Music geeks are their own breed. Well many breeds to be more precise. SFist loves a lot of different kinds of music, and finding new stuff we like is always a happy experience for us. Since we’re not a hard core music geek we get a little intimidated by record shops and the like. Yet again, the world wide web may save us and anyone else who likes music. Or so says David Hyman of MOG, an online community where you can find people with similar tastes and then find out what they like. New finds abound. Oh, and David’s not just the founder, he’s a user too.

Are you a music Junkie?
Very much so.

What kind of music do you like?
Too hard to categorize. I’m a huge Dylan/Neil Young fan, but also am getting way into some incredible hiphop that’s just coming out from The Clipse and Jdilla. You can actually check out my entire digital music collection on my MOG page.

Why do music junkies need a devoted site?
Besides religion and sports, I can't think of anything that brings people together more powerfully than music, so it seemed like a devoted website was in order.

How is Mog different from other social networking sites?
For one thing, we’re all about music, which means that is almost all anyone is talking about on MOG. You just don’t find a lot of the self-promotional cheese that you find on other social networks. We also have some pretty powerful technology that helps you find other people with the same musical taste. Once you find the people, you can browse their music collections, receive music recommendations based on what MOG knows you’re listening to, listen to MP3s, and watch music videos. You can purchase music you discover on MOG too.

Besides Mog, what's your favorite social networking site?
I’m a high-end audio geek, so I hang out in those forums.

Name
David Hyman

Age and Occupation
39, CEO and founder of MOG

Home Town
Huntington, Strong Island, NY

How long have you lived in the Bay Area and Where?
I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 10 years. I was living in Cole Valley and North Beach in SF until 5 years ago when my family and I headed for the hills, the Berkeley Hills that is.

Favorite place to spend time online
MOG. Seriously, I spend hours there everyday posting about music, reading what everyone’s talking about, discovering new music, etc. Besides my own site, paidcontent.org, audiogon.com, engadget.com, gigaom.com, techcrunch.com

Favorite local business:
Saul’s Delicatessen, butcher shop at cafe rouge, Berkeley Bowl, Amoeba.

What I'm currently Reading.
posts on MOG

Best Deal in San Francisco
www.mog.com - it's free!

Favorite mode of transportation
snowboard

Best Band or Musician to come out of the Bay Area
Sly and Family Stone

Favorite Bay Area Stereotype, and whether or not you buy into it:
Berkeley is a walking, talking stereotype. And it’s all true. Everyone is crazy and liberal to the point of making me want to rebel and join the conservatives. It’s so damn beautiful and the food is so frickin good that I can’t leave.

Favorite local hangout
Saul’s

SF has the BEST
Burritos

You've never lived in SF until
Been to Gino & Carlas.

You can tell someone is a local here IF
They’re wearing fleece in July

SF would be soooo much better if only
The bars/food were open later.

Best Burrito
Picante, Berkeley

Best Restaurant
Alfred’s Steakhouse

Best movie scene filmed in or about SF
Pay it again, sSam

Favorite author to come out of the bay area
Jack London

Place you always tell visitors to check out
Hidden stairs to crazy private vista on telegraph hill

Favorite Bridge in the area
Bay

You have two hours and $15 bucks to kill in SF, what are you going to do?
2 beers at tornado, 2 sausages next door.

I have found/sold/bought the following on craigslist
Sold a Marvin sliding glass door

I want all the SFists out there to know
the best music online is at MOG

Question you'd ask if you were doing this interview:
Beatles or Stones?