Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

I always confuse deafheaven with deafhaven, a group who exist solely in the bit of my brain responsible for typing words

deerhunter and deerhoof for sure
not deafheaven

weirdly i don't have that problem because the length of the band name is different? i might be a robot

no that makes sense -- some people latch onto the syllabic rhythm of something

^^ I got teased by my family this morning for confusing dandelions with daffodils.

Terence Blanchard/Terell Stafford

Anne Carson, Anne Sexton

similarly but separately: Anne Tyler, Ann Beattie, Ann Patchett

John Ashberry, John Berryman

^all of this

Bernie Maupin / Bennie Taupin

Or is it...

Took me a while but I see what you did there.

Jan Michael Vincent and Don Johnson

Jan Michael Vincent and the "Voyagers" guy who got shot on a production set.

Jon-Erik Hexum - glad to hear I'm not the only one!

Jan-Michael Vincent and Michael Des Barres (who, I now find out, is the 26th Marquis Des Barres, which should clear up the confusion if I think of him as that).

phlebotomy and phrenology

ferberization and fletcherization

Fitzroy Maclean
Sorley Maclean
Compton Mackenzie

Casino Royale/On Her Majesty's Secret Service (haven't seen either. answered the wrong one in a quiz to 'which bond film starred george lazenby'.)

Assault on Precinct 13
The Taking of Pelham 123

Lol yes

Paul Rudolph/Paul Rodgers
Herbie Flowers/Humphrey Ocean

rudolph and flowers each feature in (different) projects i am currently subbing and fact-checking so this mild double disorientation is salutory

Bonnie Prince Billy
Billy Childish
Billie Eilish

all those and Bill Callahan

The Day of the Jackal
Three Days of the Condor

xp: true!

Three Days of the Condor
Condorman

Also I always know who Roy Scheider is but if I ever try to remember Rod Steiger's name, all I can think of is Scheider's.

(I had to look up In the Heat of the Night to remember Steiger's to write that post)

Marie Kondo/María Kodama

I wouldn't say I get them mixed up but I can't see Dunhill Records (home of the Mamas & the Papas et al) without thinking of HP Lovecraft (the author of 'The Dunwich Horror', not the band who were roughly contemporaneous with the Mamas & the Papas).

I’m going to Korea today. For the past few weeks I’ve had to train myself to say “Korea” or “South Korea” rather than “North Korea.” I have no idea why. 🤷‍♂️

Levon Vincent/Leon Vynehall

Chuba Akpom / Chuks Aneke. Both trainee Arsenal strikers, both hung around the fringes of the first team squad a few years ago before being eased out the door into a career of lower-league mediocrity.

thought this was Paul Sorvino

http://img4.bdbphotos.com/images/700x350/0/f/0fio4br4rpfabar0.jpg?skj2io4l

Magic Mike / Killer Mike

antibes
antilles

The eclectic multi-instrumentalist sideman with the ridiculous hair and sideburns who plays live with Jackson Browne is named David Lindley.

The eclectic multi-instrumentalist sideman with the ridiculous hair and sideburns who plays live with Paul Simon is named Mark Stewart.

For a while I thought there was only one eclectic multi-instrumentalist sideman with ridiculous hair and sideburns who plays live with various well-known folk-rock singer-songwriters from bygone eras.

Turns out there are at least two.

Poland
Hungary

Huh?

Chalk and cheese them two, you find any Ottoman influences in Poland i don't think.

although both countries seem to have serious holocaust revisionism issues.

Romania / Bulgaria while we're confessing geographical blindspots

I was going to say they don't have very much in common at all - language, culture, religion (Hungary is largely Catholic but nowhere to same extent as Poland) - but hush my mouth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_and_Hungarian_brothers_be

what i found amazing was how massive the Polish/Lithuanian commonwealth was at the peak of it's power. it was a huge territory.

And famously religious tolerant.

Religiously tolerant, thiat is. No worries though, the Catholic Church put a stop to that eventually.

cant be having people experimenting with soft power/secular tolerance when going on genocidal rampages is obv what jesus would have done.

Kid went to a birthday party a few weeks ago, and I wound up hanging out with the dad of the house for a couple of hours.

It wasn't until a half hour into the conversation that he told me No, he wasn't from Turkey, he was from Turkmenistan. I thought he gave me a funny look when I asked how far away his village was from Istanbul.

A little while later, he was telling me how the government is corrupt and is basically ruled like a dictatorship. I said, Ha yeah, reminds me of Uzbekistan where no one's allowed to drive a black car.

And he kinda goes Heh, no, um, that's in my country, Turkmenistan.

So I guess in my mind, Turkey and Uzbekistan are the same country, home to the Portal to Hell.

Romania / Bulgaria while we're confessing geographical blindspots

Heh, I was only familiar with the classic Budapest/Bucharest conflation, but I suppose this one should be expected as well. We both joined the EU in 2007, so that might be why.

I was going to post a ho-ho comment about confusing Moldova and Romania but, actually, I sometimes have to think twice about Moldova and Belarus.

That's kind of fair, though, since Moldova is also the name of a region in Romania. Not to mention the Republic of Moldova is basically a Russian colony.