Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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.

Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka.

emily watson and emily mortimer.

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

Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen. And their families.

Milton Keynes and Milton Freeman
John Maynard Keynes in there somewhere

Frightened Rabbit and the Twilight Sad

Glasvegas and the View

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.

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.

Sean Kinney
Sean Yseult

Budapest / Bucharest
Borromini / Bernini
Michelle Branch / Vanessa Carlton

David Brenner and Bruce Jenner

Ha!

Billy Jean and Dirty Diana.

Sorry, I believe that should have been Billie.

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

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.)

Casey Jones from TMNT:
http://www.lahiguera.net/cinemania/actores/elias_koteas/fotos/4504/elias_koteas.jpg
and dude from L&O SVU
http://images.uncyc.org/commons/4/49/253850~Christopher-Meloni-Posters.jpg

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

Danny Goldberg/Danny Fields

Melatonin and Melanoma

Mikhail Bakhtin and Mikhail Bakunin

Jeff Tweedy and Jack Tweed.

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?"

Saskatchewan and Saskatoon.

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.

Daniel Johnson / Calvin Johnson.

Safe to say, no relation....

the Avalanches
the Arctic Monkeys

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

Biloxi Blues
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Torch Song Trilogy

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

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

or maybe not, i don't know

I always get those t's mixed up.

August Kleinzahler
Augusten Burroughs

(I'm good on August Wilson, though.)

Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell.

Impetigo and Vitiligo

Sophie B. Hawkins and Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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.

I used to mix up Roger Clemens and Wade Boggs!

Haha. Maybe just try to remember that Wade Boggs did those hair loss commercials.

emily watson and emily mortimer.

i opened the thread to post this, with the addition of emily blount.

Gene Loves Jezebel
Gorky Park

Isabella Rossellini
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

William Goldman
William Golding
William Gibson
William Gibson

(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.)

The Junior Boys are *NOT* Junior Senior.

Fat City/Stay Hungry

Simon Oakland/Claude Akins

Douglas Brinkley/Alan Brinkley
Jack Williamson/Jack Vance
Nostromo/Norstrilia
Ric Ocasek/Karen O