Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

refute/repudiate

Liev Schrieber / Liv Tyler / Liv Ullman
Alvin Curran / Alvin Lucier
Philip Corner / Phill Niblock

david hockney/alan bennett

Dennis Quaid and Jeff Bridges

I don't get them confused, per se, but I always seem to forget that Jeff Bridges' name isn't "Jeff Daniels". It takes me a second before I think, "Oh, wait. Jeff Daniels is that other guy."

john barth/roland barthes/donald barthelme

william gaddis/william gass/john gardner

I think I might also get johns barth gardner confused sometimes but there's so much other shit going on that I don't even notice

john barth/roland barthes/donald barthelme

Don't forget Frederick Barthelme.

Andrews AFB

Edwards AFB

I never thought about that before, but yeah. Me too.

Gang of Four/Mission of Burma
This is fucked up.

Roddy McDowell
Rowdy Roddy Piper

well done
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007

Frank Bruni/Franklin Bruno

There's this guy too: Frank Bruno to fight again.

Borders/Barnes and Noble, ie I cannot tell you which of the two I walk past every day on the way to and from work.

Anthony Trollope/Anthony Powell

John Pizzarelli/John Petrucci/John Patitucci

(but not Michel Petrucciani)

Ron Silver/Ron Perlman

Yeah, that's good. I think there's another Ron in there too.

Or maybe I'm thinking of when Ron Silver plays himself in "Heat Vision and Jack."

other Rons: Ron Leibman and Ron Rifkin

Yeah, thanks rosemary, it was the first of those guys, the one who played "Kaz."

Ha, Ron Rifkin's imdb page says he is sometimes confused with Joel Grey.

Mink Deville/Bebop Deluxe

Gary Oldman (in his third appearance on this list!) and Gary Sinese

Gene Orloff/Carl Orff

Christopher Walken/Christopher Hitchens

James Surowiecki and James Poniewozik

I don't get them confused, per se, but I always seem to forget that Jeff Bridges' name isn't "Jeff Daniels". It takes me a second before I think, "Oh, wait. Jeff Daniels is that other guy."

I often mix Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels too. They even look a bit like each other:

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Jeff_Bridges/jeff_bridges.jpg http://www.aolcdn.com/getty/E/2007-04-10/73818115PK009_jeff-daniels-actor-broadway-blackbird.jpg

Matos/Matmos

RIP Ron, um, Silver.

Carl Saff/Carl Orff

Robert Patrick/Jason Patric

Pere Ubu/Yo La Tengo

and

Pere Ubu/NRBQ

Basically, I just don't know who Pere Ubu are.

Ned Sherrin and Peregrine Worsethorne

Dave Brubeck and Bix Beiderbecke.

Clint Boon (from Inspiral Carpets)
Clint Mansell (from PWEI)

osteopath/homeopath

Ben Franklin, Benedict Arnold
I know who they are and what they did, but sometimes when I eat Eggs Benedict I start thinking about Ben Franklin with the kite getting over with the key, and then having to clear my mind and think of traitors.

Superchunk/Supergrass

The various wolf bands, with the exception of Wolf Eyes and AIDS Wolf, the latter being the only one I've actually listened to.

Don't forget Peanut Butter Wolf.

They're one of the wolf bands I get mixed up with the wolf bands that aren't Wolf Eyes or AIDS Wolf. I'm clear on those two.

For a while it was just Peanut Butter Wolf and Guitar Wolf, and I'd forget which one was Japanese.

Superchunk/Supergrass

on this note, Superchunk / Superdrag / Supertramp. I know who they all are, but still have to think for a second whenever I see any of their names.

I always get this, and I have no idea why because they don't look similar and I'm aware of what films they are respectively in so should never really get them confused.

http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/eon/images/defoe1.jpg

http://www.motleycrow.com/imagehost/christopher_walken22.jpg

I heard a song by Steaming Wolf Penis on Paper Thin Walls. The review did an excellent job of describing it. I miss that site.

Pee Wee Ellis/Pee Wee Russell

Ca. 1987, all these TV shows were on the air, none of which I've actually seen:

Cagney and Lacey
Kate and Allie
The Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Jake and the Fatman

Somehow the 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman also gets mixed up in there.

Joneshttp://photos.upi.com/topics-Hugh-Laurie/f5dc90e1d43610f9baa658b0c2116102/Hugh-Laurie_1.jpgLauriehttp://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/09/23/LosingIt460.jpg

take over
overtake

despite having gone to school and everything

I think you have those mixed up not_goodwin, but maybe that was the point.