Career
Ashley also spent time while in art school in a band called Shithäus with Jon Spencer, later of The Blues Explosion. Ashley was living in Bushwick, Brooklyn when he decided that he wanted to travel the world. In 2005, putting his musical career on hiatus, Tod spent most of the year traveling the Far East, including Calcutta, India and Bangkok, Thailand.
He has published a written account of his travels in a blog, which he calls Postcards From the Other Side of the World.