The Superjesus
'Sumo'

Reviewed by Melanie Henderson

This album is brought to you by the same band with the hit single "down Again". The Superjesus are:
Chris Tennent - Guitars
Paul Berryman - Drums
Sarah McLeod - Vocals/Guitars
Stuart Rudd - Bass
They have just finished the Australian promotional tour ending it in Darwin.
By way of sound The Superjesus is in a class on its own. Sarah McLeod has a very original voice and all the songs on the album were composed by her and Chris Tennent.
Songs like "Honeyrider", which is about being wrapped in seasons or moods of the day before then waking up in the same mood gives The Superjesus a more in depth feeling to their music.
The new single "Now and Then" is one of my personal favourites, it's about an affair gone wrong and not wanting to wake up to it.
With a close reading of all The Superjesus songs, the way I interpret them is as a musical life experience.
The words are pretty morbid but with the music, you wouldn't realise it.
The Superjesus "Sumo" is definitely an organised album. It has originality and in-depth songs.
One of my favourite CD's and not being biased or anything but I give it 4/5 spuds. (It lost a point for the morbid words but don't let that put you off buying it because it is till a great CD.)

Chasing Amy

Film Review by Tony Jefferies

Chasing Amy is a film about a menage a trois, involving three people as they fall in and out of love and back in and out of love again. It is hard to be too critical of a film about love: such criticism must inevitably be seen for what it is, sour grapes. So I won't go too hard in savaging Chasing Amy. It was sort of delightful in its own way.
Holden (Ben Affleck) is a fairly well-adjusted comic strip writer, if there can be such a thing, and Banky (Jason Lee) is his erstwhile assistant and buddy. He is Holden's inker - he inks in the drawings after Holden draws them, an art he is quick to defend. Holden and Banky's creative business partnership, not to say friendship, is ruptured forever with the appearance of Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), a hot and wild lesbian who captivates Holden and alienates Banky. The film's raison d'etre arrives with the discovery that Alyssa's racy past includes heterosexual group sex, something Holden can't quite wrap his mind around, despite having made the leap to accepting homosexuality.
Virtually every love story (I was going to say every movie with Tom Cruise in it) has this little turn around at the end. Where the lover blows it, goes through a period of soul searching, emerges wiser and stronger, reunites with his beloved, and, together, they ride off into the sunset. That's what happens here. The Chasing Amy bit comes from the experience of acknowledging you've made a very big mistake in letting someone you love go. Chasing Amy isn't crass enough to have a happy-ever-after ending, its more bittersweet, as befits the times, but of course you're left with the thought: "Oh my gosh! These kids are going to get it together!"

The Steakhouse
(Margot Miles Dining Room) Tennant Creek Hotel

Maggie and John Hickey
volunteered to put the
Steakhouse to the test.

Ambience: Well it was very warm and welcoming and there was a pleasant level of chit-chat in the place and yeah I think probably as a restaurant should be.

Service: Oh the service was excellent and we were very well looked after, people came along and took our orders very quickly and also came back to have a little bit of a chat so that was nice, yeah.

Main course: The main course was very rich, I had pork fillet with marsala sauce and salad, which was a very nice mix of greens and the dressing was just right too and it was very rich. John had the veal with prawns and a sauce on it so yes we pigged out!

Dessert: Oh mouth watering, delicious yes! Very fattening I suspect but very chocolately, John had mud cake and I had whatever the other thing was, chocolate mousse or something, it was lovely.
Coffee: A bit strong ... kept me awake half the night, that's why I was reading Angela's Ashes till three in the morning I think!

Value: I think it was pretty good value and I think they're considering producing a menu that's going to be suitable for the backpackers too, for the tourist and which will probably be a little bit cheaper than the meals they've got now. Yeah, average bistro prices! We'll be going back again.