 Interview and intro by: Matthew Parrish / Photograph by: Matthew Parrish Bellewoods: "Bowels Of The CN Tower"I've been watching a lot of Hereos lately. Like a lot! Fuck it - when it comes down to it I'm a comic book nerd. I really like the guy in season one who is basically a human nuclear reactor. He can boil water, boil people and blow up! --
Dylan Green: I'm pretty sure I was flagged as a terrorist-type threat when I worked at the CN Tower.
Truth.Explosion.Magazine: You worked in the CN Tower?
DG: It was the shortest job I ever had. I only worked there for 3 days.
TEM: Why so short?
DG: I applied to some job bank posting looking for a photographer.
TEM: Are you really into photography?
DG: I was really into photography as a hobby at the time - but I had no formal training - I figured it couldn't hurt to apply...I was really desperate for a job.
TEM: Ahh that’s cool. So what was the job like?
DG: I worked on the 2nd floor, right before the elevators that take you up to the top. I had a camera set up with a crappy backdrop of the CN tower that people posed in front of and I would take their picture.
TEM: Haha I think I have one of those somewhere. But you have to pay, right?
DG: You can pay for a print if you wanted to keep it...it was THE WORST!
TEM: Why so bad?
DG: I'm not a very outgoing person and having to constantly explain to elderly tourists that they don't have to pay if they didn't want to was really aggravating.
TEM: Oh yeah. I never really thought about that part! So why did they think you were a possible terrorist?
DG: Well, since I had just started, I didn't have a security pass yet to use the staff entrance, so I had to go through the main gates every time I left my post.
TEM: Like for breaks?
DG: Going on break, going to the bathroom, arriving in the morning...every time.
TEM: So annoying I bet. Is security crazy there?
DG: They have these crazy security measures now since 9-11, With metal detectors and this weird airlock type thing that shoots jets of air at you to detect explosives...it's like Star Trek.
TEM: Would they not let you through or something?
DG: On my third day of working there, the security guards kept approaching me every hour or so asking me to walk back through the security gates because they were getting a weird reading...I didn't think anything of it.
TEM: But it kept on happening?
DG: This happened about four times throughout the morning; until the guard asks me to follow him downstairs...I figured they were finally getting me my security pass.
TEM: Not the case? Where did they take you?
DG: They take me deep into the bowels of the CN tower. Crazy long hallways…past weird rooms and stuff.
TEM: Woah! I wanna see down there. What did they do?
DG: The dude sits me down and starts asking me all sorts of questions…
TEM: Like?
DG: Where I'm from...why I live in the city...what I do...what my political and religious beliefs are...do I handle fertilizer or gasoline frequently...weird shit.
TEM: Yeah totally. And I bet you are all acting weird cause it’s weird!
DG: I'm clearly weirded out by him and he explains to me that every time I walked through the bomb detector, it was reading that 30% of my mass was explosive.
TEM: Radioactive man type shit!
DG: Apparently the highest rating since they were installed 3 years prior. He eventually let me get back to work.
TEM: That’s so odd. I have one final question for you – what is the “truth” about Dylan Green?
DG: I went home early and didn't go back for any more of my shifts. I still have no idea what was setting the thing off...
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