My little Dante has the Chicken Pox even though
he was vaccinated against them a few years ago.
I have never seen a kid happier that he gets to miss
a week of school  (I thought they looked better
today but the school nurse said NO and sent us home)

Ankh is playing a benefit show for the troops in Simi Valley
on Friday.  We rarely play anywhere where there is no
cover, so I hope some of you can come out now. Everyone
has a few dollars they can donate for the troops!

E True Hollywood Story airs next Wednesday Oct. 7th.
Hollywood ex wives.  I met some pretty cool chicks on this
one.  Vince Neils ex-wife Charise Neil, Sandra Carradine, and
Darcy La Pier.  Fun, fun, fun.

The Reality Awards shoots the week after next...should be
exciting.  Vivica Fox is hosting.  Good excuse to get dressed up
and have a date with my gorgeous boy Kevin (who leaves for
France the next day...Some French company is filming a documentary
on his band The Lords of Altamont!) Wish I could go for a few
days.

Just booked the HOB on Sunset, will let you guys know the details
as soon as I get them.  ...and of course CAN"T WAIT FOR THE NEW WAVE
CRUISE!  Gonna be a great time.  Hope you can join us!

Hope you all are having a great summer!
Thank you to Lake Arrowhead for letting us play...I think
it is one of the most fun gig's we have EVER had!
I hope you can find a slot for us at Octoberfest...come on!
Buy 10 o'oclock they will be so liquored up they will need to hear
some eighties!

Still no word on a pick-up from Fox Reality on the show...but
either way, I am so happy I got the first show!
I had to cut so much I wanted to do because we only had four
episode's so would like to do the rest of the stuff I didn't get
to do. (Stuff for the troops, queen of Mardi Gra in a little town...
fun TV)

I just came home from meeting Kevin and the Lords of Altamont
in Italy and France.  It is so romantic to drive through Europe!
Lords played in the front yard of some castle ruins, a few gig's on the
beach, and at a monestary (which ended up getting cancelled as the
Padre did not clear the sound by the police)  Driving over the boarder
from Italy to France was incredible.  You pass castle after castle every
few miles.  The only real site seeing we did was in Rouen at 2:00 am.
Went to the church were they burned Joan of Arc at the stake.  Creepy!
It smelled like burning flesh.

Hope to see some of you this weekend when we open for the Tubes.
Also next weekend we are at Universal City Walk.
Thank you all for your incredible feedback on the show.  I am so
glad that you enjoyed watching it.. 

...I was bummed that Fox Reality didn't clarify that Kevin hasn't lived with his wife since 2001.
Danny hooked up with Amy THE DAY I told him that I was getting a divorce.
So..I thought it was weird that he made that an issue, as our divorce
was not final until Nov. 2008.
Kevin hadn't filed any papers till the last few months as he hadn't met someone that he wanted to have a more permanant relationship with till me.
I think Danny wanted to make it out that I was having an affair with someone who
was currently still married which was not the case at all.
Hopefully that clears things up a bit.

Boy o Boy!  Isn't this fun?
I can't wait to get up at 3:00 so I can leave to do a
10 min. segment on a morning TV show in San Deigo.
TV IS  glamorous!!!!
Actually, I AM having fun.
I truley did not realize how hard it is to get on TV shows.
I assumed if you had your own show people would want to
talk to you. WRONG!
I guess the talent bookers for the TV shows think America needs
to hear from the same people over...and over..and over again!
It's been tuff!
No need to throw someone else in the mix.
Thank god for my amazing publisit (did you guys see she got me
into Maxim and Radar, and the cover of STepping Out)
Good job Vic!
But...who can complain in this economy, right?
Just glad to be working!
Hope you are all well.
Ankh has gotten some really great gigs...we are opening for the
Tubes, Missing Persons, and Naked Eyes in July.
Also out at Lake Arrowhead July 5th.
Come say hi to the Gretch!

I am just exhausted!  A couple more days of shooting (and a 10 hour photo shoot on Thursday) and we will be wrapping the show up. 
I hope you guys get Fox Reality.  I think my show is gonna be a lot of fun.  My default picture is a sample shot from Coffin Case shoot we did for my tv show.
I just recieved a very large offer to pose half naked, which I turned down (OMG it was sooo much money...but my southern Baptist parents and a certain little myspace friend would have been very disappointed in me!)  Not worth it to sell my soul.  It looks like I was naked here..but I wasn't. Thank you photo shop!!!
If I haven't gotten to your mail I apologize...I keep losing everything (I had to replace 1 of my credit cards 3 times during this shoot as I kept losing it!!! Yikes)  I am disorganized!!!  I had my son double picked up from school yesterday cause I forgot I had set someone to fetch him while I was shooting.
Keep sending me your band logo's.  My good fortune is yours as well.  I will try to get you guys into Hot Topic too!
Gotta go get the kids ready for bed and hopefully get a good nights rest for the shoot tom. 
Can't wait to share our new single with you!  Bernie and Ben Moody you guys rock!!
xo

Thank You so much Stepping Out Mag and Chaunce for giving me the chance to be on the cover of your magazine.  I had on three pairs of undies I was so paranoid you could see stuff! 
Thank you to Coffin Case as well...I hope that you (and Stepping out mag) help women see that in your 40's you can still do amazing things.  I never thought in a million years that I could hang with 20 year old girls who mostly grace covers of magazines.  (Neil...wow wee that picture is cool, and it makes me look naky which I most certainly was not!) Nope...that's the one thing you won't see Gretch do is nudity.
We also had the extreme great fortune to have super producer Ben Moody, produce an orginal song for Ankh. (He was in Evanesence, and has produced for Kelly Clarkson, and Celin Dion...hahahahahaha how did my name end up in the same sentence??  Everyone sing...One of these things is not like the others...one of these things just doesn't belong!!)
Girls in your 30's and 40's.  All of these things I get to do for all of us! Can't wait for the show to air.  I think it is slated for the end of May. 
...and lastly, thank-you Cherie for always building me up when I am hesitating, making me feel giant when I feel small, and just showing me the meaning of NO FEAR!  I love you chick and am so blessed to have you in my corner.

Sorry I haven't been able to blog in awhile.  I am in the middle of shooting my new show for Fox Reality...Re-Inventing Bonaduce.  I'll say huh???
Lucky I have been able to get a lot of my friends on the crew so mostly I just goof around and then do a bunch of photo shoots, like today. 
I shot with this amazing photog Fernando Escovar..this was a test shot that we did.  And then....huge fire shot up behind me!!!  It warmed my hinnie quite nicely, but I was so afraid my hair sprayed to the hilt hair was going to catch fire!  I will post those as soon as I have the Ok. 
On Thursday I will be shooting for Coffin Case, while shooting re-inventing Bonaduce at the same time.  I am so honored that they will let an old broad like me hang with there 20 something models.  
I booked my first cover...thanks to my amazing publicty team HypeInc.   Look for it next week.  I am the cover model for Stepping Out Magazine.  Can you guys believe it????  Pretty crazy indeed.   

Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season.

Bloody Mary brunch total success.  I think I will have to make it an annual thing!

So many great things have happened to me this year...I really cannot thank my myspace people enough for helping me win Gimme! (Especially you Cheeseheads...I heard I had 26,000 votes out of Wisconsin alone!!!  Jeez you guys...THANKS!!!)

Hope to see some of you out at the Universal City Walk main stage on Sunday night.  Ankh is gonna be doing the 80's, and my incredible friend Cherie Currie from the Runaway's will be sitting in with us.  (How the hell did I get so lucky to have an icon singing with me??)

xoxoxoox

To all of you!

GB