Misery Loves Company-Especially on Valentine's Day

PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Goombah (http://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 http://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".