Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Cascada and Kaskade

Ozric Tentacles
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Ned's Atomic Dustbin

(Never heard anything by these bands, but I mix up the names.)

Lunch/Dinner (I'll say I'm having dinner when I mean I'm having lunch and vice versa. Incredibly annoying.

Jethro Tull/Uriah Heep
John Martyn/Roy Harper

Used to have serious trouble with Jean Claude Van Damme and errr, the other guy. I just spent five minutes on Google trying to figure out his name, but whenever I think of a movie he's in, it turns out it's Van Damme!

I will not yield!

He was in something with Henry Ford, I think. Wait, no, that guy's not named Henry Ford... Henry... He was in the Fugitive! Harrison Ford!

Oh for crying out loud, I just clicked through a whole lotta Ford titles on IMDB and still didn't find m... OH WAIT It's Steven Seagal!

That was not worth it at all.

I think you have those mixed up not_goodwin, but maybe that was the point.

― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 May 2009 16:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark

twas the point :)

The Kinks
The Jam

I know one of these is from the 60s and one from the 80s, but I can't remember which one is which.

The Kinks were from the 80s. They had that song called "Come Dancing".

Tuomas
Fake Tuomas

peter sarsgaard & stellen skarsgaard

Lindsay Duncan and Lesley Manville

lonnie liston smith & dr. lonnie smith. i just found out they're not the same guy.

burt reynolds and tom sellacks

jeremy london and jason london

Reynolds and Selleck, me too!

Haha, I didn't THINK I mixed those two up, until I looked them up now and uhm, Tom Selleck looked like I expected Burt Reynolds to look and vice versa!

I've been mixing up Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck ever since I was a kid.

Thomas Mann/Hermann Hesse

Marco Pierre White/whoever the other chef I always think is Marco Pierre White is.

I had to break it to the s.o. the other night that John Oates of Hall and Oates and Warren Oates were not the same person.

lonnie liston smith & dr. lonnie smith. i just found out they're not the same guy.

― m coleman, Monday, May 11, 2009 8:30 AM (1 week ago)

This common phenomenon was mentioned over here: TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

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.)