Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Samuel Alito
Antonin Scalia

Robert Morris
Morris Louis

Dengue Dengue Dengue
Dengue Fever

oh, never mind, that was meant for the other thread. I always get those two mixed up!

The Spectator
The New Statesman

One of these political magazines is a fascist rag run by Andrew Neil, one is a supposedly centre-left Guardian-style melt thing, but which is which? I can never remember without looking it up.

Ditto.

there's always a ph34r of accidental mixing-up when I need to mention any of

Boccherini
Botticelli
Boccaccio

those three easily-mixed-up Italians of long ago who, um, excelled in entirely different arts and together span half a millennium between the birth of the first and death of the last :-/

The Clientele
Clinic

Friday the 13th
Halloween

So many bands

And also the trees
A minor forest

Friday the 13th
Halloween

oh yeah

Ty Segall
Thee Oh Sees

Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet
Man…or Astroman?

Man…or Astroman?
The Aquabats

Lygia Clark
Lygia Pape

Modest Mouse
Mouse on Mars

Man... or Astroman?
Spacemen 3

(xp) ditto

Robert Kirby
Blue Weaver

Probably because both played keyboards for the Strawbs but are better known elsewhere. Can never remember which one of them worked with the Bee Gees and which with Nick Drake without looking it up.

Lou Reed never went on a foul-mouthed rant about Robert Kirby.

Parker Posey and Posie Parker (a TERF apparently)

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:54 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean ffs someone here is aiming for confusion (of course it's the terf)

a bit rough on the actor Posey if someone might get you mixed up with the nutjob who suggested armed men should start entering women's toilet to "protect" them.

Bob Lind
Bob Hund

Steely Dan
Duran Duran

Oh, many years ago, Steeleye Span and Steely Dan.

Yeah, kind of for me too, though it more falls into the realm of “I can’t help one name making me think of this other” than actual mixing up. See also: Fairport Convention, who I was aware of after Fairground Attraction.

tennis players:
(Hubert) Hurkacz
(Márton) Fucsovics

Melissa Leo
Maria Bello

Holly Hunter
Meg Ryan

The Move
The Nice

Leonard Cohen
Nick Cave
Lloyd Cole
Nick Lowe

It took me many years to straighten these guys out.

I watched the whole first season of The Boys thinking Karl Urban was Keith Urban.

they are both kiwis!

From a Buick 6 (Bob Dylan song)
From a Buick 8 (Stephen King novel)

(I mean I don't confuse a song with a book, I just can't remember the cylinder count in the Dylan title since it doesn't appear in the song anywhere).

Paul Kolderie, audio engineer
Paul Kolaj, owner of Famous Famiglia (a chain of pizzerias in NYC)

Immortal Technique

Idiosyncratic Routine

Charlie Rich

Charlie Pride

let me solve this for you

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

if you really need strings, they can be provided

graham sutherland

paul nash

confusion was actually brought on by a graham nash thread revive!

Damon and Naomi
Dean and Britta

the world really isn't big enough for two male/female Galaxie 500 side projects called 'D__n and [someone]'. p sure one of them covered an Opal song one time.

Wait, they are not the same?

apparently not! I just sampled a few songs by each duo, and it seems as if one of them might be 'sadcore' and the other might be 'slowcore'. not sure which is which, though. further investigation is needed

This is why I have my other similarly named thread that seemed to have caused a bit of confusion. I know that they both exist and don't really Always Get Them Mixed Up, but yet.

David Hyde Pierce
Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris

Anthony Michael Hall

Definitely been guilty of mixing up these two Bills in the past.

For years, Pullman was in the odd position of being a household name who was forever mistaken for the late Bill Paxton, star of Apollo 13, Twister and A Simple Plan. Even now, Pullman’s Wikipedia page has a slightly impertinent note at the top: “Not to be confused with Bill Paxton.” Pullman blames the confusion on the plosives in their names, though I suspect it’s more to do with their everyman personas.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jun/21/bill-pullman-mad-house-interview

Thought those two guys were basically the raison d’être of this thread.

Hobo Johnson
Homeboy Sandman

Ed Davey
Ed Vaizey