Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Les Claypool
Wes Borland

doing nothing
doing whatever i feel like

Jonah Hill
Seth Rogan

Bahamas
Bermuda
Barbados

come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go?

slowsquatch i see your list and raise you one (1) Barbuda

Licensed to Ill
Ill Communication

Hillaire Belloc
Honoré de Balzac

Marisol
Maripol

Superchunk
Spacehog

Midlake
Clearlake

School of Seven Bells
Sleigh Bells
Howling Bells

come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go?

Mike Love
Evil bitter man crapping on his band's legacy

It occurs to me that I mostly mix up names of people in the same profession

Don Cheadle
Don Ameche

Gary Burton
Burton Greene

Hillaire Belloc
Honoré de Balzac

― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, August 20, 2022 3:06 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

for me it's:

hilaire belloc
evelyn waugh

both catholic englishman "men of letters" writing in the '40s who nobody in america gives a shit about or even knows who they are, with girl names

richard austin freeman/freeman wills croft

I keep thinking the "where harry met sally" sign in katz's deli is in cafe lalo (because it's where meg ryan met tom hanks in 'you've got mail' and this is somehow commemorated- i think it's just noted on their menu).

Chris Woakes
Ben Foakes

... but not Ben Stokes

Autreche
Aphex Twin

‘tis the 2010s Album rollout that made me realise this

heresy, I know

Fishbone

Firehose

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Manford Mann's Earth Band

Glen Ballard
Desmond Child

Martha Graham
Twyla Tharp

Probably a third modern choreographer I'm forgetting.

Golden Earring
Shocking Blue

Kenny Burrell
Dave Burrell

Tom Bihn, backpack manufacturer
Tom Beghin, fortepianist
Thom Bargen, coffee roaster

Shelley Long
Shelley Duvall
Shelley Winters

Yes!

St Etienne
St Vincent

Kenneth Clark
James Burke

Judd Hirsch
Judd Nelson

Denis Lawson
Leigh Lawson

Puy
Pau

(as in French cities/towns)

for me it's Gau / Pau

Modigliani
Giacometti

Ken Loach
Mike Leigh

ned doheny
ned beatty

Englebert Humperdinck
Buster Poindexter

…b-b-but Englebert Humperdinck : Buster Poindexter = Lavator Shemmelpennick, no???

Ya got me!

Abe Froman
Abe Vigoda

Nina Nastasia
Nina Nesbitt

In that I will see posters for or mentions of the latter in the press and feel momentarily confused that Nina Nastasia is now a mainstream pop star or something, before realising.

Mark Ryden
Mark Rydell

Simon Callow
Simon Cadell
Simon Cowell

The Emirates
The Etihad

The Golden Palominos
Golden Smog

Kitten Natividad
Lolita Davidovich

Mark Ryden
Mark Rydell

Mark Rypien
Mark Rylance

(Well not really, but I couldn't pass up the chance.)

Extremely local DC version:

Bailey's Crossroads
Seven Corners

I can understand their conflatability, but they are adjacent to one another, mushing into one area at points.

A Maryland equivalent is the Bethesda-White Flint-Rockville axis.

Woe betide the person who gets mixed up on Bethesda vs. Chevy Chase vs. Silver Spring, because those really are in very different places.