Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

I just realized I've always mixed up Steely Dan and Steeleye Span. Then again, I don't know much about either except that they were 70s rock bands.

Steeleye Span was a folkish band whereas Steely Dan was R&B and jazz inflected. To help you out.

Sasha Frere-Jones and Sasha Baron-Cohen.

Tuomas, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqInvZ9hY9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_DCV84TiU

John Updike }{ John Irving

Nothing to do with their names, but I'm always stumbling and getting Cheever in my Updike. And vice versa.

deej and deeznuts
jordan s and big hoos
aimurchie and accentmonkey
tombot and el tomboto
editors and elbow and errors and engineers and envelopes

thought tombot and el tomboto were the same account. one for admin, one for shootin the breeze like a civilian.

same guy, two accounts, i mean.

James Caan/Woods

William/John Hurt

Sometimes I get all four of them mixed up.

Raymond Chandler / Raymond Carver
Luke Wilson / Owen Wilson
Brian Dennehy / every actor that looks like Brian Dennehy

black metal and death metal

Alvin Stardust and Ziggy Stardust.

I mean, what's the point of having two glam rock singers named "Stardust"? Which one of them came first?

The legendary Stardust Cowboy.

(ten points to me)

What's that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_Stardust_Cowboy

Check it out!

Ah, thank you!

tuomas and doubting thomas

The Spaghetti Incident/The Linguini Incident

refute/repudiate

Liev Schrieber / Liv Tyler / Liv Ullman
Alvin Curran / Alvin Lucier
Philip Corner / Phill Niblock

david hockney/alan bennett

Dennis Quaid and Jeff Bridges

I don't get them confused, per se, but I always seem to forget that Jeff Bridges' name isn't "Jeff Daniels". It takes me a second before I think, "Oh, wait. Jeff Daniels is that other guy."

john barth/roland barthes/donald barthelme

william gaddis/william gass/john gardner

I think I might also get johns barth gardner confused sometimes but there's so much other shit going on that I don't even notice

john barth/roland barthes/donald barthelme

Don't forget Frederick Barthelme.

Andrews AFB

Edwards AFB

I never thought about that before, but yeah. Me too.

Gang of Four/Mission of Burma
This is fucked up.

Roddy McDowell
Rowdy Roddy Piper

well done
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007

Frank Bruni/Franklin Bruno

There's this guy too: Frank Bruno to fight again.

Borders/Barnes and Noble, ie I cannot tell you which of the two I walk past every day on the way to and from work.

Anthony Trollope/Anthony Powell

John Pizzarelli/John Petrucci/John Patitucci

(but not Michel Petrucciani)

Ron Silver/Ron Perlman

Yeah, that's good. I think there's another Ron in there too.

Or maybe I'm thinking of when Ron Silver plays himself in "Heat Vision and Jack."

other Rons: Ron Leibman and Ron Rifkin

Yeah, thanks rosemary, it was the first of those guys, the one who played "Kaz."

Ha, Ron Rifkin's imdb page says he is sometimes confused with Joel Grey.

Mink Deville/Bebop Deluxe

Gary Oldman (in his third appearance on this list!) and Gary Sinese

Gene Orloff/Carl Orff

Christopher Walken/Christopher Hitchens

James Surowiecki and James Poniewozik

I don't get them confused, per se, but I always seem to forget that Jeff Bridges' name isn't "Jeff Daniels". It takes me a second before I think, "Oh, wait. Jeff Daniels is that other guy."

I often mix Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels too. They even look a bit like each other:

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Jeff_Bridges/jeff_bridges.jpg http://www.aolcdn.com/getty/E/2007-04-10/73818115PK009_jeff-daniels-actor-broadway-blackbird.jpg

Matos/Matmos

RIP Ron, um, Silver.

Carl Saff/Carl Orff

Robert Patrick/Jason Patric