Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Arcade Fire and Friendly Fires.

Friendly Fires and Fiery Furnaces

If you are of a certain age you might also add to the confusion with
After The Fire

Bevis Frond
Bardo Pond
Ozric Tentacles

― kkvgz, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:28 AM (3 days ago)

Laura Ingalls Wilder / Louisa May Alcott

Sheldon Leonard/Sidney Sheldon

kim gordon / kim deal

YES.

kelley deal / kim deal

INDEED YES.

Used to mix up Kim Fowley and Kim Wilde for some reason.

Kim Thayil has managed to stay above the fray.

Keith Urban
Keith Sweat

Marti Caine
Marti Webb

Marty Feldman
Morton Feldman

Tony James
Brian James

Know perfectly well who they are but still sometimes mix up
Jonathan Rosenbaum/Jonathan Schwartz

James Brooks (Broadcast News, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), James Bridges (The Paper Chase, The China Syndrome).

Oh yeah.

James Brooks / Albert Brooks

If I only catch very brief glimpses of them in a preview or trailer, I always get Rob Corddry and Paul Scheer mixed up.

In spite of the recent palaver, I still confuse Robert Maxwell with Rupert Murdoch.

single twin, twin sister, twin shadow

rong thread j1m

Paul Scheer's a different height, different head shape and always distinguishable by his gappy grin, but I'm still not entirely certain Corddry and David Koechner are separate people.

Matt Tilley, Justin Hamilton and the bloke who plays Wilfred

(oh i always get those ~three~ mixed up)

Crazy Harry/Harry Hippie/Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

(Anarchist Muppet/Jim Ford song about Bobby Womack's brother/1974 car chase movie starring Peter Fonda and Susan George)

c sharp major
a passing spacecadet
(plus occasional drew d aliases)

sorry!

I just realized I have been confusing Derek Jakobi and Ian Holm, don't know why.

uh, Jacobi, that is.

Hot Dog the Movie and
Hamburger the Motion Picture

Should know better but

Marimba/Kalimba

robert palmer and robert plant

― the sir weeze, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Came here to post this.

I just realized I have been confusing Derek Jakobi and Ian Holm, don't know why.

For me, it's Derek Jacobi and Derek Jarman.

Ira Robbins (Trouser Press) and Ira Kaplan (New York Rocker, some band).

Byron Coley (Forced Exposure) and Gerard Cosloy (Conflict, some record label).

Frank Owen and Frank Kogan. (At least in 1988 I'd get them confused.)

Ira Robbins (Trouser Press) and Ira Kaplan (New York Rocker, some band).

― clemenza, Monday, August 1, 2011 7:56 PM (27 minutes ago)

How about Andy Schwartz (New York Rocker) and Andy Shernoff (New York rock guy)? I used to get them mixed up all the time.

Yeah, them two too. Doesn't the latter guy, from the Dictators, misspell his name Adny? He was misspelling long before the internet, he was way ahead of his time.

My first search was "Adny Shernoff," just to double-check, and all I got back was "Andy." But I guess we're right.

Achewood and Torchwood

That's what I remember from Please Kill Me, phil.

Throw in Fernwood, too, bentelec.

Just checked the first three albums right off the shelf--Adny on every one. (Underscoring something the aforementioned Frank Kogan pointed out recently: it would have taken me two seconds to reach over to my left and check the albums, but I instinctively checked Google first.)

Also underscores that he is not famous enough/that fact is not important enough to insure that somebody would undo the spell-checkers hypercorrection so it ends up gets drowned out in the ethernet.

Eileen Brennan and Ellen Burnstyn

Veronica Cartwright and Angela Cartwright

The Haunting of Hill House and The House on Haunted Hill-I know which is which, it's just the titles that momentarily get me.

Eileen Brennan and Ellen Burstyn

and then Ellen Barkin had to come along...

Michelangelo Matos and Marcello Carlin

László Kovács (Hungarian-born cinematographer, key to "new Hollywood" films of the '70s) and Vilmos Zsigmond (Hungarian-born cinematographer, key to "new Hollywood" films of the '70s).

Yes. Also add Victor Laszlo, the character in Casablanca, and László Kovács, the alias Jean-Paul Belmondo uses in Breathless. Apparently the name László Kovács is like the John Smith of Hungary so there are probably a few more of them, but I don't know them so I don't mix them up.

Marvin Hamlisch and Engelbert Humperdinck

I got Ian Holm confused with another Brit TV drama actor bloke for years but I can't remember who, now. It may have been Jacobi!

Crazy Harry/Harry Hippie/Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

Dirty Mary / Crazy Larry / on the run from Dirty Harry / Stash the cash in the dash but my gun I did carry