He's been erasered.
But seriously, my Blue Velvet story is that I saw the movie when it first came out at the theatre.
The group I was with and I found it so darkly funny we laughed out loud in the theatre several times.
There was a group sitting right behind us and they never laughed at all.
When the movie ended and the lights went up we realized one of the people in the humourless group was none other than Bruce Cockburn.
I heard him and his friends muttering about how disgusting and bad the movie was.
That only confirmed my impression of his music being angry and humourless too.
qu'elle suprise!