It's always nice to hear the respect is mutual.

Thanks, Mike!

>snip from blog:

MP's 2007 year-end wrap up

MP's Fav Albums of 2007(in no particular order) 
1. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2. Machine Head - The Blackening
3. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
4. Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic: Part One
5. The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
6. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
7. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
8. Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia 
9. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
10. Oceansize - Frames

I thought 2007 was really a particularly great year for music, so my year-end list would be incomplete without acknowledging a few other excellent honorable mentions as well: 

11. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
12. Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick
13. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
14. 3 - The End Is Begun
15. Down - Over The Under
16. Baroness - The Red Album
17. Overkill - Immortalis
18. Megadeth - United Abominations
19. Rush - Snakes And Arrows
20. Thought Chamber - Angular Perceptions 

And finally, two amazing late discoveries from 2006:---
Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium---
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided 

And of course:---
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos---
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura