Letter #2

February 6, 2006

Axl Rose
c/o Merck Mercuriadis
75 9th Ave # 2R
New York, NY 10011

Dear Axl,

I’m writing again to ask you to perform at my wedding celebration.

It’s been a busy ten days for the movement. So far I have 169 signatures on the petition supporting you performing at my wedding, available online at http://getaxlforourwedding.blogspot.com. I’ve learned a few things from this experience. One, you’re still a popular guy the world over. Two, the ladies think you’re hot!

I’d like to give you a little more background about myself and my wife. We met for the first time when she was climbing down a ladder at her apartment building in college, which was on fire at the time. I said hello; she was shaken and understandably didn’t say much back to me. We met again at a bar a few weeks later, when I spotted her drinking a beer from her purse, that she’d apparently smuggled into the bar. I mean, who does that? (Answer: Canadians who want their Labatt Blue.) For the rest of the week, we spent as much time together as possible, slept extremely little, and along the way graduated from college. The following week, Karla came to visit me in Washington, DC, (my hometown) and we had a quick jaunt to Ocean City, Maryland, where I sold her my car (literally). The next week I joined the Peace Corps in Guyana, South America. I thought I’d never see her again, that we had our fling and that was that. Obviously, it didn’t end up that way! You can read more of the story at http://mattandkarla.blogspot.com, and I’ll tell you more about our courtship in my next letter.

Again, Axl, it’d be fantastic if you could perform at our wedding celebration. I think you might consider it a practice gig for Chinese Democracy tunes, a place to go off the beaten path musically a bit (maybe play some of your favorite covers?) while making a memorable experience in some of your top fans’ lives. Performing at our wedding celebration certainly shouldn’t indicate or imply that you’ve been relegated to a wedding act—everybody knows you’re a superstar. Instead, it would be a deeply cool, meaningful thing to do, and I very much hope that you decide to join us.

I’ll be on vacation in Thailand for the next couple of weeks, but I’ll send you a full update when I return. Be well.

Best,

Matt Stewart