It’s time to get back on track with the Total Recall weekly videos. This week I’ve been running into a lot of both personal, and through friends/family, experiences that deal with social contact and perceptions of trust. In the most general way of stating it: how we see the interactions of those around us and of ourselves on the most basic level, are experiences that shape us.

Trying to find video of classic favorites that encapsulate this idea can be hard, but the subtlety in what I was able to come up with is there I think. So, if you’re out and about today, take a harder look at how you’re interacting with others, how do you think these actions (things as little as your perceptions) shape those around you?

David Bowie (featuring Nine Inch Nails) – I’m Afraid of Americans

Devo – Peek-A-Boo!

Depeche Mode – Barrel of A Gun

Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf

Faith No More – Caffeine (live)

“Caffeine Lyrics”

Pour shame all over us, harden into a crust, -cement-. Forget the glamor and mumble a jackhammer, -under your breath-. Hide your face in the curtains, better unsaid so close, and it rolls off the tongue almost, the world expects the pose, perfectly natural, -loosen up-. Smearing wet concrete, and swearing you’ll never be, -caught-. At your weakest, etched in stone, and we’re frozen here peeking, almost sweet talk, caffeine, make contact, up to my neck, I confess in quicksand, but it’s so easy for you, there’s always one thing, do you have something to tell me? Say something, anything, I’m warning you, I’m warning you, I’m fucking you, I’m warning you, relax. It’s just a phase, you’ll grow out of it, believe anything anyone ever tells you, it’s not funny any more, it’s the thing you hate the most, the thing you hate the most, the thing you hate almost.