Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

like i know who they are & what movies they are in but both have that fragile luminescent thing where i have to stop & think which is which

The Angry Video Game Nerd / The Nostalgia Critic

Weirdly I once confused Sydney Pollack and David Straitharn in one of the trailers

geoff barrow (portishead)
geoff bastow (music to varnish owls by)

neil tennant
neil kinnock

From the Trump thread,

Kathy Griffin
Vicki Lewis
and I'll add Clea Lewis, who was on a sitcom or two in the 90s.

whenever i read the name of rick bayless i think they are talking about tim bayliss, and get very confused and angry that people are spending so much time discussing a fictional character from a '90s cop show.

<3

this may be my favorite post itt

ty for justifying my bookmark

Jim Thome and James Comey.

Graham Swift/Graham Joyce
Robert Carlock/Robert Carlyle

Paul Giamatti and that actor who looks like him I just saw on an episode of Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt who is... John Lutz.

Kimmy

Travis Porter / Travis Scott

The Spectator and the New Statesman.

to my embarrassment i realized yesterday that i was under the impression that scott bakula and scott baio were the same person.

I used to get Ray Romano and Joe Mantegna confused. i had some movie on in the 90s with Mantegna and said "wow Raymond suddenly learned how to act!"

to my embarrassment i realized yesterday that i was under the impression that scott bakula and scott baio were the same person.

― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Monday, June 12, 2017 7:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're thinking of that episode where Sam leaps back to 1982 and discovers he can strip co-eds with his mind.

Walkabout and The Go Between

^interesting

Bloomsday/Flag Day

Finest Worksong

The Working Hour

L.H. Meyers/L.P. Hartley

Aargh:
L.H. Myers/L.P. Hartley

had to resort to google recently after spending way too long trying to recall myers' name.

dj enright/dj taylor

also there's a contributor to lrb which i keep reading as diana trilling!

Diana Ross and Donna Summers

the former is doing a show here and I keep getting excited and then forgetting that as much as I like Diana, it's Donna that I woulda wanted to see and she's dead now

(obv I don't mistake their voices just for some reason my initial reaction to the name is always wrong)

Aargh:
L.H. Myers/L.P. Hartley

John Ashbery/John Berryman

Rachel Weisz / Rachel Ward

Ruth Davidson/Ruth Davenport

The Moral Maze
The Crystal Maze

They do need to be merged.

Gary Busey
a kitchen floor that's been belt-sanded

David Brenner and Bruce Jenner

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:42 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha!

― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:23 PM

but really came to post
John Scofield/John Abercrombie

Which maybe I should post on rolling Jazz thread

I have that same problem.

Just found out that C. P. Scott and C. P. Snow are not the same person, mind = very mildly blown

Jonathan Ive
Jimmy Iovine

http://i.imgur.com/BTC1Cs0.jpg

Donald J Trump
A putrefying pumpkin

Love seeing that guy's name, just over and over again. All over Facebook. All over Twitter. All over ILX. Thanks.

Well, the guy dated stevie nicks and was on American Idol, so a certain level of ubiquity is to be expected.

http://i.imgur.com/RvucTKU.gif

Bloody Birthday
Happy Birthday To Me

tony curtis
tony randall

i know who they are & what they look like but whenever i hear someone talk about one tony i catch myself picturing the other tony

Todd Haynes
Todd Solondz

Greg Mottola
Gregg Araki

I don't always get them mixed up--I know who made the Dylan film, and know who made Adventureland--but I do sometimes have to stop for a few seconds to make sure I'm referring to the right one.

Those Todds always catch me out too.

Trevor Watts
Trevor Wishart

Aoste (France) and Aosta (Northern Italy). They both have meat products.

Dyess, Arkansas/Delight, Arkansas

If it helps any, GC was really from Billstown.

Maidstone and Maidenhead.