Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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.

In Romania you'll commonly see graffitis that say 'Bessarabia is Romania', Bessarabia being the name of the Republic of Moldova (minus Transnistria) prior to its indirect annexation by the USSR.

I'm aware that Moldova basically is Romanian and is nowhere near Belarus but, yes, ex-Soviet republics which are still bit too Soviet for comfort.

It's not an unfair comparison! All that's missing in the Republic of Moldova is a Lukashenko-style dictatorial figure.

Call of Duty
Line of Duty

Game of Thrones
House of Cards
House of Games

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:39 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^

Oh yes.

yep

Yeah :/

Thus one's ridiculous but still...

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I know which is which but I keep forgetting @AOC's family name and calling her Oxlade-Chamberlain

Alexandria in NYC

Betsy Woodruff and Natasha Bertrand

Young reporters and recurring panelists on CNN or MSNBC RussiaGate shows. One writes for the Daily Beast, the other for the New Yorker, I think? Both are brunette and pretty cute, but I think it's Betsy who has kind of a crooked Brian Williams jaw I can't stop staring at.