Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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.

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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.

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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.

paul weller/paul westerberg

Cascada and Kaskade

Ozric Tentacles
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Ned's Atomic Dustbin

(Never heard anything by these bands, but I mix up the names.)

Lunch/Dinner (I'll say I'm having dinner when I mean I'm having lunch and vice versa. Incredibly annoying.

Jethro Tull/Uriah Heep
John Martyn/Roy Harper

Used to have serious trouble with Jean Claude Van Damme and errr, the other guy. I just spent five minutes on Google trying to figure out his name, but whenever I think of a movie he's in, it turns out it's Van Damme!

I will not yield!

He was in something with Henry Ford, I think. Wait, no, that guy's not named Henry Ford... Henry... He was in the Fugitive! Harrison Ford!

Oh for crying out loud, I just clicked through a whole lotta Ford titles on IMDB and still didn't find m... OH WAIT It's Steven Seagal!

That was not worth it at all.

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

― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 May 2009 16:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark

twas the point :)

The Kinks
The Jam

I know one of these is from the 60s and one from the 80s, but I can't remember which one is which.

The Kinks were from the 80s. They had that song called "Come Dancing".

Tuomas
Fake Tuomas

peter sarsgaard & stellen skarsgaard

Lindsay Duncan and Lesley Manville

lonnie liston smith & dr. lonnie smith. i just found out they're not the same guy.

burt reynolds and tom sellacks

jeremy london and jason london

Reynolds and Selleck, me too!

Haha, I didn't THINK I mixed those two up, until I looked them up now and uhm, Tom Selleck looked like I expected Burt Reynolds to look and vice versa!

I've been mixing up Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck ever since I was a kid.

Thomas Mann/Hermann Hesse

Marco Pierre White/whoever the other chef I always think is Marco Pierre White is.

I had to break it to the s.o. the other night that John Oates of Hall and Oates and Warren Oates were not the same person.

lonnie liston smith & dr. lonnie smith. i just found out they're not the same guy.

― m coleman, Monday, May 11, 2009 8:30 AM (1 week ago)

This common phenomenon was mentioned over here: TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

Limp Bizkit
Linkin' Park

Two nu metal bands with two-word names which both begin with "Li", I have absolutely no idea which is which. Nor could I name any songs from either.

Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka.

emily watson and emily mortimer.

joss whedon and will wheaton - two people whose names appear on the internet a lot who don't do anything i care about.

Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen. And their families.

Milton Keynes and Milton Freeman
John Maynard Keynes in there somewhere

Frightened Rabbit and the Twilight Sad

Glasvegas and the View

Only realized just now:
Ivy Compton-Burnett and Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Perhaps all those people recommending Compton-Burnett weren't mad after all -- I will have to find out soon! If anyone happens to have advice on where to begin, I'd appreciate it.

Simon Callow and Simon Cowell. I don't get the people mixed up, but I have to think hard before saying either of their names to make sure I get the right one.

Sean Kinney
Sean Yseult

Budapest / Bucharest
Borromini / Bernini
Michelle Branch / Vanessa Carlton

David Brenner and Bruce Jenner

Ha!