Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

I've spent 3 years or so thinking that the white-nationalist podcaster and youtuber Stefan Molyneux had created the computer game Populous, but found out today that it was Peter Molyneux (I think I was getting Stefan Molyneux mixed up with Scott Adams here as well, as in the trajectory from creating innocuous thing I liked as a kid in the 90s to reappearing circa 2016 as an insane advocate for crypto-fascism)

Marina Warner
Marina Wheeler

Just realized this one, UK electronic producers:

Rusko
Roska

I mean, c'mon

Rustie doesn't help either

Kim Stanley
Kim Hunter

80s Meryl Streep film Silkwood
80s Meryl Streep film Ironweed

i never got those muddled but i do now want to find out ironweed is silkwood's secret sequel

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.

See also:

Jane Fonda film Comes a Horseman (1978)
Jane Fonda film Electric Horseman (1979)

Anna Paquin
Anna Chlumsky

Wow I think I just scrompfed both actors into a single entity, along with Kristen Johnston

Speaking of which, I did this the other day:

3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.

Frances O'Grady
Frances Ryan

Recent Woodstock anniversary articles have reminded me that I have never properly mentally separated Ritchie Valens and Richie Havens.

Both famous for their covers!

Speaking of which, I did this the other day:

3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, August 20, 2019 1:46 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I will never not think of 3rd Rock when 30 Rock is brought up.

The Silvercup sign/The Swingline sign RIP

another sunny day
and
sunny day real estate

somehow I can never remember who J.J. Cale is and he winds up becoming this amalgam of John Cale and Cass McCombs in my mind.

Chris Hayes
Chris Hanson

Bret Stephens
Bret Weinstein

gerard butler
gerard way

spatula
scalpel

My brain always wants to momentarily forget which of these I want to say, even though they are quite different implements and I use one of them all the time in different contexts while I’ve used the other maybe twice in my life

Calvary
cavalry

I think people keep mixing up the 2 when it comes to the title of the long jam on side 2 of QMS' Happy Trails.

Just found out that Golgotha was another name for Calvary. I thought I'd heard it was the location of the residue of the human waste that came off the crucified or the residue pile itself. Not sure where i got atht from, some horror type media, comic, book or film I think. Maybe they were just being poetic.

“I Never Will Marry”/“Never Will I Marry”

i used to have problems distinguishing
pederast and
pedophile

I'm not sure I know the difference, but I am not googling to find out.

the former can colloquially overlap with the latter, but is not a subset: specifically an adult male in a continuing intimate relationship with an adolescent boy. a paedophile is someone of either biological sex, physically attracted to pre-pubescents, whether or not they act on those desires.

“I Never Will Marry”/“Never Will I Marry”

Diamanda Galás
Marina Diamandis

Mike Post
Mike Curb

Good one

There's a Devon-based guitar teacher called M1ke B0llard if you want to add him to the fray (yes I googled the name)

Carol White/Carol Wayne

Can I broaden the topic to "Oh!, my dad always got those two mixed up"? If so:

Jim Morrison / Morrissey

Mike Leigh / Spike Lee

Would watch Nuts In May as directed by Spike Lee

BFF
2FA

Sean O'Hagan (of High Llamas/Stereolab)
Sean O'Hagan (Guardian journo)

In fact I've only recently realised they're two different people.

Wait, didn't Sean O'Hagan of
the Llamas also do some music writing?

Yeah I'm even more confused now

No, that was Sean O'Hagan of the Guardian.

Wild

Norbert Putnam/Curly Putman

Capybara
Coypu

Danny Hutton/Danny Huston

Rocketman
The Rocketeer

Little Rocketeer