What is auth?

Posted by carles | May 5, 2015 | 76 Comments

what-is-auth
Auth is not music.

No music is auth.
Anything that was ever created is auth.
Creation is auth.

Auth is the failed pursuit of authness in relation to what is currently nauth.
It is easier to define what is nauth than it is to define what is auth.

Auth is talking to a friend.
Auth is a genuine smile.
Auth is losing yourself in the moment.

Auth is the search for eternal novelty.
Auth is realizing that relationships are pointless and self-serving.

The auth mindset/philosophy/pyramid scheme sees everything as compromised bullshit.

Auth is eating 99% lean ground turkey.
Auth is minimizing carbohydrates.
Auth is fake sugar.
Auth is post-cane sugar.
Auth is eating processed foods.
Auth is embracing the relationality of everything.

Auth disconnects you from being the sum of your personal experiences.

Mexican / Kosher Coke is contemporary Conformist.

What is auth?

Auth is untreated mental health problems.
Auth is owning a tiny house in North Dakota.
Auth is owning a McMansion in the city center.
Auth is homelessness.
Auth is rubbermaid tubs instead of furniture.

Auth is squats.
Auth is cardio.
Auth is urban hiking.
Auth is suburban hiking.
Auth is a dying shopping centre.
Auth is poverty.
Auth is making less than $_0k/year.

Auth is breaking free from the arbitrary validators of society.
Auth is building your social circle without the pitfalls of social interaction.

Auth is an eternal crisis.
Auth is walking.
Auth is driving.

Auth is drone.
Auth is dance.
Auth is drone_pop.
Auth is the sound of never.

Auth is music on souncloud with less than 10k plays.

Auth is music on souncloud with less than 5k plays.

Auth is music on souncloud with less than 1k plays.

Auth is music on souncloud with less than 1 play(s).

Auth is music that you made that you thought wasn’t good, therefore, never shared it with any one.

Auth is not authenticity.
authenticity-is-basic-as-fuck

Auth is music not found on ________ medium.
Auth is not in the cloud.
Auth is embracing our dependency on the cloud, not overthinking mediums.

Auth is a conversation where you transcended your context.
Auth is monitoring your daily caloric intake.
Auth is being direct with people.
Auth is free of social conventions.

You might say Nothing Matters.
To that, I say, “I’m alive, authing out.”

Auth is survival.
Auth is not being alive.
Auth is the eternal moment before death.
Auth takes nothing seriously.
Auth takes everything post-seriously.

Auth will never be defined…
We are working to define auth…
Auth is about the journey
Auth is about laying in bed

Auth is breaking free from every one ‘basically being the same/being able to do basically the exact same things.’

Auth
Will
Set
You
Free

Auth is embracing _________ regardless of context and/or personal experience.

This is a song I posted.
It is/is not auth.
I listened to it.
It made me feel something.

I am not thinking about what other people think about Tame Impala.
I am just hanging out with the song.
Auth is understand the randomness of things ‘that you know about’ becoming ‘things that you know about’, eventually ‘becoming you.’

Auth is becoming an expert in the nothingness of everything, but finding the somethingness that keeps you alive.

Auth embraces the gimmick.

////Never forget:

/////Auth sounds like goth.

What is auth to you?

If this post gets 20 definitions of auth [via comments], I will post again.

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  • Louda

    Auth sounds like goth

    • carles #1 fan

      auth sounds like goth

      • https://twitter.com/theericlarson Obscure Cactus

        U listen to drone music bro?

    • http://no.com no

      auth sounds like goth

    • Sierra

      auth sounds like sloth

      • http://www.aniccata.com/ Tracy Noelle

        You win the internet in a totally auth way.

        • dat_bro06

          Missing the beachsloth got from HRO (“i’m a sloth”)

  • mo vauthgn

    UR like the George Authington of Auth, mannnnnnnn

  • alexander

    auth is nene riding wood for the good of the team [via otto porter]

  • dsn32

    The Creed of auth – “if it feels good, do it.” [via Scott Stapp vibes]

  • jacob

    auth is a massive high school collection of band shirts that you still wear because they are clothing

    • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

      eff yeah we need to stop giving a fuck and start wearing our college wave band shirts again guys

      • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

        #metz #iceage

  • naha

    auth is a garish red samsung galaxy s5 active w/ a cracked screen and some of the at&t stickers from time of purchase still on the back plate.

    • Brudge

      Auth is the iPhone 6

      • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

        Close, but not quite. OnePlus One is the clear auth choice (via blatant personal bias)

  • alexander

    the auth that can be told is not the true auth (via Tao (Lin))

  • fart party 64

    Auth is making do with what’s at your disposal… slightly begrudgingly.

  • carles #1 fan

    hot post

    i really like how you alvvays ask a lot of questions. the thinking process is laid bare in a hot way.

    “Auth is breaking free from every one ‘basically being the same/being able to do basically the exact same things.”

    my definition: auth is magic and witchcraft

    • Hair/ blood/ fire aka ME

      It’s called hoodoo voodoo
      U remind me of the babe
      Dance Magic dance

      I practice Santeria
      I got a crystal ball
      A golden bear
      & a bell

      Hala

  • Chunk

    Auth is moving back to Ithaca

  • Chunk

    Auth is also living with your parents

  • alexander

    this may be inauth but carles your readers are f”ucking retarded”/”poor”

    • Sierra

      saying inauth instead of nauth is not very auth

    • Bronello_Cucinelli

      actually carles’s readership is a ‘highly coveted by advertisers’ 18-35 market segment

  • http://no.com no

    Auth is just ‘Letting it Happen’ [via The Tame Impalas]

  • polf

    Auth is knowing nothing matters but stil caring.

  • Arf

    “Auth disconnects you from being the sum of your personal experiences.”

    yeahh i’m into this. sounds like auth is about not defining yourself via specific things (music, clothes, foods, etc.)

    • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

  • Me

    Cuz I’m a million different people from one day to the next
    I can’t change my mold
    Noooooo
    Nooooo
    Nooooo

    Self medication wavvvvesss
    Mental illness
    Ice cream
    Relationships based on chaos
    Chaos based on nothing
    Nothing based on everything

    Find the reason
    Puzzle pieces
    Niagara Falls
    Flat tires

    Anger waves
    Carb loading
    Carb cycling
    Dietary restrictions
    Coffee

    Nothing matters
    It all works somehow
    In the end

    Youth based Alzheimer’s
    Dementia
    Dual personality disorder
    Body dismorphia
    Self inflicted pain
    Depression
    Molly

    Hot hot heat
    Bangers
    Justice
    Dance floors
    Golden vows

    Cinco de
    Mayo

    May flowers

    • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

      u r a budding ‘songwriter’ man. U need to start keeping track of ur thoughts with evernote or something & let the thoughts flow

      • Me

        I know
        Thank u for knowing too
        Peace
        Love
        Little Hersey kisses

  • Sierra

    damn… i’m auth as fuck

    • fizzle

      you get it.

  • poop

    auth is carles’ funny word for ppl who are still sincerely making “indie/alt” music long after the moment for that genre has passed bcuz they genuinely like it

    • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

  • carles #1 fan

    is carles a genius?

    • Me

      Nothing matters
      Eat tofu

  • KONY_2K12

    crls #slaying_it per usual

  • alexander

    worried about carles. i worry he may settle on being a nomenclature artist. a namer. a bro who spends his days defining shit, making scalpel cuts with commas and qualifiers. carles bro, dream larger.

    • dat_bro06

      I thought that ‘nomenclature artist’ was a clever term so I Googled it. Turns out your comment shows up 5th in the results. Carl. buz may never scale but the commentors. . may scale.

  • David Lee Auth

    Let us speak no more of the n/auth binary. Authism exists on a spectrum. FACT: two out of every three conformists exhibit some authistic traits. #educateyourself #stopnauthshaming

    • poop

      auth is carles’ funny word for ppl who are still sincerely making
      “indie/alt” music long after the moment for that genre has passed bcuz
      they genuinely like it

  • Jonathan

    I missed when this posted bc I legit was taking a walk in the county park with the auth sounds of nature and no one was around

  • HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK

    I think my sister is pretty auth. She was a flight attendant, got pregnant by a fire fighter, now they live together and are happy with their son.

    • dat_bro06

      I enjoy your posts. Please continue 2 post. Riding positive_thinking waves {via Carl the Bloggr}.

      “Let us spread this gauthpel {gospel w/ a lithp} far and wide to all the ends of the Earth”

      • carles #1 fan

        we must spread the gauthpel

  • Mike

    auth is a state of being/doing for the sake of itself. not to “gain life experience” or “show off to friends”.

  • peeeeej

    remember sleigh bells lol

    • Bronello_Cucinelli

      hahaha

  • Chrill-Chrill

    Are Juggalos “Auth”? Seems pretty auth.

  • JacquiChan

    The auth shall set you free.

  • Jonathan

    the auth is out there

  • Bronello_Cucinelli

    Great post, Carl. I’m reminded of Freud’s positing on man’s constant internal struggle between his death drive (Thanatos) (‘nauth’) and his sex drive/life drive (Eros) (‘auth’)

    • Jonathan

      respect

  • menaquinone4

    eastern orthodox christianity is pretty auth

    • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

      kinda feel like Pope Francis is the most auth ‘spiritual leader’ atm

      Catholicism => guilt

      Protestantism => shame

      If a ‘gun’ was pointed to my ‘head’, I would pick guilt…

  • http://www.anodynegame.com/ sean hogan (seagaia)

    auth is “challenging compromised bullshit” … I like that definition. It’s something inescapable for everyone, but sort of a framework for viewing things we take part in

  • Gothbag

    Auth cannot be defined as it transcends definition.

  • fizzle

    auth is kinda believing in conspiracy theories.
    auth is running away from home only to find it again.
    auth is riding bikes at night with nowhere to go.
    auth is the smell of dryer sheets.
    auth is mcdonalds breakfast.
    auth is hitting “seek” on your car radio.

  • stewart

    Auth is cool

  • Gary Oldman

    auth is

  • Authopedic

    discussing auth seems pretty nauth.

  • http://www.twitter.com/macostarz macostarz

    Dat Tame Impala track.

    Dis text chunk:

    “Auth is the eternal moment before death.
    Auth takes nothing seriously.
    Auth takes everything post-seriously.”

    I don’t know where it will lead, but I ‘know’ you’re on the ‘right track’ Carles.

    (We’re in this together man.)

  • Jonathan

    do dogs have an auth nature?

  • xily

    If people can only do what their culture
    affords them, and if their culture places import on individuality and
    individual expression, what are the possible results of people’s attempts at
    individual expression?

    Auth.

    • xily

      you fear that your life lacks inherent
      meaning because any action you take is the byproduct of culture and isn’t
      actually unique. your fear that you have no possibilities of your own undermines
      your attempts to know and take care of yourself.

      so auth.

      • xily

        Suppose there’s a shrinking distance between
        public and private modes of existence; how does this change what it means to be
        human? Suppose there’s no such thing as a human subject with a singular
        essence; then what can we make of the events and practices in our culture that
        are organized around something called the individual?

        nauth.

  • PringerX

    auth has always been here
    chill auth bros in the 18th century
    auth will always be here
    chill auth bros in the 28ths century

  • loogie

    I was thinking in the shower after reading this (pretty auth) and wondering if Lorde is auth.

  • fizzle

    my broken iphone 4 or this aesthetic http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/08/diy-hip-hop-videos/

  • Taylor

    my interpretation is that auth is doing something for yourself instead of everyone else. nothing wrong with “appreciating” some “real coffee” while wearing your casual denims as long as your first inclination isn’t to instagram the fuck out of it and worry about likes/shares, but rather to enjoy your fuckin coffee and move on

  • roostersauce

    auth is a way of life… until the next life moving experience comes along.

  • blue_brat

    auth is me and my little sis’s bogo nike sneaks from rack room.
    auth is sound mixing ‘in the box’
    auth is hot ‘n’ ready little ceasars pizza
    auth is buying fucking polos for your waiter job bc it’s an easy way to look ‘put together’
    auth is your only transportation is your grandmother’s nice ass 2003 buick
    auth is living in a sorta bygone family suburb with two 40+ yo dudes and a super christian bro bc the rent is cheap and they are domestically chill/easy to get along with
    auth is i don’t really like drugs anymore
    auth is whatever you live esp. the parts you don’t instagram
    auth is the aspects of your life that don’t necessarily make good conversation
    auth is just the truth
    auth is the feeling (my feeling) of wanting to celebrate that truth

  • Fuckface Farkwell

    auth is having no friends IRL, posting on forums, playing video games, and making a deece five figgies a year

    being auth is the ultimate care

  • wingo

    is my music auth?
    https://amsch.bandcamp.com/