Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Nick Kroll
Jake Johnson

Kyu Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto (RIP)

i could fill an entire thread just with japanese names that i mix up

Steed Malbranque
Steve Marlet

Nina Nastasia
Stina Nordenstam

The former's second appearance in this thread.

If I mention Nina Persson, will that add to your mix up Deflatormouse?

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.

i'm getting into Stina Nordenstam and don't think i will mix them up again xp

Never having heard a note of either:

Alternative TV
Television Personalities

oh, you gotta get the first tv personalities album.

Yehudi Menhuin
Jascha Heifetz

sorghum
sumac

Peter Sutcliffe
Stuart Sutcliffe

and

Stuart Sutcliffe
Pete Best

Pete is innocent!

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

Pedro the Lion
Chavez

& Gomez

Jacques Peretti
Jonah Peretti

and as highlighted by Contrapoints this week

Posey Parker
Parker Posey

Mark Stewart (rip)
Mark Robinson (long may he live)

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)

Oh! I know "Mark, the guitarist from Bang On A Can" personally but didn't know he was also a "Mark Stewart"

Ronald Harwood
Ronald Hayman
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Frayling

(I might have done this one before)

Dusty Springfield
Buffalo Springfield

Delta 5
Basement 5

But not Maroon 5?

Nah, they're more like Jurassic 5

Three Doors Down

Third Eye Blind

Cunard
QAnon

Medicaid
Medicare

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).

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.

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

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.

Belisarius
Bellerophon

Jimmy McGriff
Jack McDuff

Ok Jack wears the captain’s hat. Got it.

Those two must have been mentioned before. I'd add Champion Jack Dupree for good measure.

Cambyses I/II (Persian emperors)
Cyaxares I/II (Median kings)

Alyattes (Lydian king)
Astyages (Median king)

stevie ray vaughan
stevie van zandt

Wait until you hear about Ronnie, Donny and Johnny Van Zant

Johnny Van Zant
Jimmie Vaughan

Anker
Belkin

I think I've been merrily buying products from each for years thinking they were the same brand

cuir, French for "leather"
cuivre, French for "copper"

^otm

Anker
Belkin

tbf they're probably made in the same Chinese factories

Louis Aragon
Andre Breton

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

nam phrik
nước chấm

Love and Rockets
Cowboy Junkies

why? no idea

Chuck Israels
Israel Crosby