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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_title = Saturday Night Palsy

| 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 (song)|Saturday Night Palsy]]'' <br> (1988)

| Misc =

}}

''"'''I'm Interested Inin 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>

The song reached the National Top 40 in Australia<ref name="tismhistory">Official TISM History [http://serious.sbn.bz/base/view/document/history1989 1989] </ref>.

==Song Lyrics ==

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 phasefaze 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 [[E=mc²theory of relativity|theory]] wrong, predicting mankind's fate and knowing what really happened in regards to [[Death of Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn MunroeMonroe's death]].

==Video Track listing ==

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

[[Image:SatNitePalsy|thumb|A man is turned away from a [[TISM]] concert in the video clip.]]

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

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

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

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

A video was made by Peter Bain-Hog which featured a handsome man spending his day getting ready to go out dancing. Eventually he finds himself outside of a TISM concert and denied entry, at the end of the video, he is so dejected by the experience that he commits suicide by hanging himself in a nearby alley.

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

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

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

==References==

The video was intended to parody other similar video clips of the time which showed good looking people dressing up, going out and enjoying themselves, however the final scene was cut from many broadcasts "in a superb act of bowdlerization, thus rendering the clip exactly the same as every other slickly produced clip of groovy models having a good time.<ref name="tismhistory"/>"

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==Trivia==

[[Category:TISM1988 albumssingles]]

When the song was released, TISM were invited to perform the song on popular Australian variety show [[Hey Hey It's Saturday]]. As the song began, the seven members performing the song were joined by seven more and before the song ended, a further fourteen, for a total of 28 so-called band members<ref name="tismhistory"/>.

[[Category:TISM songs]]

[[Category:ARIA Award-winning songs]]

==Track list==

===Side A===

# "I'm Interested In Apathy"

===Side B===

# "Pus"

==Notes==

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==See also==

* [[TISM]]

==External links==

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

{{TISM Discography}}

[[Category:TISM]]

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