Misery Loves Company-Especially on Valentine's Day

Misery Loves Company-Especially on Valentine's Day

Party Ideas for Singles, Including Music Courtesy of Goombah

PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Goombah (www.goombah.com), a free desktop application for intelligent music recommendations, offers these thoughts for Valentine's Day. We've all been there--a bad break up, a broken heart. And now, with the relentless sappiness of Valentine's Day on the horizon, you just want to spoon with some ice cream. But don't just wallow in it with a pint and a spoon, invite your single friends too! Hold a "Misery Loves Company" party so you can indulge your sorrows and have fun doing it.

Ideas for the party:

1. Hold a Contest. Have everyone write their ideal personal ad and read
them out loud. Vote for the most salacious or funniest ad. The winner
gets a spa treatment at a local hot spot and everyone else gets a good
laugh.

2. Eat your Heart Out. Make a list of the most romantic foods you can
think of--oysters, caviar--then tear it up. Instead, have a potluck with
the most indulgent foods you can think of. Craving peanut butter cups?
Love homemade macaroni and cheese? Think cheesecake is divine? Eat what
you want, guilt free.

3. Rock Out. DJ the evening with the most anti-Valentines' Day tracks you
can find, making cds for each of your friends. Beginning February 9,
Goombah has lots of free anti-Valentine's day music you can download and
keep. Visit www.goombah.com for the "Misery Loves Company" promotion and
find tracks such as "Mr. Crabby" by Lambchop (A cry-in-your-beer tune),
"Drunken Tears" by Quasi, Loser by The Velvet Janes, "When The World
Ends" by Bittersweets, and more.

4. Out with the Old, In with the New. Have everyone bring their
"collectibles" and put them where they belong--in the trash. Clean your
closet of any miserable memories, including his old shirts, dried
flowers, cards, pictures, you name it. Your house, and your heart, will
be the better for it. And, while you're at it, make one positive dating
resolution for 2007 -- and stick to it!

About Emergent Music

Goombah, launched in November 2006, already has more than 6 million tracks in members' collections. Recommendations are based on matching members and each user's entire iTunes library, playlists or any mix of tracks, artists and genres. Goombah's Free Music collection is updated weekly on "Free Music Fridays".

Source: Emergent Music

CONTACT: Cheryl Delgreco, +1-617-723-4004, cell, +1-617-429-6749, or
cdelgreco@msipr.com, or Meaghan Shields, +1-617-529-6357, or
meaghanshields@mac.com, both of Media Strategies

Web site: http://www.goombah.com/

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