Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

steve guttenberg, tom hanks

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

Michael Jacksons Beat It & Billy Jean

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

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.

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.

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

Susan Sontag and Valerie Solanos

my ass & a hole in the ground

A-plus shinola

Surprised no one put
Leon Russell/Leon Redbone/Redbone

Iain Banks/Ian Rankin

Shoulder/Elbow
Yesterday/Tomorrow
Mick Ronson/Mark Ronson

William Blake and Robert Blake, unfortunately.

You and David Lynch both.

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

The bands Client, Clinic, and Metric.

Ricky Lee Jones / Tommy Lee Jones / Tommy Lee

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

Jeff Barry/Barry Mann

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

Kathy Moffat/Kathy Selden

the bands The 1900s and The 1990s

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

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

robert palmer and robert plant

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

Jimmie Haskell/Jimmy Haslip

derek jarman and derek jeter

Paul Krassner/Paul Kantner

Jeanette Winterson and Marilynne Robinson

I have no idea why, but Schopenhauer and Scriabin.

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

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

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

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.

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

Sasha Frere-Jones and Sasha Baron-Cohen.

Tuomas, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqInvZ9hY9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_DCV84TiU

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

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

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

same guy, two accounts, i mean.

James Caan/Woods

William/John Hurt

Sometimes I get all four of them mixed up.

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

black metal and death metal

Alvin Stardust and Ziggy Stardust.

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

The legendary Stardust Cowboy.

(ten points to me)

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