s Brazilian jazz trio

fetter, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link

Wow Fetter that's a real TIL for me, especially since the first Azymuth LP was called Azimüth.

Tim, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link

Nicole Scherzinger
Iliza Shlesinger

+ Nicole Dollanganger

(FWIW I don't have any trouble keeping the Nicoles apart but I've never heard of Iliza.)

Shartreuse (Leee), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link

Iliza Schlesinger is a comic with a completely gonzo style and flawless delivery. Her wit is very sharp, and often devilishly clever.

Her tragic flaw is that she has a narrow topical range. I am slightly sad that she uses so much of her considerable talent to rehash the overdone heteronormative "men and women are different, amirite?" type of material.

In a just world, her laserlike mind and OTT satire would help us unpack issues that aren't limited to the overtrodden ground of "wtf is up with dating?"

I don't have a beef with Nicole Scherzinger, she seems harmless and occasionally charming. My son loves "The Masked Singer" inordinately. Her genial presence is among the least troubling things about it.

serif don't like it (rock the typeface) (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link

Kasi Lemmons
Kiese Laymon
Kiersey Clemons

jaymc, Thursday, 16 February 2023 04:17 (one year ago) link

Jesse Plemons

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 16 February 2023 06:41 (one year ago) link

Tommy Tutone
Tommy Tune

peace, man, Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link

Even now, still confuse Todd Field and Tim Blake Nelson.

made a mint from mmm (Eazy), Thursday, 16 February 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link

Bob Kulick
Bruce Kulick

One brother played with Kiss, one with Meat Loaf, don't ask me which

end-times league extra (Matt #2), Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link

Martha & the Muffins
The Motels

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link

Camper Van Beethoven
Dead Milkmen

nickn, Monday, 20 February 2023 06:03 (one year ago) link

^these last three posts all otm

after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2023 12:26 (one year ago) link

Raquel Welch
Raoul Walsh

clemenza, Monday, 20 February 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link

Tom Hiddleston
Tom Holland

henry s, Monday, 20 February 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link

Barbara Mason
Barbara Lewis

henry s, Monday, 20 February 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link

lol, so otm

budo jeru, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link

Tom Holland
Tom Hollander

Madchen, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 07:56 (one year ago) link

There should be a Tom Hollandest

Alba, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 08:56 (one year ago) link

Kent State
Kenyon

budo jeru, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link

PSA
PDA
PTA
PITA

Alba, Thursday, 23 February 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link

Public Teacher Service Display

budo jeru, Thursday, 23 February 2023 23:55 (one year ago) link

Peter Bart
Peter Biskind

clemenza, Saturday, 25 February 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link

Rod Serling
Richard Matheson

into the crypt of ray reardon (Matt #2), Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link

CBT
CBT

Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 25 February 2023 12:07 (one year ago) link

The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 07:28 (one year ago) link

Florence & The Machine
Marina & The Diamonds

Devo
Men Without Hats

Siegbran, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link

Devo are the ones with hats...I saw them on the same bill!

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link

lol my Devo tribute band will now be called Men With Hats

nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link

not to be confused with my Replacements tribute band, Men With Ties

nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 13:05 (one year ago) link

Earl Brutus
Art Brut

Alba, Friday, 3 March 2023 09:44 (one year ago) link

ditto

Mark G, Friday, 3 March 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link

The US Army Corps of Engineers
One Man Army Corps

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link

The Song of the Volga Boatmen
Chopin's funeral march

MarkoP, Monday, 6 March 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link

Camp Nou
Bernabeu

Madchen, Monday, 6 March 2023 09:05 (one year ago) link

Camp Nou
Bernabeu

Madchen, Monday, 6 March 2023 09:05 (one year ago) link

Gary Usher, co-writer of Beach Boys songs with Brian Wilson in 1962
Tony Asher, co-writer of Beach Boys songs with Brian Wilson in 1966

Alba, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link

Bibio
Bullion

MarkoP, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link

Eric Porter
Eric Portman

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link

Candice Bergen
Meredith Baxter Birney

I've gone around for years thinking that Alex P. Keaton's mom had somehow been tied into the history of the Manson Family.

peace, man, Thursday, 9 March 2023 13:09 (one year ago) link

Marchmont
Morningside
Merchiston

this set is totally lame but of course I bought it (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 March 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link

Colter Wall
Morgan Wallen

budo jeru, Monday, 13 March 2023 05:34 (one year ago) link

Janeane Garofalo
Jimmy Garoppolo

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 13 March 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link

Kenneth More
Kenneth Connor

probably some more Kenneths too, one of those names innit

No Hackett Required (Matt #2), Monday, 13 March 2023 22:29 (one year ago) link

"Old Time Rock and Roll"
"Rock and Roll Never Forgets"

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 March 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link

'still rock and roll to me'

mookieproof, Monday, 13 March 2023 22:52 (one year ago) link

SVB
GBV

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 13 March 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link

SWV
TLC

ian, Monday, 13 March 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link

SRV

mookieproof, Monday, 13 March 2023 23:55 (one year ago) link

Kenneth Lonergan and Lodge Kerrigan

― buzza, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:13 PM (eleven years ago)

still mixed up after all these years

buzza, Sunday, 19 March 2023 05:09 (one year ago) link

Around and Around
Reelin’ and Rockin’

It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 March 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link

Lounge Lizards & Be Bop Deluxe

BrianB, Monday, 27 March 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link

elizabeth jane howard
pamela hansford johnson

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 09:16 (one year ago) link

Kenneth More
Kenneth Connor

probably some more Kenneths too, one of those names innit

with me this has always been kenneth connor/kenneth cope

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 09:19 (one year ago) link

Border Collie
Australian Shepherd
Miniature American Shepherd (MAS)

Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 April 2023 12:30 (one year ago) link

Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Gaitskill

jaymc, Saturday, 1 April 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link

Anthony Trollope
Joanna Trollope

Madchen, Saturday, 1 April 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link

Procol Harum
Spooky Tooth

inky pinky voulez-vous (Matt #2), Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link

Nick Kroll
Jake Johnson

Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link

Kyu Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto (RIP)

nickn, Monday, 3 April 2023 04:20 (one year ago) link

i could fill an entire thread just with japanese names that i mix up

budo jeru, Monday, 3 April 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link

Steed Malbranque
Steve Marlet

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 April 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link

Nina Nastasia
Stina Nordenstam

The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 6 April 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link

The former's second appearance in this thread.

If I mention Nina Persson, will that add to your mix up Deflatormouse?

brain (krakow), Friday, 7 April 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link

Bianca Jagger (jaymc) wrote this on thread Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up! on board I Love Everything on Apr 16, 2009

Robert Patrick/Jason Patric

Yup. And add Robert's brother Richard Patrick to the mix.

peace, man, Saturday, 8 April 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link

i'm getting into Stina Nordenstam and don't think i will mix them up again xp

The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 9 April 2023 04:01 (one year ago) link

Never having heard a note of either:

Alternative TV
Television Personalities

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 9 April 2023 04:16 (one year ago) link

oh, you gotta get the first tv personalities album.

The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 9 April 2023 04:51 (one year ago) link

Yehudi Menhuin
Jascha Heifetz

"The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 10 April 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link

sorghum
sumac

budo jeru, Monday, 10 April 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link

Peter Sutcliffe
Stuart Sutcliffe

and

Stuart Sutcliffe
Pete Best

Paul Ponzi, Monday, 10 April 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link

Pete is innocent!

Alba, Monday, 10 April 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link

Seems an apposite moment to post Pete Best's solo album again

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/beatles/images/6/6b/Best%2C_of_the_Beatles.jpg

hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Monday, 10 April 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link

Pedro the Lion
Chavez

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 15 April 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link

& Gomez

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 15 April 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link

Jacques Peretti
Jonah Peretti

and as highlighted by Contrapoints this week

Posey Parker
Parker Posey

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 22 April 2023 10:46 (one year ago) link

Mark Stewart (rip)
Mark Robinson (long may he live)

the banshees of ed sheeran (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 22 April 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link

There's also Mark Stewart (American multi-instrumentalist with goofy facial hair who is a beloved longtime sideman to beloved singer-songwriter Paul Simon)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Stewart_(American_musician)

Not to be confused with David Lindley (rip) (American multi-instrumentalist with goofy facial hair who was a beloved longtime sideman to beloved singer-songwriter Jackson Browne)

when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 22 April 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link

Oh! I know "Mark, the guitarist from Bang On A Can" personally but didn't know he was also a "Mark Stewart"

the banshees of ed sheeran (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 22 April 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link

Ronald Harwood
Ronald Hayman
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Frayling

(I might have done this one before)

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link

Dusty Springfield
Buffalo Springfield

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link

Delta 5
Basement 5

fetter, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link

But not Maroon 5?

brain (krakow), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link

Nah, they're more like Jurassic 5

Alba, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link

Three Doors Down

Third Eye Blind

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link

Cunard
QAnon

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link

Medicaid
Medicare

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link

Kim Kimberly, there was a time not long ago when the federal body that oversees those programs went through a branding exercise. I was marginally involved in this in my capacity as a PR consultant to HHS and HCFA.

Unfortunately they decided to call it CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which infuriatingly does not align with the abbreviation at all).

They did not listen to my impassioned argument for calling it MAMA (Medicare and Medicaid Administration).

Honestly I am still a little bitter about this. It's been 20+ years. I waffle between wishing that my clients would take my advice (because I am cute and occasionally come up with a clever idea), and realizing that no one should take my advice ever (because I am a deeply flawed person and sometimes I stake my career and my reputation on pursuing a stupid pun).

when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link

I've worked in Medicaid for maybe 12 years now and although i get Medicare is federal for olds and Medicaid is state for low income, I still don't understand it. Some claims Medicare pays a portion of and Medicaid pays a portion and then there is third party insurance (which makes no sense because you can't get Medicaid over 65 - or whatever it is now - and visa versa) and it's just like FFS universal healthcare, please.

But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link

Medicaid also for certain disability categories, which is just one small drop in the vast bucket of how unnecessarily complex and arcane our health care "system" is

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link

A sign that I've been pretty out of the loop when it comes to "popular" music:

Until today, I've been mixing up Jack Harlow with Morgan Wallen.

MarkoP, Monday, 1 May 2023 02:44 (one year ago) link

Belisarius
Bellerophon

anatol_merklich, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link

Jimmy McGriff
Jack McDuff

brimstead, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:03 (one year ago) link

Ok Jack wears the captain’s hat. Got it.

brimstead, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link

Those two must have been mentioned before. I'd add Champion Jack Dupree for good measure.

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link

Cambyses I/II (Persian emperors)
Cyaxares I/II (Median kings)

Alyattes (Lydian king)
Astyages (Median king)

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 May 2023 08:02 (one year ago) link

stevie ray vaughan
stevie van zandt

mark s, Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link

Wait until you hear about Ronnie, Donny and Johnny Van Zant

hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link

Johnny Van Zant
Jimmie Vaughan

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 4 May 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link

Anker
Belkin

I think I've been merrily buying products from each for years thinking they were the same brand

Alba, Friday, 5 May 2023 08:56 (one year ago) link

cuir, French for "leather"
cuivre, French for "copper"

budo jeru, Friday, 5 May 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link

^otm

Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link

Anker
Belkin

tbf they're probably made in the same Chinese factories

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 5 May 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link

Louis Aragon
Andre Breton

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 May 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link

i'm getting into Stina Nordenstam and don't think i will mix them up again xp

― The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse)

update: i'm still getting those two mixed up

No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link

nam phrik
nước chấm

budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link

Love and Rockets
Cowboy Junkies

why? no idea

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 18 May 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link

Chuck Israels
Israel Crosby

budo jeru, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link

Pigbag
Rip Rig + Panic

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link

Gaz Coombes
Cass McCombs

Alba, Friday, 19 May 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link

Wasn't sure if it was Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, or Chris Pine who had starred as "Oz" in American Pie, but it turned out to be Chris Klein.

peace, man, Sunday, 21 May 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link

Peace, man, your Chris conglomeration (Chrispalooza? Chrisbundance? Chrisgestion?) Put me in mind of the Dermot Mulroney/Dylan McDermott nexus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqSn5Cnw74

she works hard for the monkey (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 May 2023 02:06 (one year ago) link

Jean Redpath
Jean Ritchie
Jeannie Robertson
Jeanie C Riley

ian, Monday, 22 May 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link

Let's not forget their male cousins

John C Riley
Jean Ralphio Saperstein

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 22 May 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link

frederick wiseman
william klein

― budo jeru, Monday, August 17, 2020 6:11 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

add william friedkin to this

budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link

all are alive, william friedkin the youngest at 87

budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link

James Dillon
James MacMillan

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 13:20 (one year ago) link

frederick wiseman
william klein

― budo jeru, Monday, August 17, 2020 6:11 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

add william friedkin to this

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 10:19 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

all are alive, william friedkin the youngest at 87

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 10:19 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

William Klein died last year, one way to tell them apart.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 25 May 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link

finally got them straightened out, but back when --

Denis Villeneuve
Olivier Assayas

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 25 May 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link

xp oops

budo jeru, Friday, 26 May 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still dead

budo jeru, Friday, 26 May 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link

Mary Kay Place
Mary Beth Hurt

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 27 May 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link

Long thread to search, so maybe this has been mentioned before: George Maharis (Route 66, just died) and George Chakiris (West Side Story).

clemenza, Sunday, 28 May 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link

^Was just thinking the exact same thing

Cathy Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 May 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link

I literally mixed them up when I read the post in the obituary thread.

clemenza, Sunday, 28 May 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link

Might've posted this one before, but:

Karen Allen
Karen Black

jaymc, Sunday, 28 May 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link

Karen Allen
Brooke Adams

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 28 May 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link

Karen Allen, Brooke Adams, and Margot Kidder were once so similar looking that they joked about making a movie together

Josefa, Sunday, 28 May 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link

Lock thread!

Cathy Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 May 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link

I feel like we have discussed the Margot Kidder / Karen Allen / Debra Winger before

Landfill Collins (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 28 May 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link

karen allen best

mookieproof, Sunday, 28 May 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link

Irwin Winkler
Henry Winkler

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 May 2023 06:17 (one year ago) link

Carroll Baker
Sue Lyon

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link

Graham Parker
Graham Bond

calzino, Thursday, 1 June 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link

I could never keep Graham Parker and Graham Parsons apart until the No Depression era, when the later's reputation totally eclipsed the Pazz & Jop fav.

Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link

Harry Chapin
Harry Nilsson

(Not really, but I did talk about the one not long ago when I meant the other)

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link

Carroll Baker
Sue Lyon

^otm. Difficult to believe it wasn’t posted already

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link

Harry Chapin
Harry Nilsson

(Not really, but I did talk about the one not long ago when I meant the other)

This is exactly the kind of thing my other, much-maligned thread is for.

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link

xp -- it may have been but I wasn't going to open the whole thread to find out.

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 1 June 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link

Royal Blood
Surfer Blood
Weyes Blood

like the vengaboys with music degrees (Matt #2), Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link

my other, much-maligned thread

Which one?

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link

Future Edition, for when we're all addle-brained.

Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

nickn, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link

xp -- it may have been but I wasn't going to open the whole thread to find out.

Okay, I just checked and you were in fact the first. Good one!

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link

stevie ray vaughan
stevie van zandt

― mark s, Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:21 (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

We went to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on Tuesday and I've only just realised that I've been mixing up these two when talking about it pre- and post-gig for the last few weeks when a friend incredulously replied to my retelling of events that he didn't know Stevie Ray Vaughan was in the E Street Band. Bah.

brain (krakow), Friday, 2 June 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GwbhKN-jUE

budo jeru, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link

Lambeth and Lewisham. I live in Southwark, which is in between them.

Madchen, Sunday, 4 June 2023 07:28 (one year ago) link

Andy Weatherall
Paul Oakenfold

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 June 2023 09:26 (one year ago) link

Pigbag
Rip Rig + Panic

― Hideous Lump, Friday, May 19, 2023 12:42 AM (two weeks ago)

especially with added Runrig

anatol_merklich, Monday, 5 June 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link

A ton (1016 kg)
A tonne (1000 kg)

just the sound of four guys smelting in a room (Matt #2), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link

Swervedriver
Skr3wdriver

As in momentary thoughts like, "why is this ilxor posting about neo-nazi music?"

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link

hopefully this association doesn't keep anyone from exploring Swervedriver's awesomeness

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link

Pat Buchanan
Pat Robertson

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 June 2023 12:32 (one year ago) link

Protomartyr
Propaghandi

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 8 June 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link

The Parallax View
Three Days on the Condor

niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Thursday, 8 June 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link

The Parallax View
The Ipcress File

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 June 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link

Kansas
Nebraska

budo jeru, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link

I have this theory that The Beatles sing the word "nonpareil" with a weird accent in their version of "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" but I stand kind of alone with this theory. Maybe someone else even presented it to me long ago, but they are not around to comment.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, December 23, 2022 8:09 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao, you can count me as a convert!

budo jeru, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link

Vindicated at last!

Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 June 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link

What's a word the rhymes with "girl"?

"Non-pearl"?

What?

You know, it means one-of-a-kind!

budo jeru, Friday, 16 June 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link

Ha!

Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 June 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link

Davóne Tines

Devonté Hynes

Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 16 June 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link

The Pentagon Papers
The Panama Papers

And Wiki tells me we also have:
Pumpkin Papers (1948)
Paradise Papers (2017)
Pandora Papers (2021)

And that's just the P's

darts macabre (Matt #2), Saturday, 17 June 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link

Pumpkin Papers and Pentagon Papers especially--Nixon every which way.

clemenza, Saturday, 17 June 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link

Paramore
Pomplamoose

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link

I've seen The Devil Wears Prada but I cannot tell you which British Emily is in it, so:

Emily Blunt
Emily Mortimer

Cashews Everything Around Me (Leee), Sunday, 18 June 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall

Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved

budo jeru, Sunday, 18 June 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link

ossobuco
saltimbocca

anatol_merklich, Friday, 23 June 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link

Bill Laswell
Rick Rubin

darts macabre (Matt #2), Friday, 23 June 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link

Public Image Ltd (PIL)
Big Audio Dynamite (BAD)

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 24 June 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link

Ode to Billie Joe
Me and Bobby McGee

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link

bill graham
peter grant

not so much confused as i have never until today really bothered to keep them distinct (today when i discovered that bill graham was born wulf wolodia grajonca)

mark s, Monday, 26 June 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link

Derek Raymond
Derek Marlowe

Ward Fowler, Monday, 26 June 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link

bill graham
peter grant

not so much confused as i have never until today really bothered to keep them distinct (today when i discovered that bill graham was born wulf wolodia grajonca)

I created another blighted thread for exactly that purpose: Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

Johnny Bit Rot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 June 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link

Camille Paglia
Esther Perel

budo jeru, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link

Jeremy Irons
Julian Sands (RIP)

shite hawk down (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link

Yan Cook
Yan Can Cook

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link

Alan Arkin
Alan Alda

Alba, Friday, 30 June 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link

Yes due to names, but if you look at their physical presences I have a bigger problem distinguishing Arkin from Frank Langella.

Langella was great in Dave, and honestly I kinda conflated him with Arkin for a while

pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 June 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link

Beef
The Bear

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link

The Menu
The Bear

budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link

American prog bands Starcastle and Fireballet.

nickn, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link

Anthony Clare
Anthony Storr

Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 10:57 (one year ago) link

501(c)(3) edition:

L'Arche
La Leche League

Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link

The Alarm
The Fixx
The Call

/asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link

Esquivel
Esquerita

Body Odour Ultra Low Emission Zone (Tom D.), Monday, 17 July 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link

^ this blew my mind

budo jeru, Monday, 17 July 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link

Sam the Sham
Doug Sahm

Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Monday, 17 July 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link

^classic!

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 July 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link

John Cena
Michael Cera

Madchen, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 06:53 (one year ago) link

Skip Easterling
Snooks Eaglin

budo jeru, Sunday, 23 July 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link

Anthony Sharp, aka the Minister of the Interior from A Clockwork Orange
Norman Lumsden, aka J. R. Hartley from the 1980s Yellow Pages ad

Thought they were the same person until I looked it up.

The Fifth Roommate (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 July 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link

Billy Bragg
Billy Barty

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 24 July 2023 00:54 (one year ago) link

What else do I have to sarty

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 24 July 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link

i've always been impressed with a dwarf who could sing for his supper and breakfast as well

mookieproof, Monday, 24 July 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link

"I'll Be There" by Jackson 5
"Got to Be There" by Michael Jackson

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 24 July 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link

Game Theory
The Go-Betweens
Beat Happening

MarkoP, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link

Martin Hannett / Martin Rushent. Still, after all these years.

fetter, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link

They’re Homosapiens two!

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 July 2023 07:03 (one year ago) link

Feels so unnatural,

budo jeru, Friday, 28 July 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link

Senators Tim Kaine and Tim Scott

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 28 July 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link

The Head and the Heart
She & Him

Some people call me Maurice Chevalier (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 July 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link

Rich Hill, well-traveled MLB pitcher
"Buck Hill," Replacements song

clemenza, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link

Sarah Champion, journalist
Sarah Champion, Labour MP

Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link

Champions both

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 4 August 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link

Oxycontin
Oxytocin

Madchen, Friday, 4 August 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link

Gavin Lambert
Gavin Millar

Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Friday, 4 August 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link

Oxycontin
Oxytocin

God, yes

Alba, Friday, 4 August 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link

All the damn time.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link

OMG

Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link

Gavin Lambert
Gavin Millar

Good one as well

Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link

Okay I confess this one is giving me some trouble rn:

Paul Young

Paul Young

Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 August 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link

And now I am getting confusion from Burt Young as Paulie in Rocky.

Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 August 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link

Lets not forget John Paul Young too.

Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 August 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 5 August 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link

I have not yet begun to break the levee

Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 August 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link

Roger Bacon
Francis Bacon

Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link

they've been noted before here but they both arrived across my timeline so lalo schifrin and labi siffre

mark s, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link

https://www.rock94.com/news/trending/metallica-is-launching-an-official-podcast/

Kurt Hammett

StanM, Monday, 7 August 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link

ike reilly
rilo kiley

budo jeru, Monday, 7 August 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link

I think I had Rilo Kiley and Riley Keough upthread.

Alba, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link

Caroline Rose
Caroline Polachek

Alba, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link

diligent
vigilant

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link

Ruth Wilson
Ruth Jones

Madchen, Monday, 28 August 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link

Simple Minds
Simply Red

peace, man, Monday, 28 August 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link

Donald Trump

Yeast infection

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 August 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link

Jon Hopkins
James Holden

To the point where I was listening to a Hopkins interview for a hour and thinking he had also done the last couple Holden albums.

50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link

I mix Jon Hopkins up with Daniel Avery

brimstead, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 01:21 (one year ago) link

Oliver Stone's Salvador
Roger Spottiswoode's Under Fire

clemenza, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 03:03 (one year ago) link

Graham Bonnet
Graham Bonney

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 September 2023 11:24 (one year ago) link

Reed Hoffman
Reed Hastings

jaymc, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link

*Reid* Hoffman, rather

jaymc, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link

Misred those as Redd for a second.

The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link

Yanni
Kenny G

budo jeru, Sunday, 3 September 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link

Tinashe
Tinariwen

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 3 September 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link

Burning Man
Fyre Festival

Grandpont Genie, Monday, 4 September 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link

Gillian Keegan
Gillian McKeith

Madchen, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link

Williamn Atherton
Brad Dourif
if my watching Day Of The Locust this week is anything to go by.

Stevo, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link

Tetley's the tea people
Tetley's the brewers

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 10:26 (one year ago) link

That's somehow reminded me that when I was a kid I thought DC Thomson and DC Comics were related.

Alba, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 10:30 (one year ago) link

Did Superman ever make a guest appearance in the Beano? Missed opportunity if not

Alba, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 10:31 (one year ago) link

Oor Wullie stood in for Robin in the occasional Batman story.

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link

Clinic
Metric
(haven't spent any significant time listening to either)

50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link

Clinic
The Clientele

for me

I spent too long trying to write sensible SF (Matt #2), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link

Zac Gallen
Zack Wheeler
(but not Zack Greinke)

clemenza, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link

And not Zack Wheat, either.

clemenza, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link

how about zac(h|k) britton? i can't remember if he's an h or a k but i am pretty sure he changed it from one to the other at some point

Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link

Whom I'll never mix up with the others because he's the guy Buck Showalter didn't use in the 2016 WC game...

clemenza, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link

Clinic
The Clientele


Couple of months ago, a coworker told me he was excited to see the Clientele. I said "Oh yeah, they're ... sort of like Belle & Sebastian?" He said "Um, not really." Later I realized I was thinking of Camera Obscura.

jaymc, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link

Also not much like the Clientele tbh!

Madchen, Thursday, 7 September 2023 06:39 (one year ago) link

Who would it be fair to say the Clientele are like?

Alba, Thursday, 7 September 2023 06:42 (one year ago) link

to me they sound like Acetone or maybe Luna

budo jeru, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link

I feel like the older I get, the more I post on this thread. Anyway,

Alison Goldfrapp
Roísín Murphy

Madchen, Thursday, 7 September 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link

Madchen at 1:39 7 Sep 23

Also not much like the Clientele tbh!


no i mean i got the clientele mixed up with camera obscura. i have heard camera obscure but not the clientele.

jaymc, Thursday, 7 September 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link

Isn't there an act called Client (Sarah Blackwood's post-Dubstar gig)?

The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (Leee), Friday, 8 September 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link

Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Fallon

I could study their work in seclusion for a year and still wouldn't remember which one is which.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 September 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link

I think I know what Jimmy Fallon looks like at least but, other than that...

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 8 September 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link

Having checked it out, Jimmy Fallon is the one I really want to slap and Jimmy Kimmel is the one who always looks like he wants to cry. this info will leave my head in the next 10 minutes.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 September 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link

Lou Adler
Lou Reizner

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 September 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link

Sarah Jane
Sarah Lucas

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 September 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link

... that should be Sarah Kane!

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link

AEDs
IEDs

don't ask me to help if you have a heart attack, is what i'm saying

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link

And then there's IUDs. It's a minefield.

Alba, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link

And the aedes mosquito, the current scourge of Southern California.

nickn, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link

Rob Ford
Doug Ford

MarkoP, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link

I've only seen the grave of one of them

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link

Spin Doctors
Blues Traveler

budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link

somehow i thought i'd done this before

CCR rhythm section: Stu Cook, Doug Clifford

AC/DC rhtyhm section: Cliff Williams, Phil Rudd

budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link

Hit 1933 musical film 42nd Street has actor Powell and actress Keeler.
Hit 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers has actor Keel and actress Powell.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link

Also – my defence is that these periodicals haven't traditionally turned up where I live – the shared initials have made me conflate

The New Republic
National Review

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link

doxxing
catfishing

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:55 (one year ago) link

Shawn Fain
Sinn Féin

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link

Right wondered if anybody had commented on that. Keep hearing the name. Is a bit like hearing about a labour leader called Libdem or Labour Party or Tory Twat. Though obviously not with the same political connotations. Not sure you hear the party name any where near as much on the radio

Stevo, Saturday, 16 September 2023 11:20 (one year ago) link

Naomi Klein has written a book called Doppleganger about people getting her confused with Naomi Wolf and the rather tragic consequences of this

Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Saturday, 16 September 2023 12:12 (one year ago) link

She was on something I listened to yesterday talking about it.& how the other Naomi had become a Gannon fangirl who appeared on his show etc etc

Stevo, Saturday, 16 September 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link

Yan Cook
Yan Can Cook

I didn't realize till today that Stephen Yan (host of Wok With Yan) and Michael Yan (host of Yan Can Cook) were two different cooks.

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link

HK action star Tony Leung Ka-fai, aka "Big Tony"
HK action star Tony Leung Chiu-wai, aka "Little Tony"

the arkansas ruggerclub (Matt #2), Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link

I think clientele and belle and sebastian was a fair comparison, at least, if you limit it to their first few years of existence. B&S morphed into something much different over time.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link

national review/republic trips me up every time. I could not tell you which is which without looking it up even now.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 23:28 (one year ago) link

just use this handy mnemonic

The New RepubLippmann
The National RevieWilliam F. Buckley

budo jeru, Sunday, 17 September 2023 06:10 (one year ago) link

Russell Brand
Stewart Brand

I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Monday, 18 September 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link

After four years, I finally got around to watching Joker. This whole time I had mixed up Todd Phillips with Todd Solondz.

peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link

I apparently can't tell the difference between A Flock of Seagulls and Grateful Dead. I was at a bar and the song on the sound system I thought was "I Ran" turned out to be "Touch of Grey". And I wasn't the only one to be momentarily confused!

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link

Daniel Jones
Mac Jones

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link

you needn't bother

mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2023 03:42 (one year ago) link

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Sarah Mary Chadwick

mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2023 04:41 (one year ago) link

Jim Breuer
Jim Caviezel

peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link

I was at a bar and the song on the sound system I thought was "I Ran" turned out to be "Touch of Grey".

They both use the same IV - V chord changes!

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 September 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link

Bohemian Grove and Dimes Square.

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 September 2023 08:46 (one year ago) link

William Gass
Wallace Stegner
William Styron

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Saturday, 23 September 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link

Shackleton
Capleton

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 23 September 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link

Leee, you appear to be omitting William Gaddis. William Gass / William Gaddis conflation was already an in-joke in 1992 (when Gass playfully poked fun at the conflation).

I can see why; they were operating in similar literary spaces.

Not true of Stegner (a Western voice) or Styron (a Southern voice, almost as Southern as Faulkner).

To be honest I spent so much time with these guys... I kinda wish I had been doing something else. Like, almost anything else.

Pointless anecdote: On my last day of college I happened to get into an an elevator with my favorite professor. I told him about what I was interested in doing for graduate school. He said, "That's a very crowded field. You should be doing Anglo-Saxon."

Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link

As a westerner, I find Stegner to be one of the west's most authentic voices.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link

Jimbeaux, do you have Cormac McCarthy ist opinions?

Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link

I loved Suttree (which is of course much more Southern than Western), liked All the Pretty Horses, and couldn't make it through The Crossing. That is the extent of my encounters with McCarthy. My brother (who gave me the Border Trilogy) adores him.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link

Suttree stays in my mind almost constantly, but yeah you are right. It's a Southern novel.

Personally I was born in Missouri and live in Virginia so can really only understand Midwestern, Southern, and Eastern vibes. The American West is a mystery to me so Stegner is not really on my radar screen.

Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link

When I read Angle of Repose, I immediately recognized the narrator as my people.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link

I left out Gaddis because he's the only one I've read!

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Saturday, 23 September 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link

Honestly, up until this season at least, I got Corey Seagar and Trea Turner mixed up all the time. And Seager is indeed Turner's #1 on Baseball Reference's Similarity Score (913.4), although it doesn't quite work in reverse.

clemenza, Saturday, 23 September 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link

Jim Breuer
Jim Caviezel


This one made me laugh. Imagining the star of “How High” playing Jesus or that Underground Railroad guy

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 23 September 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link

Castile and Catalan.

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Sunday, 24 September 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link

William Styron

― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee)

william styron
william saroyan

basically all those cis white male writers kind of blend together

also:

bph
bpd

very different things. i just hate TLAs on general principle.

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 September 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link

There are a lot of famous directors named Todd. I don't know any Todds irl, not one.

(the poster formerly known as Twitter) (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link

Henry Mancini
Lalo Schifrin

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link

There are a lot of famous directors named Todd. I don't know any Todds irl, not one.

― (the poster formerly known as Twitter) (flamboyant goon tie included)

a todd embezzled money from me once

he was a libertarian

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 September 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link

The invisible hand

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 25 September 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link

Big Head Todd and the Invisible Hand

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 01:58 (one year ago) link

Simon Pegg
John Simm

Maybe throw in a younger Michael Sheen.

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link

Deleuze and Guattari
Critter and Guitari

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link

Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link

You forgot to add
Two Wheels Good

Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link

Tame Impala
Gazelle Twin

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link

Otto Preminger
John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer

Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link

. . . and Sam Peckinpah

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link

I don't confuse him, he sounds like a Loony-Tunes character

Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:15 (one year ago) link

Sam Peckinpah
Sam Fuller

fucking beanie hat music (Matt #2), Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link

Emily Watson
Emily Mortimer
Samantha Morton

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 2 October 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link

W. Somerset Maugham
Evelyn Waugh

budo jeru, Monday, 2 October 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link

Emily Watson
Emily Mortimer
Samantha Morton


Yes, with added Emily Blunt

Madchen, Monday, 2 October 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link

if you're bringing up Emily Watson, you might as well throw Emma Watson in there, too.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 2 October 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link

ronnie wood
roy wood

didn't realize they were separate people until today tbh

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link

wizzard > stones

budo jeru, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link

When I first moved to London 30 yrs ago I sat next to Ronnie Wood drinking in a pub in Hammersmith. So many people that I told about it said "How did you recognise him without his make up?"

fetter, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link

Thomas Pynchon / Kurt Vonnegut

fetter, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link

Paramore/Pomplamoose

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 5 October 2023 02:59 (one year ago) link

Just learned that Maxo Kream and Maxo aren't the same person.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 6 October 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link

Kate Berlant/Kathryn Hahn

francisF, Saturday, 7 October 2023 00:19 (one year ago) link

My Thomas Pynchon one is with Don DeLillo. I just looked up which one is older and they are the same age so that is not helpful

Josefa, Saturday, 7 October 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link

Heard two of my students talking past each other for a good three minutes today because one of them was trying to make a joke about fentanyl and the other one kept hearing it as "fennel." I was helping another student at the time or I would have shut down the fentanyl joke right away, but then I got sort of fascinated seeing how long it would take them to figure it out.

Lily Dale, Saturday, 7 October 2023 01:09 (one year ago) link

Throw some fernet in there any you've got quite the cocktail.

brain (krakow), Saturday, 7 October 2023 10:15 (one year ago) link

Roy Head
Roy Money

... always and forever.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 October 2023 11:21 (one year ago) link

... that's Roy Loney of course.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 October 2023 11:22 (one year ago) link

OTL

mark s, Saturday, 7 October 2023 11:25 (one year ago) link

Josefa, the William Gass / William Gaddis / William T. Vollmer nexus is also an area of treachery.

Don't get me started on John Barth / Donald Barthelme / Richard Barthelmess.

John Gardner, John Berger, and Thomas Berger is a perennial for me

The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 7 October 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link

German Romanticism edition:

Novalis
Jean-Paul

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 7 October 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link

Novalis/ Novels

glumdalclitch, Saturday, 7 October 2023 13:20 (one year ago) link

That's actually not just a cheap joke: when I was younger I thought the Novalis was a genre pioneered by the Germans like The Bildungsroman, like a novella or something

glumdalclitch, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link

The Monochrome Set
The American Analog Set

budo jeru, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link

Hannah Diamond
Hannah Peel

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 22:55 (one year ago) link

Hannah Banana

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link

At least one of these is actually Miley Cyrus

The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link

Scalise
Scalia

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link

Sinise

The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link

Stamford
Stanford

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link

Frankie Paul
Tristan Palma

budo jeru, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link

"My Thomas Pynchon one is with Don DeLillo. I just looked up which one is older and they are the same age so that is not helpful"

DeLillo has written about 5x as many books

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link

"Don't get me started on John Barth / Donald Barthelme / Richard Barthelmess"

let me introduce you to Fredrick Barthelme

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link

Oh yeah, forgot about him temporarily

The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link

L'Rain
L'Orange

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 13 October 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link

Tom Ford
Thom Browne

(Until today I didn’t realize they were different people tbh)

Preach The Crapen (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link

I put this in the wrong thread:

Every breath you take
Right here waiting

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link

George Santos
George Soros

That baby business was REALLY confusing.

trishyb, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link

Gavin Friday and Fergal Sharkey

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 20 October 2023 23:31 (one year ago) link

This thread is too large to search...I'm guessing Alan Hamel (Suzanne Somers' husband) / Alan Thicke (pop-star father) have been mentioned. Both Canadian. Hamel came up in conversation tonight.

clemenza, Saturday, 21 October 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link

Syllabub
Posset
Negus

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link

Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Barbara Ehrenreich
or at least I have to think which is which n don't think I'm biased

Stevo, Thursday, 26 October 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link

tanya tucker
tonya harding

Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 October 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link

Matthew Perry
Brendan Fraser

OTOH, I never mistook either one for Brendan Perry

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 29 October 2023 06:55 (one year ago) link

Jim Weider
John Weider

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 09:58 (one year ago) link

ken gold
barry blue

blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link

^ in their capacity as disco producers at least. one of them did heatwave, one of them did the real thing

blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link

Blue Weaver
Mick Weaver

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 22:41 (one year ago) link

xpost and Barry Blue did "Dancing on a Saturday Night" so hey.

Mark G, Thursday, 9 November 2023 10:22 (one year ago) link

Ari Shapiro
Ira Shapiro

Like, literally, these dudes need to get together and not just for the sake of crossword puzzle fans

don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 November 2023 01:25 (one year ago) link

Mike Moore (1982-1995, 161-176, 4.39 ERA)
Mike Morgan (1978-2002, 141-186, 4.23 ERA)

Both could have been used on today's Immaculate Grid for the A's/Mariners. (Why is this guy hiding that? Don't ask.)

clemenza, Friday, 10 November 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link

The goose
The gander

I don't want to catastrophise but there's a catastrophe looming (Matt #2), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link

Israel, Palestine & the Levant rolling events: Oct 23 on
Israel/Palestine post 10/7 - follow-on events/thoughts as relate to other countries

budo jeru, Saturday, 11 November 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link

Shelley Long
Sally Field

nashwan, Saturday, 11 November 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link

Oh that's not unlike the Karen Allen / Margot Kidder axis.

don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 11 November 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link

Arthur Russell
Arthur Baker

Not always--not till today. I just finished a documentary on Arthur Russell, and it wasn't until three-quarters of the way through that I clued into the fact that I wasn't watching a documentary on Arthur Baker.

clemenza, Monday, 13 November 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link

you could say, there was some...confusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_L_-CKg6pw

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 November 2023 02:57 (one year ago) link

J.G. Bennett
J.G. Ballard

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link

Speaking of J.G. Ballard always puts me in mind of Crash (1996) vs. Crash (2004).

Then you get Robert Ballard, who is associated with the Titanic. Which kinda famously... crashed.

don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 November 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link

smells like teen spirit (SLTS)
scream thy last scream (STLS)

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link

Alison Krauss
Alexis Krauss

Gang Gang Dance
Dead Can Dance

Deflatormouse, Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:13 (one year ago) link

Bardo Pond
Bark Psychosis

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 17 November 2023 00:46 (one year ago) link

Passaic (New Jersey)
Pessac (Bordeaux)

budo jeru, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link

Passaic Avenue, Fairfield, NJ
The 500 other Passaic Avenues in NJ

(At a previous job, my half hour drive included 3 different Passaic Avenues)

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link

Dave Courtney
David Courtney

(I've only just discovered these are different people, Dave Courtney would have been 14 when he started writing songs with Leo Sayer otherwise.)

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link

Mark Bell
Mark Fell
Mark Pritchard

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 25 November 2023 13:12 (one year ago) link

Annabel Croft
Annabel Giles (RIP)

Like, I know who they both are and what they're famous for, but get their names confused. And I did therefore think for ages that Midge Ure was married to the former-tennis-player one.

ailsa, Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link

Yeah, I get them mixed up too.

Madchen, Saturday, 25 November 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link

Thirded.

How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 November 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link

Jonathan Pryce
David Warner

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Monday, 27 November 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link

^nice!

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link

But what about David Thewlis?

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link

David Thewlis
Fred Schneider

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link

Zach Bryan
Luke Bryan
Luke Combs

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link

Never heard of Thewlis, but yeah, I'd probably have mixed him up with Pryce and Warner (RIP BTW). xps

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link

I always think of him as Knox Harrington, the video artist.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link

lol

budo jeru, Monday, 27 November 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link

David Thewlis
David Threlfall

How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link

David Thewlis wasn't on our radar screen, then he was ubiquitous for approximately seventeen minutes, and then just as promptly vanished from popular culture. (Speaking as a USian here. One assumes his career arc is perceived differently in the UK.)

Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link

Anyway Martin Donovan looks like Jeff Bridges

Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link

Don Preston
Billy Preston

Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link

that would make cool keyboard duel

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link

I knew they were different people who did different things, but I realized that I conflated Kirsty MacColl and Natasha Richardson as 2nd generation celebrities married to entertainment personalities who died young while on vacation.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link

Halfway, I respect your posts but that there is an extremely ambiguous sentence

Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link

I knew who sang and who acted, but I had to make a mental effort to sort out who was married to whom and who died under what circumstances.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link

Their widowed husbands are still alive as far as I know if that's what you mean.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link

Which entertainment personality was Kirsty MacColl married to?

Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link

Steve Lilywhite

Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link

... the entertainment personality.

Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link

Well, he works in entertainment.

Although, apparently divorced at the time of her death.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link

Father of her two children.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link

I'd have said Steve Lillywhite was married to Kirsty MacColl not the other way round.

Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link

searching gmail for my train tickets:

avavi. nope. arriva. nope. avanti!

organ doner (ledge), Monday, 11 December 2023 13:35 (one year ago) link

Dan Aykroyd
Chevy Chase

They smoosh together as one hideous composite person in my mind, it disturbs me greatly

sophie glanced up, looking concerned (Matt #2), Monday, 11 December 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link

Lol

Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 December 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link

Allan Clarke
Alan Price

brimstead, Monday, 11 December 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link

my strange distant cousin at the family xmas party over the weekend was trying to tell me that graham nash sings lead on "long cool woman." i tried to politely correct him but it was no use.

budo jeru, Monday, 11 December 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link

Not sure if this belongs here or the Never thread, but:

Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase, MD

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 00:02 (one year ago) link

Pancho Villa
Sancho Panza

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link

OTM

Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link

Painting edition:
Thomas Cole
Thomas Moran

Titian
Tintoretto

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link

Paul Cezanne
Paul Gaugin

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link

Neal Hefti
Nelson Riddle

Bonus confusion: The Riddler

sophie glanced up, looking concerned (Matt #2), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link

Alex Garland
Jonathan Glazer

that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link

Kate Middleton
Amy Poehler

spider alert: 🕷️🕷️ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link

xp: definitely

peace, man, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link

Giacinto Scelsi
Salvatore Sciarrino

Twitter personality Eric Garland
Literally everyone else with the last name Garland

Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link

wait, merrick garland and eric garland, they're twins aren't they

TIME FOR SOME GAME THEORY

mark s, Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link

Judy Garland

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link

Eric Garland at Carnegie Hall

Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link

Mannheim Steamroller
Manhattan Transfer

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link

Tzipi Hotovely
Tzipi Livni

Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link

Tzipi the Pinhead

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link

Good description of the former tbf

Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link

Barre Phillips
Barry Guy

Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Friday, 15 December 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link

Black metal
Death metal

Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 16 December 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link

one came from Norway and the other came from Florida, is sort of how i think of it

budo jeru, Saturday, 16 December 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link

British pianist edition:

Stephen Hough
Stephen Osborne

Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link

Kamasi Washington
Shabaka Hutchings

lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 05:13 (one year ago) link

Scott Garrelts
Craig Lefferts

(baseball esoterica)

clemenza, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 05:49 (one year ago) link

Albert Finney
Brian Cox

(Not anymore, but at some point in their careers they looked enough alike that I did confuse them.)

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link

Lee Mack
Lee Hurst

Alba, Friday, 22 December 2023 09:18 (eleven months ago) link

Jodie Whittaker
Jodie Turner-Smith
Sophie Turner

(I've managed to separate out Jodie Comer.)

jaymc, Friday, 29 December 2023 21:34 (eleven months ago) link

El Niño
La Niña

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 29 December 2023 22:37 (eleven months ago) link

Dutch
Danish

brain (krakow), Saturday, 30 December 2023 11:09 (eleven months ago) link

The Yellow Kid (Royal Trux song)
The Yellow Dart (cool nickname)

Deflatormouse, Saturday, 30 December 2023 21:13 (eleven months ago) link

The Birthday Party
The Wedding Present

― peace, man, Monday, December 14, 2020 8:47 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

so much this

budo jeru, Sunday, 31 December 2023 02:01 (eleven months ago) link

it's the Weather Prophets who i always mix up with the Weddoes.

Deflatormouse, Sunday, 31 December 2023 05:44 (eleven months ago) link

Matlock
MacGyver

budo jeru, Sunday, 31 December 2023 20:20 (eleven months ago) link

art deco
art nouveau

organ doner (ledge), Sunday, 31 December 2023 20:57 (eleven months ago) link

Glynis Johns / Glyn Johns

.. is for me in the same category as Ira Glass / Ari Shapiro

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:56 (eleven months ago) link

John repeatedly calls Glyn Johns "Glynis"in the Get Back sessions.

Alba, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:09 (eleven months ago) link

Starsky
Hutch

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:10 (eleven months ago) link

Bern
Basel

Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 6 January 2024 00:19 (eleven months ago) link

Lucerne
Lausanne

Alba, Saturday, 6 January 2024 13:26 (eleven months ago) link

Kay Burley
Kate Garraway

it's taken Derek Draper dying to make me realise they're two different people.

fetter, Saturday, 6 January 2024 17:02 (eleven months ago) link

Gesaffelstein
Guaifenesin

MarkoP, Monday, 8 January 2024 02:03 (eleven months ago) link

Barry
Ted Lasso

he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 8 January 2024 02:08 (eleven months ago) link

A venerable mix up of considerable vintage:

Steve Hackett
Steve Hillage

Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Monday, 8 January 2024 09:36 (eleven months ago) link

Athabasca
Atahualpa
Aconcagua

Captain Sisko and Ebert (Leee), Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:23 (eleven months ago) link

plus Ayahuasca

and Tegucigalpa

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:27 (eleven months ago) link

still reeling at this tbh

A venerable mix up of considerable vintage:

Steve Hackett
Steve Hillage

― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Monday, 8 January 2024 09:36 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

mark s, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:31 (eleven months ago) link

xp plus Ayacucho

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:52 (eleven months ago) link

xpost

Don't forget Steve Howe! Actually Howe and Hackett were in a band together, the execrable GTR. Maybe they should have added Hillage? Couldn't have made it any worse.

where did the times go (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:15 (eleven months ago) link

Centigrade
Celsius

where did the times go (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:17 (eleven months ago) link

F = C x 9/5 + 32

C = 5/9 x (F - 32)

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:30 (eleven months ago) link

Lol the temperature mix up for me is always 32F or 36F (for the "freezing" point of water).

Captain Sisko and Ebert (Leee), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:34 (eleven months ago) link

Nathan For You
Joe Pera Talks To You

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 15 January 2024 06:30 (eleven months ago) link

xp I discovered yesterday after much viewing of american youtube airfryer recipes, that between 250 and 400f you can basically halve it for c, if +/- 5c is acceptable.

organ doner (ledge), Monday, 15 January 2024 10:53 (eleven months ago) link

Assume you guys all know at which temperature they are both equal.

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 11:33 (eleven months ago) link

Just had to look up Centigrade to refresh my memory of what it was.

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 11:35 (eleven months ago) link

xp of course! solve x = x * 9/5 + 32 for x.

organ doner (ledge), Monday, 15 January 2024 11:45 (eleven months ago) link

At point I decided to memorize the F for 10, 20 and 30 C because there was enough of a pattern and it was only three numbers anyway. Let me see if I recall. Ah, yes.

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 12:56 (eleven months ago) link

When I lived in a country that used the metric system, I got used very quickly to every measure but temperature.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 15 January 2024 16:32 (eleven months ago) link

I still tend to think in Fahrenheit for hot temperatures and Celsius for cold ones.

Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 15 January 2024 16:38 (eleven months ago) link

The whole thing confuses me so much I just want the scale to be Very Hot / Hot / Quite Hot / Warm / Warm-ish etc

where did the times go (Matt #2), Monday, 15 January 2024 16:39 (eleven months ago) link

Carl Maria von Weber
Christoph Willibald Gluck

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 January 2024 16:49 (eleven months ago) link

(xp) brass monkeys, Baltic etc.

Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 15 January 2024 16:54 (eleven months ago) link

I still remember being on an Air France flight when the pilot told us what the temperature would be upon arrival and some Frenchman in the cabin repeated it in some kind of sarcastic ironic tone, “douze dégrés!” I puzzled and still puzzle over what was amusing to him about that: the way the pilot said it, that particular temperature, the metric system itself?

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 16:59 (eleven months ago) link

Maybe it’s some kind of perfect wine cellar temperature?

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 17:00 (eleven months ago) link

I still tend to think in Fahrenheit for hot temperatures and Celsius for cold ones

This makes sense to me because when I'm sweating my ass off I want to see a high number like 90 whereas if I'm freezing I want to see a low number like zero.

Josefa, Monday, 15 January 2024 17:03 (eleven months ago) link

xp He was French, man.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 15 January 2024 17:05 (eleven months ago) link

Ha!

Josefa otm.

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 17:20 (eleven months ago) link

The Conformist
The Informant

budo jeru, Monday, 15 January 2024 22:09 (eleven months ago) link

The Conformist
The Conversation

Alba, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 11:51 (eleven months ago) link

I don't get either of those two mixed up but they make it hard to remember the name of the Jancsó film The Confrontation.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 01:17 (eleven months ago) link

Immaculate Grid has revealed many pairs or groups of baseball players who have morphed into one player for me over the years. Example:

Reggie Cleveland
Rick Wise
Mike Torrez

clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:53 (eleven months ago) link

Peter & Christopher Hitchens, another pair of siblings I'd always somehow collated into one vile gasbag of humanity

fourth world problems (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 January 2024 03:07 (eleven months ago) link

nigel stock
nigel bruce

mark s, Saturday, 20 January 2024 13:48 (eleven months ago) link

Anton Fig
Anton Fier

visiting, Saturday, 20 January 2024 21:04 (eleven months ago) link

Surely someone posted that already, maybe me, but I guess it bears reposting.

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2024 21:13 (eleven months ago) link

The Leftovers
The Holdovers

Alba, Sunday, 21 January 2024 09:34 (eleven months ago) link

John Maynard Keynes
Maynard James Keenan

I have just realized that each of these gentleman's respective names acts as a serious block whenever I am trying to conjure up the other.

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:39 (ten months ago) link

The Afghan Whigs
Arab Strap

George Clanton
Clarence Clarity

MarkoP, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:25 (ten months ago) link

Normal People
Ordinary People

Madchen, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:00 (ten months ago) link

(The books)

Madchen, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:01 (ten months ago) link

Lionel Trilling
Calvin Trillin

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 16:16 (ten months ago) link

Classic

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 16:29 (ten months ago) link

Until 5 minutes ago I thought Karen Allen and Margot Kidder were the same actress

And Brooke Adams. Add Karen Carpenter for more samesiness

flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:57 (ten months ago) link

Debra Winger, same vibe

Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 January 2024 19:03 (ten months ago) link

James Fox
Edward Fox

Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 January 2024 13:21 (ten months ago) link

Supertramp
Styx

peace, man, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:01 (ten months ago) link

For me it's Styx and Foreigner.

Add one more pairing - Rush and Yes - and you have a quadruvium of AOR that seemed interesting at the time but has aged badly. Add REO Speedwagon and Chicago, it's a sextet of boring.

I hate Supertramp but I am not in danger of confusing them with anyone else. I firmly believe that tenor voices and falsetto were in vogue in the 70s because they worked on the radio and could cut through chunky guitars (cf. Robert Plant and his many spiritual descendents).

I am also working on a companion theory that lower male voices coming into the culture (cf. Crash Test Dummies and the late-career resurgence of Johnny Cash) were partly a result of better audio technology.

Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:46 (ten months ago) link

Those are interesting theories!

peace, man, Monday, 29 January 2024 13:12 (ten months ago) link

I do not have the energy for an exhaustive study but one could look at male vocal ranges vs. chart positions there may well be a trend.

Bon Scott, Steve Perry-era Journey. Look at Paul Simon solo vs. Simon & Garfunkel. I believe better studio tech (and the parallel development of better home sound systems at home) may have allowed Simon to function effectively alone, and he needed Art less and less.

This is probably not the thread for it though

Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2024 13:43 (ten months ago) link

Cabaret
Chicago
Casino

...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2024 15:45 (ten months ago) link

Add Company to that list, for me. I don’t get them mixed up but I have to do a secondary ID-check subroutine, always

in an aeroplane under the sea (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:02 (ten months ago) link

Add REO Speedwagon and Chicago, it's a sextet of boring.

Largely agree, but early Chicago still holds up, and "Roll with the Changes" is a banger.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:21 (ten months ago) link

EBM
EDM
EDF
EDL

fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:44 (ten months ago) link

Unbelievable!

Alba, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:15 (ten months ago) link

Boulder
Bozeman

budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:08 (ten months ago) link

Emmanuelle Béart
Béatrice Dalle

Daevid Allen
David Peel

glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 16:15 (ten months ago) link

Robbie McIntosh
Robbie McIntosh

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:22 (ten months ago) link

IQ
It Bites

brimstead, Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:04 (ten months ago) link

Secret Samadhi
Razorblade Suitcase

a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:47 (ten months ago) link

Cordell Jackson
Wanda Jackson

I saw Cordell play live in the 90s, but I keep getting their first names mixed up.

that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Saturday, 3 February 2024 17:52 (ten months ago) link

Allan Clarke
Alan Price

Was just thing this exact thing. But never confuse either of them with
Alan Clarke

Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:41 (ten months ago) link

Cabaret
Chicago
Casino

Cabaret
Carousel

nashwan, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:43 (ten months ago) link

Bathos
Pathos

I hate them worse than leopards (Matt #2), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 17:01 (ten months ago) link

Two Door Cinema Club
Bombay Bicycle Club

Mark G, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 11:30 (ten months ago) link

Not that I get them mixed up with each other but for the longest time I thought the latter was the former's nepo baby:

Ridley Scott
Daisy Ridley

And I always think that Ellen Ripley was named after Ridley Scott.

Selune Gomez (Leee), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:54 (ten months ago) link

Daisy Ridley is the great-niece of Arnold Ridley! Not sure that makes her a nepo baby though.

the most powerful man in cornish politics (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 February 2024 03:19 (ten months ago) link

nadine gordimer
doris lessing

mookieproof, Thursday, 8 February 2024 05:06 (ten months ago) link

Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre
Makanda Ken McIntyre

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:13 (ten months ago) link

Jawbreaker
Jawbox

the most powerful man in cornish politics (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 February 2024 15:40 (ten months ago) link

Fredric Jameson
Frederick Wiseman

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2024 16:41 (ten months ago) link

Charlie Moore
Charlie O'Brien

Careers overlapped by three years ('85-87), both played for the Brewers. I had to choose one of them for Immaculate Grid today--Brewers/Jays--went with O'Brien and got it right. Charlie Moore would have worked too!

clemenza, Friday, 9 February 2024 18:25 (ten months ago) link

Hex Induction Hour
Perverted by Language

Mark G, Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:45 (ten months ago) link

Michael Apted
Michael Aspel

cozen itt (wins), Monday, 12 February 2024 08:49 (ten months ago) link

Coldcut
Cold Crush (Brothers)

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 12 February 2024 22:02 (ten months ago) link

Brad Meltzer (comic book writer)
Toby Meltzer (urologist specializing in genital reconstruction surgery)

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 13:07 (ten months ago) link

Dakota Johnson
Dakota Fanning

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 13:13 (ten months ago) link

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk
Funkmaster Flex

Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:00 (ten months ago) link

Höfner
Hohner

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 16 February 2024 14:51 (ten months ago) link

Lonnie Holley
Lonnie Donegan

budo jeru, Friday, 16 February 2024 16:25 (ten months ago) link

Doyle Lonnegan

mookieproof, Friday, 16 February 2024 23:45 (ten months ago) link

approbation
opprobrium

budo jeru, Sunday, 18 February 2024 23:02 (ten months ago) link

stanley unwin
stanley baxter

stanley baxter
stanley matthews

but not stanley unwin and stanley matthews

ledge, Friday, 23 February 2024 11:49 (nine months ago) link

Not Stanley Baker?

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:20 (nine months ago) link

i dunno, let me google to find out who he was

Stanley Baker
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Stanley_Baker
stanley baker from en.wikipedia.org
Baker was a heavy cigarette and cigar smoker

ledge, Friday, 23 February 2024 12:23 (nine months ago) link

Only the best British film actor of his generation, mate.

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 13:44 (nine months ago) link

This Stanley Baxter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Lk7qivXbw

The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:56 (nine months ago) link

Llewyn Davis
Llewelyn Moss

clemenza, Friday, 23 February 2024 18:01 (nine months ago) link

(xp) ... also that's Una McLean behind the barra, sorry, barrow.

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:06 (nine months ago) link

(sorry, Stanley Baxter is on two threads at the moment and Una McLean is mentioned on the other one)

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:07 (nine months ago) link

Doris McLatchie long gone it seems.

The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:47 (nine months ago) link

Clare RIchards is still with us though, it seems.

The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:50 (nine months ago) link

Mirage
Tango in the Night

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:05 (nine months ago) link

Alfred Burke
Alfred Lynch

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2024 16:01 (nine months ago) link

Larry Coryell
Larry Carlton

from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:56 (nine months ago) link

Larry Coryell
Bill Frisell

man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:58 (nine months ago) link

Bill Frisell
Bill Laswell

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 22:44 (nine months ago) link

Mike Gapes
Michael Gove

felicity, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 22:56 (nine months ago) link

LOL what a pair.

man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:02 (nine months ago) link

Mike Gapes
Goatse

glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:05 (nine months ago) link

Benmont Tench (US keyboardist)
Bobby Tench (UK guitarist)

alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:05 (nine months ago) link

Slavoj Zizek
Werner Herzog

Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 9 March 2024 15:05 (nine months ago) link

https://infiniteconversation.com/

bendy, Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:41 (nine months ago) link

Thymus
Thyroid

anatol_merklich, Sunday, 10 March 2024 16:43 (nine months ago) link

The End of Violence
A History of Violence

peace, man, Monday, 11 March 2024 11:01 (nine months ago) link

The End of History completes the triangle

Alba, Monday, 11 March 2024 13:56 (nine months ago) link

Nancy Mace
Nancy Grace

alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 08:57 (nine months ago) link

What else do I have to says

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 09:29 (nine months ago) link

Duncan Browne
Duncan Mackay

Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2024 11:59 (nine months ago) link

Orville Peck
Orville Sash(hhhhhhhhh)

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 March 2024 07:17 (nine months ago) link

Janaček opera edition:

Katya Kabanova
Jenůfa

from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 March 2024 15:39 (nine months ago) link

They're both amazing of course.

glumdalclitch, Monday, 18 March 2024 15:55 (nine months ago) link

Yep

from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 March 2024 17:38 (nine months ago) link

Gordon Lightfoot / Peter Skellern

fetter, Monday, 18 March 2024 18:04 (nine months ago) link

!!?!??!

Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:28 (nine months ago) link

John Miles / Peter Skellern
Leo Sayer / Gilbert O'Sullivan

shave and a haircut, two brits (Matt #2), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:31 (nine months ago) link

Oh, yes to Leo/Gilbert, definitely.

Madchen, Monday, 18 March 2024 18:43 (nine months ago) link

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
New Riders of the Purple Sage

UKXEPCTED TWITS (WmC), Monday, 18 March 2024 19:03 (nine months ago) link

OTM

Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Monday, 18 March 2024 19:06 (nine months ago) link

Kenny Rankin
Michael Franks

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:10 (nine months ago) link

Robertson Davies
Robert Davieson

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 12:07 (nine months ago) link

Gotye
Hozier

alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:08 (nine months ago) link

George Shearing
George Russell

The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:33 (nine months ago) link

Wyatt Langford (big-deal baseball prospect)
Wyatt Langmore (cousin of Ruth, trailer-park intellectual from the Ozarks)

clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 18:06 (nine months ago) link

Tim Buckley
Tim Hardin
Tim Moore
Tim Rose
Tom Rush
Tom Rapp

Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 18:10 (nine months ago) link

(xpost) I should have put them in the future edition--Wyatt Langford hasn't been around long enough for me to mix him up with anybody.

clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:41 (nine months ago) link

Wow, some people seem to view that other thread as a sort of radioactive wasteland like in The Chrysalids or something, so I’m glad you even consider posting on it

Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:54 (eight months ago) link

lol

budo jeru, Friday, 22 March 2024 02:11 (eight months ago) link

Stefanie Powers of Hart to Hart
Stepfanie Kramer of Hunter

with Stephanie Zimbalist of Remington Steele looming to muddy the waters further

anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:57 (eight months ago) link

Oman
Onan
Imam
Iman

alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 March 2024 23:59 (eight months ago) link

Vetiver
Verbena

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:06 (eight months ago) link

The Squid and the Whale
The Snail and the Whale

Madchen, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 11:42 (eight months ago) link

Barbara Murray
Barbara Shelley

Hazel Court
Barbara Shelley

Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 11:48 (eight months ago) link

Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft

Astarion Is Born (Leee), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:12 (eight months ago) link

Jean Baudrillard
Roland Barthes

I may have said this before. No matter how hard I try, I _cannot_ get these two straight. Every time I reference one of the two, which is _constantly_, I have to look up which is which.

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:09 (eight months ago) link

Barbara Murray
Barbara Shelley

this plus barbara steele for me (all three of whom make appearances in different danger man episodes)

will forever be confused by erics porter & portman

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:30 (eight months ago) link

Frankie Rose
Frankie Cosmos

jaymc, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:38 (eight months ago) link

Martin Landau
John Cassavetes

squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:14 (eight months ago) link

Probably been mentioned before: Martina McBride and Mindy McCready. I wanted something to play in the car on the drive home yesterday, so I ducked into a thrift shop and bought two Martina McBride CDs for a dollar each. Was happy to see that Christgau thought they were as numbingly generic as I did.

clemenza, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:17 (eight months ago) link

Neil Jordan/Neil Breen

soref, Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:16 (eight months ago) link

Kristen Schaal
Jenny Slate

meatster of puppets (peace, man), Friday, 29 March 2024 18:09 (eight months ago) link

Neil Breen/Neal Brennan

henry s, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:12 (eight months ago) link

yes.

budo jeru, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:49 (eight months ago) link

Alan Holdsworth
Adrian Belew

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:01 (eight months ago) link

Topper Headon / Tippi Hedren (only when I read the names)

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:18 (eight months ago) link

Whenever people mention Jonah Goldberg I picture Jonah Hill, which is often hilarious

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:26 (eight months ago) link

lol I've been thinking about Doughy Pantload lately for whatever reason (which is a nickname that I guess could apply to either of them?).

Andrew Marvell Cinematic Universe (Leee), Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:48 (eight months ago) link

NWOBHM
NSBM

hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 7 April 2024 01:55 (eight months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/xDF2vPr.jpeg

hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 7 April 2024 01:58 (eight months ago) link

Keith Levene
Keith LeBlanc

now I get to be sad twice

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 02:13 (eight months ago) link

Vic Chesnutt
Cody Chesnutt

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:54 (eight months ago) link

Oh damn, and I just now realized that I've been confusing

Cody Chesnutt
Joey Chesnut

peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:56 (eight months ago) link

Sorry, that's

Cody Chesnutt
Joey Chestnut

peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:56 (eight months ago) link

restaurant critic Robert Sietsema
restaurant critic Tom Sietsema

(they're distant cousins apparently)

Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:40 (eight months ago) link

I recognize the first name from the Village Voice book, where he wrote for a decade.

clemenza, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:43 (eight months ago) link

can’t really explain it, but

fred armison
hank azaria

mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 06:22 (eight months ago) link

Ed Kuepper
Eric Kupper

henry s, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:49 (eight months ago) link

whenever i see Ed Kuepper, for a split second i think, was he in the Fugs?? then i realize the name is making me conflate Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg

budo jeru, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 04:38 (eight months ago) link

Spyro Gyra
Manteca (the Canadian Spyro Gyra)

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:05 (eight months ago) link

Conny Plank
Conny Veit

the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:19 (eight months ago) link

otm

budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:45 (eight months ago) link

J.B. Smoove
Smoove B

c u (crüt), Friday, 19 April 2024 05:59 (eight months ago) link

Magma and Magna Carta, but just for today. I bought a Magna Carta record (Seasons), thinking I was buying a Magma record, because I wanted to know why they made Christgau laugh out loud when he was painting his record shelves.

clemenza, Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:57 (eight months ago) link

When the keyboards guy joined my old band ages ago he thought we were saying we were into Magnum, although we were actually saying Magma. I'm amazed he agreed to try out.

the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 April 2024 19:07 (eight months ago) link

Boredoms
Boris

peace, man, Monday, 22 April 2024 10:25 (seven months ago) link

why they made Christgau laugh out loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ0_JQ7FMA8

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 22 April 2024 12:24 (seven months ago) link

imagine dragons
21 pilots
chainsmokers

brimstead, Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:32 (seven months ago) link

Mel B
Melanie C

budo jeru, Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:37 (seven months ago) link

Chet Atkins
Carl Perkins

peace, man, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:24 (seven months ago) link

O RLY?

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:11 (seven months ago) link

Tea for the Tillerman
Teaser and the Firecat

budo jeru, Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:50 (seven months ago) link

Thamesford/Tavistock/Thorndale
Exeter/Elginfield/Embro/
Arva/Avonton/Avonbank
Kintor/Kirkton/Kinkora

You could get lost out here.

clemenza, Thursday, 2 May 2024 16:17 (seven months ago) link

Electric Prunes
Virgin Prunes

emil.y, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:28 (seven months ago) link

Tim Wallach
Larry Parrish

For the third or fourth time today, I guessed the wrong guy on Immaculate Grid. For their careers:

Parrish - 256 HR, 992 RBI, .263/.318/.439
Wallach - 260, HR, 1125 RBI, .257/.316/.416

Both were third baseman, both had their best years for the Expos--around '81 or '82, Wallach took over from Parrish. For the purposes of the game, 1) Parrish had a 30-HR season but Wallach didn't (28); 2) Wallach had a 100-RBI season but Parrish didn't.

clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 14:45 (seven months ago) link

And 3) Wallach won a GG but Parrish didn't.

clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 14:47 (seven months ago) link

Talk Talk
The The

Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Friday, 3 May 2024 16:34 (seven months ago) link

No results for Talk The unfortunately

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 May 2024 16:40 (seven months ago) link

I expect this has been mentioned before but:

Jeff Daniels
Jeff Bridges

Costas Mandylorian (Leee), Friday, 3 May 2024 16:44 (seven months ago) link

Talk Talk
Modern Talking

nickn, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:01 (seven months ago) link

Alexander Herzen
Theodor Herzl

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2024 09:14 (seven months ago) link

Killer Mike
Fat Mike

Deflatormouse, Monday, 20 May 2024 02:43 (seven months ago) link

Add Open Mike Eagle to that

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 20 May 2024 22:58 (seven months ago) link

Baby James Harvest
John Barleycorn Must Die

budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:41 (seven months ago) link

oops, that was supposed to be Barclay James Harvest

budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:41 (seven months ago) link

Mike Nichols
Mike Hodges

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:57 (seven months ago) link

Mike Hodges
Mike Figgis

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:01 (seven months ago) link

The Trouble with Harry
The Truth About Charlie

Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:29 (seven months ago) link

Paisiello (opera composer)
Ponchielli (opera composer)

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 06:58 (six months ago) link

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936 film for which Frank Capra won a Best Director Oscar)
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939 film for which Robert Donat won a Best Actor Oscar)

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 07:00 (six months ago) link

Manfred Mann
Herman’s Hermits

subpost master (wins), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 07:07 (six months ago) link

xp there's also Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

jaymc, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 13:35 (six months ago) link

Also by Capra, and also from 1939! That may actually have made the problem worse until now that I'm consciously aware of it; a kind of feeling that the other film than the one I'm thinking of has somehow shapeshifted or something. Thanks for pinning that one down.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:48 (six months ago) link

Control-V
Command-V

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 May 2024 00:20 (six months ago) link

Larry Rivers
Sam Rivers

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2024 06:15 (six months ago) link

Mike Nichols
Mike Newell

Alba, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:30 (six months ago) link

orrery
astrolabe

Grandpont Genie, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:51 (six months ago) link

Avicii
Gotye

Grandpont Genie, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:51 (six months ago) link

Ivor Biggun
Jilted John

PJ Proby
PP Arnold
PF Sloane

3 singers active in the 60s with little else in common. I’m only now sorting it out.

dan selzer, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:10 (six months ago) link

Jerry Dammers
Jeffrey Dahmer

Madchen, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:13 (six months ago) link

PP Arnold
Gloria Jones

Bertold Brak (bendy), Friday, 31 May 2024 17:28 (six months ago) link

Oh yeah, ^this

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 May 2024 23:02 (six months ago) link

lol madchen

mookieproof, Saturday, 1 June 2024 01:05 (six months ago) link

Maybe if John had more in common with Ivor, he wouldn't have been Jilted

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 1 June 2024 01:26 (six months ago) link

CNN: S/D [Started by Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett) in February 2004, last updated three minutes ago by scott seward on I Love Everything] 1 new answer
CAN....S and D? [Started by Poops Mcgee in April 2002, last updated eight minutes ago by Mark G on I Love Music] 7 new answers

Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 June 2024 13:38 (six months ago) link

Caitlin Rose
Caroline Rose

I only heard a few songs by each over the years and had them mentally filed as the same person, until they both released albums around the same time

Iain Mew (if), Sunday, 2 June 2024 17:22 (six months ago) link

A Simple Favor
A Simple Man
A Serious Man
A Single Man

Alba, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:31 (six months ago) link

Ha I meant A Simple Plan. There's no A Simple Man

Alba, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:33 (six months ago) link

I stand corrected

https://i.imgur.com/R3PzuI1.jpeg

Alba, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:39 (six months ago) link

There's Hal Hartley's Simple Men--probably what you had in mind?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUSTpL8RHo

clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 21:43 (six months ago) link

Royal Blue
Navy Blue

Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2024 14:35 (six months ago) link

Zager
Evans

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 June 2024 02:43 (six months ago) link

A Simple Man, A Simple Plan, A Simple Canal, A Simple Panama

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 6 June 2024 04:33 (six months ago) link

the third bardo
bardo pond

Killer Mike
Fat Mike

― Deflatormouse

those are easy for me, to the best of my knowledge killer mike isn't vocal about having a "sissy fetish"

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2024 13:53 (six months ago) link

Paul Revere and the Raiders, Gary US Bonds, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 6 June 2024 15:51 (six months ago) link

Dumont
Dupont

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2024 16:54 (six months ago) link

Mission of Burma
Gang of Four

for some reason

Deflatormouse, Thursday, 6 June 2024 17:12 (six months ago) link

Whenever I see the TEMS thread I think of the Iraqi rapper that chuck norris interviewed on fox back in the war on terror days

brimstead, Friday, 7 June 2024 20:54 (six months ago) link

Guillermo Vilas
Vitas Gerulaitis

(Just finished Players, the 1979 version of Challengers--meandered more, just as silly, better tennis.)

clemenza, Saturday, 8 June 2024 01:58 (six months ago) link

Twice as many career titles and twice the career earnings for Vilas, but 6-6 head-to-head.

https://www.atptour.com/en/players/atp-head-2-head/guillermo-vilas-vs-vitas-gerulaitis/v028/g008

clemenza, Saturday, 8 June 2024 02:01 (six months ago) link

The Walkmen
Liars

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 8 June 2024 08:43 (six months ago) link

The Kray Brothers
The Quay Brothers

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:19 (six months ago) link

The Temper Trap
Tender Trap

I was convinced that one of these bands was an Amelia Fletcher project and the other was known for a disastrous concert (some kind of collapse?) that claimed the lives of multiple audience members. I just wasn't sure which was which. but it turns out the disaster I had in mind was actually a suicide at a Swell Season show, and my brane had muddled up the details. pretty perplexing!

hogarth brooks (unregistered), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:04 (six months ago) link

Baudelaire
Rimbaud

Scott Baculum (Leee), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:09 (six months ago) link

Claude Thornhill
Clifford Thornton

budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:21 (six months ago) link

Petsmart
Petco

Gigi Allen (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:31 (six months ago) link

Kylo Ren
Rilo Kiley

Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 09:15 (six months ago) link

Bill Burr
Bill Bailey

Scott Baculum (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 22:16 (six months ago) link

Sufjan Stevens
Devendra Barnhart

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 13 June 2024 01:50 (six months ago) link

Bill Burr
Bill Bailey

― Scott Baculum (Leee)

i confuse both of them with detroit newscaster bill bonds

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 14 June 2024 04:12 (six months ago) link

Kylo Ren
Rilo Kiley

― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin),

seconded but for me also add professional wrestler Kyle O'Reilly and Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh

Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Friday, 14 June 2024 19:56 (six months ago) link

rory gallagher
robin trower

budo jeru, Saturday, 15 June 2024 18:39 (six months ago) link

The movies Le Haine and Le Havre.

dan selzer, Sunday, 16 June 2024 01:19 (six months ago) link

_Kylo Ren
Rilo Kiley

― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin),_


seconded but for me also add professional wrestler Kyle O'Reilly and Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh


Come on guys, it's Riley Keough

Alba, Sunday, 16 June 2024 15:24 (six months ago) link

Not directly mixed up but I only just now realized that Georgia Tennant nee Moffett was not related to Steven Moffat.

Scott Baculum (Leee), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:46 (six months ago) link

No, but her dad was also a Doctor!

Madchen, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 02:23 (six months ago) link

IASW
SAWII

budo jeru, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 16:52 (six months ago) link

rory gallagher
robin trower
robben ford

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 19 June 2024 00:20 (six months ago) link

Clue (1985)
Sleuth (1972)

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 21 June 2024 18:22 (six months ago) link

Sarah Perry
Sarah Waters

Madchen, Saturday, 22 June 2024 12:11 (five months ago) link

Tajikistan
Turkmenistan

prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Saturday, 22 June 2024 12:29 (five months ago) link

Clint Dempsey
Eminem

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 23 June 2024 17:26 (five months ago) link

Rupert Graves
Rupert Everett

prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 03:35 (five months ago) link

Neil Flynn
Nell Gwyn

Decam'ron (Leee), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 03:38 (five months ago) link

Neil Flynn
Nell Gwyn

+Neil Finn

Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 13:26 (five months ago) link

King's X
Dream Theater

(I've never even heard Dream Theater so I don't know why.)

Blood On Santa's Claw (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 June 2024 07:05 (five months ago) link

Oh you're in for a treat

prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Thursday, 27 June 2024 10:12 (five months ago) link

Shelley Berman
Shecky Greene

(Reading Mark Harris's Mike Nichols biography.)

clemenza, Thursday, 27 June 2024 14:02 (five months ago) link

Vatican Shadow
Venetian Snares

papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 30 June 2024 09:33 (five months ago) link

Bloomsbury
Fitzrovia

Blood On Santa's Claw (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 June 2024 10:35 (five months ago) link

Venetian Snares
Hellfish

brimstead, Sunday, 30 June 2024 14:20 (five months ago) link

Russell Harty
Russell Brand

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:30 (five months ago) link

Bob's Stores
Bob's Discount Furniture

Dick Cavett Poo Party (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 July 2024 15:45 (five months ago) link

Dando Shaft
Bardo Pond

fetter, Thursday, 4 July 2024 20:59 (five months ago) link

Evan Dando

nickn, Thursday, 4 July 2024 21:28 (five months ago) link

Jill Dando and hence Barry George, Bobby George and Charlie George.

Blood On Santa's Claw (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 July 2024 21:29 (five months ago) link

Nels Cline
Nils Frahm

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 4 July 2024 23:30 (five months ago) link

Two pairs of mix-up archipelagos, confusion made worse by geographical overlap:

Mascarene Islands (with Mauritius and Réunion)
Macaronesian Islands (Azores + Madeira + Canary Islands + Cape Verde)

Selvagens Islands (also Savage Islands or Salvage Islands, small islands between Madeira and the Canary Islands)
Salvation Islands (Îles du Salut, outside French Guiana and including Devil's Island)

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:52 (five months ago) link

Pino D'Angio
Pino Daniele

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 7 July 2024 09:00 (five months ago) link

Jon Landau (movie guy)
Jon Landau (music guy)

buzza, Sunday, 7 July 2024 09:10 (five months ago) link

Jon Landau (film guy)
John Lasseter
John Landis
Jon Favreau

Alba, Sunday, 7 July 2024 11:26 (five months ago) link

Dream Theater
Dream Syndicate

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Sunday, 7 July 2024 11:28 (five months ago) link

Sunshine (the 2007 Danny Boyle sci-fi film about the sun)
Supernova (the 2000 Walter Hill sci-fi film not about the sun)

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 7 July 2024 12:15 (five months ago) link

The 1978 murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge
The 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi on Blackfriars Bridge

PJ Scurvy (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 July 2024 12:55 (five months ago) link

Julie Payette
Julie Doucet

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 July 2024 21:11 (five months ago) link

John Cameron, composer, arranger, conductor and musician.
Johnny Harris, composer, producer, arranger, conductor, and musical director.

Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 July 2024 22:27 (five months ago) link

Jon Favreau (film guy)
Jon Favreau (podcaster guy)

felicity, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 00:00 (five months ago) link

Touch grass
Touch cloth
Touch wood

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 09:19 (five months ago) link

Until literally yesterday I didn't realise that Deodato (who did a jazz-funk cover of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" in 1973) and Meco (who did a disco cover of the Star Wars theme in 1977) were completely different musicians. From different eras.

It's a shame because some of Deodato's music is legitimately good, but in my mind I just dismissed it as novelty rubbish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUe4SJlMO6c

The name of the man who produced that album? Creed Bane Taylor V.

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 18:13 (five months ago) link

J. Robert Oppenheimer
E. Phillips Oppenheim

I don't actually get them mixed up, but it always takes me a moment to remember which name has the extra syllable.

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 18:19 (five months ago) link

+ Meret Oppenheim

Ella Minnow Picaresque (Leee), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 18:49 (five months ago) link

One surname is a noun, the other is a verb.

Mark G, Thursday, 11 July 2024 10:58 (five months ago) link

One name doesn't allow the defence that one "barely knew 'er"

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 July 2024 13:16 (five months ago) link

Dan Gilroy (Partner of Shelley Duvall, lead singer of Breakfast Club)
Dan Gilroy (Partner of Rene Russo, screenwriter of Nightcrawler, brother of Tony Gilroy, father of Rose Gilroy who wrote Fly Me to the Moon)

I mean, I might not always get them confused, but 24 hours ago I didn't know either of them existed, so the odds aren't good...

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 11 July 2024 21:33 (five months ago) link

Putin
Zelenskyy

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 11 July 2024 21:58 (five months ago) link

xp I only knew the second Dan Gilroy, so I did a double-take when I was looking at Shelley Duvall's Wikipedia page earlier today and saw the name

jaymc, Thursday, 11 July 2024 22:03 (five months ago) link

Putin
Zelenskyy


That really was quite the mix-up.

Madchen, Friday, 12 July 2024 04:05 (five months ago) link

Eh; they're both pugnacious middle-aged men from Eastern Europe. Their names are frequently mentioned together.

Trump and Harris are harder to mistake for one another.

Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 July 2024 11:00 (five months ago) link

David Dastmalchian
Adam Scott

Europe, where they eat flowers (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 12 July 2024 16:43 (five months ago) link

(pertinent to today's Cinematrix)

Enemy of the State (1998 Gene Hackman movie)
Behind Enemy Lines (2001 Gene Hackman movie)

jaymc, Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:28 (five months ago) link

Repeatability
Reproducibility

hooray for harold shipman (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 July 2024 15:18 (five months ago) link

Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Mountain

Élisabeth Vigée Lebron (Leee), Sunday, 14 July 2024 16:49 (five months ago) link

Video artist Bill Viola
Video artist Bill Morrison

hooray for harold shipman (Matt #2), Monday, 15 July 2024 04:00 (five months ago) link

Emma Lazarus
Emma Goldman

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2024 18:31 (five months ago) link

i can't imagine meco in _being there_

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2024 18:34 (five months ago) link

btw the pilot reel of _space battleship yamato_ also uses that version of also sprach zarathustra, it got around

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2024 18:34 (five months ago) link

Jon Bois
Jomboy

Élisabeth Vigée Lebron (Leee), Monday, 15 July 2024 23:52 (five months ago) link

Dominic Grieve
David Gauke

Alba, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 12:10 (five months ago) link

andres
andras
androo

^ all current music producers

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 19:13 (five months ago) link

and all fucking great too i should add

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 19:14 (five months ago) link

Scottie Scheffler
Xander Schauffele

Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 19 July 2024 18:19 (five months ago) link

AJ Daulerio (former Gawker writer)
AJ Delgado (former Trump advisor)

jaymc, Sunday, 21 July 2024 06:01 (five months ago) link

The Gods Must Be Crazy
Oh God!

Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 July 2024 14:01 (four months ago) link

ngl
nagl

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 22 July 2024 14:27 (four months ago) link

I get Cold Comfort Farm mixed up with Coldwater Creek and Cold Stone Creamery, too.

Nineties Oughties thing where being "Cold" was a exurbs country branding tactic.

Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Monday, 22 July 2024 15:55 (four months ago) link

TFG
MTG

This is how the spicy nonsense becomes loose. (doo dah), Monday, 22 July 2024 17:06 (four months ago) link

logarithm
algorithm

budo jeru, Monday, 22 July 2024 21:35 (four months ago) link

Bad Brains
Bad Manners

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 13:37 (four months ago) link

Broadmoor
Broadstairs

Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 July 2024 09:31 (four months ago) link

Jon Favreau (film guy)
Jon Favreau (podcaster guy)

― felicity, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 00:00 (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've just learned that these are two different guys, I just figured the film guy was a political speechwriter and podcaster guy in his side hustle.

i keep thinking Chappell Roan is a library music label

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 July 2024 20:01 (four months ago) link

Texas Is The Reason
American Football

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 16:10 (four months ago) link

Hoodoo Gurus
Hindu Love Gods

MarkoP, Thursday, 1 August 2024 15:45 (four months ago) link

Jim Hall
Joe Pass

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 1 August 2024 22:20 (four months ago) link

Oops just realized I used the future thread for

Mana
Manna
Mammon

(plus gammon along with mammon)

(What does backgammon have to do with ham? One might think that in both cases the root is "game," in two different senses. But gammon and ham come from the French for leg. Game, as in board game, is Germanic.)

Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 August 2024 23:12 (four months ago) link

Ken Henderson - outfielder, 1965-80, 122 HR, .257/.343/.396
Ken McMullen - 1B/3B, 1962-1977, 156 HR, .248/.316/.383

Henderson played for seven teams, McMullen for five, no overlap.

clemenza, Friday, 2 August 2024 13:38 (four months ago) link

Pope Thrower
The Defenestration of Prague

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 2 August 2024 14:10 (four months ago) link

The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Experiment

Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 August 2024 23:36 (four months ago) link

jack white
jack black

i don't really, but i do have to stop and think about it

mookieproof, Sunday, 4 August 2024 00:10 (four months ago) link

Christian Slater
Christian Bale

No idea which is which

who KNEW what was going on in David Tibet's head (Matt #2), Sunday, 4 August 2024 00:42 (four months ago) link

has christan bale ever done a jack nicholson impression

mookieproof, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:17 (four months ago) link

(xposts) In something I wrote about School of Rock, included in a book (corrected in a later edition), I spent a few pages talking about how great Jack White was as Dewey Finn.

clemenza, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:22 (four months ago) link

Feyd-Rautha
Fels-Naptha

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 5 August 2024 22:49 (four months ago) link

Oscar Isaac
Morgan Spector

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Tuesday, 6 August 2024 06:53 (four months ago) link

Tim Kaine
Tim Ryan

MarkoP, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 14:21 (four months ago) link

GRWM
GRRM

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 14:56 (four months ago) link

Ben Shapiro
Josh Shapiro

flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 16:39 (four months ago) link

^ I don’t actually confuse them, just that people say “Shapiro” and I need context before I know to whom they refer

flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 16:40 (four months ago) link

Ben Shapiro
Josh Shapiro
Tokyo Shapiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AiYMRu6KV8

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 17:02 (four months ago) link

Tim Walz
Christoph Waltz

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 17:04 (four months ago) link

Ira Shapiro
Ari Shapiro

A classic OIAGTTMU

cubing the gleam (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 17:33 (four months ago) link

Intrepid Shapiro
Fearless O'Toole

flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 20:17 (four months ago) link

Mark Shapiro
the guy who invented the Edsel

(special Toronto edition)

clemenza, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 20:30 (four months ago) link

Highbrow edition:
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Müller

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 August 2024 03:25 (four months ago) link

Everything But The Girl
Girls Against Boys

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 12 August 2024 03:37 (four months ago) link

Kitaro
Stomu Yamashta
Tomita

Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Monday, 12 August 2024 06:41 (four months ago) link

Otto Klemperer
Bert Kaempfert

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 06:24 (four months ago) link

+ Werner Klemperer

Jedi, I've got your number (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 13:45 (four months ago) link

Amy Schneider
Amy Schumer

i just get Heiner Goebbels mixed up with Alfred "23" Harth

i guess that's not terribly surprising

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 August 2024 22:45 (four months ago) link

Thela
Thuja

(RIP Dean Roberts)

carry on columbine (Matt #2), Thursday, 15 August 2024 23:28 (four months ago) link

Amy Schumer
Amy Sedaris

nickn, Friday, 16 August 2024 02:35 (four months ago) link

Jim Hall
Joe Pass

...especially after their duet record, Pass/Hall

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 August 2024 03:18 (four months ago) link

Amy Schumer
Amy Sedaris


Ooof, Amy Sedaris does NOT deserve that.

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 16 August 2024 04:08 (four months ago) link

It's just the names! (And that they're each a blond comic of roughly the same age).

nickn, Friday, 16 August 2024 07:24 (four months ago) link

Maria Konnikova
Maria Popova

jaymc, Friday, 16 August 2024 12:25 (four months ago) link

Maybe it will help to learn Sedaris is 63 and Schumer is 43

rob, Friday, 16 August 2024 12:52 (four months ago) link

Walt Whitman
Whit Stillman

carry on columbine (Matt #2), Friday, 16 August 2024 17:12 (four months ago) link

Nelson Rockefeller
Norman Rockwell

Élisabeth Vigée Lebron (Leee), Saturday, 17 August 2024 15:05 (four months ago) link

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 August 2024 21:53 (four months ago) link

DB Sweeney
DB Cooper

Joanna Neu!some (Leee), Wednesday, 21 August 2024 22:43 (four months ago) link

Donald Sutherland
Christopher Plummer

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 24 August 2024 00:56 (three months ago) link

Jeff Lynne
Steve Wynn

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:05 (three months ago) link

Sepp van den Berg
Sander Berge

carry on columbine (Matt #2), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:14 (three months ago) link

Arvo Part
Arto Lindsay

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:31 (three months ago) link

I once conflated Jeff Lynne with Dave Stewart

Jedi, I've got your number (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:48 (three months ago) link

Bill Mueller/Rich Aurilia. I did, just today.

clemenza, Saturday, 24 August 2024 17:10 (three months ago) link

Something in the Air –Thunderclap Newman

For What It's Worth – Buffalo Springfield

Alba, Friday, 30 August 2024 07:28 (three months ago) link

Yes!

Madchen, Friday, 30 August 2024 07:40 (three months ago) link

yeah

The Zing from Another URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 August 2024 13:24 (three months ago) link

The Holdovers
The Leftovers

Alba, Saturday, 31 August 2024 08:16 (three months ago) link

Telegram
Signal

Alba, Saturday, 31 August 2024 15:03 (three months ago) link

Xander Berkeley
Zander Schloss

probably because they both acted in Alex Cox films

the deep cut is the firstest (Matt #2), Monday, 2 September 2024 02:35 (three months ago) link

Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Raleigh

Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Thursday, 5 September 2024 14:44 (three months ago) link

Raleigh was a stupid get; Scott, I don't know.

clemenza, Thursday, 5 September 2024 15:43 (three months ago) link

Parker Molloy
Molly Parker

tempted by the food of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 September 2024 00:25 (three months ago) link

Raymond Chandler
Raymond Carver
John Cheever

And because of Chandler's detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett.

Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Saturday, 7 September 2024 17:27 (three months ago) link

Nala Sinephro
Nilufer Yahya

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 8 September 2024 04:04 (three months ago) link

Marie Helvin
Marie Colvin

Madchen, Sunday, 8 September 2024 06:07 (three months ago) link

Heard a radio ad for an Everclear show today...or Everlast. I used to get them confused then, still do, surprised they haven't been mentioned in this thread (maybe too obvious, or maybe they have and I missed it).

clemenza, Sunday, 8 September 2024 20:18 (three months ago) link

Curt Boettcher
Budd Boetticher

clemenza, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 16:44 (three months ago) link

Mel Stride
Pete Stride

Never mind, Mel. Back to The Lurkers, yeah?

Mark G, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 16:50 (three months ago) link

Art Alexakis
Dexter Holland

I guess '90s alt-rock frontmen with X's in their names?

Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 17:23 (three months ago) link

I also have to take a minute to disambiguate Everclear/Everlast.

Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 17:24 (three months ago) link

French double-named pianist edition:

Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Marc-Andre Hamelin

But oddly never:
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link

Gogol
Gorky

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Friday, 20 September 2024 10:21 (three months ago) link

I've read Dead Souls, which seems like a unique classic, and not read any Gorky. My only knowledge of Gorky is from reading about the Soviet Union and the unconfirmed rumours he was poisoned by NKVD agents for his earlier crimes of dissing the fuck out of Lenin and being good pals with Bukharin.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 20 September 2024 10:51 (three months ago) link

Madeline Kahn
Madleen Kane

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 30 September 2024 18:30 (two months ago) link

Arthur Blythe
Arthur Doyle

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Monday, 30 September 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link

Todd Philips
Todd Solondz

Bedrich Smetana's Ma Wife (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 3 October 2024 20:10 (two months ago) link

maldives
malvinas

mark s, Friday, 4 October 2024 09:12 (two months ago) link

Maldives
Mauritius

Even though I work with lots of women from Mauritius.

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Friday, 4 October 2024 09:15 (two months ago) link

a related confusion i have not yet made: “The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean… A white dodo was once thought to have existed on the nearby island of Réunion, but it is now believed that this assumption was merely confusion based on the also-extinct Réunion ibis and paintings of white dodos.”

mark s, Friday, 4 October 2024 10:05 (two months ago) link

Chris Wallace
Chris Matthews

cryptosicko, Monday, 14 October 2024 21:41 (two months ago) link

I think I recently told someone I took a class on Dorothy Parker when I meant Dorothy Sayers. Either would be an interesting class, mind you.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 14 October 2024 21:42 (two months ago) link

They caught me off guard and it was 30 years ago, I might have grabbed at the wrong memory.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 14 October 2024 21:42 (two months ago) link

Stewart Home
Steven Wells

the nervous laughter of fools (Matt #2), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 00:01 (two months ago) link

jimmy kimmel
jimmy fallon

mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 01:49 (two months ago) link

David Morrissey
Neil Morrissey

Madchen, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 13:01 (two months ago) link

if they run together and fuse like Station from Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey they turn into regular Morrissey

John Backflip (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 13:05 (two months ago) link

Ned might smack me, but I often confuse Charalambides and Six Organs of Admittance in my head— like I obviously know the difference between them, but the other day I was thinking to myself “It’s weird that Tom and Christina collaborated with Shackleton!” but that’s because they didn’t!!

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 19 October 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link

Hope of the States
Future of the Left

joe meek's cutoff (Matt #2), Friday, 25 October 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link

Slint
Slift

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 26 October 2024 01:40 (one month ago) link

The Veronicas
Aly & AJ

MarkoP, Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link

Chris Cillizza
Chris Pirillo

MarkoP, Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:13 (one month ago) link

Harry Chapin
Mary Chapin Carpenter

(not really but I've just cleared up why I thought he was called 'Harry Chapin Carpenter')

french cricket in the usa (ledge), Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:18 (one month ago) link

^ yes and also John Cougar Mellencamp. I think I spend too much time in a day thinking of clever alliteratives that it has compromised my ability to properly file away names

Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 31 October 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link

Autre Ne Veut
Circuit Des Yeux

Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link

Ha same

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:43 (one month ago) link

Or maybe it's someone else I conflate with CDY, but they're playing here tonight and I had to remind myself what their deal is

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:44 (one month ago) link

I must confess I sometimes confuse CDY and Lingua Ignota (and I adore both artists)

Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:47 (one month ago) link

snail mail
soccer mommy

mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:33 (one month ago) link

can't even discern which band name is worse

mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:34 (one month ago) link

fine, it's the latter

mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:37 (one month ago) link

Soccer Mommy
Snail Mail

― nickn, Sunday, March 15, 2020

Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy

― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, December 11, 2021

snail mail
soccer mommy

― mookieproof, Friday, November 1, 2024

One thread.

nickn, Saturday, 2 November 2024 04:35 (one month ago) link

my people

mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 04:45 (one month ago) link

Wussy
Wishy

budo jeru, Monday, 4 November 2024 21:59 (one month ago) link

John Krasinski

Zachary Levi

kato kaelin-manuel miranda (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 02:18 (one month ago) link

Laura
Gilda

WmC, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 03:02 (one month ago) link

Jayma Mays

Lindy Booth

abreast of what's afoot (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link

jacques maigret
hercule poirot
jacques clouseau

budo jeru, Friday, 15 November 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link

Clouseau
Cousteau

velcromagnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2024 21:25 (one month ago) link

Pete Sinfield
Pete Wingfield

biting your uncles (Tom D.), Friday, 15 November 2024 21:50 (one month ago) link

Black Keys
The Liars

More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2024 18:33 (four weeks ago) link

+ The Kills

More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2024 18:35 (four weeks ago) link

Black Lips for me

Alba, Friday, 22 November 2024 19:05 (four weeks ago) link

Darkman
Memoirs of an invisible man

brimstead, Friday, 22 November 2024 20:09 (four weeks ago) link

nino nardini
nino niederreiter

mookieproof, Sunday, 24 November 2024 04:19 (three weeks ago) link

peacock
paramount+

mookieproof, Sunday, 24 November 2024 04:19 (three weeks ago) link

^ likewise

nickn, Sunday, 24 November 2024 05:49 (three weeks ago) link

60s free jazz reed players Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre and Makanda Ken McIntyre.

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 November 2024 16:21 (three weeks ago) link

Screwgun (label)
Thumbscrew (band)

WmC, Monday, 25 November 2024 16:32 (three weeks ago) link

60s free jazz reed players Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre and Makanda Ken McIntyre.

I knew they were two separate individuals but for many years I thought they were brothers. (They were not brothers.)

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 25 November 2024 16:42 (three weeks ago) link

Tatsuya Ishida
Tatsuya Yoshida

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 8 December 2024 00:14 (one week ago) link

CocoRosie
Prussian Blue

papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 December 2024 05:55 (one week ago) link

Franc Fernandez
Franz Ferdinand

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 8 December 2024 18:00 (one week ago) link

Steve Alaimo
Dick Contino

The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 9 December 2024 02:29 (one week ago) link

^ What's the connection between those two?

Josefa, Monday, 9 December 2024 03:03 (one week ago) link

neither of them played gul dukat on ds9

mookieproof, Monday, 9 December 2024 03:14 (one week ago) link

I know who Fearne Cotton is; I know who Fern Britton is. Yet every time I see a headline about Fearne Cotton getting divorced I think it's about Fern Britton.

Alba, Saturday, 14 December 2024 12:45 (one week ago) link

tana french
donna tartt

budo jeru, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 02:16 (three days ago) link

French tart

Alba, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 11:17 (three days ago) link

Tan French

More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 15:53 (three days ago) link

Goodby Mr Chips and Looking for Mr Goodbar are very very different movies.

dan selzer, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 23:18 (three days ago) link

Paul Bollenbeck
John Hollenbeck

The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 19 December 2024 00:47 (two days ago) link

Ugh, BollenbAck

The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 19 December 2024 00:48 (two days ago) link

Al Feldstein
Al Goldstein

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2024 21:06 (two days ago) link

^^^

I've only met one of those guys.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 19 December 2024 21:14 (two days ago) link


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