Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

no long day's journey into night?

Lush
Luna

Eugene Mirman
Patton Oswalt

The M4
The M40

I really hate that bit of the M25, I can never remember which is which

One of the best things my old man's family do (they're sarf London, to the core) is drop the 'M' or 'A' from any discussion of car journeys (B roads don't get a mention). 'Yeah, yeah, well, I had to come up the free, join the twenny five and straight onto the facking fore - always get mixed up between that and the facking forety'.
I could listen all day.

I also confuse the M40 and M4, related to this last month I dropped my wife off in Basingstoke, which I thought somehow was "on the way" from Cambridge to Stratford-upon-Avon, an overdue look at a map afterwards revealed the three places form an equilateral triangle.

Beware the Basingrad Triangle.

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Glynis Johns / Glyn Johns

...is messing with my head rn

Ed Davey / Ed Vaizey

Alma Colgan
Ruby Murray

Big Little Lies
Pretty Little Liars

^

Add to that Dirty Sexy Money and Little Fires Everywhere

Normal People
Ordinary People

Marc Bolan
Tommy Bolin

Alma Colgan
Ruby Murray

no-one goes out for an alma

Which one did the "dreamboat" song though? which one was on panel shows in the mid 60s and chummy with the beatles? which one died tragically early from cancer? I can find out these things, I cannot retain them.

I can identify them in the context of their respective work but if they were part of a lineup I'm not sure I could tell the difference between Russell Hitchcock and Leo Sayer and John Panozzo and Ron Palillo and Richard Simmons and Slim Goodbody.

(Their '70s/'80s iterations, obvs.)

galt macdermot
mort garson

Aldi
Lidl

Hans Sloane
John Soane

Aldi
Lidl

Oh man. This is one that's so ingrained in me, I didn't even realize I was mixing the two up.

Yeah they are both new to my area and I haven't been to either one.

I vaguely know that one of them has hilariously on-point mimic packaging for its store-brand knockoffs. Like Mr. Pepper soda and Ireo cookies and Kepler Gnome cookies - I just can never remember which one that is.

Aldi used to sell biscuits called Disco Biscuits, but they have sadly been renamed.

They have been renamed Groovy Biscuits.
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/bogof/aldi-down-on-disco-biscuits/230835.article

Karen Allen
Karen Black

Matthew Williams
Matthew Williamson

Karen Allen
Karen Black

kimchi
kombucha
chimichurri

did anyone say chuchichäschtli?

The Dream Academy
The Dream Syndicate

Jazz critic Stanley Crouch
Jazz pianist Stanley Cowell

Sanjaya, from American Idol
Zandaya, from Dancing with the Stars

her name is Z*e*ndaya, if it helps

Jan & Dean and Chad & Jeremy

Chad & Jeremy
Peter & Gordon ("A World Without Love")

^ this led me to ask myself, "did jan & dean ever make a psychedelic record?" sort of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Sound

xp

The other day a friend mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughan in a context that really confused me until I realized I was actually thinking of Steve Vai.

Also The Jesus Lizard and Half Japanese, apparently.

Uh. Yngwie Malmsteen and Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

Yeah I think I've been making the Stevie Ray Vaughn / Steve Vai mistake in my head for a long time

This is a wild one to me, but I was immersed in the world of guitar heroics as a youth.

greta gerwig
greta thunberg

Adam Mars-Jones
Andrew O'Hagan

Jan And Dean and Ben And Jerry. Obviously I know the difference but subconsciously they're the same , the association goes:

Jan and Dean -> Pearl and Dean -> going to "the cinemas" as a kid -> buying icecream in tubs -> Ben and Jerry

Stuart Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Tough on Rupert.

recently realised I've been confusing Jandek and Daniel Johnson for years.

Handel
Haydn