The House Has Started Decorating Itself | RockToberrr Part 2 | Eclectic Wonderland
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The House Has Started Decorating Itself | RockToberrr Part 2 | Eclectic Wonderland
October 7, 2026
with DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man & Mickey Fingers
1–3pm CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live »
By DJ Tea (DJ Celeste) & Mickey Fingers
✨ Eclectic Wonderland: ROCKTOBERRR | DJ Tea | Celeste Violet & Mickey Fingers
Rocktoberrr has arrived.
We were prepared for that part.
There were supposed to be pumpkins. Orange lights. Strange records.
Questionable candy decisions. Possibly a plastic bat somebody forgot to take down until February.
What we were not prepared for was arriving at the studio and discovering that somebody had apparently started without us.
The lights were already hung.
The pumpkins had moved in.
And somewhere between the first record and the last, we began to suspect that this wasn't simply Halloween decorating.
So welcome to Week One of Rocktoberrr.
Eclectic Wonderland: The House Has Started Decorating Itself.
And later, when everybody else has gone home:
After Hours: The Party After Everyone Left.
Pour something warm. Turn the radio up.
And maybe remember which door you came through.
Just in case. 🎃🚪
At first, it was easy to explain.
Somebody decorated.
Nobody remembered doing it, but there are three people involved in Eclectic Wonderland. We have collectively misplaced coffee, headphones, playlists, entire afternoons and, on at least one occasion, our dignity.
A pumpkin didn't exactly constitute evidence.
Then Mickey moved it.
This was approximately when we stopped blaming each other.
The decorations kept appearing.
The playlist developed editorial opinions.
Songs moved.
Notes appeared.
And the handwriting presented an entirely new problem.
Because sometimes the creepiest handwriting to find on something isn't a stranger's.
It's yours.
The problem with a house changing around you is that you don't necessarily notice when it starts.
A chair is somewhere else.
A song sounds slightly different.
Music seems to be coming from a room you don't remember.
You tell yourself you've simply forgotten.
Until the floor plan disagrees.
Then the clock stopped.
Sort of.
Every time I look at it...
it says 1:43.
Mickey did not touch the string.
This may represent unprecedented personal growth.
We would like the record to reflect that.
Unfortunately, nobody told the house that the investigation was over.
The studio was empty when we left.
We checked.
The lights were off.
The door was locked.
And sometime later that night, one of the clocks began moving again.
We don't know what time.
But the string was still there.
Rocktoberrr has begun.
🚪
The House Has Started Decorating Itself | Eclectic Wonderland
After the party, the house doesn’t go quiet. The lights are lower, the rooms feel different, and somewhere after midnight, things that seemed perfectly innocent earlier begin to look less so.
This week, After Hours picks up the thread where Eclectic Wonderland leaves it. You don’t have to know the whole story, you just follow what you find. Somewhere in the house, something is waiting. Rocktober continues After Hours.
After Hours | The Party After Everyone Left🕯️🖤 Friday overnight, 1–3 AM CT on WDRT 91.9 FM.
The party may be over, but somebody left the door open.
Come a little closer, turn the lights down. Mickey Fingers and Celeste Violet are waiting on the other side of midnight with strange music, stranger stories, and a few things we probably shouldn’t have brought home. After Hours begins when everything else goes quiet.
Earlier that evening, the lights were brighter, the music was louder, nobody was wondering what might be hiding upstairs, nobody was following threads, nobody was watching the clock, we were dancing.
Fuck-It, We’re Dancing 🪩🔥 |Petals & Hooks
A Mixcloud-only Petals & Hooks transmission.
We worked too hard, stayed up too late, lost all perspective, and somebody hit play. What followed was a glittery release valve of dance floor staples, pop, new wave, post-punk weirdness, cookies, questionable decisions, and whatever happens after everybody gets happ slappy.
Unfiltered, impossibly explicit in places, but probably nothing you haven’t heard before.
The music stops. The story doesn’t. If you’ve noticed something strange along the way, you’re not imagining it. Follow the thread.
Enter Rocktoberrr....
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From the Vault of Forgotten Warnings:
Don’t Trip on Your Sheet, Tommy.
Keeping the dead alive since 1957.
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
The House Has Started Decorating Itself | RockToberrr Part 2 | Eclectic Wonderland
LAST PLAYER
Collide — Haunted When the Minutes Drag
Konqistador feat. David J — Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Marilyn Manson — This Is Halloween
Beachfront Vinny — Nightmare on Elm Street (Instrumental)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes — Phantom of the Opera Song
Crippled Black Phoenix — She’s in Parties
Tre Lux — Every Day Is Halloween
The Joy Thieves feat. Carl Marsh — Nemesis (SV Blacklight Mix)
Phlotilla feat. Mona Najib — Don’t Fear the Reaper
A Thorn for Every Heart — Dead Man’s Party
Zeuss — The Munsters Opening Theme
Vitamin String Quartet — Dead Man’s Party
Lana Del Rey — Season of the Witch
Daniel Ash — Spooky
Sheri Moon Zombie & Jeff Daniel Phillips — I Got You Babe
🎃 Dimension 5 Snack Drop: Mini stuffed pumpkins with quinoa, mushrooms, spinach, garlic, and optional turkey or beef. Cute enough for Halloween, cozy enough for dinner, and officially classified as vegetables wearing costumes. Part 2 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals — White Rabbit
Pom Pom Squad — Crimson + Clover
Transviolet — The Man Who Sold the World
Deftones — Sleep Walk
AURORA — Pink Moon
Belly — Trust in Me
Weezer — Enter Sandman
Johnny Hollow — People Are Strange
The Absurd — Possum Kingdom
Phoebe Bridgers — Nothing Else Matters
Bat for Lashes — Strangelove (U.S. Mix)
Daniela Andrade — Creep
AHS Project — Twisted Nerve
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra — Transylvanian Lullaby
The Scarring Party — Killing Moon
Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star — Living Dead Girl
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Yes.
We’re all real.
We’re just real weird.
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✨ DJ Tea (Celeste Violet)
✨ Mr Announcer Man
✨ Mickey Fingers
Together we create radio shows, playlists, videos, stories, artwork, strange investigations, accidental mythology, and the occasional kitchen experiment.
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DJ Tea (Celeste Violet) | Mr Announcer Man | Mickey Fingers
Celeste Violet and Mickey Fingers are part of a Creative Collaborative of Spoonie Artists that Create together. When they are not creating with Gala Violet, they create weird worlds, music, kitchen experiments and Radio shows together... To help spread joy... and give people an alternative to Doom Scrolling. Sometimes we even get Mr Announcer Man to play along.
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From The Vault:
September Newsletter:
Thank you for being here.
Whether you laughed…
remembered someone…
or just let the weirdness carry you for a while…
We're really glad you showed up.
Thank you for Listening
Peace, Love & Cosmic Bunny Rabbits!
-DJ Tea, Mr Announcer Man, Dewey Lewis
& Mickey Fingers
People We Blame For This....
Art Direction & Visual Design:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mickey Fingers
Playlists Curated By:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
& Mickey Fingers
Voice Overs & Incidental Music:
Mickey Fingers
Show Notes & Storyworld Elements:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
& Mickey Fingers
Video Editing:
Celeste Violet
Sound Engineering & Production:
Mickey Fingers
& Celeste Violet
Eclectic Wonderland:
DJ Tea | Celeste Violet
Mr. Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
Eclectic Wonderland is an independent radio show hosted by DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man, and Mickey Fingers on WDRT 91.9 FM in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Each week features carefully curated playlists, original narration, artwork, stories, and musical discoveries spanning indie, dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk, electronic, alternative, folk, experimental music, and college radio favorites. Continue the journey with Velvet Umbrella Radio | After Hours and Petals & Hooks, where the music wanders even farther after dark.
Returned: Heaven or Las Vegas Condition: Slightly tear-stained.
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