Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

I don't ever even think much about Bill Evans - saxophonist. It's Bill Evans the pianist who also played in an earlier Miles group who is top Bill!

oops, didn't catch all of last paste.

Yusuf Lateef also a former Bill Evans (and I think recorded under that name early on)!

In my experience lots of ppl also get Coleman Hawkins and Ornette Coleman mixed up

I wouldn't, but am a subnormal freak!
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bloody hell, didn't know that. Even record shop headz might have been confused by that one.

yusef lateef's name was BILL EVANS? are you serious?

a lady i used to work with was related to yusef lateef

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Jack Warden and Jack Weston.

I don't actually get the people confused, but their names (and timelines) are close enough that I started a movie tonight waiting for Jack Warden to show up until Jack Weston did, and I thought "Right--Jack Weston."

Nezval and Nerval
Calzino and Clemenza

michael oliver
lord haw-haw

dtla
dtlr

soap operas
prestige dramas

Nick Tosches is the worst of the first generation of rock critics (though Richard Meltzer gives him a serious run for it).

― grawlix (unperson)

meltzer's performance as det. munch on "homicide: life on the street" makes up for the shittiness of his rock criticism imo

Halsey
Alessia Cara

Ha, one time saw that guy walking down Broadway with his twin.
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deerhunter
deafheaven

(feel like this one says more about the way my brain stores words/names -- two words stuck together, 10 letters, words are 4 & 6 length, D.H.)

I always confuse deafheaven with deafhaven, a group who exist solely in the bit of my brain responsible for typing words

deerhunter and deerhoof for sure
not deafheaven

weirdly i don't have that problem because the length of the band name is different? i might be a robot

no that makes sense -- some people latch onto the syllabic rhythm of something

^^ I got teased by my family this morning for confusing dandelions with daffodils.

Terence Blanchard/Terell Stafford

Anne Carson, Anne Sexton

similarly but separately: Anne Tyler, Ann Beattie, Ann Patchett

John Ashberry, John Berryman

^all of this

Bernie Maupin / Bennie Taupin

Or is it...

Took me a while but I see what you did there.

Jan Michael Vincent and Don Johnson

Jan Michael Vincent and the "Voyagers" guy who got shot on a production set.

Jon-Erik Hexum - glad to hear I'm not the only one!

Jan-Michael Vincent and Michael Des Barres (who, I now find out, is the 26th Marquis Des Barres, which should clear up the confusion if I think of him as that).

phlebotomy and phrenology

ferberization and fletcherization

Fitzroy Maclean
Sorley Maclean
Compton Mackenzie

Casino Royale/On Her Majesty's Secret Service (haven't seen either. answered the wrong one in a quiz to 'which bond film starred george lazenby'.)

Assault on Precinct 13
The Taking of Pelham 123

Lol yes

Paul Rudolph/Paul Rodgers
Herbie Flowers/Humphrey Ocean

rudolph and flowers each feature in (different) projects i am currently subbing and fact-checking so this mild double disorientation is salutory

Bonnie Prince Billy
Billy Childish
Billie Eilish

all those and Bill Callahan

The Day of the Jackal
Three Days of the Condor

xp: true!

Three Days of the Condor
Condorman

Also I always know who Roy Scheider is but if I ever try to remember Rod Steiger's name, all I can think of is Scheider's.

(I had to look up In the Heat of the Night to remember Steiger's to write that post)

Marie Kondo/María Kodama

I wouldn't say I get them mixed up but I can't see Dunhill Records (home of the Mamas & the Papas et al) without thinking of HP Lovecraft (the author of 'The Dunwich Horror', not the band who were roughly contemporaneous with the Mamas & the Papas).

I’m going to Korea today. For the past few weeks I’ve had to train myself to say “Korea” or “South Korea” rather than “North Korea.” I have no idea why. 🤷‍♂️

Levon Vincent/Leon Vynehall

Chuba Akpom / Chuks Aneke. Both trainee Arsenal strikers, both hung around the fringes of the first team squad a few years ago before being eased out the door into a career of lower-league mediocrity.

thought this was Paul Sorvino

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