Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

palmer luckey
palmer rockey (of "rockey's style" fame)

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)

would pay to hear john greaves sing "heat of the moment"

"Byzantium"/"Sailing to Byzantium"

Thomas Ligotti/György Ligeti

Recently realised that William Blake and William Morris are not the same person.

had to look up william morris bc i was sure you couldn't mean the hollywood talent agency

Jean Shepard/Jean Shepherd/Jean Stafford
(Country Singer (RIP) /Radio Personality/Author)

david denby and david remnick

Sometimes slip and mix up
Allan Clarke/Alan Price but not Alan Clarke
(Hollies/Animals but not director)

As well as
Bobby Elliott/Bobby Gregg
(Hollies drummer/Dylan drummer)

Bill Laswell
Bill Frisell

^ Likewise for those two.

Ronald Harwood / Ronald Hayman / Christopher Hampton / Christopher Frayling

... all squished together in a indistinguishable mush... and that's without including Chris Grayling...

In the same ballpark: Howard Brenton / Howard Barker

Hans Hofmann/Hans Haacke

Jaume Collet-Serra/Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Extremely longstanding, probably mentioned already:

Robert Culp / Robert Webber

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).

I had her mixed up with Marla Maples, which made that Trump article a bit of an odd read.

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

That's a good one but please throw in Robert Stack and maybe Robert Conrad as well into the mix.

If not Robert Wagner.

But not William Conrad.

Don't try to throw William Conrad anywhere

Lol

today: Flying Nun and Flying Dutchman Records.

flying nun fish/flying dutchman

Wait for it:
Denis O'Dell/Denis O'Brien

Jimmy Witherspoon/Jimmy Rushing

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

also, even when I do remember that they are two separate people, I can never remember which one is married to Julie Christie

Realized a few days ago that I'd been conflating Emily Blunt and Rose Byrne.

presumably the crime DC^^^ is married to julie christie, the surveillance DC is gay

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

I need to keep reminding myself that Vanessa Williams, serious Washington Post reporter =/= Vanessa Williams, former Miss America.

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.

Bobbies Vee (RIP), Vinton, and Rydell

MC5, M83, and MX-80 Sound

keef hartley and les harvey

Gene Colan made his name in Silver Age Marvel comics ffs

Wendy Craig/Rachel Roberts

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

Chad Everett/Richard Long

James Rado/Gerome Ragni

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

edmund white edmund wilson

^^^^