"I'm Interested in Apathy" is a single by Australian
alternative rock band,
TISM, released in September 1988 as the third single from their debut album, ''Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance''. The title is an
oxymoron
An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons, more rarely oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposing meanings within a word or phrase that creates an ostensible self-contradiction. An oxymoron can be used as a rhetorical devi ...
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.
Lyrics
"I'm Interested 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
Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ...
, being able to prove
Einstein
Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
's
theory wrong, predicting mankind's fate and knowing what really happened in regards to
Marilyn Monroe's death.
Track listing
7" single (MUS SP 2002)
*Side A - "I'm Interested in 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)
*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
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1988 songs
1988 singles
TISM songs
ARIA Award-winning songs