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{{Infobox Single song

| Name name = I'm Interested Inin Apathy

| cover = I'm_Interested_in_Apathy_by_TISM.png

| Cover = apathy.jpg

| Captionalt =

| Artist type = [[TISM]]single

| fromartist = [[TISM]]
| album Album = [[Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance]]

| B-side = {{ubl|Gas! Gas! -– An Ecstasy Ofof Fumbling <br> |The Judeo-Christian Ethic}}

| A-side =

| released = September 1988

| B-side = Gas! Gas! - An Ecstasy Of Fumbling <br> The Judeo-Christian Ethic

| Releasedrecorded = May =1987–March 1988

| Format studio = 12''Platinum SingleStudios

| Recorded venue = 1987

| Genre genre = [[Alternative rock]]

| Length length = ??2:??55

| Label label = Musicland/[[Elvis Records]]

| Writer writer = [[TISM]]

| Producer producer =

| Last single prev_title = ''[[The Ballad Ofof John Bonham's Coke Roadie]]'' <br> (1987)

| Certification =

| Chartprev_year position = 1988

| Next single next_title = ''[[Saturday Night Palsy]]'' <br> (1988)

| Last single = ''[[The Ballad Of John Bonham's Coke Roadie]]'' <br> (1987)

| next_year = 1989

| This single = '''''I'm Interested In Apathy''''' <br> (1988)

| Next single = ''[[Saturday Night Palsy]]'' <br> (1988)

| Misc =

}}

"'''"I'm Interested in Apathy"'''" is the name of a single by Australian [[TISMalternative rock]]. Itband, was[[TISM]], released offin September 1988 as the third single from their debut album, ''[[Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance]]'' (1988). The title is an [[oxymoron]] as [[apathy]] is literally a "lack of interest". A 12" version, with a bonus track, was issued in December 1988.

At the [[ARIA Music Awards of 1989]], the song won [[ARIA Award for Best Independent Release|Best Independent Release]].<ref name="BIR ARIA">{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/award/Best-Independent-Release|title=ARIA Awards Best Independent Release|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref>

==Song==

The song details the life of a man who has many ideas which range from either life saving, supernatural, answers to conspiracy theories or simply absurd abilities; however, none of these things faze him, nor does he act upon them, because his main focus is [[apathy]].

== Lyrics ==

Among the things the main claims to know or be able to do are: drilling for [[oil]] in the [[Bass Strait]], being able to prove [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s [[theory of relativity|theory]] wrong, predicting mankind's fate and knowing what really happened in regards to [[Death of Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn Monroe's death]].

The"I'm songInterested in Apathy" details the life of a man who has many ideas which range from either life saving, supernatural, answers to conspiracy theories or simply absurd abilities; however, none of these things faze him, nor does he act upon them, because his main focus is [[apathy]]. His interest in apathy even prevents him from properly finishing the song, which ends with "Well, here we are at the last verse / I've lost interest."

Among the things the main claims to know or be able to do are: drilling for [[oil]] in the [[Bass Strait]], being able to prove [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s [[theory of relativity|theory]] wrong, predicting mankind's fate and knowing what really happened in regards to [[Death of Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn Monroe's death]].

== Track listing ==

'''7" single''' (MUS SP 2002)

===Side A===

#*Side A - "I'm Interested Inin Apathy" - 2:53

#*Side B - "Gas! Gas! -– An Ecstasy Ofof Fumbling" - 2:51

# "The Judeo-Christian Ethic" (Only on 12")

'''12" single''' (MUS 12" 2002)

===Side B===

*Side A - "I'm Interested in Apathy" - 2:53

# "Gas! Gas! - An Ecstasy Of Fumbling"

*Side B1 - "Gas! Gas! – An Ecstasy of Fumbling" - 2:51

# "The Judeo-Christian Ethic"

*Side B2 - "The Judeo-Christian Ethic" - 1:37

==See alsoReferences==

{{reflist}}

* [[TISM]]

{{TISM}}

==External links==

* [http://www.geniac.net/tism/apathy.txt ''I'm Interested In Apathy'' Lyrics]

{{TISM Discography}}

[[Category:1988 songs]]

[[Category:1988 singles]]

[[Category:TISM songs]]

[[Category:ARIA Award-winning songs]]

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