Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Kirsty Young and Kirsty Wark.

Nicole Scherzinger / Kim Kardashian

Kay Thompson/Kay Kendall

Gordon Parks/Gordon Willis

Christopher Lee/Christopher Plummer

George Orwell
Orson Welles

(think a lot of people get these mixed up).

Dangerous Liaisons \ Fatal Attraction

Chuck Wepner/Jerry Quarry

When people talk about Hal Hartley, I have, prior to today, thought they were talking about Hal Sparks.

Gary Matthews, Garry Maddox. (At least I did in 1973.)

Classics IV's "Spooky," Classic IV's "Stormy." They're easy to tell apart when you actually hear them.

Atlanta Rhythm Section and the Townsend Sanford Band

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.)

Atlanta Rhythm Section and the Townsend Sanford Band

I can only speak for lecherous old men: we don't mix up Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Connelly.

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.

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.

I think I used to kind of-but not entirely- mix up Phoebe Cates and Jami Gertz

Angela Baddeley and Hermione Baddeley

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.)

Jane Austen/Jane Eyre

^^^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).

The films of Wuthering Heights/Jane Eyre/Rebecca. One has Joan Fontaine, one has Laurence Olivier, one has both.

Sometimes a Great Notion/Something Happened

Heidi Julavits/Judith Shulevitz

Annie Leibovitz / Fran Lebowitz

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.

The French Kicks / Les Savy Fav

Julian Lage/Lage Lund

Elizabeth McGovern/Elizabeth Perkins

Wow, that wasn't already on here?

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.

Vinnie Appice
Apple Cider Vinegar

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.

http://news.doddleme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Adele-Grammys.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x57rplqAN58/TyZBtIS-3XI/AAAAAAABW-4/tLagg_-dLy4/s1600/glen%2Bclose%2Bface.jpg

hmmm.... maybe

Soup Dragons/Spin Doctors

Charleston / Charlotte

John Milius and Walter Hill. I say one, I mean the other. AND I KNOW WHO THEY ARE. It's so dumb.

Charleston / Charlotte

I get Charleston and Columbia, SC, mixed up because of Charleston, WV, and Columbia, Mo.

Soup Dragons
Stone Roses

Phyllida Lloyd / Phyllida Law.

Phyllida Law, Phyllida Barlow.

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.

Apparently:

Roger Kimball
Roger Scruton

Savannah and Augusta. One has an art school, one has a golf course.

Heard someone at a party the other day mix up Sri Lanka and Shangri La. Thought that was cute.

Natalie "Sonia in EastEnders" Cassidy

and

Natalie "Carol in Hollyoaks" Casey

Saul Friedlander
Shalom Auslander

Court and Spark
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

Canary Wharf and Canada Water.

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.