Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

ACAB
Abacab

Abscam
Abba
ASCAP
Capybara

Tom Selleck's mustache
Burt Reynolds's mustache

By extension:
Tom Selleck
Burt Reynolds

Rachel Reeves
Rachel Riley

Moira Lister
Moira Shearer

... and Norma Shearer

singing the last few posts to the tune of Hello by The Beloved in my head

Aaltra
Ad Astra

Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel

ok it's only reading this that I've realised that there's more than one "that american talkshow host called Jimmy-something"

It always confuses me that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher interested in the concepts of the "primitive" and the "savage" and that Henry Rousseau was a "primitivist" painter who painted jungles

Basil Dearden
Joseph Losey

Val Kilmer
Guy Pearce

ok it's only reading this that I've realised that there's more than one "that american talkshow host called Jimmy-something"

Last year, there were late-night American talk shows hosted by a Jimmy, another Jimmy, a James, and a Geoff who uses Jim as a stage name.

Raffi’s “Down by the Bay” and the theme from Bubble Bobble

Swervedriver
Skrewdriver

I have also confused those too, wonder whether Swervedriver would've had more success with a different name.

Always have to stop a moment when I see the initials:

LRB
RLB

I don't actually get the London Review of Books and Rebecca Long-Bailey confused, mind you.

https://i.imgur.com/trzpSkC.jpg

Ha, indeed.

brb, changing my name to Beeb Birtles

Honestly thought for a second that was an AI generator for names of members of rock bands, my brain just couldn't handle Graham Goble and Beeb Birtles.

"rock"

I don't know who Little River Band are! I'm still not sure that they exist!

me neither. also that looks more like the faculty page from a middle school yearbook 1976

brb lrb rlb

Bringing it all together, a choice cut from Bangladeshi rock band LRB's Screw Drivers (1995):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEH2Jc7jtjE

RL Burnside (is 'burnside' Scots for 'little river bank'?)

It's A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, not Whisky.

R.L.s of note

Kelly Brook
Kelly LeBrock

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)

― soref, Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:51 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I just today found out these were two different people - I always thought it was sad that the game designer had gone crazy like that!

Alan Zweibel
Alan Zweig

Got Madeline Kahn and Carol Kane confused so much as a kid that I still think of both of them nearly every time I see either one. Realised the other day that I may have also had Bernadette Peters mixed up in there, too.

LOL yes I was about to mention Bernadette Peters.

me too those three!

:D

italo svevo
primo levi

I recently did a Madeline Kahn/Bernadette Peters mixup as well, although I don't think I'd confuse Carol Kane for either.

A friend who is an experimental poet compiled a book titled Supergroup that compiles names of session players on LPs of the 1970s, it is 400 pages long and actually rather fun to spend time reading through. The Little River Band post reminded me of it. https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/42592642431/gpdf064gpdfe001-andy-sterling-supergroup

Occasionally, and embarrassingly (being a jazz dude), Dave Holland and Charlie Haden. I know the difference, but I sometimes catch myself thinking Dave Holland is the guy who did Liberation Music Orchestra, or that Charlie Haden was in Circle.

Jason Isaacs
Sam Neill

Mina
Milva
(RIP Ennio Morricone)

OTM

Matt Taibbi
Massimo Taibi

Fly into the Mystery/Fly into the Sun/Ride into the Sun

scrimshaws and rickshaws

Bari Weiss
Tomi Lahren

It's been a ... confusing week.

Julianna Barwick
Julia Holter

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

Adding to the confusion is Linda Ronstadt singing both.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 September 2019 21:45 (ten months ago)

Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper (but only in their child actor forms, as their adult actor forms are pretty easily distinguishable)